skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how much I can reproduce here but this is the most relevant part from the article:

The European Commission on Wednesday threatened Musk with a ban unless Twitter abides by strict content moderation rules, as US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen indicated that Washington was reviewing his purchase of the social network.
The warning from Brussels came in a video call between Musk and Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.

Breton told Musk that Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, pursuing disinformation “aggressively” and agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform by next year.

Musk was warned that unless he stuck to those rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, a new law that sets the global standard for how Big Tech must police content on the internet. Breton reiterated Twitter could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law.
Considerations When Looking for a Dual/Multi-WAN Router
Answered in the Q&A section of https://inqnet.caltech.edu/wormhole2022/. The answer is a bit garbled, and all I can infer is "we simulated it classically first and then did it on a quantum computer so that we could call it an experiment".
I tried migrating from LP to BW and got import errors. Bitwarden's error message was very vague (along the lines of "sorry, something went wrong") and I haven't been able to track down what entries were causing the issue. I've tried 3 or 4 times including trying to reproduce with subsets of the full collection but it's too much of a pain with hundreds of accounts and I so far haven't been motivated enough to manually transfer them or to write a selenium script to do it automatically.
What was Kitty Hawk useful for?
Well it demonstrates that ability. You could imagine a more refined version of this being a better version of Google's knowledge boxes (which also have the overconfidence issue). Similarly, knowing when you're not confident enough to give a good answer would be a key skill for a bot with superhuman research/summary abilities.

Imagine a bot that searches ancient texts to answer your research questions. You ask, "was Plato nice?"

If everyone wrote about how nice Plato was, you want it to say "Plato was nice."

If it doesn't know, you want it to say, "There is no evidence one way or the other."

It may be impossible for you to verify since you don't read ancient Greek, so you need a system which has shown a robust ability to know when it doesn't know something.
I'd say they would put DRM on paper if they could

Except fucking Dymo did: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer...

On plus side choosing which brand label printer to buy was very simple...
Anything between nothing and one most likely correct branch predicted to _not_ jump "branch iff int/pointer > int/pointer".

This kind of bounds check are normally not ever violated (in well formed code) so branch prediction predicts them correctly nearly always.

It also is (normally) just jumping in the bad case, which means with a correct branch predictions thy can be really cheap.

And then cpu "magic" tends to be optimized for that kind of checks at they appear in a lot of languages (e.g. Java).

Then in many cases the compiler can eliminate the checks partially.

For example any many kinds of for-each element iterations the compiler can infer that the result of the conditionally loop continuation check implies the bounds check. Combine that with loop unrolling which can reduce the number of continuation checks and you might end up with even less.

Also bounds checks tend to be an emergency guard, so you tend to sometimes do checks yourself before indexing and the compiler can often use that to eliminate the bounds check.

And even if you ignore all optimizations it's (assuming in bounds) "just" at most one int/pointer cmp (cheap) followed by a conditional branch which doesn't branch (cheap).
Body cam footage even censored would do a lot to sort out the unknowns and incoherencies. Sadly, we'll never see that out of SFPD
It's a lot cheaper than having an RCE and being completely pwned.
How much did any of us think about or notice social network ads for Apple products? I remember the #AppleEvent hashtag emoji campaigns that cost a pretty penny but that's not what's going on now.
> in Germany one will have a difficult time not knowing German, for example

No, that couldn't be farther from the truth. I lived in Germany, and have friends there who still don't know German after 10+ years and never have any problems. If you work in a non-office industry you need German, but in office/tech workplaces nobody knows German.
I really wish that I could (while respecting privacy) dig into real people's music tastes. I used to download songs with Napster and find some amazing song/artist, and them dig into what else that person had and loved almost all of it.

I have been looking to recreate this discovery through kindred-spirits-in-music ever since.
It’s really too bad there aren’t more likeable companies leading the charge against Apple here, because Apple really is abusing their market position. But people like Apple, and they don’t like Facebook, so Apple gets a pass.
If a bunch of people got up in arms and started complaining because the author of said CSS example hadn't considered that their code could be changed slightly to produce a hate symbol, I'd definitely still jump in and say "but that's not what they were doing!"
Most people in the US are vitamin D deficient, it's very cheap, yet it's rare for people to take supplements.
> If it wasn't such a PITA to move off LastPass,

It's really not. As the quality of their software declined severely starting around 4-5 years ago, I put off moving because I assumed it would be a huge hassle. It turned out to be surprisingly easy. I have since deleted my LastPass account and wouldn't trust that company to mop my floors.
I feel like another application which is maybe not talked about all that much is that knowing category theory gives you power to name some design pattern, google that, and tap into that vast mathematical knowledge that humanity already discovered. This becomes incredibly valuable once you become aware of how much you don't know. Or maybe just write that bare manimum code that works, idc.

