skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the ideal but the above comment "...are up against ruthless politicians ..." applies.

It's my observation that there are people involved who are : very interested in promoting a point of view; only secondarily interested in Python.

They have time and motivation to protect their bridgehead. Many others who look at what's going on and hold their nose have other things they would rather be doing ... like developing software.
> Can you have "Western" anime? Some hardcore otakus scoff at the idea.

There's not really anything stopping creative individuals who aren't Japanese from producing anime. The thing that many attempts miss (and I suspect what makes hardcores bristle) is that they tend to miss the point in one way or another, resulting in a product that might have many of the outward characteristics but ultimately misses the mark.

In my opinion Avatar is actually pretty close. I've seen clips from various animated productions from France that also seem to capture a similar spirit.
I’d think the reason would be relatively unified among a specific class of similar people, i.e. management everywhere probably wants roughly the same thing when they call for RTO and journalists probably want a different same thing when they trash remote work.
Shite, I wasn't expecting bad sentiment on Solo Levelling. I love games and this series touches me so differently. But unlike the parent comment, I have watched may be 4-5 anime series in total because I generally don't like anime, they look all same to me.
US Companies Are Ready to Borrow Billions Following Fed Rate Cut
This was how we did this when we replicated this experiment in high school. I guess from the other responses here that this wasn't common?
Oh wow, just recently started a discussion about this on reddit [0]. Still seems pretty bad idea in all possible scenarios. I don't believe that this "plausible deniability" would be a thing there.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1fn3f25/found_rsa...
This is what I have, see another reply for shared IP lists:

https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json

https://www.digitalocean.com/geo/google.csv

https://www.gstatic.com/ipranges/cloud.json
You are right to be horrified but what is the use in maintaining the pretense that we are not strip-mining our citizens of their attention?
BB&N was and remains a private company, and isn't primarily a government contractor. It was a one-time government grant — and for much less than the full CapEx required to build the thing. DARPA essentially said "you want to build this? We'd sure like something like that to exist, so we'll give you some money to increase your chances/make it happen faster."

As it turns out, "throwing money at American-owned private companies who are being the [technological] change you [i.e. the state] wants to see in the world, to advance the technological edge America has over other countries" is a large part of DARPA's mandate. DARPA seeks to incubate a healthy private sector in nascent high-tech industries, so that it can later rely on competition in those industries, to produce a healthy, non-monopolistic set of viable military contract bidders for the military as a whole to choose from / set against one-another.
Talk about a downward spiral of terrible decisions. Cut staff and add checkout machines to save money. Customers start stealing (legit or not) so they lock down items behind glass, but have no staff to help customers so they see less sales! Wild.

I hope the shareholders who accepted these changes feel pain.
Our toyota prius has software enough to keep my cruise control speed safely behind the car in front of me, and give me warnings of lane departures if I weave. The car plays bluetooth audio from my phone. The car has buttons to set the ac settings. This is the appropriate use for software in the car.
Features are not bugs. Touch screens in a car are dangerous and bad. This person is selling something.
Toyota cars last and dont' require subscriptions. I can buy a maps update SD card if I want.
Toyota is killing it and my next purchase will consider anti-features like all controls via screens a failing design.
In a sense the surveillance in the "west" and in particular in the EU is worse than what you have in China.

At least the Chinese they know that all their conversations are being monitored and read by the government.

In the EU many people still live under the illusion of GDPR, data privacy, democracy etc...
A beautiful coincidence this goose-deterrent article’s URL preview is just “duckdns.org” :)
How do you go about directing / producing your own anime or animated series anyway? I have stories within me that scream out to be brought into this world.

I've watched a lot of anime and western cartoons and feel like the bar isn't that high. I'm pretty confident I could write and direct something that's competitive with most of what's currently being produced. At a minimum, just making a solid show that doesn't abuse common tropes while including a strong story and art direction seems like it would put you miles ahead of most existing anime; see for example: Frieren. Frieren avoids common anime tropes and is happy to explore the setting while giving the characters room to breathe; this was enough to propel the series to the top of every anime rating website.

Even evaluating top-tier producers like Studio Ghibli, despite being able to create S-tier art and animations, I think they no longer have any stories worth telling which they haven't already presented in some form or another. It's like they continue producing movies because the studio has to do something, but there's no strong driving force to guide them. Modern Studio Ghibli movies aren't driven by a burning passion from the director's soul to be summoned into this world.
look up "collapsible dice tray," they are a common hobby craft pattern.
I certainly don't. I resent having to go find someone to unlock, and then being pressured to pick what I want when I haven't had a chance to review the product differences/prices etc.

