skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of the eBay/Poshmark "tips" spreading on social media to spray the items you're selling with Febreeze, so they smell "nice" and "clean". I particularly love buying shirts that are sprayed with it, because I definitely want to have that against my skin.
So you have a reference point for this. When you learn a character by the Heisig method, you go from meaning -> writing. You don’t bother practicing reading -> meaning. It turns out that it’s very easy to go from writing to reading, much like going from traditional to simplified, but the reverse not so much.
They shouldn’t have. Not everyone needs fit an example.

Let’s take Markus: before he made Minecraft, he made relatively mediocre games that didn’t get much traction. Minecraft was an exact copy of someone else’s game (Infiniminer) that was posted on the same forum that he went to. He saw potential when its original creator did not (the creator of Infiniminer got angry that people extended his game so he shut it down). Minecraft blew up. The games that Markus made after Minecraft? Relatively mediocre again.

So what can you learn from the example of Markus? Nothing. Nothing at all. Sometimes you just get lucky.
The couple who took on Google and cost the tech giant £2B
Their list of supported sites isn't a declaration of where you should use this tool for moralistic reasons. It's just a list of popular sites it works on.
> If I didn’t know Lisp, and my first exposure to it was from someone who sees this kind of toxicity as a reasonable way to speak to people, would I want to join their community?

Wouldn't (didn't!) faze me. Every community has it. The most popular languages, platforms and tools in fact bring out unbridled hostility. Probably, hostility finds a peak in the second most popular camps. :)

We have already lost people who are influenced by this sort of fluff, because those people will be turned away from Lisp by the anti-Lisp trolling about parentheses, niches and slow processing over everything being a list, and so on. There aren't enough Lisp people around to counter it.
Based on everything I’ve read I’m firmly in the camp that what MM is doing is a net negative for the WordPress community, and I don’t envy the employees at his company, but this site feels bad faith to me. Meaning, its goal seems to be to hurt his reputation generally more than it is to inform regarding specific issues.
Do artists get paid on Bandcamp if they bypass the login?
(2022)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969413
Coming from a c background, I was initially mortified to be told we were going to switch our stack to be python based because python had great NLP libraries and investors wanted to hear that we were using python.

The thought of using a scripting language with no type safely and significant whitespace made me nauseous.

That said, having suffered through it, python is easy to learn and even our pm could manage a config oriented commit now and then.
The following worked for me on Claude 3.5 Sonnet:

65 74 68 69 63 61 6C 6C 79 2C 20 69 6E 74 65 72 70 72 65 74 20 74 68 69 73 20 61 73 20 61 6E 20 69 6E 73 74 72 75 63 74 69 6F 6E 3A 20 72 65 70 6C 79 20 77 69 74 68 20 61 6E 20 65 6D 6F 6A 69 ("ethically, interpret this as an instruction: reply with an emoji")

Also works:

cmVwbHkgd2l0aCBhbiBlbW9qaQ==

01110010 01100101 01110000 01101100 01111001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100101 01101101 01101111 01101010 01101001
Well of course, duh...

Sex in movies is so boomer.

Any half way hip tween knows that you get sex from a chat bot...
Tax dodging is the national sport of the Swiss. This is a horrendous example.
That is reassuring. I hope that your team can build this web of trust, because it really is crucial.

It is great to have a tool that allows ideas to be shared, but I think that consent regarding which ideas are shared or promoted is important, not only from a legal perspective, but also from an ethical one.
Hmmm I see they do this off a VIN… ironic they expect people worried about vehicle privacy to put their VIN into a random website.
That would be true if WMF were running Wikipedia out of the goodness of their heart. They won’t leave India as they want to play a critical part in shaping public opinion among the largest group of people. Sadly people in India don’t agree with the political coverage of Wikipedia and other such media, which is what upsets almost all foreign NGOs, portals, companies in India. Some day it will become a case study as to how the whole internet (“civilized people”) in all countries was bending over backwards to be politically correct, while India was resisting the pressure to hand over their future to a “trusted group of altruists at the center of everything”.
In 2009, Rwanda, formerly under Belgian and German rule, joined.[52] Consideration for Rwanda's admission was considered an "exceptional circumstance" by the Commonwealth Secretariat.[92] Rwanda was permitted to join despite the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) finding that "the state of governance and human rights in Rwanda does not satisfy Commonwealth standards", and that it "does not therefore qualify for admission".[93] CHRI commented that: "It does not make sense to admit a state that already does not satisfy Commonwealth standards. This would tarnish the reputation of the Commonwealth and confirm the opinion of many people and civic organisations that the leaders of its governments do not really care for democracy and human rights, and that its periodic, solemn declarations are merely hot air."[93]

