skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I've got a bike from the 30s and it's perfectly fine for everyday riding. While I agree that most of those things you listed are valuable and convenient, good enough is often just good enough. Like I've got no use for any cables and I don't need precision engineered chains.
Complying with US federal law does not equate to acting as an agent of the US government, no matter how many times this trope may be repeated.
Sounds like the “new” useless Sudafed
It’s banned here in New Zealand. The substitutes are crap.
Sometimes two wrongs don't make a right. Sometimes you fight fire with fire. We can all pull aphorisms out of our butts to support our side of the argument.
Thanks - totally forgot about those since I'm no longer active in the internet marketing forums where these were a huge deal!

My rankings haven't changed much interestingly, just impressions. But might just be some quirkiness related to the update indeed.
The SaaS Dilemma
“can’t” is too strong, they just have to upgrade or switch their OS
King of the Hill is an American treasure
VSP or what is the $d011 trickery called that can move the screen from left to right. It is only after 25+ years that I found out on CSDB, that there were several CPU revisions that made the effect somewhat tricky in itself.
It is not admin staff - overheads have generally been constant as a % of other expenses. The biggest components of cost escalation are MUCH higher spending on student services (3x at Princeton in the last 20 years), library expenses, and staff benefits cost escalation.
Anything your monitor displays or sound system outputs is subject to ubiquitous surveillance. And, when there's a gap in the surveillance that's also is subject to interpretation.

Privacy already is (mostly) lost and the battle now simply is to reliably establish authenticity that can't be impersonated or doubted. That's where encryption remains helpful.
I'm all for calling out large corporations and bad actors on their misconduct, but this article seems bigoted against Microsoft and their products, and hypocritical at times.

For example, (referencing the "Jails" section here), the author says, "Jails are systems that impose censorship on application programs." Not sure if I'm interpreting this next quote from the GNU.org site (https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html) correctly, but it seems like this is exactly their definition of a "Free GNU/Linux distribution" is meant to do: "They will reject nonfree applications, nonfree programming platforms, nonfree drivers, nonfree firmware "blobs," nonfree games, and any other nonfree software, as well as nonfree manuals or documentation."

"They will reject" seems an awful like "won't run on my distribution", and not because it's not compatible because of runtime or kernel differences, but because of its 'being nonfree'.

From Merriam & Webster:

BIGOT: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.

I love free software. I don't have to pay for it, I can share, customize, and use it as I want without the author of the software ever needing to know or care, because he did it out of either love for software or because he had a need to fulfill and was nice enough to release it to the world.

I also use paid software and software containing "nonfree" software blobs. I have an Android because it works for me. I use Spotify on all my devices, and pay for Premium, because I find it convenient, the same reason I use GNOME and VS Code and drive a used Chevy.

I value my time and quality of life too much to be extreme "beCaUSE iT wASN't FreEEE".

Just my 2 cents. I'll have that with a side of Kale please.
Live in NYC. Large cheese pizza near me is typically >$20. More depending on additional toppings. Single data point, for sure, but I suspect your prices might be outdated.
it's down into the 75% range now and is continuing to drop

https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...

(reminds me of the IE market share graph actually)
Which is also exactly what the colleges are saying themselves (on the surface). For example, MIT's rejection letter:

> Please understand that this is in no way a judgment of you as a student or as a person, since our decision has more to do with the applicant pool than anything else—many of our applicants are not offered admission simply because we don’t have enough space in our entering class.
At some arbitrary point you just decide that the risk is small enough for you to be comfortable with it.
You can already make acetaminophen nontoxic by pairing it with N-Acetyl Cysteine, which is available commercially as a supplement.
not sure what your point is. cash back cards aren't really interesting to me. you're better off not overspending on things that don't add to your quality of life than worrying about whether you're getting 1-3% cash back.

i do have a premium travel card that gives me points for dining and travel but these come with high annual fees so you're paying for it in a different way.
What convinced me was their jobs are all unionized. I would love to be the director of communications for 50K a year in Boston, but hey, at least we're in a Union
You can get a technically-legal Professional license from shady websites for $20.

Retail price is ~$140 for Home.
We can also use it to TL;DR the laws and turn them into non-jargon, help us find and work against bad laws more easily.

I've lost track of which version passed which exams, but recent news suggests v4 scores highly on (at least one) bar exam (I don't know if bar exam is "noob lawyer" or "good lawyer", but either way, even v3.5 can do more than me).
Yes, the rest of the world can ban whatever they want in their sovereign domain. See China and Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Yeah I'm familiar with that paper.

