skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
journalist's thread: https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/162702093531949465...

>There's a tale & a half behind this story. But for now, I'm dedicating this to all the tech bros who told me - still tell me - that Cambridge Analytica was 'snake oil'.

>Snake oil + hacking + black ops + a Russian spy...

>On Weds, The Guardian + Forbidden Stories blew the lid off an extraordinary Israeli firm

>This was "Team Jorge", a black ops firm which offered clients a bespoke service: to subvert elections for cash

…

>In which there was one odd throwaway line: about Brittany Kaiser of Cambridge Analytica
The spread out housing means doing things like overhead power wires to save cost and reach further away places. Easily disrupted by fallen trees.
Yeah not cool here. Leave that for Reddit.
My impression was always that the main attraction of wealthy foreigners was the increased tax take. The higher rents could be solved by encouraging more housing construction, but why do that when you can just blame foreigners?
It’s not abundant, just more kids working to dig it up.
Additionally, the model doesn't experience real time, and isn't subjected to the necessity of self-conscious self-management or supervision of any kind of (internal) process. It is frozen in time until called upon to serve a inference task or to perform a training session.

It can be argued, that it makes it's experience valild but extremely alien. If universe was a simulation, we wouldn't be aware either, if it was paused or unpaused, because our memories and clocks are part of the simulated world.
Ask HN: Shouldn't AI thank the artist's work it uses to build responses?
It really depends on where you move. I would never move to suburban America, for example, because of what you mentioned. But if you're young(ish) and/or don't have too many family commitments it's pretty easy to find a hobby based or cultural community in most cities.
> 95 million * a few pennies is still $950,000 at least.
As long as that number is more than the salary of the person who was hired to make that button go away, in Apple's eyes that's good news.

While I appreciate how pedantic HNers can be, it’s meaningless because that’s not how Apple works.

Nobody at Apple is incentivized to shave pennies off the production cost of an iPhone.

This should be obvious in a world with plastic phones with off the shelf, generic components.

A multi-trillion dollar marketcap company doesn’t invest several billion dollars to create their own custom silicon to then change the design of their most profitable product to save a few insignificant cents.

Let’s be real here.
Dior is up while WarnerMedia is down.

Not only can you make money while ignoring Twitter — but you can make money by ignoring Twitter screeching. Eg, by hiring Johnny Depp rather than engaging in misandry by supporting false accusations against him.

Hopefully, WarnerMedia eventually gets the memo — and stops discriminating against men while supporting abusers like Amber Heard (female) or Ezra Miller (non-binary).

I think a lot of companies have forgotten they need to treat people based on the content of their character rather than race/sex/gender/etc.
Some kind of barrels on almost every roof. What are those?
Yeah; I don’t know why it’s taken people so long to realise this. I know it seems to people on Twitter that everyone is on twitter, but that’s really not true. About 10% of people in the USA use Twitter daily - which is a huge number of eyeballs. But that still leaves the remaining 90% of people choosing instead to enjoy our short time on this planet.

If anything, I wouldn’t be surprised if the outrage over Hogwarts Legacy increased sales of the game. I don’t know if I would have heard about it at all if not for the outrage machine.

Louis CK did a show here in Melbourne a few months ago and the show was sold out. For better or worse, being canceled doesn’t seem like a life sentence.
Wage theft happens in both directions. Business trying to pay less and also contractors putting in less time than claimed.
>it's needlessly cruel to animals, particularly when there are now better approaches utilizing technology that should be capable of producing muscle, lung, heart, even brain tissue models based on human stem cells.

What is the difference between "animals" and "cells"?

No, seriously. Answer me. I'll wait.

If you're actually serious and sincere about "cruelty", it shouldn't make any difference whether it's a whole animal or a cell: They're both living entities.
In my experience, having used wire and uberfx (while swe at uber), they always felt like a clunky system to ultimately just have something automatically pass a few variables to a constructor.
Ah, so it was intentional disinformation, not accidental misinformation. Good to know.
I’ve used it for bulk loading on time series data partitioned by date.

