skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say it is the perfect metaphor.

I love audiobooks but at this point, most of what I want to listen to is stuff that would not sell enough to bother having someone read.

There are also many voice actors who I simply don't like the way they read.

A future that I can pick a voice that I like for any PDF is a huge upgrade.

I think a problem people have is if on the young side, maybe didn't expect the future to change like this.

No one I knew went on the internet when I graduated high school. Change like this is all par for the course. The only advice I got in high school from a guidance counselor was that I had a nice voice for radio. Books on tape was not exactly a career option at the time. The culture will survive the death of a career path that didn't even really exist when I was a senior in high school.
AI will take all the coding jobs but baristas will be fine.
I also think part of the realization is that as you grow up, the world was "whitewashed" for you when you were younger. Your parents took care of going to the DMV, or taking you to the dentist and paying / using insurance, and making sure there was someone to drive you there.

Now, you're the parent, and you have to figure out if you can drive your child, make sure they're covered by insurance, make sure you can pay the dentist if your insurance is maxed out for the year, heck, just in the last year, find a new dentist because the one you had for 20 years switched to "not taking Delta" and suddenly wants you to pay $500/checkup instead of previous $0, etc. And if you can't pay, well.. sucks to be you..

I'm in my 50s, and I kind of understand this attitude, and I also understand why people get cynical. I moved to the US due to finding someone to marry online (from Canada), and while I had heard some stories of how bad the US was, I felt like I had my eyes open going in, knew about insurance, etc. I never figured I'd have to worry about the government going openly hostile, somehow embracing Russia AND Nazis at the same time, etc - I always figured things would slowly improve over time (especially when Obama was elected), not get drastically worse. So I've stopped caring as much - during Covid, I canceled several charities we used to donate to regularly - suddenly, after feeling quite secure financially (not rich, but ok), I didn't feel that way anymore. I got laid off the day after my 50th birthday and after transferring to another position in the same company, again 1.5 years later and I stopped donating to the local food bank where I was employed. Finally found a job ~1 year later - actually with better pay, but less WFH and it's hard to go back.

Eventually life gets to you. Looking around, there are a whole lot of people who care greatly - but what they care about is hurting specific groups of "others" in specific ways.. Or in grifting as much $$ as possible. So now I don't care as much. I just want the ants to stop crawling into the house and the neighborhood dog to stop barking at night so I can sleep. Because I'm (*&@#$ TIRED.
That's not true at all. It's intuitive to understand, less ambiguous and far more common than the incorrect usage than you prefer.

If you disagree, I would ask you to provide a source to support your assertion.
Looks good, I was looking into react-three-fiber as well for my site.

*work in progress by the way
I've used them for small stuff for years. I've never had any issues with them.
If you can't understand why people don't trust science, normal people, then I would suggest putting yourself in their shoes and walking for a mile. I've worked both in tech and now blue collar. These people aren't stupid. Sometimes ignorant and insular, but they're not stupid. They have very good reasons to not trust elites. Especially when they condescend them.

Yes a construction worker has no idea about aspects of science, but he also is never trusted when it comes to construction itself unfortunately because everyone assumes he's just there to put the framing together according to the plans.

They should have worked on their messaging. As soon as you start condescending people you lose them.
But China banning foreign apps also plays into their stranglehold on their domestic media and economy, so it's not a purely adversarial move against the US.

Or to put it another way, should the US also ban/censor Chinese art and cinema within it's borders?
How do you explain their report on Supermicro? It seems nothing was wrong there after all. From https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2024120275/why-...

> the committee confirmed previously stated findings that there was "no evidence of fraud or misconduct on the part of management or the board of directors."
It has a huge advantage of being able to operate at 850C at much lower pressures so you don't need 30cm thick steel
Promoting your own products doesn't really make it far though does it?
The left sidebar lets you make your own.

Supposedly, multiplying the counts of each attribute would give you the total.

6 skin tones

61 eyes

48 eyebrows

27 eyewear

69 noses

106 mouths

346 hair

16 accessories

(numbers obtained by selecting the list element, using $0.querySelectorAll('button').length in DevTools, so maybe not accurate, but seems like it is)

6*61*48*27*69*106*346*16 = 19,206,008,838,144

19 trillion options. Pretty good.
> Well, I guess that's what people want, but I'd argue that we're not better of it, that despite the greater size of it all, the culture of the early 2010s internet still produced far higher quality and authentic cultural products than today, hell alot of shorts I see today is just a rehash of well-known facts back then.