The company near me that went long on this approach (Walgreens) also spent a small fortune recently on replacing glass refrigerator doors with giant screens to serve me adverts when what I want is a cool drink. It didn't work out well.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/06/startups-tech-for-displa...
I also found this but haven't validated it yet:
https://github.com/femueller/cloud-ip-ranges
But also 99 of 100 thieves won’t steal products in locked display cases.
Exactly. But 0$ was paid out ‘as there was no profit’
What kind of 3d printer do you use? Do you like it, or are there things that others do that you wish it did?

Asking because I'm interested in getting one, but I know very little about them and have no idea what to research to help me decide.
The one the guy posted about. It's great. What's your point?
Slightly related: Smoke from wildfires carries microbes from the thing being burned. (Presumably, this also indicates care is needed when burning infected material in a controlled context.)

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/wildfire-smoke-can...
I'm torn on this. First, yes, I find locked items obnoxious. Still not happy that the easy to find nasal medicine in many stores was found to be garbage.

That said, by the numbers here, it isn't clear how often people succeed at buying the item in another store. For a truly hilarious spin, you could think that having the item out where folks can touch things is itself the dark pattern that is encouraging people to buy things they don't need.
'Pedophilic undertones' doesn't relate to 'trashy' or 'harem', even if you read the anime that way. In fact, it can be extremely interesting to see something which is so rarely portrayed or discussed in fiction, even fiction for adults.

The reality of child abuse is neither solved nor rebuked by depictions or explorations of psychology in adult fiction.
> “A year ago, America’s stores declared a shoplifting epidemic,” stated the CNN article. “This year, retailers are telling a very different story—or no story at all. It’s as if the shoplifting crisis suddenly vanished.”

Or maybe because they closed down a lot of stores which were the worst and then on the borderline stores, they put up all the locked cabinets. Maybe now the rates of shrink have been reduced. There's no data here to go either way on this, just pure speculation.
My understanding is that even if you run behind Cloudfare, you need to secure your connection to Cloudfare with a certificate?
> How is having a specific definition relevant to this conversation?

Because it's a computer that automatically does it. That's the entire problem here. Humans are not in the loop, except collecting the paychecks.

> An approximate definition of "a human using a browser to visit a site" probably suffices

Humans are not doing the blocking. "Approximate" is not good enough when, for example, I need to go to a coffee shop and use an entirely different computer to trick cloudflare into letting me order from my longtime vendor. And I must repeat that my work computer is doing absolutely nothing interesting. My job and livelihood depend on this.

> without having to get into weird edge cases like "but what if they programmed lynx to visit your site at 3am when they're asleep?".

What about an edge case like 'using your bone stock phone to visit a site once'?

What about all the poor suckers that installed an app that loaded legal software designed specifically to use their phone's connection for scraping a la brightdata? Residential proxies are big business.

There are billions of users on the web. It is one gigantic pile of edge cases. And that's entirely the point. CF may get some right but they also get plenty wrong with no recourse (but now you may be allowed to pay them money for access).

> So they're damned if they do, damned if they do?

Yes. Their entire business model is "we have a magic crystal ball that only stops 'the wrong people'™ from your website".

> God forbid that site operators have agency over what visitors they allow on their sites!

They quite literally don't have that agency. This goes back to "define bot". There are zero websites that would want to block me from making purchases from them and yet that is exactly the result in the end. I had to change vendors for a five figure order because I was up against a deadline and couldn't get around the cloudflare block from my office, and the vendor had closed for the night so I couldn't call them and bypass the whole mess.

Afterwards we spent nearly a week trying to figure out how to let me buy from them again and they were willing to keep going back and forth with CF on my behalf but I was over it and not going to spend any more time. Now I'm using the non-CF vendor to their disappointment. So much for agency.

> I use ublock, resistfingerpnting, and a VPN. That probably puts me in the 95+ percentile in terms of suspiciousness. Yet the most hassle I get from cloudflare is the turnstile challenges can be solved by clicking a checkbox.

Good for you? I have a bone-stock computer on its own connection just to try to work around this BS and yet I still sometimes get an infinite loop where the checkbox never goes away.

When I have my VPN to our euro office on I am 100% unable to access CF sites whatsoever. Been that way for as long as I can remember.
Yeah, don't know how mature it actually is though, given how everyone acts like a self centered teenager now more than ever ;-)

I think the transition to streaming is also an exaserbating factor, since it's less important to resolve events the same episode, characters can now hold much longer grudges.
The thing I don't like about contract/outsourcing is the uncertainty... I'd rather be at a place where I know I don't have to worry about my next job...
This being an opt in survey definitely makes the numbers suspect, but I agree with the sentiment at least.
> Can you have "Western" anime?

I would definitely think that all the French-Japanese and Italo-Japanese coproductions of the 80s somehow qualify as western anime, yes. See for exemple Ulysses 31 and Esteban: Child of the Sun.

