skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, and in japan you might find the japanese equivalent. The basic argument was though that you find these ultra specialized places mostly within the country of the foods origin and that they are more common than more broad places. Which I think is a worldwide trueism.
Building a hum-to-search song recognition app using MIDI and vector search
What about Blender? Is it not a canonical success story? I feel that science, art, and tools that provide personal agency are all compelling landscapes for open-source fruition.
My claim is that it's an empirical question whether tax policy drifts over time in such a way that more people pay more. Seems foolosh to argue over what can be easily quantified.

In terms of my statement about many working people having trouble paying taxes, that too is quantifiable. As someone with many working poor friends I could offer anecdotes where people have to sell a car or do something drastic to pay their tax bill. The reason is that many working poor don't have normal middle class jobs where a portion of their salary is set aside for taxes. Everyone should pay taxes, even poor folks who don't have bank accounts or steady employment. My point is that these people hate taxes as much, likely more, than jeff bezos does. The people who seem to like taxes and tax increases (you may be one), tend to be upper middle class professionals who have never had to scramble to pay them for fear of prison or wage garnishment.
Meanwhile high frequency traders work 1-2 orders of manicure faster in the tens to hundreds of nanoseconds.
> Anyone can, that’s orthogonal.

Ok. So anyone "can" use a computer to do the same thing then. With the added part of "using a computer" it is now directly comparable and it is allowed.

> And if you seriously say that this tool is learning how to program

The tool is used by a person. The person is the one who takes the action, not the computer. So the point stands.
> perhaps they genuinely have some cool technology.... want to monetize it.

They haven't published a patent either.

Again, the reader is invited to draw their own conclusion.
Message backup on iOS device maybe ? Or the possibility to transfer messages history between iOS and Android devices ?
Often it's repaid with another loan. If you have 100m in stock assets to leverage, you could literally go your entire life without needing to ever actually sell the stock to pay the rolling loans, even if your 100m of stock never appreciated in value, which is unlikely- in reality that stock that's collateral is still making you even more money.
> The ants are on an alien world, the user is in a satellite orbiting the planet, and the two establish a symbiotic relationship, out of necessity, as a means of terraforming the planet.

That reminds me a lot of Helliconia books trilogy. Congrats for it! I'll look for some time and give it a try.
Here is what the Nova YT interface looks like on my Firefox. Each section is a separate module. Modules don't do anything if not activated so you can choose how you want YT to behave/appear.

https://i.imgur.com/lMKaJ5t.jpeg

After putting the number of videos in a grid row back to a useful number, things I especially like are changing video thumbnails back to a still that's actually from the fucking video, instead of a misleading click-bait image. I also like the option of changing all caps and removing emojis from video titles. It also has options to automatically remove a bunch of the stupid shit YT pushes in the UI I don't want to see.

After I got it set up, I found it literally shocking how much better YT is - yet in many ways, it's just restoring YT to the way it used to appear and work when its focus was user-centric instead of user manipulative. Since about ~2016 we've all been slowly frog-boiled by YT making the site slightly more annoying every month through iterative A/B testing optimizing for ad revenue. I literally can't go back to using stock YT now.

Each module has an info link which points to its entry in the wiki: https://github.com/raingart/Nova-YouTube-extension/wiki/plug.... Since I'm not familiar with YT's terminology for labeling all their UI elements, it initially took a little experimentation to see what some of the module options do but it's quick to change a setting, tab back to YT, refresh and see the result.
(July 10, 2024)
Half of Uber, Lyft Trips Replace More Sustainable Options
I'd love recommendations for a good Android client. Right now I just have the site installed as a web app. It works, but I have a foldable phone and the site displays a little weird when unfolded in landscape.
Arguably the best episode of the show. Way better than anything in season three that’s for sure lol
To be honest, if you use AOT you can get the .net component under 100mb with trimming so it isn’t that bad…

If you cared about disk or memory usage you wouldn’t use electron, anyway.
The most ironic part of this news is that "Macron posted on X."
Were the agents playing at 20 real FPS, or did this occur like a Pixar movie offline?
does Hamas purport itself as a standard of democracy and freedom in the middle east?

