skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually no. You've underestimated the mindboggling complexity of the human hand working together with our knowledge of the world. Think of the following.

You see an egg. You have a mental model that eggs are fragile and you grasp it delicately.

You see a barbell. It's extremely heavy for its size so you brace yourself and lift appropriately with a strong grip.

You see a bag of chips. You know the bag is going to deform under your hand when you pick it up, but you also cannot squeeze it or you'd crush the chips, so you pick up by pinching and empty corner.

You see a glass jar full of pickles. You know it must be set down gently.

You see a container half full of liquid. You know if you move it fast the internal momentum of the liquid can cause the container to jerk and move unexpectedly. Even if you don't realize it when you start moving it, your mind immediately begins to compensate for this when you feel this occur.

And this is only a tiny set of subconditions that your brain silently optimizes for after you've dropped countless items as a child.
Ok so are you arguing Ukrainians are privileged? Being the poorest country in Europe, having lost 4 million to genocide in the 1930's, currently having apartment buildings bombed by Russian missiles, and so on?

Are you really arguing that Ukrainians are privileged in the same way as those of British descent?

And this isn't even about positive discrimination, only about their right to have a small community in a cottage district...
Ask HN: How do I know how many models I would need to solve a problem?
I'm starting out in my Machine Learning journey and a possible aha moment (or very possibly a wrong turn) is how to think about how a model fits into my application. So right now I have an application that analyzes documents using regex and pulls out pieces of information using patterns... as you can guess, this is an endless cycle of adding new regexes or adjusting them based on someone typing a piece of data a little bit differently into their document. So my question is... if I were to do this with ML... would I have a model for each piece of data I was pulling out? Let's say I wanted all the locations mentioned and all the dates. Would I have a model that is trained to recognize locations and another one trained on dates and simply throw the document at both? Would love to hear how others use ML models in their web applications.
I think it's because of a shift to mobile and setting screens that autosave. Using on/off switched is a common convention on mobile operating systems like iOS. When you are setting up something without hitting apply, the sense of activating a switch seems more like committing to the change compared to the checkbox.
One advantage is that you can have a neutral state (in the middle), forcing the user to choose one way or the other. You can't do that with a checkbox.
I’ve had the opposite experience. While at times it’s just wrong, it’s usually been pretty right even when I loosely phrase my request and ask it things Kagi or other IR systems wouldn’t be able to grok into meaningful results. Often it’s responses are also direct and succinct (even with all its boilerplate blah blah) and faster to process than clicking through 50 blogs and navigating SEO garbage, or distilling documentation to find the specific answer I need from it. Where it is insufficient it provides enough context and relevant search terms to construct a better IR query on a search engine.

I have definitely had it get stuff just flat out wrong, but it’s easy enough to pick it out and I degenerate to old practice of searching and filtering in those cases.

As has been posted about here many times in different ways, as they graft IR and reasoning systems onto chatgpt I expect these problems to disappear. I find it amazing how dismissive folks are of a tech that is barely a few months old. It’s like a whole generation of nerds have lost the capacity to dream.
I hate to say it, but I see this attitude as a big part of the overall problem.

Both parties have representatives who focus on policies that sound good with no useful thought or understanding of their actual effects. Both parties represent their opposites as lunatics, horrible people, other otherwise as people to be detested, with little allowance for the fact that the actual function of Congress is to pass hopefully beneficial bills — the mindsets or moral qualities of those who vote for the bills is ultimately not as important.

Left-leaning people do plenty of things that are easy for right-leaning people to point at as examples of lunacy. For example, look at almost any article about “DEI” or inclusive terminology or anything involving words like “Latinx”. Regardless of the actual merits of these things or the intentions of those who encourage them, they sound bad to many people with right-leaning hats on, and they’re very, very easy to make fun of.
https://archive.ph/AR30Y
ECS is definitely on our roadmap!
America got tired of getting its ass handed to it (especially morally) in Korea and Vietnam.
You beat me to this comment. I wholeheartedly agree with you, no one like John Lindquist and Jeffrey Way.

If you really enjoy great teachers, gotta watch and learn from the best, and there's no better testament than John Lindquist's PatternCraft series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8B19C3040F6381A2

I have fond memories of Jeffrey Way back in the TutsPlus era when he cemented himself as one of the greatest (modern) tech teachers of our time.
>FTA: The user has 98 answers and, you've guessed it, they are all created with GPT.
PLOT TWIST: The questions where also created with GPT!

Hopefully the internet is turned to grey goo before the successors of ChatGPT start optimizing for addictiveness.
I like the craftsman analogy, and have used it myself. Maybe to attain "master" certification, software developers should be required to create a "masterpiece" the same way as craftsmen of old (this being the origin of the word - a piece of work that demonstrated your master-level skills).