Then you have things like Radiant which a “manga” by a French artist in French which was turned into an anime by a Japanese studio.

I guess there probably is animation made in the typically Japanese somewhere. I can’t really help you there because I only read mangas and never watch adaptations (they are always strictly inferior to the material they adapt). So the only Japanese/Korean animation I watch is original content of which there is sadly very little.
While I'm normally not a fan of appeal to authority, knowing this is what moves this from "will try to remember to check this out when I wake tomorrow" (it's 23:04 here) to "will definitely check out tomorrow".

Also it being from Manning helps. It's difficult to find good books today, so easy to self publish or get reeled in by some paper mill that banks on people wanting to have a book on their resume. So have to have something to filter out signal in the noise.
That point about competitiveness resolves the consciousness "paradox" pretty much completely, and explains all the moving goalposts.

Judging something as conscious means believing in its agency
Stop Coding Already
I recently wrote an article challenging the common urge to dive straight into coding when inspiration strikes. As developers, we often feel compelled to start coding immediately, but I've found that taking a step back for extensive planning can lead to more efficient and successful projects.

Key points:

- Mental modeling is faster than actual coding

- "Mental coding" can happen anywhere, anytime

- Tools like Obsidian help organize thoughts before coding

- LLMs can be used as brainstorming partners

- Always keep the MVP in mind, then iterate

I'm curious to hear how other developers approach the planning phase of their projects. Do you have any unique pre-coding rituals or tools you find particularly useful? How do you balance planning with the desire to start coding?
> I would imagine any serious criminal org will have their own messaging infra by now.

I'm guessing they do not -- that would be inconvenient, expensive, unreliable, insecure, and/or conspicuous.

[Edit: "serious" criminal orgs run, e.g., custom-built submarines, so private comms infrastructure is clearly within their technical abilities. But having all org members communicating to a private centralized mothership seems risky from a surveillance perspective]
> Dworsky acknowledged that the results might be skewing high because it was an opt-in survey that readers took rather than a random one, and said his audience tends to be “interested in consumer matters,” which may mean they have a lower threshold for consumer inconvenience.

Well, I'm not a reader of his survey and my general solution to inconveniences is to do something else also. That said, if my purpose of going to the store was to get that item I would try to find an employee to open it.

However, I might not go to that store again if I thought items I wanted were going to be locked. Nothings lock online :/

What should the stores do? Honestly, not too sure. I don't find getting receipt checked at costco a big deal so that's definitely an approach.
There's a lot of better trapped in a video game anime out there.

Overlord does a better job with grimdark. I'm fond of Log Horizon though S3 sucked. Solo Leveling came out the same time as Weakest Tamer began a journey to pick up Trash, and that was delightful for me.

I think the visceral stuck at the bottom of the ladder feeling was better handled by weakest tamer. A young girl who was forced to run away from home because her village considered her 0-star skill literally a heresy and religious blight.

Unlike Solo Leveling, the Weakest Tamer actually sticks with the plot. She never becomes much more powerful than she was, and instead leverages her relationships / friends she makes rather than literally solo leveling.

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The Isekai / Reverse Isekai genre is literally animes biggest genre right now. There's so so so many better shows out there than Solo Leveling.

But I guess the question is: what do you like about it? Solo Leveling is a passable male fantasy do-it-myself-by-plot-armor always win kind of show. But.... This plot honestly has been done better back by Sword Art Online (and I didn't even like that anime either).

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Jobless Reincarnation, despite all the controversy, is probably the local optimum on that 'Do it myself' / solo leveling / get stronger loop.

Hmmmmm... I'd give either Reincarnated as a Slime or I'm a Spider, So What? As my top picks on this genre / storytelling style. For personal enjoyment. Maaayyyyybe Re:Zero if you're into the body horror stuff that Solo Leveling also does.
> “If I encounter a locked case, I’m not going to start looking for a store clerk going up and down every aisle or pressing the button and waiting for someone to come over,” Dworsky told Retail Brew. “But the fact that it was over 50% of people that felt the way I did? I was really surprised.”

You're surprised that bad customer service leads people away from the business providing it? This was a 101 problem. If you lock it, you need someone around to quickly unlock it, to satisfy your shoppers.

To me, locking it up was _never_ about shoplifting, but about reducing customer service to it's bare minimum while still utilizing monopoly control and government interference and mismanagement to maintain a position without any actual competition.

I mean, who _else_ but someone unconcerned with competition would even _think_ to lock up their products, as an _opening move_?
They are coming for you Tether
https://archive.ph/FVNCi
You’re asking very basic questions that the answers to have been the same for hundreds of years. If you do business in a country you have to answer to its laws or you risk asset forfeiture or arrest.
I see a couple of sibling comments giving you great tips already. I am still in the painful stage of failing my way to success (though closer to the end than the beginning)

I will suggest a few things. Follow up each of these points with more research if you can.

