skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swedish journalist Anders Rydell wrote an excellent book on this very subject, called 'Plundrarna' (The plunderers). Highly recommended if you are interested in the subject and find it translated into English (or read Swedish, of course!)

He explores both the thefts themselves and the legal and moral issues which have yet to be resolved.
They aren't but they probably won't appear user-side, the companies will most likely have to deal with their servers, fix those issues and the users can enjoy not thinking about that when they're trying PostgreSQL online.
Do they just fire at random during the day? Or in response to requests? I use a Google home and the worst it does is always prefer Google services to play podcasts etc.
I wonder what would happen if two states both laid claim to each others territory, Japan having occupied large parts of china in the 1930s?
So great to look at a thread from 2004 and see Josiah Carlson, one of my favorite guys ever.
life is cheap

Unless you want to retire in a western country, you still have to build up a decent pension. And to reduce costs later, it probably also a good idea to buy a house.
Ouch, that was too honest of him. Unprofessional.

I'm surprised that Google doesn't fetch the pages though. How can they decide not to index without fetching and examining the pages?
Why bookmark when you can "just" google? says google while paying wads of $$$ to browser vendors.
The quantization breakthrough here is amazing: can run ~200B parameter models on a single desktop machine.

But there are a few really interesting and new insights:

With transformer models above 6.7B parameters, a "phase shift" (their language) occurs where features (a dimension that "offers some weak explanation for the label") are shared between layers (in that all the layer agree which dimension to use for that feature).

This is really important because these key features are where the "knowledge" of the neural network is concentrated. The attention layers are very sparse ("Almost all sequence dimensions have zero probability.)

But the fully connected layers are very dense. It compares them to computer vision where fully connected layers can be pruned of 95% of the weights without serious impact, while a transformer after this 6.7B param point can only be pruned of 5% of the weights.

And this is really interesting:

> Transformers become more stable. If you treat the outlier features separately, I believe you can probably run and even train transformers in less than 8-bit precision without degradation in performance.

The possibility of training hundreds of billion param networks in 8-bit (or less!) precision would be a real breakthough.
> "make it someone else's problem after I die" seems like a pretty decent incentive not to sell.

I'm not sure it is a problem -- it just affects the true value of the property/asset.
well I don't really understand the system either, but there were multiple organizations making grants, so if you granted rights to all of them what rights would be left for you - that seems problematic. Also I suppose it was an expensive thing to do so they needed to get grants from multiple places, it seems like any recommendation to change this would be liable to have all sorts of side effects and, in the short term at least (5-10 years) likely to make the system function worse than it is now.

Perhaps there is some negotiation already going on for grant moneys, I would expect so if any grants were sizable, I mean if I am giving you a million dollars to study something I might say before hand these are my requirements and you would probably say yes or no, but maybe some grants were much less in size and involved things like use of facilities. In those cases it would be much more likely to change your value estimation of the grant and maybe refuse because not worth it, but if not worth it less stuff gets made and at some point we are the things working worse than before because some researchers would be like screw this academic career I can just go be a quant somewhere.

I mean as I understand it being a scientist is not exactly really rewarding https://www.zippia.com/scientist-jobs/salary/ so I would probably not want to do anything that made it potentially less (financially) rewarding because while people also do things for the good of humanity and so forth at some point when you're eating your Top Ramen with your disgusting room-mates maybe you might be tempted to change your life course for something with increased comfort.
Let's build a better open source alternative.
>better safety

Worse safety for everyone but the driver I would argue. Same for most heavier cars, such as SUVs.
Piano is a full body experience. It requires the feet to manage pedals and the back to ensure good posture. Not to mention the head which is driving the bus! It's not just the hands and lower arms that are coordinating. In fact I'd venture to say all instruments are full body experiences. Well, maybe not kazoo...

Singing is a wonderful skill and an amazingly unique instrument. Good singing requires awareness of the lungs, diaphragm, pelvis, butt and often (if you're like me and play guitar while doing it) the upper body.
Maybe it was challenging before, but honestly, getting enough iron and protein in a vegan diet today is pretty trivial. There are plant based alternatives to more or less everything these days.

I'm vegetarian,, and only for 3 or 4 years, but honestly there's nothing really missing at all for me.
Bring back the turbo button
would you buy a tool that creates automated report for you to make management consultant happy?
> There is a lot of potential in this area!

I imagine a role for being able to select between 3-4 enhancement personalities, just as one might wish to select between different self-driving personalities for different road and traffic conditions.

