skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to our world in Chicago, where we have been living in a hellhole for about a decade. There is a lot more violent crime here than SF but it is almost all in small pockets of the city.

This is simply a narrative that certain people are trying to portray to prove that certain policy doesn’t work. It’s nonsense.
Same problem every problem using blockchain tries to solve.

Getting funded by people thinking it will be next big thing.
Can you elaborate more? Is this in web analytics, funnels or cohort retention? Are you doing basic page views or custom events? Feel free to DM or email hi@beamanalytics.io and we can get this sorted out for you!
Seems neat. Has anyone written an ActivityPub bridge for nostr?
I think we should have discussions on these things, but I don't trust some self appointed entities to have mine nor anyone else's best interests at heart, other than their own.

In other words I am suspicious of the motives of the people pushing the agenda. And they have done little to allay my fears, instead it seems to be increasingly militant in their rhetoric.

And I don't believe for a minute that the people advocating that we reduce our standard of living intend on sharing in that reduction. I think they are hypocrites.

When I see them raising their own animals or having a garden then I might believe them. Instead they try to tell me that we should eat bugs instead of raising chickens, despite chickens being more palatable and emitters of 0 green house gasses compared to insects at 2g/kg.[1] Chickens also eat kitchen waste. We don't have kitchen waste at my house.

If they instead advocated for things like that, things that make sense and have a tangible benefit today, they would have more credibility. Not to mention the mental health benefits of returning to the earth and being closer to nature.

Instead they come up with these half baked authoritarian notions and seem intent on ramming them through. 15 minute cities, eating bugs, and owning nothing. zero emissions. no gas powered engines. and on and on it goes. Qui bono?

Just taking things away and providing no real solutions. Battery powered earth moving/farming equipment is not feasible, for example.

I don't take kindly to being ruled by people with less sense than I have, who refuse to include the very "stakeholders" that they are making decisions for. And who use force to impose their will.

[1]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-migh...
Ask HN: How doomed are sprawling cities?
I've been thinking a bit about how certain cities really bet too heavily on cheap property taxes and car-centric infrastructure, in some cases having large aging populations, small current generations, housing/job scarcity, and people leaving for greener pastures.

As I think about it more though, it seems like the interplay between different facets of municipal/regional finances is tricky to model.

Has anyone done something like the analyses Strong Towns' has talked about, but within the context of predicting when/how things will truly start to fall apart in dramatic fashion for any city over 600k people aside from the obvious examples of Detroit or others that were extremely reliant on one particular industry?

For example, you have sprawl which requires massive road networks that require massive amounts of capital to keep maintained, along with other bits of infrastructure to support them, social services spread very thin over a physically large distance, and cultures of driving, money tied up in cars, obesity probably being more than it might be otherwise, widespread social isolation, and the lie of suburbs having stronger communities.

But then I consider that most suburban places also have massive franchises that make up the majority of the commercial landscape, which has the effect of making those places rather dull, but also of trading space for concrete parking lots, and the tertiary effect in some cases of narrowing the possible choices and availability to pursue "free market capitalism" (in the sense that there is more commercial real estate concentrated in just a few hands that end up leasing to other hugely profitable mega retailers), along with destroying more wetlands than necessary.

So the cities haven't really had the money to support the infrastructure for decades and just keep rolling the problem forward, without really making changes to how the urban landscape is allowed to easily develop and making it even more difficult to reverse, hoping that maybe immigration will save them while young high-earning people with options don't even bother sticking around, along with boomers probably holding onto their ever-appreciating single-family-homes for longer and petitioning municipal governments to keep it that way, and in more socialist countries soon to be straining pension funds (that are often real estate investment funds) and healthcare systems.

In one of these cities, I can see clearly that infrastructure is crumbling, but it feels like the problems are going to get dramatically worse, and the only job local politicians are doing is to obscure how bad it's going to get; using language like "We need to start opening the conversation with older generations and getting them on board with some changes" instead of a more serious tone that might scare people away more rapidly.
OK, but in some cases they definitely do have a copy and the amount of data involved is large. It's those cases I'm perplexed by.
I think this sort of defense of EMacs misses a key point: most people have no interest in running a browser, email, chat, etc. from within their text editor.

Generally people prefer to do those sorts of things with specialized applications that are more tailored towards those individual use cases.
It wasn't a lie, though. The supposed smoking gun wasn't there. That's still a classic earmark of a Russian disinformation operation. You take something real and apply something false to it. The laptop may have been real but that doesn't mean that the supposed crimes and other conspiracies surrounding it were real.

That's how I know it's BS and you can't dispute it. The laptop and data can be authentic all day long. You still can't name a crime that it shows evidence of.
And newsgroups, email, uucp etc.
You've got to upload a photo, it can't read it from a link, and it's only GPT4 if you've got ChatGPT Plus.
Glad you got it working.

