skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I don't get is how online forums with free registration have been a thing for WELL over 30 years now, yet some people think that the possibility that people make accounts to deliberately post things to get the forum sanctioned is still viewed as some insane conspiracy theory - and you a monster, if you suggest the good guys would ever do such a thing "to themselves".
> Our decision today was that the risk created by the content could not be dealt with in a timely enough matter by the traditional rule of law systems.

So you are fine to bypass the laws on your own? How practical.
>While law enforcement in these areas are working to investigate what we and others reported, unfortunately the process is moving more slowly than the escalating risk.

I wonder if their evaluation of the "escalating risk" had anything to do with the legal standard of imminent action is. Probably not.
You say it in jest, but I know a group whose head's surname started with a B and she was a staunch defender of alphabetical order... until someone joined who started with an A.
Even if I'm teaching my children to not publish too much online your comment sounds exactly like "If she weren't wearing that miniskirt she would not have problems going outside, she should dress modestly and then no one would harass her"
> the State of Israel is not a state?

Israel is of course a state, it is a state established in 1948 and its border should thus remain in the shape and form of 1948.

> when was its independence?

15 November 1988 for declaring independence.
29 November 2012 for becoming an observer state of the United Nation General Assembly.

It becomes a fully recognized state when the UNGA observer state status was obtained after a formal vote by countries around the world. You are free to consider it as the consensus of the human race.
It is markedly less efficient since you will test y every time for each x, as opposed to once. O(1) vs O(n)
... but your callous demand has been noted. We're watching you.
I'm really not rooting for restarting the Thirty Years War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

> The Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 was one of the most destructive wars in European history, directly responsible for the death of an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians, with some areas of present-day Germany experiencing population declines of over 50%
Almost 50 years of it here, starting in high school in the early 70s. With breaks here & there. And no longer for bread & butter: now it's a hobby. So no need for reinvention: just sticking with C-syntax languages (now Go) with a side of SQL, finding that the luxury of modern tools and modern languages (and modern processors' speed) greatly reduces the sources of aggravation and frustration. No more burning an entire day trying to stomp out a single bug, and unsuccessfully at that. Steady improvements across the board create a new world of (relatively) straightforward translation of thought to software.
>Many of the internet hellholes hiding behind Cloudflare have significant quantities of unmoderated and extreme discourse where participants do call for imminent violence against another party and that is not 1A protected behavior.

Which websites are you referring to, in what numbers are you talking about, and how are you determining that those calls for violence are imminent? Wouldn't that suggest that a lot of violence has already occurred stemming from those websites? (presumably not stopped by a slow legal system like Cloudflare implies would have happened in this case)
> if you really believe in free speech, you understand that trans people deserve free speech too, and kiwifarms harrasment campaigns have been harming their free speech. free speech is for everybody,

As far as I know you have many pro-trans channels to communicate online, and it's very natural that you find the opposite as well on the internet. I love the fact that you guys never complain about anticlerical content that's rampant in the most popular platforms. It's almost like you only dislike one type of discrimination.

TDLR: "Free Speech only for the Speech I like"
It always felt like the pro-Ukraine narrative was crammed down our throats though.

I'm sure everyone is desperate to avoid ending up as a modern Chamberlain, trading land for a sham promise of peace, but we do ignore a very real question: should we be treating borders as perfect and correct?

There is a reasonable case to be made that when the USSR partitioned, it created some hard borders between communities that formerly were "closer", historically, culturally, or economically, to a different republic than the one they were assigned to.

Any partitioning is going to end that way-- see India/Pakistan, any sort of two-state Israel/Palestine solution, the two Koreas, or even the split of Virginia during the US Civil War.

But nobody can really right that sort of relationship peacefully because someone stands to lose territory. These things end up getting ironed out with bloodshed. It may be inevitable.

There's also the whole problem that we didn't really "win the peace" after the end of the Cold War. Compare Germany and Japan after WWII. The winners flooded them with aid and guided their reconstruction in ways that let them prosper going forward. They ended up as advanced economies tightly woven into the Western economic system.

Russia, we let rot. We stood by as every quality-of-life metric plummeted below 1991 levels, and an era of kleptocrats plundered the privatization process. Nobody was stewarding them into being anything more than a cheap source of unsophisticated raw materials. If they had enjoyed the same rehabilitation between 1991 and 2021 as Japan did between 1945 and 1975, do you think there'd be any political hay to be made from "we are standing against the Evil West and expansion of NATO and the EU?" No, they'd be queuing up to join in.

It's not like they didn't have the resources to kickstart that growth-- they had an educated population, non-destroyed infrastructure, and plenty of fairly sophisticated industry. Yeah, their microchips were 20 years behind the West, but that's still a pretty robust base to start with compared with plenty of other economic development opportunities.
"Please say your order number."

