skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a reason why this was published 4 days ago and got no upvotes until the author decided to spam it again.
>I don’t see how a government elected by the people can be considered a dictatorship

Seems dictators get voted into power more often than not...
When did you last look for a job?
The current situation will continue because of the incentive structures. For-profit, and especially publicly-traded corporations, encourage owners and managers to optimize cost-cutting in the short-term. Instead, hackers should both form employee-&|customer-owned co-ops and join unions. Difficult to do initially, but it's how to minimize the threats of arbitrary layoffs, unethical customer exploitation, and craptastic, unrepairable products built to expire.
Shitheads trash-talking Lisp, followed by disk space, followed by unexplained CPU spikes and suspicious network activity.
Its not faux. I'm genuinely asking what about the original comment you disagreed with. It didn't really have anything to do with what you're talking about, so, Im wondering what connection you're trying to make.

Do you think political conflict makes trade better, and are using the US as an example? It doesn't seem like you're disagreeing with the original premise, but rather just aggressively responding with a tangent.
Changing quickly now as the prior generation sat still collecting rent as long as possible, refusing to evolve themselves, and kept the next generation away from opportunities to evolve.

Teachers who just take public school jobs rather than start local learning programs and nurses who idle in hospitals rather than start some in-home nursing service for their community, academics whose careers stalled due to progress sit there reliving the same old routine blocking newcomers from moving through the pipeline

Whole lot of ossified minds in industry who need to get over coddling some sacrosanct story and identity and move along
The threshold, at least in the countries whose laws I'm familiar with, isn't just "will they turn up for trial", but also "are they a risk to other people or are they likely to continue breaking the law". And, to be honest, that makes sense.
> In a good program, most of those checks are not coverable from the public interfaces.

If they aren't then you are defending against situations that can never occur. In that case the check seems unnecessary, and I at least wouldn't make it a priority to cover it. Also, those checks are usually simple enough that one can reason about them easily, again making it less of a priority to have tests cover them.

> The other problem is that finding tests that cover everything from the public interfaces can be extremely difficult. Most test suites don't achieve full coverage even of theoretically reachable points in the code.

Yes, testing is hard. That is not a reason to write more detrimental tests though.
Haha, Germans not being cheap :)

That being aside, I mentioned Lidl cause they sell pretty much the same stuff in both countries. As for PPP, it's supposed to be based on a basket of goods, which is supposed to be as similar between two countries as possible.

Comparing lower quality products in country A to better ones in country B would tell you nothing.
I'm sorry, but I don't hold them in high regard as artists. They're part of the "western/southern frontier" crowd that encapsulated the zeitgeists of their environments, rather than create something that transcended it. The "frontier" is a notable and interesting subject in itself, but it has only peripheral cultural value to... civilization.
My dude, you're the one who wrote this post (presumably) so you're the one who should be reaching out to the relevant parties to seek out information, not the other way around...
Apple once bought an enterprise company called NeXT:

https://web.archive.org/web/20011017163151/http://www.apple....
If you ask the Russians the Brezhnyev rule was the best (stability, stagnation), with Stalin trailing him (won WW2, rapid industrialization). If you ask westeners, Khrushchev (space race, reforms) and Gorbachev (glasnost).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Leonid_Brezhnev
For the same reason democratic states should fund news and education -- because it's in the public's interest to have these things.

And because when you run a capitalist economy, things that aren't profitable... don't spontaneously spring into existence at scale.

Unlike the travesty we made of rolling out social media, maybe we should think about what AI will cannibalize in the future, what we'd like to keep, and set up systems to financially support those things?

Personally, I'd rather not live in a future where all music, art, and news is the same milquetoast pablum regurgitated by an LLM.

But that means finding an economic model where not-that is feasible.
What constitutes a garden? Does a small front lawn count?
I admit I wasn't aware of that channel when writing this post.

That said, VTubing is a medium predicated with several layers of irony (I also admit I don't fully understand non-AI VTubers) and the implicit assumption among viewers that it's inherently fantasy, so the uncanny valley logic and mainstream appeal that this post frames is not as applicable.
Not any more, most social media platforms nowadays seem to be capable of enforcing local laws. The act of following lawful takedown requests isn't political, it's literally just enforcing the law of the land, the bare minimum any foreign company has to do if it wants to do business anywhere.

There's obviously also no reason to assume this has anything to do with any opposition, Twitter can't even make sure anything that's posted on that site is even posted by people, let alone citizens of their respective jurisdictions.

Having Elon Musk on the one side and bots from a basement in Moscow on the other set your country's conversation is many things but certainly not democratic.
> to be in maintenance mode.

