skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it WILL cure cancer. Like our Lord and Saviour Sam Altman said "first you solve AI and the AI will solve everything". O ye of little faith!
For the security aspect, they could offer to lock your phone inside a pocket-sized faraday cage so that you can keep it on your person while rendering it useless.
> But breaking it before it has changed is risky and foolish, and does more harm than good.

That's how most laws get abolished.
Can somebody confirm if this is working at the moment?
You still have to not only synthesize the answers these models return, but now also first analyze the answers for the relevant parts, and then perform searches to validate them.
um... what do you mean "not having vetoes in the first place"?

Author opens a PR. Reviewer starts reviewing. The pull request merging should be blocked until review is done, if anything to prevent mistakes. As review progresses, there is a comment which author refuses to fix. Since all parties must mark review as "complete", the PR is blocked cannot be merged until the comment can be resolved. Author and reviewer go to manager, which decides on one way or another. The manager's resolution is applied -- either reviewer resolves the comment, or author rewrites PR to fix the defect.

Was there any "veto" applied? It is not like there is a button labeled "veto" during review process, it is just that some comments take longer to resolve some others.

Or is your ideal system when reviews are non-binding and author can press "merge" button at any time despite having open review comments? In this case it is pretty horrible for reviewers - code review is a very hard job and I would be pretty disheartened if the author just walks away instead of resolving discussions. I think if your review is like that, you might as well just code reviews altogether as it is a total waste of time.
> Anyone who contributes $100 to NPR deducts $100 from their income for tax purposes.

Itemized deductions these days are either extremely small (limited to a few hundred dollars) or only for the very wealthy.

During the Trump years, the standard deduction was doubled, with the result that vastly fewer people now itemize deductions. Yes, you can report a limited amount of tax-deductible donations, but last time I looked it was around $300/yr (and even that was easy to overlook).
It was my privilege to know Dr. Tullis Onstott, who discovered the deepest known Nematodes miles below the surface over a decade ago. Absolutely fascinating how life finds a way to persist and survive in extreme environments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullis_Onstott
This is somewhat off topic, but in general one should turn off all alerts related to 2FA.

If you’re logging in, you’ll obviously know to go looking for it. If you’re not logging in, you don’t want to get tempted or fooled into approving access when you shouldn’t. Buzzing someone’s phone incessantly with alerts is a known social engineering tactic for breaking 2FA.
>'shark' programming language

>sharks can't write it

ngmi
If you want things to last put them in places that nobody want to build a walgreens :/
I am from BC and the Sunday no shopping was a bit before my time but my dad talks about how stupid it was. If you had a problem and needed something in an emergency well too bad. Didn’t realize you were low on bread and forgot to get it Saturday oh well kids are not getting a sandwich in their lunches for Monday morning school. Like you say eventually people realized the fines were actually just the cost of doing business. Those who opened up sundays made a killing because that is what the people wanted. I know a guy who did the same for opening a marijuana shop. Did it just before it was legal and was getting a $150 fine each day from the city. He said just a cost of business as he was making several thousand or more each day.
Compromise: 50% advertising, 50% fundraising?
Aaron Swartz founding the Open Library with IA was a shining moment in web history. Sad to see giant corporations stomping on his vision of a web that offers free access to information for all.
Good for them. It worked.
Considering the amount of MFA attached to my phone plus communication access, my phone is a potentially more useful thing to steal than my wallet. Then again I rarely have cash on hand any more.
I've had many over the years, but I'm mainly referring to the national "NPR" programming now. I agree with you about the identity politics thing.
lol. that's me; only I start by writing out the problem as an email to ask someone for help. 90% of the time, I find that I didn't have a complete understanding of the problem to begin with, and I usually end up solving it before hitting "send".

Then I'll have this odd memory of - "I discussed this with you, I told you all abo- oh wait, I didn't send it."
Hey - we're not going to see eye to eye on this one. Respectfully, I'm not going to to respond further.

Cheers.
Huh? Who determines which facts are important to a story? It’s turtles all the way down.
Replace "alt-(left|right)" with "thing author doesn't like"
No. My argument is that HTML/CSS is unsuitable for the things I've named, some are impossible, most are hard and therefore rarely done.
Love it. I love leaving my house without my phone when I have the opportunity. I cannot remember the last time I did anything productive or important phone frankly, other than 2FA or sending an email that I could have sent from my computer.

Giving your phone to a stranger can be daring, but it's probably the second best thing to leaving it at home. If you guys do that again, get a locker. I remember seeing a locker with chargers for phones in China. Requires less trust (if you don't actually plug it in).
but did they support native American community? if they are, sounds like good.
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Just watched that today. Well done piece. I love Frontline. May be my favorite show all around.
Congress generally controls the cameras though. Although, not until after they elected a majority leader and do some house keeping.

