skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got about a third of the way through the article and gave up. If there's anything "top notch" in that mess it's certainly not in that portion of the piece.
It’s so depressing to read that one proposed mission for this plane is…monitoring oil spills.
Ah yes I see. Mine was read-only, so no need for complex stuff.
Upvote for interesting! I'll probably read it.

But Nature. And "but Magueijo", who is a bit of a crank in his own right (FTL, VLS), and who seems like a sour dude: per WP: "In [his] book, Magueijo described British culture as the "most rotten societies in the world"." A real hatchet job!

Perimeter gives a home to people who would otherwise have difficulty finding funding. Most will fail. But then...

Einstein could never have got a grant for his "annus mirabilis". And probably not even one to fund his GR work.
Convis: Kubernetes Visibility Using eBPF
The Foundation uses the longer name when being formal, but regularly includes the Economics Prize as a 'Nobel Prize' in headers & lists - such as their top-level menu 'Nobel Prizes' (which includes the 'Prize in Economic Sciences'), and their master list of 'Nobel Prize laureates'.

So headlines calling it a 'Nobel' match the Nobel Foundation's usage in similar summary/header contexts.
"You didn't build that" is as naive as "all taxes are theft" no? As important property rights are so is working together. No one human kills a lion or works a farm no?
I've got my eye on the upcoming Orion Browser (macOS only). Built on Webkit, privacy focused.

https://browser.kagi.com/
> Western social apps also rely much more heavily on advertising revenue.

I’m surprised this is only mentioned in passing, as it most certainly relates to the problem of “over-attributing how people behave on a social app to their innate nature”.

To paraphrase, perhaps the single most important influence on users’ behavior in social media is platforms’ existential requirement to generate ad revenue from it?

The author mostly misses this factor in favor of overthinking what technically is its consequences. Seems blindingly obvious that such a business model would shape everything from high-level design to implementation to strategy—all that causes social media dynamics to be what they are.
Scoop was designed to be able to work without admin rights, keeping everything in the user's directory. Which is good for users, but not really for system administrators who don't want six versions of Teams or whatever out of sync on the system. (which is a bad example, because Teams does that anyway even if you use the system-wide installer. I digress.)
And yet they're cooperating with the government all the same. Literally just marketing...

With Google, you at least know what to expect. How many promises has Apple broken now?
But for example this week electricity prices are very high, and yet it's somewhat windy. Something like 4GW plus or minus of wind power over the weekend. Not enough that the high price of gas doesn't dictate the market price of electricity, but enough that a clawback of £100 per MWh (not at all unlikely with current prices) would be something like £20M to the exchequer.

> we can expect high electricity prices to coincide more and more with times when renewables are producing very little power and low prices with times when they're producing lots of it.

Yes to some extent that's true, and we should expect demand management to play a big role in reducing the impact on ordinary households. Alec Watson (Technology Connections) did a video about how his home is set (in summer) to cool over night when power is cheap, so he wakes up in a cold but not yet uncomfortably so house, and during the day the cooling is off, so it gets warmer but unless the day is especially miserable it still isn't actually hot inside until the evening, at which point electricity is cheaper again and it begins cooling back down. This way he gets air-conditioning, in a climate where it's not entirely essential but certainly desirable, yet doesn't pay peak prices for it like his neighbours. Imagine if more people did that!

The UK could use a lot more storage. What it has is mostly black start capacity re-purposed as normal storage, but it is a bit short on non-picturesque mountains to modify. It also, of course, decided it didn't want to be part of the EU, where there's an entire continent of renewable energy sources to trade with, several hours difference in dawn time and considerable variation in weather - the UK is still connected to their grid with several Gigawatts of ties but now trades as an outsider.
The Open Source Ecology designs have always struck me as a great way of losing a limb.
> Well that clearly doesn't seem to be working.

Those "privacy score cards" for apps on both iOS and Android, filled out for 1st to 3rd party apps? GDPR in action.

The ability to reject tracking (which might cost money for a subscription or something - which will actually be tracking-free, instead of earning on both ends of the market, by selling a subscription _and_ tracking the hell out of their customers)? GDPR in action.

There are some dark patterns around the cookie consent popups, but it's up to people to report them, there's no EU privacy police squad digging up these cases on their own. There are only so many hours Max Schrems can spend every day (it's rumored to be 24hs or less, except maybe for one day a year) on running his non-profit to do that for you, me and everybody.

That stuff has ramp-up time, and as mentioned, the goal is compliance, not collecting fees. As practices _under GDPR_ are becoming established, and stuff went through court a few times, I'd expect schedules for compliance to shorten.

