skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment made me wonder if anyone did actually organize a horse fight, and it turns out that the answer is yes - in Iceland during the Viking Age[1]. Thankfully, people seem to have found more wholesome activities to do with their horses now, including teaching them to type[2].

[1]: https://www.medievalists.net/2016/08/horse-fights-the-brutal...

[2]: https://www.visiticeland.com/outhorse-your-email/
what use cases do edge functions have? what is so critically latency sensitive
The TL;DR of this:

The reflexive answer from environmentalists is “Make less plastic!” That sounds reasonable, but on closer inspection, it lacks widespread feasibility. Vital industries like healthcare and agriculture would grind to a halt without the benefit of single-use plastics, not to mention the ubiquity of reusable plastics in just about every aspect of modern life. Realistically, with the dream of recycling our way out of this problem rapidly fading, the less-than-perfect yet practical solution of waste-to-energy—that is, burning plastic garbage as fuel—needs to be reevaluated.

I think this is overly dismissive of 'reduce'. It ignores 'reuse' and rejects 'recycle' It is true that plastics are uniquely suited to some roles in Ag. and Med. as a vapor barrier guarantee of purity and uncontamination, but there may be alternates, which significantly reduce plastics burdens such as use of kraft paper and wax (yes, I know. this is a less than perfect replacement, but not all "sterile" things actually need to be sterile. They sometimes need to be "clean")

So I would argue that yes, burning and pyrolisis may be the best path out, but 'reduce' is not infeasible, even if at scale in Ag. and Med. it's hard.

The role of pyrolisis in general should be better known. Char, carbon, and liquid byproducts are useful. Since the liquid product isn't that far off the feedstock in petrochemicals and ultimately drugs and related, it's a bit of a virtuous circle.
That would be incredibly interesting. I'm sure it would be one of the most polarizing "frameworks" though.
It's not semantics at all. Voice conversations on Messenger or WhatsApp are completely different and unlike voice conversations over a regular phone number. The latter you can do with a flip-phone; the former, you cannot.
does this change at all with react compiler? honest question i dont know
Absolutely. Appreciated. I could've said I didn't want to continue in that direction in a way with less tone, as well.
> So what if they are off by a few cents or dollars? Do you actually spend time to contest this?

I have. It's not a hassle. Especially if I'm already there for some other reason. I clip coupons for the same reason. A $5 discount is a $5 discount.
Market it as a microplastic cleansing product...
>what's going on intentionally for the political aims of the guardian

Ok, now this is something!

So, please enlighten me, what could be the political agenda being pushed by an article pondering around whether memories can be inherited or not?
I can imagine the staying silent part is dealing with trauma ? I have family who returned from the war and couldn't discuss it.
Partly unrelated, but I wonder how Wikipedia's source requirements will move in the future as:

- more "reputable" news sources AI generate their articles

- traditional publications are facing existential threats as their revenue source is drying out ("Google Zero"), and we can't expect their number to grow in the future

- more experts and analysts are gatekeeping their work under subscription paywalls and alternative services. Paid mailing lists for instance won't be a valid and verifiable source

It feels like at some point Wikipedia could be basically frozen if they can't adapt to the new landscape, but from the outside it doesn't look like an organization that can sensibly move on and change core parts in a pragmatic way.
Not really, no. Unless you want to self-host in your own home hardware.
I'll take this chance to plug Kagi Search (a paid search engine), that I recently switched to, and have been loving. It's nice to actually be able to say "Hey, this site is trash, don't show it/de-rank it for me."
This is why McDonalds literally spends tens of millions of dollars per quarter giving away free food to attempt to get more people to just use the app.

Their plan longterm is exactly this - have a robot box with a window that only accepts orders through your phone and removes all humans from the process.

You might be surprised how many people absolutely hate using apps, and do not want to interact with a business through a mobile phone. Older folks especially, but also there is a large portion of the population that only use technology when necessary.

We build a heuristic model from scratch. We used BART for some NLP bits and Azure speech to text for the basic mic -> raw text. My memory is very muddy on this bit as I didn’t work on the algo portion of the project, I was working on the UX workflows and interaction / conversational workflow design and validation.

Fun fact, McDonalds menu is a graph database that tracks every single ingredient as purchasable entity. You can order damn near any combination of elements and they will sell it to you - want 32 pickles and the bottom piece of a bun with a chocolate chip cookie on top? No problem.

And every promotional item and name ever put on sale is persisted in the menu forever.
>So... That's about 16 terabytes per second per lane.

If you assume 1T/s = 1b/s, 128GT/s is 128Gb/s = 16GB/s, not 16TB/s
And here is the obligatory Children of time mention. Beer shot
Designed for Delight, Built for Performance
It's too bad there couldn't be a serious adoption, but I totally understand why it would be hard finding enough of an audience for this kind of work.

