skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sad that when I open a thread the first comment I see is cheap cynicism that comes close to trolling, and the replies are even worse.

Look at all the stuff this generation of workers have built in big tech — the amazing devices in all areas of the market, the progress in electric cars, the massive scale in compute infrastructure that enables most smaller companies to easily spin up entire regions rather than run their own hardware…

We now carry devices in our pockets that put more information at our fingertips than entire civilizations could access throughout all of human history. Mobile payments have enabled entrepreneurial capitalism in impoverished parts of the world. Anywhere we are, we can get a map of our location and directions to anywhere we want to go.

The scale and technology that makes remote work even possible for much of the population didn’t even exist a decade ago. Some pieces existed but they never would have scaled the way we needed them to. If you didn’t lose your job during the pandemic, you ought to be grateful to the major cloud providers for the fact that your video conferencing software was able to function while you and almost everyone else were piling onto it. You should also be grateful there were multiple delivery companies able to bring you groceries and restaurant food when you weren’t allowed to leave the house. I know restaurants are grateful for the delivery services — so many more would have gone out of business if in-person transactions were the only way to sell their product!

Anyone who owned a total market index fund in the past decade has benefitted massively from the success of big tech, including most pension funds, university endowments, and many individuals. The creation of wealth has been enormous in scale and enormously socially beneficial.

The big tech companies have delivered results to our economy like the space program did — most of the technology that smaller companies and startups depend on was developed by big tech and either turned into a line of business open to others (like AWS) or was open sourced (like Kubernetes, most of the major app frameworks, multiple programming languages, distributed consensus, distributed tracing, modern CI/CD…) The industry as a whole would be a lot worse off if that hadn’t happened. So what if some of it was used to sell ads?
The tragic consequence will be people drinking this oat and almond juice, thinking it is similar to milk in how healthful it is, and even giving it to children.
You can't use a site that takes markdown and generates HTML. It is a file in the project. By the letter, it counts.

And the reason stuff like this happens is because of people who like to bend the rules on technicalities. Where they hold to the letter but violate the spirit.

You have to draw lines somewhere in a competition.
Same thing with the collapse of Nortel in Ottawa around 2001. Painful in the short term for those affected but long term it created a much more robust tech ecosystem.
Ah right, i got confused between hash function sizes and cipher key sizes. It's 128-256.
Bullshit. You’ll know when your election is routinely rigged and there’s rampant fraud. Been there and it’s difficult to hide even if you don’t have an independent media.

Doesn’t mean I agree with the election system in the US. You need both real and perceived trust in the election system. You also need very high participation. Both are essential. You can’t just keep throwing hurdles and then let only those who’re willing to pass the test to vote. You need more booths - way more - if you want to get rid of mail-in ballots so people can walk to their center and not stand in line for long hours. You have to go issue voter id cards door to door, if you want to enforce id restrictions. You can’t just do one and not the other. That’s just exclusionary. Similarly, if you want faster results you need electronic voting but you also need paper trails for validation. The way results stay unknown and media organisations “call” the elections is absurd. You need official results to come out in under a few hours after all elections are closed. It’s just not right to announce Florida while California is still voting - that’s undue influencing IMHO. The US can fix it all. I do admire how it all seem to mostly work in spite of all these issues.
You would definitely have that level of control. These signals don't map to your inner monologue but they can pick up your intention to physically do something.

So if you think LEFT, you can move the selector on the keyboard to the next key to the left. And if you think CLICK, you can trigger a click. But you are focusing on asking your hand to physically make that click. Which your hand can't do obviously, but they can track those neurons to simulate the action for you.
Sure, as long as you've never had a birthday party in a public place. Or never spoken at it.
16:9 and 16:10 screens, plus the existence of a touchpad make it less of a thing.
I picked up an x62 complete system and its been fantastic. I dont use it as much as I should, but I love the feeling I get booting it up. Its very unique in the collection of thinkpads I have amassed over the years.
If it's less than the small claims maximum, it's absolutely worth taking them to court. They probably won't even show up and you'll get a default judgement in your favor. Usually the horror stories are tens of thousands of dollars (far past the small claims threshold) and believe me when I tell you that suing someone, especially someone with deep pockets, is a clusterfuck nightmare.
It is, but that's how modern semiconductor lithography is done. Massive lenses and mirrors (both made of different materials that normal, since they need to have optical properties at wavelengths much smaller than human vision) are manufactured at great cost to ensure that it is free of aberrations. The extremely limited supply of these is actually one of the many factors that restricts the ability to move to newer processes and scale production capability of newer lithographies.
Fair enough. Sometime last year I just gave up on ever getting one and switched from reading these posts as “here’s an interesting project to try” to “here’s an interesting thing someone did”.