Perhaps a compiler or something of similar complexity would be appropriate as a software "masterpiece". What else, I wonder?
Facebook approves ads calling for children’s deaths in Brazil
Hype has no bounds, similar to the intrusiveness of ads on this site.
For people who don't get the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_number#Ancient_Gree...
The tyranny of card-only payments
Low Voltage Lithium batteries with life approaching a century
Minor changes in voltages can increase lifetime of LiIon battery significantly, potentially making it very economically attractive for certain applications
Clippy Did Nothing Wrong
Interesting, it looks like you've put some hard work into this project. My question is, what if a pod has multiple containers in it? How does Odigos choose which icon/programming language that is displayed for the pod? For example, I have a Deployment that runs pods with two containers: a php-fpm container and a nginx container. Would the "Choose Target Applications" page show an icon for both Nginx and PHP for the given Deployment? Would Odigos report separate metrics to the backend Desination for both PHP and Nginx?
Learn Python the Hard Way: https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/intro.html

> The Hard Way Is Easier

> With the help of this book, you will do the incredibly simple things that all programmers do to learn a programming language:

> 1. Go through each exercise.

> 2. Type in each file exactly.

> 3. Make it run.

> That's it. This will be very difficult at first, but stick with it. If you go through this book and do each exercise for one or two hours a night, you will have a good foundation for moving on to another book about Python to continue your studies. This book won't turn you into a programmer overnight, but it will get you started on the path to learning how to code.

> This book's job is to teach you the three most essential skills that a beginning programmer needs to know: reading and writing, attention to detail, and spotting differences.

HN discussion about this book:

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/13722852

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/1299029

- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
This seems incredibly poorly done from a PR perspective and there's no way to make this headline read well for them. Why not create and announce they're moving to something like "Amazon GiveBack" that gives some sliders to users to vote on the allocation?

Sure, people could still call them out on how it's a reduction of what they're donating, but there's a much higher chance the headline reads well for them.

As it is, the underlying symbolic implication is that Amazon is getting rid of its smile and instead.. frowning?
You will notice a complete dearth of detail in the above on anything not already known outside of Apple...

It's generally fine to talk about something already public, and say you worked on it - there are projects that haven't released yet that I've worked on, and I absolutely will not talk about those until they are :)
Right, to Americans, "liberalism" -> "classical liberalism", and "globalist neoliberalism" -> "liberalism".
I don't think "good doctors" and "bad doctors" is really a good framing. I think the medical system sabotages the relationship between doctor and patient and creates incentives to spend the least amount of effort on any given patient. That isn't anyone's fault but if your diagnosis is off the beaten path, and especially if it looks like a common diagnosis but isn't that one, it can be incredibly difficult to get a doctor to take you seriously. I think people reacted strongly to your comment because they felt it was emblematic of a dismissive attitude they receive from doctors - regardless of how good a doctor may be.

To help illustrate, here's a skit where a doctor satirizes this attitude: https://youtube.com/shorts/u_-a7pvFpsA
Yes what you describe is what I first saw in Deus Ex- a videogame from 2000.
We're still far away from that level of tech.

As for the panopticon: it would be a veritable gold mine for hackers and the surveillance state.
I am very amused by your choice of name, as Odigos is to land what Kubernetes is to sea.
Immigration courts aren’t real courts and the judges are part of the executive branch (Department of Justice), not the judicial branch [1].

Their evidentiary standards are closer to “nonexistent” than to preponderance of evidence.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Judge_(United_St...
Where does Dwarf Fortress stand after a decade defined by its own successors?
Which charities should be remain?
Mark has unlimited money. Meta is incredibly profitable and that’s not changing anytime soon. No reason for me to think mark will do anything but continue to double down on a platform that makes them unbeholden to anyone.
Which phones still do that? My Samsung Galaxy S21 uses date and time: YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.jpg
"Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue"

Apparently Reuters is using a certificate issued by Comodo (COMODO RSA Organization Validation Secure Server CA). Firefox refuses to play.

I'm pretty sure Reuters was working earlier this week. Has Firefox updated its root list?
A lot of people outside of tech haven't heard of it yet. It is absolutely going to get overhyped but I would say it is currently underhyped and if you think this is hype then you're going to have a fun 2023.
I think the examples you give might be the opposite of what happens - in the docs:

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-smart

The meaning of the -smart extension on option names is inverted in some cases, and enabled by default on markdown output.
I don't know much about lasers. Why are these phased and not continuous?
Part of it is this intellectual one-upsmanship, especially at places like HN. People think they look smarter if they reflexively reject "the narrative".
all TOTP is the same

it doesn't matter what Google says is normal

is this really people's only experience with TOTP delivered via QR codes?
Instead it's just another way to train users to click Yes/Accept without thinking! How could this possibly go wrong?
My local grocery is constantly out of https://www.morningstarfarms.com/en_US/products/chikn/mornin...

