skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being as we're in town and there are laws against letting the cat roam free, it would more be a discussion of your cat is chasing birds on my property. Do something about it.
You know, I have in fact heard this sort of thing all my life and I used to believe it too. But now I hear stories of Liberals who perform satanic rituals while they drink the blood of children or torture them in basements of pizza parlors that don't actually have basements, and I'm thinking some of those old stories might not be 100% on the level. Certainly there was some scalping going on back then, but the elaborate torture stories sure sound like something one ethnic group might say while de-humanizing another.

I've also heard that a lot of the medieval torture devices are actually just Victorian inventions made up for gawks which sounds plausible; you don't really need elaborate works of ironmongery to torture people when the time-honored methods of beating the shit out of them with fists or clubs or various forms of water torture seem quite effective.
Not true nowadays, everyone uses a bouncer. You're lucky if it automatically marks them as "away" when they aren't connected to it.
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> It doesn’t go out and google for reference material based on the prompt.

And note that even if it did (which is definitely architecturally possible given progress in retrieval and demos like WebGPT), it still wouldn't necessarily be 'copying', in the goalpost-moving excuse.

Facebook has a neat diffusion model which uses retrieval on a dataset of images for generation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02849#facebook You can see the exemplars it uses: they both greatly improve the quality of generated samples, but also don't look that much like the generated sample.
> anyone can choose any racial identity they like

How did that go for Rachel Dolezal?
There’s hardly any market for Zig and Nim though.
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I came across this on Twitter. I realize it might just be a marketing ploy by Microacquire, but I still find events like these (such as Ludum Dare) that impose some kind of a restriction inspiring.
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Exactly the same argument made about Lisp.

I think it would be easier for a child to parse Lisp with rainbow parens than learn all those rules of order of operation most students find painful.
A purchase is a well defined noun, and this thing's UI was written by a lawyer that's paid to interpret US tax code.

I'm 90% sure the author will end up with a $25 bond. There's a 10% chance it won't actually cancel the $9975 purchase, due to races between the probably bolted on email part and the thing that reconciles all the transactions by scanning their (emulated?) tape drive at night.

Either way, it's pretty clearly a bug in the server implementation (unless this behavior is accidentally required by law, which wouldn't surprise me either...)
I wonder how effective it would be simply to count vowels mod 2. Much faster to calculate, at least for me.
Would it be feasible to lower the hiring bar and set things up so that your company can use some of those plentiful, less experienced, less expensive developers to do some of the straightforward gruntwork that comes with any project? I suppose that's harder to do with Python than it would be with a statically typed mainstream language like Go or Java, since a static type system provides another way of guarding against mistakes. But maybe Python with enforced type annotations as part of the CI process would be good enough.
Amazon's desire to sell a device for less than it costs to make is not our problem. Computational disenfranchisement is wrong, and technical measures to create disenfranchisement should be considered contrary to the public good the same way as many other abusive relationships are.
I'll have to look into those! I don't want to be that dick neighbor calling the humane society on them, but they're also being the dick neighbor letting their cat run loose.

We're 2 blocks off of a main road and people drive like idiots down our street. It's not a great place for a cat to roam.
I don't think canon status has anything to do with legal obligations. at least I really hope it doesn't; that would be a crazy legal mechanism. the book in question would probably be considered canon anyway. novelizations of the films are only one step below the films themselves in canon status.
Oh for sure, I don't think what I'm suggesting is a solution in any way for how you decide what's most important. But a lot of times, "throw everything on the roadmap / backlog" is really a non-solution in disguise - rather than making tough decisions about what's most important, the answer becomes "everything".
Are there services that are at that "tasteful spot" now? Examples would be helpful!
AVX-512 is an elegant, powerful, flexible set of masked vector instructions that is useful for many purposes. For example, low-cost neural net inference (https://NN-512.com). To suggest that Intel and AMD should instead make "existing REPB prefixes a lot faster" is missing the big picture. The masked compression instructions (one of which is used in Lemire's article) are endlessly useful, not just for stripping spaces out of a string!
Ask HN: Why do apps use scheme as a scripting language instead of Python?
Don’t a lot more users know Python?
> People might be for it if they discover political candidates can outsource social media campaigns to lower-wage countries,

You think Americans are only unconcerned about campaign financing because they think they are going to get a job from the out of control spending?
Earning interest from whom? It's the US treasury, in the end they are the one that create money out of thin air. They don't need to swindle a few bucks here and there to invest in short term schemes.
I guess the most difficult part is to get in the niche. Someone accidentally hit niche and discovers a whole new world.
Go doesn't have a one-page spec, so what do you expect the GP to point to? You are proving his point.
Ask HN: Moving consulting work and SaaS income from sole trader to UK Ltd?
What's the practical process to create an Ltd company in the UK and move the above into it so there's a clear personal/business separation? Legally and also domain/email sign up and transfer? What did you do here and what do you wish you knew at the time?