Oh and also when you recognize your design to be something from ct its probably quality. Shit code cant be described with simple math (simple as in all math is simple, not as in math that is easy to understand).
Keep Online Speech Free (2018)
no law against lying to your investors and regulators right?
> What is a dead operating system anyway

No longer maintained / barely changing, like MS-DOS, Mac OS 9, Amiga OS (which does occasionally get an update but usually not much in the way of core changes)

It's relevant because Windows is a moving target and the dead operating systems aren't so there's not a lot of support work needed for them nor will there be as much of a user base.
I also noticed that they present it as if other diffusion models were not invertible, but they are. Also, they appear to be using DDPM++, the exact same neural network architecture as Stable Diffusion?

Article says: "to train the neural network, which in this case is a U-Net (DDPM++ backbone)."

Also it's kinda weird that they show videos generating images from noise (like Imagen / Stable Diffusion) but don't cite any recent diffusion paper.

EDIT: In fact they don't cite ANY 2022 paper. So my guess would be that they submitted this last year and now it's been made public because now the NeurIPS 2022 conference is taking place. But most likely, the actual research here predates the Stable Diffusion release.
I was bullied intensely in the public schools. My parents were able to get me into a private school for just one year and the difference was night and day. For the first time in my life I was able to go to school and get respect. They sent me back to the public schools for the fourth grade and it was war all the time all over again.

Someone I know used to brag about the stunt he pulled to embarrass the private high school he went to and I shut him up pretty harshly about it because I had suffered so much in the public schools and how I would have appreciated the privilege that he got more than he did.

Of course he had his own problems including a struggle with alcoholism, getting beaten up by the cops, etc. and today he is a tenant and I am his landlord so it's not like I didn't catch some breaks.
This is obviously an error or fake screenshot. The same thing and far worse is said thousands of times every day in his replies and it's fine.

This is the same kind of thing the right was highly paranoid about and instantly believed every mistake or claim. It's deja vu.
Looking at general spending doesn't tell you absolutely anything where the spending is going to and doesn't enable any kind of cost-benefit analysis. It's a meaningless metric to derive any argument from.

Spending on services that are multipliers of productivity is very different than spending on the military, for example. Spending on public services that improves citizens' life like healthcare, parks, schools, culture, easiness of bureaucracy (e.g.: permits for construction, licencing of activities, etc.) is a completely different beast than spending on politicians benefits, military drills, and so on.
FYI, with WSL2 1.0, you can finally enable systemd, so you can run services and cron jobs.
Wow. This is the thing I've been looking for for years (ever since I got my remarkable), something that would allow me to augment my scribbles and bullet journals.

To be honest, this is something I'd be willing to pay a lot of money for...
I've experienced this in a similar workplace before and did lead me to spiral and exit, to me it was absolutely exhausting keeping such a ruse up. There was something about it that felt so inauthentic, a bit toxic positivity, a bit hide-the-pain-harold.

It's like the workplace version of Instagram itself, where everybody shows their best side, is mildly ashamed of feeling anything but positive because of the collective emphasis on "good vibes only" and keeps any concerns, cynicism or suggestions that we're going in the wrong direction under wraps.

I think it's ultimately unhealthy (both individually, psychologically and to the company) and leads to the same problems you see in autocratic nations - the leaders only see everything going swimmingly.
>Why does he think that the decision process should be visible and rational (cost vs benefit) to him?

Good leaders spell out the why. For one, it’s just decency. Secondly, if you care even a little about a subordinate, you want them to succeed after leaving. This feedback helps them understand any missteps they can avoid later. Thirdly, removing uncertainty reduces stress. It reminds me of the study about mice and electric shocks. The mice who were randomly shocked with no rhyme or reason became helpless because of the uncertainty in their life.

Nobody is entitled to good leadership, but most can understand why it’s necessary.
Decent handwriting recognition would help here - not as a full substitute, but as a lightweight alternative.

Though I cannot imagine it working within the confines of the keyboard HID API.

With non-defective keyboards (and non-spazzy hands), the key presses on a keyboard are non-probabilistic; that's not the case with handwriting, where a large amount of the information regarding how to interpret text comes from the surrounding characters - including those that follow.

You'd need to deal with the shifting probabilities of text input, and without introducing user noticable latency or triggering an excess of events.

It doesn't sound impossible, but it wouldn't be easy either.
When exactly did I say that all government is bad? I personally think it's great the government restricts the right of people to commit murder.
Sorry for being so terse, but having read the "Not Even Wrong" blog just moments before I ran across the topic on HN I wanted to get the link out quickly.

