skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me I followed programming posts etc but they went from high quality to things like 'how to turn your computer on' and just the most basic shit imaginable, the flood of garbage drowned out any good posts.
Some of us got neither
Hah, replace with another Tesla? If I were him I'd still be wary about getting on the highway the first 1-2 weeks of owning that replacement car.

If Tesla offered a different brand EV of equivalent price, then that'd be reasonable.
Your own government has a much higher ability to affect your life than China does, so what you're saying is completely irrational. Not that it's OK for the Chinese to spy on us, mind you, or to claim that they don't have nefarious purposes.
some people have shitty friends and family that's really the only reason why.

I'll usually check in with people if they're comfortable with talking about money, but otherwise I've never had trouble with anyone knowing how much (or how little) I make.

I kind of see it as a trap, I guess - if knowing how much I make prejudices you against me, than I'd rather you show yourself for who you are sooner, so I can keep you at an appropriate distance. I've got no time for people like that.
I don't think it's a fair comparison because a rocket hit could be much more expensive in direct and collateral damage than 50k
Reaction: Sounds like Apple's method encourages managers to select and hire one person, who is a very good fit for his team's actual current need. Vs. Meta's encourages managers to cast a net, haul in a load of fish, and hope that one of 'em is a passable fit for his team's current need. But many keep a few extra fish regardless - since he'll have more needs in the future, and fishing is a crap shoot.
Infographic: Largest Passenger Airlines
In northern Alaska? How are they getting this level of helium in the region as consumers?
To give Google some credit, I think people would have been equally upset if they did release an AI that ended up being used maliciously or without proper filters. Google has a habit of shipping things while they are still in beta. Gmail kept the "beta" label after launch for five years. Not releasing unfinished AI products was a calculated move and I think it was an overall good decision, but also an expensive one. I am just worried about the longevity of it, since Google clearly doesn't care to prioritize it. The Bard ad mistake implies a deeper issue about resources being allocated incorrectly.

OpenAI clearly spent a lot time red teaming the chatbot to make sure the outputs were sanitized. Chatbot as a service is an easy monetization strategy from big companies. I wonder if ChatGPT servers will share resources with Bing search servers, I can't imagine they will, but if they do, the paid subscription will be a lot more valuable. I think users will react extremely negatively if Bing AI results embed affiliate links on every response possible. On the other hand, I can see myself clicking links of products ChatGPT recommends if I am intetionally asking about some sort of product, like if I ask it types/differences of climbing carabiners.

Research is very collaborative, so I understand why those at Google stay there. But it seems like MS and OpenAI are prioritizing having a clear pathway for novel AI work to reach users, and it won't be limited only to implementations that will help serve ads better.
A custom ChatGPT prompt. Just ask it to behave like a ChatGPT fine-tuning generator and then start feeding it data. Here’s a collection of prompts: https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts
What is the end result you want? If you're modeling by hand, why do you want to "program" the model later? What would that look like? What units would you operate on? What would the output be? etc.
GitHub and EFF back YouTube ripper in legal battle with the RIAA
What's in Tacoma that would warrant a 45-minute drive?
This goes both way, however. If Russia used the incident as a justification for retaliation, they would make it easy for the US to play the innocent one and point the political finger to old enemy Russia - a believable story the rest of the west would have to support.

The Defense industry profits either way.
Returning html fragments is quite stateful and contextual to the rest of the DOM structure. Ex: You might be referencing class names; is there already a stylesheet loaded that defines those styles? Are those styles actually what you want? I try to avoid these sort of "hidden dependencies" because it makes it harder to reason about a system and make changes to it without unknowingly breaking something.
That video helps explain one property one of the UFO videos (the rotation) but doesn't explain the rest. Doesn't explain the Tic Tac videos. It does not explain why these were observed on radar as well.

While some of the videos have explanation, I would kindly encourage you to look at this with more curiosity.
The main problem is that nuclear is too expensive. You make a commitment that lats for centuries, which makes the actual cost of the energy way more expensive than most anything else. Our children for generations will have to pay for the "cheap" energy we consume today. This has been proven several times now, most nuclear operators in the world have been bailed out by taxpayers at least once, one way or another.

Separately from that there is the undeniable risk of catastrophic failure laying waste to very large areas of land for centuries.
The reactor design is not the main reason for this risk, humans are. No matter how amazing the reactor is, as long as it produces waste it's unsafe during a war, for example. We've not had a century without war yet.
The whole point, though, is that tax-loss harvesting is perfectly legal, so why is it fair to move the goalposts as to what counts as a wash sale? As the article states, "But well-tuned software could easily find the right stocks to keep the accounts tracking the market." So the law says you can't sell A and buy A back immediately and count it as a loss, but it says nothing against selling A and buying back B that happens to be strongly correlated with A. I'd argue that isn't even against the intent of the law (or at the very least this law is so poorly thought through that its intent is ambiguous).
Why Shooting Down China’s Spy Balloon Over The U.S. Is More Complicated Than It Seems https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/why-shooting-down-chin...

