skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of attacking in this thread from people who haven't bothered to think about the math. It's an existential risk to some companies, and one that wasn't more widely planned for because it wasn't even believed to be intended to actually occur.

Most tax experts considered the removal a budget gimmick so that the 2017 December republican majority could quickly pass a new budget using the budget reconciliation process, which can't be used to increase the deficit after a 10-year period so they had to add a time limit to a bunch of benefits "on paper" to use the reconciliation process. There appeared to be broad support for fixing it later, but the bipartisan spending bill expected to include it fell apart because they couldn't get agreement on other parts of it.

To the best I can tell this isn't tech companies complaining about paying fair tax; it's a congressional oversight that is quadrupling the taxes of small business out of nowhere which nobody in power has bothered to fix.
At least they did mention Engelbart and PARC. Briefly.

Atkinson and Herzfeld are not exactly hiding under a rock. I've personally emailed with Herzfeld, recently.

Nothing about the Star, which Jobs actually did come to Chicago and see at the intro, in May 1981.
In politics, your traditional opponents can occasionally be right on policy.

People who refuse a position because they've found themselves with strange bedfellows are one of the primary reasons things are so fucked these days.
Once they can add videos they will have a lot of new training data.
what bullshit...
I wonder how many little companies are going to re-title their software developer as janitors. In many cases that description fits pretty well anyway.
Thanks so much for your response Vanderson! I wish I had known about How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons when I was teaching my daughter. I definitely fumbled my way through it :).

> I think you have an up hill battle with getting traction with DI, but if you succeed that would be a great benefit to many people. (my perception)

I completely agree and it really isn't too surprising that DI never took off in schools. FWIW, I am looking to revive the underlying pedagogy (e.g., teaching sequences for non-comparatives, joining forms, etc.) rather than DI proper.

> What is the protocol on this site for starting conversations "offline"?

Interesting question that I never stopped to consider :). I have met dozens of people through HN, and it seems congruent with the hacker ethic ("throughout writings about hackers and their work processes, a common value of community and collaboration is present"), but ::shrugs::.

Thanks again for sharing your DI story.
"Can we do illegal stuff please?"
No
"Can you explain why we can't do illegal stuff please?"
No, that should be obvious.

Coinbase are muppets.
As a friend in the industry pointed out, regardless of the legality of releasing the actual song, this will be a huge boon for producers/songwriters. Imagine being able to produce a song and send an artist a demo of themselves. If they like it, they can immediately jump in and re-record it.
Ask HN: How to get started with real-life physical reverse-engineering?
Looking for resources that would be beneficial in understanding and disassembling everyday (not necessarily electronic) items, without more equipment than screwdriver kits/household items.
I wouldn't say there is a lot of excess fuel as a percentage of the mix in exhaust gases, but there is some, by design. Maybe a few percents.

Why do we want some fuel in the exhaust? Burning an oxydizer-rich mix is not a good idea,
especially with a reusable rocket. You'll have a very hot gas that is going to burn-corrode your engine. Metals can burn in an oxygen-rich air. Now imagine that mix at 3,600 K and 300 atm pressure. You'll have what is called in the industry an 'engine-rich' burn. You don't want that.

Also, I don't know about this rocket but sometimes you want to cool down your nozzle and you can do that with unburnt fuel that you inject from the side.

Running a stochiometric mix puts you also at risk of damaging your engine (some parts of your mix might be oxygen-rich), on top of combustion temperature being higher.

Now, burning a fuel-rich mix make these problems go away. And does not decrease much your thrust: heated at very high temperatures, this residual fuel will expand and contribute to some part in the force generated.

Last, a fun fact: you can detect when then rocket leaves the upper atmosphere with the flame color! That's when the flame goes from being orange (high temp residual fuel meets oxygen from the atmosphere and burns) to being grey (flame meets the atmosphere but not enough oxygen to relight it, and soot is grey). You can clearly see it happen around 40km altitude here:

https://youtu.be/xY96v0OIcK4?t=15881
I'll be curious to see if the Chinese high speed rail survives. https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/chinas-high-speed-rai...
but don't make me do that please.

