skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people have UBI to cover their most basic needs they could actually have savings and they could use that to maintain their standard of living while they find other work. These rail workers are not highly skilled positions. The article states that they get no formal training at all. Even if no railroad company in the country will hire someone as retaliation quitting (which is a big assumption) they could easily work in some other industry.
Read up on narcissism, it helps to explain most bullying.
But it doesn't! Your comment kinda proves my point :) See my other reply to another commenter which proposed the (more widespread in practice) use of > signs.

> Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
> Iron cookware, as opposed to cast iron cookware

Did you not see that? Cast iron cookware is not iron cookware. Iron cookware is still available, generally labeled "pure iron" and marketed to impart more iron into the food being cooked than cast iron cookware. Maybe your waving hand should take a rest.
I'd like to see job postings required to list compensation bands in accordance with the local laws of various states.
That's not really relevant to the point being made: you've decided that the trade off is worth it for you, and that's truly fine. But I would wager that most people think that they "own" their Kindle purchases in the same way that they'd own a physical book they'd bought.

Some people do read books more than once. There are a few books I enjoy enough that I've read them quite a few times over the past 25 years or so. I've lost, sold, or given away the physical copies of nearly all of them, and have replaced them with ebooks. I would be very upset if those ebooks just disappeared someday.

(I don't have to worry, as I've de-DRMed and backed up all the books I've purchased. But I don't expect most Kindle owners to know how to do that, or even know that they need to do that to be safe.)
20 years ago, it was the same thing with shoes. I remember the talk about “Walmart walkers”, “k-mart kicks”, etc.

Half these bullies are probably on iPhone SEs, refurbs, or hand-me-downs anyways.

If you’re thinking of getting your child or teenager a high end iPhone… why not just go spend that same money on yourself
Let’s be honest Apple made it super annoying to deal with android users so I can understand what kids would gravitate to being assholes
That's what the hivemind says - AI will automate all our jobs. Well, yes it will automate a lot, but we won't be having the same expectations in a few years. The bar will rise so high we'll still have jobs with AI on top.

There's also a small little thing called competition. When your competitors use AI, your job just got harder.
Would you be just fine if Peter Parker would be replaced with... Huggy Wuggy, for example?
I'd like to know when there's a new reply to a comment I made in an article, without having to click my username, then comments. So basically a notifications icon/link at the top right.
I mostly agree except the FM radio part.
If you really care about mathematical notations, you should be using Mathematica, not Julia.
Is this a bibliography?
I agree. I think there should be a size and value threshold where it is determined that your company can reasonably just spend to build using your own R&D for literally anything, and that performing an acquisition at all (whether or not it makes you a monopoly) is harmful for the overall market.

Take Apple for example. It bought most of Intel's modem business to build its own product.

Does anyone seriously believe that Apple couldn't have built that kind of technology from scratch? How many modem businesses could they build before running out of cash? Wouldn't it have been better for Intel's modem business to go to someone else who might make the product available outside of Apple's closed product ecosystem?

I'm pretty sure Apple would have no problem bootstrapping an oil company or an industrial container ship manufacturing business, that's just how much money they have.
Doesn't make any sense, this would be like an audio engineer getting rid of their studio monitors and mixing on AirPods because that's what people listen on.

What they do instead is use their multi-thousand dollar speaker and room setup for mixing (because it is better!) but then check the end result on airpods, car stereos, etc.

Just test on the resolutions you care about, no need to cripple your development setup full time.
Back before I had eye surgery HN was a massive pain - it totally breaks under an increased magnification level.
I would be very surprised if you could find rent in South Dakota , that you have room and power to cook rice at 500 a month. Outside of a family member or close friend owning land, and letting you live rent free, 500 ain’t gonna do it.
laws aren't good enough; we need machines and math to prevent publishers from censoring or revoking access, which need to be running free software, so it is under the control of the user and not software owners who become single points of failure for this kind of censorship

of course machines and math aren't enough; sufficiently repressive laws could eliminate such machines, or limit access to them to an infinitesimal group, or prevent people from learning about them. but machines and math can offer enormous leverage to such book-burnings, as amazon swindle does, or instead offer enormous leverage to those who want to resist them
Doesn’t matter if Video and photo texts don’t show up correctly to your peers. Apple and Android are barely compatible
Just to note about the partition thing, you CAN do this with Silverblue, but it's not for beginners. The default is to use the whole disk. I dual boot, but give one whole disk to Silverblue and another whole disk to Windows.

I'm a long time Fedora user (on various laptops), so I'm already pretty comfortable in that ecosystem, but I don't think it's accurate to describe Silverblue as beta. It's not marketed nor considered as beta by the devs/community and it's based on technologies that were intended to be used in containerized production environments (Fedora IOT and CoreOS). Anecdotally, it's been far more stable than the (already stable) Fedora WS I've used before.

