skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would one want that kind of acquired taste?

You don't need to get used to Bach (or so I think), you know the good stuff on sight.
Herd mentality means you share conspiracy theories with the herd, so they don't get recognized as conspiracy theories. Think Nazi Germany etc, that only gets recognized afterwards.

So you might identify more crazy stuff in autistic people who don't align with the herd, but if you sum up all the crazy stuff the herds thinks that is roughly on a similar level to an average autistic person, just that its all aligned in a thought bubble so people don't see it unless you look outside your bubble.

To illustrate, do you think a devout democrat feels an average autistic person or a republican believe in more dumb stuff? And vice versa. Regardless which of those sides are right it still adds up to a ton of crazy shit for the average herd.
I don’t think you’re wrong, but also consider the costs associated with trying to setup and manage your own backup. Easy for many of us here, but the “average” person faces not only the technical barriers, but the actual cost of devices. People don’t have $400 for an emergency [1] but need to spend $100-$300 for a level backup - and it’s just an insurance device.

Google is offering to painlessly, invisibly backup your photos. It’s not hard to see why peeled go with it, and trust it to be there.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/shed.htm
I think it’s still a token per time limit. So more files in the project and more artifacts means token usage.
While I agree generally with the pattern (dynamically generating manifests, and using pipelines to co-ordinate pattern change), I could never quite figure out the value of using Branches instead of Folders (with CODEOWNER restrictions) or repositories (to enforce other types of rules if needed).

I can't quite put my finger on it, but having multiple, orphaned commit histories inside a single repository sounds off, even if technically feasible.
There's fewer pedestrians that might or might not be about to step in front of the car. Less need to predict human actions. There's mostly no perpendicular intersections. Generally visibility is good, don't have to remember that there was a car getting ready to enter traffic behind the peach tree. No skate boarders.
What monopolies have they broken up? The EU has only issued fines to enforce compliance.
Why can’t it just be Teams v2 and Teams v1?
A Faster Implementation of std:function
Lets pick on the one I think is easy here - a Taliban source. The US spent 20 years in Afghanistan, wasted trillions, murdered almost a million. Opportunity costs even bigger than the needless waste of course.

How much is that Taliban source worth vs. greater transparency that could have ended the war earlier? The biggest problem was publicising which interest groups in the US government were responsible for prolonging the inevitable. Just keeping all meeting minutes on a website unredacted would have been a lot more valuable than having a source.

The tricky one is the Saudis. How much is a Saudi source worth vs. full transparency of voters into the US-Saudi relationship? The issue here is ... we can't debate that, the necessary knowledge is secret. But since large organisations are generally dysfunctional, and there is no reason to believe that the Saudi source is more valuable than more transparency into what is actually going on in the Middle East.

The issue to me is that secrecy makes democratic institutions ungovernable - they can't be assessed without full information and therefore voters can't even attempt to make rational decisions. Full transparency is probably more valuable than the net influence of secret sources [0]. The value of long-term secret sources is highly questionable. If there is a source or confidant in some foreign organisation you want to protect, give them a passport and set them up in Texas. Problem solved.
You didn't understand me. Computers need electricity, when that electricity is switched off, the entire collection of works becomes inaccessible. This can be a short-term outage or it can be a longer one in case of e.g. a natural disaster.

And it's not true that "ebooks would/will never just disappear"; if you don't proactively care for the health of your storage media, they will fail; from an archival point of view most storage media will almost certainly fail in short order (years, decades at most). I have piles of CDs, floppy disks and hard disks lying around but I am not confident I can access all the data. Rather, I'm sure only a fraction of the files will still be readable.
>This relies on an artificial and false morality
Okay this says nothing, like me telling your comment is banana-split with cherry.

>You reference “correct guidelines.” Please cite them, and what is definitely good and bad outside a local construct within a modern Westphalian political nation state.

I just told you with my example, but here's ICC's guidelines about whistleblowing:

https://iccwbo.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/02/icc-gu...

Pretty much any whistleblowing guideline will have similar statements about whistleblowing.

>Should nationally critical information controls survive mere legal disobedience? If they don’t how much security theater fulfills your appetite?

Why do we have to present this as a black and white issue? The best is a compromise to ensure that the power abuse gets pointed out and the adversaries that are responsible be highlighted as the alleged perpetrators (as this is still something that a court has to decide on) without putting national security/innocent lives at risk/at harms way.
LLMs aren't even relevant in Kurzweil's Singularity vision, they are just a current trend. They may pan out, or something else will.
>the object level decision sounds good, but I'm worried this went via the judges, not lawmakers.

Some said the same about the US Supreme Court ending criminalization of gay marriage, but no one today has a problem with it other than actual homophobes.

