skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so insanely cool and fun!!!

Here’s a Tupac song about my friend Ben who, against all odds was able to learn concept design and work for Blizzard Entertainment as a mid level concept artist:

Verse 1:

I'ma tell this story of my friend Ben
He was never meant to be a designer in all money he had to spend
His dream was, loved, but thought to be impossible so it seemed
But all these "Nos" only drove him to scream do or die

Chorus:

Ben had a dream, never let it go
And even when they said no, no, no
He made it happen, sure and slow
He earned his way, against all the odds
My friend Ben, showed the world what he gots
And made it in that industry, never stopped till he went pro

Verse 2:

With no artistic background, no resources at hand
He studied his erases and textbooks and clocked in hours and hours
Finally Ben got himself a portfolio, it was stronger than steel
And he made sure his future was brighter than all the old tales

Chorus:

Ben had a dream, never let it go
And even when they said no, no, no
He made it happen, sure and slow
He earned his way, against all the odds
My friend Ben, showed the world what he gots
And made it in that industry, never stopped till he went pro

Verse 3:
Findin another job would be an easy feat
But Ben kept his dream alive, tryin' to be more than just man of the street
So he stayed focus, kept the faith and stayed true
And it nearly paid off, 'cause that very day he got hired by Blizzard too

Chorus:

Ben had a dream, never let it go
And even when they said no, no, no
He made it happen, sure and slow
He earned his way, against all the odds
My friend Ben, showed the world what he gots
And made it in that industry, never stopped till he went pro
It’s pretty clear to me that Abdalla Khafagy is behind it. Did you read the whole article?
That article is nonsense and the author could not even complete it. It is buried in a shallow grave of irrelevance.
Brave has a bunch of ad and tracking blockers built-in, not just uBlock Origin.

Why do you call Brave a scam? Do you also classify Google Chrome a scam?
Step 1: Get a Tardis.
World’s biggest four-day working week trial ends in success [video]
Where an object at 60,000 feet would only have about 95% of the atmosphere below it.
I’d have thought the aerospace or satellite grade panels, struts and mounting systems they’d be more likely to use would be quite a bit more expensive.
TC39 – decorator before or after export keyword? (300 comments)
Justice for nobody then! What a great philosophy.
The whole time I was reading the article I was thinking of the hundreds of thousands of men on these apps who are not 6ft and above, who don't have PhDs, who do not drink 3rd wave coffee and are lucky to maybe get a couple of matches on the apps in a month.

This woman is suffocating in choice, while the armies of men who are not good enough for her would be happy to get 1/100th of the activity she's seeing. We really do live on different planets.
There will be a new AI winter due to such a ruling; not that I’m complaining about it though.
In the US anyways, E10 is the regular gas. E0 (ethanol-free) is usually marked as being ethanol-free.
Fast Stable Diffusion for Mac
I’ve become fascinated since I saw an Instagram video of a blind girl showing how she uses an iPhone.

https://youtu.be/EEpsoCPL518

I’m blown away by the typing.
Correct, but not Latin America as suggested by the parent.
Sure, I mean, those are definitely related.
> this includes a $20 note from someone who recognised him.

So he was noticed.
As long as the whole process is transparent and fully disclosed upfront.

Remember, the company has more information than the applicant.
Geosynchronous sats from that little puck? Two way?
Same here. I tried freshly roasted beans at Stumptown where my friend knew the roaster. By far one of the most flavorful cups I've ever enjoyed. It was a dark roast though, so not sure what that factor contributed.
And that's how all the Alzheimer's drugs that do absolutely nothing get approved :)
> A total of 1989 individual underwent GAS, 6 patients (0,3%) were encountered that either requested reversal surgery or transitioned back to their sex-assigned at birth.

