skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The last 2 or 3 years were not a great time for the individual. The 'community' was stampeding, morality and freedom of choice went out of the window, and it didn't matter who got hurt. Everyone needed to do what they were told.

If you think the last few years were bad for individualism, see the Salem witch trials or McCarthyism. We used to punish people with unpopular opinions by literally burning them at the stake at worst and ruining their livelihoods at best. Before that we had excommunication from the Church which was cancel culture on hypersteroids.

Nonconformity to the cultural zeitgeist is more acceptable now than it has ever been.
This will be fantastic.
I am looking forward to it!
Can someone EIL5 as to the significance of this?

How does drawing lines between galaxies show asymmetry. Why is that important?
> The product is free for up to 15 users.

Is that including if you self-host?
>Evil pays really well

You’ve obviously never worked for a nonprofit :-)
It constantly tickles.
No, that is not true.

The idea of speculating is "I don't care understanding the underlying business, the only things that matters is the price is going up".

But that does not mean there are no people actually investing. Investing means you understand at least to some degree the thing you are investing in and you think it is sound investment -- meaning there is good enough chance the money you will put in it will get multiplied over time. When actually investing you don't really care about short term price changes. When my stock falls rapidly I instantly check the news about my company to see if there exists some fundamental reason for the fall and if there is none -- I usually start thinking about whether it makes sense to buy even more of it while "stupid" speculators let it become cheap.
If it's centralized it's garbage and it doesn't matter whatever its roadmap is. Also ETH wont implement sharding because its breaks composability. It's just marketing.
Locking the apartment building exit door is illegal under Czech fire code, in case of fire EVERYONE in the building (which can be also visitors not living there) must be able to open door from inside even without key or anything. That's the law, reality without enforced law is different, so you can easily get stuck in front of the door with fire behind you.

https://www.hzscr.cz/clanek/zamykani-vchodovych-dveri-bytovy...

As for apps, haven't seen it anywhere, we use chip keys, but almost always there is also standard key lock available.
They did! The action uses a CLI app they wrote.
Adobe is the most malicious company I've ever dealt with. My wife needed to use PS & LR in a couple of occasion and I checked the monthly subscription it looked only around $20/m or something and did not realize it was actually an ANNUAL COMMITMENT with a monthly price tag. Note that I checked everywhere but I still did not find out the fact. At this stage it might be me to blame. And soon I completely forgot about it. Then just a couple of days over a year, I noticed that there were payments to Adobe on my credit card statement. So I asked my wife was she still using it and she said, ahhhh, nope, I finished with it just after couple of days. Okay, so we paid Adobe 11 months for nothing. Thus I contacted Adobe to cancel the subscription and got told please pay us another 11 months as you did not cancel before the last day of the year... What?! I challenged that and the support actually help to cancel without incurring additional charges to my card.

I thought that was the end of the story. But when I tried to uninstall it, the installer asked me to login. Entered my credentials, did not work. Double checked by trying to login to the website, the credentials were actually correct. Googled and found their dedicated clean up tool to do it, which did not work neither. Eventually had to manually remove the master installation info from registry and use the other tools to remove their bloated packages one by one. I thought I had clean up all their sh*t but after reboot there was still a couple of services running even after deleting the installation folder. The only thing as hard to remove was a virus.
Isn't that just Ubuntu being idiotic as usual?
Google? How November
It is very rarely that there is only one fishy thing about bad business. Bad businesses are run by bad people and bad people can't really help themselves but be bad in a lot of things they are doing (it is a matter of character).

In almost every case those bad deals had red flags all over them if you only care to look.

"Crypto" is red flag enough -- anything about it should already be treated with extreme caution.

It has always been interesting to me to see people go do a version of a woman falling for a man who mistreated his ex wife. No. If he mistreated his ex wife it is very likely he will do the same to you. It is a matter of character and changing ones character substantially is very difficult because it requires you to have qualities that you are missing if you are a bad person.
The data consists of random variables that are independent

But that's still an assumption, which means that if all your samples come from the local cluster, you cannot extrapolate from your measurements to the entire universe -- because you haven't ruled out that the asymmetry is influenced/controlled by the layout of the local cluster.
Their main benefit is price certainty, so they attract volatile offerings. Theoretically they're attractive for companies whose price depends a lot on external factors; you could imagine that being e.g. a company that uses a lot of expensive raw materials or something, but in practice it's mostly companies in hype-driven industries or those whose success is completely dependent on one or a small number of other companies (e.g. a company making iphone accessories is completely dependent on how well the iphone is doing), and those don't tend to be the strongest or most solid companies.
A person with so much too much money that they invest in scams like crypto doesnt deserve pity. They are no victims. In a sense, that is financial darwinism at its best.
I am a bit underwhelmed I can't get an asteroid there that will allow me to completely destroy life on Earth.
> If I may ask, is there some sort of sector you've worked in that kept the corporations you worked for stricly neutral or better?

