skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
reminds of me of this quote from the Tao of programming:

https://farosaves.com/375baf1e-cc1c-4f02-8a7c-35eaba25d94d
The ghost phenomenon is all about information.

When a system has a lot of complexity, it needs a lot of computational resources to be simulated accurately.

When suddenly this complexity is not needed anymore, because the system got "simplified" suddenly. The pockets of available computation diffuse slowly into the environment.

The analog for the scientific person here is like your adaptive grid in the simulation was locally in high resolution because it was needed by the physical process, and suddenly the physical process doesn't need it anymore but the simulation grid stays in high resolution.

When some other high complexity process comes nearby (like another rich soul), it benefits from this increased resolution which usually allows him unconsciously to run his computational wetware in higher gear, like in a form of mildly induced schizophrenia, vivid dreams, or hallucinations.

Brains as general information analyzing devices can perceive the shape of this echo from the past, decoding from the faint ripples the stone that impacted the water.

The mythology of absorbing the essence from the passed is varied across time and places, ranging from soul capturing gems, the fighting to survive against the erosion of time like in Highlander accumulating the energy of your rivals by eating their brain.

Looking at it only as a physical process ("real") will make you miss it. It has to be seen through the lens of the ethereal plane. Information is conserved, but details can be compressed more or less. Degrees of freedom accumulated or used are different things.
that's right, they don't have owners, they identify as independent.
https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
Mindustry. It is open source and allows your to build logic gates.

Works on mobile, desktop, Linux, etc.
The battery keeps the time so it does not reset the time at intermittent power outage
Will try out, nice that is OSS. I work on plain vanilla HTML, JS and CSS. No React, Vue, etc. Hope this works for me.
Another 28% is services, a good chunk of it is probably fees charged for the Appstore which is part of the phone?

The growth of the Appstore business is another example of what I am trying to convey here. That companies are moving targets. When the iPhone came out, people were estimating how fast the competition could catch up with the hard- and software. AFAIR appstore fees were not a part of the discussion back then.
At least here in Western Europe, in general the internet is great. Though coverage in rural areas varies by country.
For me that would just be another reason to avoid the person and spend the time instead with people who are easier to get along with.

That doesn’t make me a dick, I just have a limited number of hours on the clock and energy to spare.
I lived next door to a PhD in plant biology, who would almost foam at the mouth from anger about monoclonal farming. I asked him about alternatives...he said without even a thought: "victory gardens." Time for me to find out exactly why. Turns out the USDA brought all the regional managers and all the researchers to get together on very best practices. It has withstood the test of time. My sister in law planted one exactly out of the book. Plant for plant. Not even full sun and the crops explode. Another friend tried it at a rental unit with 5 galllon buckets. A bit screwed, but he also got great results.

Fundamentally a Victory garden is small scale soil managment at its very best. Thanks Gabe.
> Instead, either the client or the “reputation management company” decided to try a new tactic. Following a familiar playbook, they copied my Web3 is Going Great post to a free BlogSpot website, then backdated it by one day.

> The goal was to then abuse the notice and takedown process to claim that I had stolen their work, force my webhost to remove the post, and then hope that I was either intimidated by the legalese or too strapped for time to fight it out with my hosting provider.
But it’s sold as keeping you informed about the world. When it actually is just about what journalists think.

Like you said, that can be valuable, especially in politics, when one hopes they aid your messaging. But it’s not a moral or even practical imperative to keep up with journalism.

Imagine learning about sports through ESPN commentary and never actually watching a game.

A similar professional blindspot occurred when many engineers thought twitter would collapse when Elon fired all those people. Because they see twitter as a piece of software, not a brand and organization.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952389
> this possible solution is Google’s preferred solution

Is it though? Sounds more like a single team's preference, and not necessarily a team of FE engineers
No, I wasn't suggesting that Rust is better for prototyping, the only thing I said is that Kotlin and Rust (that you mentioned yourself) are better than JavaScript because they were designed much later and more thoroughly. TypeScript is a different thing to me, it makes part of this new generation of languages, its only problem is that it works on top of JavaScript.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958642
Pg_flo: Move and transform data between PostgreSQL databases
In most EU countries we have multi-gigabit internet (for cheap too). Current offers are around ~5 GBIT speeds for 20 bucks a month.
I was under the impression that the Signal server, if compromised could be utilised to potentially log metadata of communication between contacts. Sealed sender [1] is a feature of the Signal protocol to mitigate overt metadata retention but it may fail against certain correlation attacks.

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
I had one of these clocks in the past. I remember the clock working without a battery at all. The battery is only necessary if you want to unplug the clock and move it somewhere else without having to reprogram the time.
Nope, Waymo depots are secured garages in industrial zones.

