skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marketing.

If you recognize my user name at all then you've heard me bang this drum a few times before, but marketing is among the top reasons Everything Sucks in modern society.

Your attention is constantly being assaulted by people who want to sell you something. In order to sell you something, they have to convince you that you need it, but chances are you don't need it, so they exploit your insecurities.

You're not manly enough, buy our pickup truck.

You're not pretty enough, buy our makeup.

You're not working hard enough, buy our productivity enhancement programme.

You're not healthy enough, buy our fad diet.

You're entitled to money because of a minor screw up, join our class action.

Everything sucks because of that other political party, vote for us instead.

We're encouraged to treat each other as competitors and seek the material above all, because that makes it easier for companies to sell us shit.

We're encouraged to be entitled, because that makes us get angry when we don't get things, like the stuff they're trying to sell us.

Carl's Junior: Fuck you, I'm eating.

The side effect is we isolate ourselves, but that's just fine by them because they are selling us the junk we try to fill the hole in our lives with anyway.

The message fucks us up on a personal level, and that radiates out to the sociological level. It forces us to be defensive with the systems we put in place to keep people connected (email, phone calls, the web, search results, etc.) because they will exploit any opportunity to hijack your attention. Is it any wonder we're wary of connecting with people too?
Reading your comment, I think I got hit by the same attack (as a victim) recently.. but I can not find any original email they want to hide. It's been a few weeks and now I have thousands of spam emails. (the inbox is basically unusable)

Any tips on how I should find the original email they want to bury?

Also, mine wasn't random characters but instead Markov Chain like gibberish to hundreds of random sites. The signups and whatnot stopped, but now it's all the regular newsletters and other spam I get.
"The company said it is taking traditional search ads, in which brands pay to have their websites or products appear on search results for keywords related to their business, and inserting them into responses generated by the Bing chatbot, the ad executive said.

...

Microsoft is also planning another ad format within the chatbot that will be geared toward advertisers in specific industries. For example, when a user asks the new AI-powered Bing "what are the best hotels in Mexico?", hotel ads could pop up, according to the ad executive."

Hahaha I even said something about planning a trip to Mexico when this first came up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696849&p=2#34697326

It does make me wonder how much we can trust a system like this over time though given how unreliable Google can be due to ads.
Lots of good options, but what in your opinion would make .net or .org a better choice than .com ?

While perhaps not as pervasive as during the 1990s, I still feel like most people are more familiar with / assume / default to ".com" than any of the others.
The English deserve to get what they voted for -- and will get it good and hard.
Well its the grass hopper and the ant isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper

If you've been the ant you'd have prepared for the winter. I guess in reality most of us fit somewhere in between the ant and the grasshopper. It'll teach us all a bit of prudence we'd do well to remember thereafter.
Mine (from waveshare) did.
No; in fact sales tax is what’s shifting the burden in that direction. Income tax on the other hand is a progressive tax that keeps impact more proportional.
How did America get from Lincoln to Trump?
Yeah, AWS has one of these, a set of firewall rules called "bot control". it seems to work well enough for blocking the well-behaved bots who request pages at a reasonable rate and self-identify with user-agent strings (which i'm not really concerned about blocking, but it does give me some nice graphs about their traffic). it seem doesn't do a whole lot to block an unknown scraper hitting pages as fast as it can.
Consumers always pay the same. It's just not clear until it's too late.
It is not the same.

Not only it doesn't work in all platforms, they already planned to drop it once, and uses low level dlopen like API.
Programming meetups are pretty cool, I haven't been to one for ages but if anyone's ever looking for something to do and make some good connections most major cities have one. Where I'm at has a pretty nice and growing infosec scene which is highly appreciable too, most of it is organized around discord but there's plenty of in-person stuff happening.
From the video one does not need a flipper zero to do this. They just need the IR LED's from a camera and a way to pulse them at 10 HZ low priority, 12 HZ medium priority and 14 HZ high priority after disabling the daylight sensor that disables the LED's. And obviously don't get caught doing this.
Every time this topic comes up a bunch of managers with a stick up their ass come to complain and try to fire people like this.

I probably won't do it myself but I applaud people who do.
Google Sheets (no sarcasm)
Main drawback: There are people who just need minutes to deliberate over their next action, this can kill a complete poker round.

To make this actionable: Invite only people where you suspect they're comfortable with uncertainty and don't want to optimize the s** out of every weak hand.
Yes, we should look at Texas where such a law doesn't exist.
That reads like the successor to Prof. John McCarthy's "Epistemological Problems in Artificial Intelligence" class, which I once took, back in the days of logical inference and expert systems. AI people thought back then that if you thought about thought enough, you could figure out how to mechanize it. That turned out to be a dead end, and the "AI winter" (roughly 1985-2005) followed.