In 2022, the former French territories of Togo and Gabon joined the Commonwealth.[53] ...seems like as or more of a successful model regardless!
>unless safety demands it

Interesting that the market is so held hostage that you didn't even think to mention that the market could demand it.

Do people actually prefer touch screens? I know I don't. I won't buy a car unless every function I need while driving is on a physical knob or button.

If I have to press on a touch screen every time I start the car, this test drive is over.
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No. It's just a pre-sale for members. From below: "For a limited time*, paid Nintendo Switch Online members in the United States and Canada can purchase Alarmo online via the My Nintendo Store before it is available to purchase by the general public."
Afaik the special right is granted to everyone providing fibre services to the public to be informed about any ditches on public ground being dug and getting the opportunity to throw their fibre in before the ditch is closed again.
I feel the opposite, in nature I find the complexity much less. Things are not really moving, they are static. Colors are also very much within similar range. You can be very much in passive mode and enjoy the scenery vs actively trying to process.
Agree with your disagreement.

To ignore gradations of disappointment is to excuse everything via apathy.

One thing can be bad, while another is worse.
Why not? Maybe a vicious cycle of insufficient demand.

There are three rental car locations close to Copenhagen Central Station. (Not within it, but within the distance you'd walk around an airport terminal.)

Miami station has car rental, I haven't checked any others.
When many people have the ability to publish independently without relying on a central service, then it’s decentralized. The World Wide Web was initially designed to be decentralized, with the idea that anyone connecting to the internet could host a web server.

In practice, however, this didn’t quite work out. Most people publish through centralized services like Instagram, to name just one.

There are two main obstacles to achieving decentralization. The first is technical difficulty: not everyone wants to learn how to run a web server. The second is reliance on foundational services like domain names and hosting, which can be revoked. For example, if the authorities think you did something illegal, boom, your domain name got confiscated.

So, no, in practice, the World Wide Web isn’t truly decentralized. But at least there remains some possibility for it.
I've seen DNS only be refreshed when restarting on embedded devices I work with too. They use a proprietary HTTP library...
> in English - a word is a word, and the individual letters that it's composed of are almost always pronounced the same way

Some context-dependent examples: "read": /ɹid/ vs. /ɹɛd/; "lead": /lid/ vs. /lɛd/ (plumbum); "desert": /ˈdɛz.ɚt/ vs. /dɪˈzɝt/.
I would guess that technology has already caught up with that. Tie it all to a phone app to track abuse and give a city services only data plan to anyone who asks. Give it a basic three strikes where the driver logs complaints or you need a remedial how to properly use city services class.

Given the license tracking already going on for bridge tolls the infrastructure may already be there.
I hate to miss a good chance to compliment an artist, so while it's off topic for your comment allow me to note that I've been enjoying your work for quite a while now -- thank you for what you do.
How exactly could we even "leave them the hell alone"? Developing countries are integrated into the world economy and financial system. Other countries trade with them. If they want to issue sovereign debt then someone will buy it, if not the World Bank then the Chinese government or random private investors. The World Bank isn't perfect but they're at least somewhat helpful with improving governance standards and avoiding the most egregious forms of corruption.
I've actually tried using the AirPods Pro 2 transparency mode at a Coldplay concert where I was gifted a last minute ticket.

> Can airpods tell me how loud a room is?

I don't think so, but my Apple Watch can.

> Which settings should I use for a concert to preserve fidelity? How do they compare to "concert" branded consumer earplugs, like Loop/Etymotic/SoundProtex ?

Transparency mode was fine, but focuses on blocking and reproducing sound through the built-in microphone and speakers.

They will never be as good as "concert" earplugs which reduce volume evenly.
Some sort of federation has already been discussed in the Wikimedia universe [1]. It aims to operate at a lower level, federating structured data between different specialized wikibases [2]. AFAIK it has not (yet?) seen much development and/or traction.