Court decisions often limit or strike down laws, but for some reason it's always a problem when doing so increases human rights. We should welcome more rights however they are earned. Many have had to be won through blood and destruction, I am thankful whenever that isn't necessary.
There is no justification, this is just more thinly-veiled rent-seeking from the EU.
Distancing ourselves from historical people is one of the worst possible mistakes we can make when studying history. We aren't different. The entire 10,000 years we've had anything resembling civilization is an evolutionary blip.

The reasons that Columbus tortured, killed, and enslaved indigenous people are the same reasons for Abu Ghraib: racism, lack of oversight, and greed. The exact details have changed, but the underlying causes are alive and thriving.

Thankfully, I think humans as a whole understand these things better and I think things are improving, but if we fail to keep that understanding alive and build upon it, regress is possible. Certainly the startup culture being fostered here (HN) which looks only at profit and de-emphasizes ethics enables this sort of forgetfulness. It's not that anyone intends to cause harm, it's that they can rationalize causing harm if it's profitable. And since money makes the same people powerful, this attitude is an extremely damaging force in society. That's why I am so insistent that we not treat ethics as a side-conversation.
As a younger person I’d say I really enjoy debugging tech issues, enough that I actually go out of my way to do it for other people (active on support forums etc).
That’s a lot of the reason why I run Linux actually
You mean like how Outlook injects an ad into nearly every email I receive encouraging me to use Copilot for sales even though I'm not in sales and think Copilot is, in classic Microsoft form, buggy, bloated, and nearly unusable beta software that they're plaguing on their customers and charging them for the privilege?
Skimmed over the video and I gotta say this is sick! Imagine streaming this live with animation once we get their.
>> Please name a satisfying ready-to-deploy industrial nuclear reactor not needing uranium. There is none.

> There are certainly options in the wind

Those are mere hopes, not ready-to-deploy adequate reactors.

> The Chinese TMSR-LF1

Its complete name is "liquid fuel thorium-based molten salt *EXPERIMENTAL* reactor" (emphasis is mine).

> ( 2MW )

2MW thermal, that is to say a lab toy. Even if it works adequately and for a reasonable total cost to obtain the aggregated thermal power of existing civilian US nuclear reactors producing electricity we will need approximately 47000 of them.
As the existing fleet accounts for 20% of the nation's total electric energy generation in order to 'clean' the gridpower approx 235000 of them are needed. Then we have to convert to electricity many thingies now burning fossil fuel, therefore we probable need at best approx 2x times more electricity...

> uses uranium fluoride but doesn't require it

... and yes, it now uses uranium. Maybe one day...

Let's be realistic. This is a mere hope, nothing more (yet). Remember that in the 1970's many planned to be able to deploy sodium-cooled fast breeders industrial reactors, which were then WAY more advanced than other Gen4 (thorium...) because lab reactors already worked quite well. Yet this industrial fleet didn't appear anymwhere, as albeit huge volume of resources poured at the challenge no nation was able to design a satisfying industrial reactor.

> a ten year licence while a second much larger version ( 10 MW ) is currently being built.

Its output, if it is successful: 10MW, therefore to replace the existing US fleet we will only need about 9400 of them.

> a full industrial GW scale version will break ground ~ 2028 ( but that's admittedly intended policy speak

OK, let's wait while deploying what works right now: renewables.
Even asic will imo only give us one step-function jump. there will be a huge
jump and then it is mostly back to moore's law-ish. maybe the gradient will be a bit steeper but i doubt it.
I would argue that there will be a horizontalization of the curve at some point. Meaning, we cannot continue exponentially forever.
You'd be unwelcome on a lot of social media platforms back in 2020-2021 for those vaccine conspiracies you're spreading. The issue is, all that was true for the entire pandemic. The science didn't "evolve" on the vaccines, where we ended up was the most likely outcome from the start. The scientists knew that, but the people who trusted experts didn't manage to figure it out. They were too busy panicking to listen to anyone.
To me these type of cases has always been BS, especially since not every company gets the same treatment. Next, they should ask Tesla to give its customers the choice of the autopilot software its car runs...
I rather have courts look over it and have a fair and honest conclusion rather than everyone doing their 'conclusion'.

And according to the intelligence report it was Russia who indirectly hacked the DNC (via guccifer) so I don't know where this "internal source" comes from, would love to see a report that shows otherwise.

The irony is that Wikileaks allegedly did have RNC leaks, but Assange choose not to publish it.
> Keeping low numer of controllers on one data line, allows to drive these displays with an increadible speed of 15 frames per second (black – to – white).