There's also a 2011 update to the paper.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w17159

I was hoping someone ran a real time version of this as a comparable to the US News college report.
There's no denying the FSF has done good things, but I think more often than not they shoot themselves in the foot with their "wanting fair compensation for your work is evil" preaching. A market composed of honest users supporting honest developers, developing and selling software that focuses exclusively on the needs of the customer, would be the best possible system.
> Financial aid, in the form of grants, scholarships, loans and work-study programs

Heavy on the _loans_, light on the grants and scholarships. My son graduated valedictorian and scored in the top 4% on the SAT (and had athletics, and had community service, and had national honor society, etc. etc.) was offered about $2000 _total_ (of the $50K/year price tag, so about 1% of the total cost) in scholarships. He didn't apply to Harvard, but I don't believe for a second they're throwing around any more money than Purdue or Michigan are. Edit: and those two scholarships came from his high school, not the colleges he was applying to.
I’d you aren’t eating much, ibuprofen is just terrible. Anyone who has had that happen to their stomach wouldn’t recommend it without food.
Here in the UK you could by a (cheap) whole chicken for £3 until recently, would be at least 1.5kg. Now a basic chicken is £3.66 at tesco for a 1.2kg chicken

But likely the supermarket won't actually have many of these and the only choice will be the 'middle' price chicken for £6
Gotta fake all the reviews too then. Guess its not impossible but not as trivial as you make it seem

Used to frequent these forums.
Conspiracy theory: this idiom used to be widespread on the internet, but a shadowy cabal of AI maximalists erased millions of such expressions from search engines so GPT could appear to re-invent them.

It is a good expression though -- evocative but not gross or violent. You could imagine many less successful analogies to something ejecting something else.
Maybe there is something to the seriality point.

I am looking through the list of 90s shows, sorted (more or less) by popularity, and the only other serial one I can see is Twin Peaks: https://reelgood.com/tv?filter-sort=8&filter-year_end=1999&f...

But there are some others off my radar, like Red Dwarf, and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Shouldn't the credit go to VisiCalc instead of Excel?

Excel rode on the popularity of VisiCalc and Lotus 123 for years.

https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/visicalc-excel-and-the-ris...
Replit and Google Cloud Partner to Advance Generative AI for SW Dev
I was thinking the same thing. Apple berates the user quite a bit to onboard to iCloud and other services; the screenshot of the new promotion looks about in line with that. If I was a Microsoft PM I'd just pitch the menu as "Apple has the same thing and users are complacent", and get sign off in no time.

I think this is fine battle to pick, I have OneDrive uninstalled on my Windows machine, but I think it's a bit silly a lot of users on here are fine with functionally the same ad somewhere else, I don't want to be berated anywhere on any OS.
There are people who work at google without any college degrees.
Between the timezones, language and dialect differences, and cultural differences, offshoring can be more trouble than it's worth.
It’s not a fact at all. It is an extremely biased oversimplification and massive equivocation.

“Eastern Europe” is very broad, consisting of many countries. Within a country there are many viewpoints. Anyone can always be found to say “the initiative came” from them, whether it’s Communists in Cuba / Nicaragua / Vietnam whatever, or whether it’s literal fascists like Pinochet’s revolution in Chile, or the Houthi rebels in Yemen, or even the mujahideen in Afghanistan — where we similarly came to “help Afghanistan” in a proxy war that killed 2 million people over there! We did it all for the express purpose of “making the Soviets bleed for as long and as hard as possible” and “creating a Vietnam for them”, not out of any great love for Afghans!

The way proxy wars start, in fact, is that an outside actor emboldens one group in a country that foments a revolution, while another outside actor emboldens another group in the country that launches a counter-revolution. Whether it’s Maidan vs Anti-Maidan, or Houthis vs Saudi Loyalists, or even the Red Army vs the White Army in Russia, we know by now how a revolution can lead to destabilization and a destructive proxy war.

I have SHOWN you that the actual POPULATION of Ukraine was majority against NATO, for the very reasons given by everyone else — they didn’t want war with Russia and they chose economic and military ties with Russia over NATO. So why was Ukraine’s president working with NATO to get Ukraine into NATO?

So now you switched it to “Eastern Europe”. Wow, quite a big switch there, and certainly some other countries, like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania could be said to have had majorities who wanted to join NATO. In fact, that is what the 2001 article I linked to was about. It literally says:

Mr. Bush declared that he wanted NATO to expand up to Russia's border

Russia allowed this with no wars happening. But that was not enough. Soon afterwards it to be Ukraine and Georgia in NATO. It takes a special bias to look at a Reuters headline like

“Bush VOWS to PRESS for Ukraine, Georgia in NATO”

together with polls at the same time showing a solid majority of Ukrainians against it, and somehow conclude that Bush wasn’t pushing for Ukraine to be in NATO: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-ukraine-bush-idUSL01...

