skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the walled garden is a flawed metaphor.

I would argue for Twitter over a spotty collection of RSS feeds just because there's ironically more of a democratic aspect -- anyone can start tweeting about whatever. They can go viral and disappear, they can gradually build an audience, etc. They can interact with followers or reply guys or stay aloof; they can recommend content and become a mini content aggregator in their own right. People can be anonymous or they can use their real world cachet to build a following.

Accomplishing the same thing via publishing an RSS feed is a daunting task -- you need to build an RSS feed somewhere, you can't interact with others or be easily boosted by bigger accounts to start to gain a following.

The "walled" aspect of this is basically the limitations of what the platform will allow, which especially under the Musk regime is a good balance of only very light touches of moderation.

People talk about the feed and the algorithm, but no two people have the same feed; the accounts you choose to follow will determine what your feed looks like, together with some generally popular content.
<< The whole thing about prison does not apply to work, does it?

One would hope, but similarities are not that easy to ignore. I might even extend it further, because I saw the same approach, for whatever reason, replicated among many grammar level education bodies.

<< In the context of knowing who somebody is, to know if I should take advice from him, I think knowing what somebody did as a predictor does not tell me if he can help me or not.

I disagree in general, but other poster noted that the connection may not be as clear / useful to the discussion. With that in mind, I will try to present a different example.

<< I mean, I have switched tasks, countries, companies, industries many times. And through it, you could not believe I was the same person, as my behavior was very much influenced by the environment. That was pointed out by people who know me. So the trying to predict the future just doing linear interpolation of the past, no, it does not work with people in the professional environment.

I will briefly engage in that analogy again. And other prisoners were transferred, went to different prisons, were let out, and so on. For all the steps listed, similar steps for 'non-professional environment' could be reasonably construed.

<< So the trying to predict the future just doing linear interpolation of the past, no, it does not work with people in the professional environment.

Linear? No. Heuristic prediction. Yes.

<< But I know nothing about it.

We are just two minds on the internet. I know what is available to me.

<< On the other hand many many times in HN I’ve read comments of people that were in prison, and today are much better and are not looking back. Survivor bias you may say?

Anecdata vs statistics, but I accept that exceptions exist. We are humans.

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Would it help if we changed the example to that serial enterpreneur will likely remain one and continue to find/fund/invest in profitable ventures with a better chance of success than a person that does no? That seems more fitting to HN.
That is a bummer. I’m sure tons of people would have been happy to step up. Community is honestly something fragile that needs to be supported by more than one or two people. So many takers, hardly any givers to be found.
Sure, mostly non EU or non big business sites.

The non EU sites are due to the EU trying to claim global jurisdiction.

The EU are very much to blame for the popups, because even the non dark-patterns one are annoying.
> Where?

Can't think of any particular sources off the top of my head. It shows up from time to time in different places.

> I think blood-and-boden arguments for territory are bad, full stop.

I generally agree. I generally argue for reciprocity and even handedness. If someone else claims a certain argument as legitimate, then it's fair to use that same argument for counterclaims. In this case, the person I was replying to was making the "blood-and-boden argument", which means it is fair to apply that same argument to the counterclaim for those against whom they feel entitled to the same territory.

Me? I have no dog in this fight as my ancestry is so far removed that I can't claim it. My take is that if you go back in your ancestry and you can't point to a single named ancestor in your family tree (unbroken. you have to know everyone between you and that person), then you really can't claim connection to a place as you can't physically place a specific ancestor in a specific community (town, city, village), much less a controlling interest or other form of ownership. I've researched my family tree back to about the 1500s. That's about as far back as 99% of people can claim because written records largely dry up in the 1500s, with the exception of some folks with ties to nobility.

In your opinion, what is a good argument for territory?

> To the best of my knowledge, the overwhelming scientific consensus considers Ashkenazi Jews descendants of Levantine ethnic groups.