But, yea, it’s not really feasible to do these at home anymore, which is frustrating
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I'm curious about what data the "cheats" were reading and how it gave them an advantage
It's not easy for a politician to know that they're accepting an illegal donation. The law that was violated here was created specifically to prevent behavior that disguises illegal donations.

When the money was given, one person knew that they were doing something that was forbidden, and the other did not. This looks just like any other donation, a check for a few thousand dollars, just like hundreds or thousands of other such checks that they'll receive in the process of getting elected.

It's not as if this was handing over a bag with a million dollars in it in order to change a politician's mind. It was an attempt to get a politician elected who already agreed with them. Had the former been the case, it would indeed have been illegal. But this was not a suspicious amount of money or given with any kind of instruction on how to vote.
> The unreasonable effectiveness of
conditional probabilities

Yup.

There is a more general result that is
more amazing with still more "unreasonable
effectiveness":

For events A and B, we can consider the
conditional probability of A given B:

P(A|B) = P(A and B)/P(B)

Then we can generalize P(A|B):

Suppose we do an experiment and make two
observations, X and Y. We regard each of X
and Y as a random variable that takes on
real number values.

We assume that X and Y have averages, that
is, expectations, and write those as
E[X] for the expectation of X and E[Y] for
the expectation of Y.

We want to use X to approximate Y.

So, we want a real valued function f of one
real variable x and use f(X) to
approximate Y.

For the most accurate approximation, we
want to minimize the expectation

E[(Y - f(X))^2]

Claim: For f(X) we want

f(X) = E[Y|X]

where E[Y}X} is the conditional
expectation of Y given X and a
generalization of P(A|B).

Proof:

We start by using one of the properties of
conditional expectation and then continue
with just simple algebra:

E[(Y - f(X))^2]

= E[ E[(Y - f(X))^2|X] ]

= E[ E[Y^2 - 2Yf(X) + f(X)^2|X] ]

= E[ E[Y^2|X] - 2f(X)E[Y|X] + f(X)^2 ]

= E[ E[Y^2|X] + E[Y|X]^2 - 2f(X)E[Y|X]

+ f(X)^2 - E[Y|X]^2 ]

= E[ E[Y^2|X] + ( E[Y|X] - f(X) )^2 - E[Y|X]^2 ]

which is minimized with

f(X) = E[Y|X]

Done.

So, the "unreasonable effectiveness" of
conditional expectation that it provides
the best non-linear least squares
approximation.

In terms of statistics E[Y|X] is the
minimum variance estimator of Y and is
also unbiased.

Yes, P(A|B), conditional probability, can
be seen as a special case of E[Y|X],
conditional expectation.

The detailed definition of E[Y|X] is based
on the Radon-Nikodym theorem. W. Rudin's
Real and Complex Analysis gives the
novel von Neumann proof. Then in Neveu,
Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus
of Probability is elegant coverage of
E[Y|X].
If you can clearly articulate a path to profitability in the current economy, there's no shortage of investors willing to place 100K-1M bets on startups right now, contrary to the narrative perpetuated here. Ask how I know :)

I think the problem we have is a generation of people in the industry have been convinced hifalutin money making schemes are sustainable business ideas. I'm glad that nonsense has finally past.

The realignment is good for humanity.
Was thinking the same… although Vim plugins are a crapshoot regarding efficiency. Seems like sometimes there’s just no winning move: either you have nice tools and no battery life, or long battery life but subpar tooling.
Go with the camp that doesn't immediately change their tune when a Republican is elected president.
If the community you police cannot tell that a facebook post talking about minorities needing to pass a special test to join the force is parody, then that should tell you how horrifically bad your police department is.
So who gets to decide who gets to live here then? Or just a lottery it out and hope people get lucky?

If you flood the market with enough high density homes, some of those will be affordable. The ONLY true affordable housing is to make market rate affordable.

Don't get me wrong, I think BMR housing has a place, but morally, number of units is the most important metric. If we can build both, do so, but when you block market rate housing for the potential of affordable housing (that may never come), we just make the situation overall MUCH worse.

> If preferentially done in urban cores to an extent that overwhelms other, particularly transportation

High density in urban cores makes commutes shorter and lowers the stress on transportation infrastructure per person.
Police in England and Wales dealing with more mental health crises than ever
I went to a really interesting talk about biometrics from the guy who ran (runs?) the HUGE biometric ID program that India runs (Aadhaar). A point I remember him reiterating several times is that biometric ID is useful to uniquely identify human meat-bodies (my paraphrase), but that it's fairly weak if you're using biometrics for authentication.

His idea being that your biometric data is not really secret (i.e. in the case of fingerprints or face, it's attached to your body and easily observable), and also that it cannot be changed (easily, with today's technology). If someone gets their hands on your fingerprints or retina scan, you can't "change your password".

