skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it so hard to just let someone complain about something?

Contrarian edgelords are obnoxious and tiring. There is no need to get involved in a conversation if the point is just to label someone an idiot fanboy. It is not even cynicism, which requires some degree of consciousness instead of a knee jerk reaction. So yeah, if your only argument is “I think the author is an idiot and I am so much better because I can see clearly what he ignores”, well, then kindly fuck off. Come back when you’re civilised enough to have a conversation instead of name calling.
They can't get bluetooth to connect.
I always thought that the inability to filter voice is a feature, not a bug. They're great (or useless) in offices.

One of my earliest were NC headphones, which was amazing, then I bought some of the thick ear muff ones just because they're cheap. But I plan to have one of both now that most devices don't have a headphone jack anyway.
It depends what you’d substitute into your diet instead. Meta studies I’ve seen show lower mortality for people consuming cheese, butter, yogurt, sour cream, etc. Which suggests to me that the average person chooses worse substitutions.

I don’t see why you’d include it in your diet if you don’t like it. But assuming you do, the evidence seems to suggest it won’t hurt you. It may even be better than common substitutes (like butter over margarine.)
The thing, in Japan things are not always working according to the policy but rather according to traditions and social pressure, for good or bad. They still wear masks there, everywhere, even though the policy is that you can remove the masks outside already.
Fucking beautiful work, OP. This is awesome!
You gotta be kidding with the Windows Phone example. It was always irrelevant. And Android at the time was an iOS knockoff.
I don’t imagine the market is perfect, quite the opposite.
Unless external entities like the government introduce a way for the market to take all available information (or as much as possible) into account, the decisions the market makes will be deeply flawed.

I do realise the enormous positive effects the ICE has had on growth, labour intensity and general wellbeing.
But it also has bad effects and we can move past the ICE now, and in fact we could and should have a lot sooner.

Most of the emissions come from electricity generation though, so no romanticising of the ICE will save us there.

The world panicked about nuclear power 30 years ago because of a Soviet screwup but that was a mistake. Nuclear and renewables should have been our focus all the time since.

And yes I absolutely realise there are negative externalities in cobolt extractions and whatever. That’s why we need the carbon taxes and similar regulations :)
> I also hate websites where they hide your password while typing it in.

...You mean all of them? Including this one?
Brain networks associated with intellectual development in autistic children
Would be fun to sit in the room where they motivated it: "we need a kick ass office to hire the best talent to be able to maximize the ..." I don't know where I was going with this! I have no clue how they got away with it :D
I often wonder what high-level American executives that work at these Chinese companies feel like, specially when news like this comes to life. Do they feel like they're just doing their job? Are they afraid of getting arrested? Do they think that the massive comp packages they get is worth the risk?

Lots of cognitive dissonance going on, I would bet.
Call me paranoid but giving China unrestricted access to your physical phone even before you receive it seems like an unnecessary risk to me.

It allows for all kinds of trickery regardless of where the chips are manufactured.
I used this at work for months. When it quit, I just reloaded and kept going. It was for some local tooling work I was doing. I never ran into any of the limitations save the timeout, which for me was no big deal.

I already owned a version at home for myself (it was, like $249 or something at the time), but this was also a time where folks still paid for software. Not everything was done on Linux with GCC, although Java was free at the time.

A year before this I had my previous company pony up the $$$$ for Delphi's Enterprise edition (whatever it was called). That was a lot more than LW was.

I contemplated getting Franz, but I never wanted to call for a quote, and they didn't publish prices. But I know they were expensive as well.

Smalltalk, Lisp, Delphi, Visual Studio, everything cost money. And though Java was free, lots of folks were selling IDEs for it. I used Emacs back in the day, and we paid silly amounts of $$$$ for WebLogic.
The next phase has got to be more and more private data sets that don't exist on the internet: Homes with Alexa, Ok Google, etc.. Beyond that, linkages into a human brain.
I guess with the big launches now being for LEO satellites, it’s better to optimize for lowest gravity (closest to the poles) rather than closest to the equator (closest to your destination)?
Kids bedtime story using DALL-E 2 AI generated images
This is impressive and so is the writeup. How did you create the diagrams in the readme? I really like that visual format for diagrams.
But when you pay a bail bond to a bondsman, you never get that 10% back. You are paying for the service of NOT having to put up the full amount, as the bail bondsman is the one who is ultimately on the hook.

I highly doubt anyone paid $25 million that they aren't expecting to get back.
But a set is plural. We say "the set of things", not "the set of thing".
> I can write a similar essay about how I like the strong capital letters of AMD

You could. And it might be an enjoyable read if you articulate it properly.
> Let's just consider Amazon. I fully experience the paradox of choice whenever I search for something on Amazon, because there are 100s or even 1000s of options that I don't know which one to choose.

