skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>ML is a fresh breeze but it is lacking the "garage-ability" that computing has been famous for; good luck competing with the bigshots on that field.

Not sure about this. Groups like Eleuther.ai or Stability have put out serious competitors to something like GPT-3 and Dall-e respectively without the massive capital that OpenAI has. HuggingFace also gives you access to virtually all the most cutting edge models and all you need to do is plug and play.
Yes, there is no royal road.
But there is a very harsh one. There you ignore that pi is about circles and instead think of it as the period of some solution to a differential equation.
> We're free to permanently be on DST and shift hours from 9-5 to 10-6 or whatever. They're just numbers.

They're just numbers, but they're also written into our customs and laws. Pushing back the start of school by an hour, for example, would involve many stakeholders and bureaucratic processes, even if it were just in response to permanent DST.

IMO, it makes far more sense to adopt permanent standard time. Individual organizations can still switch in the other direction, but defaults are powerful!
Scientists discover way to target ‘undruggable’ molecules involved in cancer
The first season was very, very good, the second season I could tolerate, mostly because it felt like it was a transitional season, and perhaps the 3rd season would be better. But then the 3rd season went off a cliff. I watched the 5 episodes and then I just gave up, something I almost never do. It was just too awful to watch, as it descended into cliche and forgot everything that made the series interesting.

We've all seen this happen with some shows, but Westworld was an extreme case.
From what I can tell, the US had the highest inflation in the G7 until the Fed started hiking interest rates more aggressively than the rest of the world to get it under control. This was particularly noticable to me since once they did the UK became the G7 member with the highest inflation and our media started pointing at that as proof of our government's economic incompetence in a way that the US media very obviously had not.
What happens when MXGuardian goes down?
> Regardless of your opinion on Elon, it's simply too early to conclude that this is "likely" to happen, or that all those people will stop using it.

Exactly, these people use it for their own exposure/benefit. If it harms them if they stop, they will not stop.
> Musk is not an idiot. He must know exactly what he needs to do.

How does this square with the attempts to get out of the deal? I think your points would make a lot more sense if he hadn’t signalled extremely clearly that he thought the deal was terrible.
CUPE does not cover full time teachers, they are the support staff, EAs, administrators, custodians, etc. In other words, they are the people that ensure most schools can actually function, and they make significantly less 95K CAD. The average for them is closer to 40K. Many of them work multiple jobs out of necessity.

Regardless of how much they make, banning them from striking, imposing a contract on them and fining them for striking is a spit in the face of all labour.
The distinction is significant though, there mechanisms to limit the fed's power if it's necessary, even if those levers and dials are not being currently used.
He came in years before the first car was shipped and, like, 15? years before they got to sustained profitability with their third-gen cars.

I'm not trying to dickride the guy, obviously a lot of people contributed, but this literally just happened and we all saw it. How are people rewriting it successfully?
I had an airplane conversation with a manager at a multinational. He said they shuffled managers every couple of years. Bunch of reasons for that but partly gave the company better visibility into what's going on with a group because you have several managers on tap who've managed that group before. And if they have to fire a manager they have a number of people to tap for that role.
From Google to Twitter
Yes, I do remember Usenet - not very well! That was a while ago.

I wasn't a heavy user, but it was a bit of a smaller world back then - that tends to make people behave a bit better (obviously not always…), but there were also fewer other places to go if you got tired of it, it was mainly for personal use, and there wasn't a feeling that someone "owned" it.

These days if a forum has bad vibes people will want to leave it, and there's more of a customer service attitude because they know someone runs it. (Or for a professional/project mailing list, a non-abusive-workplace attitude maybe.)

Similarly the people running it feel more responsible so they want to mod it more. It's mostly just annoying if there's a lot of intense arguments on it, not necessarily bad for business, but if they get really bad there's the worry it drives away new users and eventually gets you legal attention over users, say, stalking each other, or planning crimes, or posting terrorism threats.

> It’s much easier than you think.

It was in the 90s, I just don't think killfile technology has kept up with the rate of modern posting on something like Twitter. There is block and mute but there's not, say, OCR to stop people from screenshotting you and attracting new harassers for years after the fact.

Though I think Twitter just laid off all their mods so we'll see how it goes.
Twitter is given an outsized and undeserved amount of attention. It has over-powered a tiny minority of users to get vastly over-represented and repeated to the rest of the people who don't give a damn about it.