It’s a few years ago so details are blurry. We got daily snapshots and on ingest we created an unlogged temporary table then when complete used INSERT FROM to the destination table if I remember right.

As long as the application handles failure on bulk ingest and you copy the data to a logged table or enable logging on the table once ingested it worked really well.
Last year, it was the Fat Controller from Thomas the Tank Engine.[1]

[1] https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/19487821/thomas-the-tank-engine-...
Genetics of sexually dimorphic adipose distribution in humans
> Great new classics are still being written - it's just that the winnowing function of passing decades hasn't yet run its course, so they're harder to find.

This is true, but I also think there are 'golden ages' for various genres of literature and I suspect we are not in a golden age for children's literature right now.
Ask HN: Was FrogFind replaced with an advertising website for anyone else?
FrogFind was working for me earlier today... What happened?
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood - I see what you mean now.

I thought you meant "use the services hosted on your rack at home" (thus my suggestion), not "use the IP addresses you own at home".
> Ehrlich could have won if the bet had been for a different ten-year period.[5][6][7] Ehrlich wrote that the five metals in question had increased in price between the years 1950 and 1975.[3] Asset manager Jeremy Grantham wrote that if the Simon–Ehrlich wager had been for a longer period (from 1980 to 2011), then Simon would have lost on four of the five metals. He also noted that if the wager had been expanded to "all of the most important commodities," instead of just five metals, over that longer period of 1980 to 2011, then Simon would have lost "by a lot."[7]

Doesn't sound like a great bet to base anything on.
I would take any bet against Ehrlich, he's been wrong so many times that it'd be like throwing away money not to bet against him.
Do you like air conditioning? If so, you like heat pumps. An air conditioner is a heat pump that pumps heat from inside to outside.
How are the James Bond stories different than the anti-Russian sentiments we see circulating today?

I think we should read such historical texts precisely so we can gain an appreciation for how those ideas happen — and can examine ourselves doing the same thing.
Water tanks
Yep - picked up one from eBay for $20 AUD. Fully compatible with their software. Amazing.
Here's the thing though: if you released them "when they're fully baked", would they be as good a year later? Probably not?
Residential internet service is oversubscribed and doesn't have an SLA.
Water tanks to supply the buildings
does that matter when there don't appear to be any non-binary people in any of Roald Dahls works?
The decrease in the typical duration of tourists' stays in Portugal, which has gone from 6.7 days to 4 days in the past decade, is likely to affect various aspects of the country's tourism infrastructure, including its airports. Additionally, there has been a problem with noise pollution in residential areas due to touristic establishments like bars and nightclubs.
Nobel Prize winner and recombinant DNA pioneer Paul Berg dies
I'm always amazed that people bringing in tons of money into your city is a problem, and the root cause is the people bringing in money... What the fuck is going on?
Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA
Even if you dislike Dahl, the idea that we need to "update" 60 yo books for the sensibilities of our time is dystopian, and dangerous.

Would you like your favourite author's work edited post mortem? Look at the changes made... They're asinine, and there's hundreds of them.
> Nothing is answered in this article. We simply don't know.

It is unclear what necessitates any closed-form mathematical description of 'consciousness'.

Such a concept seems tantamount to a faith claim.
Those are water tanks/towers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooftop_water_tower

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/nyregion/inside-citys-wat...
Another way to solve it would have been to define a "blocking" webRequestFilter function of the form "Request -> Bool", because ad blockers only care about preventing requests, not actually executing requests or modifying results.
While engaging in linguistic pedantry, antennae are for insects, antennas are for signals.
A showcase of the random AI-generated pictures uploaded by the users can be seen on the landing page. Those who are enthusiastic towards AI-generated content do sign-up easily.

