skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You believe that the people in Canada/EU don't hate the US right now, and that the fact that the media say it (whether in the US or in Canada/EU) doesn't mean it's true.

Yes, because for it (sudden hate of US) to happen I'd need to believe everyone in Canada / EU to be extremely naive.

US has always been the US. Nothing has changed no matter what Trump says. As history has proven e.g. US never went to Iraq to save the world. It was for their own gains and that's fine.

It's very reactionary to suddenly hate them. So if the next day the US gives EU / Canada freebies you'll be best friends again? That's a joke.

> You believe that the people in Canada/EU are not actually scared by the repeated threats of military invasion by the US.

If they were, they should have did something about it years ago - not now all of a sudden. Again, US did not suddenly wake up and become "evil".

> And you believe that Tesla sales going down in the EU is not necessarily related to that, because there is no reason why people in the EU would hate Tesla.

Tesla sales have been going down a while already. Not everyone is 24/7 into politics. Lots of people buy cars for a need and pick the best 1. Tesla simply hasn't been performing (even before this drama). Don't complicate the situation.
I don't think you have to be paraplegic to have a condition that prevents you from enjoying an invigorating hike. If this gets more people who aren't in perfect health out and exercising, what an incredible win.
Why are you passionate about HBO Max using the destruction of artwork already produced to lower their tax bill? Many of which they bought.
Pretty sure donors line their pockets a lot more than the voting poor.
I can back you up on that. I work on a highly custom system that uses EF lenses through an EF-to-serial adapter. The lenses don't even know what position they're at when you power them on. If you want to move them to a specific focus step you have to go through a homing procedure that drives the focus motor to a stop (I don't recall if it's the near or far stop).

Lens-to-lens it's definitely not consistent. Step 142 on two different lenses will have a different focal depth. We calibrate each lens ourselves (thankfully you can read the serial number through the EF mount) and then still have to do closed-loop image-based sharpness estimation to guarantee that things are as good as we can get.
The Scoops Are On Their Way!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ehI9Fvbz7Y
Low wage doesn't mean low skill
> Seltzer went heavily against the grain 3 elections in a row and was almost completely correct the first 2 times. This year she was off by a massive margin (ultimately costing her her career).

Why did one mistake cost her career?
It was a long time ago (37 years?) but the main difference is this:

The Motorola 68000 has 8 32-bit data registers and 8 32-bit address registers. They are named D0..D7 and A0..A7. You can use these in most instructions in the obvious/expected way. Maybe it's not completely orthogonal, but close enough. With those registers, you can keep 8 intermediate values and 8 pointers, and perform reasonable operations on them (add this and that, and store at that address)

The 80286 instruction has just 4 16-bit registers, 4 more registers with strange names (BP, SI, DI, SP) and 4 segment registers. None of these are general-purpose. I just looked it up and apparently, you can only use AX and DX for multiply/divide instructions. The segmented addressing is what is most repulsive about the whole thing: you can't just put an address into a register. You have to use a segment register and use an offset so the real address is (segment register value)*16 + offset. The reason for all this bad design is presumably compatibility with even more primitive earlier processors (8086, 8088, 8085, 8080).

All this backward compatibility is so painful and limiting. The 68k was launched in 1979 and it gets all of this right (32-bit addresses, general purpose registers), but the 8086 was launched in 1978 and it's so primitive and ugly.

It reminds me of Windows which even today has certain dumb features such as "\" being the path separator for compatibility with CP/M, some primitive relic of the 1970s. I understand the importance of backward compatibility for commercial success, but it's so ugly and I just don't want to have to deal with it decades later. Yes I know that the NT kernel can theoretically use a different path separator, but in practice, we're all still using \ for paths and / for command line options. Because CP/M was so incredibly great in 1975.
Wow, what is that, like 1/2000th of their valuation? 1/4000th? A quarter of a tenth of a percent?