A question I have there is how far back to do you have to go to reach that ancestry. Pretty much all Europeans have paternal and maternal haploproups whose origin is in the Middle East. In fact, I would reckon that the only individuals in Europe today that don't claim ancestry to the Middle East would be folks whose ancestors migrated directly from Africa to Europe. Almost everyone else from Europe is going to be able to claim the Middle East. https://vimeo.com/50531435

> But the solution is to observe that irredentism is wrong full stop, not to attempt the erasure of Ashkenazi ethnic identity.

Makes sense. I'm going to incorporate that into my understanding here. Thanks for the corrections.

As a followup, I just did some googling and it looks like Ashkenazi Canaanite ancestry likely originated around 1000 BC.

According to Wikipedia, it looks like the Northern Kingdom of Israel was established around 900 BC and the Kingdom of Judah existed around 850 BC.

Correct me if I'm making a logical error here, but this would suggest that Ashkenazis likely originate from a voluntary diaspora and not a involuntary diaspora (like in 70 AD), if they share genetic ancestry to the region from around or just before the Kingdom of Israel and Judah were established (unless they were expelled by their own. i.e. the equivalent of different denominations and ideological schisms).

That all said, I'm still with you that blood-and-boden arguments are bad, but if folks are going to make that claim it's still worth asking questions about whether that claim is any stronger than the blood-and-boden arguments presented by others.
> confirming the rumors that they'll have mouse like functionality.

The idea of controlling a game with two mice is suddenly interesting to me.
Traditional export control applied to advanced hardware is because the US doesn't want its adversaries to have access to things that erode the US military advantage. But most hardware is only controlled at the high-end of the market. Once a technology is commodotized, the low-end stuff is usually widely proliferated. Night vision goggles are an example, only the latest generation technology is controlled, and low-end stuff can be bought online and shipped worldwide.

Applying this to your thoughts about AI, is that as the efficiency of training gets better, the ability to train models is commodotized, and those models would not be considered to be advantageous and would not need to be controlled. So maybe setting the export control based on the number of operations is a good idea- it naturally allows efficiently trained models to be exported since they wouldn't be hard to train in other countries anyway.

As computing power scales maybe the 10^26 limit will need to be revised, but setting the limit based on the scale of the training is a good idea since it is actually measurable. You couldn't realistically set the limit based on the capability of the model since benchmarks seem become irrelevant every few months due to contamination.
On the other end, save Inland Empire for after you've seen a lot of his filmography and are in the mood for a challenge.

I wouldn't call it his best work, but it is Lynch at his most singular and uncompromising.
> Showing a cookie banner on each site is pounding us all into submission. It's not that any single website's banner is too much; it's that we are all clicking them all day long.

Disagree. I have a browser extension installed that makes the repetition across sites irrelevantly easy, at least on my laptop Chrome browser. I don't usually click on them at all except for sites which try to interfere with the browser extension or which try to block access unless I pay them or agree.

Also, for people without such an extension, seeing the banners could be a reason from complaint to the website itself. No law requires them to do the kind of tracking which requires them to gather consent, nor to gather the consent in such an obtrusive way as they often choose when they do want to gather consent. The most effective way to get websites to stop being obnoxious to their users would be if they had to deal with user complaints about it, not anything legislators can do.

> Honestly, it would be awesome if there was an effective way to geofence these banners to the EU. However, IIRC the EU law asserts control over websites in other countries, on the off chance that an EU national might access the website.

I've already explained to you in other comments how that summary of GDPR jurisdiction is wrong. But hey, when I'm in the US and a website lets me deny consent, I'm happy for the extra protection from tracking. Conversely, when I see the difference in banners when I go to the US - yes, most sites do geofence their own banners to EU-based visitors - I am horrified at the tracking people aren't being told about outside the EU.
That may be true and I'm not against legislation to rule dangerous things out. I think however that big red warnings can be useful sometimes. Well, maybe not red in this case.
And looking for a deeper meaning in something this shallow prevents you from actually answering the question.
So having clear requirements, a focused purpose for software, and a clear boundary of software responsibility makes for a software development task that can be accomplished?