So 99.7% didn't regret it.
Email is the scariest one - it can reset pretty much everything. Now I wish gmail could require a Face ID login anytime the phone was locked (balance between convenience and security.)
Governments have other ways of removing people. Capitalists and corporations are supper easy to get along with, all they care about is money. Bits of paper with powerful geometry, well known faces and numbers on them. The bigger the number the better! No need to assassinate or accident the capitalist. Any vision for the future of mankind, even the most modest of ideals, they come after profit. The slightest nudge from law makers could shake the biggest corporations. The CEO would quit himself to prevent further disruption of the cosy relationship.
so, did court sanction google for misuse of privilege?
What's your start up? How phoenix helped? I'm having some issues about keeping productive with LiveView
Easily product life-cycle management from marketing, i.e., introduction > growth > maturity > decline.
I'd question whether the potential blowback of doing the right thing is actually worth it.

Some organisations will be grateful for your help and you get that warm feeling that comes with knowing you've helped to protect peoples data. But, when it goes wrong and you become the target of the organisation's ire, the personal consequences can be severe.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29745960
Russians playing with Javelins: US Army, Russia display weapons in the desert
Look what happened to the Bitnami Kubernetes Production Runtime.

Maintenance stalled for months until eventually they officially stopped development. No warning, and all repo activity indicated the next release was underway. Then it just kinda fizzled out…
I remember this article when it appeared. I did not like the tone of the whole experiment. The most offensive thing to me was the title in the Washington Post: It was titled, "Pearls before breakfast". Anyone familiar with Matthew 7:6 from the Bible would catch the reference, and what they were calling the public. (And that too, when they were anxious to get to work!)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/pearls-bef...
> I would not advise a stranger on the internet to inject themselves with something based on one study done on mice.

I wouldn’t either.

> But "run it by your doctor first" seems like a reasonable thing to suggest, even if they ultimately decide to do it anyway.

Sounds like we’re mostly on the same page. I just trust the people I know with serious illness to know this stuff already, even if they get zealous about something that might improve their lives. Because even my friend with MS who has a long history of impulsive mistakes isn’t just injecting random things just based on news stories.
What does the customized emacs tool do? It sounds interesting.
Holy hell, I feel called out here
"Hot desk" aren't new, but not something from the calibre of Google.
still a weird take for several reasons:

a) you are not able to separate a single program from the entire concept of crypto. but compare a payments solution to that single program which is not a payments solution at all. they asked for one popular program and I provided it. there’s nothing for me to defend about that, its probably just a dashboard for Uniswap V2 activity and doesnt include Uniswap V3. its weird that this is not the level of discussion you would be willing to have. Why is the depth of discussion so low that I have to explain the limitations a random user made dashboard from Dune Analytics that I found on Google, in a forum where people are otherwise much more analytical. lets check back in 5 years.

b) its unclear the purpose of your observation. people have made billions of dollars converted to actual dollars in their bank account by servicing just those 800,000 users that are familiar with that one program, Uniswap. People will make another billion dollars servicing the next 500,000 users. There are millions of programs deployed on blockchains. Thats… attractive? The programmer and builder perspective is very attractive. Like I said, its the financial services industry. What exactly does everyone else do here? Making ad speculation programs for democracy destabilizing adtech conglomerates? Or some much more useless side project like owning the compose button in gmail? Its really hard for me to see such reductive understanding applied to the crypto sectors when there’s so much to build that is more lucrative than so many other things to build.

c) “15 years”, Uniswap V2 launched 3 years ago. On top of those other years of technology releases to make that possible. There is a clear chronology, that took many people just being willing to see it and where the technology is going. When the tools mature, applications are developed. It is impossible to have a discussion that conflates a specific application with being representative of anything except that application.
I somehow have a strong intuition that Winamp is going to beat this thing.
Do not under any circumstances report the leak with your actual identity. If you want to do so anonymously, go for it.

However that said, there is no upside in you reporting the leak, only downside potential.
I think the issue here is being new to Rust. I moved to embedded Rust after using C and it's a breath of fresh air to have the type system catch so many things for me. But I was already proficient in Rust before I made that move.