Also, given what I take to be a high proportion of non-use of hearing aids after a professional "fittting" or "tuning", I wonder what role for "at-home" A/B testing where a wearer can suggest better/worse between two different sets of adjustments.
Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
Recently I found myself looking for a place to store bookmarks. I used to love del.icio.us, but it's no longer around. What is its spiritual successor? I'm currently trying Pocket, which seems to be alright, but I wonder if there is anything else this community can recommend. The most important things for me would be integration with browsers, maybe a dedicated app, and mobile / desktop support.
I would be surprised if he actually sent his messages to his bank as evidence; as idk, I would think his behavior would be incriminating, and my responses would cast a positive light on me, but what do I know. It's frustrating to think that the bank would have seen those and sided with him still; and it's also frustrating to think that he alternatively didn't send the bank any evidence or messages at all and they still sided with him. These CC disputes are obviously so fallible.
The SaaS Playbook
Went to software update on my iPhone, it told 15.6.1 available as a security update, started downloading, it said 1 minute left.

For some reason it said an error occured when I went back to settings. And now, for the same 15.6.1's description it says:

"This update adds the ability to unlock with Face ID while wearing a mask on iPhone 12 and newer. This update also includes new emoji, a new voice option for Siri, and other features and bug fixes for your iPhone.
Some features may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices. For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222"

And it now says 45 minutes left. I'm already on 15.6 so the Face ID/Emoji is irrelevant since I already have them being 15.6, and it didn't say any of it when it first showed 15.6.1 as an update anyway.

Trying to make sense of the whole thing.
Yes I definitely feel that technical expertise and trust is needed in decision making for all projects.
In my current team, developers don't have much influence (lol um.. I mean just me as I'm the only 100% full stack) and we have non-technical leadership.
One problem is our tech leader isn't familiar with our programming language or development framework (worked with a different stack entirely).
Also, both the tech leader and the Scrum master do not trust us to make any API or front end changes that aren't listed on the sprint board. Everything must be decided during sprint planning for the two-week sprint.
So, if there's some code that obviously needs refactoring, or small code improvements (i.e. anything that's not on the board), every Pull Request is rejected.
What's that you say? "Create an explanatory task/story ahead of time, and mention it during planning?" Sorry, I've tried that many times and they were all de-prioritised and post-poned.
So, no trust both ways it seems! and now I'm ranting on HN

Edited: grammar
US and UK hugely benefit from massive immigration. They are going to grow their population, contrary to what is going to happen in most of the western world.

From 2016 to 2060, the US is expected to grow by ~80M people [0], even though a big chunk of that growth (45%) will be for people who are 65 or older.

[0]: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
Isn’t that just a private detective? That already exists
>Fun anecdote: right now, I have tagged my father-in-law with an AirTag while he is in town for his medical check-up. He is notorious for just taking off trying to find an audience to speak with, ever since the family barred him from accepting speaking invitations to conferences. Recently, we tracked him talking to a bunch of Bangladeshis at a hospital about why they should learn the basics of English.

you say it's a fun anecdote, but it reads like horror.
Have you heard of a small movement called organic farming? https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
It's not illegal, but if an artist does it, like deliberately copy another artist's style, as in more than a tribute but an attempt at carbon copy, that artist is almost shunned.

So the nonlinear diffusion systems out there are told by prompt to make what in the art world is considered to be very rude.
US companies are silently escaping China to limit effects of possible tariffs or even war. Imho this is a strategic move to ensure future.
Nice summary and also my view.

I like to say that the whole point in the estimates is to set expectations. At that point a discussion is had with the stake holders.

If you know the velocity of the team, because it’s actually been measured (a rare thing in my experience), you will have a good idea on what is actually possible within a time frame.
Your words honestly give me hope that there's a better place to work! lol
Others have commented that Chrome does this already.

Edge also does all or almost all these things. Bookmarks bar might be disabled by default, but iirc it is a right-click away, and only has to be configured once.

Safari also supports everything here. The “Tab Groups” feature in combination with the bookmarks bar (which safari also supports) makes it super easy to maintain persistent tab sets or just keep certain things separate (the research rabbit hole use case). Tab groups persist between sessions and sync across devices.

I think safari tab groups are intuitive, efficient (no performance impact that I can see), and super prominent.
This sounds like a perfect job for jina.ai -> sharding, redudancy, automatic up- and down scaling, security features and most importantly: flexibility to use and switch whatever (vector) database
https://jina.ai/
> You've fallen victim to presentism, the cognitive bias of assuming the past was like the present.

Is pointing out something in the past as not like my experience "assuming the past was like the present"?
There is a difference between a perfect estimate and what you're describing.

Again, literally no competent stakeholder anywhere is expecting a perfect estimate.

Both agile and waterfall both aim for precise estimates.

With agile you're still aiming to have roughly correct story points, or having roughly enough work for your sprint. But you're moving the yardstick on how often you estimate and how you handle missing those estimates.