It would be a PR disaster for all things privacy if DPAs were to go all in on some case (taking 4% of global annual revenue), then losing the case in court. Given how many media companies are big in advertising and surveillance tech as well (with media mostly existing to attract eyeballs for their "real" business[0]), there'd be no end to the assault on privacy. Rather take it slow.

[0] e.g. https://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/business-insider-buyer-ax... "Adblock Plus said Axel Springer’s lawyers asserted that “The core business of the plaintiff is to deliver ads to its visitors. Journalistic content is just a vehicle to get readers to view the ads.”"
This article is from March - maybe that should be in the title?
This is just a political assault by the wokistan to infiltrate and dominate all aspects of software.

They already started this a long time ago with the "Linux Foundation". Anything with 'foundation' in it is meant to exert political control by those who can't code.

They are very up front about this too - go look at Steve's twitter. He 100% supports violence to obtain control.
can you explain how you are hashing the video? i took a quick look at the github and don't see details...
Yes. It is normal to have some process or agreement in place to regularly talk about the past and future, including raises/bonuses. Every three two twelve months seems sensible to me depending on circumstances.
Nokia launches first off-the-shelf industrial edge compute for enterprises
>For language models, does large = good?

The short answer is yes, the long answer is it's complicated.

You could actually think of these models as a type of indexer because, at their heart, what they are doing is memorizing the training data and storing it in such a way that incomplete samples can be used as keys to extract complete samples. The magic happens because the models themselves (even the 100+ billion parameter ones) are nowhere near complex enough to actually store all of these possible key value pairs. Instead, the model has to compress its representation of the data which leads to generalization. Larger models can model more complexities which leads to better performance as long as your training dataset is sufficiently large and varied.
> Cost of living is a comically facile argument as there’s huge swaths of rural America that are extremely cheap to live in. Especially as a digital worker.

I do not see why it is comically facile to not want to leave in a cheaper place. Everyone has their preferences, and some may choose to prioritize raising children in a certain location over having children at all.
Trump Shock is not a partisan issue. People on both sides of the aisle have been disgusted by his personal traits to the point that they are blind to the positive things that came from his reign.

Note that this is a nonpartisan comment.
> Why we're giving such massive tax breaks to the wealthy is beyond me.

Is this not obvious? In a mostly unregulated capitalist economy, wealthy have the keys to the kingdom.
> change priorities in math education to better meet modern needs.

Would those be the needs of the Eloi? Math remains the underpinning of everything that enhances life in the modern world. Blissfully regarding it with disdain doesn't change that.
I moved from selenium to playwright. It has a pleasant API and things just works our of box. I ran into odd problems with selenium before, especially when waiting for a specific element. Selenium didn't register it, but I could see it load.

It was uncharacteristic of me, because I tend to use boring, older technologies. But this gamble paid off for me.

https://playwright.dev/
>when I became a dad, I took 7 months of paid parental leave. The mom took 5 months.

That is pretty nice. I get the sense that EU programmers though are living the life of a peasant, small apartments, driving old clunkers, not being able to take lavish vacations.

All the opposite is true for most senior SWEs in america, even those of us (like myself) who never worked at a FAANG or had stock options pay out. I'm talking large luxury houses, able to afford housekeepers/nannies, money to take luxury vacations. Is that really true of EU SWEs too? Or comparable?
What's the benefit over something like a weather balloon?

Pretty interesting thought, tape a few hundred micro SD cards to it and you've got some impressive bandwidth.
Violet is even shorter wavelength than blue, so it's scatered more than blue, but we see blue because our eyes "trick" us ;)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2017/01/11/earth...
Clearview scraped '10bn' selfies for facial recognition
DataStax Extends Stargate with GraphQL
Fair enough. IdenTrust, DigiCert, and formerly Verisign also had these "ultimately-chained-to-public" roots (The DST root by IdenTrust is not just used by Let's Encrypt^ but also by private companies like (previously) Visa.) Now, I only see cross-signs between established CAs and new CAs (which in all cases that I knew of has already passed Mozilla's (relatively) strict review at the time of cross-sign). I'm pretty sure GMO-GlobalSign no longer offer these products, they now migrated this into an unaudited* private root (kind-of wish to improve this and provide per-organisation roots... but DigiCert is also guilty of this one root for all aproach so I don't know).

* At least externally. I'm pretty sure they still conduct internal audits though.

^ Still in use up to 2024 due to a weird quirk on how Android manages certificate chaining, even though DST Root CA X3 is now expired.
It would be nice to list a source. If you start an argument with "once again" it sounds more like you are fitting your theory on top of the new data point, rather than using the new data point to support a theory.
I found this 13 min explanation very helpful in understanding backpropagation (https://youtu.be/c36lUUr864M?t=2520).