Is saying "Israel does X" is ok because "Hamas does it" really the line of argument you wanna go with?
https://www.wsj.com/world/who-is-pavel-durov-telegram-founde...

His phone was hacked back in 2017. Afterwards the French government gave him an offer to collaborate (which was presumably declined).
If you “use a computer” to watch a pirated film, does that make the practice legal?

> The tool is used by a person. The person is the one who takes the action, not the computer. So the point stands.

If watching that pirated film helps you learn something, does that make it legal?

If the film was pirated not by you but by some for-profit company that charges you for watching it, does that make it legal?
Deliberate Practice: The Most Effective Form of Active Learning
Mathematically 9.9 is bigger.

Numbering wise in a text document, 9.11 can be higher.

There's a chance that LLMs might be trained on more documents than mathematical info, despite the clear understanding that 9.9 is a higher mathematical value.

I ask which is a higher mathematical value vs a higher numbering value in a document and it seems to be better when I have come across this. Happy to learn from your and others experiences.
From my observations, the relentless and heavy-handed censorship of "misinformation" created more skeptics than "misinformation" itself, especially in cases where the squashed sources were credentialed medical practitioners and researchers.
there's "sharing ideas on forums" and then there's giving all of your source code, public and private, to Microsoft to host, instead of just setting your git remote to user@yourownhost:/path/to/reponame and setting up SSH keys

I appreciate the viewpoint of the GP and it's telling that it is downvoted when it is not spam, it is not abusive, and it is fully in-line with the stated and implicit etiquette of this site. It's just unpopular, so people are down-voting it.

FOSS is kind of culty and it's very apparent in the reaction to opinions like the OP's. If you don't believe what he said about giving up your agency and your fate when you give away your code online, look into what happened to fommil[0]

https://medium.com/@fommil/hide-your-real-name-in-open-sourc...
Well, first of all, JVM, even though it still gets a lot of bad rap (mainly due to Java) turns out to be really nice piece of tech, especially if the aim is to scale CPU-intensive tasks.

Besides - Clojure is not JVM-only, Clojure is a hosted language, it can work a top of different platforms: JS engine - Clojurescript; Flutter - ClojureDart; Native Code scripting - Babashka; NodeJS - nbb; .Net - Clojure CLR; Fennel even though technically is not a Clojure, is a lovely little language very similar to it and it works on Lua. There's also jank-lang, currently in development that works on top of LLVM. There are a bunch of other Clojure dialects - for Rust, Go, Python, Erlang, etc.
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I need this my boss is a total bitch!
Not sure which specific example they're referring to, but another example is that, according to tradition, the prophet Isaiah was martyred by placing him inside a hollow tree that was then sawn down. This appears to be referenced by the Apostle Paul in Hebrews 11:37 even though there is no description of Isaiah's death in the Old Testament:

"They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;"
Ah that's interesting, I did not know this. Maybe this is why authorities are all up in a tizzy over it. Because it can't be their platform security, which is largely theatre.
The perception of corruption is not without merit. Mozilla is pretty corrupt at this point. (Source: I work here).

I really don’t get where this whole “the EU should fund it” idea came from and why it’s repeated so often. Why would the EU throw their tax payer money at another corrupt American corporation? Mozilla has been in bed with Google for several years, has horrible web compatibility, and is only barely still in the privacy lane.

Besides, Europe isn’t the land of open source software and privacy. Look at the laws in the UK, France, and Germany; they’re not exactly privacy friendly. Look at the tech stacks at companies in the UK and Germany, they lean very heavily into the Microsoft/.NET world.
> If I used a chatbot to sell the entire text of harry potter, all at once, that would still be illegal even though its through a chatbot.

