skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice job! This is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in using contrastive methods for inducing AI/ML models to learn to embed data in a space such that samples considered similar stay close to each other (e.g., as measured by cosine or Euclidean distance) while dissimilar ones stay far apart. Self-supervised contrastive methods, in particular, can be remarkably useful when none of the samples in your data are labeled and you want your model to discover structure.
Why do you deal with QR codes so much?
Shazam is an amazing piece of tech. Always amazed me when you use it in a noisy bar, and it finds the right track instantly.

One used to be able to sing the songs as well which does not seem to work anymore. Either that or my vocals are gone.
Students get 1 year of copilot for free. But it’s like heroin: once you got hooked on it, you cannot live without it.
Even if true (which is not) this is fallacy at core. It goes like this:

A- You're doing X which is inhuman

B- Common! C is also do it, B has done in the past as well *So we can do it too* and *magically* that's get OK *as consequence*.

This is a pure fallacy.
He didn’t ask if it was legal. He asked what was worse
Reading the HN comments, I didn't get the same "defending alcohol" feel you did. I think many (most?) people understand there is some risk. But, there's also risk in driving a car, eating red meat, or not sleeping enough - some just choose that the benefits they receive outweigh the risks. Life's short, eh?
A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
No bad tactics, just bad targets.
It's the Pro/Enterprise/Business model of the Lenovo laptop. The consumer one is cheaper https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000E-10RU3

Consumers mostly aren't buying that one (except maybe the tech audience), and businesses aren't paying list price.
What needs to be done? The FBI agent is facing 20 years in prison over this. The fact you can charge, put on trial, and convict an FBI agent speaks volumes.
I wonder if there are other copies remaining, perhaps with the source (Neal)?
I think the point is that the supply chains probably need upwards of years of time to adapt in some cases, you can’t just turn on a recipe that needs a full cup of blueberries per serving on Monday and expect there to be a spare million cups of blueberries to be lying around the supply chain on Tuesday.

In the case in animal product, there are almost certainly major operations worldwide that have been built and financed purely to serve McDonalds demand. They probably have to even build these out well before entering some markets.
Sony used it because they got an entire OS for free with no obligation to release the source.
I doubt they'd be sold for pennies on the dollar. Assuming you have a fixed rate mortgage, it's worth less now because interest rates went up.

If you ignore all the transaction/processing fees. You could borrow some number less than your principal balance at today's rates ~5%, and use that to buy your current mortgage at a discount (it dropped in value). But your monthly payment would end up the same. Higher interest on a lower principal balance.

Roughly.
I think the intended message of these campaigns isn’t that high BMI is considered healthy; rather, it’s that making people feel bad for having high BMI is doing them no favors in the journey to solve a very difficult problem. They are campaigns reminding people to be nice.

I think that’s a good message. I certainly feel badly for obese people because, however they got there, they’re going to have a hell of a time getting back to a healthy body size.

I do agree that many people lose that key part of the message when they pass it on.
A pioneer in assembly who deserves some recognition no doubt.
I agree it would be low for people running their own private instances but would be higher for people running the public DoT/DoH servers.
I think you're speaking from an agenda-driven opinion, with very little experience or data.
Precisely. Build infrastructure that’s suited to small vehicles and they’ll use it (and you’ll get more people using them when they might otherwise have driven a car). Build only roads for fast-moving cars and sidewalks for slow-moving pedestrians, and those who do use small vehicles will have to pick one of the two. And they probably won’t pick the one that puts their life in danger.
Goes back a long way. It used to be the four temperaments of melancholic, phlegmatic, sanguine and choleric were the basis vectors for explaining human behavior. That's absolutely a way you can reason about things.

Psychology, whether modern or ancient, creates a language for speaking about our experiences and the behavior of others, which shapes our way of thinking about it in an almost Saphir-Whorf:ian way.
Yes, but it makes much more sense to specialize the components by form than by function.

And GPUs and image processors look a lot alike. The largest difference today is on the IO links, but it makes too much sense to link the camera directly to the DRM.
I have to wonder if maternal stress is on the rise in any significant way. We can iterate though the list of stressors we all have today, but for millennial mothers have given birth in times war and famine and high infant mortality. Why would autism be more common now than then.
this is a form of corruption
Don’t underestimate under-diagnosis.

Over the last century the number of people who are left handed rose from ~4% to ~12%. What happened? We stopped punishing children for writing left handed and forcing them to write right handed.

We like to blame this like autism and ADHD on emotional factors like screen time. Maybe there’s some truth to that. But I firmly believe that a lot of neurodivergence can be explained by better diagnosis and less punishment.
Pretty sure you can disable personalization in Google as well (no idea about fb)
Yet that negligible amount is enough to kill birds. What was that about miners and canaries?
I'm not saying it will be nice. I'm just reminding that current science states that global warming is here to stay.