His point was that biometrics are really useful for stuff like KYC when you get a bank account (where bank employees can feel pretty sure that they are really scanning your eyeball and not a picture of your eyeball reproduced for the camera), but not such a good idea for stuff like "are you allowed to access this ATM machine?". Also, while identity theft sucks, getting your password stolen is painless, whereas someone chopping off your thumbs to squish them up to an ATM machine is a less pleasant experience.
Happy to help anyone starting up. I raised a couple mil in seed funding for an open source project after bootstrapping for a few years. I'm sure the YC crew would be more helpful but I got rejected by YC like 8 times and took the direct route to funding.

We built this https://M3O.com. It was based on this https://github.com/micro/micro

Just happy to help given my own tough experiences. Pitch deck reviews, intros, etc.
Yeah, it's a script. It sucks when the script is bad though. Like one time on the phone with some company I have a card with, I was asked for my "first and last name" when an agent picked up. I answered correctly and the agent shuddered like I said something wrong and was asked for my "first and last name" again. After a while I finally answered incorrectly and gave my name as it appears on my card (which includes a middle initial and suffix in addition to my "first and last name"). I explained to her the difference between what she asked for and what she really wanted, but she didn't seem to be happy with the feedback :(
This transition can't happen soon enough, imo.
This happened to me too, just last year.

I had an old eBay account, about fifteen years old, but I forgot even the email it was registered to, so I made a new one. Then I bought a small item I wanted, a watch strap for 20$. It had arrived and was exactly what was advertised. Cool, I thought.

Two months passed, and out of the blue my account got banned for “risk to the community” reasons. During these two months I did literally nothing on eBay, didn’t even visit the website at all. The seller didn’t contact me later, but left me a good feedback after my purchase. Like, what is this I don’t even vOv

The email about account termination said that I could appeal it, but eBay’s support portal didn’t have any links to account termination appeal process or form or contact. I tried to contact support for some other reason, chatted with what seemed to be humans, who transferred my “case” between them several times and in the end told me, in short, that “we can’t tell you what you did wrong and we will not unban you because risk things”. Weird and a little sad.
How did pokemongo get left off this list
I really wish these kinds of articles would give us at least a hint as to the math actually at work here, and what kind of example systems they're working with in their experiments. As-is, this kind of metaphorical hand-waving gives the impression that vastly more is claimed than anyone can possibly have demonstrated in the linked publications.
Chiming in with another Framework experience.

I've talked about it plenty on HN before but generally speaking my maxed-out Intel 11th Gen Framework has been the most regrettable large technology purchase of my life. Bugs like the one you've described are just the beginning. BTW, they did acknowledge their culpability in this somewhat and finally released a BIOS update for this issue in August of last year. However, that doesn't do you any good as you're already in your situation.

The BIOS alone clearly has many outstanding bugs and with the release of the Intel 12th Gen Frameworks the 11th Gen has been all but forgotten by Framework. Just looking at the list of issues they addressed in a recently announced[0] BIOS update for 12th Gen (no mention of 11th Gen) gives you an idea of the issues present (and more) in the 11th Gen.

For many of us our laptops are our tools for our livelihoods. As painful as it was to write-off a $2500 purchase I finally gave up, went out and bought a MacBook Pro at less than half the price, and have been infinitely happier since.

The lesson here is - hardware is hard and fundamental. Buying hardware from a startup is generally a bad idea.

[0] - https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbol...
Not many simple 3d printers out there. Make sure you have adequate ventilation especially for resin. I got rid of printing in my house because of my 2 year old.
This happened to me when I was using paypal income to pay my rent while I was in school. They only locked up a few thousands dollars but that was life-or-death kind of money for me at the time. Taught me a very expensive lesson about never keeping money in paypal and never giving paypal your bank information. USe credit cards as your buffer between paypal and you. Paypal is like fire - you can harness it usefully, but it will burn you if given the chance.
> This is worse than election rigging. There are reasons there are donation limits, and this dude deliberately, knowingly went around them to help the Democrats in the midterms.

…and Republicans. CC-1 was the cutout for SBF’s donations to Democrats to the left of his preferred public image as a center-right Democrat, CC-2 was the cutout for SBF’s donations to Republicans to the right of that preferred public image.
Or -- as happened to me recently with FedEx -- the shipping company simply lied about delivering the item, you're hosed.

