skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. I will check those articles out.
Lol not trying to be snarky but if you think academics push out papers for purely monetary reasons then I suspect you are very far from academia in your day to day life. Of course PIs have goals besides money! If their main goal was ever money they're an idiot for sticking to the university lab, and it's not like science profs didn't have other career opportunities available.

That doesn't change the fact that the most common non-monetary goal of academics is in fact pretty well aligned with behaviors such as: publishing very frequently/flag planting, farming citations on old publications, exaggerating work in presentations and media press releases, etc. Not all of these behaviors are inherently bad but they easily can be and too often are taken to an extreme.

Said goal is of course intellectual credit, or from a more cynical lense pure ego stroking. And it is indeed a rampant non-monetary incentive in academia.

Anyway, I don't see the problem with someone who has recently pursued a PhD or beyond in academic science ripping on "career scientists". This is the sort of (mostly) informed criticism that science should welcome. Though some are overly negative, they usually still have relevant insights into problems in their field, and it is silly to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

That is markedly different from someone that frequently criticizes scientists from the outside while lacking any actual insight into the relevant technical complications, especially if that person is casting a wide net in what they criticize.

The goal of a lot of modern scientific criticism is to further the conversation amongst those presently in the field, and help those adjacent to the field make more informed decisions - including prospective/very early career trainees, potential interdisciplinary collaborators, and anyone that has a role in directing possibly relevant funding opportunities. If criticisms get co-opted by other individuals for irrelevant goals that is unfortunate but it does not make the criticism invalid.

It's also somewhat difficult in the social media age to avoid commentary that gains steam in the scientific community from reaching broader public exposure, which indeed opens it to misinterpretation. But the alternative of walled off information a la the old school journal publication system is obviously problematic for other reasons.

That is a long winded way of saying that I think some amount of harsh publicly viewable criticism is sorely needed by a number of scientific fields right now, including my own (very much not physics). The fact that criticisms which from what I can gather where initially internally directed eventually gained such external exposure tells me that the message resonated with many scientists, even if just earlier career ones. Whether this person has started to profiteer on their cynicism is tangential to the validity of the original core message IMO.
Twitter is in business to make money. If that wasn't really clear before Elon, it is now. So they're going to monetize it as best they can.

There are a quite a few people who might point out that since Elon's very rich, he's obviously better at business than any of us, therefore just go away. I don't subscribe to that. But better for you isn't necessarily better for Twitter if they don't see more money for it.
Totally crazy that this not anything near the top after so many days.
It looks like that it is trending on twitter now:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23lockdownfiles&src=trend_clic...
There seems to be a fair bit of misunderstanding of this based on the various comments so far. Here's what the EU themselves say on one of their websites [1] which should clear things up (emphasis in original).

First, something that applies to nearly everything:

> Under EU rules, a trader must repair, replace, reduce the price or give you a refund if goods you bought turn out to be faulty or do not look or work as advertised.

Second, for things bought online or outside of a shop there is an additional right:

> If you bought a product or a service online or outside of a shop (by telephone, mail order, from a door-to-door salesperson), you also have the right to cancel and return your order within 14 days, for any reason and without a justification.

They later explain this more fully:

> In the EU you have the right to return purchases made online or through other types of distance selling, such as by phone, mail order or from a door-to-door salesperson, within 14 days for a full refund. You can do so for any reason – even if you simply changed your mind.

But they also say the 14-day cooling off period does not apply to all purchases. They give this of some of the exemptions:

▪ plane and train tickets, as well as concert tickets, hotel bookings, car rental reservations and catering services for specific dates

▪ goods and drinks delivered to you by regular delivery – for example delivery by a milkman

▪ goods made to order or clearly personalised – such as a tailor-made suit

▪ sealed audio, video or computer software, such as DVDs, which you have unsealed upon receipt

▪ online digital content, if you have already started downloading or streaming it and you agreed that you would lose your right of withdrawal by starting the performance

▪ goods bought from a private individual rather than a company/trader

▪ urgent repairs and maintenance contracts – if you call a plumber to repair a leaking shower, you can't cancel the work once you have agreed on the price of the service

and also say "Please note that this list is not exhaustive.

Also,

> The cooling off period expires 14 days after the day you received your goods. For service contracts, the cooling off period expires 14 days after the day you concluded the contract. If the cooling off period expires on a non-working day, your deadline is extended till the next working day.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...
Why does the author keep referring to GPT-4 as if it were a real LLM? Unless I missed something there is no such model.
>So does a doctor just care how many prescriptions they make, or a police person about how many people they arrest?

