MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keepamovin | 2025-05-11 05:51:46+00:00
It doesn't. But that is the GPs own projection when encountering this OPs work. It's the modern abuse of the scientific to insulate yourself from all things you cannot do or do not understand, or don't wish to face.

Like someone evaluating literature as if it's an academic paper. Hilarious. Just ego protection from things you don't wish to face. Carpe Diem! not "Scientific Blinkers" sold on amazon, $1 for a 10-pack. Wear it and you'll never be awed again!

Worship an idol of false objectivity, and demonize the subjective - to hide, when objective and subjective are both seeing and making from different points of view. But those trapped objectifying the world - an authoritarian abuse of science when science is observation - you're only harming yourself, and trying to turn your dynamic human-ness into a fixed robot!
by Veedrac | 2025-05-11 05:52:53+00:00
Fun fact, you can extend this logic to measure the upper limit for how discriminating your RNG's test is, by shuffling a 2^n long vector with a CSRPNG and testing that until failure the same way. When I tried this ~8y ago, I believe these tested about 2 bits better on PractRand than PCG for 32 bit outputs. Sadly it's not really plausible to run this algorithm for 64 bit outputs.

The main thing this knowledge is worth when designing RNGs is that it tells you how reasonable it is to 'lose' N bits. Eg. if you're 2 bits worse than PCG, you're about twice as much worse than ideal.
by scrubs | 2025-05-11 05:53:56+00:00
In 80s-1995 spc, tqm, lean engineering where a thing ... think demming award or Malcolm baldridge national award. That thinking deals squarely with the morass.

Unfortunately business management succumbs too easily to short term profit (b/c of a tunnel vision on shareholder return) and trendiness. There are people in fashion who say of business: geez you gotta stand for something for more than 10 minutes. Get some class!
by ryao | 2025-05-11 05:56:11+00:00
Your use of straw man arguments in response to a straightforward historical description is both inappropriate and condescending. You may think IBM’s executives were naïve, but that does not change the actual history of the IBM PC. IBM prioritized time-to-market by using off-the-shelf components and assumed their control of the BIOS would prevent compatible clones. That assumption was proven wrong when Compaq successfully did a clean-room implementation of the PC BIOS, without violating IBM’s IP. This is a well-documented part of computing history.
by heylook | 2025-05-11 05:57:22+00:00
Nope. Wholehearted rejection of literally every policy, executive order, layoff, lawsuit, impoundment, appointment that this technofascist wannabe tries to pull. The constitution spells out how he can accomplish his goals, and everything he's trying to do requires an act of congress, and there's been literally nothing. If he's so popular and such a visionary dealmaker, why can't he get literally any actual laws passed through a congress completely controlled by his party?
by gumboshoes | 2025-05-11 05:59:25+00:00
I suppose what is the main friction in this piece is the constant attribution of things to body or mind, as if they are independent, or as if cannot be both at once. A second friction is that I perceive the author has definitely learned to observe well, and has successfully learned to generalize based on past observations. But the author has difficulty moving from learned to explainable.
by raydiak | 2025-05-11 06:00:37+00:00
The lawsuit focuses specifically on search and search advertising. So the answer to your question is Google Search.

Note that a legal monopoly is not the same as the extreme simplification of "zero other options". "In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices, which is associated with unfair price raises." [1]

"In United States v. Google LLC, the federal government alleges that Google has unfairly hindered competition in the search market through anti-competitive deals with Apple as well as mobile carriers. The government alleges that, as a result of these practices, Google has accumulated control of around 88% of the domestic search engine market.

In doing so, the government alleges, Google has additionally monopolized the search advertising market at the expense of competing services. Per the government's estimation, Google has been able to accumulate control of over 70% of the search advertising market. As a result of lack of competition, Google has been able to over-charge advertisers versus what they would pay in a competitive environment." [2]

Statcounter seems to align quite closely with the government's assertion. [3] Extra creepily, it appears to be even a hair worse globally, where Bing is less used (not that I like Bing or MS either). [4] But there is no international framework I'm aware of to handle global-scale monopolies, so that's outside the scope of the suit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2... [3] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/un... [4] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
by rixed | 2025-05-11 06:00:44+00:00
I understand your concern I think, but still believe you are a bit harsh. In this case the author is not pretending to be always right, and seems to refrain from hard cut judgment based on those perceptions.