If you don't like twitter stop using it and stop taking "news" about tweets seriously, because they are not serious.
I would prefer a system where the candidates setup a hierarchy of experts and advisors. The experts then debate each other on their policy positions - both long live debates and by exchange of essays. Then, a third party sums up key position differences and the two parties get to revise until they are satisfied - basically a list of policy differences. Finally, every voter takes a test where the questions ask them to assign policy positions to a candidate - e.g. "Which candidate's team supports X". The top 20, 10, 50 whatever percent of votes are used and the rest are discarded. This system lets us know that the voters know who they are voting for.

Oh, and that team of advisors and experts needs to be installed somehow in the cabinet. You wouldn't want a candidate to just get a team of persuasive people to get elected and then ignored.
Yes, it does. After 5 start ups and 20 years later. Know your market and how to reach them. You can have the best engineering if no one knows about it they can’t use the service/buy the product. You can have the worst engineering/product in the market but with good marketing and sales you can still be profitable.
Spinrite 6.0 on UEFI and an NVMe SSD drive
Before Gnod, I mostly used computers to do explore generative art and all kinds of other experiments.

The idea of illubots is that it provides the same service you would normally get from an illustration agency. For example a book cover. That means that the human work of selecting from the robot output, inpainting, outpainting, upscaling etc is included in the service. I am still fine-tuning the concept.

And what are your plans with sqwok? Feel free to shoot me an email or connect on Twitter if you like.
If I go back to my rural hometown, people will tell me with a straight face that the EPA should be abolished so that we can have 99 cent gasoline again like the late 90s.
I’m sure it helped keep advertisers on the platform, given that it contributes to brand safety.
Sorry pal, did someone reveal what X was to you? Guess it's a bit like the Twitter algo then.
"Some Republicans" doesn't mean it's the party platform. Some Democrats have advocated nationalization of some social media platforms, that doesn't make it the party platform.
If they do that outside the US they risk facing a fun series of expensive lawsuits.
Ah, but why does the Daily Bugle feel so negatively about Spider-man?

(I loved the re-imagining of Jameson as a vlogger in the latest Spider-man film. It's what the character has really wanted to be since the beginning.)
Linux devs discover that Intel Arc GPU firmware updates need an Intel CPU
Was surprised twitter used Phabricator and Jira given how bad the UX of those is.
Loose monetary policy is what enabled the US to respond to COVID in the manner it decided to. I don’t think you’re being charitable to the poster you’re replying to when you say “it’s complicated” then place much of the blame on the very factor said poster identified.
How would you compare the luxury multi-day train trips to a (sea) cruise ?
I am generally interested in trying out the multi-day train, I done many overnight sleep trains in the UK. I like cruises, (like you said not having to drive siting with a book and watching the next destination get closer).
Probably just as bad, if not worse. But that makes the point, no? Go find a biased sample and you can make any narrative work.
I'll give a simple example. Do you think knowing how to write a lexer and parser means you know how to write the syntax of a language that will be pleasant to use? Because knowing the algorithms to do one does not mean you have the skills to do the other, which is a form of taste.
Sure. Here is the opml file and an HTML listing of the feed URLs and their website URL/name organized by categories: http://a.superkuh.com/feeds9.html and http://a.superkuh.com/2022-11-04-feedlist.opml This is my script to convert .opml to html unordered list, http://superkuh.com/regexopmltohtml.pl.txt

Most HN sourced feeds are in the "Computing but not spammy" category.

The first load of the big opml into QuiteRSS (if you try it) might take a while. After that it will be faster. I suggest enabling the "load database to ram" option in QuiteRSS configuration.
The 'human diorama' plot made the show. Baffling that they threw that overboard so quickly. By the third season it was just vague mumblings about technology.
Season 1 was mind-blowing -- maybe the best season of any show? at least in the disussion. Season 2 was pretty amazing too. Season 3 was ... huh, okay. And Season 4 was ... lost.
The effect of attention and working memory on the estimation of elapsed time
Huawei has a very unusual leadership/ownership structure, even amongst its peers in the tech industry. Legally, its a worker-owned cooperative, but unlike most cooperatives, its workers don't directly vote on policy; rather they choose 51 shareholder representatives and 9 alternate representatives, who in turn select a politburo, which in turn selects a CEO from the standing committee.
NYT reporters had a top-down directive that tech coverage should be critical
From former journalist Matt Yglesias on Twitter:

a few years ago the New York Times made a weird editorial decision with its tech coverage. Instead of covering the industry with a business press lens or a consumer lens they started covering it with a very tough investigative lens — highly oppositional at all times and occasionally unfair. Almost never curious about technology or in awe of progress and potential. This was a very deliberate top-down decision. They decided tech was a major power center that needed scrutiny and needed to be taken down a peg, and this style of coverage became very widespread and prominent in the industry.