Someone hasn't heard of ticket quotas before have they? Or the pharmaceutical companies that were effectively buying off doctors for years by expensive trips based on their ability to prescribe the drugs they were selling. We've had to add regulations to these above two 'fields' to prevent exactly this from happening, and in many places it still does.
The most immediately interesting result to me here is the significant variability between states, with Florida having roughly twice the national rate. Obviously comparing Florida to Idaho isn't apples to apples, but Florida has similar population density and population as New York and more than 3 times as many pedestrian deaths per capita. Obviously how roads and cities are designed must be a factor, as well as presumably other state-by-state variables.
Asking it "What is the best open source software to do option 1" it's first suggestion is Ghostscript, which is actually what I use. It can walk you through installing it and describing how to change the quality of the compression.

Or if you prefer the old fashioned way you can just read about it yourself here https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/gs10.0.0/VectorDevices... the settings are modeled around what Adobe does and names them. I've never really messed with any GUI options though.
Speech-to-text is transcriptive, it spends its parameters on encoding a mapping from one domain to another. Language models are generative, they spend their parameters on trying to encode a domain. It might seem like speech-to-text should need more because it cares about two domains (“speech” and “text”) while language models only care about one domain (“text”), but it turns out mappings are much smaller than domains.
It is going to be apps that provide rich experiences that need to do a lot of server communication to deliver them. I am thinking of things like collaborative whiteboards, for example. If 2 people are in Europe, working on the same whiteboard, then it should be low latency. The edge nodes will be near each other (or next to each other).
> ipv4 with NAT gets you a new "adress"(meaning port) on every single new connection.

No one cares about tracking by port. Folks are tracking by IP(v4) address.

I know this first hand because I have my DSL router-modem auto-reboot every night (built-in Asus functionality), and I get all sorts of crazy results for ads: I'm in southern Ontario, as is my ISP, but they service folks in Quebec, and so sometimes I get Youtube ads in French since (per my IP) I'm "in" Quebec.

And given that I have IPv6, most OSes generally use that as a first preference for connectivity, and so my IPv6 address/prefix is "in" Quebec.

And this is even with cookies enabled, which should make tracking by browsing easier (esp. since I get decently-accurate recommendations based on viewing history), but yet I still get French ads because my IPv4/IPv6 address is "in" Quebec.

So I have no idea what people are talking about when they say IPv6 will make tracking easier than IPv4. With RFC 4941 it's a solved problem IMHO and no worse under dual-stack than it is under single-stack.
Atlassian Cuts 500 Positions
I see your point. Obviously it would hurt the troops the nuke explode over. Then the Chinese send in the next group. Or pepper your cities with their ICBMs. Or both.

I hope you will believe me without proper citations that they just have a lot of troops.[1] And there is no reason to think they would need to bunch them up. How many smuggled in nukes are we imagining here?

1: this is the orbat of the Chinese rocket forces from 2020 https://www.aboyandhis.blog/post/mapping-the-people-s-libera...
I don't actually care much about the title. You are very welcome to criticize it if you want, but what you are reading into the title is not what the article itself said, and the poster I replied to specifically cited the article not the title.

TLDR: we don't need to guess the authors intent behind the title, you can just read the article.
Tbf, SF is listed as the second highest population density among non-metro areas, behind NYC (according to Wikipedia)
The DTC (later DNVB) sector was a big part of the e-commerce boom in the 2010s through the pandemic.

It was fueled by cheap Facebook advertising, iOS tracking and cheap FBA fees then later on by cheap Amazon advertising and to a lesser degree, TikTok.

Lots of successful small and family businesses were created during this time period with revenues of 500k-$20m of which I own one.

But the largest ones were companies like Anker, Away, Casper, Warby Parker.

And the underlying shovel companies like Shopify, Stamps/ShipStation, Mailchimp, Zebra and many others.

Pretty much, the play was the same.

1. Identify a decent size niche market that you can hyper target on Facebook or Instagram. Pet, health/wellness, beauty, exercise were especially popular.

2. Source/design a product from Asia that has a high enough margin for advertising

3. Buy ads on social media, hire influencers, and build a strong email channel via Mailchimp

4. Drive customers initially to Shopify and then later to Amazon FBA

5. If you have a strong enough brand, then take your products to brick and mortar retailers

That all went well for years especially with customers flush with pandemic monies until the iOS upgrade and Amazon started squeezing sellers.

At the tail end of the pandemic, VC money poured multiple billions into the market as they used the PE aggregator model to create entities like Thrasio, Elevate, Accel to buy up a lot of small players in the $5-20m ARR space.

Now times are dire for all.
Is the news actually informative, though? I mean that seriously - would you get a better understanding for the macro-changes in the world by just shutting the laptop off andwalking around the city with your eyes focused upwards?
Here is one simple way to soothe your mind.