> Because we now can have a marina where once were densely inhabited cities?

I don't agree with your "can". We will have a marina where today are densely inhabited cities. No shouting "stop fossil fuels", no actual stopping fossil fuels will prevent huge cities to disappear.

We can (and must) avoid the uber-super catastrophe, but part of the problem is that the situation is much worse than most people appreciate.

There is no alternative to learning to cope with global warming.
I just checked -- you can buy a ticket from Munich - Berlin today, for any day you want in December, for € 17,90. Direct ICE train, travel time between 4h30m - 5h20m (depends on the departure time).

Of course, the reliability of Deutsche Bahn is another question.
I have a bit of a naive question. If TLS has this much overhead how do HFT and other finance firms secure their connections?

I know they use a number of techniques like kernel bypass to get the lowest latency possible, but maybe they have explored some solution to this problem as well.
I generally agree with you.

However, note that JS, with all its warts, has the benefit that its security model has been studied in the harshest conditions for 20+ years. I can't think of any other scripting language that has been battle-tested nearly as much.
Speak for yourself.

Some of us think that people we vehemently disagree with deserve to have their rights upheld and be subject to due process.

The real tragedy is that people like you who don't believe in equality under law poison the well for the rest of us. In a world where you people are happy to enable slimy things to get your way everyone else must behave similarly or be at a disadvantage.
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Hi all,
A few years ago, I wanted to have other interesting people stay over in our spare room.

To invite Hackers/doers/makers/conference speakers, there is no "interesting" filter on Airbnb.

So I created a hack, https://www.gitsurf.com/, based entirely on Github, which has a very high barrier to entry.

https://www.gitsurf.com/pages/man has more information on the mechanics.

Would people here use it? Should it be entirely open sourced?
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They are unfortunately mixing up the messages there. It's one thing to fight the shame associated with body appearance (this should be the real fight), and another thing to claim BMI has no significance on health risks (which is what often the argument boils down). There are people comfortable with smoking, there are people comfortable with their weight too, I just hope both know the increased risks to which they are exposed. However shaming the one or the other is just disgusting, especially when it appeals to a "tradition".
Wait which one is it:

* It’s not the 1920s, there aren’t large criminal organizations anymore

* The FBI in 2022 is a large criminal organization
I'm sorry to hear it was perceived this way, this was obviously not my intention. I've updated my profile with a little bit more background on me. I'm a bit worried though, seeing your comment here, that actually talking more about my background and, what I consider my personal achievements, will come off as even more arrogant again.
Changing the sensors would make it very hard to evaluate under the very strict condition they were tested. The system integration would be very hard.

The sensors on JWST have are outdated and do have some issues. For instance, some of the microshutter on NIRSpec are stuck (they knew before launching). The MIRI has some image artifacts due manufacturing techniques.

The sensors were bespoke, even nowadays, we can't get sensors like the on on JSWT off the shelf. There isn't much use case for most of them outside space telescope. But we could do better with today technology.
Lots of people can pay off their mortgage but choose not to. If given a good enough discount it would make financial sense to do so.
> bulk of the FBI's case load could be handled by a much smaller agency

What smaller agency would take on a corrupt state Senator in Missouri?
There are 404s for js files and javascript errors in the console when I hit right arrow, but after a while (a few tries) I'm able to start using left and right arrows (inconsistently) in the slide deck. Looks like they require the speaking to mean much though.

Oh hey, here's the talk to YouTube (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olH-9b3VJfs
"better for you" != "better for everyone"

People have very different preferences in the format of content they consume.
That's not how DRM works. The content is encrypted once and that key is sent to the client. The content key is probably wrapped in some per-session key (which may be wrapped in a per-user key wrapped in a per-device key or something).
HEJNE is "ok" but really REALLY add the cross bracing, and perhaps even add plywood to one side.

I have a HEJNE that is just holding LEGO with cross bracing and it is visibly leaning.

I don't expect it to fall down but I'm also not loading thousands of pounds into it.
The "3A" algorithms - Auto-focus, auto-exposure and auto-white balance are generally considered "secret sauce" by the various camera companies and thus closely guarded. The calibration process which is required to tune an ISP's pipeline is also very subjective and tied to the end use case. Having been involved with this area for the past couple of years I do believe that the openness of the raspberry pi platform (specifically with regards to the camera) is nudging the industry in the right direction.
Put the shoe on the other foot and imagine a political leader who you detest having this done, if you want to try to find the line between "plausible opsec" and "plausible criminality."
I read this as saying "In spite of my ideological preferences, I recognize there is a problem".

