skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this middlebrow dismissal really the top comment for an important discussion?

Do you really believe the geolocator and marketing pings you didn't ask for are just to say hello and immediately forgotten?
What you say here is what someone who has extreme or fringe political views would say. I don’t know if you do have such views but it might be worth considering what it means or how it comes across to others to say things such people say. It’s hard to believe they only allow an ultra narrow viewpoint. It’s not like the liberal party is always the one in power in Canada.
Are there any courses in precalculus or calculus that teach using CASs like SymPy or Sage?
They have always been able to do things like this in a targeted way to particular people at some cost as well as at some inconvenience to judges and police officers, but not efficiently, programmatically, instantaneously, at scale, and integrated with the rest of their surveillance infrastructure. This creates similar risks and incentives for politically targeted abuse and the advancement of totalitarian, technocratic forms of government masked by secrecy laws to those presented by the FISA court system.
Why Steam Machines might fail (2014)
Nobody wants to publish him because of the treatment the LRB received the last few times they lent him their imprimatur.
Looking at HomeDepot to see how much it would cost to build something similar myself, it would be about $250 for the material (at MSRP prices), so probably about $100 at wholesale prices.

You would have to cut the aluminum and the plywood to size, but otherwise the labor is the same.

Which makes it just like Blue Apron and all those other meal delivery companies: you're paying through the nose to avoid the easiest part of the project, gathering the supplies.
> if Linux kernel interfaces e.g. syscalls are stable

Syscalls are not the Linux Kernel interface. Syscalls are core mechanisms to access protected/secure resources. Memcpy, fopen, etc. But the Kernel has much more to it's ABI than just syscalls and those are not guaranteed to be stable.
"heavily scrubbing its content" does not mean "The syrian rebels gassed themselves". You described an unbased conspiracy theory, and then tossed a page full of unrelated emails up as "evidence".
For what it's worth, I have a lenovo thinkpad and this behavior was somehow baked into it for both windows and linux (ubuntu).
It would have been a non-problem if copyright died with the author.
Like the other person wrote we switched from a home-rolled system to LaunchDarkly.
The New York Times is not the New York Post. The former has numerous guardrails (including the aforementioned Foreign Editors and NatSec screenings, the latter of which you ignored) to prevent a rogue journalist or editor from publishing a big story that could jeopardize the entire organization's government relations.
Well, none of these state broadcasters are actually in the US, so they don't have to worry about the first amendment :)

But I do take your meaning.
Just like YouTube most content is crap.

There is a huge difference between "there is lots of crap content to wade through to get to the good content" and "I can't find content that isn't crap". My foray into Peertube over the years is that the latter is much closer than the former.
I don't think that's why the upper middle class demanded lock downs and blue collar didn't. I think the driver was financial stability. Upper middle class likely has a nice emergency fund and could do their job from home. Essentially a nice vacation. Blue collar workers got to choose between welfare and starving.
The Anders Puck Nelson video about this came to the conclusion that it was probably Russia. His reasoning is interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-0qJXyido
Critically, your asset is the loan, the liability is the deposit credit in the borrowers account but you have zero liquidity and are actually done for when they ask for the money.

So you either need to borrow the money from another entity (if perhaps you were better at loan origination) ahead of that, or more likely use owner equity to payout the loan.
It is disturbing how authoritatively you claim this.
Anyone in the know about these devices care to suggest whether it's worth getting the top-end 512GB model, or is the 256GB one good enough? The SSD itself can be replaced, right? Anti-glare glass sounds nice but not sure it's worth the price difference. Anything else?
That's the problem. Applying information is hard, taking in information is way easier.
This is my experience as well, having multiple relatives who have worked at Title 1 schools and going to public school myself which was on the poverty side of things.
Don't be disingenous. "We will put an end to x" does not mean "we will blow x up", and is common political rhetoric.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=5567609899962902 "We will put an end to Abbott's attacks on educators, raise teacher pay, improve their retirement benefits, and fully fund our classrooms."

https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/larson-... "we will put an end to the decades of price gouging"

Again, "we'll bankrupt them with sanctions" easily falls under "we will put an end to them".
For me, it's that this recently-released product is already competing (in the minds of users, which is what counts) with a decades-old mature product. In terms of accuracy, the "but sometimes it's wrong" perspective reminds me of the initial reaction among some to wikipedia. Yep, ANYONE can edit it. Yep, they could lie... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The wars, purging campaigns, African slave trade and colonial wars were all made by governments that were (and declared themselves) capitalists and that did actions with the explicit purpose of advancing profits for their dominant classes. Several ethnic conflicts also were provoked by them. I do not think that we have so much difference here.

The problem is that it is normalized in western ideology to consider any death in communist countries as death by communism and any death in capitalist countries as explained by several other factors that do not relate with capitalism.