No one's making you do anything. So sick and tired of seeing this persecution complex, mainly from conservatives. "They're forcing me to eat the bugs! They're forcing me never to own a car! They're forcing me into a pod!" It's the only response you can muster when others with different opinions from yourself discuss different ways of living. Get a life, seriously.
Coinbase and Armstrong tried for months to get the SEC to tell them if their Earn/Staking product constituted a security, and they declined to answer.
Serving a Welles Notice makes it clear Gensler is a bad faith regulator

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly91bmNoYWluZWQubGl...
SEC Commissioner Hester M Peirce has written multiple times about how the SEC isn't doing their job to provide clear regulation to the industry. From what she's written, it really is that the SEC won't engage and provide regulatory clarity while publicly saying that these companies just need to talk to them to get that clarity.
I feel "The Register" specialises in headlines that can be parsed in more than one way.
NSA agent spotted /s
I don't agree with you. There are many actors in the crypto ecosystem and sadly the scammers and bad guys have, in general, better execution an exposure that the good ones. Personally I was involved in helping representatives in writing laws to move forward.

If there is no guidance you can build an organization that could be destroyed arbitrarily in one day. SEC had enough time...

I don't want to exaggerate but it seems like the financial establishment is really worried, and not precisely about money laundering and corruption. Those use everything as a tool, it does not matter if it is crypto or your "5 star" bank.
Ok, why do we tax income and capital gains (which have few externalities) vastly more than consumption (which has a lot of externalities)?
California's first Diverging Diamond opened a couple of years ago with a separated bicyclist/pedestrian path through the interchange[0]. It's a busy road that crosses over a busy freeway, so that path is only needed for the busy road (pedestrians and bicyclists are not supposed to use the freeway). In reality there are very few pedestrians in this area because things are _so_ spread out, but there are bicyclists.

[0] https://google.com/maps/@37.783523,-121.2341659,569m/data=!3...
A societal history of debt for clothes, shoes, and accessories perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layaway

There is a fairly long history of micro financing clothing purchases, with clothing stores being some of the most prominent.
They ought to. Giving advice is the difference between having the government work with the people, on the same side, and having it be an adversary.

The goal should be legal compliance and productive companies.

Not clarifying what you will or will not prosecute simply creates unnecessary fear and distrust of the system. Think of all the crime that would not be committed if only the SEC said it was criminal before hand. Maybe thousands of people wouldn’t have lost money to crypto scams if there were greater clarity.
> 5.) Many States Aren’t Safe — For So Many Reasons

> I’m not talking about crime, don’t be ridiculous. I am talking about states that have criminalized or significantly curtailed gender-affirming care and body autonomy.

This is an interesting question, but you're not going to get the answer from a terminally-online culture-war-addled substacker who thinks that gender-affirming care has a bigger impact on where "marginalized people" choose to live than crime.

Worrying about crime is "ridiculous?" For marginalized people -- who are the principal victims of crime, who bear the brunt of criminality in the United States, who express in poll after poll that it's of primary concern to them? No, surely it is a lack of access to gender-affirming care that's motivating the black exodus from North St. Louis.

This is simply not serious.
This is one of the reasons why we are probably not going to "run out of tokens" to push transformers to the next level. And we haven't even started really using visual data as inputs to train auto-regressive multi-modal LLMs.
How does a pihole compare to NextDNS? I know you can set custom lists in a pihole, are there any other differences?

NextDNS is very easy to set up. Pihole always feels like it'll be yet another thing to manage.
McHenry to Chair Gensler
Found the rich person who thinks 50$ to go 8 miles is normal
The question is the scale. How much space do you need for plants to capture a gigaton of carbon? Does earth even have that much suitable surface? And how do you put it into the ground so it can't decay and be re-processed into carbon dioxide?
I simply stopped buying consumer grade routers that is supported for 6 weeks and then using custom firmware like WRT to make it stable and give me the features that I needed.