First he explains the necessary concepts:

1) Chain Rule

2) Computational Graph

Then he explains backpropagation in these three steps (first in general and then with examples):

1) Forward pass: Compute loss

2) Compute local gradients

3) Backward pass: Compute dLoss/dWeights using the Chain Rule
woosh!

I can never work out whether there's an in-joke on HN where everyone pretends that they don't have a sense of humor, or whether the truth is a less favorable statement about the HN community. HN is great, but this thread is an example of where it doesn't do so well, since TFA is inherently humorous, and it's not possible to respond to it from an entirely humorless position.
A normal, safe level of calorie restriction in the range of 500 kcal/day will not cause your body to burn significantly less. However as you lose weight your resting metabolic rate will decline just because you have less tissue to keep alive and that takes less energy.
I love my overengineered web site / playground. Yes, I hid a text adventure in the site header. Yes, it is full of stuff that no-one will care about. It's my art and my passion.

I put all my cool code there and I over engineer it to death. It's awesome - it's fun - it's what you should do if you love coding. Guess what - I also have a table full of electronic projects, I've made unfinished games, I've done hackathons, it's great and we should embrace that.

Perhaps Kent Dobbs likes experimenting with new technology and trying new stuff. Perhaps his own personal web site is a place where he can do whatever he wants.

If you criticize him for that... well let's just say, I doubt your ability to code - and you are banned from my nerd club. If you don't take joy in an overengineered personal web site - then you are doing it wrong.

Seriously, speed runners spend months trying to save milliseconds on a mario speed run and you want to whine about a software engineer taking joy in his craft...

Ok, that's my rant.

I support freedom, I support the free web, I support the proliferation of code and over-engineered solutions.
Did you reply to the wrong post? My post doesn't regard math as a whole one way or the other, blissfully or otherwise. I have no idea what Eloi is.
It's an extremely simple idea, but not quite a tautology. It's a necessary idea for debunking the worst of the fad diets. The second-order effects you allude to as the "interesting questions" are helpful for understanding things like how one diet can be easier to adhere to than another, or why the calorie counts on nutrition labels aren't 100% accurate in all circumstances, but the basic calories in/calories out idea still explains weight gain vs loss in a quantitative way.
Like always, Eugene blows my mind.

I don't have a lot to add in commentary, but almost every time I read one of his essays, I learn something.

Here are some particularly insightful snippets from the article.

> A higher fidelity social product would automatically nip and tuck our social graphs over time as they observed our interaction patterns.

YES! I remember reading about someone advocating for an app to make unfollowing easy (daily, present someone on a social network and if you swiped right, unfollow them). But it'd be even better if the network did it; they have the data, after all.

> Twitter favors pure play Twitter accounts that focus on one niche.

This so much. And it's one of the reasons I struggle with Twitter.

> First, [TikTok] runs videos through one of the most terrifying, vicious quality filters known to man: a panel of a few hundred largely Gen Z users.

LOL.

> TikTok is an interest graph built as an interest graph.

Note that the entire article is built around the concept that western social media companies have used the social graph as a proxy for the content graph, to their detriment.

> It's no surprise that many tech companies install Slack and then suddenly find themselves, shortly thereafter, dealing with employee uprisings. When you rewire the communications topology of any group, you alter the dynamic among the members.

Shout it from the rooftops!

> [On linkedin:] It turns out if you map out the professional graph, not just today but also across long temporal and organizational dimensions, recruiters will pay a lot of money to traverse it.

A friend calls LinkedIn "a rolodex that someone else keeps up to date". I don't think we've seen the peak of LI's value. Such a smart acquisition by MS.
I’ve always wondered whether annoying videos (or rather, thumbnails) were necessary as part of making us notice the upsides.
Ask HN: How does bring your own device work at your company?
I work at a small company with many international employees. Today we are shipping them laptops. Most of our software is now on software as a service. But we still have onedrive and everyone is still knee deep in Excel. What is the next step that needs to be done so our employees can be secure without a company issued laptop?
I worked on a satellite imaging startup. For this kind of stuff usually oil and gas and large scale agriculture are the first ones to show interest. They don't need great resolution or revisit times and their assets span over very big areas so monitoring from the ground/sea or with small drones is really expensive.
>I believe it was a mistake that it wasn't, and it was quickly made opt-in.

Sure it wasn't. And if you think having Mozilla getting paid for their default search worse than trying to profit off affiliate marketing, we really have different views on the world.

>As far as I know that's a lie, did they ever replace ads with blocked ads? Brave ads are text notifications, not banner ads.

That's still hypocrite. You block off every ads on the internet, but still display your own. Your business model is still based on the "watchtime" but you forbid actual content creators to benefit from it. It was the same thing with adblock plus. Having a stance against ads is one thing, relying on them while blocking the whole internet of their revenue is a dick move.

