skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a pretty strong argument that an algorithmic feed optimised for engagement is commercial speech.
It's a bit old now, but you might be interested in Phya: Physical audio for virtual worlds

https://phyacode.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/phya/

https://repository.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/50024/1/Menzies...
Meta might make a lot of money, but the profit per user is probably quite low, and they make up for that by having billions of users. Customer support scales with the number of users, not the profit overall.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the cost (on their end) of a single customer support call to meta makes you a net financial loss for them. And how many customer support reps would they need to handle support for billions of users speaking every language on the planet? All that funded from advertising? Yikes. I suspect running a properly funded customer support line might be able to put the whole company in the red.
No company has (nor should have) any mandate to "customer service" beyond what the market demands. Dispute resolution is what courts are for. Meta already pays taxes that fund courts.

If courts are unable to keep up with demand generated by the modern digital economy, let's fix that. Making losers pay court fees would go a very long way towards solving the problem.

Re: Walmart, the other option is to just cut the aid. People won't work if they are not able to sustain themselves (calorically) on the pay. The best way to avoid these antipatterns is to stop enabling them.

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Edit in reply to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40744676 (rate limited):

There is another solution to this problem: reputation. There inevitably will emerge a spectrum of reputability among eg. used car salesman. It is your responsibility to manage your risk in regards to the reputation of the person you are transacting with, attend to the specifics of your deal, and to do your due diligence. So much is obvious in the world of business.

Also, in a world of prompt dispute resolution by efficient courts, with losers paying fees, shady businessmen who repeatedly violate contracts will quickly find themselves out of business. The problem we have is that our courts work on an 1800s timescale. We can fix this.

Re: social media, standards are already emerging. For instance the much contested device attestation standard attempts to fix exactly this problem. It'll work itself out in a decade or two, no intervention required.

> one of the roles of government regulation that can create a net economic gain

I disagree in principle. The role of the government of a free society is to create a nonviolent liberal ecosystem. Not to interfere in the outcomes that ecosystem produces.
I just pulled out LangChain from our AI agents; we now have much smaller docker images and the code is a lot easier to understand.
Revolut seeks valuation of more than $40B in employee share sale
A video model for creating high quality, realistic shots from text
Or they were out of stock of a component, but same idea.
The price without changes to the app?
> But if you're dead set on finding ways to reject this and substitute your own reality, I suspect even this won't convince you.

I really don't know why you're so aggressive. You did not include the context in your original comment that you did with this one, and so someone put forward a very reasonable explanation as to why reports may have went up.
In fairness - given a choice and some time to think, I would probably not choose to actively break commonjs. However, if I was tasked with increasing ESM adoption, I would go about it like this.
You mean something like a charter of fundamental rights? Perhaps containing the text

> Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications.

Admittedly that is part of a treaty rather than an actual constitution, though those amended treaties are the closest thing the EU has to a constitution.
Yes but what I think previous poster meant is that you can't use a permissive license and then blame RMS when you feel used by a corporation using it to make proprietary software.

edit: because RMS/FSF's position is not simply "all free software equally good and you should spend your time building some with any license"
> Also known as a "sex scene." And at a full five minutes, it's a rather long scene :-)

It has almost nothing creatively in common with sex scenes in almost any other movie ever made, which are usually (lazily, and often misogynistically) used to cheaply bond the damsel to the hero.

It's not a sex scene; it is fully and completely a love scene.

I can think of so few like it.

> It's also one of the most notorious sex scenes in cinema from that era, with persistent rumors that Sutherland and Christie actually were doing the deed.

Persistent, infantile, somewhat misogynistic rumours.
Right, that’s what SAR is for: to subtract AIS reporting ships from radar detected ships. No AIS when there should be? Hello, we see you, can’t hide from the radar.

Maybe there is a variable I’m missing?
I don't think this sounds silly at all. Virtually everywhere we look in cosmology the last decade or so, you get a sensation of things unseen. Like we're looking at one of those optical illusions that change shape when you cover your left eye, or like the McGurk Effect, when your audio perception shifts completely because you can see someone's lips.

Another element that's being discussed is, like with mass and spacetime, that the spatial dimensions themselves are emergent phenomenon arising from bulk entanglement. Sean Carrol has talked about it a fair amount, and it's been surfing around maybe harder than it would ordinarily, because it provides some edge cases that are, at least conceivably, testable without solar-system-sized accelerators or a DeLorean to the beginning of the cosmos. It's an evocative thought. In one interpretation of this, Double Slit restricts many of the spatial dimensions, resulting in a particle that might seem to be in different places, but which is, in some respects, the same particle. Another interesting notion is that singularities, in some dimensions, might be the same place.