You’re just getting older. You’ve seen it before in another place, another medium, a different author, actor, photographer, director, philosopher, painter. You just haven’t realized that the internet isn’t just for you, and that reel you saw that just rehashed something well-known to you, was new info to someone else, somewhere. I can assure you, in 2010, there were plenty oh people bitching about bloggers retelling the same old things they learned decades prior.

“Everything old is new again” is a centuries-old expression. Every generation tells their tales, and shares their cultural experience in their own way. Right now, people express themselves in short-form video. I’m curious to see what comes next - you and I probably won’t like it.
You’re linking to a publication that has nothing to do with the FDA.
The important threshold in practice is not products made 100% by AI without human assistance.

It's that we're about to live in a world made up of crappier products, crappier service, crappier work because low-paid, cost-saving, untrained labor will be fixing up AI output to be just good enough to sell.
*fair
obfs4proxy, Shadowsocks, Snowflake, Xray?
https://archive.ph/3iatm
There might be mods but it is fundamentally built around those vi like keybindings so you'll be fighting an uphill battle.
It truly baffles me how humanity has the technology for a nuclear reactor that can actually CREATE MORE FUEL THAN IT USES and no one wants to use it.
> Everything else aside, this is an absolutely fantastic development and I really hope the ceasefire holds and all hostages are released.

Don't hold your breath, Isreal already announced a ceasefire in Lebanon in the past and didn't respect it.
Why does it need an act of congress?

Isn't this clearly in need of trust bust?
Biden warns of rise of tech industrial complex while outlining threats
How else would a cdn work? Or an l7 ddos protection?
Some background:

https://www.defensepriorities.org/explainers/challenges-to-c...
I hate that the options when faced with a location permissions request is "block" or "allow". why isnt ignore an option?? Block adds the site to a discrete local list which i dont need recorded on my computer...
Israel's history and present is the manifestation of amoral jewish supremacists[0] trying to ethnically cleanse Palestine by any means which naturally manifested itself in the current genocide[1] of Palestinians. Early Zionist leaders were outright racists using the Hebrew N-Word "kushim" to describe the native Palestinians which they were trying to ethnically cleanse:
"Neither Zangwill nor Weizmann intended these demographic assessments in a literal fashion. They did not mean that there were no people in Palestine, but that there were no people worth considering within the framework of the notions of European supremacy that then held sway. In this connection, a comment by Weizmann to Arthur Ruppin, the head of the colonization department of the Jewish Agency, is particularly revealing. When asked by Ruppin about the Palestinian Arabs, Weizmann replied: "The British told us that there are there some hundred thousands negroes [Kushim] and for those there is no value.”[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_supremacy

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-c...

[2] Weizmann, quoted by Arthur Ruppin in: Yosef Heller, Bama'avak Lamedinah , Jerusalem, 1984, p.140.
This is how trains work in Bangkok also, and Thai culture is very different from Japanese culture.

This is just how trains work in that place. It’s not deeper than that.
If they're willing to go to those lengths for scum, imagine how far they'd go for legit customers that pay.
> Yes, but they're not the ones aggressing

You do know this war started with a massive assault by Hamas, PIJ, PFLP, and other Palestinian groups, right? They attacked Israel, targeting civilians in a brutal assault, starting this war. If you start a war, you are the aggressor, even if you lose.
The mass coordinated rape campaign narrative has been widely debunked.
A large part of the effectiveness of the media is normal people think they don't know this.

Media has absolutely wised up to the fact that contrarian attitudes are common amongst Americans. These companies know that if they repeat something nonstop and make it as obnoxious as possible, a large number of people will quickly adopt the opposite viewpoint. That's the desired result.

Reverse psychology is something elementary school kids learn about and use to torment others or do their bidding. It doesn't end in elementary school.
They spent a year bombing an inhabited city into rubble, killing tens of thousands of civilians. Whatever definition of "policy" you're using here isn't particularly useful I don't think.
I'll just pipe in as a reply to your comment that, despite never having known this org until now (unfortunately for me, they seem cool as hell), the statement reads as a bit inexplicable.

The first connection my brain made was to the moderator of /r/IAMA who, thirteen years ago, in the midst of its massive success, randomly and unilaterally decided to shut it down [1] (although on a retrospective reading, I actually understand their reasoning more than Hindenbergs).

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ju5cf/goodbye_iama_it...
Excerpts:

"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead."

"I’m equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well.... Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. We must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children, our families and our very democracy from the abuse of power."
Pretty sure that’s the random junk it makes up if there’s no serial data coming in. The comment says:

> // no data coming in so do something interesting

My question is what they send over serial.
Honestly? That feels like a more genuine explanation. Business say they reasons for doing things, but I've not seen a high level decision maker that isn't eventually just "going with his gut."