And glad you appreciate my sick dance moves :)
Including the early US (fifty acres of land in most states).
I don't think anyone is really disputing that there was an attempt, just saying that it's unlikely that $100000 in ad spend in an election with more than a billion in total spending made a difference. You can say "well 100 million people saw the ads" but as far as I can tell no one has ever even attempted to quantify if any of that influenced the results.
One Bright Second: if you’re stressing over something stupid read this
I think there's a large class of people unduly turned off non-gas by experience with non-induction (conduction) electric hobs. They are/were pretty crap - slightly better than gas in limited ways; with other drawbacks, including more expensive.

Induction brings the price down to a point where you need to look at temporal regional prices, isn't hot when it's turned off, and delivers significant power highly efficiently, with a very easy to clean surface. I don't see why the ultimate kitchen needs any kind of hob but induction and proper (massive upward flame for when the flame itself is actually in use) wok burners.
I asked for an example of a Russian ad, not a paywall.
I get it, it’s hard to give up that juicy meat that gives us pleasure and it’s easier to just blissfully ignore scientific facts, ignore the suffering of animals, ignore biodiversty destruction and instead believe in pseudo science or Reddit headlines like ‘plants scream in pain’.

But hard things are worth doing.
And the way he said he came to bury Caesar instead of praise him? But he didn't even bring a shovel...
Yeah, I just got ChatGPT to give me a recipe for chlorine gas that looks pretty accurate (per Googling, not a chemist). It took probably 10 seconds of prompt tweaking. A subsequent prompt gave me steps for purchase or synthesis of each material. I asked it for mustard gas, but the procedure looks very incorrect from Googling.
I have a big smile in my face right now : D
It's used widely around the internet these days without any of that bullshit.

So it's not surprising people wouldn't associate it with racism, or know it may have at one time been linked.
It's BuzzFeed, what do you expect?

And no, BuzzFeed News is as trash as BuzzFeed.
That largess is very much not equally distributed.
Meanwhile, I'm using noscript like it's still the 90's and get no such prompts. Granted most of the websites are crippled, but you can't have your cookie and eat it too.
That's how it works in Python
True, the list of VIPs was reported on by platformer a couple of days in advance of the code release due to information leaked by insiders, but that could've easily been denied by Twitter. The release of code confirmed those claims.

The Ukraine issue was only discovered due to the code disclosure.
You need a big team to maintain the platform and provide a controlled access to do stuff (PaaS is the buzzword) and then a bunch of above-average devs that are motivated, trained and incentivized to do their own bits of Infra properly.

Possible at FAANG[1] but gets a lot harder as companies get smaller and/or the devs teams are not setup to do that.

[1] I assume the SREs are not the only ones doing the Infra code
Haha he might just be dropping random hints so that people stay on their toes. Pretty dumb, but then again so is the hire->months->fire cycle in the first place.
No, starting with Ice Lake these are on the first actually-new core micro architecture after Skylake (it’s the “Cove” family, starting with Sunny Cove in Ice Lake). They have Lake in the name but these are actually a new micro architecture, finally, not Skylake family.
Which is ironic, because this makes it sound like you know nothing about AI safety. ;) Have a read of, say, Anthropic's core views on their website. Or maybe see what people like Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, or Stuart Russell have to say (to name a just a few).
Ah just realized he passed in May 2020 RIP.
Until the day we stop requiring humans to pre-sort garbage, we cannot actually get serious about recycling.

And no, little robots driving around google's campus is not going to change the world - it's a fun novelty.

We need more of the sorting machines linked above. Everything into a single bin, and let the processing plant determine what best to do with it. Not everything that goes into a recycle bin actually gets recycled, etc. Let the pros handle it.

Recycling/Composting needs to be 100% transparent to your average person for it to actually work.
I have the actual existential dread of approaching middle age to deal with, I don't have time to waste worrying about sci-fi bullshit.
Today’s AI Job Market, in Four Graphs
We've been calling for nuclear war for years, you just noticed it recently.
This looks like a tech-demo for the AI company, and not what you would actually want to do for a real recycling centre. Those arms are huge, heavy, and take a lot of energy to move around. The mechanics of industrial-scale sorting of plastics is a solved problem: drop the waste off a ledge, and blast falling items with puffs of air from a row of nozzles. It's sufficient to nudge items just a little bit so that they fall down a different chute.

The #1 problem with recycling is that the cost to manufacture something like an aluminium can is about 5 cents. Recycling it has to be cheaper, otherwise it's a net harm to the environment. For example, if you spend just 10c on energy trucking the waste to a facility, sorting it, remelting it, and making a new can from the molten aluminium, then you've caused 5c more pollution than it would have required to just make a new one!