Sad to hear.-

PS. On a tangent, rethorically - baring bugs and security - at one point is (if ever) software "finished"?

"We built this search engine. It works. The infrastructure has team enough to run it. But we have this huge payroll of people."

So "improvements" and "features" (and constant UI and UX changes) ...

... "enshittification" ensues.-

When is "good enough" ... good enough?
In my input.conf file I've created filter keyboard shortcuts:

F1 af toggle "acompressor=ratio=4,loudnorm"
F2 vf toggle "bwdif"

First one is an alright dynamic range compressor (makes the loud parts quieter and quieter parts loud). Second is a deinterlace at default settings. These are standard ffmpeg filters and mpv let's you turn these on in real time.
In one case it’s 2/mo, in the other it’s 2.5, which is pretty similar except it’s a whole-ass additional person getting carted off every other month.
I find these discussions so tiresome. Yes, young people are cringe, but people learn quickly and will adapt as needed. If you're worried about losing to other countries, don't. If people want to win they will work hard as long as they're allowed to and capable of it, and young people in the west are still very free and capable. Everything else is people getting mad that other people prioritize different things.
but people have more income now - surely working for uber or lyft today is the equivalent of driving a cab then?
Surely not because the company is contracting in size and revenue...
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We're starting to get studies showing that the majority of consumers are turned off by including the magic acronym. [0]

If the average person is getting fatigued... Then everyone close to the industry tends to be far worse off, as well.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1080/19368623.2024.2368040
A single invocation of an NN isn't turing complete, but as soon as you loop it, it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
> owned by Dish Network

That explains www.blockbuster.com linking Sling TV.
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You can't easily disrupt it because it's a two-sided marketplace between consumers and payment providers.

You could launch a Stripe competitor called CheapPayments but it would still have to pay standard Visa/etc processing fees so it can't be cheaper than Stripe.

You could launch a Visa competitor called CheapCard that has half the processing fees of Visa, but no merchants or payment processors would take CheapCard so people would continue using Visa.
Doesn't that just trade one symmetric secret for another? (your password)

I suppose it's a little better because you probably haven't written your password on the side of your card, but everytime I have to go through it it feels like I'm getting phished. Also, SSL seems kind of messy for the job. You've already got the processor as a third party, now the CA's are a fourth party, plus whoever gets to install certs on that device as a fifth...

You could just have the card sign the transaction and have the merchant send that signature to the clearinghouse. For online orders, your phone could just be the payment terminal, and still the secret on the card is the signing key.

But none of that actually helps unless you deprecate the insecure stuff.
It's one of those quotes that gets attributed to a lot of different people. Here is goodreads claiming it was Ernest Hemingway [1].

“Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.”

1. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9556005-every-man-has-two-d...
The main reason is that there is a glut of free news, or quasi free (ad sponsored).

Also, some people get nonfree news as part of some streaming package. They are not paying for news per se, but it's there and they consume it from time to time, even if not avidly.

You can consume free news via the radio also (which people mainly do in their car these days, I suspect). During the heyday of television, people consumed free news via broadcast TV which you could catch with an antenna. A few people probably still do.

There has hardly ever been a need to pay for news since the dawn of the radio era.
I don't know at all, I'll have a look, thanks :)
What do all the brilliant folk here think of Resilio Sync?
It was useless for large files when I tried it, at least on Firefox. It seemed to be trying to pull the entire file into RAM.
I might have indicated it's DOMPurify's problem. Sorry I didn't mean that.

The browser add-on is unfortunately not open source and I don't want to spend a lot of time to investigate it. According an earlier issue (#1437), they should have fixed it already. I guess the later envolvements changed that.

I agree with you that what DOMPurify does should be cared of by the Browser.
tl;dr they've shown quantum entanglement can occur inside nerve fibers, and speculate that it could explain the speed of brain communication

a research group in China has shown that many entangled photons can be generated inside the myelin sheath that covers nerve fibers. It could explain the rapid communication between neurons, which so far has been thought to be below the speed of sound, too slow to explain how the neural synchronization occurs.

"If the power of evolution was looking for handy action over a distance, quantum entanglement would be [an] ideal candidate for this role," said Yong-Cong Chen in a statement to Phys.org. Chen is a professor at the Shanghai Center for Quantitative Life Sciences and Physics Department at Shanghai University.