"SIX THREE FOUR NINE"

"Did you say "SIX brick barn fine", say yes or no"

"NO"

"Thank you ... please wait while we look up your account"
Because you have to pay for stopped instances. That’s why I snapshot and restore. It’s the same with all VPS providers (at least the reliable ones I know)
They are not necessarily easier to follow, since you chop your logic into different functions. This may be better, but isn't necessarily. Esp if the loop has some (gasp) state which you then need to pass around to the outsourced functions.

Not all loops ate numeric, in fact most aren't (since vectorisable stuff already is vectorised).
It's on "Did you win the Putnam?" or "xkcd 927" level and does not really need a link on HN at this point.
If you're in the US, probably. If you're outside the US, from what I understand, they require you to file in the US (or have US law enforcement work on your behalf).

For all intents and purposes, that means they don't for anyone outside the US, except for very high profile cases. For everything else, they're providing a legal shield.
Status is another wealth. Status can open many opportunities that reasonable amounts of money will not. There are other dimensions too: money and knowledge are definitely not alone.
Thank you. I thought I was the only one.
Difficult. Losing a net isn't rare, even if you try hard to avoid it.

(Source: Common wisdom in the fishing village where I was born.)
Ah yes, I read that paper when it was first published - it also shows great promise!

As these 2 approaches are different, it would be interesting to see if there was a cumulative effect if both were performed.
Yes, it's so obviously a completely ridiculous metric that it has to be willful at this point. It doesn't seem like anyone tries to measure how well educated the undergraduates are in terms of skills acquired, etc, by how many papers a totally different population occupying a similar space pump out instead.

It shouldn't need to be said, but no amount of Nobel prizes in the world is going to make one whit of difference for introductory calculus instruction. When the prime research centers are decoupled from the universities and these silly little metrics, it's no wonder that European universities are "bad."
I prefer integration testing over unit testing because each test case covers many more lines of code (since it also traverses dependencies). You can use mocks and stubs to allow the test suite to reset/set the state of the system between each test case so integration tests don't have to be brittle, unreliable or require launching other services on the side. I find that it's a good architectural pattern if the main state stores in a software can be easily substituted with mocks or stubs; in my experience, this makes the software more reliable, easier to maintain and more testable.
https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion

I use this on my Ubuntu 18 machine, works nicely on a GPU with 8GB VRAM.

As usual, some python dependency nonsense to sort out even with Anaconda, but pretty quick and easy to get up and running.
Say you go to a bank to get a loan, and you give the bank your details, including your address. The address you give is in a notorious crime-infested neighborhood. Does the bank have the moral obligation to deny you a loan, in order not to support criminal activity? I mean, they most likely will. However, most people instead like to attribute this behavior to banks being racist. Are you saying that this should instead be mandatory for the banks to do?
Twice as cheap means half as expensive. It does not mean the price fell by 200%.
I said it is their job. I didn't say they do a good or a bad job.
>I'm seeing a lot of people making Agile something it isn't/shouldn't be.

This is kind of expected. Agile was always very vague about what it was from the get go. At this point it's like "god" or "love" - there is no one shared definition and never will be.

Rather than arguing over what really is is or should be we should just be quietly deprecating and using a different name for what we think it should have been all along, making an effort to be specific this time.

XP was specific and good for the time it just... stayed at version 1.0 forever.
This is true, but that test is inaccurate, and only provides odds of having a baby with Down's, for example "you have a 3500:1 chance of having a baby with Down's Syndrome".
> They literally went against the policies stated on Wednesday

How so?

On Wednesday they said they will block content "that ... incites ... violence against people".

Then now they're saying "targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life".

Seems perfectly consistent.
Always wondered why we can't virtualize VRAM like how we did for VMs.
Can anyone here speak to the practical aspects of making fuel cells work at this scale? What exactly needs to change to gets the costs more in line with ICE vehicles?
Depends on what specific lottery you have in mind.

And you can look at the raw incidence in various way to get various probabilities.

And even 205 in 80M is small enough so that people are unable to reason about it. Which you clearly display.
I briefly interacted with a few people from switter during my fediverse stay. I'm sorry to hear they are gone. I do believe that it was for legal reasons (laws that I do not agree with), so cloudflares hands were tied.
Thanks!

This really reminds me of the Unix wars. Constantly companies announcing partnerships and then there developers spending time merging proprietary systems. And before they are ready another partnership bringing in some other thing that has to be merged. Not sure what exactly they gained with this Intel deal.

I guess they should have just continued with Maemo and attacked other software developers in general, rather then rewriting the whole stack just to attract Symbian developers.

