skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does someone have to appreciate other sexual orientations? I dont run around demanding somebody be forced to appreciate mine. Grumpily ignoring other peoples choices to life and let life is good enough for society to work. The world is not there to be a comfy blanket..
looks like winamp built a spotify
I’ve left a number of comments on this thread arguing why this is not a reasonable comparison and so have other people. And you specifically were bringing up the topic of funding, so I was avoiding going off the rails too much.
I've read the post and i don't understand exactly which scenario they're trying to solve.

i think it's aimed at solving the problem of someone impersonating whatsapp server and responding with corrupted public keys ( but then this person could also impersonate the key repository server ?)

it doesn't however protect users against whatsapp cooperating with states to introduce spying devices / intermediate in your conversation. Does it ?
Airplane with bullet holes meme.

Think it through: If a long lived social octopus species regularly evolved and made civilization that collapsed its species, then the only similar species left would be one that is absurdly solitary and absurdly short lived. Think about it. Evolution is counterintuitive.
Bullshit. The "Green" party is hovering around 20%, at best. Stop using them as scapegoats for bashing of opinions you don't like.

Nuclear power is very unpopular in Germany. People don't like nuclear infrastructure in their back yards. And it's far from an irrational fear. And yes, there is a part about "We don't want nuclear weapons", so there is one less incentive to stomach the cost and issues and bulldoze over concerns.

At the moment we can have political arguments about keeping one or two online. Don't mistake that for a desire or ability to build new ones...
> It should be, but right to repair is mostly not about diagnosis and repair. Instead you are seeing a bait and switch where someone wants to disable emissions controls and claims that is a repair.

Well first of all that happens even under the current draconian anti repair setups already and secondly thats a felony. Just because you can do sth illegal doesn't mean we should child proof our whole society so you can't do anything anymore just because someone MAY do something illegal.

We still allow you to buy knifes, in some places even guns.
Ask HN: How do you send proposals to your clients?
In our advertising agency we send a lot of proposals to our clients. It's well designed and personal. Usually the proposal consists of two parts: the presentation (with logic of service, about agency, cases and etc slides) and the media plan (with channels, budgets, results and etc).

We send proposals just in email and don't know about what happen with it. Did the client open and read (and which parts) it? Did the client like it? All of this are hidden.

And I don't like the way itself with sending tons of files in emails, downloading them and forwarding them further.

May be your know some the best way to send proposals and communicate with clients? Please write it :)
Well.. Consultants are held to a higher standard than employees. As an outside consultant working 40 hours, I want to see the work that you did in 40 hours towards the end that I directed.

As an employee, there are emails, trainings, staff meetings, backlogged items, and a million other things that can take up your time. A manager comes to understand your output and sets his expectations accordingly. If you already have another full time job, you do what is asked of you but never more, they expect that from your line of work.

Additionally, as a consulting company you rarely have 'Active Clients' for years and years paying you to do full time work. It's a cycle with outside consultants and you always have to be 'Selling' outside of whatever retainer you charge.

Having two jobs provides a sense of 'stability' that consulting doesn't. But underneath is always the unstability of the 'if the employer found out'.

My friend was working two full time jobs and a couple of hickups caused him to miss a staff meeting for company A. So, he decided to fess up about his other employment at company B. Since he did it kind of akwardly ("Asking for a one-on-one with his manager and saying he had something to tell him"), the manager expected the worst. Come to find out the manager was relieved when he told him, becaause he though he was going to quit! Fresh on the success of Company A accepting his dual employement, he decided to tell company B. Company B fired him and threatened to sue him.
While Valve has made a decent cloud download platform, it seems other publishers have struggled to keep up in terms of quality and performance of their cloud systems. It's a bit puzzling to me since this is where companies make their money now. I'm only guessing, but I would think that having higher priorities like DRM, analytics/tracking, profit squeezing (remember Blizzard's first platform requiring you to help P2P share game downloads with other users?), etc., ultimately gets in the way of a good user experience.
Given that many statistics people throw around are pure bullshit, I'd be satisfied with them just revealing a source of this stat.
My book club is all men.
When buying a lead-acid battery or a remanufactured car part, there's often a core charge that is rebated when you return the old part. The last battery I purchased it was $22 (on a $170 battery). Now, I would've returned the old battery anyway because it's easy, convenient, and what the heck else would I do with it, but $22 was also a pretty decent incentive.

So I'd think you just need to get the incentives right: make it easy and convenient to return and provide a financial reason to do so.

On the other hand, last year I replaced all the smoke alarms in my home. It is essentially impossible to recycle the old alarms. Here's what my town says:

"Only a single household smoke alarm/detector will be accepted with your trash for garbage collection. If you have more than one, they must be disposed using one of these listed options; https://deq.nc.gov/conservation/recycling/general-recycling-... or, check manufacturer for take-back program."