It's extremely common for shipping companies to mark items as delivered when they put them on the truck rather than when they're actually delivered. I've been informed that items were "delivered" two days before the delivery happened before.
How, precisely, should a political candidate have determined that the donation was not compliant with the law?
Someone in the Twitter replies astutely asked why the graphic shows 'Kyla's side of the chat, since every messaging app places the owner's text on the right hand side, and the respondent's on the left. I just logged into eBay and it's the same there - suggesting that this entire exchange is faked.
It seems reasonable to me. I've bought things on ebay many times but never sold anything. I was thinking about selling something recently and didn't even think that adding a bank account for payout would cause any problems (because why would it? I've never had any issues linking my bank account to venmo, paypal or any other third party)
It's a bluetooth mouse that only uses the card slot to charge the battery. It's a shame no modern laptop comes with storage for a travel mouse.
Full responsibility will be taken by the CEO.
thanks for sharing. Do you think if all would be on the client's local server or cloud there would be still some, even rare, occurrence of that?
It's certainly not quite as good out of the box, at least the open sourced checkpoints. However so far I found it can achieve similar accuracy with enough examples and/or fine-tuning for my use cases. Like everything, it depends on what are doing too.
Even with pulp?
My grey beard must be showing. I remember it like it was yesterday. The pure OpenGL graphics, the "slide in from the right" email "spam". The matrix-like tumbler of hex that would "crack" an encryption. It was a perfect game for a small studio.
Or "the worst cops" will be put in charge of training new recruits, made their supervisor, and then ignore their complaints as he kneels on someone's neck until they die
By his own admission he used dark money to clandestinely donate to Republicans because of optics. I don't think you can ask us to show you the receipts and make an appeal for honesty knowing this.
Who you gonna call? Ombudsman!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman
Affordable housing requirements lead to less overall units being built. That only makes the problem worse.

Affordable housing subsidies help, because they enable both to be built.

So often in the bay area we see large market rate developments blocked for the potential of an affordable project that never comes. Let them build, because until we make up the MASSIVE shortage of housing, there is no getting around needing to build more.
This is hilarious to me, as its even less like a cheese than a butter.
....why? No, honestly, why? Would you protect against someone running down the corridor shouting the same thing?
Are there any poisoning effects from gases present in the air, like water vapor?
Sometimes developers just want to scratch an itch
> I said something like this happened when the indictment was filed

Since SBF tweeted that he did this (well, the straw donations to Republicans to preserve his image as a center-right Democrat; I don’t think that he also announced that he did the same thing to Democrats left of his preferred image) before the indictment was filed, that’s not really surprising.
CLISP is excellent for learning Common Lisp; it has a readline-based REPL with editing and tab completion, so you don't need anything other than the CLISP installation.

The licensing server back end for the Tankan kanji learning application runs on CLISP.
Yet another post from 23 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34597862

I'll repeat the advice I gave there: run away from PayPal as soon as possible. It's not worth the risk.
Does anyone remember when Warcraft 3 was in beta and got leaked? Pirates created an emulated Battle.net that could work with the beta assets and had matchmaking, ladder, etc. working.

Hundreds of thousands played. Blizzard released patches in beta that would, for example, spawn infernals to attack your town hall if it detected you were on the emulated server. This reminds me of that. Blizzard lost their battle, by the way, and people pirated WC3 all the way until release.
Isn’t this how empires fall?
By then most of the startups will have mvps in their hands.
They already label it oat milk. Am I missing something? I just don't want to buy plain "milk," or something advertised to contain it, that turns out to be some substitute.
That is insane! How did you even manage to find them with digits transposed? By local seller, you must mean actually local to you? Sorry you got your stuff stolen, I once had a Giant e-bike stolen in Jersey City, so I know how much it sucks. I firmly believe everything should have some kind of tracker if it is more than $2K in cost.
I don’t work in tech (and my question here will prove that) but how does a company lay off 10,000 people without seriously harming their product or ceasing products all together? Is tech that bloated? What are people doing all day where it’s realistic to lay of 10,000 people?
We might need to go back to physical authentication methods with advancements in Ai and considering the potential of quantum computing
They have mostly wasted their railway infrastructure following the collapse of USSR.

RVR[1] car maker wound down, some tracks has closed down due to lack of use or excessive wear. They have some commuter trains and some coordinated cross-border train pairs. Russia to Kaliningrad also runs through Lithuania as mandated by international agreements. I don't think you can embark at Vilnus though.

There were Moscow-SPb-Tallin and Moscow-Riga sleeper trains for a long time, but COVID and lack of funding led to their demise, and now the war, too.

There was also Moscow-SPb-Helsinki "Lev Tolstoy" sleeper train of the same fate.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rīgas_Vagonbūves_Rūpnīca
Have you visited Ukraine? Have you travelled by train in Ukraine? The first class carriages are still in use between Odessa and Kyiv or Odessa and Lviv, just not on the train between Odessa and Przemysl. I can't work out why.
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