Most guides I've found talk about transferring property and not a single mention of apps, logins, emails, domains or code.

So I make ~£30K/year doing solo consultancy work as a sole trader and ~£20K/year from an unrelated SaaS I sell (the SaaS requires maybe 1 day of work a month for email support and bug fixing) in the UK. I want to move from sole trader to Ltd to limit my liability and to be more flexible about when I can take the income. I use a web domain like myname.com for the consulting and myapp.com for the app.

1. How do I transfer the app into the Ltd? I found mentions of deeds of assignment, goodwill valuations and selling your app to the company (where does the money come from?). And then I need to change the payment details for my app (I use Fastspring) to send all future payments to my Ltd business account, add the Ltd name to the myapp.com website terms, move the Git repo and domain name and hosting to an account owned by the Ltd, and I'm done?

2. I'd like to keep using myname.com/email@myname.com for my consulting work as I am the brand here and I like the domain name. Is this a hopeless idea when I already have so many personal accounts/shopping/websites accounts, and business correspondence linked to it? Or it's not a problem as long as the contract is clear the consulting work is being signed to the Ltd and business payments/insurance/accounting stuff stays on an email address only used by the Ltd? I can't think of a business name right now and want limited liability soon. I think I'm just going to register My Name Ltd as the name for now, register mynameltd@gmail.com for all business related sign ups, and think about a custom name and domain later.

4. Are there any good UK tech centric guides online about this? Or advice services? I feel stuck and that most people I talk to won't understand what a SaaS is.

(I'll talk to a lawyer and accountant but I want some base knowledge to question what they recommend. I'm worried I'll only get cookie cutter advice. UK accountant/lawyer recommendations welcome.)
Does it work? Does it fill a niche that can’t otherwise be filled and is considered important?

If so, it’s usually considered ethically acceptable.

See: land mines, white phosphorus, etc.

Chemical and biological weapons are in the few exceptions, and that is generally because they are very difficult to control and use without hurting your own troops as much or more.
Question is do you need personalized financial advice? Or would covering the basics be enough? And here I'm talking about average people with somewhat middle or upper-middle class income.
A YouTuber is promoting DDoS attacks on Russia – how legal is this?
Lol, I mean. I get it but you could just be running a raspberry pi in your local network and connecting to that, screen just keeps the process running even if you detach from it etc..

Sysadmin's do lot more stuff y'know
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Is there a reason xmpp/jabber isn't even in the running?
I don't want to jump straight to calling animal control. They live right next to us and I intend to live here a long while. Someone else mentioned a device to make it hard to catch birds, which sounds like a good compromise if they insist on letting the cat out.
Anecdotally I always fall asleep within 15 mins, usually much sooner so this is an individual decision.
Yeah, in an ideal world lichess would get so many donations they'd buy chess.com, make it free, and sponsor the same content creators :)
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Yeah but even then most people cap the repeats if they’re faking. If 100 people have to roll 10 random numbers, it is very likely some people will have 3-4 in a row of the same number. It’s less likely none will. My brother in law teaches stats and he runs this scenario with a seminar he teaches. He then runs the results through a simple formula he built in excel and can ascertain who faked vs. did it for real with about 95% certainty IIRC. I love little games like that haha
> there aren’t alternate inflation calculations

But there are. Institutions such as the IMF also have their own economic measurements.
Seems straightforward to check something like LAION-400M's captions to see how often negations show up.

If it's simply a lack of data, that should be easy to fix. Given an image caption, every other caption is a relevant negation: 'a photo of a happy dog' is also not 'a photo of a sad cat', and can be turned into the caption 'a photo of a happy dog and not a photo of a sad cat'. So lots of obvious data augmentation and synthetic data approaches to apply there to boost negation.
I completely cut nytimes out of my life. I don't think I'm better informed, probably worse, just happier. Definitely happier.
I see comments like this all the time on these sorts of articles, and I have two criticisms:

First, although "AI exhibits racial bias due to biased training data" is far more accurate, I think it's perfectly acceptable to condense that to "AI is racist". Especially in the headline of an article that goes on to explain the issue in detail.

Second, I would say that even racist humans are racist because of bad training data, so if we're fine calling people racist, why not AI?
That's an amazing battery life.
I have a bit of a unique perspective. I lost two inches of height in high school, going from 6’ tall to 5’ 10”. I also lost two shoe sizes. Doctors didn’t take it seriously even though their own measurements showed it. It might be related to a brain injury that probably caused my low testosterone, as I’ve heard trans women can also lose height.