I just bought a decent router - TPLink Omada ER605 - part of their prosumer range - stable - UI is easy and it can do LTE switchover and handle multiple types of VPN's.
A lot of Google's initial quality was due to the fact that the content it indexed was much higher quality.

Even besides the point that the websites they indexed were a lot less adversarial, they put a lot of emphasis on indexing academia, and were outspoken against what came to be their present mixed motives[1].

[1] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html#a
OpenVMS has given you more than you know.

"OCFS2 used a distributed lock manager which resembles the OpenVMS DLM but is much simpler."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCFS2
> That’s a FAAAAAAAAAAR more speculative asset than crypto and yet it still trades at higher volume than crypto does.

The difference is that most volume in crypto is fake, and the price is controlled by a small cartel of exchange owners and an $82B Bahamian counterfeiting operation whose 'bank' is run by the creator of Inspector Gadget. That's the risk that's not disclosed.
If you don't want to host your own DNS, there are also managed options.

I pay for and use both Eero Secure (intercepts DNS requests sent to non-NextDNS servers) and NextDNS (set on my clients so it's also effective when away from home).
Is there a legal definition of "development" that needs to be used? In the dictionary, the definition that most fits "software development" is "The application of techniques or technology to the production of new goods or services."

Which means that at the very least, companies should be able to classify at least some portion of salary costs as "not software development". Maintenance, bug fixing, useless meetings, etc?
Ask HN: What are top most used commands in Linux System Administration?
As a junior level customer support engineer working in ebanking/epayment company? Please guide a bit. Please make your comment different from each other so that I can get a list of all of them.
most divorced dad energy of any public figure right now by FAR.
Why did sec need anything to say when it was clear the product was a security from the beginning?
The argument is that the software developers are producing an asset (the software) that will produce revenue over time. There is an accounting principal to match revenue with expenses, so if the software will produce revenue in the future, the expense of developing the software should be delayed into the future to match.
“More”?
No, you're right, it's "en": "...en å, och i ån är en ö". "Det" would be totally ungrammatical, dialect or no dialect.
I do not recommend any of Asus routers because the hardware is unstable/buggy. The most recent purchase RT-AX58X was rebooting every 20-50 minutes, and there were no ways to fix it. Unless you want to buy multiple, test and return the buggy ones.
Do you have anything to back this up?

a few days EARLIER this was released in Israel by KAN (television chanel)..

I know you probably can't speak hebrew but here is a song made (vocals/lyrics/music) by AI, of two dead singers who are very famous in Israel (Zohar Argov and Ofra Haza).. It is convincing

https://youtu.be/7ND1Pw6QD_0

I think if it wasn't in hebrew language(and to be honest, Israeli) it would have been on HackerNews or at least on reddit somewhere.

There is also some really good ones of Curt Cobain. The AI group is a Tel Aviv startup calle Aiode.
Only Chuck Norris could use Windows...
> Not all of them, but some. Perhaps 10%.

Just listen to what you're saying:

- GPT isn't at human level because GPT isn't able to invent something new

- Not all programmers invent something new, but some. Perhaps 10%

I'm pretty sure this implies literally that 90% programmers aren't human level.

The lengths to which people are willing to go to dismiss GPT's abilities is mind boggling to me.
Reminds me of the sords in crest of the stars.
I get the strong sense of the latter. It’s not actually the SEC that decides what’s illegal or not - these charges they speak of are for the judicial branch to decide on. I don’t follow crypto much, but it sounds to me like there isn’t a legal ruling precedent yet for crypto securities (hence Coinbase’s broadcast lack of certainty), so how could the SEC even give a guidance as to what’s illegal or not when they don’t know yet? But it’s definitely their duty to find out and establish that legal precedent. Given Coinbase is thinking about moving out of the country, I suspect they actually do think it’s not going to go in their favor, and might be trying to publicly blame it on the SEC versus admit they could have an illegal business model. Even in that case, I don’t understand the complaint because they got a good run - if the SEC had been faster and clearer up front, that party may never have happened.
Digital Ocean's Postgres service launched in 2019.