My experience is very different. When I search for something on amazon, I mostly find the exact same item/model repeated over and over under different brands/product names and I find myself wanting more options, but clicking the next button results in increasing numbers of completely unrelated items mixed in the same repeated results.

It's impossible to search amazon's inventory. You get whatever they push at you from the category of goods they think you want mixed in with garbage you expressed no interest in. Even if manage to find something that looks good you're still left figuring out what sellers are scammers, what reviews are fake/apply to a different item entirely. I've basically given up trying to "browse" on amazon.
My friend works for a major aerospace corp and likes to engage (politely) with people who believe it's impossible to go into space and so forth, in hopes of possibly educating someone whose mind isn't already made up.

I was surprised to learn there is a very large proportion of flat Earthers in this group. They genuinely believe what they say. They also argue using every logical fallacy possible. He said he only had one genuine conversation, i.e. with someone trying to understand his argument and not just refute it, in several years.

Numerous people with these beliefs show up to ridicule the very idea of space travel or a spherical Earth on pretty much every single relevant video and article ever that has a comment section. That would seem to indicate that a lot of people hold these beliefs.
Pretty darn cool!

I almost want to try and implement this in OpenCVjs and see if it is possible to build a browser extension to do this in the browser itself
Which is why tracking and selling such data should be illegal.
Are domains truly the only scope that matters? What if a platform site allowed hosting user web apps (which could themselves offer authentication) all on the same domain, each in their own directory/path. As long as the app was careful to set the path attribute of the session cookie appropriately, the app could be pretty well-contained. Then a password manager just decides that a password field anywhere on the whole domain is a good place to autofill your password for one of the apps on that domain? That's pretty scary!
Most business revenue in America is still from small to medium sized businesses, so this investment you speak of doesn't sound too important. So yes, I agree that business produces wealth, but the business that matters isn't going anywhere because they're largely local. The larger corporations are still going to do business here as well because of the market power.

As for wealth flight, it's overblown. First fleeing to another state is very different than fleeing the country. Second people aren't staying in America only because the taxes are lower, there's plenty more to offer.

Edit: I forgot to add that the actual evidence for wealth flight is pretty thin.

And for those corporations or wealthy people that do leave, fuck 'em. They're not special, irreplaceable snowflakes. They beat out their competitors by luck, and local competitors will immediately spring up to fill the void they leave.
The Zen of Java
Okay, so we move to microkernels, which murders everybody's performance because we still don't know how to work around context switching being expensive, and force everyone to do the constant additional effort to define exactly what components should have permission to access what parts of their system (unless you want everybody to use one-size-fits-all defaults and lose functionality, or just give everything more permission and lose the security benefit). Now in this hypothetical world, an SMB server has a vulnerability. Technically, the situation is much improved; in this situation an attacker only has access to whatever that component had access to. So, just all the files you shared, and (hopefully read-only) user information. And probably network access. Is that really a good cost/benefit trade?
Cows also represent an astounding fraction of Earth’s biomass, livestock is 5% of all animal biomass, twice as much as humans and 10x more than all wild mammals combined:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-make-110000...
Frameworks are nice in theory but they still have a long way to go when it comes to heat, fan noise, and battery life based on what I've seen owners of them say.
They're likely very much bought into the CCP and think that their work that furthers the interests of the CCP, including the tracking of potential dissidents to their political party, is fine. You don't see American tech workers batting an eye at tracking data being used to target who was at the Jan 6 protests, and frankly I don't think they'd care if it was also used against Alex Jones if he was there in a journalistic capacity.
Ouch, looks like they’re clobbering each others cache. Also, well done. It looks like you optimized the hell out of your code.
I assume port forwarding would be a pain in such a setup, right?
You also need to factor in the cost of plastic surgery and a new identity because I guarantee that if he 'just' skips to Dubai he won't be safe.
The thing about black swan events is they never seem likely to happen until they do.
Wouldn't it be interesting if the people who secured the other part of his bail bond are all rich individuals holding all of their net worth in crypto?
I tried running our Golang mock generator through Docker on an M1 Mac and it was much slower than running it directly on the host. Probably since it reads every file in the codebase and writes out a file for every interface it finds.
Or cook a meal.

Much more useful than driving a car, because in a car you're mostly idling anyway so you might as well drive.
Those are just marketing numbers used by every university. You could look at any university's website and say the same thing, not to mention it says nothing about graduate students or programs

Every university has numbers on their site claiming how awesome they are, it's meaningless
I taught my plotter to write these in Steve Lacy's hand (trying to keep stroke order too)!

https://twitter.com/thot_exper1ment/status/14824898101743656...
https://twitter.com/thot_exper1ment/status/14824953605849948...