From journalist Kelsey Piper on Twitter in response:

People might think Matt is overstating this but I literally heard it from NYT reporters at the time. There was a top-down decision that tech could not be covered positively, even when there was a true, newsworthy and positive story. I'd never heard anything like it.

It's shocking to me that the NYTimes would make such an editorial decision, and it's disappointing to hear this about one of the newspapers that I trust the most. Certainly there are many aspects of the tech sector that ought to be criticized and exposed to the public, but I don't think it's good for truth-seeking to take an editorial stance that tech should generally be covered negatively.
Dalle2 API Is Live
I actually thought it had finished at the end of season 3. I thought it finished coherently?
I was shocked, shocked! To see it come back for season 4. Pleasantly so then confusingly so as the season drew on. I haven’t finished the last episode - gave up half way through
You didn’t open the post, did you?
Yes, but support for showing the Markdown version is much more widespread.

observablehq puts Markdown in JavaScript code.

I think it works better with Markdown even if it wasn't supported in multiple places, but since it does, I think having Markdown be the container format is a clear winner.

There is also MDX but I prefer stuff that displays in the rendered view as well as in the source. Of course the renderers can change, but that's slow.

As for inverting them without losing the data, that seems possible and would be interesting to see.
I used RStudio in my university stats course, along with the strong recommendation by my professor to get the book "OpenIntro Statistics" (3rd edition back then).

[1]

I really couldn't care less about statistics, which like with many other topics/courses made/makes it incredibly hard for me to concentrate on and actually learn something about it.
I could force the knowledge into my brain to be able to recite and use it in practice over and over again, but the moment the exams come around it's all gone from my head.
That certainly made university very problematic.

[1] Edit to add:
I forgot to say that using RStudio was the only remotely pleasant part of that Stats course and in later courses where some stats work was needed.
Great resource, found a lot of interesting videos already.

One suggestion is to include video length in the individual video display, as most of the very short videos aren't that useful.
Just a wild guess: location ~ /\.git.*

i.e., add a .* to the end so that it matches anything coming after .git
I got that Andrej's point was that he didn't really enjoy Management and was much more interested in building things directly.
Taking responsibility for collecting and using vulnerabilty scan data in this case also means assuming authority to do so. A good test would be whether citizens are also free to inspect the vulnerabilities of government systems, or have a right to do so. If they don't, that's worth scrutinizing.

Canada has a different approach, where institutions can sign up to using a federal DNS service provided through the domain registrar, which I interpret is not unlike 1.1.1.1 or 9.9.9.9, but with malware detection. I believe it's called Canadian Shield, and it's not active scanning, but rather passive collection from institutions that manage infrastructure.

Active scans by government seems a bit like domestic intelligence collection. Given the techincal capabilities of most of these agencies when they work with ISPs, hairpinning traffic from one of these scanned servers for inspection is trivial. Fine if the threat model involved exceptional cases with clear oversight, and individual decision accountability in response to ticking bomb situations, but the examples of how similar powers have been used in the past are so abundant that I'm having trouble remembering a situation where they were used to protect a mere citizen.
decentralization of X does not and cannot exist without decentralized funding of X.

this is why there is simply no way to separate blockchain (as an implementation of decentralized X) from tradeable cryptocurrency derived from units of X.

this is not in any way a defense or support for cryptocurrency, only that it is nonsense to claim decentralization of function can exist independently from decentralization of funding. that cryptocurrency is designed to explicitly realize this principle doesn't excuse its failure to do so.
Yes - the Fed is (for better or worse) more independent and agile than the ECB. Being responsive to only a single nation’s government (even when you’re the global reserve currency) has its perks.
That you can't see the value in having such a team - that having such a team is essential for a company like twitter to operate - is completely baffling to me. Not having one will make advertisers pull out and make the company much less profitable.
Definitely some "Trump at home" energy (to use a standard meme).
I think you must be doing something very wrong if you measure less than 1 Mpx/s for fjxl. It should reach at least 50 Mpx/s or so, and of course more if you are using multiple threads.

Anyway, yes, we should improve decode speed — for example, currently every sample value is unnecessarily converted from int to float and then back to int, and obviously that causes some avoidable slowdowns.

I agree that MT PNG does have a gentler transition path than introducing a new format. The point remains though that you need to somehow get both the encoder side and the decoder side upgraded to benefit from the advantage, which can be hard given how many existing deployments of png there are. Any system that has to take arbitrary png as input cannot rely on MT decode being an option, etc.