That seems like a fair assessment.
Some laws are retroactive, some aren't. And, anyway, "you must publish the specs of any hardware that you keep selling" isn't retroactive in any way, but would solve most of the historic problem.
So the real story here is that banks did learn their lesson from 2008 (at least in regards to mortgages). The subprime market has been relegated to these fly-by-night operations that are poorly capitalized and pose no systemic risk.
Absolutely not. The M architecture with their Firestorm and Icestorm cores are basically a big.LITTLE architecture. Some cores are made for low power, energy efficient work with a lower frequency, while others are made to run at full blast. There are no magic coprocessors to run on.

The goal of the benchmark is to run the two exact same binaries, not to make one that uses all of Apple's ARM extensions and one with AVX-512 to see who can go fastest in the best conditions.
My latest buy is a Kurzweil K2000s. I can recommend it, affordable used.
How does this correlate with research that looks into the very old - populations where people live the longest lives - and find that wine consumption seems to be rather high? I believe there was a link to such research on HN a month or so ago.
I’m not denying the risks associated with alcohol - just wondering if all alcohol should be looked at in the same way.
Not being under subpoena is not to suggest that destroying these devices was motivated by a pure heart towards opsec security for the US.
> What alternatives are there?

At the top of my head: Short Polling, long polling, websockets, response streaming, SSE, SNS, paging API, comet...
Not sure (but probably yes): I seem to recall ECMAScript was mentioned, not sure what version number.
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Do you have a source for this claim? I'm not doubting you, genuinely interested (my now-adult son is on the spectrum).
FreeBSD is their "in-house" operating system since they modify it to do what they want.
The OpenConnect team at Netflix is truly amazing and lots of fun to work with. My team at Netflix partnered closely with them for many years.

Incidentally, I saw some of their job posts yesterday. If you think this presentation was cool, and you want to work with some competent yet humble colleagues, check these out:

CDN Site Reliability Engineer
https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/223403454

Senior Software Engineer - Low Latency Transport Design
https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/196504134

The client side team is hiring, too! (This is my old team.) Again, it's full of amazing people, fascinating problems, and huge impact:

Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Algorithms
https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/224538050

That last job post has a link to another very deep-dive tech talk showing the client side perspective.
Ok, but what if you can service your debt? What if they are selling your 300k mortgage for effectively 50 to 100k?

You could find financing for 50 to 100k, especially if you have a 300k house as collateral as part of it.

Only the other bank gets the sweetheart deal.

Same kind of problem with foreclosure auctions too btw. They require cash up front for those, you cant put a mortgage on a foreclosed house. (without it first being bought outright by the bank, who isnt gonna mortgage it to you for the foreclosed price)
My instinct is that it probably isn't as simple as you describe because not only are there multiple notes at a time in a given track (i.e. chords), but there are also several tracks playing at once! It's possible that they're literally generating data like {guitar 1: C chord, guitar 2: single note E, bass: single note E} for every point in time, but even then each instrument isn't playing the exact same rhythm most of the time, so the notes won't exactly line up. I guess I don't think it's completely computationally infeasible to do it this way, but it seems more likely that they're just trying to separate the music from the background noise and then try to find the closest match to the music audio as a whole rather than trying to separate it into component.
The Federal Records Act disagrees. Everything should have been turned over to the responsible departments for record keeping, and letting them decide what should be destroyed and what should be preserved.
Legal case research is is even worse, if you can imagine. Digging through court decisions is all about finding chains and piecing together the current precedent. Oh and in the old days of legal reference texts, you always had to check for the "pocket parts". Updates to the law after the text was published went sent out as small pamphlets, much like errata, and they were literally placed in pockets at the back of the books.
> Cessario could possibly face 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, forfeiture of property involved in the criminal offense, and supervision upon release.

If he actually has to serve that kind of sentence, that really doesn't sound too lenient.
Google Search only ever returns <400 results. Never any more. Apparently Google considers this fine. So, RIP Google Search 1998-2019, apparently.

If google search really wants to improve results all they actually have to do is let people see the results instead of hiding them. 400 results is not enough.
I've updated my profile to give a bit more background on myself. For some reason, I assumed interested people would just quickly do a quick background check themselves instead of me selling myself to them. In retrospect, I see how this might have been a bad assumption.
Genoa does indeed have roughly double the memory bandwidth.
The 4-post "telecom" racks are often disassembleable and can be made to work, but you probably want to floor-mount them.
> Serve only static media files

This part I don't get. How about DRM? Unless Netflix pre-DRM all contents for all user?
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How is this relevant to a biometric border check?
My understanding is mortgage lenders mostly originate loans. The use their line of credit to offer (mostly) conforming mortgages, doing the paperwork, underwriting, and closing.