That said, unedited broadcasts of meetings isn't really journalism. Journalism is highlighting the portions of the proceedings that need highlighting. It's an editorial process by nature.

That's not to say what C-SPAN does isn't important; it absolutely is valuable and important to have a record of the proceedings, and with video and audio rather than just a transcript or minutes is quite useful.
>It has also been well-documented that hostile surveillance technologies are disproportionately used to target marginalized groups, including migrants and black and brown people.

Isn't this where AI could really shine? By being colorblind? I would imagine the AI would be used to sort through the vast amounts of data generated and could be used to remove human bias.
> There is a validation step of course

No, there isn't. Not any more than there is a decode step anyway.

The truth is that encoding, decoding, and validation all occur when you call the accessor methods for specific fields. If you never actually call the getter for some field, it won't be decoded nor validated at all.

If you are going to be reading the entire message tree, then zero-copy is only an incremental improvement on something like Protobuf -- the use of fixed-width values may make decoding faster (or slower, in some cases). The real magic is when you want to read just one field of a 10GB file. Just mmap() the whole thing and treat it like a byte array, and it'll be efficient. Cap'n Proto will not attempt to scan the whole file, only the parts that you explicitly query.

(I'm the author of Cap'n Proto.)
I have learnt to unpack a few things here.

Firstly cooking from scratch is absolutely a life skill and nominally cheaper.

But food is also a class issue. Those with time to spare (ie rich) can indulge in for example "stuffing a mushroom" - Shirley Conran famously recanted twenty years of writing cookery lifestyle books exhorting women to become corden bleu cooks by saying life was to short to stuff a mushroom - and that is kind of my point.

I mean Gordon bloody Ramsey does not prepare food the way he tells you to in his cookbooks - it's too slow and inefficient.

All the recipies I love to cook - getting the temperature of the linguini just right before pouring over eggs and pecorino for carbonara for instance - is frankly, a nightmare nutrition wise (even if it's a hit kid wise) and a plate of chicken breast and five different veg and fruit for after is waaaay better - but how many recipients books will do that, how many blog posts extoll boiled peas.

Maybe we would learn from the staff of life - Bread. In the first weeks of lockdown, flour vanished from shelves - obviously because of a shortage but mostly because flour was diverted from domestic use to go to actual bakers and factories who could efficiently mass produce the staple of life that was then shipped to our supermarket shelves to eat. Yes there were bakers running triple shifts, logistic planners sleeping in the office and HVV drivers going every which way. But in the end feeding millions is like Gorden Ramsey says - if you do it like the instagram post says, you are doing it wrong
There are actually bags designed for shutting out phones. AFAIK they are mainly aimed at concerts to prevent people recording etc. So you drop your phone into a small bag that is a Faraday cage. The bag is closed with a very strong magnet (similar to theft prevention tags in stores. You then carry your phone with you without being able to use it, but also without anyone else being able to temper with it.

That said, I'm surprised why anyone wouldn't trust the wardrobe at a ycombinator event.
If Javascript is the target and the baseline benchmark, I wonder what is the rationale not using Javascript directly? Surely, the Python syntax is not the sole motivation, isn’t it?
I'm trying to think of an example from history where the pro-censorship side proved to be in the right in the long term. None are coming to mind.

Have you ever considered the possibility that you may not be, in fact, "right"?
When you need to explain to the user how a UI element works with words, "hold to delete" in this particular example, you've already failed. Also, long-clicking isn't really a thing on desktop.
He definitely deserves the memorial banner. But wow, what a well lived life
Why is locking your phone not sufficient to secure its contents?
If these were the case, then why would "fake news" be a thing?
> Amazon have said that in the future if this happens again they will not remove the books from customer devices.

This isn't exactly comforting since they've since done things just as abusive, like remoting into people's devices and replacing their purchased products with different products.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/03/04/0521244/roald-dahl-e...
The top search result claimed China has about 20k more inmates. Meaning it has about a quarter of USA’s per capita.
"teaching is the highest form of mastery"

-- (don't know who said this quote)
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Valve is not publicly traded. Why is that?
Do you disagree because of the Sabbath?
wow that's wild opens libgen, piratebay and scihub
You have it backwards, breaking it widely and repeatedly will do more good than harm.
That’s what they said last time and the time before that.
Ask HN: Why does Azure seem so resource-constrained – especially with GPUs?
I've been struggling to get any GPU-powered-family Azure resource quotas increased despite following the directions explicitly and filing the requisite support tickets; it's apparently a "bi-monthly" check-in that will happen now that I've been denied. Is there a global squeeze on GPUs, and it's reserved for OpenAI, or am I doing something base-line wrong, perhaps?