At least they're honest here.
Related book: Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information (2022)

https://www.sup.org/books/law/data-cartels
These things look pretty small I wonder if someone will make a 2U rack tray to hold a few of them.
Tldr: smorgasbord of 0.1th to 1st world problems designated as horrendous failures by me ain't fixed, so I decide that people in their jobs don't care.

I actually like the bike ramp. Cyclists merging to a footpath at 20mph are a danger. Take em out before they hit the pedestrian.
I would guess you're not asking a serious question here but if you were feel free to contact me, it's why I put my email address in my profile.
My opinionated view, based on the ancient katra of code practitioners - seek smaller code, fewer dependencies :

When moving from PHP, better to ditch 'modern' over-engineered compiled javascript, and instead use javascript at first procedurally to get acquainted, then gradually use functional idioms from a good example library such as Ramda.js to reap language and productivity benefits over PHP-the-language.

I live in hope that tomorrows code thought leaders choose vue.js over the byzantine-borg-machinery that is the modern react ecosystem.

The good parts of Javascript [ which dont include prototype OOP ] make for a very productive language.

The node.js ecosystem is incredible for getting stuff done, I just hope we dont kill it via forced 'modernization'. We have a generation of javascript developers who have only known javascript as a compiled language.. and the current will use LLMs to spew out react apps, not apps that use standard web apis. The react+build+bundle ecosystem is so verbose that you almost need an LLM AI assistant frontend to do the grunt work.

Its a sad quirk of history that python has become the lingua franca for AI .. javascript is a better language, and great at all that wrangling of data before you pass it to the matmull compiler [ a case where you actually need compilation to better fit the lower level NPU/GPU ]

While Im channeling my inner boomer, I have to say, hand on heart : callbacks are more elegant than async/await/promises/then .. and they are a better conceptual match for the underlying reality. The future has been here for some time and it is multicore - perhaps our sequential mindset is preventing us from adapting as an industry to software that makes use of very many cheap cores?
Italy seeks to protect restaurants and hotels from fake and paid-for reviews
Which countries are in is this non-aligned world?

Please be careful when using the word genocide

Gaza population: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1422981/gaza-total-popul...

Jews in before/after WW2 in Germany: 500k before, 200k after, 100k now. 6M European jews killed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany

What Palestinians went through in the last 15 months is grotesque and unforgivable, but their "elected government" could have completely avoided this.
Your coworkers performance is management’s problem, not yours. Complain if you have to pick up extra work but otherwise what’s the issue?
> Colonialism is a leftist ideology created by college professors in the 1970s

And that matters because…?

> Furthermore, there is no colony without a mother country.

I think you’re picking and choosing a definition of colony that fits your argument.
Here’s a more applicable one:

“ a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government”

Instead of making ad hominem attacks and playing semantics, why not argue against the actual ideas?
400B parameters in a "plug-and-play" form factor for $6k is wild.

Meanwhile all the usual "desktop" players are still trying to find a way to make good on their promises to develop their own competitive chips for AI inference and training workloads in the cloud.

I'm betting on Nvidia to continue to outperform them. The talent, culture and capabilities gap just feels insurmountable for the next decade at least barring major fumbles from Nvidia.
If you spent 10 minutes on each platform, you'd immediately realize how tone-deaf and naive your comment is.
If a cdn didn't intercept requests, how else could it work? Literally every cdn is an mitm.
> Few things are more personally relevant than not getting tortured and executed by your neighbors because you were granted no defense against spectral evidence.

As @arkey points out, this happens with atheistic beliefs as well. By numbers communist purges have killed vastly more people than all religions combined just due to the numbers of people involved in modern ages.

The denunciations are very similar with actual evidence rarely being required or needed. Or it’s based on some characteristic of being on an outside group. Netflix’s adaptation of the Chinese authors book “Three body problem” gives a visceral showcasing of what that would’ve been like as one of the characters father is denounced and killed during that time for having “anti-Marxist” beliefs like gravity.

I’ve been to the Pol Pot’s killing trees in Cambodia where they slaughtered millions of people. Anyone who was educated in any way were considered polluted by capitalism and killed. Things like having spectacles was sufficient evidence.

I’ve seen the holocaust monuments in Berlin and Tel Aviv where the ideals of racial purity based on pseudo scientific interpretations of evolution were a key philosophical underpinning.

Actually much of the anti-evolutionary zeal in the US can be partially traced back to progressives (of that period) use of “evolution” to justify mass forced sterilization of “undesirables” by several US states during the 1910-1930’s.

Really humans are pretty flawed with any belief system. You fool yourself if you think “scientific” or “atheist” are any hindrance to these group behaviors.
For data that isn't part of the document, you could use a write-through wrapper around the rope, with a secondary data structure mapping ranges of the document to this extra data.

