skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ex-girlfriend had shifted deeper into women's studies, had spent a week or so chuckling over the fact that you could castrate by crushing, and in a bit of anger over my not living up to her ideals (we were still friends) called me "a racist sexist homophobe" which was the worst insult she could think of. Women have dealt with a lot of shit, so I understand the enjoyment of misery, but my testicles recoiled.

At 20 or so, I was more of the latter two than I am now, not at all the last one that I can tell and conscious of my failings at the second one. Product of Chicago in the 70's.

The insult came, if I remember the sequence of events correctly, after I said that in my experience white people can come by racism from daily experience, not just other people spewing it. I was mugged five times from 5th grade through high school, jumped for fun once, had an older girl say "come here little white boy, let me set your hair on fire" holding matches when I was in second grade, and had a crowd of 5 or 6 follow me and a friend home chanting "honky" and running up to almost touch us, I think around 6th or 7th grade. I've never been anonymously attacked by a white person, just a statistic but it's mine. I've also had plenty of black friends over the years.

When I was in college I did a small thesis on race riots in Chicago. To my suprise, most have been whites rioting against blacks, especially moving onto a white block, and they were mostly not reported on in the papers to avoid spreading the word. I gained total sympathy for the shit they went through, and of course their kids would grow up feeling the burn too and trying to maybe even the score. It just creates a cycle that sucks. Gandhi and King were right, though progress hurts while the cycle is getting stopped.
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The world needs an international agency for artificial intelligence
Indeed. Another title for this announcement would be "Netflix removes well over 90% of its catalog."
I don't know about "society is breaking down" but as someone with pre-existing trepidation over computerized voting, I agree that it's going to be really frustrating to try to take that position anymore without being labeled some MAGA nutjob.
Valve (Steam Deck) using it and paying devs to fix things also helps.
No, general user sentiment hasn't shifted. It's not that people's opinions have changed, it's that people who were already right wing bigots now feel it's ok to openly express their right wing bigotry, thanks to Trump.
Presumably this machine would work better if I were feeding CO2 straight into it, rather than have it suck it out of the 420 ppm air.
My guess is a reported bug is opex, since it's fixing a defect on something that exists. But adding an API would be capex.
> If you do play kerbal you know that getting a big circular orbit to become a very eccentric one (if you don’t care about reentry speed which is a feature here) is pretty cheap

No its not?!

Simply getting a flyby from one planetary orbit to another is exactly the kind of expensive that I'm talking about, and thats basically what you get on impact.
It's actually illegal, reject should be as fast as accept.
Germans are actually the most inoculated against that type of virus, they will be the last to fall. They are at the forefront of anti-authoritarian efforts in technology, for example.

US/UK/France, on the other hand...
Will your head explode when he loses in 2024?
> ETL stands for Extract, Load, and Transform of data.
Lisbon suburbs
as long as it's shiny and white
You can still safely do touchscreen voting in this system: just use ballot-marking devices that produce human-readable paper ballots. That's what happens in Cook County: you vote on a touchscreen (if you don't request a big cardboard paper ballot) and get a printed ballot that you cast as if you had marked paper yourself.
Catch 22: if you claimed the loss for the value of the hours worked, you would also end up having to pay income tax on the value of hours worked.

Paying yourself is a lose-lose game.
> a lower bound on how little we can write to get a sufficiently specific spec for the AI to generate correct code.

Interesting though. I believe a lower bound for the number of bits must be at least the log (in base 2) of the probability of such code to appear "in the wild", and larger if the training set is biased and/or the model not fully trained
This is an interesting line of reasoning, does it also apply to HN karma and the big acquirers of karma?
Legal requirements are probably the only way to handle server side tracking, data brokers, etc..

Though they might be hard to enforce.
I upvoted that.

Anyway, IIRC the project I'm talking about was a kitten only placeholders.
The state is mainly composed of all the other municipalities that aren't Cupertino, and they're the ones losing out financially.
> The founders designed a system that was slow to act on purpose. They did not want a strong federal government.

Spot on. Yet we continue to insist on using the system in a way (i.e., overly strong fed gov) that it's not good for. This isn't a Dem or Republican issue. It's history.