Combined with your notion, it almost re-frames mass as - forgive me for getting poetic here - a measure of fate. How much does this resist doing that?
I'm one of them. Even when still in the hospital and rehab center -- Lost my lower leg to necrotizing fasciitis and sepsis -- I was able to keep working. (And I wanted to do something.) I thought I'd be going back to the office at some point; but, my supervisor and EEO office decided I'd work from home. when I got home from the hospital and rehab, there was a letter authorizing full-time telework.

I keep arguing I don't need to take our annual Workplace Violence Prevention training; but, I have to go online and take it every year. (I just took it a week ago.)
How it is not relevant?

Anyway, from your own link:

"The Sino-Vietnamese War was a brief conflict that occurred in early 1979 between China and Vietnam. China launched an offensive ostensibly in response to Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia in 1978, which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge. The conflict lasted for about a month, with China withdrawing its troops in March 1979."

In both other wars China helped their neighbors against Americans.
It kinda depends upon the project.

Small ones just get a todo.org file that I commit with the project.

For medium ones I put a .org file in my "Projects" directory in Dropbox.

For larger ones I put a subdirectory in my "Projects" directory in Dropbox.
they can't do the usual work of checking contracts and tracking law changes and handling other more serious lawsuits... so does it mean Meta employs someone with a bar exam to answer support tickets at the courthouse?
After failing to add my new credit card to my business Instagram account - it's locked me out. The "request review" form doesn't work on their page. Fun times. I'm literally trying to give them money.
Context: I developed Android professionally apps at Google & FB from 2010-2021/ and as a hobby dev during that time.

I personally blame gradle for the complexity. It's such a horrible system for builds, and when I was developing Android apps on my own, I would avoid it at all costs. Using buck/bazel/blaze resulted in a much cleaner build process. It's been a while since I've wrote Android apps, but I've included a minimalist BUCK build file with Java + C++ components below. Note how it just has two build rules for the Java and cpp code. And it only requires 5 for a minimal Java/cpp app. If it was a pure Java app, it would just require the one build rule alone with a .java file and an AndroidManifest.xml.

At the same time, I needed to maintain a public facing SDK so I needed to learn gradle which was an absolute nightmare. I spent way too much time reading docs on the build system compared to doing something useful with it.

I'm not sure what the current state of the ecosystem is with Kotlin and modern Android Studio, but if I had to develop Android apps on my own again, I would start with bazel or buck for anything that's more than a Hello World template. I would recommend the same for anyone just starting out with Android development who is familiar with CLI-based development. One useful learning experience was to unzip an APK and figure out the individual build steps that converted a set of source files into the final APK. With bazel/buck, you can give it an option that causes it to print every build step which involves the build system calling Android SDK build tools on source files. Then you can manually run this commands yourself to see what they do. Doing this will tremendously help you debug any build issues and teach you how to remove bloated items from your build process.

https://medium.com/androiddevnotes/the-internals-of-android-... is a good starting point. In particular, read the section about "Understanding each part of the process" until you understand exactly what each box in that diagram represents.

android_binary(
name = "one",
srcs = ["TestOneActivity.java"],
custom_package = "me.sxp.test.one",
manifest = "AndroidManifest.xml",
deps = [":libone"],
)

cc_library(
name = "libone",
srcs = [
"jni.cpp",
"testonelib.cpp",
"testonelib.h",
],
)
Saw him recently in 'A time to kill'. Great presence as always. Somehow he's always been a great addition to any movie cast.
The US government is currently paying as much per capita for healthcare as socialized systems, then individuals pay again. If we can afford what we're doing now, it's obvious that we could afford a socialized system. It costs less.

The reason we don't have one is because Democratic politicians, funded by healthcare and drugs, are so willing to lie about the math for money, and the media, funded by ads for healthcare and drugs, are so willing to help them.
Sense of Scale (2011) – Special effects miniatures documentary
> The whole node npm ecosystemand tooling is so bad and broken. No other language is so frustrating.

Neither Node nor NPM are languages.

> when you try to use an external stylesheet you hit the wall of the modern js world: css can not be imported in js without

Uh...?
> SLS is a $2-$3 billion per launch DISPOSABLE rocket.

That's the estimated cost for the first four launches only.

> The orion capsule is going to be something like $20 billion(!).

We developed it from scratch and it took 20 years and it's capable of sending a crew to Mars.

What do you think this _should_ have cost?
Bundler developer here: some bundlers (like Parcel) use esm imports within their generated runtime output to facilitate loading dynamic bundles.

It's a bit simpler (and I'd assume faster) than the traditional approach of dynamically creating a script tag at runtime.

Additional features like access to import.meta lets you get the path to the current script which also helps bundlers with resolving the paths to dynamic imports without requiring the developer to specify the base path explicitly.

