skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found this to be the rule, not the exception. Pointing out extremely-obvious (to me? Maybe I'm just unusually good at it? I don't even have much formal science training, and hell, barely any math training by the standards of HN folks, though) damning errors in experimental construction that should invalidate the whole thing won't earn you any friends, even if you do it before the work is undertaken, and even if you're telling the person who's claiming to want good data and useful results. Everyone seems to just want a veneer of science to what they're doing, not actually good efforts at it. As long as you have a paper-thin layer of justification that falls apart if anyone looks at it long enough, that's considered good enough and people will sit around in meetings nodding along.

Of course, in many situations the business totally lacks what it needs to correctly do the "data-driven" stuff they want to, and it'd take a good deal of up-front effort by competent people to get it, amounting to entire new projects or deep modification of existing projects.

So, given the choice between: going without that stuff and acknowledging that a lot of what they're doing is guesswork and gut decision making, or simply arbitrary; putting a smaller but still-large amount of work into finding out what they can glean from what's available; spending the time and money to collect what they need, the right way, to do the data-driven decision making they claim to want to do; and insisting they're doing things "data driven" but having all their data hopelessly ruined by e.g. selection bias and comically-bad experimental construction that can't possibly be yielding reliable results, so they can cheap out and get no actual "data-driven" benefits aside from falsely claiming that's what they're doing—they tend to go with that last option, nearly every time!
Well, dnd is largely cooperative: if you want to get a 6, I probably also want you to have a six. And if we're not even assuming that we are motivated to produce random results, than I seriously question whether such a simple rule would fix matters.
They use a combination of GPT-neo models from Eleuther and Facebook's Fairseq models -- the special sauce for NAI is their fine-tunes on those models though. They have a free trial so I'd recommend checking it out if anyone wants to play with it.
> which I find incredibly poor taste.

I wonder if that's the point. Fashion is all about pushing boundaries/generating buzz/publicity, right?

I'm not saying I agree with it. I just don't think anybody would be talking about Balenciaga on HackerNews if they weren't being quite literally as edgy as possible/pushing the boundaries as hard as possible.

If all of this ends up increasing sales/brand image in one twisted way or another, will they call it a net win and go back to being a sleeping giant until they fabricate/drum up the next "scandal"?
No we get stronger with time. Bro do you even lift? /s
I don't think parent is calling the entire blog spam, there is definitely good, original content on the blog itself. But this particular article is what's called "blogspam":

> A blog where the author paraphrases or copies from the original article/webpage in an attempt to increase his or her own traffic. This becomes a waste of the reader's time forcing them to click through the blog to get to the actual article. Often submitted to sites like Digg or Reddit.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Boxcryptor Sold to Dropbox
[original in German unfortunately]
German cloud storage encryption provider Boxcryptor has sold "major technological assets" to Dropbox.
Boxcryptor provides an intermediate encryption layer for multiple online storage services like e.g. OneDrive, Dropbox, Sharepoint, Google Drive, Box, iCloud.
I think they just lost their main advantage compared to Microsoft Azure Encryption.
So whats the alternative? "Just trust me"?
Is Hacker News Only for Tech?
Like is hackner news similar to reddit at all?
Nothing to see here folks; move along.

> "robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent and outweigh any other force option available to the SFPD."

See? Nothing there. Go about your business.

> Though robots can potentially be equipped with explosive charges to breach certain structures, they would only be used in extreme circumstances

See? It'll be only in extreme circumstances.

Killing someone should be difficult. Maybe it should even endanger your own life. Otherwise it's too easy to press the button.
>Yet people will still believe that 0% of theories are correct.

This is not a generous portrayal. The people you're talking about mostly believe things based on experience (e.g. evidence, though there are many other kinds of experience). Therefore, if their experience tells them something a person is insisting on is probably not true, well then that's their perfectly reasonable position at the time. That is not the same as having a conviction that any given thing is not true, and it is very much not the same as believing that "0%" of anything widely considered a "conspiracy theory" are true, for all cases, forever, as some kind of ridiculous rule.
Meta Fined $275M for Breaking E.U. Data Privacy Law
And now we get into the subjective discussion on what or what not is high art.
Even after somebody told me it was there, I still had to look really damn hard to find it. I don't think your expectation that people reviewing the shoot noticed it is reasonable.
The most popular programming languages described on Wikipedia with qualit (cont)
I think you are on the money. Despite the article's headline (and anecdotes) implying a broader downturn in the sector, I'm inclined to write this off to Beyond expectations being completely out of touch with reality, and possibly some mismanagement / marketing problems specific to Beyond.