And the more taxes Uncle Sam collects, the stronger and more bloated he gets. At some level we need to come to terms with the fact that we're using a screwdriver as a hammer. That doesn't work well. Ever.
Sure, but that's because the threat of "just buying originals" existed. Publishers had to choose from "be paid some money, and Netflix gets a deal on copies of movies," or "be paid zero money, and Netflix pays extra to scrounge up copies of those movies from somebody else." Netflix (and movie viewers) get what they want either way, so the publisher can't just hold firm on a high price or block distribution of the film.
That's not legal in the US though, at least the "destroy if shit hits the fan" part. The only legal solution is a secure password that's never written down or told to anyone else, ever. I really do mean ever, if the police have given up on you but they later find out that there was no incriminating evidence against you on the drive, they could charge you years later for obstructing the investigation. You and your lawyer need to come up with a glomar response strategy (i.e. "neither confirm nor deny") that there is anything on the drive that could incriminate you. You are not protected from providing the data/password if the contents incriminate people other than you and not you, so never say under oath that there's nothing incriminating on your drive, because they will make you prove it.
Does their audience even use search?
So they print the actual ballot with the voter’s selections on it that the voter puts into a sealed box?
Just like large tech companies a billion in fines here and there throughout the years is the cost of doing business.
On the BBC article:

> Dominion chief executive John Poulos told a press conference the deal included Fox "admitting to telling lies, causing enormous damage to my company".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65318654
DeSantis will primary and Trump will run independent, splitting the party.
Pretty cool, but maybe a bit busy? Would make a good screensaver.
Yeah, no idea where I got this $100bn number in my head... I guess that does sound pretty ridiculous now that I think about it!
Let's hope the democrats can hack the Dominion machines for real this time

/s
Scaling requests per second with Python for a sync app
I've done shit all to follow up but Corba retains a huge special place in my mind as the excuse everyone uses for giving up. It's the albatross around trying for beat distributed systems neck.

This post is just a mild opening, a brief start, in the Speaking for the Dead of CORBA. It's still vastly more useful context on a deep issue than we've seen in well over a decade, probably.
For many small software companies, making software is more like making a custom table rather than an actual investment.
Not the same. Redbox is a good Blockbuster replacement in that they have a good selection of recent hits, but not much else. What made Netflix magical was that it had a huge back catalog - larger than any rental store or library I have ever used.
Honestly those are more like gimmicks from an advanced user standpoint as the I still don't care about cookies extension does the job just fine as far as I'm concerned, and while this may indeed make a good headline or feature I think development may lack emphasis on the core of firefox and what makes it a good browser.

There is much more fundamental and core functionality missing which has been requested for years like this for example
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325692

In general it would be good having such functionality built-in, I guess they're gonna have to maintain it as well.

All and all, I'm glad to see any kind of progress on the browser and in any case wish them the very best.
From the linked blog post (2017)

> Even with this data, you could not train a deep learning model to simply read a product description and generate the appropriate codebase.

Would be make the same claim now I wonder?
TIL it's still going.
There's two popular NYC subreddits. If two, why not three?
I usually don't. I went carless for a decade (not easy where I live). But sometimes I didn't plan ahead enough to cook at home, and my wife comes home exhausted. I just don't have the spine to demand that she bike a few miles for her dinner, nor do I want to bring her something cold. People with kids are in a similar situation.

You can be a purist if you want, but you'll never convince anybody if you can't meet them where they're at.
I would say the Star influenced Apple. They saw how bad it's sales figures were and said "Let's not do THAT!" and then noticed they had built the Lisa to target essentially the same market with the same "task based software" (i.e. - limited 3rd party apps) strategy. The comparative failure of both the Lisa and the Star in terms of sales figures most certainly should have raised the profile of the Mac within Apple's executive ranks.
Thanks. It's so weird that it spits almost-but-not-quite correct numbers.
It's just an example. Another is paint. The rule is close to but not exactly "if it lasts more than a year it has to be depreciated instead of expensed."

The book value of the k8s work could be completely expensed as soon as it is replaced.

Also, your belief that "software is a liability" is irrelevant. What matters is that tax law calls software an asset (as does most everyone else, even ones who fundamentally understand it).
Regardless, the diagram on the Zerodium website (at http://zerodium.com/program.html, under "ZERODIUM Payouts for Mobiles") does not seem to indicate that iOS exploits are cheaper. Am I missing something?
Correct -- and studios decided to go direct-to-consumer in the late 1990s, realizing they could sell way more discs for $14.99 (often sold for $9.99) to the general public than they could sell $50 discs to rental shops. Plus, the technology allowed studios to digitize their back catalogs that had never had home video releases, opening up a new revenue stream that would last another decade until over-saturation and the recession stopped growth (the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray battle didn't help) and consumers transitioned very quickly from VOD/digital purchases to streaming.

When direct-to-consumer happened, there was typically not any difference between when a large rental chain got a disc and when I could pick mine up on Tuesday morning at Best Buy (or get it in the mail, sometimes arriving the day before) or wherever.

