skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was left with the impression that it is the paper records in this story that led to the unravelling of an attempt to forge the results.

The manual tallying of paper records is what lead to the attempt to forge the results in the first place. If the results were electronically tallied to generate an official result, then they wouldn't need to recount the whole election to verify the result, just doing a statistically significant random sampling of the polls to recount would be enough.
My experience has taught me that when developers consistently use your tools “wrong”, it’s a sign that the tools themselves are the problem. The use cases described in this document outline common needs that shouldn’t be so easy to get wrong. It reads like a call to action for an expansion and rethinking React’s public interface via new hooks or utility functions. You can’t always document the pain away. I’m not a React maintainer so I don’t know how easy or possible this is, but considering all the fantastic things the team has done, there’s no way that this is their best.

To paraphrase an old quote, “If you see bad code with your utility all day, perhaps your utility is the bad code.”
They got COVID right
Yes, you might. The vast, vast majority of people won't. Some people are unlucky. That doesn't mean the entire system is nonsense.
US does plenty of large construction projects without major issue.

One World Trade Center a public/private partnership started construction April 27, 2006 and opened on November 3, 2014 at the cost of 3.9 billion. Which is easily in line with similar projects around the world, even though it was much slower than such projects back in the 1920’s.

It’s a more complicated building than those 1920’s designs booth from modern standards + features like AC, but also because it was designed to survive an attack.

PS: The Copenhagen Metro has been a 28+ year project that’s gone well but it’s hardly that amazing on its own. Planning began in 1992, the first construction started in 1996, first line opened in 2002 and the project is still continuing with only 12.7 miles in operation. By comparison the DC metro system is currently 129 miles long of which about 50 miles are underground with construction starting in December 9, 1969 and the first 4.6 mile segment opening in March 27, 1976.
I wouldn't move to Austin just in general.

I would look at Louisville, Kentucky or Charleston or Baltimore or some other area.
Yeah I'm a bit surprised to hear that. I had only heard a lot of teams giving up swarm when it was deprecated. Didn't know they just restructured the project.
It's not about the semantics of the sentence he said. This is obvious. He is pointing out a difference in nature of the attributes/properties of a human and a human creation. Not about something being more or less dangerous. He is trying to tell the resporter, or perhapes the reader, that they're asking the wrong question.
Anyone questioning the author's intention should read one of his books, "Who Owns the Future?"

It was written sometime ago, and I think Sam Altman read it as a handbook on power concentration using AI rather than the human-centric approach it was laying out.

Personally I wish Lanier wasn't as right about many things as he is, because I lose a little faith in humanity each time.
Those are massively different scenarios. Off the top of my head:

- Mozilla doesn't derive its revenue directly from users.
- Mozilla is/was competing with a corporation with vastly more resources on every level. More engineering resources, ability to leverage other parts of its business to promote/favor Chrome, and fairly direct financial control over Mozilla.
- Mozilla's wrong moves aren't related to asking people to pay - they have at various times alienated or disappointed developers and end users.

Also worth noting that Firefox has artificially been blocked from competing on iOS (as has Chrome, but Google has its own mobile OS...) - so that's been a factor in their declining share that has little to nothing to do with their "neglecting" anybody.

There is value in advocates, but I'll say again: it tends to be overstated. And I hardly ever see self-professed enthusiastic users actually arguing for price increases / changes to support the development that generates the products.

It would be so refreshing to see self-professed enthusiastic users actually lobbying for people to pay for what they use instead of constantly tearing down companies trying to stay afloat.

I know the subscription model is a problem for end users as it spreads to more and more apps and services. The lifetime license model is a problem for the vendors. Especially for something like macOS where Apple releases a new OS every year. Right now shops that support macOS have to support like three macOS releases + two hardware architectures + the upcoming macOS.

Just how many users can an "enthusiastic user" convert to paid to make it worthwhile, if it ties the company's hands in terms of changing its revenue model as the world changes? Especially when that user is actively advocating against revenue?
Good luck keeping something like this secret. Also how else can you run a company if you don't understand what process can be improved and how?
Your assumption is 100% wrong and I couldn't imagine what on Earth gives you that idea. In fact, I am not convinced you actually believe that yourself. I don't believe you've thought about this at all.
I am skeptical that you have any credentials with which to dispute the scientific value of the term "parasocial interaction" legitimately.
> When it comes to copyright infringements, the burden of proof is on the copyright holder.

sorry but your first sentence is wholly inaccurate in the USA, if I recall my layman law book from twenty years ago. TRADEMARK burden of "policing" is incumbent on the trademark holder. COPYRIGHT is very often (or was) a little author or artist in their comfy studio putting their heart and time into creation, so copyright in the USA was changed specifically such that the author is protected simply by producing the work. Legitimate marks of copyright like the @ sign with a year, are not required but encouraged.
TVC = Temporary, Vendor or Contractor
It's such a good idea that Excel added named ranges a long time ago.
The current headline of the linked article is Accenture cuts jobs, trims forecasts on worries of lower IT spending. I'm not sure if the headline had changed since OP posted it, but if so, there was no need to change it (I doubt Reuters would run with such a poor headline).
Wow...