Going to go spend some time on Google Cloud and see if I can get an Unreal Engine capable VDI up.
In Memoriam: Gordon Moore, 1929 – 2023
This made me chuckle pretty hard. When lobbying enters the picture there's only a small, selective group of people that are going to constitute the greater good.
Sometimes, but its also how people end up in prison.
The original idea was to only lend out digital copies that are backed by a physical copy, so if challenged the Internet Archive could reasonably argue that they're protected under the same laws that physical libraries are, but when the pandemic kicked off IA launched an "emergency library" which waived the lending limits so any number of copies could be lent out regardless of how many physical copies they have.

My assumption is that publishers probably weren't happy about the original model but it was legally murky enough that they didn't pursue it for risk of losing and setting the wrong (from their perspective) precedent, but the emergency library made for an extremely easy case against IA.
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Theoretically, export control laws could (not sure if they do). We regulate selling all kinds of things to foreign governments.
Being technically true but also leaving out critical information in order to mislead people is a common practice called paltering
if something is filled with error, the better way is discard it and restart the research.
From what I heard that if you do this, odds are high you will be banned from the service.

If someone uses the service often, being scammed a few % points of their yearly spend on that service might just be considered a cost of using that service. Like a scam tip in a way.
It's surprising how many developers won't even bother to read an error message.

At my list gig there were a few folks who would regularly message me anytime there was a failure in their CI pipeline. No reading the message. Possibly not even opening the failed job at all.

Most of the time, the pipeline was doing what it was supposed to: failing a bad build. It didn't even occur to them that it was their code that was the problem. Just "the pipeline is red: send to @recfab".
Tragic news
lol, ok. Keep an eye on your phone!
This comment most probably refers to Google's Project Zero recently exposing exploits on Samsung basebands.
> They didnt offer the full books afaik.

They got sued, and the settlement didn’t allow them to offer the full books except for-purchase with a particular revenue sharing arrangement.
Next century: " We need a new economics of air as a common good".
So in yourcideology it is wrong for governmnet to invest i to economy directly and it is wrong for government to give money to individuals for them to invest it

It is only acceptable to give money to corporations.

Seems very convenient and totally unbiased

So I go and register an LTD company now I am eligible for free government money.
Two standouts are:

https://reuters.com

https://apnews.com
Is the Internet Archive itself going to need archived next?

Or is most or all of what it has already available in the pirate libraries?
I know it's not good in aggregate, but I miss smokey bars, even though I don't smoke myself. The smoke made everything look sort of softer, and the smoke hid some other odours of bars. :-)

There was also a defacto "tradition" on campus, you saw coats and shirts on balconies and then you knew they'd been to a bar last night. :-D
Before anyone says that Moore's law is dead, remember that transistors are still getting smaller and more dense (not to mention more expensive, which was another part of his prediction).

In every thread people confuse Moore's law with Dennard scaling (which states roughly that, as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant, so that the power use stays in proportion with area; both voltage and current scale (downward) with length.)
Who here thought that WhatsApp promised to keep your chats secured?
Georgism?
Yet another example that piracy is not just a superior product or about not paying for content, but is an absolute core need.
> with a Visual Studio subscription

...as the answer to the question says.

> less legal ways

Because of Microsoft. Microsoft is being unhelpful here as usual
There are 6 slots on the 16.
Dude, did you even read my post? Yes that is happening in the US, I said as much. In the UK, profits are down. For the most part in both cases, I'm sure there are exceptions.
There was no women ever involved in the production of 99pi, or even occasionally hosting it?
Excellent read. I am a pro compiler developer and I learned quite a few things from the article.
Meanwhile I can go to any torrent site and download a couple hundred thousand books with ease.
We should all be so lucky. It's always sad when it happens though. RIP
Same in England. In Scotland there were no strong laws against Sunday shopping, apparently because nobody thought any shop would even think about opening. So when they did, and everyone went shopping, folks in England complained that they wanted what Scotland had.
But in this case, it wasn't controlled, right? Even with DRM to "expire" the lent ebook after a certain amount of time, they still ended up distributing the books without restriction on availability.

I don't really care about the publishers, but I still wouldn't expect to seriously get away with arguing that I wasn't distributing copyrighted material if I started offering movies online for free in unlimited numbers... because it was just controlled lending since the movie files were set up to probably become unreadable in 3 weeks.

