skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh hey look, it's the bad faith green account. We've all been waiting for you to show up. It wouldn't be a political thread on Hacker News without you.
Hm. Reading the heading, I am thinking: "What? Only 400 elements sorted? In a whole minute? What criteria did they look for to sort them?"

It seems like a really low number of things to sort. If they added two zeros to that, maybe it would be impressive. In my browser 400 per 60s would mean, that I have to wait almost 10 minutes, until they are all sorted.
Why is that? This seems like the heart of the labor-hoarding criticism of Google: hire a bunch of smart people, then tell them to churn out low-value code for the ads machine while their RSUs vest and refresh.
Where does it say that you're the one who is confused?
> there are possibly some things that the hobbyists did that may not have been completely within the bounds of the treaty

Given the geopolitical moment, I'm inclined to think it might work out for the best if that were so.

Not that today's neocon China hawks are any more in the habit of listening to reason than they were when they were the neocon Iraq hawks of a couple of decades ago, but anything that gives everyone else another reason not to listen to their incessant warmongering is in my view entirely welcome.
I guess it depends on what one is looking for, because to me Windows feels the most dated of any desktop environment mainly due to its poor implementation of virtual desktops.

Even the version of Spaces from OS X 10.5 Leopard (circa 2007) is better, and various *nix DEs had better virtual desktops since the mid-late 90s onward. That makes Windows harder to use for me than lack of snapping on macOS does, particularly with how Windows makes me feel like I need to maximize most windows which drives a greater need for good virtual desktops.
They seem to be trying any trick they can think of to avoid submitting a valid plan:

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-towns-mull-pla...
I thought the same thing, except adding 4 or 5 zeroes
$550,000 a unit. Come on. You can’t be serious that this is a solution.

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-califor...
The "wall of shame" on this site comes pretty directly from the Something Awful forums Leper's Colony: https://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php
There are many reasons it would be good for there to be a fallback zoning set by the state if a city is missing a housing element. For example, in that case builders could propose zoning compliance projects which have less legal ambiguity, are consistent with a general plan (and therefore already have environmental impacts studied for CEQA), and perhaps don’t have the same inclusionary zoning requirements of Builders’ Remedy projects.
Huh… in Python I feel like the tooling is largely missing.
Ask HN: How do you become a better Python developer?
I assume that a lot of this just comes down to general SE experience but I am looking to actively learn how to write more "pythonic" code.
they had an annual plan previously

then dumped it, effectively raising the price

now they've raised the price again and have and brought the annual plan back as a "discount"

(no doubt the annual plan will disappear again as another stealth price increase)
As someone with thousands of unsorted and duplicate tabs saved those “tab saver” chrome extensions, I was hoping for something I could use.
What was the process after similar catastrophes, like Exxon Valdez, or Deepwater Horizon?
Your second link is empty, it looks like that comment was flagged and removed.

Perhaps it makes more sense for you to flag such incindiary comments and move on?
For PWAs you could simply not expose a hook to the developer that initiates the install process? It would be like if App Store pages didn’t have URLs. Have the install functionality added to the browser UI instead.

If PWAs weren‘t arbitrarily restricted there’d be no reason to link to the app store because…you’re already in the app.

Spamming users to hit the install button would be like spamming users to bookmark your website. That doesn’t seem to be a problem (though that’s probably because people don’t keep their bookmarks on their home screen)
Finding Jobs on Twitter Using the OpenAI Embeddings API
How does one live in a 45m^2 self built house when all the jobs are in places with insane building codes requiring 1200 sq ft minimum house complete with sewage/septic permit? You may be able to get away with that if you don't have a family but if you do sooner or later other kids will find out, your kid will be ratted out to social services for living in an "illegal shelter" which the social worker will deem inadequate and demand they be moved or taken away. The city will bulldoze the house and fine the everliving shit out of you.