See also:

F-22 Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off Carolinas With Missile (Updated) https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-22-shoots-down-chine...

U-2 Spy Planes Snooped On Chinese Surveillance Balloon https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u-2-spy-planes-snooped...

F-22 Shoots Down “Object” Flying High Over Alaskan Waters https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-22-shoots-down-new-o...

The Soviets Built Bespoke Balloon-Killer Planes During The Cold War https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-soviets-built-besp...
nah, SIGINT. great way to probe the air-defense capabilities of your opponent
Right where they throw the fish? I've only been to Pike Place Market a few times, but there's a little road there that looked like an absolute nightmare if you inadvertently turned down it.
Getting paid to do GIS made me realize I needed to learn to code because it sucked
I would have preferred the title to be more along the lines of

“Fragrant fungi finds fortune for Himalayan foragers”

and required you to say it three times fast before you could read the article.
This "rule" falls down pretty quick IME. It's more like Taxes > Employees > Suppliers > Yourself.
Yeah, a $50k missile to save even a single unoccupied house is a missile that paid for itself. And if it saves a few human lives then it was positively cheap.

If bankrupting Israel by forcing them to expend Iron Dome interceptors is Hezbollah's plan, it obviously isn't working.
I have been using Blazor for projects in the last year. It's okay (still immature). It uses Websockets when available (HTTP fallback) to transfer the rendered page.
True. But they're unguided, almost none of them will cause real damage, but you have no choice but to take all of them out to prevent the losses from a lucky shot - at great expense. It's a great way to drain your enemies funds, great asymmetric warfare. Casualties are just icing on the cake.
Also the fact that their package manager is strongly coupled against https://package.elm-lang.org/. There is no way to override it. This means that if that package site ever goes down, you will be left with an unbuildable project. Seems pretty risky to me.
I see no evidence that they do better than multi-class classification, in fact they both work as I described. They learn embeddings of fMRI which perform an implicit classification of the data (which can be recovered just by quantizing the embedding space to get its modes) and put very large generation models on top.

The only reason the reconstructions are much better than before is because they use the latest generation models. Those models have internal models of the classes which allow them to fill in the high-frequency details in the reconstruction. The only information they get from the fMRI is the same low-frequency signal that previous papers already had, and indeed the only things the reconstructions get right are low-frequency: class of object/scene, broad position of object, broad shape of object.

fMRI scans are aggregates of brain information, they act like low-pass filters over the brain state. You can put as big a model on top as you want it won't make it more truthful a reconstruction.

I think, as you say, that detecting as many classes as possible is already a pretty good goal, developing new embeddings and techniques to see how much juice we can squeeze out of the scans. I like the arxiv preprint you posted in particular since it does just that and evaluates accuracy (although the way it does it is flawed since it uses an image classifier on the reconstruction which presents the same problems). What I don't like is the misrepresentation of what's going on when people put those large generative models on top of this kind of data.
So far there isn't that much stuff written in Rust, so, any non-trivial Rust program will link with a bunch of non-Rust code. On the project I worked on, we had to link with SPDK for example (a rather big iSCSI server implementation).

C++ has been around for... what?.. 40 odd years? And any non-trivial project still links with C libraries.

I don't see this problem somehow going away in Rust w/o some revolutionary changes in operating systems, which is the major supplier of decrepit but unavoidable libraries you have to link with in order to get anything done.
We need to use a separate laptop to access customer data. Everything is locked down pretty hard
What people are saying is that he wouldn't be stupid enough to kill off something that is a vital source of foreign currency in wartime, and could be used as leverage in negotiating with the EU. Except it wasn't operational and was proving to be useless as a bargaining chip.

The gymnastics come in believing that the guy who was willing to throw caution to the wind in starting a war with Ukraine (causing his economy to take a hammering and killing trade with the EU, running the real risk of pushing NATO entirely into NATO's arms) is somehow going to be precious about a pipeline that had ceased to have any value. I don't see it.
If you know something about how the USAF responds to incidents, the idea of the deputy base commander and disaster preparedness running around in the middle of the night chasing UFO's is hilarious. It's obviously a practical joke that got out of hand.
The big balloon from earlier this month was more like a satellite hanging from a balloon. Not sure it was that cheap.