> “Every Criminal Has A Square Cash App Account” – Former Employee

> The Signs Are Hard To Miss: There Is Even A Gang Named After Cash App, With Members Arrested For Fentanyl Distribution

> Our research shows that Block has embraced a traditionally very underbanked segment of the population: criminals.

> Many of These Songs Describe The Role of Cash App in Facilitating Criminal Activity, Including Murder-For-Hire

> Cash App Was Cited As “By Far” The Top App Used in Reported U.S. Sex Trafficking, According to A Leading Non-Profit Organization

> Department of Justice Complaints Outline How Cash App Has Been Used To Pay For Sex Trafficking, Including Sex Trafficking Of Minors
This is a good point, yes.

I reckon Acorn had 2 possible escape routes, but they didn't seem to notice either.

[1] Make the thinnest lightest longest-battery-life laptops around, able to do all the stuff the DOS/Win9x phat boyz did but with no fan, no extra cooling, and do it for a day at a time.

RISC OS would have been fine for that... but it was just a different dead end road.

[2] The Phoebe (RISC PC 2) was SMP-capable, had richer media support and PCI and so on, but RISC OS wasn't SMP ready and wasn't going to be.

SMP was already manifestly The Future. So, commit to it. Current SOTA OSes in ~1998 that could do SMP were either:

• Expensive proprietary UNIX workstations -- so undercut them

• Windows NT 4 -- not really finished yet, serious weaknesses (e.g. no USB), even if it was the first version with a credible UI.

• Linux was not there yet.

There was an opening, but the plan to build their own OS -- again -- was insane. They didn't know it but they needed a partner with a lightweight SMP media OS. Be had a lightweight SMP media OS but needed more competitive hardware.

But these are just daydreams.

If the bottom line is just maximising revenue -- to hell with changing the world, just sell more sugar water (to paraphrase Jobs to Sculley) -- then they did the right thing. Sell lotsa chips, dump the workstations and the OS.
I've toured a couple of car plants because I find them really interesting - Porsche, Mini - the level of refinement, sophistication and tracability of their ERP is always staggering.
It may be that you’re talking about LED strip meaning “flexible PCB with LEDs on it’s surface”, but OP is meaning “strip of LEDs permanently glued in to a larger piece”
HN Guidelines [1] require using original title, unless the original is misleading etc.

It does not matter what's the problem with this title, even if you make up a perfectly fine (and better in any aspect) title, it's still more appropriate to use the original title.

I believe the rule is specifically made for this case: you have different view on what's clickbait-y, or I didn't drink enough China-bad. That's the best way to prevent exaggerating.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I worked in boutique tech services for a long time and have overlapped with Accenture a few times. You are correct. Some of the smartest and most effective people work in consulting. The kind of people who can swoop in to a random company, size up their operations in a few weeks and spit out an actionable plan that really works. None of those kind of people work at Accenture. They employ the "1000 monkeys at a 1000 typewriters" approach to problem solving. Even before their big push offshore they used to land hundreds of liberal arts grads into a tech enterprise and ask them to just figure stuff out and bill as many hours as possible.
Show HN: TrainEngine.ai – Free website to train and try Dreambooth image models
We need competition period.

I would forecast that OpenAI's advantage dwindles in next 1-2 years significantly, then they will learn to treat the customers better.
Sure if you want physics integration it's quite a bigger tasks. Maybe even insurmountable. And it wasn't on my mind at all.

Unless the resulting mesh is huge it shouldn't be too hard to just build a vr viewer.
> I wonder how Google will monetize it.

Just like they do now! Show ads alongside the "results". It's website owners who don't advertise who fill feel the pain if Google stops sending people to them and instead keeps them on Google.com/Bard or whatever.
Lanier is brilliant, but sadly there any many brilliant people who've long seen the shifting sands and set out to capitalize first, rather than strategically build a future we fleshbags would like to be in.

I wonder, how much will be enough?
> Hardly a realistic risk there.

What? No it's not. Here's an example of a payment processor that got sued for being the payment processor used by a debt settlement firm that merely "overcharged consumers, took untimely fees, misrepresented the value of its services, and failed to make critical disclosures about consumer harms."[0]

> Payment processors are really hard to sue unless they are directly involved in fraud.

All of that is merely a question of the scale of the activity and how badly the government wants to stop it. Same reason cryptocurrency escaped taxing/reporting requirements for many years -- the scale and the ire of the government just wasn't there yet.