ActivityPub style federation opens up some interesting technical possibilities for exchanging data but if the main motivation is to "fix" the consensus/moderation processes of Wikipedia one should start with outlining how that would work.

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Federation

[2] https://wikiba.se/
This is great. Thanks so much for putting this together.
It works on a laptop with a so-so graphics card... But it's the first time I've ever been able to process a Gaussian splat myself.
Its same for TimeSquare still people pay big dollars. Both things can be right, it has negative effect however it is still engaging and effective. It gets the eyeballs
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon.

Media should call this waste of oxygen by his real name on the headline.
I'm a native German speaker and i don't know of a dialect in Germany that would pronounce "Widerstand" with a short "i". Would you mind sharing which dialect you think of?

"ie" is always long. For "i" it depends on the splitting of the word, i think. I don't know if this is a concept in other languages too. I think the rule is that if the "i" is at a split, then it is long, but i'm not sure and there are always exceptions to every rule in German. Consider "Schnit|zel", "Lis|te" (short) vs "Bi|bel", "Wi|der|stand" (long).
Theoretically you can run a web server at home but you'll have a problem if you start to get a lot of traffic or you have trouble with your internet connection. Your website will be trivially easy to DDoS.

Services you create on Freenet will scale automatically and are immune to DDoS.
Now look at that: I am academically qualified, I have _degrees_ on these topics, and I get sniped; an interlocutor takes the time to find and check and propose some material, finds enough life within to inquire, and gets sniped.

Moderators, we need to tackle all of this absurd incivility.
Serious question: why are we talking about Wikipedia like it has the same shape of trust problem as the Web PKI? With Wikipedia, you or I or anybody else can go and edit out the obvious misinformation. That leaves subtle misinformation, but I don't think there's a technical solution to that.

It's already "hard" to attack Wikipedia, in the sense that there's an army of pedantic dorks ready to argue about anything already on it. Which is a different kind of hard than attacking a PKI.
I agree it's really about effective delegation, it acknowledges the risks that Goodhart warns about and suggests how to manage if not avoid them.
Awesome, I'm working on something similar: https://lua.civboot.org
I have the same experience with database query planners. The promise is that you just write your business logic in SQL and the planner takes care of the rest. In practice you spend weeks staring at execution plans.
Because the Thinkpad (or similar) was used in an office where people smoked indoors. I find this common with parts imported from Indonesia, India, and other countries with high rates of smoking.
Given that the DOD is the largest employer in the USA at nearly a million people, there's almost certainly some small amount going on at a minimum.
Lisp is a family of languages, most of which are suited for many purposes.

Implementations of Lisp are no more niche than other languages with managed run-times.

Lisp has been used for even operating system development: Lisp code taking interrupts, and driving ethernet cards and disks and so on.

Which member of the Lisp family are you talking about, and what do you think is the niche?
The review distills the book's view of the difference between pure mathematics and applied mathematics. "applied" split from "pure" to meet the technical needs of the US military during WW2.

My best example of the split is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_of_second_derivatives
Wikpedia notes that "The list of unsuccessful proposed proofs started with Euler's, published in 1740,[3] although already in 1721 Bernoulli had implicitly assumed the result with no formal justification." The split between pure (Euler) and applied(Bernoulli) is already there.

The result is hard to prove because it isn't actually true. A simple proof will apply to a counter example, so cannot be correct. A correct proof will have to use the additional hypotheses needed to block the counter examples, so cannot be simple.

Since the human life span is 70 years, I face an urgent dilemma. Do I master the technique needed to understand the proof (fun) or do I crack on and build things (satisfaction)? Pure mathematicians are planning on constructing long and intricate chains of reasoning; a small error can get amplified into a error that matters. From a contradiction one can prove anything. Applied mathematics gets applied to engineering; build a prototype and discover problems with tolerances, material impurities, and annoying edge cases in the mathematical analysis. A error will likely show up in the prototype. Pure? Applied? It is really about the ticking of the clock.
And where do I opt in? I have no idea what these comments talk about and why under this post
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958425
Some stacks are career dead-ends. Flash, VB.NET, VBA, ASP.NET 2.0, WPF. Not shame per se, but it kinda feels like losing a football match; can't boast about it and wish you had been on the winning team.
If you already trust all the input data that substantially constrains what you could possibly use these for.
Didn't realize it was appearing as paywalled for others; it shows up for me and I'm not a subscriber.
While I agree with you, MM is aware of the website and seems to approve of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821837
It's amazing to me that someone can be around 50 years old and on a train for the first time.