For a newly launched platform, when people sign-up it makes it easier to reach out to them for getting feedback. Also, when new features are added the users can be informed.
Because being cancelled isn't a real thing. It's usually just scoundrels angry they received the slightest bit of pushback. Dave Chapelle constantly whines that queer people are trying to cancel him while he cashes $20m Netflix checks on a regular basis.
Newark?

https://www.newark.com/w/c/tools-production-supplies/solderi...

Also, Amazon appears to have it, per this listing:

https://www.amazon.com/MULTICORE-LOCTITE-3096525-M-SOLDER-WI...

Looks like you can get it from Digikey as well:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/multicore/386824/...

Note that part of the problem might be if you're searching for "Loctite Multicore" and not just "Multicore". I think the brand might have been sold off, or something of that ilk, so you may not see it with the "Loctite" branding everywhere. I don't know the backstory on that entirely, but it's something I've noticed (being a big fan of Multicore solder!)
Ask HN: How did you master the art of programming?
Who qualify to be a master programming?

Anyone who can create websites, games, from scratch with their own brain and google help without following tutorials line by line.

So, how did you mastered the art of programming? If it was practice, what did you practice?

I was talking to a guy and he said to me that he has finished a DSA book thrice(fcking thrice) and solved same 500 problems thrice. That's how he mastered programming. Now he is able to solve any kinds of new programming problems He has built a game engine and physics engine of his own.

That too in c++.

I liked how honest he was about his journey. Most people seem to be telling "well I am just good at it..." and trying to hide their hard works.

What's your secret sauce?
I wonder what the expansion rate is for these disturbances.
We’re in the Singularity even right now and most of the world doesn’t know it.
I see it as a totalitarian measure, rather than leaving it to school librarians to make those choices, while listening to the expressed feedback and requests from the students and their parents at that school.
Changing "deaf to everything" to "ignoring everything" is an affront to English education.

A significant portion of my learning English came from reading books, and now that literature is being dumbed down, simplified, and sterilized, for no reason other than going woke.

Education for today's kids and the coming generations are going to be an even bigger shitshow than anything any of us ever saw in our times.
> Help me understand something though, and this is an honest question, because this seems to come up a lot... Are you saying that because it's called FSD, the driver in these situations should be absolved of responsibility for the crash (assuming FSD was involved in this)?

My personal opinion on this matter is that the courts will end up having to determine this in the fullness of time. And that will come after too many people are hurt/killed by insufficient automation being negligently marketed into fully-autonomous usage. But it's those losses that will push the matter into the courts' hands.
IMO. Intentionally seeking flawed understanding isn't a good way to live. I'd recommend just taking your time and reading progressively harder works.
> I do now attempt to use the single-word non-gendered collective nouns in speech myself for the reasons I gave

I hate to be the guy that cries “1984,” but do we really have to completely neuter our language to avoid every imagined offense? Are there people out there who’s egos are so fragile that they can’t handle “gentlemen” coming after “ladies?”
You can, anyone can, write all your programs with the mindset that you are given X amount of memory, and you use it as a cache or buffer like they did back when computers had 64K or whatever.

It would solve a lot of what I see as the problems of modern software. For so many years, people have pursued the false vision of a programming environment where resources can be assumed to be infinite.

The problem is, no matter how much memory you have, if you take a data structure that reasonably fits in your vast amount of memory, and then you inadvertently multiply its size, you won't have space.

Or to put it another way, all finite numbers are infinitely smaller than infinity, so the delusion that any finite number is equivalent to infinity will always bring people to grief.

Could someone please write a manifesto along the lines of "malloc considered harmful"? Just. Say. No.
I wonder how long it took? If it's fast, it would be scary, imagine taking picture of crowds...
"pure idiocracy and ignorance"

He probably knows something about running a software business but I really doubt if an MBA with little technical background knows much about software engineering.
Im not saying that you’re wrong for wanting to be able to buy multiple copies but I’m curious as to what you’re reasoning is for not just having separate accounts for the people in your family.
> I replace language that suggests that women are supposed to stay at home and men are supposed to go to work

I totally agree - my kids had Berenstain Bear's books (as random gifts and such) and I would avoid reading them because in particular the way they portrayed Papa Bear as a bumbling fool grated on my nerves. He's like a Homer Simpson without the heart. I'm certain mothers also don't appreciate the way Mama Bear is portrayed as always in the kitchen and the ultimate authority figure.