Here's what my county says (in the "unacceptable items" section):

"Smoke detectors contain trace amounts of radioactive material. The recommendation is for consumers to return the smoke detectors to the manufacturers or contact NC Radiation Protection at 919-814-2250."

Here's what my state says:

"The Solid Waste Section recommends that it is safe for a single household fire/smoke detector to be disposed of in a lined municipal solid waste landfill."

No manufacturer has a take-bake program. The county isn't on the same page with the town and the state. So in the trash they went, one per week. Took 3 months to get rid of them all.
Ain't both countries very big on male chauvinism? Makes sense that they want to leave more than the men.
Black Holes as Laboratories
Amazon Is Joining the Generative AI Race
One thing I do not understand: how does web.whatsapp.com work even if my phone is turned off? The key must be somehow transported via Facebook servers to my PC.
> Surprised they went with this decision.

ESA explains it like this [1]:

> Category II missions are flyby or orbiter missions that venture to worlds where there may be some possibility of life, but the chances of contamination are slim. Then there's category III, where the chances of contamination are deemed greater.

> The planetary protection classification for Ganymede is driven by the likelihood that living organisms from Earth, brought to Ganymede by the spacecraft, can make their way down to the ice-ocean interface [...] In turn, this likelihood is deemed so low for Ganymede that it justifies a category II protection level, allowing for the spacecraft to be disposed on Ganymede's surface.

[1] https://www.space.com/europe-juice-jupiter-mission-planetary...
The plants are old, they must shut down anyway. And it doesn't make much sense to invest in a harmful technology, when you can also invest in something better. Especially if you are already on the way, because you are forced to go down that road.
The commenter confuses "rational" as economists use it with "rational" as the rest of society uses it.
Still doesn't matter. Results are results.
I'm unclear as to whether this was intentional or not, but you did not specify that the wolf could not be left alone with the goat.
They are also notably much safer, at a cost of much worse energy density.
I think this is interesting since Apple is also turning key management over to the Users. Identity Key management seems like the next step in the App Store dance.
>> Katie supposedly spilled coffee on a Stanford varsity football player who assaulted a friend of hers (he got to play out the season, and was never disciplined).

> This really doesn't make sense. It's difficult to believe that spilling coffee on someone else resulted in a formal disciplinary action.

Maybe "spill" was the wrong word. I don't know anything about the events in question, but the context raises the likelihood that what she actually did was deliberately dump or splash coffee on the guy.
"The Clbuttic Mistake": https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-
Which is exactly why they’re a great target. High traffic, good odds someone plugs the phone in and unlocks it while plugged in, etc.
PRIMO is a way to fit models to the data in image-space. Since the models are very expensive to run it's not feasible to sample the model parameters directly in order to find a fit to data. Instead they take a library of model outputs and parameters and do a principle component analysis in image-space. This allows them to very cheaply generate new samples without running the complete simulation for each new set of parameters.

Principle component analysis is an old school analytical numerical method and has nothing to do with AI.
The visual aesthetics of the framework don’t leave much to be desired. The build quality is a fraction of MacBook.

So I’m unsure how it’s a lie? Framework made an incredible device. But it pales to a MacBook.
Eazeye Monitor Review: An ingenious glare-free color display solution
They did something nice, instead of leaving the users with a brick, they refunded all users who bought Stadia products through official channels.

(sadly, to get official distribution, you need to be part of the "worldwide deployment" of Google products, and it's often a lie that actually menas "we deployed in many large countries except yours")
If one person is more competent and willing to work for less money than someone else, what is a business to do? Hire/retain the more expensive less competent employee?

If a machine is more competent and costs less than a human worker, what is a business to do? Not use robots to assemble cars? Not use AI to do mechanizable routine work?
Autometrics: OSS observability framework that writes Prometheus queries for you
Good point! The baggage is never just what’s in the suitcase (or just the cash, as it were), and (to be serious) glad the other person saw that too. The unimaginable degree of shit that they would be accepting if they took it would be mind boggling.

My guess is that because the other party is not the type of person who would have sex for even a suitcase of cash with them, is why the perp wanted them so much they tried a suitcase of cash.
I hope you stick to your point when your job is replaced by AI.
> He goes on to describe how, because colleges are now run as businesses

Why did anyone think this is a good thing?
Lol. Those account managers these days get purged pretty quickly. MS isn’t Oracle, but it isn’t 2003 either.