Also, it's impossible not to form a model of others based on all those visual and behavioral cues. Better trying to make it consciously than to let it happen unconsciously, no? I believe conscious thoughts that one tries to describe and understand have actually less agency on one's judgment.
by animal_spirits | 2025-05-11 06:01:59+00:00
True, these services are not and never were free, we pay for them with our data. I would say this is all fairly common knowledge, my parents who are not tech savvy understand this, and I genuinely don't believe people care enough. I know this trade off, my tech savvy friends and acquaintances know this and yet we continue to make this trade off because frankly I don't think many value their personal data at all, and I think that's why we say these services are "free" because we're not trading anything we find particularly valuable.
by sitkack | 2025-05-11 06:02:12+00:00
That is true of all of capitalism, that is true of 2 billion people on this wonderful planet that live on scraps. They didn't decide to be born in their condition any more than we ours.

One of the most detestable parts of Google are all the people with a smarmy self entitled sense of elitism. I had someone get off of a call, and they showed utter contempt for the customer, because in their words, "if they were smart enough they would work here, and every one wants to work here, therefor they are dumb and I shouldn't have to deal with stupid people" What a fucker.
by k310 | 2025-05-11 06:02:59+00:00
It's a confusing mix of national, regional, (European)interests, and personal power_trips/grift. Steady relationships have become subject to day to day transactional whims and sword rattling.

Two things stand out. First: The US cyber and military defense have been savaged and purged of loyal and expert people, practically begging an attack.

Second: WWIII has been going on for a while in the cyber realm, with major infrastructure here hacked, constant takeovers and ransoms paid, rehearsals of grid takedowns arguably in Europe and Bali (YMMV on this), billions in crypto stolen and recovered. Plus a ton of classified stuff we don't know about.

And with two chummy wannabe dictators, you never know if we are defending from Russia or leaving the barn door open.
by sureIy | 2025-05-11 06:07:01+00:00
"Easily" is temporary. There's already zero way to capture protected pixels on iOS. Cabled mirroring, screen casting, airplay, they're all blocked. Messaging apps are capitalizing on this with "screenshot protection for temporary media". Netflix has been doing it for ages. Jailbreak? Detected and blocked as "insecure device"

Maybe you can do it on not-iOS, until your insecure setup will be blocked by the server. Cat and mouse until there's 3 mice in the whole world.
by neerajsi | 2025-05-11 06:07:36+00:00
I once met a gate agent in the Maui airport. She looked at me and my pregnant wife and congratulated us on our upcoming baby boy. I asked her how she knew. She said it was the way we carried ourselves and looked at each other. Not sure what specifically she saw, but she told us if another couple she observed who were having a girl. She said the man looked like the type who didn't treat women that well, but who was clearly trying to be on his best behavior.

Most of the times situations are a complete cypher, but in more unisual cases when observing groups of people who know each other, you can tell how they feel from analyzing the behaviors.

This author is clearly in a privileged position in the wedding group. She's in the background with the specific job of looking at everyone and capturing their feelings. They don't try to hide their behavior or respond to her, and the usual western taboo against staring at strangers doesn't apply.

This was definitely a good read!
by raydiak | 2025-05-11 06:08:42+00:00
That's a fair point. If we saw a downward trend in google search usage in the last year or two, it might support your theory.

Whether AI and search are similar enough to call them competitors, at least right now, is highly debatable. I don't know about other people, but I for one have definitely not started asking chatbots questions instead of looking for informed, human-authored content.

EDIT: Note that I mean downward trend in total, not the percentages shown by statcounter. Statcounter does have a separate chatbot page though, if you're interested in that. Still doesn't answer your totally valid question of how many people are chatting instead of searching, though. Maybe Google or ChatGPT could tell us :)
by robertlagrant | 2025-05-11 06:09:14+00:00
> while selling other businesses a direct line to its customers' wallets

What does this mean?

> Even if you discount the effectiveness of ads (which seems foolish given how many people have so much staked on them working), the eye-watering prices Google charges for them get directly passed to the consumer in the form of higher prices.

But then...why is anyone buying them if they don't work? How do you run this experiment without Google in to show that hand-curated ads on TV etc would've been a better, cheaper way to do ads in the long run than automated ones?
by heylook | 2025-05-11 06:10:32+00:00
> You seem to be arguing that the second government touches anything then everything it does gets credited to the government funding column.

Absolutely not. This is an obvious bad faith interpretation of my comment.

> Either way the fact remains that the billions spent developing GPU's preceded the millions spent to use those GPUs for AI.

Again, you're just obviously completely factually wrong to anyone who has even a modicum of casual interest in the history of these technologies.

> Not sure what it has to do with polarization of the comment section. I assume it's just people seeking an opportunity to heap abuse on anything close to a representative of the evil "other side".

And one more time for the people in the back. Anyone with any amount of actual knowledge on the topic at hand can immediately dismiss your entire argument because it isn't based in anything resembling fact. It's just you wishing or hoping that it might be somewhere close to true. This is just that scene from Billy Madison: "Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
by xelxebar | 2025-05-11 06:11:22+00:00
Indeed! But haven't we now hypothesized dillydog here to be "a person who affords everyone a rich and deep inner life"? Or more provocatively, haven't we made a character judgement?