This statement from Impossible (which is included in the article) directly contradicts the "plant based meats are failing" subtext the article seems to want to push otherwise:

> “We’re not experiencing anything like what Beyond Meat has reported or some of the other brands in the space,” Keely Sulprizio, a spokeswoman for Impossible Foods, said in an email. “Quite the opposite: We’re seeing hypergrowth, with over 60 percent year-over-year dollar sales growth in retail alone.”

> The IRI data show that while volume sales of Impossible ground meat and faux burger patties were down slightly, volumes of other categories, including frozen faux meat and chicken, soared.
> one that can charge and discharge at the same time

I did some research into this as well and I'd gladly consider this as an option but most power banks can't do this. And the ones that do don't tend to advertise it. Every time someone says they found one that can do this, in some forum or whatever, they are no longer available to buy.
its mostly a castle in the air
That's an interesting take. What leads you to think that the artist is speaking out against child abuse, though? What do you we have to go on here that would allow us to assign that intention to them?
Firewall - $300

2 APs - $200

8 port switch - $150

That's less than I'd spend personally.

If the Pi isn't the gateway (which it likely isn't) that's not going to be trivial. Even if it was, fiddling with iptables isn't exactly easy. How are you going to identify devices? MAC? DHCP reservations? Static IPs? That's not a trivial project.
> 2. Any advice about automatic whitespace/indentation handling with Emacs?

I use prettier-mode and editorconfig-mode. Everything is formatted on save so works well for me.
The Black Investors Who Were Burned by Bitcoin
Why should it be so hard to believe? A mainframe box is about the size of a rack of servers, and all the components are much more tightly integrated. Plus the utilisation on m/fs is much higher than on normal servers.

I don't have benchmarks, but googling "mainframe energy efficiency" brings up a load of results, eg:

https://www.bmc.com/blogs/mainframe-sustainability-green-it/

https://www.serverwatch.com/guides/for-energy-savings-consid...

https://www.suse.com/c/mainframe-versus-server-farm-comparis...
It won't be zero because there are money laundering, corruption, and "escaping money from China" use cases, but it will be much lower.

Well, while it is still legal that is.
Or they would try to work as much as possible, earning 10-10000x more than everyone else does.
Pi-Hole does a lot but it acts against DNS queries, that is, requests done in the open through normal name resolution. If a malicious software or piece of hardware wants to pester the user with ads, or spy on them, through connections to hardcoded IPs without using DNS queries then only a properly configured firewall can be effective. At least until said malware decides to use a well known service nobody would block to phone home, for example by having a mail client buried in the code that exchanges encrypted blobs with user data and/or ads through a gmail address; who would ever block gmail? In that scenario, if that is a device that doesn't need mail functionality, for example a Smart TV rather than a PC, a dedicated firewall that blocks any non essential connection to the outside would be mandatory just for that device.
Ah but then you would have to remember and repeat those exact pixel values every time you pad something and update them in every place if you decide to change it. Or build your own system of variables in CSS, or use some awful CSS in JS solution.

Also means you have to think of a name for every component you want to apply style to which is surprisingly tedious.
Super creative! Other people have mentioned the issues with static posture for too long, so I won't go there. But I like how you've set up the landing page. Easy to demo, straight and to the point. Nice.
What’s the rationale there?
I’m only 33, so hardly “old”. But I have started to feel the effects of age in small ways.

I prefer larger screens so that I can increase font sizes and strain my eyes less. I also worry much more about ergonomics, because lots of laptop hacking has started to turn into RSI.

And that all means bigger laptops are better, and they are usually not lighter. I used a netbook in college - I can’t fathom it now.
I had an Amiga 500, I love the computer very much. The problem with these projects is that you end up with a keyboard at an angle that is not ergonomic at all.
> is blogspam

It is, and it isn't.

Functionally, for the reader of Hacker News, it has the same form of and effect as blogspam. It's a blog entry, it doesn't add much, and it just links to the real content.

But presumably it lacks the intent of blogspam. Bruce Schneier's blog has quality original content, and nobody is trying to game the system. Probably Schneier just wrote this blog entry to bring an interesting story to his readers' attention, and one of them posted it here.
Is there anything more than a sign up form?