I'd like all my fines to be a quarter of a tenth of a percent of my net worth that'd be awesome.
> Additionally, 5 U.S.C. § 7513 allows for the removal of employees if it promotes the efficiency of the service (basically layoffs - and that is what Trump is doing).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/7513

They are explicitly not following 5 U.S.C. § 7513, they are trying to do and end run around the requirements (e.x. 30 day notice, opportunity to respond), which you can read in plain English at that link, by firing all probationary employees "for poor performance". Which is why as you note some courts are intervening.

The rest of your points are similarly "a lot of words but little truth"
This is less of YouTube being YouTube but more of EU being EU (Article 28b of AVMSD), although I do not know if YouTube requires credit card verification in other countries (I know that YouTube now requires sign-in for "adult" videos basically anywhere, but how they implement them exactly is something that I do not know).
The DB48X project looks interesting: https://48calc.org/
I think I’d be tempted to respond “I’m just a large language model, so I don’t know, but let me ask my little brother Claude.”
reminder to close your payoneer account, apparently they charge $30 per year if you have open account linked to a bank

can't wait for fallout of this drama next year
Technically it was a modified garbage truck but they were sort of used like people bulldozers. https://scifi.fandom.com/wiki/Scoops
Yes that is how the law views it. That’s not necessarily a good thing. I agree that I should have rights because I’m a person. As the crazy radical I am, I don’t agree that companies ”are free to X”, because they shouldn’t have freedoms, only entitlements that can be regulated to serve the purpose of the citizens.
I tell people not to buy HP and to buy a brother, but what did they change? Mine works fine, even with third party cartridges.

Printer ink has always been hilariously overpriced. A gallon of IBM check sorting machine ink was $25. And that's magnetic ink.

Extract as much value from your users as possible I guess. If some subset of users figure out how to at least lube up, first, disable their hardware.
Puppet Core: Avoid doing Open Source Puppet builds on your own
In the US, we covered a lot of old world colonial abuses in AP Euro and World History, but they are only briefly mentioned in regular courses. Irish and Armenian genocides were given special focus, probably mostly due to the demographics of the area I grew up in.

US and Eurocolonial treatment of the Native Americans was covered extensively in regular courses though, often alongside and explicitly compared to the Holocaust which is also covered extensively.
Because it pissed off Donald Trump and the media is busy kowtowing to him.
> That is not a TCP/IP stack in 200 LoC.

I agree --- I mostly think it's interesting as one of the most concrete examples of what they claim to have actually done that I've been able to find.

In general, it's frustrating that, as far as I can tell, they don't seem to have made any of the code from the project open source. Widespread skepticism about their claims due to this is (IMO) justified.

(Edit: for folks interested, it seems like some of the code has found itself scattered around the Web ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844088 )
What boggles my mind is the fact that surely people working for Google also use Chrome. Are they not up in arms internally because of how awful the web is without ad blocker?

I have the same experience as you, every time I set up a new machine or watch friends/relatives browse the web, it just blows my mind how bad the unfiltered internet is.
The Washington Post has always been a shitty right-wing rag with no separation between editorial and news. The only thing Bezos changed was turning the headlines linkbaity.

The only reason it has a current reputation as a left-of-center paper is 1) because the people talking about it didn't read it at all before it became the Trump News, like every other paper, and 2) because the Democrats completely embraced every single Reaganite policy.

The WaPo being about "free markets" and "civil liberties" (from Bezos' statement) is only a surprise because of the second part. I also do not trust them on the second part, at all; I just think the branding of free speech as "so-called free speech" by a bunch of people calling themselves journalists was starting to make people who actually believe in the profession physically ill.

edit: It's also important to point out that Ruth Marcus is not a person who quit the WaPo because of a neutral-sounding editorial edict from the owner. She's a person who didn't quit until months later.
> since 538 was cut by ABC a month or 2 ago. But Nate Silver's pollster rating methodology is pretty much the same as 538's was during his tenure there

Nate took his model with him. After he left, 538 rolled a new model.
In fairness to Kubernetes, this partially due to AWS and how their ALB/NLB interact with Kubernetes. So, when Kubernetes starts to replace Pods, the Amazon ALB/NLB Controller starts reacting, however, it must make calls to Amazon API and wait for ALB/NLB to catch up with changing state of the cluster. Kubernetes is not aware of this and continues on blindly. If Ingress Controller was more integrated into the cluster, you wouldn't have this problem. We run Ingress-Nginx at work instead of ALB for this reason.