I will still mail out postcard versions of these if people are interested.
It'd be nice to know who and how they got their billions.
Do his backers get the bond money back if he does show up and the process runs without any hiccups?
You think that emergency room doctors go home to wait between patients?

On call docs (the ones that would be coming to the hospital) are the specialists that other doctors call to assist after the emergent issue is handled. A 6 minute worst case scenario drive time is perfectly acceptable.

There are hospitals in the states where it will take you longer than 6 minutes to walk to the ED from another location in the hospital after getting paged.
This nonsense again.

Literally everything humans build need mining. And nuclear needs less mining then literally every other form of energy.

Uranium mining is mostly not open pit and has very little impact on people or society. Also the quantities need are vanishingly small.

In fact, if we took nuclear seriously we wouldn't need to mine much anymore as we already have more then enough.

Chernobyl was looked at by an international panel of scientist and engineers and early death related to it are below 1500. And many of those people live to pretty old age still.

Also blaming all old people dying on the nuclear stuff is just nonsense.
Food affects the mind, as well as the body
Buzzer Bear: Upgrade your apartment call box
>> blogs allowed actual conversations

Very few did. And some of those that did in that era are still around, and they don't allow that now.

I don't think it had anything to do with walled gardens, it had to do with the fact that political polarization wasn't quite complete yet. It's getting there.
A (state) government policy that makes building anything at all hard will result in less of anything (including solar and wind farms) built, compared to a (state) government policy that's somehow less onerous.

Hence the difference between California and Texas.
Even better is that most of that should be the PICO8 virtual machine itself. A PICO8 cartridge is limited to 32kb.
The boundary between "simple" and "complex" data structures is largely arbitrary, though. It's not unreasonable to consider an integer as a complex data structure, consisting of bits, and in some contexts we do that - but in most, it's obviously more convenient to treat it as a single value. In the same vein, it should be possible to treat a tuple of several numbers (say, point coordinates) as a single value as well, in contexts where this makes sense.
All of them, of course, followed the iMac. The iPod was an extension of that, so the name makes perfect sense. The iPhone is an iPod on steroids (and it’s a web browser!), so again it makes sense. It is all very consistent.

I really dislike the pro/max/ultra qualifiers, but again it is all consistent.
I don't have the numbers but I'm pretty sure that more people have died from hydro (dams collapsing) than nuclear. Three Gorges Dam displaced over 1 million people.

Not saying hydro is bad, but I'm not sure that nuclear is worse.

Solar and wind are the best as they seem to have few downsides providing the conditions are right .
Different governments have varying degrees of alignment with your goal. Despite how flawed the US govt is, I don't see how someone can think the US govt and CCP are equivalent in their misalignment with your desire.
This is someone's commentary Actual articles on this.[1] Mostly paywalled, unfortunately.

This seems to be Rudin's thing - finding equally accurate but simpler models for
things upon which deep learning can be trained. Where is there something on this that's not paywalled?

[1] https://ece.duke.edu/faculty/cynthia-rudin
Not any more bullshit than getting a loan by getting someone in good standing to sign they'll pay the full price if you fail.
> Engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things.

That's a false dichotomy.

Engineers create value _by_—among other things—programming computers. That's nothing to be ashamed of by trying to elevate your title to some perceived higher status by calling yourself an "engineer".

If anything, I identify more as a programmer, than to the field of engineering.

Sure, there's more to creating value in a company than just programming. A good programmer communicates well, knows when to lead and when to follow, is an insatiable learner, and enjoys understanding how things work.

> "Programmer” sounds like “anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo.”

Anyone who thinks that doesn't understand programming, and is someone who you probably don't want to work with anyway.

I didn't read the entire article, and there is some good advice there, but I'll give a better advice to new programmers: take any opinion presented in absolutes with a chunk of salt. Follow your passions, and reach your own conclusions, rather than assuming anything a so-called expert says as the absolute truth. And, of course, be open and ready to change your opinion if presented with valid evidence.

"Strong opinions, weakly held."
> Stanford professors make around $180k usually. There's no chance they're paying regular interest of a 250m loan without some financial support.

There is no $250M loan. Should he fail to appear, he and each of his sureties (his parents) can be pursued by the court for whatever remains of the balance of the $250M bail amount.

There is no actual $250M that changes hands until then (or, realistically, after.)

