skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title is wrong. It says he dissolved it because they wouldn't give Ukraine money instead of missiles.

>Lindner suggested providing Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles for defense against Russia, but Scholz rejected the proposal and demanded €3 billion in support.

Btw, why was he dismissed based on that decision? Seems a reasonable one to me as missiles built in Germany also suport the German economy and that 3 Billion would be better spent in Germany on education, healthcare, innovation instead of giving it away as cash to other nations?

If I were a German taxpayer and my tax money was being given away abroad while public infrastructure and services in my own country are underfunded, I'd be fucking furious and want that guy voted out. Have nothing against Ukraine, but politicians paid from my taxes should serve me first and foremost, not foreign entities, otherwise don't be shocked when they vote right wing.
Medicine Is Going Viral
GPU workloads are either compute bound (floating point operations) or memory bound (bytes being transferred across memory hierarchy.)

Quantizing in general helps with the memory bottleneck but does not help in reducing computational costs, so it’s not as useful for improving performance of diffusion models, that’s what it’s saying.
- Revolving door: Hunter Biden's stint as Burisma board member.

- War profiteering: U.S. defense industry is doing great.

- War profiteering: https://successfulsocieties.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toru...

The other side does it too, of course. The people in the trenches fight for Russian oligarchs or for Ukrainian oligarchs and Western companies.

Historically, it is interesting that WW1 stopped with German sailors realizing that they were being used and starting the Kiel mutiny.
Neat! thanks for sharing. Few times I needed that but I had to go hunting down the full path.
How do you handle challenging customer interactions, especially on social media?
We’re working on being more responsive, but sometimes it feels like we’re putting out fires.
How Can We Make a Better Concrete Jungle
Here's a man who lived for much of the same ideals as Aaron Swartz, and was able to make a tremendous impact on the Russian internet universe while also laying low and quiet.

I'm awfully sad Stiver passed away before old age, but happy that at least it was not due to adversity.
Try webdiff (I’m the author) https://pypi.org/project/webdiff/
If Trump really wanted to follow through with it he would put RFK in the Justice Department rather than HHS, assuming the HHS expectations play out.
I sort my CSS by property type (display, size, position, etc). Takes a while to get used to it but it definitely speeds up my ability to do CSS surgery.
macOS, blurry texts on an external Full HD monitor? (2020)
North Korean GPS manipulation disrupted planes and vessels, South Korea says
Thank you for the link! Looks like a serious thing, I'm reminded of Mark Fisher after browsing a few paragraphs. Excellent. For people that don't click it for whatever reason, it looks very interesting, here's some metadata:

Journal: Theory, Culture & Society
Date of publication: 2021, Vol. 38(6) 143–166
Title: Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit

And the abstract:

> This paper examines the impact of neoreactionary (NRx) thinking – that of Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Peter Thiel and Patri Friedman in particular – on contemporary political debates manifest in ‘architectures of exit’. We specifically focus on Urbit, as an NRx digital architecture that captures how post-neoliberal politics imagines notions of freedom and sovereignty through a micro-fracturing of nation-states into ‘gov-corps’. We trace the development of NRx philosophy – and situate this within contemporary political and technological change to theorize the significance of exit manifest within the notion of ‘dynamic geographies’. While technological programmes such as Urbit may never ultimately succeed, we argue that these, and other speculative investments such as ‘seasteading’, reflect broader post-neoliberal NRx imaginaries that were, perhaps, prefigured a quarter of a century ago in The Sovereign Individual.
We could run something like TensorFlow.js in a Chrome extension to identify the person in the image and replace it in the dom. A little resource intensive for inference on every image in but probably worth it in this case.
Thanks so much! I am doing something similar to OP in my game engine, but I hand-rolled a font, which is readable but ugly af.

This is going to be such a source of inspiration! Do people have favorites from the list?
This feels a lot like the debate about whether Pluto is a planet: what we're really trying to figure out here is whether we can figure out a definition for a concept that includes all the things we think should be included, and excludes all the things we think should be excluded -- and the meta conversation is: can we all agree on what should be included/excluded? That's a bit of a dance, since a cleaner and simpler definition can swing people's opinion about inclusion/exclusion, so the influence goes both ways.
I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed if they go to Japan expecting the same social structures they enjoyed in the west to exist in the same form, just hidden somewhere behind the language barrier.

Don't even expect the drinks after work culture, a lot of that has disappeared. It was a thing when people actually had hopes that showing loyalty to a company would improve their lives.

If you want to enjoy life just watch videos of expats chilling in places Thailand for inspiration. Otherwise you may become like the Japanese people and end up bored and wanting to leave.
This is topyappers.com you can see it on the reddit sub
This is probably out of scope for your tool but it’d be nice to have built in n-gram deduplication where the tool strips any identical content from the header and footer, like navigation, when pointed at a few of these markdown files.
Outer Wilds DLC is also amazing yeah :)))) . They managed to keep surprising the player with hidden-in-plain-sight stuff. Also, the soundtrack is a-ma-zing, https://andrewprahlow.bandcamp.com/album/outer-wilds-echoes-...