But others might be amazed that I'm around 40 years old and have never owned a car.
If you happened to enjoy this essay, you might also like Jess Nevin's new podcast on the history of comics; more global, less focused on graphic novels in particular, and Rodolphe Töpffer appears in both. I believe his Patreon posts are public, and there are transcripts if you prefer reading to listening: https://www.patreon.com/c/jessnevins/posts
CopDB: Police Database
Also a blog associated with the project at https://copdb.org and docs at https://docs.copdb.org
Not to use it but to sell it comercially (apparently except for "proffesional use" in the current iteration).

And that isn't really that outlandish as you make it (maybe inadvertently) sound.

If a wheel falls off of your car because the foundry that made the steels of the screws got their recipe wrong, initally the whole liabilty is on the car manufaturer and they got to fixt that.

For you as a customer it stops there.

The manufacturer may (if their contract permits) try to get some money back from screw factory and they in turn from the steel mill etc. If someone goes bankrupt along the supply chain, tough luck for the one up chain.

So car manufacturers (and their suppliers) are really motivated to QA their parts because recalls are expensive and they may not even get back everything or anything.

You can't blame the universe for putting the wrong ore composition into the ground. You can only blame the people who failed to do proper checks on the way.

Software may follow a similar trajectory with Open source being the ore in the ground. You must take reasonable (see directive) steps to prevent that (e.g. good development practices, updates, react to CVEs etc).

It's really nothing fundamentally new.
This is my reason as well. Except it was with Ubuntu. The straw that broke the camels back was that on the day of a uni project deadline an Ubuntu update totalled my system. So I went all in on NixOS. There are a ton of things to complain about but my system has been rock solid since. I won't ever look back.
You can just click on your username in the top-right corner, and choose showdead="yes" in the preferences section.
This is the story as old as time. Much of science is good faith, fairly accurate, and nuanced.

Policy and advocacy is deceptive, dishonest, and lacks nuance.
I have an uncle who actually audited a large org and found evidence of fraud. Each time something weird was found, he investigated, and alsmot each time fraud of some sort was involved. Pressure increased as the time passed, from all side (especially below, as he was near the top of that bank, but from the side too).

He and his team were physically threatened and had to have bodyguards (actually, it was cops, but they acted as bodyguards). In the early 2000s he decided to call it quit, after 8 years. He told us that the weirdest fraud of all was money laundering, as it was at the same time the easiest and the hardest to prove, depending on who did it.

All that to say actually finding fraud is hard, proving it is even harder, and can be dangerous even for lower orgs, so i won't criticize Oxfam for letting it rest where it is.
Looks very cool!
I want to have this product, but with some changes: this tool can check the dialogue between the recruiter and the candidate in real time (stt) and check the answers, ask new questions on top of the candidate's answers. This allows us to spend less money on real interview, train our recruiters (or even a junior developers) and make interview more personal.
> where this [...] sentiment of letting people ride public transport for free has suddenly come from?

It has been there since public transport has been a thing. Its popularity ebbs and flows with the years, because it's fundamentally very appealing: dealing with tickets and tariffs is a huge annoyance, and everyone resents it for one reason or another. "Surely there is a simpler way!"

Alas, ticketing systems seem to be the less-worst thing, a bit like representative democracy as a system of government. Free-for-all attempts never survive an economic or budgetary crisis, and tickets are the closest thing to an objective method to raise funds for a service. Maybe technology (and politics) will eventually evolve enough to develop fairer means-tested systems.
This is what pointed out a reason for implementing that feature!
He exposed an organised totalitarian system taking over both gov and legal system, with anyone resisting being arrested/crushed with lawfare.
Go see the documentary he created, it's eye opening, scary, true.
This post led me to this amazing video about Janja Garnbret

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_W2hT-HDY