>Which marketing campaign, how are they luring, how are terms ambiguous, please expand.

They accept donations for creators without their consent. It is now clear on the module when a creator has no account yet to receive the tips but at launch it wasn't the case. They lured users into donating and used this money to contact creators and try to leverage the generosity of their community to bring them on board. That's quite a low growth hacking tactic.

Don't worry about my consistency, I think I'm alright.
If you're capable of building one of these, I imagine rigging up a windshield and some lighting shouldn't be too hard.
It seems provocative, but it wasn't clear what the graduation requirement was for basic financial literacy, logical reasoning, negotiation, management and leadership, legal and civic government literacy, some basic actuarial, economics knowledge, and other things that would improve life outcomes for every student. If those were included, this would be a less polarizing story.
That seems very subjective why do you think that?
Facebook and Google’s new plan? Own the internet
You have no clue. The EU is an illegitimate, antidemocratic, aggressive, power hungry entity that will destroy anything in its path, in particular the sovereignty of countries and civilians. One out of a million legislations is sensible, the rest is colonialist garbage.
Speaking of budget, it'd probably be possible to save quite a lot of money on silicone by using a different, cheaper material as the "core" of the toy.
As long as the surface isn't exposed, it doesn't matter if it's sterile or not, all it needs is to be sufficiently durable and flexible for your needs.
if I use Mastodon, is there a way I can re-toot that?
I don't see this is a contradiction when you chemically alter someone's calories out by messing with their metabolism.

But sure, we can rephrase CICO in a way that's more precise. For any person with a given diet there exists a caloric intake where they will lose weight. Or as a one liner: "if you're not losing weight, you can always eat less until you do."
Another way to see how useless "calories in, calories out" is, is to consider the advice "grams in, grams out". The law of conservation of mass is as valid as the conservation of energy, so, why calories and not grams?
Not all weights are born equal, different paradigms allow more parameters while being less parameter-efficient, e.g. https://openreview.net/forum?id=TXqemS7XEH
And many people choose to ignore that number parsing issues can happen in XML too.
FWIW this is how Homebrew, the most widely used package manager on macOS, does it. As an example, check out the 'formula' for installing Zoom: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...

I used to maintain a few packages and it was pretty dang easy to publish, test, vet, and distribute this way. Everything else is in Git, why not this, too?
Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
Any crap software job is better than a crap retail, crap food service or crap call center job. You made the right move, and I am sure even a crap $30k a year software dev job paid dividends in experience. Coming right out of high school you did the right thing
> Every calorie ingested needs to be accounted for, either through work, waste, or storage.

What people are arguing on here is that, depending on the type of food - for a given amount of work - will the remaining calories be converted to storage or waste ?

You can loose weight with a higher calories intake, even if your work stays the same, as long as your waste grows comparatively higher.

And their point is that, in that sense, there is a difference according to the type of food and the individual. Finding an efficient weight loss diet means finding a type of food that you enjoy eating, and gives a high satiety feeling and has a low storage/waste ratio. It's not always easy.
> There is not a single state where cannabis is legal, there are only states that have decided they won't enforce federal law.

The feds don't really enforce it either. Is there a state the feds have sanctioned over legalization? They even collect federal tax dollars on the businesses selling these "illegal" products. Unless a law is actually enforced, it's just words on paper.
I think of 'calories out' as including all the the what, how, where, etc. I think 'calories in calories out' is true, but I think often only things like exercise and BMR are considered in the sum of the out.
If you only look at it as pure loss, which would be wrong, WhatsApp (Facebook) most likely made a lot more money (and will continue to so) with the data, than they were fined.
This isn't just some list someone created once and done. I've been following it for a while and it gets updated regularly every few months with new submissions.

I'd recommend you to follow the repo too if you want to keep up to date.
Facebook never worked that way for me, and I always assumed the explanation given by the article is the reason. The social connections I had on Facebook (family, old classmates, wife's friends, etc.) had virtually no overlapping interests with me. On Twitter I choose whom to follow, and on YouTube I choose which channels to subscribe to. The problem with Facebook for me was that it was too warped by social obligations. An old friend from high school sends me a friend request, and his parents have been talking with my parents about how he isn't doing great, eh, easiest to accept it. Oh, shit, they weren't kidding about him not doing great, and he's consoling himself with some weird ideas.

Twitter for me is 98% non-personal. YouTube is completely impersonal. No social interaction == much better fit to my interests.
It seems like nowhere will just give you a raise because it's the right thing, valuation-wise. You basically have to threaten to leave or something. My inflation adjusted increase over 10 years with one promotion (10%) and a masters degree (9%) has been 22%.