> Outer Wilds is in my all time Top 3 games ever made

Hey, same, it's at spot #3 of my "absolute best" list, https://ronan.jouchet.fr/games#outerwilds . The list I was sharing my "for non-gamers" list, and I stand by the fact that Outer Wilds has non-negligible chances to be a bad experience for very-non-gamers. I know it because I've seen it:

1. The very-non-gamer has zero chance of being able to navigate a 3d space before many hours of manipulating a twin-stick gamepad or kb+mouse ...

2. ... And some of them even get nausea from the 6-axis degrees of freedom spacecraft navigation needed by games like Outer Wilds or Descent!
This is topyappers com, you can see it on the reddit sub
Diffusion requires a lot more computation to get results compared to transformers. Naively when I'm running a transformer locally I get about 30% GPU utilization, when I'm running a diffusion model I'm getting 100%.

This means that the only saving you're getting in speed for a diffusion model is being able to do more effective flops since the floats are smaller, e.g. instead of doing one 32bit multiplication, you're doing 8 4bit ones.

By comparison for transformers you not only gain the flop increase, but also the improvement in memory shuffling that they do, e.g. it also takes you 8 times less time to load the memory into working memory from vram.

The above is a vast over simplification and in practice will have more asterisks than you can shake a stick at.
At this point one should think if TypeScript isn't a better solution for most frontend code.
Until you're dealing with invasive non-natives, or bindweed. Nothing is fun about those.
'...its insane how they can, for example, eat a tub of ice cream on a whim and not be blasted into the 400s.'

No such thing as a free lunch, they are just building up insulin resistance with, eventually, Type 2 Diabetes a near certainty in later life.
We already know that low-gravity causes all kinds of bone and muscle weakness and even messes with eyesight in a dramatic manner.

The scary part is while the bones/muscles can be healed over time, the eyesight problems persist and appear to be irreversible.

They have to solve this before trips to Mars will be possible, unless they are going to simulate gravity by constantly (slowly) accelerating half-way there and then slowly decelerating. It's technically plausible but a million other little problems have to be solved too. Won't happen in the lifetime of anyone alive right now.
This is nice! I am currently using some other tools for that, will definitely check this out
Why tho? The coin cell battery lasts years.
But doesn't quantization give worse results? Don't you trade quality for memory footprint?
Well I can give two American cents here.

I don't defend illegal immigration, I take issue with today's immigration laws.

I view our current immigration problems as an obvious side effect of welfare programs - creating financial incentives to physically be in the country means the government budget is a blank check and people have a reason to move here other than the hope of making a better life for themselves.

In my view, those immigration problems should be a sign that our welfare programs can't function without strong borders and heavily controlled immigration. We can't seem to solve immigration management, and until we do we should abandon the welfare programs and accept that people will move here if they want to.

Edit: I can also come at this from a fundamental rights angle. I am a strong believer in individual rights and don't believe that I have the right to decide who can live here.
What you view as inconsistencies are based around assumptions for how the underlying rules work and what happened that don’t necessarily apply.

One of the more interesting science fiction short stories I read seemed to have very inconsistent time travel, but on closer reading you find the two different methods involved had two different sets of rules. It’s easy to say something is inconsistent, but any possible story has a corresponding set of rules that work.

It’s rather similar to considering what characters may have been lying in a story.
It depends on the application. It’s the easiest way especially if you might encounter right to left script, CJK or emoji. It is worthwhile to cache the textures, most text does not change every frame. It is good enough for us.
Google Maps no longer usable on mobile devices
I do not have Google apps installed on my phone. I rarely use any of them other than occasionally Maps and Search. I use them as websites exclusively. If you try to search something on Maps you will be redirected to App Store to download the app. Mobile page is no longer functional.

Workaround at the moment is switching to desktop view. They will probably stop that too.

Internet is getting worse day by day it seems...

EDIT: Using iPhone (iOS 18.1). Tested both Safari and Brave. No VPN and I'm located in EU.

EDIT 2: Got accused for click bait. Not my intent but I'm unable to change the title now. That being said, Google Maps is just a website and as any website, in my opinion should be accessible on any device.
Indeed. I think "AI gold rush" sucks anyone with any skills in this area into it with relatively good pay, so there are no, or almost no people outside of big tech and startups to counterbalance direction where it moves. And as a side note, big tech is and always was putting their agenda first in developing any tech or standards and that usually makes milking on investments as long as possible, not necessary moving things forward.
I just flip the coin cell around so it stays in the device but does not deplete (reverse polarity but in fact the contacts will not touch the battery poles so no harm).
Three issues:

- nobody's paying listed prices if they spend a few K a month with Datadog

- the other side is missing the cost of on-call, capacity planning, documentation writing, auth integration, training, initial setup, upgrades, migrations, etc.