They restock and it’s gone in a week or two.

Contrast that beyond meat, impossible burger, and other pricey options which never budge.
I shouldn't need a billionaire to take up my cause before I'm allowed to advocate for it on social media. Freedom of political speech is not a law or constitutional amendment. Its a fundamental cultural value of Americans. Im sick of people trying to kill it off in all but name by paradoxically citing the limitations of that amendment.
Ecofascism is the term
Rust and Default Parameters
They cannot block access. The passkeys are actually stored on your devices in a Trusted Platform Module. When moved to the cloud, they are E2E encrypted, and the transferring platform has zero knowledge of your keys.

Currently, you cannot move them to other devices without the cooperation of some cloud service, or the like. At some point you'll have to trust someone to move passkeys between devices.
The latter, generally.

It's not worth trying to retaliate because these things come from addresses that aren't monitored, for the 99% case...

I do make a point of telling people how shitty the company is though.. Like Tesla for example :)
Courier New banned by US State Department, replaced by Times New Roman (2004)
It never was, Roe was a bad ruling.
Mildly amused by the typo on page 7: "The noblest motive is the pubic good"

Although, given the reference to Deep Throat later on, maybe it's deliberate.
I see what youre saying. Oculus passthrough was a way to hint that you've fucked up and way past the guardian.

but, equally I think we will have much higher fidelity pass through "MR" way before we have AR that's capable of rendering stuff over real objects.
Trigger Open Feedback in Slack
> Section 230 increases free speech by limiting the liability of the platforms.

Section 230 decreases free speech because platforms are able to curate their content and shut down certain voices.
As a test, 16 ads with violent content were sent to Facebook which then approved all but two. The same ad set was also sent to youtube which not only did not approve any of the ads but also suspended the account trying to place them.
Without going into religion, it’s also mildly interesting for the defining veganism.
I'm very interested in this after reading your account, but couldn't find additional information online. Do you have sources we could look at?
The thing is, I can rage against google for that but the net effect is the same: I can't trust that what I buy from Apple will stay. If Apple cared, they could have made the app themselves with their rife resources, but they are complacent with the bait and switch. I'm done with them and their other shady practices, from scanning photos for content, to logging peoples' locations, colluding to raise ebook prices, discriminating against android users in sms groups, software upgrades that slow down the device, pushing people to discard otherwise fine hardware, poor treatment of families with children, smoking voiding their warranties. I'm all done with them.

What model of airport do you have? I assume it's a newer one than mine. Here is evidence of their blase attitude toward obsoleting working equipment. They deliver a an implicit threat by saying:

"If your router is 6-7 years old or older, it is probably time to consider replacing the product, especially if you are interested in up to date security."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253164032
I see a lot lf pending cases, Isn’t Google worried?
I had this feeling too, so I began feeding text from my documents and videos into the same GPT engine.

It results in much more relevant and grounded answers(well... grounded to whatever you documents claim, for better or worse). If you want to try it, there's a demo at fragen.co.uk
Linux Fu: UEFI Booting
And Baltimore still has a low cost of living for an East Coast city but isn't so isolated, as say national labs like LANL and Sandia.
Publii. It has a WP Importer tool. Your site layout looks similar to some of the free themes. The "old school" simplicity of using a desktop CMS is great in my opinion.
now that's starting to tread hype territory. AGI is a COMPLETELY different beast.
"Hard to see how anyone other than the person who loaded the gun is responsible."

It's not that simple. Universal gun handling rules are that the person who's holding the gun when a round is fired is responsible. Loading a gun is generally not considered an irresponsible thing to do in normal civilian life. If you hand it to someone unfamiliar with the rules, it's on you to explain them. Otherwise, it's on them.

Maybe standard movie set rules are different. Which rules should apply to the person who loaded the gun? Well that depends on the context.

In any case, Alec Baldwin apparently didn't have a clue about basic gun handling rules despite his self-appointed status as a gun control expert. But that doesn't make him a criminal imo.
A pilot can legally land without a METAR, and this happens all the time. The stations can and do go offline. Sometimes they break, especially after a severe storm. Many smaller airfields don't have on-site weather reporting, some others don't have a network connection.

You look at the closest available weather station and you look at the forecasts — human-authored (TAFs) and computer-autored (GFA/MOS). And when you arrive, you look outside at the actual conditions — the windsock, actual flight visibility, etc. If the conditions are worse than expected, you divert to your alternate.
i felt like it might be an embellishment. mostly because i interviewed so many infosec people in the early 2000's and like a quarter of them had some similar story from when they were 10-12 about contact with 3-letter agencies or other nonsense that "got me started on this path at an early age".
The World Economy No Longer Needs Russia
Use the tools you like. It's nobody's place to tell you what tools to use, and the reverse of that is also true.