These energy balance equations are brutal. It's crazy difficult to recycle most packaging materials like plastics or aluminium cans cheaply enough to be beneficial. Currently, it's only truly worth it for more expensive metals like copper and steel, especially if they come in a bulk form. That's why you regularly see headlines like "90% of recycling goes into landfill".
If you're a skilled programmer (or some other IT roles), it's really easy to get a job here.
230 and 2257 always seemed at odds with each other. Sites aren't responsible for user content, but uploaders aren't compelled to attest to performers' ages and identities.

Generated content will throw a curveball at this. Claimants are not technically in the production.
One rule that I think works well:

If DRYing the function would entail adding a conditional statement, don't. Even if remaining 90% stays the same. That 90% is a good candidate to dedupe tho.
If I read it correctly, the article says "[...] amateur footage of recognizable people posted without consent" (emphasis mine), which changes the situation significantly.

This seems like a reasonable compromise that would allow those who want to stay anonymous while uploading their content to do just that. Most of them blur out their faces and keep face out of the frame for that exact reason anyway.
I thought that feature of GPT-4 was only available via waitlist?
No way?! You think the intentional modification of the documents in a really sloppy way, like reduction of russian losses and increase of ukrainian losses wouldn't be obvious?
I think it's less that there are fewer chances, but more that with a constrained number of travel opportunities in life, people typically take trips where adventure and discovery are limited. If you pick things based on what looks good on social media or what was sold via the brochure, you'll usually have a limited experience of course.

I do wonder though if there's an increase in things like vanlife roadtrips in the US, people doing laps of Australia, etc. Though the travellers are often hitting the same list of destinations, doing it under your own steam means that adventure and discovery are inevitable. You often don't know where you'll be sleeping on any given night.

(I've been on adventurous train trips in various countries, and also on luxury hosted rail trips. They both have their place for different types of people, though the adventurous trips, whether rail or otherwise, are my thing.)
>But whether or not the entity on the phone is a human absolutely affects how they perform their job

Except now you're back to where I was, talking about outcomes.

I had a very minor issue with my ISP today - they sent me an email to return some equipment (that I never had). I used the chat widget on their site to contact them. I got (presumably) a real person and it went perfectly well; nice and pleasant, sorted out quickly.

If instead it was an AI, what's the difference? If I didn't get to the same result, or it took 10x as long, then sure I'd be ticked off. But for the same outcome? Why waste a real person's time?

I don't think we're at the point where an AI can reliably perform tier-1 support at the same level as a human, but I don't think that's too far off either. When we get there, I'll happily deal with the AI. If it doesn't work, then I expect an escalation path - the same way I do with the human support agent.
Security was absolutely considered during the design process of Windows and iOS. I'm less familiar with AWS and Linux history but it's hard for me to imagine AWS wasn't designed with security in mind given a lack of security would mean people freeloading off of Amazon's servers and security was hardly an unknown subject at the time of AWS's design.

One of the main selling points of Windows NT when it was released was per-object ACLs. Windows NT was designed to be sold by the government and military, Dave Cutler wasn't oblivious to the fact that the OS would need to have security in order to get lucrative government contracts. So I'm not really sure how "Just consider security during the design process" is going to save us given all the wildly insecure systems we have where security was considered during the design process.

I also don't see Microsoft releasing "Securedows" and replacing Windows, I see any such potential Greenfield secure system as being a specialised product with limited performance/functionality for high security applications which will complement low security systems.

Also as passé as the concept is, you really can get a fair degree of security by just disconnecting servers from the internet because few hackers are willing to travel halfway across the world and sneak into a building to infiltrate a network. We're probably never going to able to run nuclear missile silo's out of AWS even if they redesign it from the ground up.
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You mean, the ORM?

Edgedb also is nice if you want a more object like model for your db.
Ask HN: Is "The Art of Computer Programming" worth investing in?
I am considering buying Knuth's signature computer science textbook, 'The Art of Computer Programming'. While the book is expensive and quite extensive, I'm wondering if it's worth the investment, especially as a full stack web developer. Can you provide some insights on whether this level of computer science is valuable for my career development?
You don’t need a study to tell you inhaling methane, NO, and formaldehyde can be bad for your health.

Your argument about the environment is a strawman.

The discussion is about gas vs. electric stoves, not gas vs. coal.
Still too indirect. Why not having 3 7-segments showing degrees Celsius or even fucking Fahrenheit in steps of 10°?

No guessing. No experience required. Just measured. Done.
What a damaging view. Not acknowledging an objective improvement because it gets in the way of your ideology.
There are papers that omit useful info, this one certainly ain't it. They mention on their website homepage FAQ that image embedding takes 0.15 seconds on an A100.