A year after the N900 they should have been an N1000 by 2010. By the time late this memo happened the N1100 should have been ready to drop.
And people couldn't agree to use JavaScript because the term was trademarked.
> It removes the entire concept of having different nations with different people who are proud of their culture

That's not my issue. I dislike the concept of nations and national culture and borders, and I despise nationalism and ethnonationalism. I just want non-contrived diversity. That means sitcoms that have an actual diverse cast (including political conservatives, Asian and Middle Eastern men, redheads, ugly people, autistic people who aren't there as a gag, guys with small dicks, butch women, and so on) which represents the real world and doesn't alienate and shaft parts of the population for no artistic reasons. And that means a LoTR series that doesn't have diversity where it doesn't belong and where it doesn't make artistic sense.
Father of a kid with Down's here. This is an old myth that simply isn't true, just like the one that all people with Down's are happy all the time.
> The plaintiff in the case against MindGeek that names Visa as a defendent is Serena Fleites, who, when she was 13, said she was pressured by her then-boyfriend into making a sexually explicit video — which he allegedly uploaded to Pornhub without her knowledge or consent.

So if someone uploads porn video on Dropbox, should it be banned too?
Tesla does the same. Mine stopped working on the highway (it let me get off it though) and on the gas station, this was its v suggested way to reset. But as this was in the dead of night in the freezing winter, I had a lot of doubts before doing this. When a guy with a crane arrived, I finally left the car and was not able to open it again.
They can contract with a different company.
I wonder how the non-DIY gaming PCs are exempt from this, tbh...
Don't sweat the tone thing -I still would have felt like those points needed to be spelled out explicitly.
> some hanzi are super obscure and even native Chinese have to look them up sometimes when wanting to use them, and gave the example of "sneeze".

喷嚏 is the example always used because it describes a common thing that is rarely written about, and there is no other, more frequently written character with the 疐 component that could remind people how to write it. So when handwriting, one might substitute 喷㖷 instead.

Most obscure characters are simply obscure because they refer to an obscure thing, like not being able to spell the name of a village you've never heard of.

And characters for non-obscure things made of obscure components are usually common enough that people get enough practice writing them. E.g. 藏 "store/hide" contains 臧, an archaic term for "good" that now mostly occurs in ancient idioms and as a rare surname. But hardly anybody seems to have trouble writing 藏.
Please point me to co-ordinated mass harassment campaigns with the objective of leading clerics to suicide, and you might change my mind. Otherwise your comparison is absurd.
The tram thing bit me. I am not good at setting up passenger networks and decided to try trams. "what do you mean there are no trams!? it's 1936, the golden era of trams. this is bullshit" I never did figure out when trams arrive in pak64.
https://xkcd.com/1053/

I can assure you there are plenty of readers here who have not heard of it. I shared the link at work recently and was interested that not a single person knew of it (they are fairly young though).
I think where we differ is in our assumption about the strength of the fundamentals. You're assuming a good developer already has full breadth, whereas I'm assuming that you can be a good developer and still encounter challenging novelties.

Take my Python vs. Go concurrency example. That's just one fundamental concept, but with two very different solutions.

One could even argue that just the Python version alone can have significantly differing solutions, the choice of which is determined by the runtime (CPython or another implementation without a GIL).

Then, of course, there's the idiomatic way of doing things that cannot just be carried over from knowledge with other languages.
The Timeless Way of Programming
You're asking for CP links?
Oh you’re right I used beta incorrectly. Israel is occupying Israel and Judea, which Ethiopian Jews also fled.
Of course. Would you be happy if someone posted you under your name?
Well, for a start it is not a single product. VW is a huge group consisting of a lot of brands, and hundreds of products(vehicles). I guess he wanted to bring the software development of all of these under a single company.
This ideological purism doesn't grapple with real world corner cases where one person's freedoms infringe on another person's freedoms.
Could you elaborate more on your Emacs Markdown tweaks? It sounds very interesting!
A tip for people who are being harmed by the recommendation letter system: some countries don't use recommendation letters that much. For example, in Spain, many PIs don't ask for recommendation letters at all. Others (like myself) may ask, but only view it as a possible positive signal if the recommender happens to be someone I know personally. But I would never discard a candidate for a lack of recommendation letters if their CV and interview show that they're good. I have never understood why Americans trust those letters so much when they depend mostly on factors that aren't correlated with candidate quality (personal relationship between the candidate and their references, personality of the letter writer that might lead them to be more or less enthusiastic, cultural expectations, even writing skills of the letter writer, etc.)