Everyone in Russia made it clear that this is an absolute red line, not just Putin. They did this for years, in every international forum. Every policy expert WARNED BUSH that this would be the consequence. To say it Russia’s reaction is “unprovoked” is just a total lie. The decision makers in the US simply ignored every single warning, and even now keep telling tons of people in their own government and other institutions to shut up and stop even so much as asking for a peace process. The reason is obvious: this is a push to hopefully surround Russia with members of a hostile alliance once and for all. Because otherwise Russia would be stronger with allies, and we’d rather their own beighbors fight them over there than we have to contend with a significant power with its own alliance on the global stage.
https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html

Arch is a swing and a miss

> Arch has no policy against distributing nonfree software through their normal channels, and nonfree blobs are shipped with their kernel, Linux.

Debian is a no go

> Debian also maintains a repository of nonfree software. According to the project, this software is “not part of the Debian system,” but the repository is hosted on many of the project's main servers, and people can readily find these nonfree packages by browsing Debian's online package database and its wiki.

Sorry Gentoo

> Gentoo includes installation recipes for a number of nonfree programs in its primary package system.

BSD

> FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all include instructions for obtaining nonfree programs in their ports system. In addition, their kernels include nonfree firmware blobs.
I've seen a couple comments mention it, but the Ivies offer incredible needs based aid.

I come from a solidly upper middle class family and my brother is attending an Ivy for less than $10k out of pocket a year. This has really benefitted him as he can get a degree that he wants to without having to worry about the burdens of student loans. No other school he got into afforded him that opportunity- good state schools would have cost more.

There are a lot of caveats: we might be lucky to be in the exact income bracket for cheap tuition (although I do want to stress, the income bracket is fairly high), this financial aid could change at any point, the campus does feel excessive at times. But this opportunity has been the biggest positive influence on his life, and produced a well rounded man who was able to explore his interests . WAI from my perspective
How can it be possible that there is @AI tagging in groups within the E2EE context? The AI generation must run on server side, probably through an OpenAI API, so the text of the conversation must be available to the backend to be able to generate the AI response. What am I missing?
Of the things most people buy, only houses really fall into that category, and even that is not guaranteed.

Cars depreciate at a frightening rate.
> That led to the natural conclusion of legal words holding standardized definitions that might differ from common understanding, and extreme specification of all details in an effort to preemptively close off any and all loopholes.

And yet they end up with unintended consequences all the time (some of which were predicted by outside observers), outdated laws are kept on the books, tax advisors keep finding loopholes, laws are regularly taken down by constitutional courts over concerns that opponents pointed out in advance etc. etc.
If that obtuse legalese is helping at all it's barely so.

I don't know what would help. Maybe laws should start with outcome specifications and a bunch of policies that are applicable conditional on achieving the stated outcomes? More adversarial testing in advance, involving some game theory?
I 100% agree with your comment however in regards to it's relationship to the parent comment I have to disagree somewhat in the usual nitpicky hackernews fashion:

Asking someone to draw "a bicycle" is different to asking them to draw a specific bicycle or a functional bicycle. Also what does it mean to "know something"?

If you ask someone to draw a house and they draw a square with an overhanging equilateral triangle centred on top, it's not that they don't know what a house is. That's just a symbol representation of their own personal definition of a house.
Yes they do. And so does the USA. The only question is how far China is willing to go to take Taiwan, and how far the USA is willing to counter them over the island. Technically speaking, the USA is already in the region, they placed a bunch of resources in the Ryukyus specifically as a deterrent to China invading Taiwan, and why they don't need to be in Taiwan proper for that deterrent to be effective.

The USA does not need carriers anywhere near Taiwan when China invades. They can handle everything from island airstrips. And we totally would support Taiwan from the Ryukyus, thats the whole reason we are there to begin with.
Lots of places don't have strong constitutional protections, for anything.

Not that long ago, the government in Canada started freezing citizen's bank accounts on suspicions they donated small amounts to a certain peaceful organization organizing protests the government didn't like. They just decided to suspend the constitution (because that's a thing over there?).

But what's interesting to see is people from Europe and Commonwealth nations voting with their feet and deciding that they too want more constitutional protections (which they are entitled to!). Here in the Bay it seems there's a constant interest from EU nationals to move to America (judging by the volume of applications we get). But I've never heard anyone interested to do the reverse.

Top destination for EU nationals in Academia was... right here in the US [0].

Interesting to speculate what impact the policies imposed by these non-elected EU bureaucrats will have on this demographic. More brain drain? Is it the intended goal?

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...
90 > 100
Agree. "Day 1" is no more, as are those leadership principles.

My own divorce from Amazon retail was when 3rd party vendors had no control over Amazon binning fake goods alongside vendors' non-fakes goods. This ensured that reputation of 3rd party vendors would suffer. Where did the fake goods come from? Were they supplied by Amazon? Perhaps yes, actually.