As it is the only feedback I can have is that I am loathe to fill out my email on that kind of form because maybe six months from now I will get an email from you, maybe it will get through my spam filter, and maybe I will still care.

I think making people wait to try a product is a way people kill their startups. Maybe 1 person in 50 who sees your sign up form is going to fill it out, you have someone on the hook who was a remarkable amount of ardor in that moment. (You can’t believe what a precious thing that is.) It is very likely that ardor will have faded by the time that they hear from you again.

Maybe the best you can do now is make a YouTube video showing people working with the prototype. As it is this is note taking startup 74,912 out of 111,325.
> But it's great knowing that the next dev we hire can pick it up and go from day one.

Presumably the next dev you will hire will be a frontend engineer? CSS is a core competency for a frontend engineer, whereas Tailwind is an add-on. If I were choosing a frontend engineer for my team, I would make sure there core competencies are up to snuff.
biggest barrier to this is the hardware requirements. I saw an estimate on r/machinelearning that based on the parameter count, gpt-3 needs around 350GB of VRAM. maybe you could cut that in half, or even one-eighth if someone figures out some crazy quantization scheme, but it's still firmly outside of the realm of consumer hardware right now.

stuff like koboldai can let you run smaller models on your hardware though (https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client).
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Hm I'm not sure it's very very few as you say. Most people I know also don't know much about the various countries in the world (vacation-wise) and would be happy to go somewhere for a set price (in a set time such as school holidays) rather than a particular destination. In fact, the more avid travelers (rather than casual vacationers) are the ones more likely to pick a particular destination to go to.

I've heard of many people saying, I have 1000 bucks to spend on a vacation, I'd like to go somewhere for that amount during this time.
What the nutjobs were saying was (and remains) that the NSA reads all your email and listens to all your phone calls or that it has unfettered access to this data. The Snowden leaks confirmed this to be false, but the nutjobs keep claiming it.

People said "everyone knew about" phone metadata collection because they did. It was a huge news story in 2006 when USA Today broke it. https://www.kpcc.org/npr-news/2006-05-11/phone-companies-gav...
https://www.npr.org/2006/05/11/5398629/report-nsa-collecting...
You may be interested in this symphony that was composed for a dot matrix printer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEeG1qq0Sxo
It’s pretty new though. Less than 2 years I think.
Extortion in Cloud Storage
> What is the “humane” way to kill?

Halal one.

> Is the humane way to kill an animal the same way one would humanely kill a toddler without consent of the parents or child?

Interesting wording.

> If not why not, when we consider animal have at least the intelligence, will to live, social connections and capacity for suffering as children?

When we will be able to ask for that kind of a contest?

PS. I know, animals has some signs of intelligence. But for me this measure of intelligence is not enough for not willing to eat it. And referring to parent poster, I really think there is some ethics in eating only those meat which has been killed by me, but I only have a chicken farm when I want to eat not only chicken.
> Money is a necessary means for chasing your dreams

That's a very personal definition of money
And if you owned all the dollar bills?
> You can't "create" 10x engineer. You either have work ethic or you don't.

I don't think that anyone who believes in the "10x engineer" (myself included) thinks it has anything to do whatsoever with how much they work, or their attitude toward the work. "Work ethic" suggests that it's about how much effort they choose to put into it, and that's nothing to do with it. 10x engineers will do more per hour than median engineers, whether they work one hour or ten in a day.
VS Code Sandboxing
> What a fitting, ironic place to start it off, then Los Angeles

Not an apologist, but you could have at least gotten the city correct in your cynical diatribe.
It's mentioned in the linked page, but not really explored: instead of `^C` (aka `C-c`, `Control-c`, &c) use `M-#` (aka `Alt-#` or `option-shift-3`) which adds a `#` before whatever you've typed on the current line and hits `return`, putting the line you're cancelling in the history as a comment so you can go back and `C-a C-d return` to submit it.
Mainstream media’s final reputation could be zero.
The cynic in me wonders if hydrogen energy is:

1. Just a spoiler for renewables. Something that big oil and big gas can use to sew confusion and slow the transition to renewables.

2. A way that big oil and big gas can leverage their massive investment in fossil infratructure, even if it doesn't make sense economically or environmentally.