I've been to two in the Phoenix area (Lost & Found FTW).

They are secure facilities near freight train tracks, and their neighbors are logistics companies. I saw Waymo vehicles coming and going, but I did not spot their point of entry into the building. There was no "big parking lot" full of Waymos or chargers visible from the outside.

The visitor/guest entrance is just a security desk and a waiting room with about 3 chairs. Even during business hours, the front door may be locked. You announce your purpose and the security guard admits you. I was once told that I'd need to wait outside, no problem: the weather was fine, and picnic tables were nearby. Once an employee retrieved my Lost & Found items, I was sent on my way.
Simple and effective solution - triple taxes on everything short term. Part of Spain’s allure is how affordable it is. Also, it’s very close to England and Northern Europe, so flights are cheap.
An underrated aspect of California, I suspect, is that California's "political class" is not all that representative of the state at large. For example, I seem to recall that Prop 16 was endorsed by numerous major figures, and opposed by none, yet it lost by a large margin in the general election.

If you look at the Latinos and Asians who are politically involved in California, I would predict that they are far from typical, and they're much more likely to be assimilated into the state's progressive political traditions.
maybe we should also regulate stupid comments while we're at it
Unfortunately this could only be done by forbidding web content from using GPUs at all. GPUs are extremely diverse compared to CPUs. It is not feasible to standardize bit-exact operations on diverse GPU hardware while maintaining reasonable performance.

Some will say that we should forbid web content from using GPUs. But that would push apps and their users to native platforms that don't even try to minimize fingerprinting at a technical level, instead either relying on legal enforcement by monopoly gatekeepers (with all the problems that implies), or providing no protection against fingerprinting at all.
That Media Realm site is mine. Thanks for linking! RDS is one of those technologies that’s been around for decades and still amazes people. You can buy hardware encoders for about AU$500 these days, and I love introducing stations to it and getting their name and song data to show up on car radios.
One way to gain a different perspective could be to ask a similar question, but replace typographic adjustments with something in your domain of expertise that requires deeper experience to see the value in. Assuming programming, it might be things like linting, refactoring, testing, version controlling, etc.
Yes, small carabiners with keyrings for different purposes that get attached to the main ring when needed. And an airtag on the main ring.
Honey, I shrunk the git!
> That had originated as OpenBoot in Sun Microsystems’ SPARC-based computers, and is based on the language Forth. Macs with Open Firmware can be booted into an interactive interface that makes it relatively straightforward to support and bring up new hardware. It’s also a security nightmare.

What made it a security nightmare?
> it’s not the typical illegal immigration situation

How so? Student visas have one of the highest number of overstays of any visa category, and student visa holders routinely get kicked out of the U.S. for this and other violations.
My additions are important if you want to understand the value of Goodhart’s Law. They are logically necessary for me to make my point— which is that his analysis of the situation is flawed.

I am bemused that you deride them, given that they are, in fact, how I have responded to metrics in technical projects since I first developed a metrics program for Borland, in ‘93. (I championed inquiry metrics and opposed control metrics.)
Was that the story they wrote about themselves?
Kind of a weird name choice, not very searchable and completely unrelated. But the tech looks great.
Probably the transformer is bad or maybe a cap dried up, so it's just barely running on wall power.
What specific Spanish influence do you see on California politics?
Try api-fiddle.com as a replacement for stoplight.io :)
They’re probably downloading from a server in the states, being much further away makes a big difference with a massive download.
Not just without the ads. Also without the good UX.
> We work in a very large Javascript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS.

I used to call it office.com.. Teams is the worst offender there. Even a website with a cryptominer on it runs faster than that junk.
>It's very likely that your web browser is Chrome and your operating system is Android.

Android guess is correct. But the browser is Edge, not Chrome.
Medieval peasants also had life expectancy of 30 years, what’s your point?
The topic came up again and maybe this has been changing lately. I downgrade my above comment. I still think that it got popular in the U.S. first and then propagated back to Japan but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
The roles and capabilities of the state and federal government have evolved since the 1700s.

The state level of government feels more and more like a historic novelty carried over as "we always did it this way" and "it would require far too much political capital to touch"-- America's answer to the House of Lords or the Governor General.
Foam Rolling Effects on Range of Motion: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Even animals can understand fake violence during play is not real violence and we can agree that even very young kids do understand that movies are not real life. Let's not fall in the "violent videogames make psychopaths" 1980's moral panic
> This isn't reproducible by removing the battery entirely, either. If you take it out, the clock loses all ability to function and just resets constantly. So having a mostly drained battery seems to be doing a little work so that it resets once but then resumes normal functioning (until the next time it tries to go off).