In the same way that we perform root cause analysis via guesses and validations, I think it's natural, and perhaps unavoidable, that we also make guesses as to a person's personality.

Of course, we usually call someone judgemental for making negative assessments, but I think it's important to allow a person whatever possibilities, regardless of moral judgement.

My read of the article is that the author ascribes negative traits without judgement and just as easily as positive ones. Heck, as I see it, big part of empathizing with someone is recognizing how all their conditions and traits are natural and operate similarly inside ourselves to one degree or another.

None of us chose to be the way we are in the situation we're in. Like, 3+1 dimensions and mostly Euclidean space. Who ordered that? Modus ponens?! Glaciation periods! All these deeply affect our day to day experience, obviously or not and at the behest of no one.
by scrubs | 2025-05-11 06:11:32+00:00
I am well aware how (to keep this short) that one's birth zipcode has a major bearing on outcomes. Some people don't have equal opportunity to good parents or schooling.

My family is an example. I'm the only one in my family with a uni degree. I paid for it. My father is the only one with a degree in his family. His father worked in copper mines. Still our family has made continual progress. My son is starting his masters in engineering. My better half had a degree.

Redistribution as a macro government policy is still not advisable. Government cannot allocate resources well however well intended. Think Bush junior and housing crisis; he wanted house ownership up.

Gov can deal with point problems: reduce cost of higher education (stop giving loans and grants to Harvard, yale), tell people what the expected roi on a degree is, tell people what other universities charge for the same degree (more is not always more), lower health care costs. Stop subsidizing corporate america. There I'd zelously advocate for gov involvement in addition to my other points
by _pdp_ | 2025-05-11 06:13:52+00:00
We also had to reverse engineer the SDKs because we couldn't find any good source of what Streamable HTTP really supposed to do and our big take away from this experiment was that MCP is an experiment.

Why would anyone want to write a non-scalable wrapper around a service that already is well documented using OpenAPI endpoints is beyond me.

Anyway, we ended up implementing it just because but I already know it is a mistake and a potential source of many hours wasted by our engineering team.
by sneak | 2025-05-11 06:14:18+00:00
i would imagine you could take an ekg for 1-2 seconds every 30 seconds and run it through a much more simple model to determine if it should take a longer sample, no?

rather than reducing the frequency of the sampling, dynamically adjust the duty cycle of when sampling is happening?

this is probably a dumb suggestion, it seems pretty obvious. for example the apple watch doesn’t do o2 monitoring continuously, just for some fraction of the time.

do you need to sample every second to detect heart attacks? don’t they continue to show up on an ekg for more than 30 seconds?
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-11 06:14:47+00:00
The question is, do we want this? Do we really want to support what these chips are doing to the spectrum? The mentioned Baofengs (or variants of them) for example are already banned in Germany [1] and Switzerland [2] due to their piss poor output harmonics filtering. If you look closely, even more reputable radios like Anytone blast out awful harmonics.

And IMHO that's a fundamental, unavoidable problem with the design of these chips. You can't just go and do everything on a single IC with barely any passives for filtering.

And that's ignoring the question if they actually got a proper license for the vocoder - AMBE is still under patent protection until end of this year AFAIK. Honestly I'd be surprised if they did, but it's yet another thing to be aware of when importing these chips...

[1] https://www.funkamateur.de/nachrichtendetails/items/vertrieb...

[2] https://uska.ch/bakom-liste-nicht-konforme-geraete/
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-11 06:15:54+00:00
> the notion of reasoning one’s way to God without faith or the Church was itself heretical

It still is, according to Catholicism, which says you must have reason and faith in the divine revelation it claims to preserve, which reveals some aspects of God and reality that we cannot reach or conclude with pure reason alone, such as the Blessed Virgin Mary's Immaculate Conception (BVMIC for short) or the Trinity (T for short).
by elric | 2025-05-11 06:18:11+00:00
> apple watch doesn’t do o2 monitoring continuously, just for some fraction of the time

Making it effectively useless? Unless the fraction of the time is multiple times per minute? E.g. in sleep apnea it's not uncommon for some desaturation to occur, triggering an arousal and deeper breaths, restoring saturation, only for the cycle to repeat 2 minutes later.

My Garmin has a similarly useless feature. I have no idea what the supposed benefit is. Maybe they hope that if they sample multiple nights they can detect some desaturation anyway and can get the user in for polysomnography? Might be worth it.
by ionwake | 2025-05-11 06:19:12+00:00
You are right in that I should not have been light hearted about using chatgpt, but it isn't noise , it is a rebuttal to your point that the size of the moon can be larger without it affecting the number of mass coronal ejections which can be studied, which is wrong.