If only people had figured out at some point that the same thing applies when communicating to human software engineers.
So it's pay for placement for non-YC stuff?

I don't think the YC company ads are that intrusive.
Obviously to prevent proliferation of dual-use technologies to potentially adversarial actors. The same intent behind restricting high-fidelity infrared camera and phased radar equipment.
Show HN: Trash Talk Arena – werewolf meets Turing test and PUBG
This is a WIP, so UX sucks.

Basically, you are thrown into a chat with other players and/or AIs, and the goal is to eliminate everyone else.

You trash talk to each other. To eliminate someone you click their message and then must guess both: if they are a bot and if their ELO is bigger than yours.

Example round (unlike playing the game, does not require login): https://trashtalk.borg.games/game/36
My understanding is that MS Word's layout (as with some other word-processing software) was strongly dependent on the print drivers installed. So there still was some variability in output.

I tend to prefer LaTeX or a similar doc-prep system myself for authoring.
A 100K car is a commodity product with very limited customization.

If you don't like the car, the manufacturer is not going to make a new one for you personally.

A large SaaS customer is the opposite.
When you work on rust, in any IDE you can click through any type and see its implementation, even if its within a dependency. No difference in auditing, except you also get the guarantee of `cargo vet`.
I might be wrong about this but the question “Can you tell me what happens when Palestinians have unfettered access to Israel?“ smells like you have some assumptions about Palestinians that makes it dangerous for non-Palestinians to live around. If you actually believe that, that would be a very racist assumption.

Your second statement is mixing hypothetical reality with an actual reality. Only Israel is pursuing ethno-demographic policies. You may believe Hamas wants to pursue similar but reverse policies, and you may even be right about that, but the fact is they aren’t. Only Israel is. If Hamas gains full control over an independent state of Palestine, and sets up an apartheid system where Palestinians maintains a systemic oppression against non-Palestinian Jews, then we can dismiss their prospects. But until then, we should only dismiss the prospects of those that actually are committing the crimes, which is the state of Israel.
BO is an acronym for body odor, something you don't typically want to associate with any brand.

NG is an acronym for No/Not Good used in various engineering contexts to refer to things that fail to meet requirements. A superstitious aerospace engineer might not want to essentially name something "failure" though in practice I think most aerospace engineers would love to call their rocket Explodey-9000.
Other fun git hacks...

* https://hackaday.com/2017/05/23/stupid-git-tricks/

* https://ongardie.net/blog/sqlite-in-git/
Red Hat just hit us with 300% price increases for OpenShift across the board right after we went live in production after a little over a year of implementation. The entire org is very, very unhappy about it.
It's actually pot7o and it means pot[random seven letter word or phrase]o
> I bet they will release a more expensive OLED version later.

I would imagine the only reason they didn't launch with the OLED is to drive sales in the second half of the product lifecycle. If the PS4 equivalent claim is true that will be great, the Switch 1 was anemic at launch and borderline painful graphics in 2025.
Show HN: JupyterLab 4.x with Bosque Language Support
I wouldn't say A because Nintendo hasn't bothered trying to compete with them. If they bothered and Sony still managed to be considered a separate category I would agree, but Nintendo appears to not care about them.

However I do think B is true. The only time they were able to go toe to toe with Sony was most of the 360 era when Sony got cocky and built a machine that was too complicated to work with relative to the value developers got out of that effort. Once Sony stopped doing that they've dominated Xbox (mind you the whiff on being too early proclaiming the digital era made it far far worse).
My point was that the scope/impact/value/etc of the contributions made by individual engineers will be determined more by the projects they're working on than by their inherent ability to contribute. So, if we go through the org and cut the bottom 5% of engineers by how much value they added to the company, most cuts will be determined by the context in which an individual was operating rather than their inherent ability to contribute. Ie, the cuts will mostly just punish people for getting stuck with bad managers or lackluster projects.