That class was known informally as "Dr. John's Mystery Hour".

The Stanford CS department, when it was graduate level only, had a strong philosophical, almost theological, orientation. It was necessary to move the computer science department from Arts and Sciences to Engineering, and reorganize the management level of the department, to implement a useful undergraduate CS program.
I upvoted you -- saw the joke :)
Why didn't he create proof of the gold's existence before giving the federal government an opportunity to make it all disappear?

I'll tell you why: the gold never existed, this guy is a con artist and his ploy is to pretend the government stole his gold, lose the lawsuit and claim a coverup, then raise money from people using his new "victim of the government" martyr status to make himself some sort of folk hero.

I mean come on; telling the government or anybody about the gold before you even dig it up and see for yourself? Before you even take a picture of the gold to prove it exists? Who would do that? It defies all common sense.
I’m guessing he didn’t try one breaded and fried? That would be an awesome culinary blog, guy follows researchers around and makes unique dishes with the various exotic creatures they find.
I've lived in Latino dominated neighborhoods for years. At least the ones I've lived in they almost out-white the modern day progressive whites. They like god, guns, the bible, and conservative family values. I expect more "traditional" values to be preserved from the latinos I am surrounded by than I would in most white dominated places. Overall I have very little concerns the latinos around me are going to do much moving and shaking against the status quo.
I'm not talking about the user writing code to move an object. I'm talking about the user clicking features on 3D objects with their mouse (like a specific vertex), having those features become highlighted, drawing the visual cues that let the user know that they are in "Move" mode, showing distances and angles to give the user the necessary feedback, clipping to features like midpoints, etc.

Really, the piece that drove me to eventually give up was getting a vertex or edge to be selected, rather than the whole object. Its not difficult to calculate for simple shapes, but what is really needed is a general solution, that doesn't depend on shapes being regular polygons.
>is there a conceptual reason I'm missing why this fundamentally isn't possible, why the sum of all possible paths is the only way

It's not so much a conceptual reason it isn't possible so much as that's just the way the universe is. If you have your particle going from A to B, changing things at some possible other path C simply does change the way it arrives at B, like it or not.

Feynman's take was:

>If you will simply admit that maybe [nature] does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Personally though I actually like pondering how it can be like that as an interesting puzzle. But it's the way the universe is, not a conceptual thing. My guess as to why is that reality at the most basic level is more like a path integral than like objects whizzing around.
3 times a year minimum does sound pretty insane - I'd be all for fixing that before fixing price labeling. Do you mind me asking which state that is? In Indiana we've changed the sales tax 4 times since introducing it in 1963 (and don't actually collect it for the grocery example like most states), I shudder to think what the point of changing it 4 times in a year would be.
I'm running a small online shop and I noticed that in the past days I had a lot of "recipient not found, email cannot be delivered" messages in my inbox. I realized that these are bounces of emails my shop sent.

At first I paniced and thought the store was compromised and sending spam, but after some investigation I found that a lot of russian bots actually registered spam user accounts with mostly legit emails which then got all the spam. The only "customizable" parts these emails contained was the "From" field of the emails so they were all in the form of "PAYOUT_TO_YOUR_NAME_$3OOOO_HER example.com <mail@example.com>". After adding a captcha this went away, but it sounds like it was also part of a similar attack.
It's so common on US airbnb that I expect it's practically necessary to shift some margin to the "cleaning fee" to stay competitive (you'll get out-"bid" by others who have).

I objected to "actual cost", not "actual activity". Yes, they clean (usually...). No, it doesn't cost anywhere near what they're charging, unless you left the place such a wreck that you're getting a 1-star guest rating.
You cannot be an expert in everything, it is impossible; the domain of human knowledge and experience has grown too vast for anyone to be conversant with anything more than a minor fraction. So, sooner or later, either you distrust everything and you become a conspiracy theorist or you rely on experts. Who you choose to trust as experts gives you a bias.

My personal observation (ie read this as anecdote, not data) is that skeptics frequently choose to select as their expert the lone dissenter in the field. My interpretation is not that the skeptics I know are truly skeptics, they're contrarians who don't trust institutional knowledge or consensus.
The Prof G podcast/YouTube channel has been pretty good at harping on the inequalities in the US lately. https://www.profgalloway.com/taxes/ they/his team argue that a lot of the general negativity in things like migration policy and population growth and household forming is from the huge inequities in play. People just get more “small minded“ when facing or perceiving worsening conditions.