Then the mortgage is quickly sold off, the money recouped, so they can go and originate another mortgage.

At any given time, they hold a very small fraction of all the mortgages they might originate in a years (in this example $10B at year).
Reminds me of a fun IRC moment 20 years ago or so. A buddy had a song stuck in his head, but he couldn't recall the name of it.

I asked how it went, and he typed something like "du du duu duu du du duu du, du du duu duu du du duu du" and within 10 seconds I replied "oh, Tom's diner by Suzanne Vega?" After a few moments he replied "yes! how the hell?!"

Anyway, Shazam is great when out and about and I hear something I like. Clubs and other loud venues provide a challenge, but covering the mic usually does the trick.

I'd love to read some more details about how such fingerprinting works. I'm sure there are lots of interesting details on how it deals with recording noise and such.
Depending on what and how the FBI screwed up, it's actually possible today. It's innocent until proven guilty, and if they screwed up in obtaining a key piece of evidence, then it and anything stemming from it will be inadmissible in court. If they can't prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt without that evidence, then the defendant will be found not guilty.
Sweet, I'll ping you!
2U is a lot quieter than 1U. Those little fans spin louder and put out higher frequency noise. Though probably still not quiet enough for a media room. I’ve got a ruckus 10g switch and a 2U server in my utility room and you can sleep nearby and can’t hear anything with the door closed.

What drives me nuts is power supply noise actually. I finally bit the bullet and got a Mac mini for my home office.
I must be blind, can't see email or twitter handle in https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cheerioty
Not only that, but the MacBooks with the very bad heat management (I've owned some I couldn't keep on my lap, also see Linus and Louis videos).
Obviously there should be an exception to the exception that says that says the auto-exoneration doesn't happen if the accused conspired to destroy the evidence.
Organizations can create an environment which leads to people overlooking or even committing those crimes. It's self-sustaining after a while. It sounds crazy but the FBI practically gives weapons to wannabe domestic terrorists and goes "c'mon do a crime" so they can nab them.
The interesting part is First Guaranty, majority owned by PIMCO and specializing in non-qm mortgages, ceasing operations.
I like Akai's MPK Mini, I've spent time with the korg nanokey. The MPK has a decent scaled-down two octave keyboard that feels pretty good to play. The korg nanokey got me by for years, but I always thought of it as a stick with a bunch of shift keys on it.

A friend has the arturia keystep pro 37, which seems pretty nice. I'm considering a switch right now so I was happy to see this thread actually. It has aftertouch which is unique for a portable midi controller, though the aftertouch isn't polyphonic IIRC.
Yes? That’s a charge he plead guilty to.
Interesting writeup, and the modern surveillance state certainly has a lot of parallels to Philip K. Dick's world, although the personal flavor of the latter - i.e. the extensive use of undercover STASI-type operatives in A Scanner Darkly, characterized by the betrayal of trust in personal and intimate relationships, is not as much of an obvious general feature of Facebook-type data collection and NSA archival data tracking of both American citizens and non-citizens.

At least our current system is not (yet) a true panopticon, which is a system where the prison guards can see all the prisoners, all the time, but the prisoners cannot see or communicate with one another. People can still communicate with one another, but the expectation of privacy is almost entirely gone. Certainly the power structure can see who is communicating with who via metadata monitoring, even if strong encryption can hide the content of the communication in many cases.

The extent to which general knowledge of this constant monitoring changes mass social behavior isn't really known, but one imagines it's the kind of thing the research anthropologists in CIA Behavioral Studies programs - characters that populate many PKD works - are obsessed with.

Incidentally, PKD's drug-psychosis-theme in many of his works is most likely linked to amphetamine psychosis, a fairly well-studied and well-understood side effect of constant use of amphetamines and their derivatives or analogues (i.e amphetamine, (Adderall), methamphetamine, MDMA (Ecstacy), methylphenidate (Ritalin)). These widely prescribed, used and abused substances should be regarded with more caution, I think - particularly when it comes to ADHD diagnoses in children. Certainly the for-profit drug manufacturers shouldn't be trusted on this, nor the mass social behavior manipulation types.

Also, it's likely that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, another vision of a drug-addled dystopian future (1932), was a major influence on PKD's dystopian works.
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Well, let's see how much time he actually serves. I'm guessing zero.
HA! I like that. But seriously, all it takes is one generation for Autism to appear if the genetics for it are present in the parents.

These people who were "accountants" were always working for the rich, never rich themselves.

By the way, my father was an accountant (Went to NYU when he was 16 back in 1951) and he later ended up working on some of the first office computers. And here I am, being told in my 50s that I am probably on the spectrum. My mother was from a poor coal mining family in PA and she ran away to NYC to find here way out of that life when she met my father.
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