The problem is what can you fly that has a cannon and can reach those altitudes. Apparently only the F22 and F15 could, and that was their very limit.
Lots of already good answers (get an llc/incorporate). To answer your question, yes there is still freelancing going on! But you should know and understand that the atmosphere and general (as a business) outlook towards freelancing has largely turned sour over the last 15+(?) years with the rise of the gig economy and the increase in remote freelancers from ALL over the world.

From your story, I think you're best bet is to incorporate and do work under a company name to freelance, yes its ironic in a way but the game is the game and guess what? That's the game you'll have to play in this day and age. Plus not even mentioning the numerous benefits to incorporation (although I speak as a US-centric). Anyway good luck! No better time to freelance tbh
Just went and listened, and sure enough the first episode was on point. Justin Welsh. Smart guy, but he does attribute a lot of his success to being one of the first people to create posts specifically for linkedin, which allowed him to acquire an audience of about 20k very quickly.
Damn that’s cheaper than 10 mobiks
Looks like the last update was in 2005:

http://www.instinct.org/elm/#download

Oh, you weren't talking about the email client. :)
Flurly has been shut down by Stripe
Like, they offered you $1MM (clean) to put $100MM cash in a suitcase and smuggle it through customs? Or to babysit it on a chartered flight and claim it was yours at customs? Because those feel pretty different.
If there's a single rule for small business it's "Cash is King". Cashflow is what kills you and the monthly income statement is way more important than your balance sheet.
The proposed theory on why they'd get caught on
purpose was to gather up intelligence on what a
response would be flying through the airspace.

It's certainly the most likely explanation.

Accordingly, it seems highly possible that the countries targeted by such incursions (a) realize their response time is being tested (b) fuzz/delay their responses by some certain amount of time in order to frustrate such efforts.
There were (are?) multiple core contributors. A person at my previous company even got to spend one day a week or something contributing.

But even with multiple people, I did get the impression it's not exactly a committee when it comes to what changes get merged.
As parent said, Germany didn’t declare war willingly, they had no choice but supporting the alliance. You cannot just change sides in war as it suits you.
Indeed. Thought is what makes data useful. When you don't have either then you don't really have much of an argument, do you?
What? Many want fauci, the pfizer ceo, etc arrested. People want answers to how covid started, the lockdowns, masks, etc. Everyone here is over covid as a pandemic, but that doesn't mean we don't have questions that we want answered.
The director of national intelligence explicitly said in a Congressional hearing last may that they want to destigmatize UAP sightings so that pilots will actually report them when they happen. It hasn't really been a big mystery why some people in the government have been trying to change the attitude around UFOs recently - that's why they use the term UAP instead, less cultural baggage
Basically anywhere in District 5, including some of Aurora: https://www.knkx.org/2015-election/2015-10-23/in-seattles-si...
> Doesn't explain the Tic Tac videos

He covers the "Tic-Tac" and "Go Fast" videos too, just not in that specific video. Like in this one, where he explains how the "Go Fast" video isn't actually even a fast object zipping just above the water, but rather an object flying at roughly wind-speed at about 12000 feet.

https://youtu.be/PLyEO0jNt6M
USDC. Audited + backed by cash and US treasuries
My opinion: I wouldn’t use Elm as a solo founder, as you want to put your energy into shipping and Elm, while very good will probably slow you down when you hit the thing it cannot do, and then you need to fork it and change the core code.

React on the other hand, has a vastly larger ecosystem already and is designed to work well with 3rd party code.

Middle ground is using an Elm-like architecture within another framework. The keyword here is “TEA architecture” where TEA means The Elm Architecture, or also MVU (Model View Update)

Elm is excellent and has done a lot of good for the front end world through knock on effects. It is good fun to use. I have a few projects based on it open source. So I am not against Elm I just think it will be annoying if the goal os to ship fast.
Thinkpads are my recommendation. Have been using an X1 extreme for the past few years and love it.

Really wanted to like System76 laptops, but at least in the ~2017 timeframe they just generally disappointed :-/
This is exactly what Larry Johnson (former CIA) at sonar21.com suggested.
China will need to send nine million five hundred thousand balloons and then the budget will be all used up.
You should make that much clearer, maybe even by running it in a codesandbox, and submitting that link to HN. I think it might be received better than when marketed as a service (and also, if the process is client-side, why is there a subscription offering?)

Think about Figma. They don't charge for
how many drawings you make - that would seem ludicrous, especially since most of the compute power required to use the product is expended during client-side code execution. So instead, Figma charges you for using the app itself, but only once you want to add another collaborator to your private projects (at which point you're obviously happy with the product and probably willing to pay).

If you want to monetize this, I would encourage you to think along those same lines. You are building a product for somebody - but for whom? You can answer that question by letting people use it for free and seeing who likes it the most - marketers? news article editors? - and then building more features to focus the product on their use case.