Further, usually people commenting don’t have to out whether they’re near a border. (Let alone actual US commenters or not…)

Personally, and I’ve always lived a few hours from the US/Mexico border, I think the US needs to address the otherism crap more directly. A point upgrade to the old adage of “send us your migrants, your weak, your poor, and there’ll be a place for hard workers.” “But leave any cultural baggage that’s going to cause you to discriminate against anyone else here behind. Same goes for any wars or desire to harm others.”

I’m also curious where we’ll be in about 10 years once more of the old guard “age out.”

Edit-the illegal immigration system currently pushes them into black markets and modern day slavery. So there needs to be a decriminalization of whole swaths of migrants. And it’s a huge, complicated issue that can’t be fully outlined in a quick cable news vignette.
Depends on the fault. Disk errors, fire, theft? Yes. Account suspension? Hmmm...
Career Development Framework for Engineers
I recently switched to Edge and have been mildly surprised, after turning off all telemetry, having sleeping tabs built-in, which actually work much better than Chrome's and Firefox's (also considering 3rd party extensions), and my browser RAM usage dropping to a "measly" 800MB with 100 tabs open and a non-noticeable delay when I switch to a sleeping tab, seems a much better alternative than using Chrome. Plus sidebar tabs are a huge plus.
How to use Land Registry data to explore land ownership near you (QGIS/UK)
I'd also prefer my OS not choose a religion for me either :)
In his example the G stands for GitHub
I think what’s needed are more along the lines of worker protections on an government level. It should be significantly more difficult to drop 10% of your staff because of market performance, or there should be enforced consequences which are expensive. Several months severance, executive pay clawbacks, stock and options payouts, those sorts of things.
Low Budget AI Filmmaking with Runway Gen1
Interesting. Does archive.org have it?

Its remarkable that Microsoft was apparently testing this for so long, but still announced it to the public.
Not at all! They are just saying that nowadays, computers and sound output devices are so powerful, that they can effectively create arbitrary sounds in the entire human hearing range. This used to not be the case: Sound was synthesized using simpler methods, which could not create arbitrary sounds, but had its very own character. Colloquially called "8 bit music" is part of that.
Yeah, it's that people can be successfully tricked.

People don't like being stolen from, but if you can get away with it, it must be a good thing
That's not necessary. Look at how a Bing works: it's a LLM which can trigger searches, and then gets fed the search results back to it as part of the prompt.

I wrote about one way to implement that pattern here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/13/semantic-search-answer...
Two solutions:

a) Universal sales tax within the state. Allow local governments some other varying taxes (such as income or paycheck tax)

b) Put small bracket under the price “(includes 9.5% sales tax for zip 98210 <a>change location</a>)”
Well maybe not every day, but having a short feedback loop and the ability to run your code multiple times with different variations is generally considered to be a prerequisite for software development. If you actually want to keep developing the model, you need the funding to be able to train it more than once.
Submissions to Clarkesworldmagazine are currently closed due to AI overload
Why would insurance company executives have any more (or less) negotiating power than any other similar sized business?

Cursory look at insurance company executive pay does not show any anomalies.
What's funny is thinking about the logical endpoint of this argument:

>Conservatives' whole argument isn't "bad things I don't like on the internet" (that's the liberal argument), their argument is "the rules are rigged against my views".

If the liberal rules are "no bad things on the internet" and the rules are rigged against conservative opinions.

What does that make conservative opinions?
Different professor (and no longer downloadable) Philosophy of Computer Science from buffalo.edu https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20912718 (and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10388603 )

The author of the Buffalo tome is https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/ which links to a number of other resources too.

> The table of contents alone (19 pages) is an extraordinarily good outline of what CS is, and what the major components and questions of it are.

> This looks awesome. It's a huge book though; this draft is 824 pages! Still, definitely looking forward to reading this... eventually.
Sales taxes penalize poorer people, who spend a greater proportion of their income. They are regressive and unfair.

In the UK we have two different kinds of income tax; one is called National Insurance, but it's not insurance at all. It's there so that the government can brag about reducing income tax.

When the UK joined the EU, we had to introduce sales tax (VAT). Part of the VAT receipts were to fund the EU. Note that VAT is much higher than US sales taxes (20%). Now we're out: whoopee! No more VAT! Oh, hang on...
Russian soldiers in Ukraine still use walkitalkies and cellular phones for tactical comms.
Wouldn't hold my breath for "tank killing robots"
A weird comment that deserves more upvotes.
Republicans say they don't want more legislation, not "bad" legislation.