Right, which is why you sell access to the chatbot with a knowing wink.

> You mistake what the purpose of copyright is.

At one point it was to ensure individual creators could eke out a living when threatened by capital. I frankly have no clue what the current legal theory surrounding it is.
How so? Because they could prohibit Telegram in France?
In my city, it is common courtesy and sometimes expected that you say 'thank you' to the bus driver when getting off at your stop. It's not too much of a stretch to the scenario where bus drivers are tipped, except that most bus riders (at least in the US) tend to be poor. Maybe we'll have bus drivers tipping well behaved passengers instead lol.
I do agree that the open source ecosystem seems worth more than that. But $1 per Linux install seems like a kind of arbitrary pick that might not meet our intuition, if you want to hit 4B installs.

Like, there are only ~8B people, and most of them don’t use Linux on the desktop, so we must be including other uses of Linux. Routers, IOT. I’m pretty sure my lightbulbs run Linux. Is Linux supplying $1 of value per lightbulb? I’m not sure, I suspect smart bulb manufacturers could have gone with some proprietary stack if Linux didn’t exist, and it might cost less than $1 per lightbulb… actually, I have no idea, but I don’t think $1 is an obvious lower bound.
> Do they have something to hide?

That's very misguided of you to say and pure speculation. It's as useful for a discussion as me saying "Durov is Russian-born, and has resisted proper e2e encryption defaults, so the Kremlin incentivized him to do it, so they can spy on people". You see how this works?

There is actually a clear official statement from Signal why they don't permit open-source clients to use their servers.

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

What in their statement suggests that they are "hiding something"?

If you can find something wrong with their protocol, source, or suspect that somehow the communication is compromised when it reaches their servers, please go ahead and disclose it, but thinly veiled: "do they have something to hide" is just speculation.

Also relevant for context: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
Cruft is like dust bunnies, it grows if not cleaned up!

I literally just removed some code from 2021 that was echoing huge JSON files into build logs that nobody looked at.

It reduced the pipeline run duration from 45 to 30 minutes.

Now, a crypto coin will probably be harder to remove, but there's a weird inertia around long-lived repositories where people are afraid to make any changes. Although I hope the crypto portion is feature-flagged and can be somewhat easily disabled.
I heard an interview with the guy who actually smuggled him out a while ago, he was an ex special forces soldier who ended up getting caught hand did a bunch of time for it. It’s a pretty crazy story. He certainly wasn’t the same person after that experience.
"Nor have questions ceased about how the CIA ministers to — or disregards — the acute psychic strains sometimes faced by intelligence officers like him, or more broadly, about how it oversees the larger deep-cover corps of which he was a part."

Are we really concerned about the psychic abilities of our spies, or is this gross editing that should be psychological strains? Has MK-Ultra percolated throughout the spy agencies to the points spies are psychic now? I want more details on that please
Clarifying context before communicating or reviewing something is critical.

Especially since GPT-4o has become an over-exuberant and eager intern with a bias towards action to solve.

It needs reminders every 2-3 messages to not jump to solutions until the problem has been defined and potential approaches beyond the one it wants to spin it's propellor on. Statistically this approach must work for a good chunk of the prompts and queries and I assume my need otherwise may not be the common sie.
>...Using unrealized gains/assets as collateral is the way the ultra-wealthy avoid large swaths of income tax.

There are many web sites that claim this, but are there any actual reliable stats on how many lifetime loans are being given out? It is common to make short terms based on using stocks, etc as collateral. But how common is it to have a lender be ok with either deferring interest for decades until the person dies or continually giving new loans out to cover the interest (on paper at least)? Doing a quick search, I have not found one stat on how many lifetime loans like this are actually being done. There is a treasury department page claiming that about 160 billion dollars in unrealized gains are not being taxed, but that isn't talking about stock being used as collateral, that is talking about simply the value of assets increasing - that is entirely different. (If unrealized nominal gains should be taxed, should decreases in the value of assets lead to a tax refund?)