> "Capitalism" isn't even a single philosophy,

But I can say the same for communism. Or any other concept: there always will be differences in interpretations. And capitalists do not need an explicit manifesto because they are already the hegemonic power. They already succeeded in their past revolutions to give power to the bourgeoisie. The ideals for what they fought in the past are already normalized in the society.
That's definitely a factor, though I'd also add across all ethnicities. Remember we're looking back with hindsight. Imagine you're an ethnic Russian in Crimea in 2014. "Your" president has just been overthrown, there's been intermittent ethnic conflict rising, and now your territory just declared their independence. Your future is not looking peaceful, to say the least.

We can look at past populations though. [1] Ethnic Ukrainians have never been more than a sizable minority in Crimea. Their peak was 26.5% in 1970. And indeed there was a sharp drop in Ukrainians from 2001 to 2014 (going from 24% to 16%), though that was following a downward trend from the 1989 to 2001 census as well.

So if we take a high end estimate and say the real number was 25% Ukrainian, you'd still likely end up with a poll result of ~74% instead of 83%.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea
This is AFAIK a result of trying to get Erdogan to accept the NATO application from Sweden and Finland.

NATO head Jens Stoltenberg started saying Turkey but then changed to Türkiye before the big NATO summit in Madrid last summer.
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/YEtrg
That's like saying anyone who owns property is a "part of the government" because "the government" has granted them special authority to enforce their property rights.

In Germany, the right of those broadcasters to collect that fee is derived directly from the constitution, just like the right to own property is.
So you haven’t read the article but are choosing to interfere with the ranking.

Why ?
From the download page:

> The macOS version is not well supported, because we don't have active macOS developers/contributors.

My hopes were dashed :(
IMHO the problem is that there are so many interesting and semi-intrinsically motivating things that it's very hard to shut them out and "put some effort into" whatever you are "supposed to be doing".
As someone else noted in another thread, Hersh's reputation and the source are absolutely evidence. What he hasn't provided is hard proof for the claims.

I can't find any proof whatsoever as to who actually did it from the western authorities claiming to investigate it either though. In fact, there's been little to no news or updates at all since the incident.
There's enough info elsewhere in these comments to figure it out. (FWIW I read the first bit up until the part about Barthes and skimmed the rest; you're not missing much)
There are actual, visible consequences to trying to keep the old dying system alive. It's hopelessly broken, and more important, unsustainable. For it to truly be a product of "evolution", you have to let the broken parts die.
> The idea of telemetry is being able to prioritize the work that will be most widely useful.

It does sort of hinge on the highly suspect assumption that usefulness is correlated with use. An obvious counter-example to this is something like a fire-extinguisher, which will in the ideal case just sit on a wall until it's use-by date passes and then it's discarded having never been used; or on the flip side, an incredibly byzantine workflow that could be reduced to something much simpler will appear important and useful.

Even without these edge cases, interpreting statistics is really hard. Like people with PhDs who have studied these things for years still get them wrong all the time.

What ends up happening more often than not is it's used as a tool to quiet the critics when pushing through unpopular changes.
Even more reason to ask for strong evidence to back up the claim that it absolutely was the US.
C developers: just don't reach back into the bag. It's pretty simple.ýýýý
Expected no less from someone named "crablover". If that person isn't going to lecture us all, who will?
http://balkhandshambhala.blogspot.com/2013/10/persian-origin...
Is that really permission? It's that or not use the laptop, right?
> I'm happy there are places where speech is not restricted.

that means no. Do you want to remove _every_ moderation made by companies/governments in all online forums, including HN?
doesn't everything you send to them allow them to train on it? how would you even know if your data went into another model?

Unless you build some kind of test data management system and the LLm provider promises not to compete seems like your kind of in a sticky situation.
This is cool as heck. Thank you for posting it.
Feel free:) Once your replacement is fully functional, make sure to post it to HN so the rest of us know it's available.
I don't think it's as cut-and-dry as you're making it sound. This question seems like something you need an actual lawyer for.
Why do people always feel entitled to tell people what to do? The guy said he doesn't care and to remove it from FDroid if needed. The guy can be a dick, the guy can be as distasteful as humanly possible. It's "okay".

That's that, if you want to use it just fork it.
To believe spam is solvable you must also believe capitalism is solvable. Spam will always be working on the next one up of the system there is too much money involved. Also by needing an always increasing amount of money to make the market happy Google will gladly become part of the problem.
>> Some people just need to harden the f** up and quit catastrophizing every little thing.

You assume that this is simply a matter a making a decision and acting on it -- which for you may be true.