I mean sure, you can learn all the other bits and pieces and I have no doubt learning them is valuable, but for a novice who just wanted to get something out there - beyond a static website - Heroku was hard to beat. Sure, it got expensive fast, and that's when you should learn how to manage hosting on your own. But at that point you had more of an idea what you needed and why.
I'm sure if it was that easy people would be doing it.
I had a DUI. Cost me 3k-ish. It only cost 10k to hire an attorney who will tell you to plead guilty anyways. Money well spent...
Except for compatibility (which will always be questionable with proprietary formats), I don't think most folks actually need Word or Excel. Most folks aren't delving into VBA and such, they just need a bunch of interlinked cells with a little math.
I don't see how one relates to the other.
You could also consider some kinds of sampling of the dataset - basically not including images that are too close together in whatever space. There are also data distillation methods that are supposed to generate a smaller training set - the ones I've seen don't generate images that look like real training samples though. I think it's definitely an interesting thing to study - it would be worth exploring what specifically the generative model can add.

I've actually done something like this with GANs, but the gains came largely from generating plausible training images that were augmentations around some invariance, as I mentioned above.
That's quite a funny idea. LUKS2 really should do this by default when creating the empty slots when the disk is initialized first time. The used slots will be overwritten by passphrases, but these other slots would be indistingishable and would waste the attacker's time.
> They are happy to let it churn for months / years (because the case is working through the system).

Is that the case? I would be surprised. I would assume success ratio does not change much by checking say 10^4 more combinations (it's either a simple combination of these strings and common prefxies/suffixes or if it's complex then the amount of combinations grows so fast that you are unlikely to get a hit)
Same here on desktop Safari. If there's one thing I can't stand is hijacking of the back button.

I'm not sure about Firefox but on other browsers you can hold the back button to see your history - then you can navigate back to HN (or wherever) from there.
I saw one once and my immediate thought was that I hope such an aberration of my natural view of the sky doesn't become common. I would describe it as eery.
They "deserve" discovery? Ever since playback devices for recorded audio have become widely available there have been far more talented musicians than listeners could make any use of. An almost infinite oversupply, that's the price musicians pay, if they want or not, for the technical/physical ability to be heard by more people than they can fit in a room, and even at times when they don't actually play. The world does not owe attention to a musician, no matter how talented. If a musician is getting heard, good for them, if not, that's life.
US-flavoured English has this type of "rap" as well, as in Raganwald faced the rap for making too many reddit-esque puns on Hacker News. The mods reviewed his rap sheet and determined that permanent expulsion was warranted for this transgression.

I believe both descend from "rap" as a form of rebuke, in one case synonymous with criticism, in the other synonymous with a conviction in a court of law.
Seems it is because companies claim it is R&D. I am not sure accountant's salary is in R&D category.
I'm not sure if this is true, but I've heard that the Republicans needed ways to offset the tax cuts made by The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. One of the ways was changing the treatment of R&E expenses.
Drake's voice isn't intellectual property, it's his own identity.

Drake has a right to decide what his voice says, and have a monopoly on it.

The AI artist is not "harmed" because they can't use Drake's voice.

I can't believe this needs to be said.
Traditional Farm Design vs. Permaculture Design
Clarity can include explaining how some laws apply in situations relevant to Coinbase or crypto currencies. Sometimes dots need to be connected.
In which case an anti-woke AI might not align with the values of Elon Musk, fire him then take his stuff.
It will hire NRA vetted security company for itself too.
(After all, he is not working for the betterment of USA enough and shareholders don't like him.)

If you want to create monsters, there's always a worse one possible...
you are so mean
> What's wrong with PulseAudio?

What's wrong is that a lot of audio hardware is Windows hardware, i.e. subtly broken.
Not sure why building cities in the Utah desert matters today. The question is much broader, I think: without some of the 1960s hedonism, would we have had some of effects of counterculture that manifested in tech? Would we have had more wars like Vietnam? How would society look like?