Pack your gear and go camping. Turn your phone off when you arrive and turn it back on when you leave.
> Either you have a brain and can see how bad this way of thinking/designing is, or you don't have a brain.

Your description has further solidified OP's claim that this person is condescending and pretentious. This kind of thinking is extremely narrow and doesn't take any other factors into account (like having the means and lack of family responsibility to move wherever you want). It also implies that believing a dumb idea means you are a dumb person, which also isn't necessarily true and lacks any real insight.
Aside: Was that blog post taken from Twitter? If not, Twitter has profoundly affected the way the author writes. Nearly every "paragraph" is a single sentence, and the longest of them is just 300 characters.

I imagine it must be difficult to tell a story if you write it in a style where your paragraphs resemble bullet points! Perhaps, though, it might work if it's very dialog-heavy, and if the characters are noir-laconic. Elmore Leonard would approve of that.
There's user interface stability and then there's API stability. To backend API is probably much more stable so that the front end has something to lean on when it does all of its changes.
As someone who is (I think) on rayiner's side more or less, my impression of the evidence is that the SAT and similar tests (even IQ tests) can be practiced for to an extent, and scores can be improved, but only up to a "natural ceiling". So, while it should be possible for a while to improve everyone's scores on the SAT by providing test prep, you shouldn't expect everyone to be able to score near the upper limit on the SAT, just higher than they would be without test prep. Test prep has diminishing returns (unless that test prep is effectively cheating because the test questions and answers have been leaked) because the upper limit of a person's score is limited by their natural potential. The end state for the SAT, assuming the test isn't changed, is to produce a distribution more or less like a bell curve, but with a mean higher than before widespread test prep (and possibly some groups disproportionately improving compared to other groups, but not necessarily reaching the exact same mean as the other groups).
MAGA?
Thanks for the reply, I am happy it put it into remission for you and you are doing better.
That image and the context made me think of Jeff Noon. Sadly, it was not espousing virtues of Vurt.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17401136-vurt
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That's what I like about HN – it may not be friends posting, but at least it's people. No such thing as a professional HN commenter ... at least not that I've noticed.
Term defending seems to have lost its meaning. Since when investing became defending?

Moreover anonymous Hindenberg,crazy George Soros are more credible than LIC and SBI!!
It arguably dates back further, with Hispanics rather than Asians
This isn't about an attack scenario from this vector, it's about preventing reconnaissance that might yield helpful results to an adversary that can exploit it via any other vector.
Corollary :

When you don't understand something, and are not inclined to take the time to understand it, you just label it as cargo cult science, or pseudoscience.
Too damn cold
Internet censorship in Russia, During first year of military conflict in Ukraine
At the beginning of 2021 there were talks of Samsung using LG Displays in their TVs, but it never any outcome from it.
NMican here. This is big vehicle country and that could be a huge factor. Also subjectively a sudden huge growth in homelessness. It’s also just otherwise not very populace so I wonder whether there’s an odd sample problem going on. It wouldn’t take as much to move the figure here as it would a more populace state. Large swaths of population 5’5” and below too. Could actually be the shortest state in the union.
Autonomous tech boom darling Embark goes belly-up, lays off hundreds
> did not materially improve data privacy online.

I personally saw drastic improvements. I remember marketing adding or rotating trackers every 3 months as they got pitches from random companies.

Those basically vanished the day we had to keep track of which company stored their data in which region, and where in the privacy policy list we had to slot them.

User data still goes to Google or Adobe, but getting rid of all the weird scammy players is a win in my book.

And it also helped justify investing in stronger internal data management and analysis instead.

Basically adding random third party libraries suddenly had a material cost, and I don't see any other initiative that could have realistically reached that result.
I am not trusting them, behind a ipv4 nat inbound connections are by default inaccessible

ipv6 most configuration end up with all devices publically routable and must have a firewall deny policy inplace to block inbound connection

Shodan is filled with people with misconfigured ipv4 routers that end up with all kinds of device that should not be on the public internet (webcams, printers etc) out there for anyone to connect to. This requires a user to actively do something on the device (most likely following a bad online tutorial) in order to port something though the NAT.

with IPv6 this problem will get FAR FAR FAR FAR worse.
(IANAL) Take this, for example, from a jazz/funk/? band I like:

"The Funky Knuckles is a world class jazz orchestra made up of genetically enhanced cybernetic super men. They have played at the finest venues around the world delivering mind blowing rhythms and harmonic complexity that will shatter your fragile psyche and leave you drowning in a pool of fresh llama milk. The band members are as brilliant as they are handsome and they have performed with people such as the legendary Phill Aelony. This unstoppable crime fighting squadron will make you dance like a kraken on meth before you burst into tears of joy which can be combined with powder from a ground up cobra skull to synthesize the elixir you need to pass through solid objects."