According to this:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-sell-5-billion-185...
Bezos has sold around $13.4 billion in stock in 2024. If he could easily avoid millions (maybe billions) of dollars of capital gains tax by this one simple technique, why wouldn't he have?
I would also like to add another condition, which is far more known: Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), which is a rare autoimmune disorder that has been associated with some vaccines in rare cases.

Actually, while we are at it, there have been several instances where rare adverse events or long-term conditions were discovered years after the introduction of a vaccine.

So, apart from narcolepsy caused by Pandemrix (again, made the association by luck), and GBS which is associated with most if not all vaccinations (albeit rare), there are a couple more:

- Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) and Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus (VDPV)

-- Type: live attenuated vaccine

-- Discovery: *years* after initial widespread use

- Rotavirus Vaccines

-- Discovery: within a year after mass vaccination but took time to confirm causation

- HPV Vaccine and POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)

-- Discovery: concerns emerged years after widespread use

So, given our history, do you think an mRNA vaccine is completely safe and there is no way it could be associated to any conditions down on the line? To me that sounds like either denial or wishful thinking. It took years after mass vaccination with some vaccines, you simply cannot deny that, it is a fact. If you think mRNA vaccines are completely safe (which is highly doubtful, call it healthy skepticism), good for you, but do not threaten to take away people's jobs (among other things) because they care more about their life than you do. If you do care about your life, where is the skepticism given our history of some vaccines? We have never had an mRNA vaccine that we administered on a massive, global scale before.

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> The COVID vaccines did not and do not cause deaths that are recorded as COVID deaths, full stop

We literally do this in my country, and I know this because I worked in healthcare, and I have family and friends working in healthcare (doctors, nurses). It is not limited to COVID, FWIW.

So as far as "100% unsubstantiated misinformation" goes, yeah, no, I have first-hand experiences with such practices. You do not have to believe me, it makes no difference to me personally, and it seems like you already made up your mind about it.
It’s a metaphor. No one is calling women cows, or confusing milk with sex, when using this saying.
It's probably a valve failure.

Valves have a hard job, since they have to survive in extreme cold and heat and not deform too much, if at all.

SpaceX is probably one of the few companies on earth that can detect metal fatigue well. I suppose at some point they'll also have the most reliable valves on the market. Material that has done 23 transitions between extreme hot/cold is something no other company probably has, and is a gold mine of data for materials people.
Surely this law that specifically effects holders of the assets we all have our retirements in will have no externalities which effect me.
'somewhat' is the keyword.
I'd argue that the way we define "state" as being "a set of things that matter to us". In the context of the article, if we define state as being a "state vector of (hours, minutes, seconds)" we explicitly exclude everything but these three value (miliseconds, date, etc). The two pictures with the hands pointing to the same umber then by definition are the same. We can even consider them as being the same "every 24 hour".

The distinction between single threaded or multi threaded is moot; the world is in perpetual mutation anyway; even is two lines of code are being executed at exactly the same time in a multithreaded fashion, one is executed on CPU A and one on CPU B so their "environment" is different and there will never be two lines of code that are executed in exactly the same environment - regardless of what tools and techniques you use to try and enforce reproducibility.

What matters is to explicitly define what you consider as having an impact (which you add in the "state") and what you don't (which you leave out).
It does not, I assume the writer had some other game type in mind.

I presume it's also your point, netcode is irrelevant when the cheat is manipulating inputs.
I was a consultant so was ready to be canned at a day's notice anytime, though only a fewf times got pushed in decades. And IIRC each time (other than one, which was mutual) that that happened the client tried to change its mind and have me back, but I was already sorted with something new. So IMHO it's often random and irrational, thus you shouldn't read too much into your experience, nor generally into apparent clusters of such events.