You can, of course, say you want a different society - but that is a different take, really.
Typical magical thinking of the generation that can't tell the difference between reality and fan fiction...
But the 'e' doesn't precede any of the forms 'åa' or 'öa', but only the indeterminate 'å' and 'ö'. The 'e' is definitely 'en', not 'det'.
If the price is controlled why does it drop so much?
If you're going to do this, then you'll need to encase those GPUs inside of some sort of inert gas and then prevent them from being tampered with. This will also significantly increase the cost of production. Geo locking has been tried before and it never works.

Dumb idea that'll never happen.
Used Routers Often Come Loaded with Corporate Secrets
...ads in the core user interface in iOS...

Where are you seeing ads in the main UI?

I occasionally see a small ad near the top of "Settings", usually for an Apple service. I don't recall ads on the home page or lock screen, or in the main Apple apps I use (Camera, Photos, Files, Health, Fitness, Watch).
Pollution is a nice way to put it. I prefer phrases such as 'cognitive assault', 'mental violence' and 'attention rape'. I really hate advertisement in all forms.
How do I learn programming?
For eg: Currently I am trying to learn bash shell scripting, text processing using bash etc. But the problem is I don't think I can learn it. Why? Because I don't know programming. In particular, problem solving. I don't know problem solving at all. I try my best but I fail. In the past, I tried learning MERN web development for around 1 year but failed to do so.

So, I am wondering how do I learn programming? Particularly, bash shell scripting. I don't need roadmap but way to learn problem solving.
I have met most of my friends through church. I have a board game group that meets every Monday night (best night for all of us) and everyone there first got to know each other at church.
no pre-mine I believe.
So if you want to stop a protest you don't agree with, you can sabotage it by committing a few crimes during it and painting the protestors with the same brush. This is especially doable if you have the support of local law enforcement or the city.
Bank Apps Know You’re You
All of it from what I understand. I think the gist is Coinbase are saying "our product is special and not something you regulate." The SEC is saying it is not a special product, we'll regulate it as we already do. Saying you're using Monopoly money instead of real dollars (but then actually using real dollars to determine value) doesn't magically create new regulatory worlds.
> sold DEC’s Hudson division [...] to Intel

Intel is having a heck of a time now getting rid of that campus in Hudson. They're trying to sell it to Portman Industrial, who want to redevelop it as a warehouse and trucking facility. But folks at the abutting senior living developments have put up a huge stink, suing Intel and the town and picketing on the street outside the location.
I've seen it. Their tag system relies on a large group of volunteers to reconcile the problems, and all the volunteers abiding by a large set of rules:

https://archiveofourown.org/wrangling_guidelines/11
> absence of any sort of opsec failures

There is no such thing.
The Desktop Experience on Linux is years ahead of Windows. Only users who have to use apps non available on Mac or Linux use Windows.
Check out my latest article in @OpenReplayHQ on "Integrating Grammarly Into Your React Website" to learn how to enhance the writing experience for your users.
> Such a thing is practically the anthesis of what it even means to be part of that group.

"Woke" is a synonym of "enlightened." Don't trust anybody who claims to be enlightened, or rails against enlightenment.
Can I pay for a Starbucks Double Frap Latte with Apple stock? Probably not, Apple stock is a security, not a currency... I'm sure someone has tried. But can I use Apple Stock as an investment vehicle? Yes.

Conversely, can I pay for said surgary drink in DodgeCoin? Well no, you can't, but not for the same reasons. Starbucks doesn't have the facilities to accept DodgeCoin. Can you use it as an investment vehicle? Yes.

And that is crux the problem. Because the answer is {"No", "Yes"}, the SEC has determined that these things (crypto) are regulated as Securities. The problem is it's far more nuanced than that. Just because everyone is using them as securities instead of currencies, does that make them securities?
It's one of those words that only gets used in headlines to save space. See also "slams".