It's cool, funny, seems appropriate to the band, - and also not meant to be taken seriously, so seems to fit that "puffery" definition. But calling it "just legal lying" would...miss the point.

https://www.thefunkyknuckles.com/about
Android is a Linux.
I agree that there is nothing wrong with programming as an art. I enjoy things like the old demo scene, or writing the shortest code, or other forms of programming feats, even elegant designs or proofs.

But when I'm building a product and hiring people, I absolutely do not care about those things. I'm hiring an engineer not an artist. If you want to do art in your spare time great, but on the job I want people to care only about building an easily maintained, bug free, performant application that satisfies the users needs. It doesn't have to use the best tech, it doesn't even need to have elegant code, just easily understood, fast, and bug free code.

If developers separate code as art from code as a job I think they would be much happier. I know I made that transition many many years ago and am much happier for it. I still appreciate code as art, but in it's place.
The US's position is more complex. You're trying to dumb it down to mislead. (You might want to look up defacto if you don't think they have defacto independence from the PRC)

If the people of Florida want Russian-backed independence, as the people of Taiwan want US-backed independence then sure, go for it, my friend.
> Your description has further solidified OP's claim that this person is condescending and pretentious.

It's not the GP's claim that "this person", Jason Slaughter, "is condescending and pretentious." Jason Slaughter has (IIRC) himself said that he makes videos with the tone of condescension on purpose.

Slaughter is tired of (in his view) the bullshit of trying to justify lifestyles and urban design choices that are killing people, bankrupting communities, and damaging the the planet. The specific tone is on purpose and a conscious choice in the scripting and creation of his videos. He wants change, and he seems to be (AFAICT) tired of 'being nice' and reasonable while policy barely moves forward.

(Whether the narration in the videos is a bit of 'character' he plays on Youtube to get his view/frustration across, or his actual personality, is something I do not know. I'll have to find the interview where he talks about this 'style'.)
I don't know about the 12th cos I skipped it, but the viewing angles on the 13 are great...
>Try avoiding the casual ageism and sexism.

Try not to find offense in all things, feel free to refer to my comment thread from the other day about offense being a you problem not a me problem ;)
We will continue to have
pedestrian collisions until we start blaming those actually at fault: the politicians and engineers who design and build dangerous transit and automotive systems.
Thanks, I'll look for it. The backstory of Red Road From Stalingrad is interesting:

Over the following few years, Abdulin worked to complete his memoir while at least some of his comrades, such as Shamrai, were still alive to read it. Some years after its Russian publication in 1991, Artem Drabkin, a Russian popular historian of the Soviet-German War, found a copy and realized it could find an English-speaking audience. He tracked Abdulin down in the town of Novotroitsk, and suggested an English edition. Abdulin's reply was "Why not? Let's give it a try..." The English edition was published in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Road_from_Stalingrad
Eye contact is a good minimum bet. Not just a glance, either, humans are blind for something like 40 minutes a day and that may be one of those moments.
From your website

>The main parts of the Total.js Platform are fully open-source

That implies that parts aren't open source?
a term defined is different from a thing existing.
>whereas on the computer I can just take in the text and images in a single glance.

Web2 and Web3 websites do everything possible to waste as much screen real estate as possible with as little content density as possible.
I agree that there's gotta be a place to live (that doesn't require a 1hr car drive or a multi-hour commute) to support city living at reasonable working wage and that is not possible in most rapidly urbanizing/gentrifying areas of the US (it is possible in Detroit or even NY to some extent).

That probably means something of a couple hundred ft2, not 1000. However, the reasons for homelessness in Hawaii vs Tokyo (I've actually seen some in the last 5 years!) has a lot to do with weather, social acceptance, and income from panhandling (which doesn't happen in Tokyo).

Also, a lot of the homeless I see outside (not the hidden homeless who have one or more jobs) in the US have problems that would lead to incarceration in Japan (drug use, untreated mental illness). At the same time I've known older people in Japan who would be in memory care in the US who were helped by the community to remain living in their houses in Japan. It is much safer in Japan, but at the same time any activity that makes it feel less safe is much more likely to be "policed".
Living in Austin but regularly visiting other states, I had a feeling Texas would be one of the states with the worst increases, and indeed!
"The L6 distinction refers to the first layer of staff that’s considered senior and typically includes people with about a decade of experience."

That's not true? Isn't "senior SWE" the title for L5 at Google?