The RP2040 in particular is pretty great though, being able to flash firmware with `cargo run--release` is amazing, and I can use tools like probe-rs and defmt to help debug my firmware.

My only "complaint" at the moment is a bit of immaturity in the USB side of things but I get it, USB is a pretty complicated stack and it'll just take time for things to mature.

For reference, here's some keyboard firmware I wrote for the RP2040. To me it feels reasonably high level and concise for something that drives a real world USB device (as simple a keyboards may be)

https://github.com/bschwind/key-ripper/tree/main/firmware
And for those wanting vintage models of paper computers...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...
Zero interest rate phenomenon is building native everywhere. iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux, web. Got money to burn? Build it 4, 5, or 6 times! Then keep it up to date! Even if you're a rocking engineering org, that's an ouch.

Web apps/spa/pwa can be a great value choice if you need to hit a lot of platforms on a budget.

Angular definitely started out as kind of a dog. Some modern frameworks I'd put up there with ruby, maybe better. Don't chase the hype. Lots of great tooling out there. Prove something out before you run with it. It's not THAT hard.
Blind guy here (<5 degree visual field) the app is fantastic. I get a little emotional when I consider how many people volunteer. In a sighted world it makes a huge difference.
Let's just make sure that all usage of non-lethal weapons follows rules of engagement as strict as firearms. For example, non-lethal weapons should not be a quick cop-out from proper deescalation tactics nor should they be used against non-violent political action.
I'm insatiably interested in most technology but learned vi and vim commands largely through typos.
I did that long ago with an IBM T60p, which had a 32bit Centrino, and only 3.25 or 3.5GB usable RAM out of 4GB. While the ATI FireGL had 256MB. At the time there was no ZRAM, but its predecessor compcache. IIRC I only needed about 2MB VRAM for the stuff I did, any capability the FireGL had wasn't supported by MESA/XORG/DRI at the times, apart from useless GLXGEARS.

What can I say? After much fiddling it worked stable, resulting in running into the limits of that POS much later. Extending its usability. Not that much, but noticeable.

Even Google Earth ran. Probably because it did anything in software anyways, on that combo of supported and exposed capabilities of the GPU at that time.
Looking for a place to slot this in, your comment seems as good a place as any.

This experiment in reverse: what happens if you take a career busker and put them on stage at the BBC Proms?

https://youtu.be/BARAHLk-8dk

(Fire emoji)
Not lots but I’ve gotten it a few times. There seems to be no way to prevent it. Every time I send a detailed report to Google. No idea whether anyone sees them.
RITA: Framework for detecting command/control communication thru network traffic
Nice app...
I was wondering if this might be able to xmit for any number of reasons, from fake cell tower to other kinds, maybe even a numbers station function.

Certainly the altitude differential and ease of navigation (presumed, mostly due to balloon having propellers vs. satellites having either much more costly navigation or none) raise this question.
there are pictures of this online
Yes.

Doctors, unless they are high end specialist surgeons in hospitals, do not make net even close to $100 per 10 minutes. That's nonsense.A doctor making $100 per hour would represent
$600 per hour x 166 hours = $1.2M in revenues per year. There is no specialty in the US that will drive that much collections in the first 2 years.

But, don't take my word for it. Go look up the avg reimbursement for Level 3 office visit, which is defined as 30 mins. This varies by state and specialty, but its around $90 for medicare or $130 for privates. Again , that is 30mins

Now, consider are talking gross revenue, not actual net profit. So now, lets' talk losses.

The reality is the doctor is really making at best 1/3 of your speculative amount in the 1st year, but only if he's a good doctor with a hot speciality that pays well. SO say $400k best case. If we are talking your avg Pediatrician, slice that by half. The former doctor's salary is somewhere between $250k-300k, the latter prob $200k depending on your market.

That leaves $150k best case, or $0 , respectively.....before COGS and OPEX.

What profit are you thinking about ?
I didn't make any claims - someone asked what could they have done, and I listed two things they did recently...
Even that does not seem to be true. Yes, they are not installable by default, but after the initial setup, you should be able to use them just like anywhere else.