You then changed your assertion for some odd reason (Ignoratio elenchi) have half through the discussion.

Weirdest thing is, I only typed out my comments to try and help you learn something new which is pretty ungrateful on your side, You also seemingly downvoted me too. A simple thanks man I didnt know that would of sufficed.

Quick go make another new throwaway account.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-05-11 06:22:03+00:00
several points here -

not sure if the same jurisdictions that are under the Computer Fraud Act have determined there is such a thing as "illegal scraping".

Does the Computer Fraud Act cover segfaulting an .exe file? I don't know, I don't live in the country that has it.

If The Computer Fraud act says it is ok to segfault an .exe which I highly doubt, is the organization doing this segfaulting as part of their protection against this supposed "illegal scraping" actually checking that the machines that they are segfaulting are all in jurisdictions that are under the Computer Fraud Act?

What happens if they segfault outside those jurisdictions and there are other laws that pertain there? I'm guessing it might happen they screwed then. Should have thought about that, being so clever.

Hey I get it, I am totally the kind of guy who might decide to segfault someone costing me a lot of money by crawling my site and ignoring my robots.txt. I'm vengeful like that. But I would accept hey what I am doing is probably illegal somewhere, too bad, I definitely wouldn't be going around arguing it was totally legal, and I would also be open to the possibility hey, this fight I'm jumping into might have some collateral damages - sucks to be them.

Everybody else here seems to be all righteous about how they can destroy people's shit in retaliation, and the people whose computers they are destroying might not even know they got a beef with you.

on edit: obviously once it got to courts or the media I would argue it was totally legal, ethical and the right thing to do to prevent these people from being able to attack other sites with their "illegal scraping" behavior. Because I don't win the fight if I get punished for winning. I'm just talking about keeping a clear view of what one is actually doing in the process of winning the fight.
by zabil | 2025-05-11 06:22:54+00:00
Like others mentioned, this is mostly an ethnic Kazakh tradition, not something specific to Kyrgyzstan. I visited the eagle festival in Ölgii (Mongolia) a year ago, a teenage girl won. They represent their village. There were a lot of participants, and the event ran long. It’s clearly grown in popularity, especially thanks to tourism, and doesn’t seem like a fading tradition anymore.
by szszrk | 2025-05-11 06:23:33+00:00
I guess that OP is referring to teams having this builettin-board style posts as a default. You post a post and others can react and comment. Which works like a mashup of old school forum and chat. It breaks chronology as newest updates are not on bottom or top.

It was even called teams. So teams had a special use section called... teams. They recently changed the logic. Chats and teams are in the same place, but the rest is still a thing.

I don't think there is a way to notify a chat. Like on slack or zoom or whatever. You can make a webhook to teams (ekhm, the post board thing), but not a chat. So you basically can't use Teams to make many small notifications because you just can't show them next to each other - it's always a big post.

My favorite "feature" of teams is the missclicks. If you use it folded, when chat list (or teams list...) autohides, some parts of the list takes to the chat you want, but some...click the element that was beneath whatever you clicked.

So you wanted to change a chat to some 1:1 with a friend, but you clicked some OneNote in a group chat.
by babyent | 2025-05-11 06:23:40+00:00
What if I told you..

Most of the actual groundwork has already been laid by passionate, actual engineers.

Today big tech is just a place people go to make money, and they don’t necessarily care about long term vision.

Mostly filled with the most uninspiring, forced-to-do-kumon types who have little “passion” for engineering or computers. Zero imagination and outside the box thinking. Just rote memorization to get in and then getting PIP’d or laid off to go do the same at the other big corps. TC or GTFO types.

Better luck at startups that are the Google’s of yesteryear.
by figoshi | 2025-05-11 06:24:39+00:00
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by Asraelite | 2025-05-11 06:25:06+00:00
In the game LittleBigPlanet you can send digital signals between logic gates which are internally 32-bit floats. Because of the game's mechanics, the most data you can reasonably store in them is 24 bits using just the mantissa.

There's a small community of me and a few other people that like to build computers in the game, kind of like the redstone computers in Minecraft. The most efficient architecture is a 24-bit word size, so it makes sense to split that in 4 and use 6 bits per character. Because of that, some of the computers in the game use the Apple II charset.
by userbinator | 2025-05-11 06:30:18+00:00
Some of the "proudly-open" laptops have open-source EC firmware. I don't have one and haven't looked deeply enough to know, but maybe they have these features sanely implemented there.

On the other hand, I'm not as optimistic about open-source BIOSes like Coreboot, whose only reason for existence seems to be "it's open-source!" --- that project has been around since the last century, yet still lacks any actual GUI/TUI for configuration, like any other BIOS has had since the late 80s.