Re the other immutable Fedora desktop distros (i.e., Kinoite), those don't get quite as much support, so YMMV.
agreed and it feels like redefining the word owner isn't helping identify the percentage of true homeowners. It's sort of obfuscates the whole thing.
Did it use eye tracking or was it just using the tilt sensors?
Media messaging from Apple to android is a disaster. Experience is terrible I don’t see how a 12 year old would overcome that
Agreed completely. As soul sucking as corporate software can be, we are very fortunate to be able to earn a great living for doing something (often) mentally stimulating and physically easy.

I’m sure many a barista fantasy has been crushed the first time having to deal with an unruly or argumentative customer, clean diarrhea off the bathroom walls, etc. Yeah, you have less to worry about once your shift is over, but your shift might really suck.

In our culture it sounds cringe/like bragging to make these kinds of comparisons punching down (to which I retort that the “back to blue collar” fantasy started it) but at this point in my life I don’t think I’ll ever have to put up with crap like that for money in the future, and I don’t plan to. Why would I do that?? We get paid several multiples just to tell computers to send little packets of data formatted just so from here to there.

All you need to do to be happy is what you’d be doing at your barista job anyway - stop giving a crap about your job after regular working hours, and stop trying to find an existential purpose in repetitive, draining tasks. Once you can do that, you reap all the benefits of higher pay with less bullshit
Who demonizes ebikes? Other than those cheap services that let people leave the bike anywhere I've never heard someone demonize ebikes.
Words can have significant weight in some cultures, especially when used historically as hate speech. When that word disappears from the culture because of a ban it can have a very positive effect. Note that I'm specifically talking about hate speech, and not any word you don't happen to like.
Do your kid a favor and get him an iPhone sometime. If you think Androids can do everything iPhones can do, you're kind of underestimating the network effect of iMessage. Or I guess he can stick with the Samsung and sideload 90s emulators to twiddle his thumbs on on while the rest of his friends digitally socialize in their blue-bubbled group chat.

You said it yourself. He doesn't care at all about pushing his S20's operating system to the limit. Even though this is a forum for nerds, you don't have to peer pressure him into owning a nerd phone.
Yeah they just suck at tech because you can ad block on iPhones too
I think it would depend on whether or not the new and changed content qualifies as copyrightable on its own. A lawyer could probably advise someone whether or not that's the case here, but ultimately it'd be up to a court to decide, if anyone wanted to force the issue.

I do seem to recall noting that books that get updated with new editions often do sport a new copyright date. Not sure if the changes made here would qualify, though.
The cameras know who you are. Now they want to use AI to find your friends too
Checksum and CRC Tutorial
Nim is fun, but it needs to be more popular.
Show HN: Whisper CLI using OpenAI API (with management for multiple api keys)
Whisper CLI is a command-line interface for transcribing and translating audio using OpenAI's Whisper API. It also allows you to manage multiple OpenAI API keys as separate environments.

It allows you to get transcriptions and translations by simply running "whisper translate" or "whisper transcribe". You can install it by running `pip install whisper-cli`.

It also supports multiple OpenAI keys as environments.
Getting the camera intrinsics problem is might be solvable with the dataset of intrinsics (assuming that the browser allows to get the camera model ).
Right, it's automatic. There's no confirmation, and no changelog. I have it enabled, but stuff like this makes me consider disabling it. I'd be fine if there was a way to limit the updates to typo and grammar fixes, and reject content changes, but of course Amazon isn't going to implement a feature like that without something like a government telling it to do so.

(I do back up my ebooks right after purchasing, though, so at least I have "originals".)
Even c-levels, including the CEO, can be fired by the board, which is why I think accountability should include such.
A) That is the reason? Do you think automation played no part in large manufacturers ability to drop their highly skilled artisan workforce needed to perform key tasks? Does that really matter in the context of the conversation, which is that it's pretty naive to assume everything will just work out when workers are rendered obsolete because it's logistically easy and cheaper to get it elsewhere?

B) You could live in the midst of 100 factories and that wouldn't change the decades of well-documented decline in US manufacturing jobs.
I keep hearing about battery life being just as almost just as good or better on linux (and on Windows too, though that's a more realistic claim). Yet even the latest gens thinkpads are pretty awful w.r.t battery. My friend bought an i5 12xxx Thinkpad X1 and can barely do 5 or 6 hours of screen on time, when the stated capacity is 16h. Lenovo denied a refund, because it's working as intended according to them (and my colleagues with s76 laptops don't even really expect more than 3-ish hours of battery at best). My work provided t14 gen 3, that I like, can't even keep it's charge when unplugged and in my bag for long enough.