In no way can anyone claim that this equates to "banning" Flatpak.

I dislike the move away from apt packages as well, but false reporting has never brought any goodwill or progress.
I mean, if you like French press then that's great! I used to, but am not such a fan these days. The press takes a lot more babysitting and futzing around. Grind the coffee, pour it in the thing, and the water, leave it for 5 minutes, come back and break the top with the two spoons. You've now dirtied 2 spoons, the container, and the press, so you gotta clean those. If you made too much for a single cup the rest will get cold and also too bitter. All of the batch will be silty if you're not careful.

I just like the taste of an americano better, and I can make one in about 30 seconds, and dirty no dishes other than the coffee cup.

The pour over is better than the press but still, you're futzing with the filter holder, using a filter, pouring over for a few minutes, and I just like espresso.
Two years ago I left a relatively low paid job to a more fulfilling, higher paid job. I get a small pay rise but have coped ok with the enormous increases in prices and interest rates.

I recognise not everyone is so lucky. However… there are plenty of jobs. Sadly, the only way to get a reasonable pay rise in Australia is to leave your job and go to another one. Your existing employer will need to pay market rates for a new enployee. They are just expecting you to dislike change.

Change jobs if you can if you are underpaid.
I didn't make any claims, someone asked what could facebook do that would be of concern, and I gave two examples of their past conduct.
well the headline says that employees are being told they must share desks and the article says the same thing.

maybe the headline put a different picture in your mind than what the article said, but the headline seems ok to me.

if you wrote the headline for that article, what would it say?
I absolutely agree.
It is unlikely that I will be thanked for such an act.

Destroy the reputation of a company with 10+ years of experience on the market.
And force dozens of other companies across the U.S. to apologize to their customers for leaking data.

Not to mention lawsuits and fines for such a leak.
Just curious – if you are asked to name some classical instrumentalists, who would you mention?
Language models like these have a lot of characteristics of animals (such as humans) that are missing. And for most of them, I think that's good.

Because if you build a Star Trek computer instead of Data, you can avoid the problem of making digital people into slaves. Because you just don't make digital people.

ChatGPT is very close to the Star Trek computer. Especially if you augment it with the ability to evaluate Python on the fly (for doing math etc.) and search the internet. Now obviously it's not 100% there and there is a big issue with the hallucination stuff. But the only reason some believe those are intractable problems is that their belief system doesn't allow for something like AGI.

But we should anticipate that over the next day 1-5 years we really will get to the Star Trek computer level of capability.

Just don't give the AI full autonomy, a stream of senses, body, emotions, survival instincts, instant adaptability to all new circumstances, etc. etc. and then turn it into a slave. None of that is necessary to be able to act as a general purpose tool or agent. That is readily apparent now.
Many comments haven’t touched on one obvious outcome. Even if Sama and OpenAI stick to their words here, who’s saying that other actors in the space now or in the future will follow suit? Surely OpenAI doesn’t think that if AGI is achieved, that they’ll be the only ones in control of one. No matter how not-open they are (lol), others will always catch up, and in a shorter time than it took OpenAI to originally reach that point.

All things considered, they just shouldn’t. But as all humans do, they will.
> Ad Nauseam

Don't do this, you're not making your browser any more private than just blocking using uBlock Origin.

Any kind of "obfuscation" extensions that change browsing behavior significantly modify the fingerprint. There are a lot of uBO and other adblocking users but very few Ad Nauseam users or users of other weird extensions.

I also wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a way to filter out those "clicks" anyway from the ad provider's side.

They are risky and mostly written by people who think they sound cool without thinking of the side effects.
Not just ineffective, incompetent.

They've ignored pursuing policies that focus across the spectrum of illicit drug use and instead implement hamfisted solutions to problems only when they've grown so bad that legislators have to intervene. Often thier approach, purely from a law enforcement perspective, is interdiction and supression. To them drug abuse is a criminal problem which can only be solved by aggressive policing, confiscations, and arrests.