The actual order: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66631291/14/united-stat...
It's more like I'd accept my own fault more than trust a 3rd party (Bitwarden, or LastPass) in this case
Huh? I thought lactose intolerance was most widespread in Asia.
From previous article “ Assuming the worst, LastPass has about 33 million customers. GoTo has 66 million customers as of its most recent earnings in June.”
> If anything having a macro kernel makes it quite hard to shut down a module like this to determine if it was well behaved with respect to memory

Unloading modules is generally possible, but I'm not quite following what shutting it down has to do with checking memory use?
> we have an actively hostile actor with a huge platform here in our country

I was going to say that if user is addicted to TikTok (or other hostile application) and also concerned about surveillance/tracking - they could use a dedicated burner phone with fake info, no contacts.

> I totally support broad regulation of privacy law.

I later read this from Wikipedia:

"As of January 2020, researches found that governments of 155 countries have been mandating SIM registration laws; in some countries, prepaid users must submit biometrics like photos and fingerprints."[0]

The system is broken...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepaid_mobile_phone#Privacy_r...
> The only issue now is (it seems), that it's the chinese doing it and not facebook/google or local telcos.

No. That is also an issue, few who are informed despute the need to address those as well. There can be more than one problem in need of solving at a time.
in the us maybe you can file complaints with the ftc

there must be an eu equivalent
You'll notice that in Germany, online shops tend to have the shipping costs listed or at least linked right next to the price on the product page.

Because there is a law for that.
> in my living memory.

I wasn't alive then
Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw
The paper content might not be all that but the fact of its existence is interesting to me.

Lines are being drawn around what AI can be permitted to engage; if the methods aren't understood then they can't be controlled, and there are large domains where the Powers That Be won't tolerate what they can't control.

Of course, it is at least as likely that the outcomes are actually less arbitrary than the conventional, and this this is what causes consternation.
For the hand-drawn style ones, I think it's https://excalidraw.com/
Why is it 'overcompensation'?

In fact we should consume even more, its totally fine, we just need to do it with nuclear breeder plants. Energy isn't practically limited.

In terms of total resource in vs energy out nuclear is fantastic. And if we actually made some series advances it would be insanely so.
Now this is both cool piece of tech and practically useful. Very nice!
They're probably too busy being rich to care.
Your solution to needless suffering is to add more needless suffering?
Got a link to your company's service? Would love to learn more. We work in healthcare so data-anonymization is essential. If we can take prod data and erase all the PII, it would be AMAZING.
yeah, I really wanted to buy a Linux laptop. I highly value battery life though and the m1 chip doesn't really have a competitor in that department.
It's not easy to work out the statistics because the vast majority of crimes go unsolved. The sensational headlines are the ones where criminals managed to get caught. The ones who were out on bail (or released on their own recognizance) but didn't get caught won't show up in the stats.
Now imagine if those people worked for some Chinese government agency instead.
10.12 came after 10.11. Nobody having to deal with this sort of thing is confused. Using a Mac, it is easier to get the version number than the code name. This argument is most of the time, if not always, used by people with no interest in trying to understand how it works.
> In any case, it suffers a little for what I think is the naive thesis of "if only mankind could cooperate like the animals do, we would live in a utopia." Of course, mankind has demonstrated through thousands of years of history that tribes of men can't really cooperate in any grand sense, so the point seems rather moot.

In one paragraph you say that his biological observations are still held in high regard. (Nothwithstanding that the science of such things was farily “underdeveloped”, he protested… you know, like how people massively protest against Darwin’s theories, from about the same era?) Then you take a dump on those same observations in the next paragraph because people who have lived in class societies, under strict hierachies (that’s all of recorded history, yes) weren’t nice to each other? Well… why do you think anarchists proposed an alternative to that?

You know what is utopian? To build a society on such a flawed human nature as what we have, centred around our selfish shortcomings—basing socity on on subjugation, oppression, and exploitation, so that (predictably) the ones who are vile and strong will take as much for themselves as they can and exploit the rest—see history—and for us collectively to doom ourselves by ruining the planet by pillaging it of its resources and all kinds of ecological balance. That’s utopian!

But congrats on your ebook project. Your pathetic little gloss demonstrates how classic literature is often wasted like pearls before swine.
Just skip jail? Most of them skip being taken to trial at all, and a smaller minority of them assure that they pass the laws they like...
https://lastpass.com/delete_account.php
In the early stages of both discussions that happened, but recently the party lines have been blurring a bit (especially on Ukraine).

We'll see how long it lasts but it wouldn't be the first time the presence of an external enemy eased internal tensions.
Ask HN: What are some interesting models that can be trained on a desktop?
I'm looking for suggestions for any interesting models that can still be easily trained or at least customized on a desktop?