What I don't understand is why Netflix tried. You can't dump out a short season of eight episodes all at once for people to finish in three days and then expect any sort of fandom or momentum to build. After rushing through this without time for any sort of attachment to the characters or worldbuilding, who's even going to remember 18 months from now (if they didn't read the books) what happened in season one?
If you are truly interested, start with the basics and start with what has happened in your own country:

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

You do not seem truly interested though. My guess is that you do not feel that your particular speech/expressions are under threat.
Do you have any perspectives to share on Ryan's observation of a potential scaling law for these tasks and his comment that "ARC-AGI will be one benchmark among many that just gets solved by scale"?
That is incredibly awesome and noble of them.

That does not mean it becomes the benchmark for everybody.
Hey, English is not my first language so I'm surely missing something here but:

> Copyright

> Each contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe that contributor's copyright in it.

This sounds like the license specifically allows you to infringe on the contributor's copyright.
I worked at a ~$20M food company where we had a new CEO coming in. Management/Board were over the moon, saying "This guy has been running a multi-billion $$ company for years."

Curious as to why someone would transition so abruptly from the major leagues to the minors, I searched on his name and the first hits were about an active SEC investigation into him for witholding payments to suppliers (small and medium farmers) to inflate the balance sheets to give it a higher valuation for a buyout. He actually turned out to be more effective than the previous 2 CEOs and I forged a perfectly fine working relationship with him, but it made me aware that business people will ignore any variety of moral/legal issues when the dollar signs are in their eyes.

I believe he put the SEC thing behind him, avoiding jail time by not quite admitting nor denying guilt and writing a ~$2M personal check.
Since thunderbolt is related to PCIe, there's this that goes into copper vs optical there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Copper...
It seems to be difficult to turn the pure research back into new products. Apple famously got lots of ideas for free from Xerox PARC. Google researchers wrote the Attention Is All You Need paper and they're now desperately playing catchup because they couldn't convert it to any kind of product. There's nothing wrong with companies investing in pure research, but these large companies sometimes are unable to take advantage of the research. The people running the business want to keep doing what got them successful, not some new experimental thing that might not work.
>Free speech absolutists like myself

I think one of the main problems "free speech absolutist" have is that they chose such an awkward phrase to self-identify themselves. The word "absolutist" is so unambiguous that it implies that seemingly no one would qualify for it besides true loons which makes the whole idea easy to dismiss.

When you really get down to it, almost everyone supports some type of restriction on speech. This should be especially apparent when discussing legislation like this in which the goal is preventing the distribution of child porn. How can a "free speech absolutist" be okay with a government making certain images and videos illegal to share? Wouldn't a true absolutist fight for people's right to distribute child porn?

The ambiguity of "absolutist" ends up making any reasonable "free speech absolutist" debate the meaning of the word "speech". Suddenly things like child porn, defamation, threats, fraud, and/or the location of Elon Musk's private plane need to be debated as whether they qualify as "speech". The chosen phrase necessitates that the "absolutist" need to weaken the idea of "free speech" in order to seem reasonable. Which in turn makes people who are ostensibly pro-free speech start to question whether something like hate speech should even qualify for free speech protections.

So a "free speech absolutist" either needs to argue some truly extreme views like why child porn should be legal or they weaken the overall pro-free speech side of the whole debate.
SMW is such a powerful tool, but it's designed like its target audience is mind readers who can divine what it needs to function. It either installs without issue or fails so cryptically that support is impossible. In pursuit of being a generic tool, the end-user docs and help are still so allergic to examples for its esoteric query syntax or use cases for property design that SMW effectively doesn't even exist for non-admins. Its extension-specific database changes are still their own hassle to upgrade separate from MW's. And the closest thing to an active support community is a Sourceforge email list.

Cargo's still easier to work with and its query syntax is a lot more SQL-like, even with the reduced feature set.
That didn't use to be true. There was once several Western consumer drone companies (3D Robotics, Parrot, GoPro, Intel, etc.) as recently as the mid-2010s. They gave up on the consumer space because DJI just totally ate their lunch, releasing better, cheaper drones year after year. I still remember how in any given year, the annual DJI drone releases would be smaller, cheaper, better, and fly longer than the other companies' drones (which were always a few years out of date) – AND they would have a whole range of consumer, prosumer, and professional drones and various kits and bundles for every market segment and price point. Nobody else could even remotely keep up.

Here's one Western article with some background: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-26/dji-s-dro.... According to it, by 2020, DJI had 80% of the US consumer drone market. It discusses how DJI ruthlessly operated its business and crushed all of its competitors. Even a later startup, founded by Tesla engineers who wanted to build batteries right into the frame, didn't do so well and was soon acquired by another company.