Spend as little money as possible and prove to yourself you’ll actually like it. Then buy only the good tools you actually need for the project at hand. I have tools I bought that remain unused and I regret spending the money. Its not the tool’s fault but me going in a different direction.

It doesn’t matter what species of wood your first projects use. Prefer wood with straight grain and you should be fine for your first half dozen projects.

Read widely or watch many YouTube videos. There’s a lot of space for ideas, from carving spoons to making stick chairs to making furniture of any style. Note what inspires you but be aware the path to making what you like may take awhile.

First project: make a cutting board (only one piece! Learn how to make it look great and learn a finish) Second project: make a simple box (learn how to make things square, learn some simple joinery)

Safety first! I put this last so it’ll be the first thing you remember. There are so many ways to ruin your health, from breathing sawdust to using toxic finishes. Hand tools are generally better for your lungs than power tools. Soap or wax finishes are healthy and easy to apply. Just about everything else is toxic and you must protect yourself accordingly. Invest in safety glasses, masks and gloves. And a first aid kit.

Woodworking is an extremely rewarding pastime and I hope you get hooked. Best of luck!
“The whole thing has a whiﬀ of pawnshop, which might actually be unfair to pawnshops.”

Totally unfair to pawnshops: small stores typically have good service. Goods are behind the counter, but there is a person staffing that counter typically every minute that the store is open. The liquor store keeps expensive beverages behind the counter. I don't hesitate to go there, because the clerk is always there to retrieve items behind the counter.

Go to Target, Home Depot, or CVS, and good luck finding anyone to help. I'm pushing a button and standing around helplessly, or asking a nearby employee who looks up quizzically and says "I don't have the key." If someone finally unlocks it, then they might have to escort the item across the huge store, where a cashier now has to get it and ring me up.

Unlike tiny stores, big box stores are based on self service. Remove the self-service and the whole concept falls apart.
I guess I'm a bot then.

Yes, channels and groups are most likely what makes Telegram a threat where Signal isn't. That's an excellent argument for decentralized social media.

You're probably exasperated that others don't see what to you seems like an obvious truth. Rather than mocking the opposing argument, it's probably still worth rehashing yours when the topic comes up, even if it feels like banging the same drum with nobody listening.
You can always go ahead and decompile the apps and then show everyone that they’re in fact lying, that story would be huge. That alone doesn’t make it true, but there have so far not been hints of them pulling weird stuff with their e2ee, unlike telegram, for example.
They’re even working on improving the default mode 99% of users use e2ee chat apps with - trust on first use (TOFU): https://engineering.fb.com/2023/04/13/security/whatsapp-key-...

They probably do all kinds of horrible stuff with the metadata. I’m honestly too lazy to read the privacy policy. But I have yet to see critique of their e2ee that’s actually backed up by substance instead of people’s imaginations.
Yes, so there will be all sorts of attempts, and the productive forces will compete with each other, while landowners and owners of harder to disrupt industries will have the power to choose among them, deciding who will be allowed to be successful and who will fail.

There isn't a single ordinary person at the table, no labour unions, no political parties or anything democratic. It's Microsoft, it's Google, it's some venture-capital owned French firm, some venture-capital owned German firm, etc. Maybe if Schmidhuber's stuff is good as he hopes it is maybe there'll be an Austrian firm, etc., but mostly, it'll be a capital intensive business controlled by people with capital.
In civilized, high-trust societies self-checkout works well and is very convenient.

Of course if you refuse to prosecute crime you will have everything locked.
How can you make sure you don't end up with 2e as a result? (Or any other multiple)
Are you asking if Google could ever find documentation and sample code on the internet?

Or are you asking if Google could understand a badly written query and understand it's about the sample code?

Because the answer to the first is "yes", and to the second is "no". But the first one adds almost all of the productivity here.
A lot of quants just upcast to floats. Some of them work on integer multiplication using pmaddubsw. But oof, it looks like the i4004 doesn't even have that.
My understanding is that these sorts of plants do exist, but that they’re not common for the reasons you brought up. Some plants do generate power and desalinate at the same time, but they usually use excess heat for desalination and not the same water stream that they use for power generation. Corrosion, dealing with brine, keeping purity, etc, are all super challenging issues.
> Mentions of “shrink” on earnings calls for the first two quarters of 2024 were down 20% compared to the same period a year ago according to a FactSet analysis cited by CNN.

> “A year ago, America’s stores declared a shoplifting epidemic,” stated the CNN article. “This year, retailers are telling a very different story—or no story at all. It’s as if the shoplifting crisis suddenly vanished.”

Kind of disingenuous of CNN here to declare that a 20% reduction in mentions is equivalent with "vanishing".