There are others that will find this difficult-to-impossible to achieve regardless of their intellectual desire to change. Their experience of anxiety may not be a result of "catastrophizing" or "being soft."
Paging Colin Percival to talk about picodollars. The medium strength advice on this topic is to use integer math with cents as your unit. Colin’s advice is to choose the smallest possible unit you can that will avoid overflow (I think) hence why he prices tarsnap in picodollars: https://www.tarsnap.com/picoUSD-why.html
To be fair, the reason that the UK is constantly producing headlines about destroying free speech is that they've been fucking around with this ridiculous online safety bill for 4 years now. They produced a whitepaper in 2019, it took them 2 years to turn it into a bill, that was completely full of holes, then COVID happened and the whole thing got thrown up in the air. Then the UK government decided to play musical chairs and then finally Michelle Donelan got put in charge and stripped out some of the worse bits (the whole "legal but harmful" language)... oh but then Sunak decided to rip up the entire department that is responsible for this bill so it's back up in the air.

Oh and don't forget, this whole thing contains a bill to remove age verification for porn sites which is a bit of ridiculous absurdity they passed in 2017 but never enforced.

This whole story is less about the UK's over-reaching authoritarianism, it's a story about how totally incompetent they've become, and as a result they aren't actually capable of writing legislation that makes any sense. Thats why we've got all of these silly headlines, because they putting together the legislation without actually thinking about it.
I don't understand why the submitted title contains a question mark.
According to whom? The White House?
It's not. There are Physician Incentive Plans that incentivize doctors to prescribe SSRIs for anyone complaining about generalized anxiety or depression.
Most social media doesn't like links off-site. Posting the blog post as a Reddit post works better.
You keep bringing up irrelevant distractions.

Do you have any evidence at all for your claim that universities are refusing to enroll African American students in CS programs?
Related: Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) can be used for polynomial interpolation in O(nlogn) time (if you get to choose the points, and use “complex roots of unity”), where n is the degree of the polynomial, and is used as a step in multiplication of polynomials in O(nlogn) as well.

This video covers it well: https://youtu.be/h7apO7q16V0

Also, chapter 30 of CLRS: https://elec3004.uqcloud.net/ebooks/CLRS%20(2nd%20Ed)%20-%20...
I'd have to find somewhere with water near a desert, that's why I specified the edge. My understanding of how some deserts form is that farming techniques or other forces can cause a region to stop retaining water as well, and if this happens in a large enough area, it can lead to less rainfall etc. I remember reading about how herd animals trampling prairie grass and shitting all over it causes it to retain significantly more moisture during dryer times. My thought is that moisture regulating bogs could possibly at least stop deserts from expanding
That certainly would be helpful.
I have a simple rule - "no"

There is absolutely no reason to sign an NDA for an interview

Ever
> Maybe the (ex-)Googlers in recent AI HackerNews articles are wrong in proclaiming that Google will come on top of the AI wars, due to their immense contributions to its lead-up.

This was also the sentiment in tech circles during early cloud wars. That Google, with it's supposedly superior engineering and infra, would win the cloud. That didn't happen -- Google not only did not win that but also lost it's lead on Azure and now stands at #3

And I feel the same will be true for AI wars.
What if I told you that I myself along with the vast majority of consumers just simply do not care about underlying access.
Here is the TOS: https://github.com/deckerst/aves/blob/main/assets/terms.md
I don’t have a strong opinion about who blew up Nord Stream.

I do believe one thing: with US AWACS and other assets, and in that part of the world, I believe that the US government (and perhaps other governments, like Germany) know who did it. There a many reasons why they would not share information, such as an ally could have done it. Or, of course, Russia may have done it.

I am glad this story is posted on HN because I like getting many different opinions in one place.
Futuristic databases you’ve never heard of [video]
The video claims: "Let's take a look at the top 15 new databases that could disrupt software development in the future. Many new serverless databases leverage tools like Postgres and MySQL, while others attempt build entirely new systems from scratch.

This video is NOT sponsored. No company paid to be on this list."

And the list do databases is:

- Planetscale
- Yugabye
- NeonDB
- Dolt
- CockroachDB
- Cloudflare D1
- Xata
- 8base
- EdgeDB
- SurrealDB
- FaunaDB
- memgraph
- KeyDB
- Meilisearch
- MindsDB

I guess that this databases might sound unknown if you are new to the database world. I do recognize a few names from HN threads :)
You're right - was referring to things like Fortify.
IEEE double gives you 15 digits and a much larger dynamic range, so the tradeoff is just not worth it except for specialized applications.
Any government, to emphasize. Who gets to decide what constitutes misinformation?
> The new "Public Spaces Incubator" (PSI) initiative will develop and test innovative solutions that encourage accessible and meaningful online conversations on issues of public interest, free from harassment or bullying — inclusive exchanges that will reflect diverse viewpoints and promote greater empathy and understanding, without suppressing perspectives or ideas.