And I'm no Apple fanboy, the only Apple device I've ever used has been an ipad 5 years ago and my M1 macbook.
Why wouldn’t massive buildout of nuclear energy plants allow hitting that greenhouse emission goal while simultaneously tripling the amount of power used per person?
It’s not just the color of the bubbles. Rich Media texting compatibility between the two platforms is garbage. Pictures and videos off android come in at low resolution and often fail altogether
Literally everywhere else in the world, people don't use iMessage and FaceTime, but third-party apps.

This is solely an American problem manufactured by Americans for Americans, and catalysed by the excessive vapidity and superficiality of social media. You lot appear to like shooting yourselves in the foot a lot (sometimes, not even figuratively).

Ergo the bullying that OP's son is experiencing. Android phones have rivalled iPhones in price for a long time now.
Just Breathe
Yeah.. I really want to get a stack of mac minis and see how far they go as a self hosted k8s environment. Could be a decent approach for cloud cost averse shops with an appetite for DIY.
So now, which US city would we be willing to swap for the island of Taiwan? (aka 'Republic of China').
There's no moat in AI. AI feeds on data, and the kind of data it feeds on is necessarily massive publicly scraped data.

Deployment has to be done on a large scale to recuperate the training costs. You can't hide it. By having API access the model discloses its abilities and can even be used to improve the training set of your competition.

And models are compact, you can put SD on a DVD, but the original training set was 100,000 times larger. You can train a 13B language model from 1T tokens. You can download, save and share a GPT4 but you can't "download a Google" (remember what happened to the LLaMA model and 4chan). AI models are self contained pieces of data and code.

So my conclusion is that AI will spread wide and reverse the centralisation trend we have had in the last 20 years.
> can anyone confirm that this is actually remote updates?

No need to read an article for that; if you dig through the settings on a Kindle, there's an option to allow automatic book updates (probably enabled by default).

The updates happen automatically, in the background, when the device syncs, without confirmation or presenting a list of changes.
High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion from brain activity
I audibly exclaimed WTF when they walked towards the screen. I was not ready for that effect.
Advice: life science companies will push you towards becoming a solution provider, which is mostly an attempt to outsource their jobs. Winners in this space polarize to 1) non specialized products consumed by specialists 2) specialist CRO like firms. Don't think you do something in between like customize your offering to their space.
Is it worse across the board? Is idle power consumption higher, or is it mostly when under load that it gets worse?
Isn’t it that most authors want DRM because they are afraid that their works get pirated?
You can't choose to die on every hill you meet in your life: sometimes you have to compromise. Having two teenager kids, my experience is that generally "I'm your parent and I know what's good for you" goes about as well as tying dumbbells at ankles and jumping into a lake. (Of course every kid is different and your story would be also different.)

Also, I'm not quite sure how much of it is actual bullying vs. the kid feeling left out in a friend group because everyone else is sharing iPhone only stuff (games, etc).
> That video is from 2007, and yet the technology being shown is so impressive that it feels like it could have been made yesterday.

Really? Who thinks this in 2023? I thought it was a fun little demo back then, but that was it. Both then and now I just want AR as the default for everything and for screens to die already. We've had the tech for it since then too, but not enough demand from general consumers.
>I was referring to what I've seen mentioned more than a few times in HN comments where, apparently, FAANGs or some teams therein have engineering manager positions where the size of the team that one leads greatly translates to that employee's success (perceived or real) in the company

How does that translate into tech companies overhiring? Even if managers want more people on their team for progression purposes, they can't exactly expand their team to whatever size they want. They're subject to budgets set by finance.
Chapter 1 of the Bureaucratic Startup.
Uh, who do you think the Puritans were? The founding Americans were people who got kicked out of Europe for being religious nuts. Then wave after wave of socially conservative poor people came to the country: Germans, Italians, Irish, etc. As to the Republican Party—it’s been a coalition of religious conservatives and big business since literally Lincoln’s era.
>Bullies pick on kids to get a response, if he didn't let them bother him he wouldn't get bullied.

Plenty of bullies will escalate until they get what they want.
There might be. But a jury might not care.
Except you did agree to this when you licensed ebooks from Amazon. But I'm sure you didn't actually read that agreement (neither did I).

I believe there's also a Kindle setting (default enabled, probably) to allow or disallow automatic book updates.
Funny. This sounds nothing like the "going dark" problem law enforcement is always warning about.
Damn, I meant the opposite - I just wanted to recognize the struggle. But that's no excuse. Neither is the fact that I have disabilities as well. I'm very, very sorry and extremely appreciative that you took the time to explain that. I owe you.
Nim Roadmap 2023
> How are we going to trust historical records when they can be changed on the fly to support whatever is en vogue?

This is a good question, and more practical than it might look like: there have been instances of major media outlets being caught quietly editing their "early" covid reporting from spring 2020 later in the pandemic, to better match the changes in the narrative.