It suited me not to be at someone else's beck and call on their payroll...
Is it currently usable in anything other than GrayJay?

I wish I could use this with local videos.
Mono also had (limited?) support for ASP.NET non-Core. I wonder how many companies actually used that.
Anisha Pandey writes for CoinSpeaker today, quoting a Wall Street Journal profile article "Who is Pavel Durov"
I've encountered this argument ... repeatedly. Let's explore the DIY route:

If you can build your own Signal server, you too can serve you and your own circle of friends. The bar is not that high (Java and VPS).

Signal clients are even easier but it remains mostly an unique build-challenge due to not so strong documentation and by the virtue of mastery of multi-platforms.

Having said all that jazz, step back and ask yourself this, what am I losing by building my own Signal-protocol network?

Anonymity

Now, you would easily stick out like sore thumb to all the Internet overwatch, even within VPN tunnels.

That's a risk for me.

What am I actually gaining?

Not much: a more unique hash signature of client app (it has downsides); the ability to perform a unique but slight tweak of hash/key/encryption algorithm using same Signal protocol (dangerous rabbit hole), and avoidance of XDR/NDR/IPS/IDS firewall, and the biggest one: zero spreading of hashed contact info

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Alternatively, let's take the original route: your own client against "the" Signal server:

Now, Signal protocol would be open to misshapen protocal usages (think "fuzzing"). Might be a good thing but certainly not at this early stage; do we have the manpower to stand guard over a protocol like ISC Bind9 team do with their DNS?

The one area that is not firmed up 100% (more like 99.999%) yet is the Privacy Information Protection axiom and that is centered around the exhanges of hashed "Contact" address book. This there is largely understudied and under-whitepapered: how to exchange contact info in safe privacy order just to build your network: I keep that Signal client app option off for now and manually add my contacts.
> DOOM ran great on an Intel 486

It always blew my mind how well it worked on a 33 Mhz 486. I'm fairly sure it ran at 30 fps in 320x200. That gives it just over 17 clock cycles per pixel, and that doesn't even include time for game logic.

My memory could be wrong, though, but even if it required a 66 Mhz to reach 30 fps, that's still only 34 clocks per pixel on an architecture that required multiple clocks for a simple integer add instruction.
GitHub: Make it clear that "PENDING" comments have to be submitted
2.5+ years on, more than 100 comments, and GitHub continues to ignore this usability problem.
Well, I think discord appeals more to the young or less technical, in other words young and technical people, like the developers of many new projects, seem to like it. It's a model of software collaboration for their generation which their parents neither get nor appreciate, and I think that is part of the appeal to them.
I'm curious if there are studies for this? In particular, I always think back to how few people notice common ligatures in books that they are reading. To the point that I would generally be willing to wager decent money, thinking 90% odds, that any given friend/family I have has not noticed it in books that they are reading. Only indicator I have that someone is aware of them, is if they know any typography terms already. :D
Why do you use spoons, forks or knives? Just man up and use your hands wussy.
> Trying to force ever more restrictive and intrusive controls upon players won't solve cheating.

I think it's not about "solving" cheating, so much as making it sufficiently annoying to maintain working cheats that fewer people try. Just as in cybersecurity, no individual security measure will "solve" hacking, but in concert they reduce the impact by making it more difficult: the "Swiss Cheese Method" / defense-in-depth.

Reading through game cheating boards, it seems many hardware devices have been detected over time. It's an arms race. Here's a discussion of how anticheat started to detect people using HID-emulating devices by forcing a disconnection event: https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/valorant/615373-vanguard-...
In my circles as well!

I also converted my friends and family. What's very nice for building trust is their transparency report on how funds are spent.
When I was in school, if you didn't have funds to pay for lunch (and you weren't formally on the free lunch program) you got a white bread peanut butter sandwich instead of the hot lunch.

They don't do that anymore, but stuff like that was commonplace in the past.