Thus, this entire system of "Mark me not ready, wait for ALB/NLB to realize I'm not ready and stop sending traffic, wait for that to finish, terminate and Kubernetes continues with rollout."

You would have same problem if you just started up new images in autoscaling group and randomly SSH into old ones and running "shutdown -h now". ALB would be shocked by sudden departure of VMs and you would probably get traffic going to old VMs until health checks caught up.

EDIT: Azure/GCP have same issue if you use their provided ALBs.
> Why did one mistake cost her career?

It didn’t. She retired before Trump came for her and before the election outcome was known.
I'm pretty sure that a lot of people are very happy with water resistance in exchange for having to do a bit more work to replace a battery (that they don't actually replace).

The number of people using their phones in the hot tub, or in the sauna, astounds me on a regular basis. I can't imagine doing that. But, with modern devices being genuinely "drop them in the pool" grade waterproof, neither does it seem likely to be a problem.

I'll agree on thinness, though. The number of phones in massive, chunky cases says "A lot of people don't care about thin."
Nit, but "stratum" is the singular.
Great post, but what struck me (again, like every time I look at cos similiarity) is how unreasonably well it works. It's just one of those things that's so "weird" about our world: why would cosine similarity work in n-dimensional semantic spaces? It's so stupid simple, and it intuitively makes sense, and it works really well. Crazy cool.

I'm reminded of that old Eugene Wigner quote: "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."
I use ddg, have basically since it was released, what's wrong with bing?
For CRUD I agree. A lot of what I am doing is a bit more complex then that.

I actually would be happy to just "vibe" code my way through most of the problems I deal with if LLM's were able to do it.

That said, they make a great intern or jnr developer you can hand tasks off. You have to review either way, but the LLM does it faster.
Couldn't you just ask yt-dlp for the audio only files and not have to convert?
I was flying in and out of a private airport in uncontrolled airspace, so I didn't check. If was my first test flight so I was pretty much just circling around my airstrip.

If I'm flying cross country, in to controlled airspace, or an airport I'm not familiar with, I will. But this particular notam didn't show up when I looked at nearby airports.
Amen.

People’s unawareness of their own personification bias with LLMs is wild.
> the shares of "putin loses" is dirt cheap, but that doesn't mean much if he has a high chance of getting elected

This absolutely happens when you can make bets across multiple markets. But it doesn’t lead to every market with two outcomes drifting towards 50/50.

The reason election markets in competitive democracies tend towards 50/50 is because the outcome really isn’t that predictable.
Which season was that?

Asking because "my bow guy" from Youtube, that I learned bow making from was the winner of Alone season 8 and he's one of the guys that can't put on weight. He tried i.e. put on as much as he could but he knew he had a disadvantage against everyone else because he'd not just go in fat like most others.

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Clay Hayes if you want to google his channel. Does survival stuff, bow making and bow hunting / trad bow.

He won, because he knows his stuff, so while the guys that had just put on weight had a weight advantage, he had a knowledge and "actually knows how to survive off the land and has nothing to prove" attitude. While some others had their bow strings chewed up by mice, he immediately hung his bow up. Unlike others that built elaborate shelters and used up all their calories, he built a very simple a-frame hut that he knew how to build. Even though he had no proper clay he built a proper tiny oven to keep himself warm and smoke free inside. He had absolutely super bad luck with fishing. Essentially got nothing for lots of effort.