From Alfazeta's page (including the typos). 15 frames per second feels pretty wild, but would also, unfortunately, change this math pretty considerably if you ran it full tilt.
We can't stop at 'erer'. If it's truly exponential the ers repeat at a rate that is difficult to comprehend for us mere mortals.
Let me introduce you to WayGlo. They pivot to automated car cleaners...
Best to follow the guidelines (although you'll notice they mention a few occasions where the original title might be replaced - mostly for clickbait reasons).

For past stories, it's not always easy to tell what happened at the time. One of the other guidelines Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter can lead to a submission URL getting changed later without the title being updated (and so in retrospect the title doesn't seem to match).

In that particular case @wokwokwok did point out the submission had the wrong title, although perhaps they didn't email the mods to ask for a title update.
9/11 deniers can tell you in great detail how it's impossible for airplanes to have brought down the towers and all sorts of other nonsense. The conspiracy theorists ignore the actual reality while making stuff up. It's not that the other people have never heard of stuff made up and would suddenly change their minds if they have. It's really about what version of reality explains the totality of known facts, and then ofcourse the evaluation of what's fact and what's not using some sort of standard or rational thought process.

What is true is that the sense of trust has been eroded.
Doesn’t seem impossible to offer remote assistance as a paid subscription. The real showstoppers are cost and maintenance of the self-driving hardware which is astronomical
The high taxes and strong medical insurance program is not because "medical care is a human right". Its for Japanese. Americans would see this as nationalism.

The trains, government market control, subsidies etc are not to protect humanity from capitalism, its to provide safety and convenience for Japanese people. Freedom be damned either way so calling it right wing doesn't work.

Imagine if Bidens political goal was universal healthcare for all white people. Or if trump wanted strict gun control to protect the nation.

Left right just isn't real.
I see it as analogous to before the world knew about microorganisms and thought your health was determined by good and bad humors. There were experts in humors, jokes, art, writing. Im sure it seemed like a very real thing at the time.
Same here, would love to educate myself on this with specific standard references
No one is claiming that "lonely conspiracy theorists living in their mom's basements are secretly controlling the world." But it is obvious that some conspiracy theories such as replacement theory, the trans "groomer" panic and COVID conspiracy theories have become mainstream within certain political demographics. QAnon actively hampers real efforts to combat sex abuse with their phantom fears of leftist sex-slave cabals. People within the Pentagon who believe in alien abductions and Skinwalker Ranch are interfering with legitimate counterintelligence work.

Pretending all conspiracy theorists are just "lonely" and harmless people who have no real effect on the world is simply naive.
This is a very good point. I didn't think about two things: (1) Internet Explorer, and (2) custom DLL with ActiveX integration.
Random variables are neither random nor variables! They are functions that map a space of random events onto the real number line![0]

When you're asking P(Heads) of a coin, its short hand for "P(event=heads) for all possible events that can happen when flipping a coin". You notice that in this idealized world the event is always two things (heads or tails), and never null, side, cow because we have defined that the P(event=cow) = 0.

Probability functions are at the end of the day models that we can use to analyze real world non-deterministic phenomena with the rigor of mathematics.

[0] - with credit to Prof Gubner https://directory.engr.wisc.edu/ece/Faculty/Gubner_John/
...and they existed long before 2010, too. 1975 called, and said to check out the SCCS "Weave" data structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved_deltas

Weaves are the same thing as modern text CRDTs!
A simple personal website built with SVG
https://www.space.com/spacex-polaris-dawn-eva-spacesuit-reve...
It has been a solved problem for forty years or so.

Buy yourself a printer. Set it on your desk and manage the logistics and print quality yourself.

Good luck.
A content of a book is more important than the book itself. If the contents are preserved then what's the need of collecting the rare original copies other than cultural or heritage reasons?
Why are physics engines still so unrealistic?
I plan on going through the book with my soon to be 4th grade son. Hopefully it's a good book.
to be fair there is a whole spectrum between "chasing every new shiny that gets a blog post" vs. "I haven't changed my stack since 1998."

there are certainly ways to get burned by adopting shiny new paradigms too quickly; one big example in web is the masonry layout that Pinterest made popular, which in practice is extremely complicated to the point where no browser has a full implementation of the CSS standard.
Be good at a time when Google manually ranks domains, then pivot to crap when Google stops updating the ranking. Same as the site formerly known as Wikia.
> [...], but for some reason it's always a problem when doing so increases human rights.

Huh, who says that?

I just want, ideally, democratically elected lawmakers to make an actual law explicitly spelling out things. Because what a judge cobbles together, another judge can take away. (Yes, I know there's 'precedent' in some legal systems. But that just means that the next judge needs to come up with some reasons why her new case is sufficiently different. Not that hard.)
I believe the idea is that it makes it very explicit to track provenance of code between environments, eg merge staging->master is a branch merge operation. And all the changes are explicitly tracked in CI as a diff.