For a lot of us, we want to develop scripts (and skills) that are portable across different environments. There are limited hours in a workday, and I get the most value out of learning (and using) tools that I can find on the servers / build-machines / workstations that I have to use every day. Those machines run Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky, and RHEL.

Yes, it's a slow process to get new packages into mainstream distros. That's not a bad thing, because those packages have to be maintained for a very long time. Stability is a virtue here.

There are some ecosystems (I'm looking at you, Javascript) where anything older than a year might as well be abandonware. It's great that there are some fast-moving areas in our industry, and also great that there are slow-moving areas.

Don't make the mistake of assuming something is bad just because it's feature-complete. You might be surprised at how feature-rich something like Awk really is.

If your argument boils down to "Awk and Bash are ugly and outdated", I'd encourage you to think more flexibly about the tools you choose. There's nothing wrong with learning the basics of a widespread tool that you are guaranteed to find anywhere.
> Citation needed, no where in your source

Factory farming is the same everywhere. Here's another citation.

https://www.aspca.org/protecting-farm-animals/problem-factor....

Another.

https://thehumaneleague.org/article/what-is-factory-farming

Another.

https://sentientmedia.org/factory-farms/

Another extensive one with more references inside.

https://animalequality.org/blog/2022/10/14/factory-farming-f...

> Because they do feed on grass. Look I get it, you clearly care about animal welfare... however, untrue to say that cows spend their entire lives in CAFOs.

That's the old world.

You seem to have adopted a better 'factory farming' in your mind than what actually exists, in which you somehow combine old ma & pa small farms with 'some factories'.

That doesn't exist anymore. Some stragglers existing in this or that particular state and still fighting 'the man' does not a reality make. There is no competing with the cattle sector that takes in ~$40 bn subsidies and employs factory farms. That is now the reality of cattle farming in the Angloamerican West. And its a major source of conflict in between the Eu and the US because the Eu does not permit the same to be done in Europe.

And you miss the elephant in the room: Even if the cattle was 'first grass fed then shipped to factory farms to fatten' like you argue, the factory farming consuming ~70% of the grain in the US at that point would STILL make my argument. That's bad. That's inefficient. There is no defending it, even if your argument was true.

This is a long topic, and I have no interest in fighting the inaccurate but more humane perception that you have adopted. The references I provided should be more than enough to get to the bottom of this if you are interested. Good afternoon.
It’s hard to imagine the average small business successfully evading taxes as well as Amazon.

In 2019 Amazon paid zero taxes receiving a net $129 million refund from the federal government, in 2018 they received a $137 million refund after paying 0$ on a net income of 11.2 billion dollars.

In 2020 they paid a net tax of $162 million on $13.9 billion of pre-tax income a net tax rate of 1.2%.
It was also available on early jet aircraft (and may still be used by some). Here's an interesting discussion: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/36185/how-does-...

Some people do modify their vehicles for water injection, and at least one recent production car has it: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15340747/new-porsche-911-...
Nobody seems to be incompetent at anything anymore, but weirdly enough everyone has impostor syndrome now.

For me, the nagging, head spinning inner critic that doesn't leave me alone is a major driver for curiosity, learning, creativity and general improvement.

Impostor syndrome is when there's clear evidence that you're successful and competent but you still don't believe it and you are _afraid_ that this is uncovered. It is an irrational fear and a brutal delusion. It's one of those where you can get presented objective evidence that the fear is unwarranted but you still can't get rid of it.

I never had impostor syndrome, but I can relate to those types of fears and mental challenges. It's very hard work to clear these types of things up. You don't even want to talk about it.

People who suck at something do not have impostor syndrome, by definition. What is much more likely is that they are in the phase where they start to get that they suck ("valley of despair"). But that's not a mental blockade induced by crippling fear like impostor syndrome is.

Realizing you suck at something calls for _celebration_. The delusion is broken! There's only going to be improvement!
I don't disagree, it could be construed as an invitation to a superficial assessment.

The point of the algorithm mentioned in my comment is not that it gives correct results, it's that it's one possible entree into a guessing game, "who is this person?". It's the specificity of the particular items, which provide a definite set of branches for further questions, falsifications, etc.

Many people play the same game, in effect, with "what do you do" (your job), or "where do you live", or "where did you go to high school [college]". I kind of prefer the materialist formulation for a change of pace.
Do you store the secret in your password manager?

When a password manager has both the password and the secret for TOTP, that always seemed like it degraded the concept of multi-factor authentication to me.
That just shows their Mort-ness in their own domain though. In the Unix world, a sysadmin may not be a software engineer, but the ability to cruft up a program in bash, perl, or python to automate some task would be table stakes for the job. On Windows, not so much.

These admins learned just enough to be competent at the job that was in front of them. Many (not all) VB and VBA programmers are the same way.