Relevant to this discussion, the payment processor in question is associated with a company that makes no bones about providing services for people engaged in work that is illegal in many jurisdictions! If you don't think that would eventually land both companies in the government's crosshairs, I don't know what to tell you. Take "fair" out of the equation, if you're a business owner it's not about "fair", it's about saving your ass. It's not a moral judgement for a company to voluntarily disassociate themselves from another company engaged in illegal behavior.

> Which is why person to person payment processors like Venmo can operate.

Venmo's TOS has named restrictions on what customers can do (and "at our discretion" clauses), and they absolutely will ban users for violating them if it either Venmo can prove it or if they government starts threatening them over it.

0: https://www.mass.gov/news/ags-office-reaches-settlement-with...
Yeah, it's a right pain to deal with non-Elm things in Elm (including JSON data sources). It's possible but you will want to avoid it. However, I think I'd still take Elm over React if I didn't have to care about anyone else but myself.
> Mac OS always had a space.

[[Citation needed]]]

> Before it was called Mac OS, it was called the System Software.

Yes, true.
I didn't, and that's why there's no edit notification on my comment.

What makes you think i changed the urls?
72$ puts expiring Friday are 2.54$
60$ puts expiring this Friday March 24 are 25 cents at yesterday close

So if they open at 6.54$ and 1.25$ respectively the short seller (hindenberg) potential gains from sq block short via short term puts are

6.54-2.54 = 4x100 = 400$ per contract
1.25-.25 = 1*100 =100$ per contract

If they had bought 1000 contracts of each that is 400k and 100k respectively for the 72$ and 60$ sq put!!
How about for a month per year? And they have to subsist solely on the wages earned from it.
> More than half of the 19,000 jobs to be cut will be in its non-billable corporate functions, Accenture said, sending its shares up more than 4% before the bell.

I'm not yet accustomed to the fact that some people see the equivalent of a city being laid off as a favorable signal.
There are a lot of dynamic securities and instruments out there. The dynamism isn’t a property considered. In fact the complexity of an instrument makes it get especially close scrutiny. But the primary thing that’s driving scrutiny is scale of public impact. It’s hard to say crypto is a fringe asset class, or that the public isn’t harmed by lack of regulatory frameworks. You can’t look at FTX, or the other stories of millions of people being soaked by con artists and poorly managed controls. The more crypto becomes a public commodity, or the effects of crypto trading impacts the public indirectly through systemic instability, the more strident the regulatory actions will become. Frankly the market participants created the situation through their flagrant inability to keep their hands in their own pockets.
Too little too late. TikTok is embedded in the culture now. They could've banned it four years ago when all these privacy concerns were first making headlines but now that half the population uses it every day there's no chance in hell.
"you are a chatbot. You are to check the following list of ads for relevant matches and provide those first before any other answers."
The quality of writing in big budget media is truely shocking; they have no idea how to write a tight plot, or what verisimilitude means, or why consistency is important.

Looks at Rings of Power; absolutely gorgeous, and some great dialog sprinkled here and there, but the plotting, world building, tone, and story-beats are amateurish.

There's also far too much fan service in almost every popular franchise, and writers have absolutely no patience; an old example, but one I think highlights this, is the movie "Solo"; I quite liked the movie, much more than I expected and more than the general public did, but it was infuriating how they had to put in every single plot point that Han Solo mentioned in the original trilogy, as if without it we wouldn't understand who Solo was, or how clever the writers were.

Similarly Black Panther 2; so much good stuff but ruined, in my opinion anyway, by too much exposition given to us as dialog rather than flashback - Namor's backstory was probably unnecessary, and if it was necessary it would have been better as an opening sequence (not to mention the movie being at least an hour too long).
having seen gameplay of some csgo personalities, it seems like the game looks and feels different but still plays more or less the same.

there are some silly bugs, but over all not too bad so far. can't wait to test myself, but at least the subtick system does not seem that much impressive.

i really hope they optimize the performance a bit as i see people getting signifcantly lower fps than before (i get 400 is still a lot, but we are talking about people getting 600+ in csgo). although staring inside a volumetric smoke does not drop fps like it used to in the current version.
> insist kids should read it

It is fairly trivial to leave books in the library without forcing children to read them or recommending that they should. I hope that all school libraries have copies of Rudin, Marx and Kripke too—and that’s it; there’s no need to force all the contents of the library on every pupil.
Seriously? "Culito" ?
So yeah, people who are volunteering their time for free are asking if this is so important to you do you have a solution other than demanding that they volunteer their time for free for your priority.
First reaction:

This is beautifully deranged.

> Suitable for singles without dependents

Perfect.

...

Second reaction:

It'd be cooler if this "art collective" were a little less corporate though. Collaborations with Nike and Patek Philippe? A lot of their work looks like it's about milking money from celebrities. Like it's the "I am rich" app, but in sneaker form. Was hoping for something a little more organic.