All of which is why again, I don't see the point in being so rigid in where one ends and the other begins. Waterfall has gone from a punching bag to a real process people follow by adjustment. People seem to miss that while the "OG" waterfall diagram was supposed to be flawed, even in the same document practical improvements were introduced.
I’d bet on ~95% round trip efficiency, if not more - lithium batteries are very efficient, as are modern power electronics.
I've taken to doubling my estimate and then stepping up to the next order of magnitude.

Eg. 2 hours becomes 4 days. It allows for delivery, QA, bug fixes and documentation.
There's plenty of contrary anecdote on the other side of the scale as well, for instance the 27 club.
it was a temporary outage

https://twitter.com/d_dasilva/status/1559941560342642688
I've never heard of any protection like this in the EU banking system. If you transfer money to a scammer it's simply gone.

It sucks for the 0,0001% of people who get scammed some time but is it really needed that the bank takes on this role?
Yeah, those were really cool. I saw some homelab setups using the ODroid HC2 from Hardkernel in a similar way.

The 2 issues with this setup were that the HC2 was using a low-performance armv7 processor, with armv7 being a very unsupported platform by most software and the fact that you can't use a flash-based disk for a ceph bluestore metadata device since it only had one SATA port.
I took an undergraduate course on the economics of science and technology. A large portion of it was devoted to patents.

The problem is generally that public funding accounts for extremely small amounts of the funding that it requires to take a drug to market. I didn't lookup any numbers for this, but I would guess it's very rarely above 1%.

The government could try to claim some share of the profits from drugs derived from research that was partially grant funded, but that seems logistically very difficult and not worth it. The government already gets a share through various taxes anyways.

The purpose of public research is to encourage innovation, which in turn benefits everyone. Private companies usually have no incentive to make any of their research public which can lead to many places repeating the same things.
Just to add to this, Interpol’s Secretary General, Jürgen Stock, warned of this early on in the war [1]:

“We can expect an influx of weapons in Europe and beyond. We should be alarmed and we have to expect these weapons to be trafficked not only to neighbouring countries but to other continents.”

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/ukraine-weapon...
I also stopped using my AirTag because of this. The battery drain is just to big. Even with the latest Firmware the problem is still there.
The is a still ongoing discussion and no fix from Apple. Sadly the only real solution is disabling Bluetooth or removing the AirTag
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/unusual-find-my-backgro...
I built a GIF maker Add captions to the GIF easily
I'm a web developer based in Taipei.

I like memes & GIFs so I built an online GIF maker!

It becomes quite popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and some other Asian countries.

https://memes.tw/en/gif-maker

I translated the website into English. (not finished yet, but should be enough to use)

Hope you guys will like it!
React.useCallback is justifiably zero-cost (disproving claims saying otherwise)
I’m gonna suggest you do some self reflection into why you believe this narrative despite your own evidence to the contrary and how it might be linked to your trivialization of racism. I promise you they’re connected.
I have a neighbor who's a professional opera singer and gives voice lessons. From what I hear, most of his opera colleagues do as well. If you live in a city with an opera company, it might be worth checking with them.

(Personally, I've taken up beginner piano with him this year!)
The main reason that we don't have free filing on the US is not because we don't know how or it's too hard or requires study -- it's because a variety of different political actors across the spectrum desire that outcome for different reasons and they all effectively advocate for it.

Planet Money did a decent episode on the topic a few years ago, but the summary is this:

The companies that make tax prep software will spend ~any amount of money to fight free-file. It would destroy their business. That's one major faction.

Another major faction is that part of the Republican party which wants lower taxes. Their argument is basically that if we made tax filing too easy/automatic, it would be less visible. If you have to spend hours preparing your taxes, you're likely to notice how much you pay and therefore will be more resistant to policies which raise them. If it all just disappeared out of your paycheck transparently, you might not notice it as much.

A third major faction is very-wealthy businessmen, who benefit from the incredible complexity of our system since they can afford to spend large sums of money (and lots of accountants' time) to optimize for maximum avoidance of tax. A system which was simpler or more automated would likely be less game-able -- and even if it wasn't less game-able, the fact that the vast majority of people would have trivial automated filings would mean that limited enforcement resources would be more available to audit the most-complex cases.

And the final major faction is people who do not trust our institutions. They generally fear that it would be scarier and riskier for people to fight inaccurate automated returns, and that people would feel compelled to pay whatever the automated system said they owed for fear of what the enforcers would do to them if they complained about it.

Getting to simpler or automated filings is going to require addressing at least some of these.
> 581.663 Serbs have lived in the Federal Republic Croatia ... Thus, Serbs have not ”invaded" Croatia.