There are problems though, for example you cannot retry an import() if the internet drops. The failed import is cached so the browser will fail the import again on retry, even if the connection is restored https://github.com/fatso83/retry-dynamic-import
Yes. I wrote a version of Minesweeper for the Amstrad CPC, a home computer popular in 1987 (though I wrote it a few years later). I think it was about 5-10Kb in size, not 300. The CPC only had 64k of memory anyway, though a 128k model was available.
Turns out you can do Covid PrEP with just Neosporin in your nose. It works for other pathogens too:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319566121

In case you're wondering, this paper is 100% legit, see e.g. the bio for the big-shot author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiko_Iwasaki

No clue if this easy trick would induce immune escape if a large number of people started using it. I guess it's a good time to get in on the ground floor.
Hmm,

A project with all code working with special magic reminds me of another project that some attention a while back (XZ lib - supposed improvements with packages containing clever system back doors).

Edit: The code is likely harmless but the more opaqueness is in a system, the easier it is for malevolent opaqueness to hide.
Add theft from sub-postmasters.
I’m so used to fuzzy search at this point that it didn’t even occur to me, but yeah, you’re right.

I guess tooling can still provide a solution - a snippet on “import”, where the first tab stop takes you to the module path string, and the next tab stop jumps back to inside the braces?
What a lot of Westerners don't realize is this kind of sentiment is exactly why Islamist parties and political groups are so popular in the Muslim world.

If your only choice is extremely socially conservative, democratic groups like the Muslim Brotherhood (or worse) or a literal Kim Jong Un alike, then it's pretty obvious who you'd choose.

This is resorting to extremism and terrorism, it's just conducted by the army and police. Did you not hear how many people were assassinated and killed by this dictator to maintain iron grip control over the country? How is that not terrorism?
> Custom: Call +1 555 1234 5678

OP is specifically saying this is a scummy pressure sales tactic. I am asking for a specific number to put there instead, in the interest of transparency.
> seeing heavy consolidation in the industry which is a clue something fishy is going on-- why would a hospital system choose to grow for instance

Economies of scale. When an industry faces headwinds, characterised by broad-based low or negative operating margins, the standard move is consolidation.
This injection isn't a vaccine, it's an anti-viral drug being used as pre-exposure prophylaxis. The first approval of this approach was in 2012, but using an oral pill with a short half-life taken daily.

That drug is still in use and also highly effective, the new improvement is to provide the same approach with a longer acting injected drug. One reason there has been great interest in this, despite the already effective oral PREP, is that there are thought to be socio-behavior advantages for cases like women in Africa as in this study. For example: the woman does not have to keep a supply of daily pills that a partner can find. Also possibly improved adherence with no missed doses.

The drug itself is not thought to be more biologically effective than the oral drugs, which are basically already at close to 100% effective assuming the patient actually takes them as scheduled.
It's not perfect, but gliding around in a few hundred year old American city is way more dignified than somewhere like Paris. It's not just the generously-sized sidewalks and curb cuts, but also knowing that you can go into almost any McDonald's or Starbucks and expect a toilet you can use (Parisian Sanisettes are great, but they aren't everywhere).
> open political system actually makes islam opposition stronger (and easy to influence with $$$ from Gulf monarchies).

No it doesn't. Provide one example where this has happened?
Strongly disagree. As a dev who’s been in the business since the days of the first gui apps and OSes, UI can be very straightforward, but we have designed modern systems such that they are immensely complex.

Styles and inheritance and asynchronicity have turned what could be a simple approach into an inscrutable problem.
That's not a number that represents what the buyer is looking for though, so it doesn't help. I guess to be transparent you could put some text like "if you don't want to buy one of these plans, we are not the vendor for you?"
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> A primary issue was functional unblinding, or the ability of participants to tell whether they received a placebo or active drug... More than 90% of people in the MDMA group and 75% in the placebo group correctly guessed their treatment arm in the second Phase 3 trial.

Why are you telling the control group they are going to get potentially get high? Why didn't you pick a much lower dosage?

I think there is a treatment here, I dont think this vote was wrong. Do some better science on this and ask again later.
How is this (what's described in the article) good in any way?
"When you update your code or delete a project, we just remove the container and start up another if necessary"

They keep warm containers of your instance in their orchestration
im still pre-calculus! :P And i feel i need absolute fluency before i start haha. Thanks for the encouragement :-)
Totally agree about the "removing a misbehaving" feature part.

The frustration I was trying to express is more related to "perfect being the enemy of good". JEP-430 was introduced 3 years ago. By that point C# has already had string interpolation in place for 6 years and the C# solution achieves 90% of what JEP-430 set out to do. Java users could have benefited from 90% of that feature for 9 years by now.