But I'm no expert on this. Just a cynic.
I tried Prelude and Doom. After some time with Doom, I switched back to Prelude. Doom was too buggy for me. While it is not really a problem with Doom (in that I can configure it myself), the idea of using Doom ended when the default selections for Python-LSP were awful (wanted to just use Jedi, but it only had the Microsoft one, which at the time, had a horrible memory leak.) My old Prelude setup covered exactly what I needed.
I managed a Pi-Hole in my house for about 4-years, and then I found NextDNS. I'm not a person who shies away from doing things the complicated way (because it's fun or makes life better), but paying only $19/yr to have everything managed automatically for me was a no-brainer. Not having to worry about my mobile devices using it, too, was icing on the cake.
I’m not sure why it’s limited to beginners. I’ve been writing CSS for 20+ years and found it tedious, error prone, difficult to manage, and irritating. Tailwind honestly made me enjoy doing web again.
Buffets house would look like a zen monastery if he extended these words to all facets of his life.
You mean that shooting in which shooter was identified as a non-binary child of porn actor?
my favorite joke about this is:

"the axiom of choice is obviously true, and the well ordering principle is obviously false, but Zorn's lemma? who can say?"
But what about all of the real money that low-information retail 'investors' put into the crypto ecosystem as a result of the social media hype? Im not being facetious, isn't there potential future cash flow in the scam?
Docker Desktop is:

- spyware (transmits private data off your machine without consent when it crashes, which it does a lot)

- nonfree software

- has a git repo so you don't notice it's nonfree software
Normally I avoid sounding critical but since you vociferously defend the article's merit, here is what I honestly feel: As people deeply involved or passionate about tech, we hope HN to be a place where

* Read something we know from a different perspective (a.k.a the hacker way)

* Read something deeper which explains the (usually simpler) stuff in due course (i.e. deepdive)

I get it, you love the article and you want it on HN. But it does nothing more than regurgitating what we learned in university already. And the treatment of the topic is pedestrian (Please see why I critiqued it in terms of absence F/R bias & charge flow etc. Just having a sketch of the BJTs & FETs is extremely low bar)
The format is only partially invented, it follows Jupytext [0], but adds support for cell metadata. There is no obvious way to get that in fenced codeblocks, especially with the ability to spread it over multiple lines so it plays well with version control.

One more consideration is that it's not "Markdown with code blocks interspersed", one might as well use plaintext or AsciiDoc.

Of course there are tradeoffs.. I wish I had more time to work on it.

[0]: https://github.com/gzuidhof/starboard-notebook/blob/master/d...

[1]: https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext
This is perfectly plausible. It's also intractable, and doesn't imply that we should believe more things, any more or less than it implies that we should disbelieve more things. No matter how much misdirection and falsehood is put out by whatever organized or unorganized bodies, we still only have what we see and hear and read and experience. It's just one more of a million obvious reasons we already have to be skeptical - skeptical of what we're told by authorities, but also skeptical of what we're told by any given person with any motivation to convince you of something: financial, political, or even just emotional, and that includes conspiracy theorists. But there's a balance - if you're too skeptical, then nothing has any meaning. You might as well not believe any information you receive, in which case you might as well become a hermit who lives off the land (which is fine, but not a realistic expectation for the whole world). Or, in the case of many conspiracy theorists, arbitrarily choose something to believe (arbitrary because their sources are not any more reliable than other sources), which really isn't any better.

So, we want to avoid falling off any given edge (becoming a hermit or a person with no opinions on anything, becoming a truly nutty conspiracy theorist, or becoming a mindless loyalist to some social/political group). A key tool for avoiding this is understanding a few things:

1. There is a bigger space than you think between having no opinion and having a full-blown conviction. I can believe or disbelieve something without making it into part of my identity or taking any kind of serious concrete action based on it or trying to convince everybody to go in the same direction as me.

2. It follows from #1 that it is OK to be wrong.

3. It follows from #1 that it is good to change opinions based on new information - it is not hypocritical.
Sorry, wasn’t trying to imply you didn’t and I fully agree. Even managers that know stats can be busy or but into hype about ml or other shiny new things that they don’t have time or resources to deconstruct. This is another big problem with data science, “black box” systems and cargo cults. It’s easy to think “LLMs will change the world! We should use them, the competition will.”
> if the implementation follows the recommended write ordering of allocation bitmap → FAT → directory entry when creating a file and the reverse when deleting a file, then even interrupted writes do not pose an issue.

The problem is that with all the caching that occurs, writes do not happen in this straightforward way unless the cache is completely flushed at each point. Even getting cached flushed is not straightforward because most drives cache and some ignore cache flushes to increase performance.
lol. Now repeat for gold.