Meanwhile you still have to pay property taxes, and for at least some of your food, which means you need a job. And because you have a job you need childcare. So minimally you need to pay for the property taxes food and childcare, occasional medical bills, the upkeep of the truck (emissions testing needed to legally drive to get groceries etc, so even a check engine light means costly repair). Oh and don't forget, when I was looking for a truck "older than me" during covid I found the market was absolutely insane and they were practically the price of a new truck. All in that's a full working-class salary right there, and that's with spending on nothing but essentials.

As an extremely frugal person the only way I've ever been able to live the way you live was when I was single and basically squatting in the national forest. And even then I had LEO up my ass threatening to cite me for illegally existing in nature. Hopefully any American planning this life has the money to emigrate or the will and craftiness to do it illegally.
I assume the US is a lot less. (Which makes sense because the US is a lot more spread out and, I assume, more people own cars.) Around where I live there is one service owned by a local supermarket chain plus, mostly, Instacart. I have heard it's bigger in the UK in general.

It actually feels like one of those activities were doing more of during the pandemic but pretty much reset on.
Some games work great through Parallels, like Left4Dead 2. Others work via CrossOver. But support is not that broad unfortunately. I hope things improve vastly once Asahi Linux can run Proton - Valve has added Linux support to so many games already (for the Steam Deck).
I think it's overstating the case that 4000 units were "approved" in Santa Monica. Some guy pulled papers on the project. Get back to me if any of them break ground. So far, only 899 units worth have filed complete applications and zero of these have got anywhere in the rest of the process. I would not advise holding your breath.

Cities have various ways to stop projects. They can drag out things like demolition permits forever.
Firmware will typically configure the SPI controller such that flash can't be written directly from the OS, both as a self-protection mechanism (there's been malware in the past that deliberately bricked boards by overwriting the firmware) and as a security boundary (if you can modify flash directly, you can replace the set of keys trusted by secure boot).
What is the underlying problem? I keep looking for it in your comments
My apologies if my reply came off as snarky.

But I think if you're interpreting the OP as sci-fi, you're misreading. Gwern intended it as an illustration of a plausible path to AGI takeoff, in the not-too-distant future.

The claim is that this could actually happen, in our lifetime, and with no new technology (as Gwern says, "It might help to imagine a hard take⁣off sce⁣nario using solely known sorts of NN & scaling ef⁣fects").

One may reasonably disagree with the claim, by presenting arguments for why takeoff might be harder, or why alignment is easier than this scenario illustrates. But "this scenario could happen" is the explicit, concrete claim.
> No, more homeless will appear

It's not like they magically respawn or something. There are people who have studied the root cause of homelessness, and: it's housing. Sure, other factors make things worse, but there's more homelessness where housing is expensive.

Which stands to reason: when a thing is expensive, fewer people can afford it.

https://homelessnesshousingproblem.com/

That's why, ultimately, the biggest YIMBY win is going to be not helping out people currently homeless, but stopping the pipeline in the first place by having enough housing.
Its not really a license as much as it is a fee, even if it is called that. It'd be like calling taxes a life-license or something. Also worth noting its not the only country that has one, just off the top of my head I know that Ireland, Switzerland and Japan have them as well
> In my browser 400 per 60s would mean, that I have to wait almost 10 minutes, until they are all sorted.

There's always gotta be that guy that will come up with the most unreasonable and unbelievable usage of any tool, just to show how special they are.

No, you don't have 4,000 browser tabs open, nobody believes that.

More on the topic, since the title mentions GPT, I imagine it sorts them based on the content, like categories.
Have you looked up FAA regulations?

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc_html...

Also, might be good to look into putting a device that will broadcast its location via radio or radar. I believe that above 60k feet airspace is unrestricted, but up till there it might be a good idea

Plus a broadcast signal might scream "This isn't a spy balloon" to USAF lol
> I am looking to actively learn how to write more "pythonic" code.