- data is only counted once, so no failover/recovery in case of crashes

It's probably still going to be a bit lower total than Datadog, but it would be more honest.
https://dandavison.github.io/delta/tips-and-tricks/export-to...
The statistics back you up. Violent crime in the USA is about what it was in early 70s, far below it's peak in the late 80s/early 90s. [Most of the decline seems to be linked to legalized abortion and elimination of leaded gasoline.]
‘Why the giraffe? Two reasons. First, it can see farther due to its height; second, it has one of the biggest hearts of all land mammals. Besides, its ossicones make you believe it listens to you when you look at it.’ – My NVC teacher

Kudos for the nonviolence. :)
Pandoc is amazing. Especially because they support so many formats.

And their html to markdown converter is (in my opinion) still the best right now.

But html-to-markdown is getting close. My goal is to cover more edge cases than pandoc...
I built self-contained pair of AR goggles running full web apps. Vid in comments
Titles like this make me never click the videos. Why would anyone be sad by 4D shapes? (that don't exist anyway)
Ah, you mean using Google Maps in browser view is broken? Yeah, that makes sense. I also found the other day that even the app version has removed/changed/reduced the utility of streetview, which is one of the most powerful features of the app. Ah well, as you say, things are definitely not improving.
The internal culture at Google outright fosters it. Everything from the interview process on.

My mental health is 5x better since leaving.
"Good at hard video games" may tell you something about a candidate, but it also introduces bias against people who don't play video games.

I had a boss once, really into competitive sports, who would say that he wouldn't hire anyone who hadn't competed in some sport in school. He would not have counted video games or e-sports -- he meant basketball, football, hockey, soccer, etc. He thought playing team sports meant a person had both cooperative and competitive natures. He ended up with a few jock sycophants.

Besides the obvious personal bias based on shared interests, claiming something gives a strong hire signal without data to back that up doesn't mean anything. If you only hire people good at hard video games you don't know how many equally good hires you passed on because they don't play video games. Selection bias will confirm what you already believe, but you can't come to any general conclusion that video game performance correlates to or predicts job performance.

In Musk's case I doubt you'd find him a strong hire. What company would want a person with such obvious narcissistic tendencies? An employee who calls someone "paedo guy" online, verbally abuses other employees, lies, exaggerates, makes repeated crazy predictions, and acts on a whim? Would your company want a person who brought a flurry of lawsuits with them? Even if you admire Elon Musk I think anyone who has had to work with such personalities would call him a terrible hire, good at Diablo 4 or not.
At first glance this seems to be a run of the mill clustering project. Why is it on the HN front page? Am I missing something?
Yes but it’s a presumption rather than something that is proven.

If the guy who done it was blonde, 6’2”, driving a red Mercedes, and he wrapped the body in a green rug, and it turns out that the bloodstains on green rug of the 6’2” blonde guy with the red Mercedes that you arrested for it are only actually 70% likely to be the victim’s rather than 99.5%, while LEGALLY the guy in prison now can benefit from the presumption of innocence, I’m not sure I’d be comfortable if he moved in downstairs.

Proven innocence would be “oh we have irrefutable video evidence that this guy was two states away at the time”.
Looks cool! I believe the demo would really benefit from

image-rendering: crisp-edges;

applied to all canvas elements.

This will make the pixel art style rendering look much nicer, without the slight smoothing that makes the pixel edges a little blurry.
I dunno about any credible. This (both the problem and the solution proposed) is a direction to explore. The problem and its supposed consequences are a pretty widespread "conventional knowledge" (if not a "city legend") and this way cringe to mention with a serious face without a good reason. So there is likely to be at least some ground.
What Does -fwrapv Do?
I love this! I can't believe I've been a math person basically forever and this is the first time I've heard this.
Yes, that's definitely something that could be refined, for instance by specifying that only children of specific types can be reordered together: https://codeberg.org/mergiraf/mergiraf/issues/6
Simply in India, anything told to the police is not applicable as evidence in the court of law.

Only statements in front of Judges are applicable. So it makes no sense for police to interrogate to get answers.
I want people to use ai on the job. To use it effectively you need to be at a certain level so you can correct the ai. That’s why I ask people not to use ai.

Additionally, and more importantly, trust is important. If you violate it by ignoring a trivial but prominent ask it sets the wrong foundation for a potential working relationship.
Known as Goodhart's Law. "When a measure [heuristic] becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
I’d say, read stuff written by people in different camps. The intersection of what you’ll read is most likely to be the actual thing, and you’ll be able to discern the biases.

Over time you’ll start noticing trends, recurring themes and biases (both in the right as well as in the left).