He was super lucky in that he actually found a deer and was able to shoot is with his trad bow, which is because he goes deer/elk hunting for real every single year with exactly that setup (see his youtube channel). He knew how to preserve said meat by smoking it and he knew how to protect it from the bear(s) in the area, which they weren't allowed to kill because this was filmed in BC Canada. He even had a super close encounter towards the end IIRC with a cougar but might have been the bear, not sure any more (not around his meat but out and about).

He almost gave up. Basically he wanted to give up at the next med-checkin because he essentially had no food but the smoked deer and they told him he won!
FreeBSD 13.5-Release Announcement
This is a thing already. "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community.", needless to say it applies to people and not bots, and does nothing to protect the "community". It's only going to get worse until people stop giving money to Google.

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1dasxoa/sign_in_to...
Try to use QWen. There has been a paper later that shows the influence of pre-training on the bump they get via RL.
Not if you used it to carry another one! It's just exoskeletons all the way down.
Okay. Step back a second.

You're telling me you block ads, but have to unblock ads to view your ad sales?

Is this in the DSM-V?
The challenge would be to move the film around multiple axis at a range that would be useful.

https://www.canon.com.cy/pro/infobank/image-stabilisation-le...

> Optical Image Stabilisation is effective with movement across a range of frequencies, so it can cope not only with simple camera shake (0.5Hz to 3Hz), but also with the engine vibrations encountered when shooting from a moving vehicle or helicopter (10Hz to 20Hz).
I agree economic downturns are painful for many - not saying I'm proud of the schadenfreude. Can't help it!
My experience in America is largely one of the following:

American person on social media (and, yes, I would claim HN is social media) claims "They never taught us this in school!!!" with many agreeing emphatically.

... and 90+% of the time I remember specifically being taught it. Most people don't remember much of their educations.
Breaking the digital lock to read the blu-ray disc was made illegal in Canada with the Copyright Modernization Act (2012). Since then the courts have said that act doesn't trump fair dealing which makes it a bit grey (I am not a lawyer) but not clearly legal.
> An unsolved problem is how to program a webbrowser in less than 20 KLOC.

Can you even specify a modern web browser in under 20k lines of English? Between the backward compatibility and huge multimedia APIs, including all the references, I'd be surprised.
It reports on a lot of different topics, but doesn't bring them together. It's like teaching a bunch of cooking techniques, but never giving a recipe.
We should all be using a community-designed open-source printer using environmentally safe ink or toner. I blame us for our laziness. Let HP be HP.
It wasn't a famine - it was a genocide
John Walker, the author of this and host of Fourmilab, passed away last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297185
Can confirm, had exchange student brother
Local shops don't generally expose you to malware.

The big deal was allegedly these small shops exposed you to viruses, but Walmart, Kroger, and Lowes did not.

Make it make sense.
Vivek Ramaswamy: Merit-Based Teacher Pay
Older iPhones maybe yes, but not one-year-old iPhones.
Unfortunately the Revolutions of 1848 were violently suppressed. The forces of order were able to exploit the differences between the political reformers and the social reformers.
The "moving goalposts" thing is typically "When AI can do this we will have AI" then AI does the thing and people say "no it's not AI because it can't do this other thing"

I agree entirely this is annoying.

This case is different because there is no claim that we don't have AI, nor a claim that once we get that we will have AI.

Instead it's a very specific discussion of a particular weakness of current AI systems (that few would disagree with) and some thoughts about a roadmap for progress.
Really? "Just following orders"? Did that work in Nuremberg?
https://archive.ph/W3JUR
> I don't think the officers ordering to fire cannons explicitly wanted those people to starve.

Yeah they wanted them to explode.
The only people who are offended by these biological facts about Testosterone are the progressive far-left woke types. You know, the ones who invented the term "Toxic Masculinity" which was at one time taken seriously, but is now considered quite comical.