I'm sure they have competent lawyers that would've predicted an outcome like this, which makes the decision to do it even more baffling. Especially for an organization that ought to be conservative by design, considering they want to be a very long-term archive.
> Since Americans don't have a public broadcaster that they all have a stake in as taxpayers, Americans pick and choose which news sources they listen to

If you disagree with the public broadcaster, you'll still choose a new source you agree with, along with a movement to defund the public broadcaster.
The context of the comment, and not needless as editorialised by The Spectator, is the recent pandemic.

> Governments stepped in and put in a lot of money for furlough schemes or raising unemployment benefits. That was very sensible,’ he said. ‘The problem was that central banks also printed a great deal of money and that wasn’t needed… it put a lot of money into the system.’

Not the massive post 2008 QE, or what preceded and caused that, King was governor from 2003 to 2013, not a comment on that.
I think you're raising two points here?

1. NPR used to have a stricter separation between editorial content and news content.

I agree and you're right I think this got a lot worse after 2016 across the board and IMO NPR has been better than many other agencies about it.

2. NPR took a turn left.

I disagree. I think they continue to be vaguely American center-left and haven't really changed much. In general it's quite hard to define "left" as there's multiple groups, but yes since 2016 the social justice left has become a bigger part of the conversation.
The case dealt with the former. This article is the judge's ruling, the National Emergency Library is not mentioned.
> I wonder

There's an app for that.

https://www.google.com/googlebooks/perspectives/facts.html
I was hoping for critiques of specific functional medicine treatments that were administered, but didn't find many in the article. Their link about heavy metal poisoning being "rejected by medical science" is a broken link.

Besides that the article is mostly just attempted character assassination of various people and goes after some of the more fringe elements / treatments in the field.

A huge part of functional medicine is just helping the patient address lifestyle factors - diet, exercise, sleep, stress, and removing negative environmental influences, whether those are a person, a diet issue (particular foods can do a lot of damage), a physical environmental issue such as mold, etc.

The first step that every (decent) functional medicine doctor takes with a new patient is just looking for nutritional deficiencies and other lifestyle factors, and doing tests and asking questions to check for those things. Completely uncontroversial and backed up by science that everyone on earth agrees with. But regular doctors don't even take that basic step for their patients because it takes too long to actually learn about a person, their background, their personality, etc. and actually help them create lifestyle change.

Beyond that, I wish the critics would actually address the more common treatments in functional medicine instead of the fringe stuff. Things like alternative treatments for parasites (blastocystis, various worms, dientamoeba, etc.), candida overgrowth, SIBO, heavy metal poisoning, various autoimmune issues, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal issues, etc.

The modern healthcare system is broken in a hundred ways but instead of having any curiosity about alternative approaches folks like the author of this article just attack the field and the people in it rabidly.
During the pandemic, libraries closed and weren't lending out physical books at all. Did the emergency policy lend more digital books than the number of physical books locked in libraries? We'll probably never know, but I think that was the logic.

The scanned books are not so much fun to read, it is definitely less ergonomic than a Kindle. I would expect those using the program likely needed it.
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> Didn’t realize you were low on bread and forgot to get it Saturday oh well kids are not getting a sandwich in their lunches for Monday morning school.

Probably not the best example, because it's not like a sandwich is the only lunch option (the lazy one for sure), but I take your point. Migraine and no painkillers, period and no pads, sex and no condom, alcoholic and no alcohol (with risk of lethal DTs)? Too bad...
On mobile you can also accidentally drag the button away when it's juiced. Be careful when you are juicing your buttons!
Interesting, I was very close to posting the same thing but figured it was just me.
Often both. After I write something, it feels like it's a free benefit to also share it with others. I'm grateful the Hacker News community is so giving with feedback (eventhough I've gotten torn to shreds a few times haha)
So they went down by £14,000 and then went up £3,000. So are still down.
pay for kagi.com, although that's not an option for >99% of internet users.
You seem to be imagining a lot of things I didn't say.
Just wanted to say I am personally feeling super emotional about this.

The scary things for me are:

A, this happened once before with my career path, I started my working life in journalism and the bottom fell out of the market in 2008 and never recovered. Newspapers went from paying £300 per 1000 words to paying nothing at all (but you get the kudos of being published for your copywriting career). I had a friend still hanging on in the industry around 2010. She was earning £16k per year for a job as the news-editor for two local newspapers in London. None of my friends still work on the industry. Even the BBC people I knew quit.

B, a lot of software is to do with automating the work of other people. If that work is itself so easy to do that even software developers aren’t needed, then what does that mean for all of the rest of society who get their jobs automated? Does the economy just crash and burn?
I think you're referring to financial aspects of today's lobbying alone, but I think it's impossible to suggest you could have any sort of consideration of the greater good without taking into account different people's view on what that is, which means them trying to persuade you of it, which is the exact definition of lobbying.