The paper is published in the journal Physical Review E.

https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2401.11682
Humans undergo midlife molecule changes in 40s and 60s
some security products seem like they are designed to discredit security as a field. imo the market is just at the point of backlash against the decadent stupidity in that cost centre. if you are going to humiliate people by making them jump through hoops 10x a day with context switching 2FA tokens and make serious people with educations and responsibilities use words like "smishing," you better be sure that hoop is the finest example of engineering anywhere. the solution has become the problem. I'm calling the peak.
https://archive.ph/CDLBS
IINA has issues with color space conversions. I've heard that the specific issue is that it always (incorrectly) assumes a BT601 matrix for all videos, though I haven't verified it myself and cannot really right now. (I did verify its colors differing from stock mpv before writing this comment, though.)
Various mpv wrappers exists, but for reasons like these stock mpv is the only fully reliable version.
I would counter, why are you spending time learning something you're not interested in?
The entire process is very much not automated
Since a few years ago, the ECB is already looking into the possibilities for implementing a digital euro as another way of paying across the entire Eurozone. The phrase "digital euro" has been kind of a political boogeyman because of the privacy concerns (fair) and implications that the physical euro might disappear (less fair, the right to be able to use it as legal tender is enshrined in the EU treaties and that can't be changed without everyone agreeing to it), but the base idea is to create a public infrastructure that would do what payment processors and credit card companies are doing for a hefty fee right now. Which, to me, sounds like a great answer to this problem.
Is this only an issue with cross-origin isolation enabled with COOP and COEP?
I'd say there are a few aspects that make VLC an easy, common choice: 1) it has incredibly extensive functionality (even if MPV has more capabilities, with VLC, it's all available through menus/GUI - no need to memorize any commands) 2) handles any files you throw at it EVERY time - out of the box. Throughout the years, VLC has been the only player which didn't choke on ANY file I threw at it. 3) It's multiplatform and works (in my experience) equally well on Windows, Linux, and MacOS - OUT OF THE BOX! Even on Android, where I normally prefer using MX Player Pro (bc it has a slightly nicer UI/UX), it was able to handle video files where the audio was in the DTS format. MX Player Pro required the installation of codecs to make the audio work. 4) It's been around forever, so if you want to look up any info related to it, you're sure to find it more easily than for any other player.

All that said, VLC is not always my video player of choice. On Windows, I typically prefer PotPlayer and MPC-BE. On MacOS - IINA. On Android - MX Player Pro. But I always keep it installed on all those platforms because I know that I can fall back to it reliably at a moment's notice and it will simply work.

Additionally, with regard to MPV, where I think it makes the most sense is for the highly discerning user who wants to tweak the rendering of video in a specific way. I think anime fans really like it a lot (I'd imagine they upscale or improve the image quality in very subjective, specific ways, though I didn't investigate this in detail). The other good use case is when you have somewhat limited hardware and you want the most efficient video player application. That is perfectly valid, I suppose, but I think for most people, whatever hardware they're playing a video file on is likely more than capable of running with a more 'unoptimized' video player app such as VLC.
In bad orgs, yes. In good orgs you get appreciated for speaking up and communicating what will be future problems.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275600
I remember when that location closed, as I went to college nearby. Fun that you did the championships there. Also, really nice work.
I am with you! I stop looking when it says contact us for pricing.
I agree with most of this list, and I'd add some kind of null coalescing or ternary operator, even if it was limited to one operater per expression, and a date time handling library that doesn't make me want to pull.my hair out.

There's several things that keep me on Go, single binary, decent built in tooling, and decent speed.

I've started playing around with tinygo on Pi Pico's, and after the dealing with getting C and C++ onto other MCUs it's a breath of fresh air.

But the rough edges are very rough. At some point another language is going to come along with better syntax with the same single binary and good tooling and I'll probably switch over as fast as possible.
I agree. These middlemen take our work and monetize it never cutting us in (Google, Facebook, X, etc…)
The link is paywalled, and archive.is doesn't have a copy, so here's a site where you can read the article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-suing-emory-university-hospit...
> Overloading the discussion of the bylaws change (47 out of 177 posts in topic...

Was there a rule that prohibits that?

> concepts not backed by empirical evidence

You can see evidence with your own eyes right here: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/10k31w3/d_...

> Making light ... which could be interpreted as harassment or creating an unwelcoming environment

No comment needed

> Discussing bans or removals of community members

Similar to violation of later Russian law that prohibits criticizing the government.

> Dismissing unacceptable behavior of others as a “neurodivergent” trait, which is problematic because it creates a stereotype that neurodivergent people are hard to interact with and need special treatment.

Sounds bad, but really hard to judge without examples.

> Excessive discussion of controversial topics or past conflicts

Was there a rule that prohibits that?

> Use of potentially offensive terms

Is this like a kitchen knife "potential instrument of murder", or "he said something we think might have offended someone else. We don't have anyone complaining yet, but let's ban just in case"?