It sounds a bit dramatic when we are talking about string interpolation, I realize that.
> "call us if you need something more bespoke"

OP is specifically saying this is always a scammy sales tactic. I am asking for a way to arrive at a scalar $ value to put on the website to avoid this tactic of "talking to the customer to determine the price."
But then, if that test can detect poison at 1:50 dilution, it means it probably has enough reagent to detect poison at 1:25 twice, if you're clever about it. Done well, you may end up with a single bottle identified and a bunch of unused tests to sell.
How is that feed "proposing a commercial transaction"?
Static methods in Python, yay or nay?
Liberalism will end when we choose to end it, in bits in pieces, each brick ironically removed in it's own name.
Pillars Of The Earth, anyone?
I'm curious what different notebooks you use.

I tried to differentiate mine a lot, but I often found I had the "wrong" notebook at the "wrong" times. Now I have have a general notebook, and other notebooks that might live in 1 place. E.g. all my D&D campaign notebooks sit with my D&D stuff.

But I don't have a separate work/life/personal dev notebook. Shuffling them got annoying.
i did an hour and fifteen minutes of project management today for some product features, using github issues and their project board.

i use obsidian as a dump for things. i use boards in obsidian to track higher level product stuff + capture any fleeting todos/ideas as obsidian notes, then move that to github issues once i do project mgmt time. and i use obsidian for non-dev project management, like marketing/sales/operations stuff. i also use obsidian for todos like "do some project management for X features or whatever"
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It's not quite that bad.

Hubble is primarily optical wavelengths. The other Great [space-based] Observatories are in IR, X-rays, and gamma rays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Observatories_program

The notion of grouping them as "Great Observatories", AFAIK, came circa the mid-1980s, after Hubble was already getting underway in earnest.
You can dither the decoded data to the output display, though (assuming you either are in a float codec, or a 10-bit or higher). It won't solve all problems, but it's not completely unheard of either (e.g. I believe JPEG-XL does it on encode).
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that "news" was a joke then and is kinda lame today.
G 41D89A (Mac SE)
A lot of great answers here, and I would add the book "10% Happier" to the list. There is also a worthwhile companion app, but I prefer Insight Timer for an app.
I've been experiencing bizarre typos and misspellings that I've come to describe as the model being drunk. Things like it writing peremeter instead of parameter
Large self-storage facility proposed for Ithaca Mall spaces
Appreciate the correction, I meant thousands.

Yes, that’s the JORN system. The western sector might’ve picked it up if it went near western Australia as presumed, but it wasn’t operating.
The whole thing is great and worth reading, but I wanted to highlight this anecdote:

> I asked about the criminal justice system and I was told there wasn’t much of a formal one. My companion explained that most matters were handled internally by families. For instance, if a 20-something got in a fight with another 20-something and the cops got involved, the police would most likely contact the families and let the parents and brothers sort that shit out with a warning not to cause trouble again. The families would enforce order through shaming, threats of social ostracization, and possibly physical violence.
My beef with this isn't about whether it concludes anything about innovation, but that it presents itself as a comprehensive and universal map of various technologies, ideas, and innovation when it is anything but. It is mainly concentrated in advances in the Western world. I wouldn't have a problem with this if it were titled as, "Calculating Western Empires: A Genealogy of Technology ... " because that is what it is.

Examples from the 1500s and 1600s are definitely European-centric -- meaning that there are little, if any examples drawn from ideas outside of Europe.

I look at the category for Education, and it has "Saving Souls with School". Where are the non-Christian examples of innovation in Education?

The category for emotions (of which there are rich traditions and thought on this in many cultures). Or "Era of Humors", "Cartesian Dualism", "Embodying Class". Those are all Western-centric ideas.

One curious example -- specifically talking about the import of teas and porcelain from the East. The implicit frame here is that it doesn't matter for this set of comparisons until those items became available in the West. What about the history of when tea (and spices!) were cultivated, and porcelain were made? (The porcelain that were exported out of China were mass produced and considered the bottom grade unsuitable for the domestic martket).
Secular law allows it's citizens discretions for settling family disputes and inheritance. Religious people often use that discretion to use religious rules from their religion. Nonreligious people benefit from the same discretion. This is not an exception from secular law, all secular laws continue to apply.
Again, not talking about it being good or bad, but you cannot deny that this happened (China invading a neighbor), which is the point being made.
As there is only one bottle of this wine in the world, I think what matters is the dose but not concentration of Pb.

In addition, the 0.14 mg/L figure reported in the paper is at a similar level to the current safety standard. The International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV), an intergovernmental agency comprised of 45 international member states, has a current maximum acceptable limit of 0.15 mg/L for Pb in wine starting from the 2007 harvest year.

https://www.oiv.int/public/medias/3741/e-code-annex-maximum-...
False, I just added one the other day for the scheduler API.
Good for them, many companies would want this. Will be interesting to see if it helps the Company. If so, I would expect others would join.