If these books were updated to modern sensibilities I wouldn't have a problem reading them to my kids. As it stands, I skipped them and they weren't a part of my children's upbringing. I don't mind.
He wants all software to be built at the speed of Mars probes, I guess
What do folks think about this new generation of smart usb-c soldering irons with a processor? (ts10x and pinecil)

My friend who has soldered professionally swears by metcal.
It's hard to make a ride that fits both skinny kids and large adults. It's tricky because kids are usually let on if they're at least x inches tall, but that doesn't factor in if they're so skinny that they'll be at risk of slipping out. As a kid, I had several experiences where I think I could have fallen out of a ride if I hadn't actively pushed down on the bar and pinned my legs in a wide stance. Now that my daughter is getting to be the height where she can ride upside-down rides, I'm going to caution her that she needs to be aware that being tall enough isn't always enough, and to be cognizant of whether the bar comes down securely across her (very skinny) body.
> Elite was jaw dropping stuff when it came out.

Indeed, my first response was: "That's not possible". The second was: Let's take it apart and see how it works. That was something Braben and Bell had foreseen, Elite was very hard to reverse engineer, layer upon layer of tricks to stop you from getting to what actually ran. Very impressive stuff.

The whole idea that someone can make the computer that you think you know absolutely inside-out do stuff in real time that you'd have trouble doing at all no matter how much time you've got is what made it so intriguing.

One of the more interesting moments in trying to crack the copy protection that stopped you from seeing the naked assembly in the loader is that at some point the game code contains the string 'does your mother know that you are doing this?' or something to that effect. That was more effective than the last 10 hours or so of decryption stepping through the code in Exmon because I realized I was utterly outclassed...
A big lookup table.
You know what’s bullshit? Articles like these. They all mash together a big list of unrelated and cherry-picked problems and pile on complaints and cynicism.

With how long this piece is I honestly feel bad for the author for wasting so much time on the endeavor.

What purpose does an article that’s essentially a gigantic list of every recent corporate scandal serve?

On top of that, toss in the tech geezer’s “back in my day page load sizes were small and now everything is bloated” take we’ve all heard a thousand times. Like, holy shit please stop my phone has a 100Mpbs+ cellular connection, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage I don’t care that websites are 7MB.

There’s nothing actionable about this monstrosity and all it can do is make you upset over a bunch of random shit you can’t control.
> If that's what you want, this would be the only way to get it.

10Gbps PON is available from AT&T Fiber in some markets, and lower tiers (5Gbps) are coming online from Google Fiber in other markets. In SoCal, I've seen billboards for 10Gbps AT&T Fiber, for example. Obviously you don't get an SLA with a residential connection, though, and I highly doubt that many customers operating at full capacity will be problem-free.
> Is the effects of foreign buyers enough to distort the market?

Yes. Look at Vancouver, Canada for a prime example.
I wonder if it will allow syncing WASM Emulators like N64Wasm…

Would be awesome to use it to enable online gaming!
He did make those changes. And I think he was right to.

But he wouldn't have approved of 99% of these changes. No way, no how. It's shockingly disrespectful of his estate to do this.
I kind of like assortments of pre-cut wires for breadboarding.