Effective Python is a great book which aims to teach people who already know the language how to use it well.
I don't know what this is, but I'm pretty sure I don't want it.
We just had one called Pieter Pot in The Netherlands declare bankrupt. Read into their story I would say.
Can you elaborate on what kind of projects you were working on together?
I've only just got into radio after hearing about these pico balloons. I've found a decent community over on r/RTLSDR that share information and pictures about hobbyist/DIY radio stuff. I picked up the recommended gear for about $40 and will be trying to receive transmissions around my area.

From some posts there it looks like even beginner gear can get images from the NOAA weather satellites.
Your hysteric response isn't any less bizarre. Not every question has to have a profound meaning or be personally relevant.

For example, you consider even entertaining the possibility of hiring the wife of a top performer bizarre, based on your explicit opinion that this is a terrible idea. That doesn't mean the question is bizarre. It's a normal ethical question to which you have a clear answer. What's the problem?
The return to the office could be the real reason for the slump in productivity
> No. It's a liability. Brands are about focusing on niche markets with common interests.

A fair assessment.

> No. It's about being able to sell to them and promote to them. Being able to promote what you're selling is a prerequisite to being able to sell it.

I'm not sure what your "no" is disagreeing with here. Is it that marketing will not have a lean because they will always choose to market toward their audience?

I would disagree with that. Marketing/advertisers think in generalizations. The formal processes of audience description and creating example personas are fully based on those generalizations. These methods are extremely helpful, I've done them before myself, and they produce useful methodology and next steps.

But these generalizations are built on popular culture, which is dictated by societal normalcy, past media (generational upbringing), etc. Those generalizations always contain normalcy/socially acceptable leanings, which means marketing as structured currently would need to go out of its way to combat this leaning. Which they don't, no one cares, the workers complete the work, get paid, and go home.
Prior discussions on package signing:

- https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/5852

- https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/4120
wine, on macOS or on a linux dual boot on your current Mac (with Proton), maybe?
Upvoted. Honest question. How did this make the front page of HN with 4 upvotes at the time?
My current company has the "hall of knowledge". I've contributed a few shelves to it.

Previous company had a science fiction library.
That means its an ethically sound question, so you're clearly not getting the point of these questions.
Wrapping it in aluminum foil works, too.

Anything that completely surrounds the phone with conductive material will do the job.
The Internet is full of bots and paid commenters but if you look at statistics on americans being interview regarding Snowden you'll find that a whole lot are buying into the propaganda. It's just an easy thing to do and it's socially acceptable, especially in very nationalistic country.
I would love to see their wording as well.
Ah, I saw a green username and did not read carefully. Apologies to them
Early 2000s message boards were so much fun.

vBulletin, hilariously awful moderation, arguments over signature sizes, cliques, random outages, people who had just got DSL posting images that ruined the experience for posters still on dial-up.

Great times. The internet feels so banal these days.
So, do you agree its probably not in the consumer's best long term interest for charging networks to be tightly coupled with single manufacturers and we should probably disincentivize such structures from existing?

Do you think Tesla keeping their network proprietary for long ultimately increased or decreased overall EV sales in the past few years? Do you think more or fewer Bolts and Leafs would have been sold if they would have been able to use a true open standard of Tesla chargers?

Imagine how many consumers worries would be alleviated if Tesla allowed all cars to charge on their network today. Wouldn't that be great? Which is more harmful to consumers: a proprietary network or an open one?

Imagine if Ford bought out all the prime gas station locations along highway corridors and made them Ford only gas stations. A true win for consumers.

Maybe we shouldn't allow single corporations to control important infrastructure with proprietary standards?
Fun fact about systemd-boot, you have to hold down the spacebar to get the boot prompt, and it remembers the last boot. So if you let your toddler bang on the keyboard while booting, and you're boot looping into the BIOS config screen, hold down space at the next boot and maybe everything will work out OK.
The pricing is good, but the experience for mail is poor.

I move from Zoho to Fastmail a year later and it’s a much slicker experience.