I think what this really suggests is that the transformer and power supply are providing multiple voltages. The +9V rail is broken, but the other rail (maybe +5V) for the LED display is fine.

So the alarm chip and the alarm sounder is running only from the 9V battery. If the battery is weak, then the sudden power demand from sounding the alarm is too much, the voltage dips and the chip resets.
Also, what became the US has been around for half a millennium, that’s plenty of time to develop its own culture.
> Specifically, female breasts occasionally visible in a kids movie won't raise eyebrows in atheist/agnostic/protestant northern Germany but in catholic southern Italy they may.

In 2024 they won't even in Southern Italy. We are not in the middle ages.
Yeah but from a policy perspective, which specific influences do you see from those groups on California politics?

Even if Anglo-Saxons are now a minority, as a founding population they can exert disproportionate influence. New immigrants want to fit in to their new home, so they adopt majority views, thereby reinforcing those majority views for subsequent immigrant waves.
The essay you linked to reads an awful lot more like a joke than the article in the OP.

To me it’s no secret that the mainstream nutrition science is a joke. The latest Nordic nutrition guidelines I’ve heard of recommend the same amount of sugar and red meat per week — 350 grams.

If that’s not enough to tell you everything these organisations do is based on false premises, I have a bridge to sell you.
Place is great. But their SF place is even better. It’s in an art gallery kind of thing.
This looks awesome! Actually something I’m looking at playing with this evening!
Let's pretend you didn't write the last 2 sentences...

first of all "internet in Europe" makes close to zero sense to argue about. The article just uses it as a shortcut to not start listing countries.

I live in a country where I have 10Gbps full-duplex and I pay 50$ / month, in "Europe".

The issue is that some countries have telecom lobbies which are still milking their copper networks. Then the "competition committees" in most of these countries are actually working AGAINST the benefit of the public, because they don't allow 1 single company to start offering fiber, because that would be a competition advantage. So the whole system is kinda in a deadlock. In order to unblock, at least 2 telecoms have to agree to release fiber deals together. It has happened in some countries.
I recall 90's Macs had a 3rd party app that offered to observe your mouse/keyboard then automatically recommend routine tasks for you. As a young person I found that fascinating. It's interesting to see history renew itself.
> I wasn't trying to draw attention to comparisons for equality. Perhaps I should've used an arrow => instead

Then it's even less of issue. Yes if you convert to a float you get rounding, what did you expect when you introduced a float?

It's somewhat unintuitive but that's the nature of floating point.

> The real point is that you can get some non-intuitive answers from letting that numeric tower make conversion decisions for you. It's just a rule, and it's not an amazing rule.

But again, you can have the same kind of issue without bignums. It's not a tower problem it's a float problem.
Do you find that you value the relational model that a ORM constructs on top a non-relational DB? Or do you use it more like a "OM" without the R?
I think you’re close but not quite there. There’s a significant part of the population that think we’re all born the same - the old blank slate theory. Therefore, everything good or bad that you do ultimately comes from external forces. If you’re dealing meth it’s because you had a single mother household and then the government had the audacity to put you in juvie for committing arson and now here you are. Or perhaps it’s something more broad like systemic racism. Littering is harder to come up with a nice story to justify.

Anyways, that type of thinking is a lot more common with liberals than anyone else - which makes sense. If you’re against racism,sexism, etc. to the extreme you basically need to believe we’re all exactly the same, apart from external circumstance. At its extreme they’re the same type of people that don’t believe that men have an advantage in most sports, for instance.
Activists don't get listened to, they get clipped. They prescribe some set of policies X, Y, and Z; someone in power hears Y and likes it, and ignores the rest.

In the case of drug enforcement, the idea was to decriminalize and destigmatize drugs so that persons addicted to them could seek treatment and rehabilitation. Problem is, that also requires public money be spent on rehabilitation programs. It's cheaper for the state to just get people high and let them die.

Same thing with "defund the police", which had an implicit "and use the money to fund mental health programs" at the end of it, along with prescriptions to fund deescalation training for whatever cops we still needed. All the Twitter activists heard this, they chanted "defund the police" as if everyone else had too, but that memo didn't reach the desk of any of the mayors who actually tried these programs. To make matters worse, a lot of city police departments took this literally, deliberately, to discredit anti-police activism. So the cops effectively punished the city for speaking out against them.

The underlying problem is that communicating these problems in a way that's succinct enough to resist malicious interpretation, without it coming off as a way to dodge the blame for your own problems, is very difficult. You are not entitled to make others think or speak the way you do. Concepts you invent will be reinterpreted however people like unless you drown them in so much French that only your own apparatchiks can understand them[0]. In other words, these are shibboleths - terms that exist solely for an in-group to identify themselves to one another.