Also good and bad are subjective
More like billionaires will short that stock and get bigger yachts, while huge swaths of this country see job loss with no replacement or much of a social safety net.
if it was clear then why did you ask

are you just trolling
> this ease of price comparison has resulted in unbundling of services in a number of industries - e.g. airlines where the base price is akin to "we let you hang on to the wing", and everything else is an upcharge.

The issue isn't that everything is an upcharge.

I have no problem with having options. I actually like being able to pay less when I don't need the added options.

With airlines, (at least here in EU) you pretty much know what the base price buys you and that everything is an option on top of it. And as long as the options are reasonable (like paying for additional luggage) and the UI isn't trying to mislead you to buying something you don't intend, I think this is very defensible from the standpoint of making product better and more affordable to people (who don't necessarily need additional luggage, for example).

The issue is in many cases there is not even a possibility to buy the product/service for the advertised price and they will make difficult for you to find out what you are going to pay until it is too late or you have invested time/effort. It is a restaurant where the charges are added to your bill (the tip no longer being voluntary) or a shop where they try to recoup some of their losses with an exaggerated shipment fees. Or when you suddenly find out a critical part of your product is sold separately. Or you buy a printer and then they try to scam you by selling the ink/toner for more than the price of the printer. Or the website UI makes every effort to hide from you the fact you are buying something you don't need.
> But, as someone who is privy to a ton of A/B testing in this area, the opposite nearly always results in higher conversion, where there is a lower up-front price and fees are only tacked on during checkout.

This just shows how much of a bubble sales people are in. Just because your sales data shows a better profit it doesn't mean it's not fraudulent.
Today: people automate out many low level processes and offshore the rest to India / Mexico City / PI
It's good to see real societal pushback against this kind of insanity, and I hope it spreads.

A fun fact I remembered this morning - even in 1984, Kipling is allowed to remain in party sanctioned literature (albeit altered)

I have been able to recall one possible ... indiscretion ... We were producing a definitive edition of the poems of Kipling. I allowed "God" to remain at the end of a line.

This is Winston's colleague Ampleforth speculating as to why he was arrested.

Orwell was an optimist as they say...
https://dnsimple.com/ Hands down, blindfolded, and drunk
And how did you actually do it? Any good advice/books on this.

I know my management has clear ideas what they want so even if I am told - it’s my job to figure it out they say what needs to happen (not accepting a No).
In this quote, there is truth:

"The simple answer is that "simple" doesn't necessarily mean
"easy". In my experience, the simplest decisions are often the
hardest because they demand a painful concession to an unpleasant
truth. "
What's Next for Google?
Makes sense: at the high end of the market, patrons need to be able to identify and get the most expensive option to impress their date/mates, and understandably restaurants want to be helpful.

(See "Veblen goods".)
At 15% to 20%. So smaller profit margins indicate downward pressure on pricing from competitors.
I found your post by searching “fly.io” to see if there was anyone else reporting problems with their hosted Postgres. I seemingly can’t make migrations and all I can find is a community post that’s slowly growing in responses where it was initially reported four days ago :/

I guess I’ll try out Render?
"Bing, what is the cheapest insurance out there?"
Pretty difficult to imagine how executive leadership wouldn't resist the temptation to inject ads into the model
That is indeed an argument against static typing and in favour of dynamic typing, although the demerits can be mitigated through some extent through a combination of organisation and tooling.

For example, if our customer IDs used to simply be increasing integers but then we decide to change to a UUID variant it would be a pain if I had something like:

(declaim (ftype (function (integer) (option customer)) get-customer-by-id))

And then had a bunch of functions calling out to that which all require integers and I had to change all the declarations from integer to UUID. However, I could save myself some future headaches by doing something like:

(deftype customer-id nil 'integer)

And using the customer-id type everywhere. Of course, this is a very trivial example and a real problem would be harder to manage. That said, with optional type checking like SBCL has it is entirely possible to fly by the seat of your pants until things start to take shape.

Not that it matters too much if you go with the tried and true method of tossing out the first two prototypes, but that's another discussion.
Why not? I mean, in total darkness you're not capturing anything. But it looks like the human has a light for navigation, and the camera gear presumably has the ability to emit light. And that light interacts with the matter in the fish and some of it comes back to the camera. How is it any different that taking a picture with the flash on at night?

And if you're referring to the water, can't you just seal a heavy duty camera and use that? Is there something about Deep water that desaturates all light that passes through even less than a meter of it?