It's not that nobody bothered TRYING to compete with DJI. Everyone tried, both in the West and in China itself (e.g. Yuneec, Autel), but DJI beat them all. Their founder is basically the Chinese version of Musk.

From that article:

> A rather confounding issue Impossible has faced is that the purchase bids put up by police and fire departments often have specifications that guarantee the sales will go to DJI. To illustrate, Gore pulls up a request for proposal for a drone from the Kansas Highway Patrol that lists properties such as flight time, cameras, and payload capacities. The numbers match up exactly with those of DJI’s Matrice 210. “If the U.S. wants to be competitive in robotics and drones, the least it can do to jump-start its own industrial base is to award government contracts to American companies or at least let them compete for them,” Gore says. “There are about 1,000 police departments receiving DHS grant dollars and spending them on Chinese-made, DJI-made drones. We are using our federal dollars to fund what could become one of China’s first prime contractors.” [...] “DJI has incredible lobbyists,” Gore says.
China is innovative, period.

The whole song and dance about technology being known for decades is total nonsense. The devil is in the details, especially in the nuclear reactor industry space.

The article mentions Westinghouse AP1000, but fails to mention that in the end China decided to not use it on a large scale. China is going full on with a different design, called Hualong One [1], which evolved from a French design from the 1980's. The 4 decades of subsequent iteration and improvement were all Chinese.

China also built a small helium cooled gas reactor, HTR-10 [2] in the 90's. It operated it and learned from its operation, and built 2 more reactors of the same type, HTR-PM, each about 20 times larger. They got hooked to the grid late last year. There are too many good things to say about helium-cooled high temperature nuclear reactors. With these reactors in operation, China can learn so many lessons and go in so many directions.

The article's assessment that the US is 10 to 15 years behind is spot on. China deserves all the praise.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR-10
Before the internet everything happened in periods of seven years. All the cells in your body would be replaced, your luck would recover from a broken mirror, the bankers would discharge your debt, and missing people would finally be declared dead. It was a much more elegant system than we have today.

Edit: And of course, the seven year itch.
Japan consistently stays at or near the top of countries by life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
I’ve always envisioned Mallory and Irvine rushing to the summit with light nailed boots, no oxygen and tweed jackets, dammit! Armed with only their insane courage. Turns out he had a gabardine jacket fortified with wool and silk: https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_2007_file.... But still … mad respect.

Speaking of insane courage, Henry Worsley, should be mentioned: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-dark.... His final photo on the plane to a Chilean hospital is haunting.

For the Mallories of the future there are so many options to continue the tradition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_mountains_in...
What's depressing is how wrong your comment is. You seemingly ignored the Ukrainian war which has lead to sanctioning Russia and the end of cheap Russian oil and gas in Germany. Spot electricity prices are at pre-war levels nowadays, so whatever lack of nuclear power you are imagining is seemingly irrelevant.
> This is useful, but it also vexes me slightly because it means BigDecimal is not just for getting more precision than other numeric types, it is also for knowing/controlling the amount of precision, meaning there is no type dedicated only to the former. But I suppose the cases where you want more precision tend to also be the cases where you want to know/control the precision... It's just that this demonstrably doesn't occur to everybody using the API who might just be reaching for it because "I want more precision".

In practice someone who just "wants more precision" doesn't touch the precision and gets 40 significant figures of it, which will probably do what they want. Exact rationals have their own problems, and if you're not using exact rationals then however much precision you've got you'll always have rounding (as soon as you divide by anything other than 2 or 5).
I'm assuming the GP's brain replaced the 'g' with a 'c'.
That doesn’t solve the problem that most people will find Fandom first when searching for it.
Is it a testament to the Japanese rail system that he was able to get to work in Nagasaki the next day after Hiroshima was f*cking nuked?
To me, the initial allure of the vdom was how much further it got you then backbone.js’ “this.model.on(‘change’, this.render)”. When that one liner in backbone was enough, it was magical. But once you hit scenarios where overwriting the this.el.innerHtml, it became super painful (usually when that el was hooked up to 3rd party plug-ins, html5 video tags, etc).

Once react switched from class based components and mixins, each subsequent release was only more confusing. I remember the conference talk where they explained the problems with mixins (forgetting to cleanup and them all sharing one state), both of which can be solved in a few different ways, but they opted for a whole rewrite for hooks, which I “get”, but think it increased the complexity dramatically for a very low gain.
Yahoo still has more traffic than Bing, but nearly everyone agrees that Yahoo is dead.
I work in the not for profit internet governance space, and we frequently discuss the "shirky principle" -Because we see signs of it all the time.
I can see how that would be implemented for WhatsApp and other apps from large companies. But how would that work in practice for applications like Matrix where clients are not controlled by the server operator nor the server developer?

Some questions I have from reading Patrick's website:

- How do you even ensure a client is actually self-reporting? On-device attestation doesn't really work.