Now I hear that dealers in the US are cutting opioids sold to PWID with Xylazine which is highly destructive to tissue. There is no healthcare system to speak of available to the addicts so they don't end up in healthcare until their wounds have become gangrenous. It's no wonder an enforcement agency fails in this area because their mission is not to provide care and rehabilitation to criminals. Drug trafficking is supply and demand, maybe they should realize focusing on only half the problem isn't going to be a comprehensive solution.
Same here. I remember vi commands as finger movements on the keyboard. Example formatting a block of text is !}fmt but I can't remember it except as a sequence of key presses. It was hard even to get the actual sequence of characters for this comment.

edit: clarity
Personally I would say don’t set arbitrary limits. I knew of a blind guy who played a computer game very well because it had such a rich and responsive soundscape.
>I really don't understand why you think this statement proves. A heroin overdose IS caused directly by an excess amount of heroin in a given time interval, just like obesity IS caused directly by excessive calories in a given time interval. The time interval for obesity is years instead of hours.

This is the part you're not getting. You DIRECTLY say you don't understand here, and I am here to confirm that you in actuality DO NOT understand.

A heroin overdose IS directly a result of too much heroin within a time interval. But that answer is too obvious and PEDANTIC. You would be stupid to characterize the opiate epidemic as just people doing too much heroin and that they should do less to improve their health. "Yeah that's the problem with opiates in America, people doing too much of it, I know you guys don't like to hear it, but it's the truth. Just control yourself and do less"

Obviously it's more than that. There's a problem with tolerance, with addiction, the fact that opiates were introduced as addictive pain killers by Purdue Pharma under the name Oxycontin. The story of heroin is much more then the completely idiotic characterization of just "doing too much."

So to bring it back around. The the situation is MUCH more complex then people eating more and becoming fatter.

>You sound a tad like a 9/11 truther insisting on some over complex conspiracy theories to explain something fairly straightforward.

I'll just be blunt. You sound like a fucking idiot for regurgitating something SO OBVIOUS. Look, you're not actually an idiot, so stop acting like one and stop calling me a 9/11 truther.

What's even stupider is that when I tell you that while TECHNICALLY more calories in does make you fatter there's clearly something else going on. Do you see the connection with the metaphor here with heroin? Heroin isn't just about people doing too much of it. There's many underlying reasons here for WHY something happens.

I have experience in this area with people who are overweight. Even the simple answer of calorie density in processed foods increasing due to industrial food manufacturing after the 80s leads to fatter people is a better characterization here.

However that answer above ^^ is inline with your simplistic calorie in-out logic so maybe that explanation can help you "get it".
You are completely right; I should have known I'd forget about entire lines of business making that list.
Wall Street Banks Are Cracking Down on AI-Powered ChatGPT
Canada has turned into some kind of nightmare bizarro-land, the UK and Australia are also leading the way. I think they're harmonizing with China for the inevitable merger.
Ambitious 170-km-long Saudi skyscraper city gets construction go ahead
> Bret Devereaux, "About the Pedant", "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry", "PhD", "ancient and military historian", "intersections of the Roman economy and the Roman military" https://acoup.blog/about-the-pedant/

> “I am not going to pretend to be neutral here. I am on the side of the nascent democracy which was ruthlessly and lawlessly attacked without provocation by a larger and more powerful foreign power.”

I'm not going to quote anything else or what is missing, but overall:

Deep substance, neutral style or “pedantry” is not found in this article.

But there is one sided ideology propaganda, vilification and demonization, black and white thinking, omitting of crucial events, facts, and parties involved not just for duration since 2008 but just in 2022.

Strongly recommend avoiding this article and this author, unless you already wholly agree with him and want to reinforce your information bubble.
First time prescription only
Humans that are not immune to HIV are not "perfectly healthy" when the alternative is that they can be made immune to HIV.