While I advise reading the whole post, here is a notable quote:

"The two senior physicists behind this, Joe Lykken and Maria Spiropulu, have histories that go way back of successfully promoting to the press nonsense about exotic space-time structures appearing in experiments that have nothing to do with them."
I try and make playlists for the year I've experienced on Apple Music:
2020: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/the-year-is-2020/pl.u-RR...
2021: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/the-year-is-2021/pl.u-vx...

This year I'm going to start writing out the songs.
The scientific consensus is that more commonly aggressive disorders that involve violating others’ rights like BPD and ASPD are less treatable than anxiety and depression.

Stop trying to apply feels-right reasoning to complex medical topics. You’re out of your wheelhouse.
Simple Go link shortener for Tailscale
Probably a good time to think about unionising then. https://techworkerscoalition.org/
Any hard evidence for such an outlandish claim?
aha! So there is a catch. Still worth checking out.
This is not the compelling argument you think it is; in this analogy I:

* didn't buy my house, I inherited it,

* the people I inherited it from stole it from other people who

* also still live in the house somehow but just in the not-as-nice parts, and

* the house is gigantic and can easily fit literally billions more people without even coming close to exhausting the resources of the house, in fact

* bringing more people into the house would in fact substantially increase the house's shared ability to operate and provide for the members of the house.

So yeah, if we want to use this analogy in a meaningful way, nothing at all entitles me to my house!
I'm looking for something like this but for scraping SPAs and JS-rich web content. A single static binary like this not chrome driver or selenium etc
Do you understand that "employer" and "metropolitan region" are not the same? Some employers pay more, others pay less.

Anyway, I'm done with this. Go talk to a lawyer and see what they say.
Jeremy Grantham on Investing in Green Tech (Ep. 165)
That's exactly what weak management does. Family management is especially prone to this IME. Cut new investment, cut cost of inputs, labour, quality control.

That works as long as you have weak competitors (or a moat) and nothing terrible happens, like high defects. Essentially you're coasting on prior investment. But as soon as something changes in the market you're falling behind.

What I've often observed is that new low cost competitors introduce features which are often reserved for high end devices/products due to market segmentation. The dominant player refuses to adapt and hence they lose all their low end market share, the volume of which is necessary to make the whole thing work. Meanwhile new customers start with the lost cost ecosystem.

I've seen this happen with e.g. Agilent, or SaaS companies, who charge 10x for something that costs little, like SaML/AD auth.

Imagine if NVIDIA had charged for CUDA or considered it a distraction from selling graphics cards. They wouldn't own the HPC/ML space if they had done that.
Thanks for the tip off. I will look into this tomorrow. This is why I'm here. The distributed consciousness of HN is a wonderful problem solving engine :)
Coming soon (december!) $4-5/mo per user. Announcement tomorrow.
Closest thing to it would be WhatsApp, which during its early days charged a token sum to access and still managed to gain significant marketshare.

Other than this I don't know - the problem with social media is that you need network effects to make the platform valuable - nobody is going to pay for an empty place, and similarly nobody will join because they'd have to pay (so the platform would need to provide value from day 1).

Twitter is in a unique position when it comes to this - it already has the network effects and a significant userbase including influential people. This is why I'm also very excited about Musk's takeover of it. Do I agree with him about everything? Absolutely not - I think the man is unhinged. Yet, a stupid, ego-driven decision is our only escape from the cancer that is advertising.
Literally no-one is assuming that average unit economics apply to every transaction.
is this really Apple HQ?
OP here.

Thanks for taking the time to check out the project and for your very insightful comments. It appears like Amazon's storyteller was discontinued in 2015 so it didn't end up being as useful as promised.

I think the real power is in what you described: "how to translate the story from script to screen for optimum storytelling power and production cost." This is a nuanced question because that translation seems difficult to get right (how does one incorporate signals about production cost, etc.) Would love to get more of your thoughts here.
Not only economic incentives, but contracts as well. Contracts are promises between individuals that are enforced by a third party, namely the judicial system. This way we don't have trust that everybody will do what they say they'll do, but instead we only have to trust that any promises made (in the form of a contract) will be enforced, if needed, to by the judicial system. Crypto goes beyond that. Crypto doesn't want to have to trust the judicial system even, and therefore contracts are out of the question. So it can only rely on incentives.
Because I don’t want them to connect all the data without my consent. I don’t want single government employees to have access to all my data at once.
Technically it's not science because it doesn't follow the scientific method. Instead it's the close cousin, empiricism.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empirical
I mean they’d have to upload them somewhere in order to do the push notification thumbnails right? I guess they could make it optional to ease concerns.
I’m not saying there aren’t use cases for both options (permanently opening AirDrop to everyone and opening AirDrop to everyone for 10 minutes). I’m just saying that the temporary option is a huge usability improvement and a very reasonable default.