- As a provider of E2EE chats, should the client report to you or to a third-party (Who?)? If the client reports to you, you are now possessing CSAM. Since even possession of CSAM is illegal, how does that work?

- If a photo are flagged, will it appear in a GDPR access request?
I'm very interested in exploring the claim I initially asked about. I'm very familiar with freedom of expression in my country, and in various other countries. I remain unconvinced that "it's often viewed as a threat" - we're just generally not absolutists about it, because we recognize there's nuance even to that.

Your America-centric view of the world is pretty fun though.
No, you're grossly misrepresenting what I said. I never accused you of being poorly educated; in fact quite the opposite. I was ~100% sure you had seen vectors and complex numbers before and I was telling you this is exactly like what you have already seen. That's not an accusation of poor education, that's literally the opposite: pointing out that you're well educated enough to have seen that before.

I didn't intend that to be rude, I was pointing out this is something everyone learns in a standard curriculum i.e. that this is very much the opposite of esoteric. But you seemed determined to reply rudely, so I'll stop here.
I don't see why you couldn't, other than getting hands on legitimate versions of Flash that still have ActionScript support.
> I feel like I must be missing something here. What?

If I were to hazard a guess at what the original poster was getting at, it might be the culture of those languages, combined with the power of Lisp to redefine its own syntax.

Lispers value concision, love higher-order functions, and love wrapping things in other things to reuse code, so you might easily see a non-trivial stretch of code without a single function call you recognise. Imagine code where the smallest chunk look something like (dq red foo '(hat n (ddl m) f)). There could be anywhere between zero and eight functions in that snippet, or any one of those might be a macro which re-orders the others in any way (or perhaps its parents include a macro, in which case you really can't assume anything about how / if this stretch is executed at all), it could be a wrapper around something that in other languages would need to be an operator (perhaps it's an if statement?), etc etc.

It's absolutely true you can shoot yourself in the foot in any language, but Lisp is unusually good for it. It's part of its power, but that power comes with a cost. Imagine talking with someone that had a proclivity for making up words. In small doses, this might be fun and save time. In larger doses, you begin losing the thread of the conversation. Lisp is sorta like that. It might seem flammorous, but before you prac it grombles, and you plink trooble blamador!
The question is always about the circumstances.

In the "think of the children" scenario the parents are incentivized to consent to some filter. (So they or someone(!!!) gets an alert if the boogeyman is talking to their kids, asking them to send nudes, or sending dick pics.)

See recital 13 on top of page 7 for the definition.

And see 17 on bottom of page 8 for this:

"To allow for innovation and ensure proportionality and technological neutrality, no exhaustive list of the compulsory mitigation measures should be established"

and

(page 46) "... measures shall be ... targeted and proportionate in relation to that risk, taking into account, in particular, the seriousness of the risk as well as the provider’s financial and technological capabilities and the number of users; ..."

This is a framework. It seems to be coming from overly-anxious law nerds who can't stop thinking of the children. (And yes, this usually makes them a problem, because they're nigh unreasonable.)

It seem to be set up as a DIY thing for providers. And, again, for parents it makes sense, let your kids surf on the marked-safe-for-kids part of the Internet. (And nowadays kids really spend most of their time on (in!) certain apps, not in a web browser.)

The ugly part is that there are fines to compel the providers to adjust their risk metrics. (page 104, page 110 mentions max 6% of global turnover)

This clearly seems to be a softish push to assign a cost to internet ecosystems for online child sexual abuse.

On page 45 there are some requirements.

The provider needs to think about risks (but guidelines will come from authorities anyway), have some appropriate budget to actually work on this it the context of its own service, and then if it looks like there are problems it should spend money on remediation. (Ie. spend on content moderation, work with other providers in the industry, have a team and provide UX to notify that team, and allow users to limit what they share with others based on age.)
Interesting in two ways. This camera is very much like my first camera, a Fujica half frame with “guess the distance” focus, some 54 years ago.

Second, film can be scanned at processing time and place, and 35mm film is about equivalent to a 24 megapixel digital image. Some say better [0]. Film rarely is affected by dust, and I have had a bunch of sensor cleanings. I change lenses in a new unused ziplock bag now.

I am getting a new scanner for my old (out of this world) color slides, mainly 2¼ square, because 35mm. slides can be 1:1 imaged by a 24 megapixel digital camera with about the same quality.

4x5 and other view cameras will last forever (if you maintain the bellows) because they are as simple as a clothespin (other than the shutters)

[0]: https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/why-we-love-film.htm
I think the omnipresence of Ms. Pac-Man is a US only thing, I'm not sure the cabinet was even released elsewhere. So the most common for you and me, but not most people.
> using history to imply dangerous things.

It's probably worth pointing out that this is a common propaganda tactic of the powerful.