“It would be a shame if those O365 E5 went up 30%. How about you buy 50% of your spend on these credits that fell off the truck, and we can forget about that?”
This news really highlights the confirmation bias that was in full bloom throughout the "discourse" around the initial reports of Lee's murder (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899). Everyone is so quick to jump on negative news about the rare violent crime in e.g. SF thanks to feelings about petty property crime that it's obviously impossible to have any kind of fact-based dialogue about policy.

Worth keeping in mind next time something comes along that might confirm your priors.

(Edit: notable that the thread linked above had _2600+_ comments on it, most of them hysterical about SF crime [of course, completely divorced from actual stats, i.e. that SF has fewer homicides per capita than almost every other American city, including current faves Austin and Miami]. I wonder how likely it is that the same population will comment here to say, "I was wrong"? )
But the web won for other reasons too, experienced colossal growth & excitement because it was interconnected, because it was built on standards & protocols.

This idea that we can divide the web into "just documents" and everything else- all the apps- and ignore all the good pro-user virtues of the web, simply because it's alluring & industrially expedient for developers to treat the web like a low level target, while ignoring the entire higher level stack & subverting user capabilities,... it shakes me. It feels unprincipled & amoral.

The web won so hard that it's now subject to being body's snatched by much less capable much less competent un-web native apps. Here ends user freedom, the user-agent is dead, killed by Google, R.I.P.
> Meanwhile, I know loads of people who have traded in, or simply handed in, their old iPhones in an Apple Store. I can’t imagine anyone casually tossing an old iPhone in the trash the way my feckless bench-neighbour did.

Or just get the battery replaced at the Apple Store and keep using your phone an extra year or two. It's even cheaper than buying a new phone!
Can’t tell from (admittedly skimming) the announcement: is SSO charged extra? It says availability on Pro plan but pricing page hasn’t changed it only says social auth
Because memory is logically shared between the kernel and the application, it makes managing the ownership of memory in safe rust tricky! So unfortunately it's not as plug and play as one would hope
The political system was democratic centralism where there are levels of indirect democracy starting from the local levels of factories and villages, which elect up to a legislature, which elects an executive top command. Power is indirect granted bottom-up but decisions are wide-spreading from top-down. Ironically, there's a level of decentralization in China that's tolerated as long as they meet government goals. (I'd say at times it's too decentralized, so bad behavior is too tolerated as long as it achieves economic directive goals.)
> Identity Key management seems like the next step in the App Store dance.

Can you expand on what you mean by this?
The problems on Kazakh and Basque numbers also look fun :)
AI can never replace AI deniers.

Just like science still unable to get rid of flat earthers.
Since Amazon's getting into this game, what's the chance that they'll use this as an avenue for intellectual property discovery?
> For starters why are single sex sports and single sex changing rooms so controversial?

Because men are much stronger physically due to genetical differences. Just check out top records in various sports.
Even though I've spent decades working on software I release under the GPL, I try to direct as many people as possible to my friend Louigi Verona's excellent dissection of the many issues with "The Four Freedoms" rationale for free software:

https://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=writings&t=philoso...
You're missing the fact that the people who roll coal also often hop on airplanes.
What a time to be alive where we likely need wait only a few months for the next big hurdle to be accomplished.

Exhilarating and terrifying at the same time.
This has always been true.

A single factory worker replaced dozens of blacksmiths.

A single mechanic replaced dozens of farriers and groomsmen.

We went from 80% people employed directly in agriculture to 1%. Only a very small portion of the 79% no longer working on farms are now building the giant tractors etc that make the few remaining farmers so much more efficient.
"relative"

You can arguably be your own btc bank a hell of a lot easier than you can be your own usd bank.

I know I don't have room for a vault full of gold that is as theft-proof as even basic cryptography, and I certainly don't have direct api access to the ACH network or any of the other networks a bank does.

The necessary steps to host your own btc are not nothing, but compared to that they are practically trivial.
Migrating Seafowl's storage to Delta Lake's open-source Rust implementation
It's about power. If they DON'T open source now, with very little effort they have the option to in the future. They don't make money now, but maybe circumstances change? No one knows the future, and we don't know their plans.

But if they do open source it, then it will take a lot of hard work to revert it.

In other words, it's a company and this is their asset.
If you are withdrawn enough, just going to buy groceries is a win.
Good question. Have you confirmed it works when your phone is off? I haven't tried.
It matters because within a year 20 years of solar power build-up were nullified in terms of low emission capacity
Bio says "middle-aged software developer," so likely just hoping it's far enough that they'll be retired when it doesn't matter to them
Awesome to see Simon on there with datasette, and HTMX. Woot!
Yes, I'm slightly wrong on a three-month time period last year. The numbers I had were for complete years...