With directories you need to resort to diffing to spot any changes between files in folders.

That said there are some merge conflict scenarios that make it a little annoying to do in practice. The author doesn’t seem to mention this one, but if you have a workflow where hotfixes can get promoted from older versions (eg prod runs 1.0.0, staging is running 1.1.0, and you need to cut 1.0.1) then you can hit merge conflicts and the dream of a simple “click to release” workflow evaporates.
I cannot speak about when office (and Windows) would be considerd "small" enough to not fall under these law. For now not even Microsoft makes this argument.

As far as I know they can innovate on the actual product as much as they want.

Teams itself may be the best software product ever. The issue lies in Microsoft using it's ownership of Office and Windows to "force"/"sell" it to customers.

The details of what that means exactly will be decided by a court.
I did not know that.

Would that indiciate that Korean software companies are only able to penetrate one economy at a time?

That would be a very weird, but interesting thing to investigate.
The funny thing is, this likely wasn't due to any nefarious machinations by Microsoft but rather the total and complete incompetence which has been at their core since their founding.
Technically paint and notepad and photo viewer are automatically installed from the windows store now on first login.
I 100% agree. I feel a huge part of my responsibility as a software "engineer" is to manage complexity. But i feel i'm fighting a losing battle, most everyone seems to pull in the opposite direction.

Complexity increases your surface area for bugs to hide in.

I've come to the conclusion it's tragedy-of-the-commons incentives: People get promotions for complex and clever work, so they do it, at the cost of a more-complex-thus-buggy solution.

And yes, it's not just software, it's everywhere. My modern BMW fell apart, in many many ways, at the 7 year mark, for one data point.
The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be bloodbath AI needs
The comments from the head of the senate are to be expected. He is courting votes from the far right, who oppose marijuana decriminalization and who also antagonize the supreme court (because they are prosecuting the people behing the coup attempt)
Dead Poet Societies
Hmm. I did not know of a link between that and prime-numbered elements. Would help if you can elaborate. :-) Thanks.
It was investigated the pilots followed roe.
Fair.

Let's say most office based businesses with at least a handful of employees do absolutely need Office or Windows.
Sorry but it is largely all-or-nothing in this case, if someone has access to the user the app runs as, you are screwed. It doesn't matter whether you use env vars or files.

I'm assuming the parent intended to say "if someone gained access to your user you are pwned anyways", which is true, unless you actually go to the effort of storing the secrets securely using OS-provided mechanisms. Env vars are not that.

> which isn't feasible in the real world

Well of course it isn't, how would you justify those sweet cybersecurity experts' paychecks otherwise? Not saying cybersecurity isn't important, but there's way too much snake oil in the industry nowadays (always has been?).
How many of those entrepreneurs are explicitly agreed with by antitrust regulators of major jurisdictions...?
It is difficult to codify emerging societal consensus because the founders deliberately made it difficult, so judges get around the difficulty of codifying consensus by changing their interpretation of the law, in effect creating new laws.

The proper way to do this may be via constitutional amendment, perhaps regularly. But the structure of the constitution makes it difficult to do regular amendment and changes.

Also, just as Judges can change their interpretation of the law for the better, they can also do the reverse. It would be better for example, if abortion rights was made more explicit or made outright a right guaranteed by the constitution.
> Random variables are neither random nor variables! They are functions that map a space of random events onto the real number line![0]

They are functions that map from the space of random events to whatever other space you want. Why restrict yourself to the real number line?

Eg the 'moral character of the next stranger I encounter' is a random variable that maps from some abstract space of random events (we often used the Greek letter Omega for that) onto some space of moral characters.

And if you want to restrict yourself to numbers, why restrict yourself to reals? Why not complex numbers or p-adic numbers or numbers in F_5 or numbers in [0, 1] or 'natural numbers expect 17'?

EDIT: looks like you are right in English! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796146 and my reply there.
Long term investing means buy and hold. And hold and hold and hold.

A system that does that for you would not really be a trading bot per se, it would just be a general algorithm for "picking stocks". Automating the actual purchasing is probably unnecessary.

If you find one, let us know! Most investors in the world are searching for the such a thing.
https://archive.is/v42hR
No Excel or Word competitors left to kill.
Ask HN: Could the power of the HN community find backups of GeoCities?
Geocities was shut down by Yahoo in 2009.

Is there anyone here in the HN community who could possible help to find the final backups, if any exist?

Geocities was such a fabulous and unique part of Internet history.

If only it could be revived for historical purposes.

Is there anyone here who knows anything about any backups of Geocities?

Was it backed up? How were the backups done? Where were they stored? Anyone know anything?

By the power vested in the HN community I call for help!
Democratic doesn't mean transparent. If the people represented by Congress make things secret that's still democratic.