Education. Non-profits. Hospitals.

Not that the software vendors I worked for in those industries were perfect. Nor were the customers. Evil, greed, ambition, and power came into play and brought negativity to them all. But it tended to center around a handful of poor leaders, and did not prevent the overall impact of the work being "neutral or better".
What exactly does he technically want to preserve? Does he really care about amplitude modulation? Or does he care about the frequency band (medium wave, HF) and its propagation properties? Or does he care bout the geographic reach of these stations?

Amplitude modulation is a historically important technology, because it was technically very simple to receive in the early history of radio, and because it was more bandwidth-efficient than FM. But it remains utterly badly suited for mobile reception, because it is highly sensitive for multi-path interference (unlike FM).

We have now far better modern, digital modulation schemes, including DAB and DVB-T2 for VHF and DRM for long, medium, and short-wave transmission. They provide (thanks to OFDM) much better audio quality and interference resistance than the old analogue modulation schemes, and they are also far more power efficient, which substantially reduces the enormous electricity bills of the transmitter stations. They also are very bandwidth efficient, and can be used in single-frequency networks.
For 2022 day 5, the hard part was parsing the input.

https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/5
> Note that if you don't trust the CA, you shouldn't trust the issue date either. A dishonest CA would backdate any certificates signed.

Dare I say it, but isn't this the exact problem solved by a chain of published certificate hashes?

This is pretty much how certificate transparency lists (CTL) work too. It's like a blockchain without any proof of work or stake, just a merkle tree of hashes that ensures you cannot retroactively insert one with an older date.

> ... (and maybe use a whitelist of previously issued certificates if you believe they were trustworthy in the past).

Which I guess would be only trusting CTL published certificates up until the last point of trust.
Ever tried Elles-Dee?
SPACs are a rare positive exception to that usual logic. The people who bought in get their money back, the "sponsor" (usually a financial engineering company) is the one who loses out.
But, if you ever hear AM Stereo you'd be amazed.
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see quote here - https://web.archive.org/web/20001006000731/http://www.gamesd...

The next game was Epic Pinball, and it was a huge hit. We estimate that it was the 3rd most successful shareware game ever created. Epic Pinball basically funded the startup of Digital Extremes as well as funding a lot of the development of Unreal.

and here

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/from-the-past-to-the-fu...

Jazz Jackrabbit was your highest selling shareware game at the time? What was your highest selling shareware game overall?

TS: Of all time? That was Epic Pinball.... (and more cut)
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No it isn't. That's what SBF is trying to tell people to make it sound like it's just a story of incompetence and incorrect valuations. They stole user deposits which were specifically not meant to have anything done to them but be held and used them in the trading arm/to prop up other things.

The price of FTT shouldn't have mattered to anyone not holding FTT. But yes the precipitant here was that they had clearly been thinking "oh we have loads of FTT still so can always sell that to cover user withdrawals and won't get caught".
Managerial class is not that strange as a concept, they demonstrably do collude and perform favours behind closed doors.

Legal class is a little strange, as that is a group of people that are mercenary: They won't really be in on anything, they'll just be paid to facilitate it. They're like a cloud or a tiger: It rains, it eats other animals. That is what it's for.
We are at war with nature: UN environment chief warns of biodiversity apocalypse
Some fixtures may support yanking a bulb.
Yep. Thank you. I have been doing this and have been constantly downvoted.

People just don't understand that it is fundamentally broken as it is. Not only it is broken as a financial instrument, it is a magnet for shady people and shady money.
I had suffered pretty much the issues for the most of my adult life (almost 10 years) until finally dealing with it this year. I was anxious all the time - every day after I woke up I was constantly thinking of meetings to come and possibility of my body trembling, my voice cracking and thus being judged, being laughed at etc.

The solution for me was to visit a therapist. It took 1.5 years of a therapy (and another 6 months of waiting for a seat) but this is the best investement I have ever made.

For me the issues seemed to originate in the childhood, certain events impacting my thoughts like the feeling of being judged, being inferior to others etc. The therapy is not easy - you need to trust your therapist, open up and be honest with him but it can certainly help.
Admittedly I've done a little research, but every time I read about I don't understand how passkeys/fido/yubikey works. Is it guaranteed that all the services I use support passkey/yubikey/fido? If not, what should I do? Have some of services in a passkey/fido/yubikey (like yours) and the remaining in Bitwarden or other password manager?