As I remember the early 90s, the Federal Yugoslavian Army -- which, with all the other republics seceding had in practice become synonymous with Serbia -- rolled in with tanks and artillery.

So I think "invaded" was meant literally, not as a synonym for immigration by ethnic Serbs.
Cory Doctorow's next book: Chokepoint Capitalism
I always thought that artists would survive the longest. Silly me.

Word processing is hard and a lot of work. Better to improve existing solutions and maybe bring them to the browser as a service.
Look online for singing lessons. If you want to learn in person (which I'd recommend) search for teachers in your area. Most have at least a modest amount of local or online advertising. You can also checkout craigslist or ask on a local subreddit.

I found my singing teacher through a Google search, and I found my violin teacher through word of mouth.
I disagree. Increased screen size as a result of removing physical buttons makes up for the loss of physical buttons in my view.

You can now watch a movie, play a game, even browser a crappy website with desktop-only layout on an iPhone Mini. Try to do this if half the screen estate is replaced with physical button.

I am a big fan of physical buttons though, I which apple would add more of them on the sides, with some programmables, that would be awesome. Some Android devices have this for example.
I'd concur on that last part, for sure. As a Linux user, the fit and finish of MacOS really doesn't appeal to me. The hardware, on the other hand...
Do you have a link to that Android app? Can't find it and I suppose I ought to prevent the chance of my being tracked by someone for some reason.

That said, this abrogates most of the security functions of the tags, doesn't it?
I'm probably one of those people that you hold in contempt.
There are more guns than there are fingers in my house.

I am unabashedly pro gun. I have testified at hearings on behalf of gun owners.

Still, the point I'm making here is that there is something especially troubling about those cops who see themselves as the protagonist from an 80s action movie.
Compared with cows or sheep pigs eat what humans can eat, so growing pigs means wasting a lot of food that could be fed to people. Many historians argue that this was the primary reason why pork was banned in Islam and Judaism, not because pigs were considered unclean.
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yeah, flyers, bulletin boards, etc. -- lot of this stuff, in a sense, you're confined/constrained to doing online things because presumably we don't own / manage / control the building, but we could either operate without the blessing of building management, or work with them.

i'm guessing building management-type community-building software already exists -- i've used some of it to pay rent -- but nothing that actually tried to build community, that i remember.

to me, having building mgmt involved is problematic, but.... not necessarily a dealbreaker. maybe your pitch would be, "hey, use our software for $5/apt/month, and we'll increase your lease renewal rate by 5%, and therefore you'll end up saving/making a net of +$6,000 this year for your 150-apartment complex. (I don't actually have any idea of the economics.)

i did talk to a friend who is part of an investor group that owns apt buildings - he's not interested in this solution from an ownership perspective (maybe he should be?) - but presumably he would be able to get in touch with the companies he/they hire to manage the buildings. i think the mgmt companies get 10% or something to run/maintain a building, and presumably if they don't hit their revenue targets, then a new mgmt company is hired (??) - no idea tho really.

so, we would not have at least my ideal scenario of a perfect apiring-to-be-a-family community -- b/c it would ultimately be controlled by the apt mgmt -- but we could still achieve _some_ level of camaraderie/family/solidarity/friendship amongst the tenants -- and that might be where we have to start.

i kind of think of it like tv during the clinton years (i think?) when he/they/the gubment/tv/media were pushing the whatever communications act of 199x -- basically, giving away much of the tv/some?? spectrum for free to the megacorps (instead of licensing for real money from taxpayers, providing some of the spectrum for public broadcasting, etc.) -- and all the major news channels/shows/etc. just didn't cover it -- so the public/taxpayers never knew about this heist of the century.

so, something similar could happen with an apt community 'bulletin board' -- someone posts, "Hey, my rent is going up $300 this month, wtf??" -- and building mgmt is like "nope, deleted." -- so, that would suck, but....i would argue the tenants could/would at least know each other enough to take their organizing on that topic to another forum and/or offline.

i suspect a lot of this hippie-dippie community stuff is what adam neumann is trying to do with flow.

i like the gamification idea. i usually _hate_ those 'team building exercises' in various settings, so....i might be too biased in this particualr use case to see clearly, but it sounds cool/fun - if you're actually into meeting your neighbors. coming up with things/ideas/games/etc. that would actually work would be difficult, but prob also fun, interesting, etc.

what would the potential negative consequences be? maybe a building has a '0' social score? :-D

to me, right now, most apt complexes with 50+ units deserve a score of approximately 0 anyways.
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"I’ll pick the salad over the steak any day, though."

In terms of food safety and risk of pathogens, salad is far, far more dangerous than steak.