> Making assumptions or speculations about other community members’ motivations and/or mental health.

> Casually mentioning scenarios involving sexual abuse, which may be inappropriate or triggering for some audiences.

These two are problematic, but the first one may be valid depending on actual circumstances (e.g. if his assumption or speculations were correct, then there's nothing to blame the person for).
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This is just financing optics. There’s no reason Apple couldn’t do the same thing.
Take a look at a map of US bases around China and then try to find any Chinese bases near the US, and you’ll understand who’s “militarist” and who isn’t.
Another solution could be translating C++ source to Object Pascal before building. It might not be a full C++ but still an acceptable solution.
IINA has various issues that mpv does not have, in particular with color space conversions (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278331 for a few more details)
This has bugged me a lot. Have I been gaslighted? Like, do sites lose my password? I can swear there have been like 10 occasions in the last 20 years where I had to reset my password where I am pretty sure I knew it.
What are the best upscalers for MPV these days?
Just echoing some of what others have said...iostat...temperature (sometimes added boards have temperature readings as well as the machine)....plus just hitting web pages or REST APIs and searching the response for expected output...
...file descriptors...

In addition to disk space, running out of inodes on your disk, even if you don't plan to. If you have swap, seeing if you are swapping more than expected. Other things people said make sense depending on your needs as well.
That's helpful to know.

But still, some of the additional charges sound unenforceably vague and/or otherwise dubious as well.

So overall the rap sheet has a distinct aftertaste of "We're getting tired of this guy, but the current set of charges doesn't quite pack the punch we'd like it to have. So let's lather him up with rather more slippery charges X, Y and Z to, you know, make it stick and speed this process up. And so he can really start to feel the full sting of our opprobrium. That'll learn him."

I actually believe that community standards are very important, and that it's not so bad to err (modestly) on the side of safety and general respect for others.

But there's also this thing known as "due process". Basic common sense, and at least a modicum of sanity are important to have in place as well.
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Don't monitor your servers, monitor your application.
When numbers are bits: distributed representations for sets
>so the uncanny valley logic and mainstream appeal that this post frames is not as applicable.
To be the most popular female streamer on Twitch and the most popular vtuber on any streaming platform for an entire week means you're already pretty mainstream, if not, there's really nothing mainstream on Twitch.
Cool, it works on Firefox but not on Safari for iPhone. The volume change of the Rick Roll song at the end is predefined. I thought for a second it was automatic once the narrator spoke, which would be cool!
I don’t get the “action at a distance” leading to synchronization.

Quantum entanglement doesn’t transmit information. Is there some mechanism for synchronization without information transfer?
I'd be more concerned about the 7-level for loop than indentation
Since when did information travel quickly in the brain (compared to the speed of light)?
I think it is the case now. The vast majority of people charge at home. Charging at a station is the exception, not the rule.

What will change is access to chargers in apartments and similar places. When that happens people will find it odd how people used to just assume they'd spend ten minutes a week in a chemical plant.
Their trailing PE is 34. Markets are forward looking however. Their forward PE is ~30. Whether or not that is reasonable is another story.
I like max's written and his overview, but I do think the negativity at the end is overblow.

Yes, people will complain. Yes making a new AI show would be controversial. But nothing worth doing isn't controversial.

All the stuff about "you can't use voice clones, or feature X or whatever" don't apply, IMO.

Just do it anyway, and when you have haters, congradulations, those hates will spread your work further than any fan could.
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I think if there are a lot of functions (or a function with a lot of arguments, common to python) you have clutter regardless. I would rather have a bunch of different names than a bunch of different functions with the same name. Having to choose names for each of the functions is a gentle push back asking “do you really need all these flavours of function or are you abstracting this in the wrong way?”
I studied Physics. Sure they calculated that some entanglement can happen in some theory. But it's a huge stretch to relate it to consciousness. That's just clickbait in my view and should have been left out. It's trending here just because of the clickbaity title.
it's not just not trivial, it's quite cumbersome. but micropayments exist. assume I made some content and users wanted to give me 10 cents for it. if they didn't want to pay the 30 cent visa tax, they'd have to: create a Coinbase account, fund it, buy some crypto, install a wallet, move the crypto to the wallet, and connect the wallet to my website, before finally sending 10 cents my way. even if we handwave that the server side exists, how many users are going to bounce off of that?
This. Each country have an administrative entity (in France, that’s CNIL, Commission National sur l’Informatique et les Libertés - National Commission on computer and liberties, roughly) in charge of this kind oh things. You can lodge a complaint to them and they will investigate and eventually, if needed (don’t think it was ever needed, they can bring the problem to a judge.
All perspectives are invalid. One has to judge individual points.