Can someone ELI5 how this works? I went to fidoalliance.org and honestly, I didn't understand a thing. I still don't understand Yubikey and its MFA, it feels so cumbersome and huge PITA to do it every-time. Am I missing something? My workflow now is: CMD+SHIFT+L, enter master-password once and that's it for the current OSX login session. Will Passkey or FIDO or Yubikey improve this speed of interaction?
As soon as I saw the dog emoji I thought about C strings, and lo and behold there it was as an example. That was a quick fun read. Thanks.
I’m sure there are evil non-profits that neither make money nor contribute to society. ;-)
tldr: same reasons Javascript mattered since Node.js came out.
Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
Hi HN,

OpenAI recently released a model for automatic speech recognition called Whisper [0]. I decided to reimplement the inference of the model from scratch using C/C++. To achieve this I implemented a minimalistic tensor library in C and ported the high-level architecture of the model in C++. The entire code is less than 8000 lines of code and is contained in just 2 source files without any third-party dependencies. The Github project is here:

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

With this implementation I can very easily build and run the model - “make base.en”. It also allows me to run it on a wide range of devices. For example, I have provided examples of running the model on an iPhone, Raspberry Pi 4 and even in a web page via WebAssembly!

The implementation runs fully on the CPU and utilizes FP16, AVX intrinsics on x86 architectures and NEON + Accelerate framework on Apple Silicon. The latter is especially efficient and I observe that the inference is about 2-3 times faster compared to the current PyTorch implementation provided by OpenAI when running it on my MacBook M1 Pro. The WASM port utilizes SIMD 128-bit intrinsics - a feature supported in some modern web browsers [1].

I am very happy with the performance that I observe on Apple Silicon devices. I didn’t expect that the Accelerate framework [2] (i.e. CBLAS) offers such a dramatic performance boost for matrix multiplications so I was very pleasantly surprised! To enable the framework in your C/C++ projects, all you have to do is add `-framework Accelerate` to your clang command-line flags.

This entire exercise of implementing the Whisper model was very interesting to me and helped me understand a lot about how the transformer architecture works. I also got a lot of positive feedback from people finding and using my project. We brainstormed on a lot of interesting tools that can potentially be created with this library (such as speech-to-text plugin for Vim, RPi4 voice assistant, WASM chat bot, etc). If interested, checkout the “Examples” section and the “Show and tell” discussions for some ideas!

Would love to know what you think about this project and about your experience with using the Accelerate framework in any of your projects.
Cheers!

[0] https://github.com/openai/whisper

[1] https://chromestatus.com/feature/6533147810332672

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate
That's interesting because one of my projects is a crypto trader, which I plan to one day extend to stocks.

Many people seem to see such a project in a negative light, particularly those who have never been into trading. However my aim is to help prevent people from losing money and thoroughly test strategies before trading any real money.

In such a case it's really about preconceived notions.
This comment is just as dumb as someone which would accuse tradfi of being 99.9% scam because they fell for Bernie Madoff.

Complicit is however the lobbied senate giving sbf a platform, but even worse is the SEC / Gensler, borderline criminal, definitely negligent and incompetent.
I liked dotProject for internal use, and never exposed installs to the public/web:

https://github.com/dotproject/dotProject

It is certainly legacy... Yet the small footprint works well for standalone ticket resolution databases, task assignment, and budget tracking. Practically speaking, one needs to consider how many staff will be on the interface at a time.

A support database to cover user issue resolutions is part of product development. Having something you know will persist for a decade gets trickier.
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McCarthy vows military vaccine mandate will end or NDAA bill won't move forward
It sure seems like Elon Musk is purging left-leaning Twitter accounts
I use it to review my code, improve my writing, find obvious flaws in my ideas, brainstorm, understand code in languages I don't know; translate code from one language to another, etc, etc, it's incredible.
Sweden’s a-kassa unemployment system offline after cyber attack
1Password password manager. The single best purchase. Should've done it earlier.
Didn't FTX invest 500M in Sequoia later?
maybe read the comment I'm replying to about guy in rented whole airbnb apartment with faulty motion sensors who had to sleep with lights on instead of switching off power in breaker box (or unscrewing bulbs if accessible), not sure why would anyone renting Airbnb apartment had any of those in rented apartment

you come out as completely ignorant of context who just gets angry for no reason
Join a local improv group!

I'm not particularly shy, but I'm a little stiff with my body in public. I started doing improv a couple of years ago. Really helped me open up physically in public.