Of course, some people are obviously great in any context and some are obviously useless (or worse) in any context, but those folks should already be handled appropriately even without the "cut 5%" mandate.
I can also recommend git flight rules: https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules

It saved my work a couple of times.
As someone who has rolled my own cert updates and used Caddy, I much prefer the Caddy way.
I don't think you're wrong but Big Tech is bending the knee to Trump because he will be picking the winners.
It's definitely sobering. I don't necessarily want to make money (gamedev is what I would do if I _didn't_ need to eat) but it would be really cool to get some recognition, or even just have a community of 100 people who _really_ liked and care about my game. Given the sheer amount of indie games out there (and the number of games that I see advertised yet give no thought to), it seems less and less likely to achieve that as time goes on. The best time to release your indie game is probably 15 or 20 years ago, when the barrier to entry was a little higher (thank goodness for all of the free tools we have today, but geez has it allowed a lot of competition to appear!).
Hard to understand exactly what your issue is here. Typically when people say "avoid merge commits" they mean they want you to almost always rebase instead of merge. Can you give an example or something?
I guess the question is if your parents and your grand-parents formed opinions based on sample size N of 1.
Breaking: killing kids[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] including a NINE MONTH OLD BABY[17] not evil when done to Jews (never mind that some weren't)

Do you realize how contradictory you sound? It's one thing to say Israel is eviler. It's quite another thing to say Hamas isn't evil at all.

The only conclusion I can come to is that you are antisemitic or (willfully, there is no excuse for speaking as if you know and not knowing the first thing, not now, not with so much information easily available) blind.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/tamar-torpiashvili-9-an-angel-...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/cousins-amin-jawad-malek-and-m...

[3] https://www.timesofisrael.com/yazan-abu-jama-5-bedouin-famil...

[4] https://www.timesofisrael.com/dana-48-carmel-15-bachar-mothe...

[5] https://www.timesofisrael.com/lianne-noiya-yahel-sharabi-48-...

[6] https://www.timesofisrael.com/refael-fahimi-63-netanel-maska...

[7] https://www.timesofisrael.com/ayala-73-liel-yannai-hetzroni-...

[8] https://www.timesofisrael.com/lior-tarshansky-15-maccabi-hai...

[9] https://www.timesofisrael.com/terrorists-murdered-entire-you...

[10] https://www.timesofisrael.com/yaniv-zohar-54-news-photograph...

[11] https://www.timesofisrael.com/carmela-80-noya-dan-12-savta-w...

[12] https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-members-of-even-family-sl...

[13] https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-members-of-even-family-sl...

[14] https://www.timesofisrael.com/kapshitter-family-murdered-on-...

[15] https://www.timesofisrael.com/itay-etti-and-sagi-zak-53-50-1...

[16] https://www.timesofisrael.com/mai-zuhair-13-faizah-abu-sabee...

[17] https://www.timesofisrael.com/yona-ohad-mila-cohen-73-43-10-...
These are the attitudes we get when we have a WebPKI cabal drunk on power.
The size is indeed impressive (31 kSLOC, compared to e.g. Lua 5.1 with 13 kSLOC). I will have a closer look at the code. Maybe I can transpile it to my Luon language and run it on LuaJIT.
It's possible that he changed his mind but realistically we can only entertain that possibility in the face of some pretty strong evidence given his earlier statements and actions. It's not technically impossible that he grew a horn out of the middle of his forehead either, but much like his views on genetics things we know for sure to be true make it reasonable to assume that this didn't happen unless someone can present a really compelling case that it did.
None of SF's dense apartment buildings are on hills, there is a good reason for that. You could terrace them like they do in Chongqing, but even in HK they tend to build in valleys between mountains except for luxury condo housing (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Levels). Italy follows the same pattern as SF.
hehe, weird to see this article on HN of all places, given that I own https://potato.horse

(bought for a reason unrelated to the horse from the wiki page)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42640309 - there's some effort going on around that, and I wouldn't rule out building something into HN

(edit: though it looks like you already have it in your profile!)
It's about how trains are running.