(Just mail, I didn’t use any of Zoho’s collaborative tools.)
The suggestion wasn't that it should not be tracked, just that it shouldn't be called a recall, since they're not actually recalling your car to have something fixed.
It picked up during the pandemic, and a lot of people decided to keep doing it afterwards. My BIL hasn't been to a store in ages. For the few things they can't get delivered, they just ask us to pick it up for them.
> Furthermore, if we view transformers as Hopf algebras, one can bring convolutional models, diffusion models and transformers under a single umbrella.

Have you written any more about this?
I just went to Zoho after the "legacy" policy. It's just doesnt worth it. I need just an imap email service with custom domain name.
> For those who don't understand, particularly non-Americans, schools are funded primarily by local property taxes.

This was true historically, and may still be true in some states, but court cases since the 1970s [1] have been forcing reforms on school funding to be more equitable at the state level.

[1] https://edeq.stanford.edu/sections/section-4-lawsuits/landma...
Yes. Correct. Also yours is a a bullshit interpretation of a bullshit constitutional amendment that should be amended out. Also you’re not always the best judge of your behavior, which is a natural consequence of the fact that there’s more than one person inhabiting this planet.
Yup, I had a stylelint rule specifying no more than 2 levels.
You can also buy solid wood furniture at Ikea, but it cost a bit more. In fact, i have two solid wood furniture in my house from Ikea.

The rest i built with my father. Mostly pine, with ash for the more delicate stuff (like chairs).
Weird title, needs a comma after "risky", but I guess HN removes them while sanitizing
Going to say the obvious, knowing nothing about this situation:

If the company is public, it has a fiduciary duty to it's shareholders to maximize profits, which means that management should act to reduce the workforce if they feel that portion returns less in profit than it costs to keep on board.

Private companies have more leeway, unless of course they have contractual obligations to uphold with private investors.

This happens in normal markets and helps to ensure companies continue to exist into the future and don't bleed out. Defunct companies can't employ anyone.
Honestly I do on a regular basis. Also that doesn't sound like a lot for a browser to maintain. Imagine opening most links in a new tab. That's how it happens and that's me.
As I understand it, pager messages are the same way. At least in the US, they’re transmitted unencrypted, and anyone with a $25 SDR dongle and some free software can receive them. But it’s illegal to, say, put them up on a website.
"The goal of this paper is to offer a somewhat comprehensive but simple catalog and classification of the most popular Transformer models."

Yet of the 6 comments here, 2 of them are complaining about missing models and three more are arguing about the typesetting on figures.
MacPorts had more packages I wanted and fewer outdated packages the last time I compared them. Homebrew won the time before.

Is the Homebrew Ruby DSL much easier than the MacPorts Tcl DSL? I think the main reason Homebrew succeeded was it had binary packages before MacPorts. But a more familiar language helped probably.
I'm starting to get the feeling that behind "AI" it's pretty much just an RNG with a bunch of constraints applied to its output. The constraints restrict the final output to something plausible sounding based on the training set -- but that's it. It's like those generators we used to see in the early internet -- "Seinfeld Joke Generator" or "Marketing Babble Generator" or "Postmodern Paper Generator" -- except layers upon layers of statistics are used to pick the words. And yeah, it's interesting and fun, but not a reliable source of actual information.
> Recalling the hardware is a drastically more difficult request to impose on customers and financially/logistically for the car maker.

And the distinction matters to consumers because...?

A component is faulty. It needs to be fixed. Whether or not you have to drive to a dealership, if it's OTA, if someone at a dealership needs to plug a specialized device to your car's OBD port, or the car is unfixable and needs to be melted to slag and you get a new one doesn't really matter. There's an issue, it is a safety issue, and it needs to be fixed.

How efficient the process can be it's another matter entirely. That's up to the manufacturers.
I tried moving away from Workspace to Offi^H^H^HMicrosoft 365 last month. I chose 365 since my wife primarily uses a Surface and Microsoft products, which would make it easy for us to collaborate.