Here's the thing: this is great for MEGO[1] and terrible activism. When Louis Rossmann wants to point out how companies are retroactively changing the deal, he doesn't say it's wrong to do that, he says the CEOs have a "rapist mentality". When Cory Doctorow wants to talk about how Internet platforms get worse and worse, he talks about "enshittification[2]". These coinages work because they leverage the listener's existing understanding of those concepts. Semantic drift works to their advantage: someone misusing "enshittification" to refer to, say, inflation, rather than the gradual demise of Internet platforms, is continuing the analogy.

[0] More generally, habitual insistence on the use of one's idiolect - especially one crafted to motte-and-bailey your unsavory opinions - is a sign of an abusive personality. Yes, that's a dig at RMS.

[1] "My Eyes Glaze Over", aka "disguising heinous shit behind boring language"

[2] Enshittification is a particularly funny one, because it's exactly the sort of fancy French word you'd expect, but with a nice Anglo-Saxon swear word in it.
I've experienced interruptions mid-clone (with no apparent way to resume them) when trying to clone repos on unreliable connections, and perhaps a similar issue is happening with connections between continents.
Doom scrolling gets me when I'm in the bathroom. I ended up disabling YouTube on my phone.
> zero pervades so many other common physical phenomena

Zero was invented approximately a thousand years before the pendulum was scientifically developed for use in technology like clocks.
If you want to get fancy you can set permissions on a per-file basis, so only admins have write/modify access to the execuable files.

I'm not that worried about that, as the executable won't get admin privileges without some exploit, so I don't go there. But it's an option.
No.

Glad we cleared that up.
I spent a long time trying to do some sort of machine learning over the OpenBCI helmet's data with the eventual goal of moving a cursor, but I didn't seem to get anywhere. The data was indeed _extremely_ noisy, and I don't believe my model ever converged to anything useful.

That said, I was just a high schooler and so my method of collecting training data was to run the script and "think really hard about moving left". Probably could have been a good deal more sophisticated too.
Don't play the demo if you have a deadline coming. I repeat.
>- User specific fingerprinting: Determining that your browser is unique among all the browsers the website has seen so that you can be tracked without cookies.

I worked briefly for an ad company that not only did their own fingerprinting but bought a lot of fingerprinting data, along some other type of info: country, age cathegory, sex, income cathegory.
What is the official pronunciation for "SQLite"?
Also known as registering for the Selective Stampede System.
What a waste of taxpayer money. This nonsense should've been thrown out long before it got to court.

The animal rights group NonHuman Rights Project

Where do you stop? Insects? Bacteria? Viruses?

In these times, what about an AI?
Mastodon works great in the present.
Cats and dogs have more rights than other animals for seemingly arbitrary reasons too. At the end of the day, its all whatever we decide is matters.
There's also BFG (https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/) for people like me who are scared of filter-branch.

As someone else noted, this is about small, frequently changing files, so you could remove old versions from the history to save space, and use LFS going forward.
How is this different from using cookies?
Probably not, but there likely should be legal provisions for clearly intelligent animals like elephants that elevate them above say a snail or mouse.

We generally are too soft on animals abuse and abuse of an animal like an elephant should carry a sentence similar to abusing a person.
There's a slew of essays and history entries that begin along the lines of:

The modern state of California was considered part of the Spanish empire for nearly 300 years. The Spanish colonial period had a profound effect on the cultural, religious, and economic development of the state.

The article cited for this thread makes much of Anglo churches in California but makes no mention of, say, the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and other churches that shaped the region (FWiW I'm not religious but as one aware of history Spainish Catholicism had at least as much impact in the region as any other variety)

The Spanish Empire shaped the foundations of land ownership, mineral rights, and water access in the region.

There are shelves of books on the subject - I'm not even in or from the Americas, I'm hardly the person to ask.

The point stands, it's a lousy essay that ignores some substantial American history, likely because it's not "USofA" history.
System 1?
I'm with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958301 on this point.

In a world where teens are a click away from the referents to "Ma'am I do my own plumbing" and "Wh-what are you doing, steppe peoples?", I'd guess they don't see sex as negative so much as see gratuitous sex, sprinkled in by writers who can't even quote a single midget donkey porn trope properly, as negative.

We pay about $60 for an evening for 2 at the movies; for that I'd appreciate having 90-120 minutes of, you know, story.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
There is already a steadily growing anti-AI sentiment among the general population.
To me the popular vote is irrelevant and in my original post I meant the winner, despite saying the majority which you interpreted to mean “more than 50% of the population of the US”. We have a system in place to counterbalance the fact that large numbers of likeminded people concentrated in one area could otherwise rule over everyone else through tyranny of the majority. To me the majority therefore just means “most of the US”.

If you think betters do not have the odds right, you should start betting right now.