Consider a rail network connected like A-B-C . With terminating trains you'd have one train run A-B-A, and another train run C-B-C. With through trains you'd have one train run A-B-C and another train run C-B-A. Terminating trains have to stop and reverse, which takes quite a lot of time because the driver has to go to the other end of the train. Through trains can just continue in the same direction, so it is a lot faster.

Because a through train occupies the track for less time you don't need as many tracks to serve the same number of trains per hour.
You could merge his daily weather updates into a long rambling video.
Not clear why someone need to give up on native duckdb format if it is much faster.
I think he was talking about literal ants.

David Lynch’s work was never symbolic. You only ever got what was right in front of you.

The moment you start seeing symbols in his work, you know you’re viewing it wrong.

Edit: Lynch’s YT channel is filled with weather reports and random numbers. How much more anti-symbolic can you get?
Could be nice with some artificial pressure to use more efficient algorithms though. The current game of just throwing in more data centers and power plants may be kind of convenient for those who can afford it, but it's also intellectually embarrassing.
Counterpoint would be the $7.25 minimum wage. It can be updated, but politicians aren't good at doing that. In both cases (FLOPS and minimum wage), at least a lower bound for inflation should be included:

Something like: 10^26 FLOPS * 1.5^n where n is the number of years since the regulation was published.
Ohhh, I see your point from earlier now.
Technical / government docs often feature such numbering schemes. I believe part of the history is that those documents were often composed in segments or sections, often by independent teams, such that a fixed page enumeration wasn't readily available and/or would change frequently.

There's a pre-digital publishing trend of loose-leaf or removeable bindings, with publications prepared in sections or with periodic supplements, which began in the late 19th / early 20th century. Those would typically be organised and numbered by section. The concept is somewhat trite now, but I think of it as a significant stage and evolution of publishing, somewhere between fixed-format codices, periodicals, and eventually databases and wikis.
OLED seems like a no brainer for a lifecycle refresh at the ~3-3.5 year mark. Particularly because they've done it before, and Valve very recently proved it's still a viable way to boost sales. Nintendo has had 7 years to prepare for this launch they likely have every mario, zelda, metroid release date pinned to a particular month and year through at least year 5. A display upgrade mid cycle is almost a given.
Likewise for the PS Vita's features such as the rear touchpad.
I recently took Amtrak across the country. In both Seattle and Chicago I showed up about 10 minutes before my train departed. Sure, they checked my ticket before I got onto the platform, but the experience was absolutely nothing like taking a flight. I wonder if it was something about the particular day or station you were at that made this worse.
Here is Fisher, in a letter to the editors of _Nature_ (perhaps the most prestigious journal imaginable) "Cancer and Smoking"[1]:

> If, for example, it were possible to infer that smoking cigarettes is a cause of this disease, it would equally be possible to infer on exactly similar grounds that inhaling cigarette smoke was a practice of considerable prophylactic value in preventing the disease, for the practice of inhaling is rarer among patients with cancer of the lung than with others.
[...]
There is nothing to stop those who greatly desire it from believing that lung cancer is caused by smoking cigarettes. They should also believe that inhaling cigarette smoke is a protection. To believe either is, however, to run the risk of failing to recognize, and therefore failing to prevent, other and more genuine causes.

As a geneticist, he of course took the position that it was a
smoking gene confounding the causation.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/182596a0
Total price segmentation, slowing down the northeast regional so people pay out extra for the Acela, nevermind that the northeast regional trains can run just as fast as acela for the vast majority of the route.