Don't think about charging by volume - think about getting consistent usage from users who face this problem often, and then figure out how to integrate into their existing workflows. Then charge them money to do that.
From what I have read these 3 were just recently 'discovered' and weren't known prior to Biden coming into office. How this can be true, I have no clue. Either way, I don't remember people posting balloon pictures a few years ago. I have a feeling that if they had transited during the previous administration, and people knew, they would have nailed this criticism to Trump too.
Because users who read stuff actually want to turn on their brain, rather than turn it off like on YT. This means users can't get caught in an endless downward spiral of bad content, and are happy to look elsewhere for interesting content.
Is there a way to confirm whether hashnode is VC-funded or not?

Because if it is VC-funded, enshittification is inevitable.
For me, HN handles votes using deep links, since I have JS disabled.
God is ChatGPT! LOL

You made my day!
Mick West's videos are so good, specifically because the analysis are based on what's actually shown in the interface in the videos. There's no big "like, comment, subscribe"-section either. Just a pure explanation of why the object shown isn't as mystical as it appears at first glance.
It's kinda both. From the article:

> That explains why the “below premium” segment was the only one to see an increase in demand in January compared to January 2022, according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s Beer Purchasers’ Index.
In the case of blogging, writing is (typically) one's product. Writing is relatively cheap and depending on the subject is highly commoditized, so you need to write a lot to incentivize audiences to return and to continue to consume, and presumably pay you somehow.

This isn't always the case. You might be an otherwise famous individual who will have an audience regardless of your publishing frequency. But I think for most bloggers, you have to have enough material that people will visit, and continue to make more so people will come back.

I published between 1 and 3 times a year on my blog/website. But then I'm not doing it for income.
What is the justification for paywalling a very basic, old GIS function like Raster Georeferencing into an expensive "Pro" category?
Does anyone have an idea how they built the cloudlets? I find the concept very fascinating but I don't have any idea how one would go about building such a large cluster of old phones
Given the possibilities of an alien spacecraft observed on Earth violating the known laws of physics, or some error on the part of the observer, I'm going with the latter every time.

First, prove that everything we know about physics is wrong at a fundamental, irreconcilable level. Then explain why our completely wrong models of physics still work as well as they do. Then explain the Fermi Paradox in light of the apparent existence of easy faster than light/antigravity technology and confirmation of the existence of other technologically advanced civilizations in the universe. Then I'll be willing to concede the still practically nil chance of any of those aliens actually being here given the vast size of the observable universe as being likely enough to consider.

Don't get me wrong, I want it to be true. I desperately want it to be true. I've been fascinated by UFOlogy and sightings and the related folklore for decades. I want some fate for humanity other than us slowly choking to death on our own poison, alone on this island in the midst of vast seas of infinity. It's just that the bar for proving any other possibility is higher than a third-hand account of someone seeing a light in the sky that moved really fast.
I've also seen Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena but Aerial makes more sense.
That all makes sense, but this was for a promotion to senior dev.
I'd never heard of Elm until I ran across Iced [1] ("Iced is a cross-platform GUI library focused on simplicity and type-safety. Inspired by Elm.").

Has anyone who liked Elm tried Iced? Any thoughts?

I've been checking out various GUI libraries for Rust, but I don't have time to investigate them in depth--so I thought maybe someone might have already done the investigation for me :)

[1] https://docs.rs/iced/latest/iced/
It was nice at first but as usual it had to satisfy the shareholders/VC profit margin and for something as mundane as a blog platform, this means annoying the users at unacceptable levels. So the readers fled, and so did now the content creators.

Lets see how long Substack will take to wither away…
After working 3 years using elm exclusively for the frontend, it felt dirty going back to react when changing jobs.

The previous huge project had basically zero bugs. The code was nice to work with, could trust things were working after a refactor without even clicking around in all interfaces. Could trust the typing and forced handling of all state to notify if you broke something. Of course, no escape hatches meant you had to program things the one correct way, no shortcuts possible.

While the react codebase I work in now is so brittle in comparison, and scary to make changes in.
I assume by your answer that you work at Apple or know someone who works there so let me clarify that I'm talking about the messy work that happens before you have a take home prototype for a device. I'm talking about building the prototype with in-house machinery before asking the manufacturer to make samples at the factory. If you do work at Apple, do you hand assemble prototypes at the office or do you just ask the manufacturer to build them and overnight them to your house? If so, do you have lab equipment at home to inspect and test it?
Sorry to hear that. Haha. Nah, it's very org dependent. A bunch of my team all quit around the same time last year. One of my buddies had been happily there for 6 years.
> the US government spends at least 4x more on healthcare, education and welfare

And we’re terrible at all three vs nations that spend fractions less…
People are right to be cynical and critical of GME fundamentals but not all investing is fundamentals based.