Of course, I'm aware that changing countries is out of the question for many people, but for those who are willing, applying in places where they aren't important can be a way out.
I didn't even realize the article was behind a paywall. Have you tried considering the use of extensions that bypass such artificial restrictions, especially scientific journals?
In the last few years, an increasing number of journals are adopting that kind of system.
Over a decade passed. Maybe it's time for a review of this beautiful rant.

What is your opinion on the topic? Have we improved the status quo? Or has the situation even worsened? Where are we heading?
You kind of can - projects like deepspeed (https://www.deepspeed.ai/) enable running a model that is larger than in VRAM through various tricks like moving weights from regular system RAM into VRAM between layers. Can come with a performance hit though depending on the model, of course.
> One thing that doesn't get mentioned often is that the West had a "simpler" alphabet of 26 characters

This article has presumably mentioned it. It says:

> Answering this question is actually quite complex because it involves mechanical knowledge, metallurgy, mills and writing systems. I have read numerous articles on this topic, but I started to notice that everyone leaves out some different essential part of the story. Here I am trying to include all the factors involved.

The content is cut off in the middle by the paywall (which raises the question of whether it's suitable to be submitted to HN in the first place, if there's no workaround available).
The other way around: get the facts on the table beforehand. Written, so that everyone knows what it's about.

Then do the negotiation and decision face-to-face.

Otherwise your face-to-face talk is just everyone waiting for their turn, trying to remember which points they still need to reply to, and nobody listens to anybody else.
Or https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i5/Van-Goghs-Fading-Colors-I...
Good, all these e-pimps are totally unscrupulous when it comes making money with child porn and revenge porn, and it also concerns websites like Only Fans, Twitter or Reddit...
If you believe that words are violence then it cuts both ways whether you are trans or just another group that is discriminated against online. Since when is suicide the only endpoint to look at? Shifting goalposts much?
So where was that on the website? Honestly you should be applauding that they actually switched from final solutions (obvious edgy joke) to a normal name in what seems to be like a reaction to the 2017 Charlottesville rally.
Tamper Detect Circuit (2020)
Ask HN: How to avoid getting a privacy-aware LinkedIn profile restricted?
I'm rather privacy-aware, so I use a lot of browser plugins to disable trackers, VPNs etc. which by accident are sometimes active when I log in to LinkedIn => account restricted and ID requested to un-restrict it. Submitting an ID to LinkedIn is a no-go. I have been over the years already 3 times in this situation.

Last time it happened when I logged in through the LinkedIn app on my phone, that I didn't have a VPN connection running, and I guess the sudden geographical jump of my IP triggered LinkedIn.

I can't keep going on like this, to discover with each new profile that I make once every 2-3 years another bit of info that may trigger LinkedIn (I have read up on various triggers, and they keep shifting). Is there a comprehensive list of what I have to do to avoid this fate the next time?

I would also be happy to pay for LinkedIn to avoid getting restricted, but again I don't feel comfortable using my personal credit card, because I don't want to give LinkedIn any other data point than a frugal version of my CV.
I'm wondering whether perhaps my name already is permanently "tainted" so that it will automatically get restricted due to my past attempts.

Do you use an agency to manage your LinkedIn profile? I'd be willing to spent a reasonable one-off amount for someone to let me know precisely what I have to do to avoid.

Are there specialists out there that can manage a privacy-aware LinkedIn profiles?

It MUST somehow be possible to balance the need for a reasonable level of privacy with the need of having a LinkedIn account that is robust under using VPNs etc. and that I just use to received some recruiter mail every once in a while (no crazy attempts to hoard connections etc.).
I don't really see how it could be interpreted as anything as "the cost was 1/60 of the original".
Let’s not forget Aldus Manutius. His orders of magnitude cheaper books than Gutenberg made books available to regular people. He can be seen as inventor of paperback books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_Manutius
This is a very important tip.

It's typically very easy to find former PhD students and postdocs that have worked with a given PI. Sometimes they are even listed in the PI's website, but if they aren't, they can be found by looking for the PI's papers and checking the coauthors, or in the case of PhD students by looking for PhD theses.

Find their email address and politely contact them, asking about their experience with that PI. Most people should be happy to respond, and that kind of information is invaluable.
To the people who ask for sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57255983

https://popwrapped.com/onlyfans-a-breeding-ground-for-child-...

the "checks" onlyfans implements are easily bypassed by minors or their adult pimps.
VW like to paint electrification as a way to atone for the sins of dieselgate. Seems like nothing really has changed.

(I had an affected diesel engine, in Australia the process to be compensated was an absolute disgrace).
Old story – stuck printer unstuck by closing a curtain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159811
Reading through the status tracking bug, it sounds like the ABI is now standardised, but they aren't changing the default to the newly standard ABI yet, because they are waiting on external tools to support it. That said, you could definitely use it today without worrying about the compiler version it seems.