When ideas like racism and sexism are experienced as harassment, how is it possible to be both free of harassment and of the suppression of ideas?

I don't think it's possible. You have to tell people that they aren't really being harassed, or that their ideas aren't really being suppressed. And the interpretation of which is which cannot be objective.
That's basically a language/cultural issue - in some places the semantics of the word "tax" are more narrowly defined than in others leading to discussions like these.
> How would I do this on MacOS or Windows?

Ideally you'd create a proper icc profile for your monitor. The ideal way is to use a calibration device, but both OS have a wizard where you can manually adjust contrast and brightness and generate a profile out of that.

This can be used to both increase or decrease contrast.
> despite what gnome and apple proclaiming such a goal is impossible.

GNOME? The great out the box experience... that also allows power users to deeply customize it? It is dishonest to lap GNOME (extremely popular free software) in with Apple (king of proprietary software).
Microservices: Think Hard Before You Jump In
Yes. The C. Elegans brain (~300 neurons) was the first organism to be completely mapped to a connectome (the map of all connections). The first complete connectome of any centralized brain, the fruit fly, is about to be completed by the Flywire project (https://home.flywire.ai/) ~100,000 neurons and ~70,000,000 synapses. We have just a little idea how it works ;)
Hersh also tried to minimize the Skripal novichok poisoning story, didn't he?
Yes.

They gave him an iPad, but none of their systems use SSO of any kind.

He doesn't really care for the iPad, doesn't have a mobile phone, and doesn't do social.

He does do Minecraft, KSP, and Davinci Resolve.
It’s a bug.
Ruby sort of does! The type of 1/3 is Rational!
Nice list. What helps me:

“A preoccupation with the means is a lack of commitment to the end.”

In this context, the means is knowledge. And for me, the end is building things. So, I try always to be building something (in my work or avocationally), and the high I get from that helps to resist the craving to know more about how to build things.
> Sadly I don’t think your request is the morally good action you presume it to be.

Why do you believe that it's desirable to push at best unfounded assumptions and at worse questionable propaganda?
Buckminster Fuller has always reminded me a great deal of Ted Nelson. His "Dymaxion Chronofile" even invites the comparison to Xanadu. Both had some interesting ideas, but both were far better at talking about them than implementing them... and seem like they kept secrets principally to avoid having to clearly articulate their plans.
DeciSym/Sylabs Partner to Develop Virtual Data Fabric, Support DoD Cyber Testing
Please refer back to my original comment about people hearing NFTs and for some reason which I fail to understand jump to "physical property". NFTs do not work for physical property but they do for digital.

Enforcement of digital rights is actually easier via NFTs than contracts/client apps etc. because NFTs mathematically can prove ownership (courts just have not caught up yet).
DeciSym and Sylabs have been awarded an investment tender launched by the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Test & Evaluation/Science & Technology (T&E/S&T) Program Office in collaboration with the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO). The tender was granted after participating in a cyber round-robin to improve Department of Defense (DoD) cyber testing practices and procedures. The round-robin was piloted through Tradewind, an organization designed to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence/machine learning, digital, and data analytics solutions throughout the DoD.
They are so "uninterested" that they took the time to implement a TOS dialog in their app.
So, let me get this straight.

U.S. is worried Russia will use the pipeline that's supplying Europe with gas as a bargaining chip, and blackmail them. Threatening with higher prices, or switching it off.

Which makes zero sense, why blow up your own cash cow?

So the U.S. come in and blow it up. Causing sky high prices across Europe, poor families and elderly to choose to either freeze to death, or starve. Causing chaos for potentially years. Possibly more damage than Russia could ever have done.

Makes sense, well done. Fuk yeaaah, America!!!
I think using some kind of MLM(medium size language model) that just knows how to interact with a KB/DB system and translates it into english(language of choice) would be much more valuable to a mid-size company/enterprise company.
"The system is on by default, but opting out is easy, effective, and persistent."
But contributing takes a lot more than just a working build environment.
The guy decided to upload his project to GitHub and make it public, there was nothing in the initial issue that would warrant the response it did.

Author is free not to remove ToS, but he doesn't have to be a dick about it.
You're taking OP's claim too literally. Obviously babies don't pop out of the womb ready to competently manage a team of 30 engineers.

The claim is that people are born with different aptitudes for management that allow them to progress faster along the management skill curve per unit of effort.
I've answered that question repeatedly in this thread already. If you read those comments and have a question I haven't addressed, I'd like to know what it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713529

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713479

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712496
Well the whole point of this law was that there were a lot of strikes after WW2 and the government wanted to weaken union power, so while they may have pitched this as helping everyone it was obviously a way to empower the business class over workers.