I’m not willing to go through that surgery to get it back, but if I were still single I’d be tempted. I miss it. To put it plainly, I felt more on top of the world - more confident.
You realize you're on a platform where moderators can arbitrarily boost or suppress a submission by adding or subtracting a large number of points?

You realize that companies ranging from small startups to GitHub run bots that scan for posts related to their companies and have staff manuals on coordinating a response on social media, including HN? Whether you realize it or not, likely every post about a company/product on HN is being manipulated and/or full of astroturfers.

Have you noticed that blog posts by a random startup nobody has heard of will get decently upvoted, just enough to stay on the first page for ~12 hours, despite there not really being anything novel or interesting about the post? A great example would be "securing SSH" posts that are just a half-assed re-write of an open source project's guide, where the 'author' didn't even bother to re-order tips.

Have you noticed that signing up for an account doesn't require a pulse? No captcha, no email verification, nothin'.

Have you noticed that this is a forum run by a venture capitalist firm? Ask yourself what their motivation is for keeping something like this running. If you think it's altruism...have you met a SV VCer?
> I have to edit the HTML every single time to remove "readonly" on that field

Couldn't you do that with a bookmarklet, so it would just take one click?
Ask HN: In terms of design, what is your favorite app or website?
I see a disclosure right at the very top. And an article adapted from a book, that most of us won't get around to reading, seems like a perfectly reasonable topic.

ADDED: I'm actually more inclined to read an article written by someone who did the research/put the effort into writing an entire book on a subject.
Wouldn't a better prompt be something like

> Click the button to roll the die

> (plausible dice roll animation is played)

> Try to guess the result

> (buttons labeled 1-6)

That way there's no confusion about how to interpret the instructions, it's just people trying to predict the results of an event they perceive to be random and fair.

When it asked me to create a "good" outcome, I didn't really know what it was expecting. If you roll a die 1000 times, the results are probably going to be evenly distributed, but if you only roll it ~12 times, the results could really be anything. Anyone who has played a board game can probably remember a time when it felt like the dice where loaded.

I felt like making the random numbers too perfect would make it obvious that they were picked by a human, so I purposefully picked a lot of duplicate numbers, and at the end it guessed that I was over 60 years old (I'm less than half of that...)
> implemented as a blockchain

Why?
Disney isn't arguing that there is a clause in these specific contracts that allows them to split liabilities and assets. They're arguing that they can do so generically, to any contract.

So being a big corporation with lots of lawyers wouldn't help - no matter what clauses they insert in a contract, they can be discarded as "liabilities".
I am a niche programmer too and make good money just like the author. My expertise is in customizing a software product made by a former employer.

The drawback though is that the job market is so small that you have to be prepared to move overseas to have more than a few companies to choose from.
Have you ever paid taxes in the US? The IRS loves creating scenarios that lead to them incorrectly holding big wads of your cash.
Quick question for HN people: Is there a instrument like a I bond that doesnt have a 10k limit?
> The final approach I've encountered is where research problems come from an external body.

For a good helping of the government research organizations, they hire academics and practitioners as Program Managers (PMs) who gather the experts in the field to come up with research programs, agendas, and seedling programs. Of course, the PMs have to sell areas to their higher ups too, but it does have some degree of dynamism and alignment with academia. The amount of resources that could be brought to bear on a problem is impressive.

I do wonder about this whole notion of “success” of research. Hundreds of years ago, wealth patrons sponsor the “researchers” of their times. Creative people found problems that interested them which sometimes led to unexpected results and new areas. I don’t think serendipity should be discounted.
I got this very similar one recently, and it’s pretty good, using it with an iPad mini: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P8YHKLF/

Also a Satechi R1 remote for page turning.
You could also write something like Linux's fakehwclock that writes device time to a file on shutdown and reads it on bootup. Your clock will skew more (shutdowns are supposedly 0 seconds in duration), but it would at least be monotonic.

Fakehwclock is cool for computers with no clock battery like raspberry pis. So you at least have a time from this century until clock sync
I disagree fully. This is not "Democracy". This is arbitrary little dictators pushing their little pet agenda forward (no matter how good in your example) over those that just want to be left alone. The same thing you're advocating is the same reason the landscape of regulation is currently such a mess.
It feels to me like humans need darkness more than other animals to sleep. I'm curious if this another excuse rather than a real issue.
Certainly, I begrudge the normalization of cruelty for short men and unattractive women. It’s not the first time people have been cruel, it certainly won’t be the last. In my social circles those exhibiting such cruelty would be quickly ostracized. Similarly if someone was racist. For that reason it’s not something I’ve had to face but I believe people when they tell me their experiences with it.
I feel like this when I need to think up a new project idea. What if this time I won't come up with anything? I wonder if that agony is an important part of the process. Maybe without it your subconscious wouldn't assign enough resources to solve the problem. I hope not.
Yeah, that's an unfortunate flaw in the above screed, and I appreciate you pointing it out. I do not mean that Native American cultures were or are some kind of fantasy elves or anything like that. Humans are humans.