I deeply regret not bookmarking some of the examples: this is now ungooglable, and not having a prooflink makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist.
Some of the most ridiculous legislation from conservatives seem to be from both Texas and Florida. My theory is that this is to drive away liberal minded residents, or to discourage liberal minded people from migrating to the state. The electoral votes from either of these states are absolutely necessary for guaranteeing the republicans a shot at the white house every 4 years.

Many of these laws are obviously not constitutional. However, we don't have a constitutional court system in the US that is required to review bills before they can be enacted as law. So the burden of challenging these laws is often placed on private citizens or rights advocacy groups. But until they can be struck down, these malicious laws are used to disenfranchise any member of the electorate who would oppose the right. Essentially: "We can make life as miserable as possible for you because you are not welcome here."
> Colonization or invading a country for its resources are hardly things europe has had a monopoly over.

China colonised Taiwan, displacing the indigenous Taiwanese, who are an Austronesian people, related to Filipinos, Indonesians, Malays, Melanesians, Micronesians, Polynesians – in fact, Taiwan is believed to be the Austronesian Urheimat, the historical origin of Austronesian language and culture. The earliest Chinese settlers arrived in the 13th century, although Chinese colonisation really took off after failed European colonisation attempts (by the Dutch and Spanish) in the 16th.

Similarly, Yamato Japanese colonised Hokkaido and the northern parts of Honshu, displacing the indigenous Ainu. Even the rest of Japan appears to have been colonised by settlers from mainland East Asia in the first millennium BCE or earlier, who introduced an agrarian culture which displaced the hunter-gatherer cultures of Japanese prehistory. To say nothing of Japanese colonialism in Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, China, and elsewhere between 1895 and 1945.

However, many nowadays present colonialism as something essentially "European" – for example, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Colonialism [0] says "This entry uses the term colonialism to describe the process of European settlement, violent dispossession and political domination over the rest of the world, including the Americas, Australia, and parts of Africa and Asia" – leaving Chinese and Japanese colonialism out of the scope of its definition, and never grappling with its decision to do so. It seems to me to be – at the very least – rather narrow-minded.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/
Railroad workers do get a lot of on the job training though. Or at least used to, wouldn't surprise me if they cut back on. But most rail road jobs are highly skilled jobs, the problem is, those skills don't really transfer well. Kind of like a joke I used to hear Marines make when I was in the Navy. The marines just prepare you to be homeless, because a lot of jobs in the Marine Corp don't really transfer out well (unless your aviation side). Which is where UBI will really help, not just with railroad workers, but workers in general. Need to change industry for X reason? Well you have UBI to assist so you don't eat shit in doing so.
I think the person you're replying to was saying that the book publishers were assholes for changing the books and automatically updating existing customer copies. Not that the article author is an asshole for being upset about this practice.

(I agree that the wording of their comment is somewhat ambiguous.)
Breathing techniques can control the heart i think, 3 seconds inhale hold 3 seconds 3 second exhsle hold 3 second
Well, I don't know about "own", but I will definitely still possess the ripped and de-DRMed copy that I always make as a matter of course.
I got it running using Colab Pro+ (immediately got a V100 40GB VRAM GPU) - the 7B model works with batch size of 8 and a max seq len of 1024
Are you talking about metabase by any chance?
I remember reviews on youtube that showed the macbook air/pro M1 playing video (streaming?) for that long. Actually, it kept going for 20h.

https://youtu.be/KE-hrWTgDjk?t=645
If you're a California resident or a EU citizen, file a DSAR? https://www.osano.com/articles/data-subject-access-requests-...
I’m torn on whether or not to build a Ryzen 7900X workstation or stick with Apple Silicon. I love my M2 Air but want something beefy for my desk. M1 mini is starting to outgrow 16GB of RAM.
I assume, though, that Dahl's estate later gave the publishers permission. So Thor should come visit the people administrating his estate.
EV or not, having to drive everywhere is poor urban design.
Caffeine disrupts adenosine.
this is a crucial point.

if the noodle nest does not solve an important customer problem, it can be eaten or thrown out. being eaten or thrown out is not the pathway to immortality. it must provide an important business function or feature, yet resist low-risk modification or understanding.

immortality of a noodle nest that solves an important customer problem may be amplified by wrapping the noodle nest in a faux-OO shell. E.g. in C++, one could create a single "god" class, define a large amount of mutable state belonging to the class, and then distributing the noodle nest between dozens of methods that take no arguments, return no values, mess with the noodle state, and mutually recursively call each other. immortality of a faux-OO noodle nest wrapped inside a god object can be further enhanced by applying the GoF "monotheism" pattern to ensure there is only one god object instantiated at runtime.
The problem is that we even give oxygen to these so-called “sensitivity readers.” But there are plenty of Diversity and Inclusion consultants that are actually taken seriously when they should be laughed out of the room.
ChatGPT Infinity Coding: AI self-generates prompts, solves it and gets verified