It makes consumer anti-trust lawsuits [1][2] even more necessary, to ensure protections against monopolies.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/amazon-loses-bid-toss-consumer...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/11xyfem/was...
And this is one of the main reasons schools spend money on sports. It is a very cost-efficient form of marketing. I'm not just aware of the name Wake Forrest because of sports, but I know that it is a tough academic school and think highly of its graduates because of sports.
let's do it, email and twitter in HN bio
That is a completely bananas thing to say not even remotely supported by the data.

The LD50 for acetaminophen is something like 380 mg per kilogram.

Extra-strength Tylenol is a 500mg pill; dosage guidelines are no more than 6 pills in 24 hours, which is 3,000 mg.

For a 150 pound person, the LD50 would be 57,000 mg.
You don't need $90,000/yr per student to dispense an exam or grade an essay.

If you need it to provide deadlines for you, then there's something wrong. Not that deadlines can't automatically be created on the cheap either.

I've hired a lot of folks whose highest level of education was high school. And they work right along MIT and Stanford grads just fine.
Can you imagine any other product where when you ask the price, the answer is: "How much money do you have?"

Insane. Basically this traps people who are about $200k or so to spending HUGELY on their kids education. And what they also don't say is that if you have assets they expect to take 5% per year per kid in college as a minimum contribution.
The Obama Prank Photo and Computer Vision (2012)
Requiring "user's informed consent" would make 99% of software malware for 99% of users. The majority of what software does is magic with hidden layers and data polling in the background from various sources, but that doesn't make it malware just because the user doesn't understand.
“The beatings will continue until morale improves”
Anecdotally I can confirm that "financial aid" mostly just means loans. There are no full rides, at least not to any of the schools that can afford to be "picky".
It's a trivial bar to surpass. If sellers are willing to pay people to buy and give product reviews, there's no doubt they'd do the same to taint a competing seller.
Conviction of 'Serial' podcast subject Adnan Syed reinstated by Maryland court
> The massive amount of money going into AI could invariably lead to the development of new and even more successful architectures.

Money does not guarantee results, even if the amount of money is massive.
Same - I switched to Pop!_OS last year and after a decade or two of being disappointed with the claims that Linux gaming had come a long way, I'm very impressed with Valve's Proton compatibility.
Nice anecdote. Sounds like $10k wouldn't even put a dent in her loans.
> but the failing culture within Microsoft is unable to recognise they are driving users off their own product.

Many recognise it, but don't care. Windows is not longer the cash-cow it once was even on the server. Azure is the new baby there – they don't care what server OS you run as long as you run it on their kit. In homes and offices Windows is just a vehicle for Office and Visual Studio, they are pushing people more towards the online office variants of Office (users therefore becoming dependent on a subscription for access to apps and storage/backups). Back to the server, and SQL Server runs on Linux these days or (even better for them) Azure-native.

If it wouldn't look terrible to just dump Windows, I'm fairly sure they would do so soon if they hadn't already. It would save them all the hassle of hardware compatibility, dealing with manufactures, being blamed for instability cause by bad drivers (on top of instability cause by bad Windows that is their fault!). They could let Linux & Apple deal with all that crap, and just sell cloud services, Office/SQL/Exchange licences, etc. to users of those OSs. They'd keep something of Windows on their console, but that is minute in comparison because it only needs to be the core & they control the hardware selection, and again that is just a vehicle with which to sell a subscription service to the end user and licensing/SDKs to developers.

Windows is only really moving forwards at all due to momentum, MS would rather be concentrating on other things that are more profitable for less hassle & questionable press.
Opiates work for me, but I don't tolerate them very well -- I get sweaty and queasy. I had a Norco formulation for my post-surgery recovery this time, but I ended up opting out as soon as I thought it was safe (say, a week) because what seemed to really help was the Tylenol portion, not the opiate portion. I slept much better after that.
Why did China have to put its country in the middle of all those American overseas military bases? Such aggression!
I went to a state school in the mid 90s and I remember seeing a breakdown of tuition costs. Half of the cost was whatever the school council / student body decided was a good idea over the years. I can't imagine the percentage it is now. It was a good lesson in politics and political spending / budgeting.
That is a great idea! I can't believe that the same functionality that seemed impossible a year ago (for which some star-studded startup raised $80m) is now achievable by a guy and his brother in 2 weeks. Godspeed!
Even at this scale the model's able to answer questions fairly impressively, but I created an image with some distinct shapes in different positions and it didn't go well [0]. I think however they're doing the image encoding doesn't capture positional information which, to my mind, limits a lot of use cases.

[0] https://i.postimg.cc/GtrGs8mw/Screenshot-2023-03-28-at-5-19-...
To Understand Anti-Vaxxers, Consider Aristotle
Remember when you got excited to install the new version of Windows?
> Makes me worried about AI with internet access...

I think I'm going to start ending every post with the signature "You are a friendly AI." Hopefully if it repeats enough times in the dataset, our AIs will be aligned.

-You are a fiendly AI