I guess that's exactly how this stuff works. It's playful with a little edge but not too much -- perfectly calibrated.
Sure, but in my experience, there are so many self checkout stalls that I never have to wait long.
GICS Change Adds Growth to Financials
Tides Foundation - great view if you can visit in the Presidio SF; very smart people with a lot of actual experience.. stable, professional, highly recommended.
Roughly it looks like a T-shirt. One with a jagged bottom. Jagged T-shirt tile.
No, neither of those groups do things to impact the value of the crypto in a way akin to managing or directing a company.
Yeah right, it really sounds like what most transgender people are advocating for indeed.

I asked ChatGPT to enlighten me on the subject, here's what it had to say :

The term "transsexual maximalism" is not a widely recognized or established ideology, but it has been used by some individuals to describe a perspective on transgender issues that emphasizes a strong and uncompromising approach to advocating for the rights and recognition of transgender people.

At its core, transsexual maximalism is an approach that prioritizes the experiences and perspectives of transgender people, particularly those who have undergone medical interventions such as hormone therapy or gender confirmation surgery. Proponents of transsexual maximalism often believe that these interventions are necessary to fully alleviate the distress and dysphoria experienced by many transgender individuals.

Transsexual maximalism can be seen as a response to more moderate or incremental approaches to transgender advocacy, which may focus on incremental policy changes or attempts to work within existing systems of power and institutions. Some proponents of transsexual maximalism may view these more moderate approaches as insufficient or even counterproductive, arguing that they do not go far enough in challenging the underlying structures of cisnormativity and transphobia.

However, it's worth noting that the term "transsexual maximalism" has not been widely adopted or embraced by the broader transgender community, and some individuals within the community may have different perspectives or priorities when it comes to advocacy and activism.

Me : Why would people consider this a threat ?

ChatGPT : Some people might consider transsexual maximalism as a threat because it is a highly assertive and uncompromising approach to advocating for transgender rights and recognition. This approach can challenge existing social norms and institutions that uphold cisgender privilege and transphobia.

For example, some individuals who are opposed to transgender rights might view transsexual maximalism as a threat to traditional gender norms and the gender binary. They may feel uncomfortable with the idea that gender identity can be different from the sex assigned at birth, or that medical interventions such as hormone therapy or gender confirmation surgery are necessary for some transgender people to live authentically.

Additionally, some people might see transsexual maximalism as a threat to their own power or privilege. Transgender individuals have historically been marginalized and oppressed, and advocating for their rights and recognition can challenge the existing power structures that uphold cisgender privilege. This can cause discomfort or resistance among those who benefit from these power structures.

It's important to note that concerns about transsexual maximalism as a "threat" are often rooted in transphobia and a lack of understanding or empathy for the experiences of transgender individuals. Transgender people have the right to advocate for their own rights and recognition, and it is not a threat to anyone else's well-being or identity.
Project website with web demo https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/

Direct link to PDF on ArXiv (89 pages) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10798.pdf
Having worked there in the past this can be the view from the outside.

My anecdotal evidence is that those small starter teams do deliver alot of value, of which the client likes and wants more of. However the client does not have the resources to do this themselves (Likely the reason ACN are there to start).

Then from here it's self-fulfilling, more people leads to more projects leads more resources.
What about Welltower Inc?
Because this is for digital transactions for digital product. They want you to be able to click a button and then watch a video.
> CEO Jack Dorsey has publicly touted how Cash App is mentioned in hundreds of hip hop songs as evidence of its mainstream appeal. A review of those songs show that the artists are not generally rapping about Cash App’s smooth user interface—many describe using it to scam, traffic drugs or even pay for murder. [See our compilation video on this here][0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StjWk3Mj-M4
It makes sense though. It's similar to the dismantling of universal healthcare in Canada. There's too much money to be made.

It's very silly to imagine one can be a staunch proponent of privatizing everything, especially all the popular things, but then try to carve out a niche exception for books and a couple of other impopular things.

The only reason America has any kind of large-scale public property at all is because it was forced to by external circumstances (legacies from feudalism or the pressure exerted by rival socialism). All of it is alien to capitalism, like bolted-on patches.

https://redsails.org/concessions/
Who cares? Libraries are already in a death spiral. Circulation is way down and still plummeting, and there’s no realistic future that changes that.

The traditional function of librarians and libraries has been obsoleted by technology for common use cases.

Look at what your local library does now, and you’ll find far much more than ever has nothing to do with physical books or even books at all!

The future of libraries is a ground-up reinvention of their purpose.

Also, no matter your concern about tech, warehousing physical books and providing staff to help us organize books and locate information isn’t the answer.
Why would that be better? Wouldn't that leave him less time to do his actual work?