Also one disadvantage of MT PNG compared to JXL is that it splits the image in stripes, not tiles. For full-image decode, that doesn't matter much, but for region-of-interest (cropped) decode, tiles are a bit more efficient (no need to unnecessarily decode the areas to the left and right of the region of interest).
In tech sector... You will realistically be given a few months of pay and benefits and maybe a bonus payout (sometimes with conditions). That's really it. They call you in and tell you to hand back your laptop.

Realistically, assuming the job market is otherwise good and you're reasonably skilled, it'll be like a few weeks vacation, at least in retrospect. The times I've been laid off have been some of the nicest most relaxing times of my life, if I look back. Of course no one likes it and I'm not sure I'd want to be laid off in this job market.
I think I'm one of the few that hung in there through all four seasons. Season two was really bad, but three and four were pretty good; I really enjoyed the last season, although I thought the end of the season was a bit disappointing.

I just really enjoyed the "not-too-distant-future" take on technology and society that the show provided, and I was willing to accept a little ambiguity in the storyline to go along for the ride.
You can "condemn" it all you want, but if people can easily create gray goo we will all die, and no laws or social norms will save us.
Many worried about what Twitter's changes would mean for under-represented groups. Given this news and Twitter also cutting its accessibility department, I think we can see their new attitude towards minorities isn't particularly friendly.
Hubzilla allows you to subscribe to feeds as "channels," but it doesn't provide a great feed reader experience from my limited use. I have only made accounts with Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Hubzilla, so entirely possible that some of the others do interesting things with feed subscriptions/reading.
I think the prediction of "it will go down" is more related to the fact that Twitter (like any company with a web-facing product and a large userbase) is basically a sieve of a boat with a team constantly bailing out the water, frantically plugging holes as new ones appear -- and the new management is firing most of the team. From that perspective, yes it's likely to simultaneously catch fire and sink.
Oxford English Dictionary (via Google) gives:

Factoid

- a brief or trivial item of news or information
- an assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact

So both uses are reasonable?
Dogecoin is plenty of evidence. There is more.
> But it is at least now theoretically possible.

I have the opposite opinion. I think the UK has been historically hamstrung by its desire to ape the US. The US is a continent-spanning superpower, the dollar is the world's reserve currency, and the US economy is the largest in the world. That means that a lot of the things the US can do, vis-a-vis policy, the UK cannot. Copying a nation that is on basically in a class of its own in every particular is a quixotic project that will never work.

With the EU, the UK had at least one US-level advantage: the unfettered access to a gigantic market. Now, there's regulatory doubling, at the very least, if you want to sell or buy things in that market. I think you'd need some spectacular advantages to outbalance that, going forward - and I have no idea where they are supposed to be coming from. From a business perspective, the most perfect regulatory framework is inferior to a bad regulatory framework that allows you access to a much bigger market.
The economy is like a running a relay race. Major players have significant power to screw it up, but they have little ability to fix screw ups caused by someone else.
Unless you're interpreting the tweet like [1], a lie,

> A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.

… the tweet is factual only to the extent required to deceive the reader. As the increase is a CPI adjustment, by definition real benefits aren't moving. Then there's the entirety of the problems that are being caused by the worst inflation of my life … that's to be chalked up to the Biden admin's "leadership"?

The context changes the entire tone of the tweet, because it was a lie. The White House deleted it because they got caught in a lie.

The Biden administration should be holding itself to higher standards than this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473072
> which if taken delays your eligibility to avail yourself of your State's unemployment benefits

It really depends on how it's structured and which state.
Have you seen what's been happening in Ethiopia for the last few years? Or elsewhere? The stakes are much higher than the bottom line. These platforms have been used to for coordinated campaigns to instigate and stoke mass interpersonal violence. The Human Rights team responded to that vulnerability.
You bring up a good point. I really don't know anyone in my personal/work life who I think has great taste but poor ability to execute. This includes not only tech but music, interior design, cooking, conversation, anything. I definitely know the reverse; people who can execute quickly but produce something smelly.

I'm reminded of the oft-quoted experiment where people judged on the number of ceramics they could create in a given time period ended up making higher quality output than people who were judged on their single best piece. The ability to make good judgements often is acquired by people who continuously have to make many judgements. And the ability to make many judgements is limited by your ability to execute.
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"Through Biden's leadership"

Biden had been in the Senate for like 150 years so who knows maybe he did have some impact there.
In my younger or customer-service days, I once had an awkward conversation with my manager after a message I'd intended for one person ended up going to everyone in a very prominent credit card issuer with about ten thousand on staff at the time.

The only reason I can imagine for why I wasn't fired was because they didn't really want anyone else getting ideas about what to do with the effectively unsecured Windows 2000 machines on their desks, and giving me a reason to keep shtum about it was considered preferable to not giving me one.