Most people in my group had some similar issues - either with public speaking or public body language.

And if I'm honest, it's also a whole lot of fun. Most groups are very welcoming to newcomers. Check to see if there are any local groups offering introductory classes.
> I have no idea why some people here on HN say that it doesn't understand logic when it can refactor like that?

Because it literally is not interpreting logic or using logical reasoning, it's not a matter of opinion. The people who made it wouldn't claim that, because that's not what it has been programmed to do.

It's an incredible example of machine learning, but all it's essentially doing is parsing StackOverflow answers. Everything you just said can be done novices by reading StackOverflow and copy and pasting things together. Yes, it makes that process much quicker, but there's a reason the invention of StackOverflow didn't displace programming jobs:

If you want to create complex production software and grow and maintain it long term, it's simply not enough to copy and paste from the internet.

If that's the extent of your ability then your software will turn into complete crap, riddled with technical debt, and will be almost impossible to develop or maintain it. You will be far away from the efficiency required to build a real business from that software.

If you think your job can be replaced by someone with virtually no programming experience copy and pasting things together from the internet, then yes you should be somewhat worried: get better ASAP. For me personally, that is not a threat to my job. ChatGPT is genuinely impressive and I expect even better things to be released in the coming years, but even so we're a long, long way from building complex software without the need for programmers to be involved.

The people who are extremely worried about this are probably the same people who believed Elon Musk when he said we would have fully self driving cars 2 years ago.
Defining which companies are evil is difficult because different people have different morals. From your example, I'd see it as the VCs who are conning small companies into taking VC money and driving for growth over sustainability in order to be one of many lottery tickets for that VC as the evil aspect of such scenarios.

Or maybe both sides are evil because they ultimately are seeking money, not positive change in the world.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33877290
10 years ago when Taiga was relatively new, I used to browse their source code to help learn how to build a solid api using django / django-rest-framework. They built a quality piece of software from the start and it was really helpful to learn patterns by looking at their code. Eventually they slowly replaced drf with their own implementation, cool to see it worked out.
Following up, I find it funny that this old meme comment thought orders and banking are our most trusted activities, and not our communications and data storage.
I view profit after paying for externalities as the best indicator of good done by a company.

That is because for each voluntary trade, both the buyer and the seller at least SEE themselves as better off.

If you account for damage done to the commons (i.e. pollution
of the environment or involuntary pay (through artificial monopolization, misleading advertising, or corrupt government against people's wishes)), the profit margin is an indicator that what you are doing is needed, and that not enough suppliers compete in that area.
Btw. does someone have an opinion on Bosch? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH

Of all the larger multinats, I think it's one of the least evil, especially since it privately owned by a foundation.
All investing is fundamentally a prediction about the future.

Getting comfortable with a level of risk, doesn't change the fact that all predictions about the future are definitionally speculative.

"Investing" vs "speculating" is a matter of degree, not kind.
I was just hoping for a moment to have found a new reverse engineering project for the Christmas holidays, but then I see that there is already an open source implementation (Open Dune), which kind of takes the fun away (even if it was developed without RE).
I would start with the Performance tab in Chrome. Or if you're on a mobile device double checking you're not in low-powered mode, where animations are throttled to 30fps.

Would love to hear what you find!
I don't know why people are always so up in arms about cost: if Google switched to a paid rather than ads model and charged 1 credit (1c) per search you made, I'd still use it.

People always raise such a ruckus: how dare Youtube offer premium, etc. People get too addicted to free services and become self-entitled.
surely I wouldn't care about some Airbnb agreement instead of sleeping with lights on, that's basically unusable apartment for me and breaks Airbnb agreement way more than trying to solve the issue if renter doesn't care to fix it immediately

not sure what should go wrong when you switch on the power again, blackouts happen
*the dream of order
I've been using the old v4 "standalone" edition for a long time. About a month ago I finally allowed myself to switch to the SaaS model on a 'family' plan. Its amazing, and more importantly I can now help manage my kids security etc. Loving it.
Notepad3: Notepad like text editor based on the Scintilla source code
The jobs I've had which I've felt were net positive for the world were a few in educational technology and one writing crime scene analysis software.

Those are hard to find, though - so I've mostly worked for companies I think have a net neutral effect, news (though not right wing hatemongers) & entertainment.

I don't think you can make a lot of money without enabling evil at least a little bit. I suppose that's where "effective altruism" comes in; do evil but do more good later. Eventually. Maybe. I'm not totally convinced.
> I left K-9 ages ago, because unfortunately for ages it had no Material Design.

Maybe you should give it another shot – they changed the UI quite recently (a year ago?)
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