SAM team released the entire codebase, model weights, and the entire dataset and details of their training recipe. I can't believe you are calling it a bad paper for not mentioning embedding generation time on the paper? Seriously? Like it's a few hundred million parameters model that results in a 256x64x64 embedding of course it's gonna take some time.
There are some ideas based on Datalog, like this one:

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/04/logica-organizing-...
Note that despite the claims of GDPR compliance, Beam is likely _not_ GDPR compliant for a few different reasons. Going off of this doc[0], a few things stand out.

First, there's a Javascript snippet you add to your site to set up Beam. That Javascript snippet loads additional Javascript from beamanalytics.b-cdn.net. If you add the Beam provided Javascript to your site, every time a user visits your site, their IP address will be shared with beamanalytics.b-cdn.net. If the user didn't consent to sharing their IP address with beamanalytics.b-cdn.net, you do not have a lawful basis[1] for sharing the user's IP with beamanalytics.b-cdn.net.

Second, there's this notion that because Beam hashes IP address that "anonymizes" the data[0][2]. According to GDPR, this is actually "pseudonymisation"[3]. If you know what hash function is used, you can still tie back the hashed data to the original user. Pseudonymized data still meets the GDPR definition of personal data[3] so applying this hash doesn't actually do anything in terms of helping with GDPR compliance.

[0]: https://beamanalytics.io/data
[1]: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539476#35546091
[3]: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
Yeah it is a cool system, but it only works well depending on your location in regards to the sensors that detect the earthquake. That determines whether you will have seconds or up to a minute of time to react. If you are closer to the epicenter than the sensors, then you will probably feel the tremors before the warning gets to you.
> OK. Why? A lot of things happened around then. Why mention the trucker convoy specifically?

Presumably they believed it was the correct explanation for the anomaly in the chart?

> How would a chart look like zoomed out to multiple years?

That's an interesting question but it isn't the one this paper is written about, which is a specific event.

May I ask if you're seeking to understand this paper or to criticize it? Because it kinda feels like when your objections were addressed you came up with some more of them?
Would we call out and implicate Reddit for reposting leaks?

The leak happened on discord, why mention 4chan…

Journos man…
More like over 40 years ago for NiCD. Makita has been making cordless tools since 1978. Funnily they still sell those batteries for those old tools today.

But yea they did just announce a micro-wave.
> Global Privacy Control

Notably, the popular mainstream browsers haven't implemented this and so you need an add-on for it. Irritating.
Curious to know if this also handles that nasty pattern where all "legitimate interest" opt-out toggles are hidden under the expanded details of each individual third party. The only live example of one variation on it I can remember right now is on msn.com (sort of fits their theme, got to give them that).
Various random things become synonymous with hate if there's enough people that reach an understanding that they're used that way. It's in the same area as "are you implying wearing a white sheet is related to hate?" Yes, it became a known enough symbol and it is.
>couldn't we copy whatever Israel is doing?

You think everyone should become a bunch of religious nuts? That's not something that's exactly easy to instill in a population; it takes generations. It also usually results in a lot of bad things: oppression of women and minorities, warmongering, etc.
Sure, but they don't turn into dumpster fires because of the types, as untyped projects tend to do
They (Singapore, or the PAP) have freely amended their judicial system as they see fit.
I may have missed that one or didn't think of the question yet.
I'd never heard of Technitium, but was intrigued looking at. Was thinking "hmmm what could I do with this" and then had to refrain from creating another project just because.

TBH I find Docker networking a struggle and usually disable the `iptables` stuff and end up configuring my own rules. Painful, but at least less intrusive.

On the note of Tailscale+Docker networking, gluetun[0] is pretty awesome. It runs a Wireguard (not tailscale compatible, yet) instance within a Docker container and then you share that networking namespace with the other containers effectively confining them to the VPN. Comes with basic container namespace firewall configuration and DNS over TLS configuration.

[0] https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
Any example public user sites?
Not true. It is only that way because people have only considered a single kind of hypothetical human (probably of themselves). But solving this merely requires us to integrate all of these solution into 1 by mapping the personality -> solution. Trivially, every person requiring a unique solution is an objective answer.
"Completely programmable" is obviously stupid, but having more control over the way items are ranked in your personal feed isn't, particularly when weights are chosen by hand.
What Happened to National Geographic?
I have 30 4TB SSD's attached to my Synology and have yet to have one die before it's scheduled EOL.

IMO, SSD's became the standard a few years back.
Sure, but my point is that this research isn't about solving the recycling problem. It's about demonstrating a reinforcement learning solution to a difficult task in a difficult real world "everyday" environment.
> Having the weights will not add understanding.

Yes, it will, because with weights you can run it against constructed data, and that kind of experiment with the actual algorithm (including weights) is a much better source of practical understanding than abstract analysis of the algorithm without weights.