I'm trying to point out the deeper currents that underlie the stuff the article is talking about. They touch on it but they don't cut to the bone.

I don't have time this morning to go into detail but the main points are:

1) The essence of state power is the ability of the king to command others to die for the state (often even before they reproduced!), this is almost entirely absent in Native American cultures. (At least in the ones we know about.) The Native view was that Europeans were not really free: they had to obey their kings.

2) There really was a serious problem with people preferring Native cultures to European cultures in the New World. Harsh measures were enacted.

3) Natives did not spontaneously adopt European cultures. Again, harsh measures were enacted.

4) Last but hardly least, Native cultures were integrated with ecological systems much more efficiently than European cultures. (This was almost certainly a major reason why Native life was generally more fun and easy than European life.)

In sum, the reasons why we are messed up in the heads about camping today go back pretty far, and tie in pretty deeply with the structure of our culture and society.

- - - -

I can't help but add that I believe there is a way to fashion a new kind of society that fuses elements of Eastern, Western, and Native American cultures with modern science and particularly ecology to, uh, make a really fun and easy way to live, but that's a whole 'nother story and it's a sunny Sunday morning, so it'll have to wait.
I readily believe that PHP devs struggle with anything more complex with Go, but that makes me question how people end up with the lack of will to learn and improve in this profession.
>”Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people, and directly benefited from slavery through donors after that: https://legacyofslavery.harvard.edu/report/introduction-and-.... $100 million is probably a drop in the bucket compared to how much of their endowment is directly traceable to donations from slave owners or those involved in the slave trade.”

I think this number is extraordinarily difficult to calculate but $100 million does not seem like a drop in the bucket number in this case. It is my understanding that the majority of the $50 something billion endowment was only gained in the last 100 years and a substantial portion of it is due to patents and shares in companies rather than from compounding interest on legacy funds or investments.

Ben Franklin set up a trust fund using the equivalent of $125,000 in todays dollars and after 200 years it was worth a relatively measly 2 million dollars.

My takeaway from this is that even compounding interest on investments or gains made during the era of chattel slavery in the United States do not seem to be worth nearly as much as modern day investments and valuations. Not that these should be dismissed, though. But even a modest tiny investment in some startup could end up being worth far more to Harvard’s endowment.
If you haven’t done something stupid like this a few times in your life, you ain’t living.

This is a perfect HN post because it combines terrible technology and “let’s see how it breaks.” Thanks OP, a delightful Sunday read.
Bootleg contents here we go.

That's not how Pay It Forward is supposed to work. =(
"How long does it take me to build an IRC bot" was my test for trying new languages for a long time.

You need to:

- open a TCP connection to a specific port and keep it open
- check for PING/PONG messages asynchronously and automatically
- parse a bunch of kinda-sorta RFC defined strings and parse them to a structure of some sort
- and if you want to be fancy, you can start storing all kinds of stuff what happens on channels and keep a in-memory state of everything and (try to) keep it in sync
- on a pro-level you need to be able to have multiple TCP connections open to multiple servers (different irc networks) and not mix up channel #hackernews on network A with #hackernews on network B
Previously known or associated with terms such as ETL or ELT or data warehousing or ... In my experience tends to be involved heavily with databases, data movement, data modelling. You might think of it in terms of the work that needs to be done before data analysis is possible. Though as with many things in data, labels are imprecise and considerable overlap.
I used xfig back in the day, but it always felt more like the tool I had than the one I wanted. It’s been a long while since I tried inkscape - I remember it more as a took for artists than for technical drawings.

These days my go to tool for technical diagrams is draw.io (aka diagrams.net). I tend to use the standalone version but appreciate that it’s available online with low friction and as a confluence plugin. Perhaps my favorite part is that you can create png files that are viewable anywhere but are also editable due to the source file being embedded in the png.
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> We believe that there are obvious responses that are candidates for removal that make the data more true. The researchers believe that you can only analyze the raw responses ... filtering any data would be tampering with the results

interestingly millikan was accused of removing observations from his oil drop study to reduce the error in the electron charge. (but from like 2% to 0.5%, both far better than previous uncertainties)
a) calm down

b) please read the article before complaining
Ignorance is bliss, then?
> "Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website."

I was interested in C++, not javascript.