And I think the exact same thing about the Wi-Fi setting. On the rare occasions that I want to turn Wi-Fi off I usually add a reminder to turn it back on when I get home.
I have implemented a VDOM in Ruby which I use to send patches to the browser. It works really well.

I'm currently playing around with signals as in SolidJS. That would result in more granular updates, but it's not as easy to implement.
> If you always predict the in bounds path, the check is almost free.

Note that you often only branch in the "bad" case, which means even on systems without branch prediction it tends to be not very expensive, and compilers can also eliminate a lot of bounds checks.
A real fun one is rebound headaches. Spent a few months with horrifically painful headaches. Turned out it mostly from painkillers. More I took. Worse headaches Got.

My other less painful headaches that started the cycle were an actual brain issue. Just took a few years to get correct diagnosis.

Eventually had a cycle of one round of pain killers every other day. Cycling through To a different kind each time. This mostly worked until I got excess brain fluid drained off. Which actually solved issue.
I don't think that's always possible in practice: consider Vec<T>, whose size is only known at runtime. A Vec<T>'s iterator can only do runtime bounds checking to avoid walking past the end.

That said, this is unavoidable in C/C++ too.
Hopefully, they claw back all of the donations regardless of political affiliation.
Unfortunately yes. I would rather a desktop but they don't know how to pay half as much for the same specification. The desks in the office are all equipped with docks and expensive WiFi mesh driven by COVID mentality so that is the status quo.

Just send me a fucking workstation. Nope too hard.
The House votes to avert a potentially devastating railroad strike
So Facebook doesn't have something like memegen?

I worked at Google when it was created and "went viral". Before memegen there was a strain of what I would call inauthentic positivity

I think memegen made it a lot more acceptable to be cynical, which was probably good, because the company was definitely drinking a lot of its own Kool-aid
When I am interacting with regular screens what my eyes see and what my proprioception and internal ear perceive are perfectly synchronous. However, the lag in VR is still human perceivable.

It is not a 'getting used to' exposure problem it is still very much is a VR technology problem. We are just not quite there yet.
I still pay for Spotify premium cause I’m scared they would remove my username and replace it with a random gibberish string. My account is one of the first sign ups where you get to choose usernames. Bandcamp looks nice, I miss buying physical albums.
Seems like there should be a product that just lets you generate your own website experience for exposing a dumb prompt engineering of a open sourced model. This literally just takes input and prompts "what is this text about".
Right. Privately funded libraries didn't need any laws.

It's even worse for authors. They pay taxes to support institutions that exist to lend out the author's books for free.
Probably complete OT but is this correct grammatically?

"First, none of our policies have changed."

I think it should read "none of our policies has changed" instead. But I might be wrong as I get confused about this often.
I haven't used the new ones, but I have an Oculus Go. I think the most important part is fitting. I believe there are companies selling accessories to make it more comfortable to wear, and I'd totally invest in that if I planned to use it more, or in a different setting.

I'm using it for porn (and it's amazing, VR porn is the most underrated thing imho, but maybe I'm just weird) and for movies (non-3d, having these slightly-3d-movies didn't really add to the experience for me). I'm someone who can't concentrate on movies on a normal screen, my attention wanders and I'll quit watching and do something else, continue later etc and it might take me three days to complete a single movie. Not so while using the Oculus Go, I'm cut off from the world around me, focused on the movie, and now I sometimes watch a movie in one sitting (though I do rarely watch movies these days, so idk how much this is worth).

I don't know if I want to spend any time "socializing" through it, but when I was sick I've definitely used it for 6-7 hours on one day to watch multiple movies, and it was fine.
Does Big Printer have lobbyists in Congress? This, along with coffee pod DRM, shouldn't be allowed.
Any hard evidence for the claim that Epoch is a Falun Gong outlet vs. the actual case that its one of the best objective news reporting currently available? For the latter claim, read the stories and compare to the "truth" that eventually comes out on things. They are always reporting factually as it happens, whether they like what happens or not.
Why is a neutron heavier than a proton?
If you stick to arbitrary software industry definitions. As a hardware engineer first, it’s all “monolith of electron state” to me.
> economics" is a somewhat confused and lower resolution study of "psychology,"

Maybe sociology, since money matter because it can be exchanged between people, but personally I don't think you'd be wrong for thinking about economics as a narrow but important branch of sociology/psychology, in the same way you might think of biology as a narrow but important branch of chemistry and physics.
Yeah I’d say interactive rebase and soft resets is part of my “limited toolbox” for git that I wouldn’t go without. (I don’t stage hunks, don’t merge in either direction etc, so I leave some other parts of the larger toolbox alone).
Ex-Twitter safety chief admits Hunter Biden laptop censorship was a 'mistake'