From the wrapper's point of view, there's no difference between character and non-character data, and the whole buffer can be modeled as a collection of indices mapping ranges of the document to different kinds of data.

One of those indices could be a rope (mapping document ranges to character data, for the document text). Other kinds of indices could also be used. The important thing is that all edits go through the wrapper so that all the relevant indices get updated.
Good points. Reading the whole thing is more involved than I expected though! Not surprisingly really.

You might like this commentary: https://www.cato.org/blog/agree-it-or-not-colorado-supreme-c...
It should worry you. There are dreadful things happening in these spaces, and they are of such sophistication that children, and even many adults cannot fully ascertain.

The problem you describe is a cursed problem. You have so many malign influences being exposed that the only rational approach is to teach them as much as you can early to recognize and appropriately deal with these things.

That is easier said than done because at its core, you effectively have to teach your children how to lie, so they can recognize and discern the sophisticated lies.

There is also an element of biology, we call it the age of reason because there's a point where reason emerges, and prior to that point it isn't possible.

Prior to that age, they shouldn't be exposed. That will require a monumental amount of work because these influences are everywhere. Even in the Family movies (especially Pixar).

I would start following a classical education curricula (Trivium/Quadrivium) which includes philosophy, aristotle-in logic, Method, and reason.

Following that, there should also be education on perceptual blindspots, and its intrinsic link to communication, as well as how distorted reflected appraisal works (and its impacts). These are blindspot biases we all have as humans, and they will need to know and recognize the limits to defend themselves.

Robert Cialdini wrote a book on the levers of Influence. Communications should roughly follow an Intro course that you see in college with particular emphasis on perception, uniquely shared meaning, deceitful or manipulative structures, with guided exposure towards the end, relating to deceitful, misleading, and false narratives.

The basis requirements for torture should also be taught, so they can recognize it when it happens to them. Coercion should be fully understood so they are not helpless when its eventually applied to them. This should also include how you handle people who lie and how to case-build, and employ countermeasures in such areas.

Being capable of retaining rational thought under applied stress at higher amounts than others, will offer them the best chance at survival.
> Is it the least bad place I can think of to put them?

Bad for whom? If you have the two options:

(A) Bad for people causing negative externalities.

(B) Bad for people causing positive externalities.

I will choose the former over the latter every time. Sure, it's bad for the kid to be getting abused since they're expelled from school, but it's bad for the kid to be getting abused since this other kid wasn't expelled from school.
Because at some point it will cease to work? It needs upgrades like any other project.

Every upgrade in the JS world is very painful.
Russia has been operating a sodium-cooled fast reactor for 45 years.
Isn't "good enough" the definition of "bare minimum"? That aligns pretty well with "doesn't care"
I'm considering moving to Fastmail for email and calendar, Sync.com for cloud files. It would be annoying to have separate logins for each though. One nice thing about GWS was a single login for all the apps.
"lack the statistical power to be inconclusive" is that right?
> user’s phone backs up photos to the company’s cloud.

I never enable cloud backups, because it means my shit is sent somewhere.
> How do you propose we handle logistics or emergency vehicles?

Find the the width of said emergencies vehicles, and then build bike lanes that are a little wider than that: the emergencies vehicles can drive down them quite easily (and cyclists can get out of the way quite quickly).

Alternatively, if a city has trams, created segregated rights of way, and the emergency vehicles can use them.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2dHFC31VtQ&t=18m47s

And less-car-centric areas ≠ no-vehicles-allowed-ever areas.
This is not abuse of the word, complete success is not necessary for genocide to be an appropriate description.

https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide

This israeli scholar of genocide could see that just a few weeks into this escalation. Why can't you?
Don't forget red meat either.

In many cases[0][1][2] it's treated with carbon monoxide to make it look redder.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5848116/

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3801706&page=1

[2] https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2005/11/17/FDA-ask...
This is something I considered but I have a real knack for getting on the most toxic teams and I already live in NYC. I don't want to move back to SFBA until I'm married. It's a pretty terrible place to be a single straight man.
“A lot of these cases are things like cataract surgery and hip operations.”

So how many of those people died of traffic accidents, and how many were actually medically relevant?

I get they are trying to paint things in the worst possible light, but without context it’s unclear just how problematic this actually is.

Edit: Can’t reply to haltingproblem, but you’re looking at a group of dead people so the percentage of people killed by cars is presumably a better baseline estimate vs assuming they are dead is irrelevant. Unless you meant the waiting list also had 75k people on it which would be very concerning if ~16k of them were dying each year.