Also be wary of social media: we often recognise that the glamorous life portrayed by influencers is fake and performative, but (somehow) we don’t apply the same strictness of interpretation to political influencers on social media.

One last thing: it has become a very strong feeling of mine that we’re now in a post truth society, where fake news are spread left and right (and by the left and the right) shamelessly and without much repercussions if at all. AI isn’t helping (actually it’s making it much worse).

So… yeah, those are my two cents.
There is something deeply wrong with the discourse on HN. I very often see comments like this one, politely expressing an opinion and bringing some reasoning to the table, get downvoted to oblivion or even flagged.

Ironically, I see this happen the most to comments contradicting the common "liberal" wisdom, almost as if there's a liberal tendency to censor different opinions, even in cases like this one where they fit perfectly the current overton window.

I genuinely feel that allowing users to downvote and flag is harming the quality of discussions here, as it's often used to reinforce an echo chamber, rather than to weed out spam and actually dangerous content.
Alien microbes slowly consume them
magit-delta https://github.com/dandavison/magit-delta
I'd be interested to see if you can do something like [1] and then native stem cell derived islets, no isolation required...

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-020-00092-2
I heard it's space worms
For me or still is, after confirming I want the web site and not the app, but it works. I am using Firefox on Android.
If you need this sort of thing in any other language, there's a free, no-auth, no-api-key-required, no-strings-attached API that can do this at https://jina.ai/reader/

You just fetch a URL like `https://r.jina.ai/https://www.asimov.press/p/mitochondria`, and get a markdown document for the "inner" URL.

I've actually used this and it's not perfect, there are websites (mostly those behind Cloudflare and other such proxies) that it can't handle, but it does 90% of the job, and is an one-liner in most languages with a decent HTTP requests library.
I find it interesting how much effort was put into getting high quality scalable vector fonts and how useless these techniques were once we got our accelerated vector graphics co-processors.

I mean, there are some very interesting projects to try and do font rendering on the graphics card, but by and large I find it funny how in general they are terrible at it.

What would a native gfx-card friendly scalable font format look like? would it just be a triangle mesh?
Most don’t. I know the shape of the answer that ai provides. I added the marker to be able to tell with more confidence.

Sometimes I see the marker and the answer is much different and more correct. In those rare cases I bring up the point of trust in the interview if the candidate seems promising.
I’ll try to keep this in mind in case you and I cross paths while I have the upper hand and I happen to be feeling an intellectually lazy sort of way.

Whatever happens shouldn’t be attributed to malice. I won’t hurt your pets. My superiors ought to award me for it. I was just being stupid.
I don't think Linux has been primarily built by volunteers for decades, Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, and a great many other companies employ people to work on it because it's a product that they sell.
haha "the research I had done"

I was here last time. It's bad to have a president of such low character. I will prefer some of the policies to what we would have seen instead, but he will continue to sow chaos, cruelty, and division, and we'll all be the much worse for it.
Isn't undercutting the current players already good enough reason to use their service?
For now, you let it reorder every child within a given node type, which felt expressive enough to me in most cases, but I agree it would be good to refine that: https://codeberg.org/mergiraf/mergiraf/issues/6
This is the case if the app store is done right, that is, if it has the end user's interests in mind. But as with all things Google, the end product always boils down to how much profit it can extract from its services in ad revenues, so there isn't really that much incentive in Google to keep the Play Store tidy.

This or some variation of the idea. The result is the same, what should protect the user becomes a vector to help spread malicious apps.
If they didn't understand the intent, why would they check with a lawyer to see if they could get away with ignoring it?
Yes?

It’s more a viable possibility than it’s ever been.
I’d watch that one. Also, I miss the x-files.
When I started in 2011 I was told "up or out" of L4 by 4 years.

That was dropped around 2015 or 2016.

I stayed for 10 years at L4 then left on my own. I had no interest in the perf game and never attempted promotion. L4 money was good enough.
It's all about our role within a larger system...
I'm unsure what you think it's a list of. It fits in because populations don't like wars, and have to be lied into them. War is very good for business, so we get wars. Bigger ones like Ukraine and Gaza, and small multi-decade ones like in various parts of the Middle East and Africa.

Worrying now about how my comment reads to U.S. readers, so I'll say explicitly - there was not meant to be a partisan slant towards either of the two absolutely terrible mainstream U.S. parties.
NASA always manipulates news coverage… I recall the days 20 years ago whenever a politician got serious about cutting their budget, NASA would run a “water on the Moon!” story. If it comes out that long term space travel is going to cause brain damage (my guess here) their golden goose is cooked.
Trump Put Musk on Phone with Zelensky During Call
It's definitely something I would recommend in general, but I'm not sure if it would solve this particular problem (reordering blocks is perhaps a bit bold for a prettifier).
SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generation