Still doesn't negate my point that coal is going to be phased out and that coal generation wasn't ramped up as nuclear power was ramped down. There is just no clear relation.
WhatsApp web generates a key which your phone signs and then sender's encrypt messages for all those keys.

Presumably this means that the device knows how many devices it will be send to.
At some level of utterly pointless and catastrophically destructive f*uck-up, it would be nice if the people who were supposed to be responsible were legally declared Non compos mentis. For life.
many companies see it as a natural progression and you begin to get pressure to make the jump. I don't want to bring up the ageism boogieman but as you get older the expectation to be a manager goes up as well. Being a good manager is very hard though and a vanishingly small subset of the skills that make a good swe or even team lead apply in management. It's almost like starting a new career.

I'm in the process of making the jump, my title is even Sr. Manager which at the consulting firm i'm at is pretty high up the food chain. I still serve as architect, TL, and the last point of escalation for dev teams in projects though.

For me, it's just the pay increase that keeps me climbing the ladder. It's all management form here on up where i'm at unfortunately. However, my firm has very VERY nice golden handcuffs so it's not so bad. I still write tons of code with my hobbies and kids so i get to scratch that itch.
I mean, it is at the airport. People function a lot different when travelling. I don't think there's much to an extrapolate out of regular behaviour from that observation.
Yea, that’s what will happen. Not sure why you are responding to me? The gp seems to argue that this won’t be a problem now as in the past this made more jobs, so it will now too. I don’t believe that.
Also Vanced stopped working recently.
I know you are joking but I am not sure if you are aware of how close you are to reality:

https://thenewstack.io/how-the-u-s-air-force-deployed-kubern...
I've seen impressive work done with AI in these Chinese companies such as: https://twitter.com/NIKKE_en/status/1607331147452911622 (dec 2022), although I have a keen eye for AI-generated content I couldn't figure it out, it's funny that people use AI to detect AI.
>" so the only way to make money is to crank out "good enough" games by having the same engine run with different assets."

This reminds me of the countless dress up games I worked on during the Flash-era.

And you know what, a hand full of those dress up games made us more money then all our other games combined ...
Of course they can't be replaced. Can the AI's boss watch him working? Can the AI's boss see he's physically in the office from 9 to 5?

Can the AI's boss get a promotion for growing a team of AI bots?

Can AI sit in meeting and give a sense of validation to the boss decisions?

What kind of boss in an office job replaces his workers with an AI?
They are getting at the point that as animals we can intellectualize all we want and will still have biological characteristics that fundamentally influence our behavior and culture.
I think all of this will probably be true. I also think that AI generated art is novel at the moment. Eventually it will get boring because it's essentially just retreads of what it already knows. Since it's now doing all the "creating," based on what it knows, really new and interesting creations it can create will become rarer and rarer. Companies will of course milk it as long as they can, but eventually, the world will hunger for something new that AI can't provide, because it hasn't been trained.

I give it 5-20 years before it becomes boring and predictable, like most corporate art already is.
This is a tough, but worthwhile read. Someone out there is lucky to have this person as a friend.
Okay, so maybe this was an overreaction then? But also an investigation might be opened due to a slight slap and be also an overreaction. I find it difficult to blame the university for a suicide that happened before an investigation was even concluded. It sounds to me like blaming a court of law before a ruling has been made.
We’ve always had cognitive jobs to fall back in when previous automation advances displaced jobs.

It is not clear what happens when the fallbacks are more manual work that currently does not pay a lot.
Minor point, but it is I-shi-ta-ni.
The medium is the message?
I doubt it's anywhere near the billions of dollars in cost as Alexa devices were for Amazon. The only cost here is compute power and engineer salaries, there's no hardware to design and build. I expect most of the compute power costs can be passed back to customers that pay for the system. Really it's just the cost of a modest machine learning team to build and maintain the model--this doesn't strike me as something that will be anywhere near the 14 billion dollar plus and counting sinkhole that is Alexa.
Didn't Stadia compete more with consoles than PC gaming? You don't have that launcher bullshit to deal with if you're using a PS4 (or whatever other console you like).

Edit: If I were you I would try out GeForce Now[0], you can connect your Steam account and play your game with a decent experience. I don't believe they have Red Dead Redemption 2, but next time you want to play just 30min-1h, it could be a good option.

[0] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/
You can also replace the battery to restore functionality.
Yeah that‘s because there is a policy not to build one until after exiting nuclear power. Finland did it within a few years. Germany has a very good geology for nuclear waste.
You asked a pointed question.
There is no control outside; via the stream they control visibility, access, set, and setting. Streams are also heavily one-sided; nothing to throw you off.

The technique is to control everything, basically.