Sure an overabundance of that molecule leads to "issues" (roid rage, etc), but a normal amount of it is why we crossed the oceans to find a new land, fought to defend ourselves in wars, landed on the moon, and every other thing that people with little drive would never have done. So I don't consider "maleness" a flaw, and anyone who does has a mental disorder.
FWIW, your quote doesn't support a food shortage being a cause since it says nothing about the relative change of total planted acreage.
There are other things we could do.

For instance:

Means test programs that offer financial assistance for business entities the same way we means test social safety net programs.

Stop allowing private entities to exploit natural resources on public land and keep the lion's share of the profits.
That is definitely not what the word prepare means in that sentence. Its more like the meaning in the phrase "prepare a meal".
> The ability to create novel solutions without a priori knowledge.

If you go by that then a lot of people (no offense) aren't intelligent. This includes many vastly successful or rich people.

So I disagree. There's a lot of ways to be intelligent. Not just the research and scientific type.
I spent some times in Ireland and Northern Ireland recently. What the locals told me about the famine were:

- Most land were controlled by large land owners. Most peasants had very small farm land, which couldn't feed the people if normal crops were planted so they had to plant the higher yield potato to have enough food. When the disease wiped out the potato crop, most people went without any food.

- The land controlled by the large land owners were planted with cash crops for export. They were unwilling to stop the export to help the locals.

- The ruling class consisted of large land owners and British transplants in the Northern Ireland after the conquering of Ireland by Britain could care less about the shortage of food. They actively hid the problem from the central government in Britain. The governor/duke/whoever tried to sweep the problem under the rug to avoid appearing as incompetent.

- When the central government in Britain learned of the famine, they acted too late and too little, unwilling to spend money to deal with the emergency. Britain at the time looked down on the Irish people in general.

This led to great animosity of the Irish people to Britain, driving the subsequent independent movements.

Fun fact, about 10% of the U.S. population are of Irish descent, due to massive immigration from Ireland in the following years after the famine.

Edit: Just looked up the Irish population in U.S., about 11%. https://uscanadainfo.com/irish-ancestry-in-america/
I've never heard this, and I doubt many others have. Feels like this level of word policing is digging up long forgotten previous uses which don't have any relevance today.
Is there anything preventing the creation of an independent marketplace for chromium extensions?

I haven't used Chrome itself in years, but have had a hard time giving up Chromium-based browsers due to the rendering performance. It's always felt weird that the only way of getting extensions on these browsers was via the Chrome Web Store.

If there are viable alternatives I've not heard of, I hope folks let me know.
Thanks - I hadn't realised there isn't even some minimal form you can submit and get generic responses on. I just tested the recovery process (https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery).

If you don't have enough information for them to reset, Google just provide links to instructions to not be locked out in future, and to create a new account.
In France this really depends, today, on the teacher.

When I was a kid in the 80s colonization was very lightly mentioned, mostly in the vontext of punitive comonies quch as Guyana.

Otherwise these territories were shown to children in mainland France as normal departments.

Today it is different. Colonies are part of the cirriculum but teachers have more leeway in appproching the topic. One of my children had the "we are genocide makers" version, when the other one was "colonization was a blessing for them" (I am overdrawing the picture)
"Conspiracy"? There's only one dominant player, you don't need a conspiracy for that. Just Google abusing its massive power.
thanks! appreciate the response. I do think they probably have valid concerns, and I absolutely trust them.

The frustrating part for me is why wait till the last possible minute? why avoid talking about this until it's too late? I would have loved to have the chance to design it better upfront, or at least have a conversation about it.

It's possible they're overwhelmed with work, it's also possible that I'm making the deadline a bigger deal than it should be.

Your response was super helpful to think about this, thank you.
it's in TFA - "bulldog pistols" and "bulldozer" rifles or whatever. bulldog -> smaller -> bullpup.

if there's some other etymology i'd be curious how convoluted it is, since this makes practical sense. Sorry i have no more information than that.