Sort of like buying complete cat5 cables instead of adding the connectors yourself from bulk cat5 - bumps your thoughts up an iso layer or two.
You do know that the “mass shootings” are almost always done in locations where citizens with legal pistols are not allowed to carry them, i.e. gun-free zones? And when there are armed citizens present, the shooters are usually quickly stopped?
Requirement of npm for this? No thank you
browser auto complete (fantastic search term to click ranking data) and “Siri Suggested Websites” when you tap the “search” button on the Home Screen.
Be wary of ordering anything from them. My order from 2019 is now ready to ship, but I have since changed my mind and asked for a refund instead. That was about a month or so ago, and while their words assure me that they will do it, they have refused to provide even an ETA for it.
Chex Quest
There are limitations on which keys you can bind in certain terminals. Other than that most people can probably not at all corroborate what you said.
This is one of the most disgusting things I've read in a long, long time.

> it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth.

It's home to some of the most entitled jerkoffs on earth. This website needs to call out this rhetoric, because it's riddled with self-congratulatory garbage.

Go ahead and flag me or downvote my comment, but I really can't believe what I'm reading here sometimes.
Things that change your actual metabolic rate are scarier. Like DNP. Ultimately the increased calorie expenditure needs to be spent somewhere and if it isn't just heat then it would have be be a large increase in NEEE (i.e. you get jittery) or I dunno, maybe you just get the compulsion to go on runs or do chores or just perfuntory tasks (like meth heads)
> Dave Braben is a god on the same level as Carmack.

I don't think they're at the same level. The restrictions that Braben & Bell were working under were orders of magnitude more limiting than what was available by the time 'Doom' rolled around. Doom was definitely also a game changer but the quantum leap between Elite and what came before it was in my opinion of a different magnitude.

That does not diminish Carmack in any way, what he did was amazing. But what Braben & Bell did was considered absolutely impossible from a cycles budget perspective. And Doom never struck me as 'impossible' on the hardware that it was run on.

Doom got you a great game, Elite got you a career. That said: it is next to impossible really qualitatively compare people born at different points in time. Given the same limitations who knows what Carmack would have some up with and if Braben & Bell were born a few decades later it may well have been the reverse.

One thing I know for sure: creativity thrives under constraints.
There was a time, back about five hundred to a thousand years ago, when being fat was a positive trait because it was a social sign that you had the means to surplus nourishment.

But whether it's acceptable to be fat or not, it's ultimately a social measurement that changes like the wind.

Objectively and biologically, being fat is not good for one's health. Period. There is no room for argument here. Being fat is unhealthy. Being too skinny is also unhealthy, incidentally.
You should add a cache rule for those image tiles
money is power. they are interchangable.

money==power.
Is Matilda allegorical? Can you give me an example from the text?

We don't get to control how people in the future will reinterpret the stories we have today. People in the future could reinterpret anything. That's their right, once we've moved on.

At a practical level, it makes no sense to live in the shadow of future generations' judgement. We're going to earn their scorn regardless. And so will they, if humanity survives long enough.
ATT home fiber is typically 32 ONT sharing 1 OLT, doesn't come with the SLA, and doesn't let you assign your own IP space to the connection (along with some other knobs BGP lets you turn).

Of all of that the bulk of the price increase is them running the dedicated fiber so you can go from 32:1 to 1:1. It costs a lot to not have the same physical setup as the rest of your neighbors.
The article says it's a slow VR ride, though, so doesn't sound like you'd have the same concerns as, say, a roller coaster or log flume ride.
The spiritual successor to Emacs is ... Emacs. This is abundantly clear since it's actively maintained.

Just as in religion the spiritual successor to the catholic Church is the catholic church: arguing somehow the reformation changed that is to misunderstand what a code fork is.
I just don't see how this is a big deal, if you have a high bar for quality then don't be an early adopter / buy something on the day it is released. You can always wait and see how something develops, the outcome is no different to you but the company benefits significantly by having feedback from real users for that entire time.
I have seen this a few times even as a dev, where people put way to much focus on twitter. I think its because there is a class of people that use twitter and they think twitter is really really important. But some random person on twitter tweets "@company x is bad" and its taken much more seriously than say an email, slack message, or whatever. Most people don't use twitter ever, most people on twitter rarely use twitter. We need to kill twitter and move on.