It looks like an excellent solution for SMBs or larger who have a dedicated admin that can tend to it.

For a nobody like me, it was a hot goddamned mess. Death by a few big cuts and thousands of small ones.

These are the things that bothered me most, in no particular order:

- Microsoft has a migration service to move email, calendars, and contacts into 365 from Workspace! Wanna find it? Good luck! It's buried (IMO) deep into the onboarding documentation. Finding it was not obvious at all.

- The migration service also didn't work! I had a few years of emails and calendars in my Workspace. It would frequently error out due to API timeouts, even while transferring. While I was eventually able to get (most of?) my emails into 365, I had to import my calendar and contacts manually. (I wasn't confident that 365 got _all_ of my emails either.)

- 365 and Google don't map contact fields one for one. As a result, while I had all of my contacts on my devices, their numbers were missing. Fixing this took longer than I wanted it to.

- "OneDrive" for Business is a complete joke compared to Google Drive. Microsoft's offering is "here's a 30GB SharePoint installation". This was particularly troublesome for me given that my wife and I have a shared folder on Google Drive and an equivalent on OneSharePoint wasn't immediately obvious.

- There are 750 billion different Admin panels! You can configure everything in your Workspace tenant from admin.google.com. On 365? You'll need to use admin.exchange for your mail, Azure (!!!) for your authentication, portal.office.com for some other stuff, etc.

- 365 enables passwordless auth through Authenticator, which is a good thing, but this also disables IMAP login, which is not good.

- Due to Microsoft pushing admins to use PowerShell more often several years ago, there are many configuration options that cannot be done by UI. You need to do it via PowerShell. While this isn't a problem for me (PowerShell used to be my primary language years and years ago), this is a problem when I want to make a change that took less than five minutes to do on Workspace.

- In the year of Our Lord 2023, Microsoft thinks it's appropriate to give Microsoft 365 users at 50GB inbox by default. 50! GIGABYTES!

- Exchange's anti-spam filtering is outrageously aggressive! This was the final straw for me. A lot of really important email would get sent to Junk (which has an auto-delete policy by default!) I had to check my Junk folder every day, something I haven't needed to do in years on Google Workspace. I'm sure there's a setting deep within admin.exchange to tune this, but it was not obvious when I looked.

So while I'm not a huge fan of paying Google $12/month ($20/mo now), it's still the best solution for people like me who want more than what Gmail and Calendar can provide but not an entire enterprisey solution.
I spoke too soon. My cable is still blinking orange after i plug it in. I will try to reboot.
Accurate or not, I hate that all of these references are from one 6-month regional news cycle. They may as well be 1 citation, rather than 5. The excess just makes the inclusion of claim look more motivated by political investment than a desire to be informative.
- https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/zoho-hack-em...

- https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-cross-traces-hack-back-to-...

- https://cybernews.com/news/fintech-breach-following-critical...

- https://therecord.media/hackers-exploiting-vulnerability-aff...
It’s not unlimited storage though? It used to be but my understanding is that they started enforcing the storage limits late last year.
Can you tell us a bit about a project you've embedded it in? Was it done to provide a scripting interface to an application? Something else?
Which is just about $0.01/gram, as the commenter stated.
Bird flu is down around Cobol in popularity. Sure they have their niches, but is that someplace you want to work?
Asking an early version of computer technology to be able to do something that humans typically refuse to even try to do (and often cannot even if they can manage to try) does not seem like a particularly rational stance.
The thing AI lacks right now in my opinion is the ability to self-systemise and derive new internal logic structures. Right now, AIs like ChatGPT only have the system of English and other written languages. It's why it's seemingly good at writing prose and code, and why it fails at mathematics and logic. Once it can alter modality depending on context, we'll be entering some amazing and scary territory.
No, the 737 Max has 2 AoA sensors, it just used a bizarre “only use one at a time and ignore the other” approach to (non) redundancy.