Some chains like Blockbuster did sign rental agreements with studios both because of the bulk orders they needed and because for a few years, Blockbuster had to stock VHS tapes AND DVDs and the studios would basically make them sign those agreements if they still wanted to get VHS tapes -- but nothing stopped them from carrying the home release versions from retail if a rental copy was not available. And as you say, nothing stopped the indie shops from buying Tuesday morning at 10am and then immediately putting them out to rent.
Companies don't actually care at all when you say no. Developers who can leverage a 2% kpi bump into a promotion care, and are driving this. (And to be clear, they don't get the promotion because "the company" cares, but because their management chain can transitively benefit.
GPT-3.5 is probably a finetuned Curie (13B). But GPT-J is so far down on the benchmarks, it's definitely not "ChatGPT-grade".

Vicuna-13B v1.1 is arguably though.
Apple TV+ has the best quality/bitrate for 4k, I wish Netflix would up their bitrate a bit as quality seems pretty mediocre.

The bigger problem with Netflix 4k though is that the "look" of every show is extremely uniform -- to the point that its almost like the same people made every show! This is suspected to be due to the small set of "approved" equipment Netflix requires the producers/cast/crew to use and standardized post-processing. They should allow more freedom in that respect -- many non-Netflix shows these days have a lot more personality simply because they don't have that muted/desaturated Netflix look.
It wasn't, then or in the 1860s, hence the strong, modern, adaptive federalism we have today that treats states as provinces and makes important things move quickly.

One could squint and say states matter today, but that's just admitting a need for glasses. They are ghosts of what they were, and increasingly need to be retired.

It will be nice when we put to pasture the policy-as-experiments across states for things that are clearly universally demanded: finance, health insurance, women's medical care, education, defense, gun control, decreased corporate control of the food supply, transportation, environmental regulation, and so forth. It's amazing how much the modern GOP has pushed folks towards this, may they continue their business Republican-led shenanigans to unite the country and encourage progress when otherwise we would be slovenly.

Why is this the case? Duplication of fixed costs are expensive.

Let's get rid of these crufty overindulgent home-owners-associations-on-steriods and federalize already.

(paragraphs 1, 4 serious, the rest in jest)
Yes, that change happened early on. They could print DVDs on demand at negligible cost to Netflix and in return the studios received a fixed fee per rental instead of a fixed fee per DVD.

A major problem was the high breakage rate for the DVDs they were renting. This created issues with the supply chain of new DVDs to replace broken ones since DVDs are not considered continuously consumed, disposable products. Additionally, it made it easier to manage the bursty nature of demand for particular DVDs since you no longer had to optimize the economics around the number of rentals per physical DVD.
What I'll really miss about Netflix DVD is the recommendation system. It adapted to the user rather than showing some pointless average. I graded things from 1-5 with 3 being a movie I liked and when it showed me ratings, it would show me what my expected rating would be. So when I saw a three star movie, I could expect to like it. If I saw a 4 star movie I could expect to really like it. I've not seen anything to replicate that since.
I don't think there is a shift to the right, but rather a shift towards authoritarianism.

It's pretty surprising to see people on 'hacker'news so in favour of government surveillance/censorship.
https://archive.is/8Kx4v
Except that they cost real people real money.
I don't see a date. Anyone know? I still have this service. Like the other commenters, I have it to get access to content I can't otherwise get. Netflix streaming is, honestly, not full of very interesting titles. The DVD catalog is much more interesting.
> my generation has done a pretty good job of screwing things up, and it’s fairly understandable, that the succeeding generations have some resentment, about that.

(I think we're of the same generation.)

I agree. But I also remember being young and realizing that my parent's generation also did a pretty good job of screwing things up, leading to resentment in our generation, and a fairly overt sentiment that once the old farts have moved on, we'd be the generation that puts things right.

Funny, that.

I rather suspect that every generation thinks like this.

As the truism goes, every generation thinks both that they invented sex and that they're the last generation before the fall of civilization.
Alas, Apple would never have allowed that to happen.
> This is why the DVD service had so many more titles than the streaming service. At least when I was actively using it.

It still does. Just think of a movie or show and search for it, and they'll probably have it, although they seem to be missing the occasional season.

I think the DVD site would still be popular if more people were aware of the size of its catalog. Most probably assume it has the same catalog as the streaming service.
The cookie dialog must be there in case you want to do cracking cookies. If you don't place the tracking cookies, no need for a dialog IIRC.

But most sites didn't get the hint of "just don't track" and still want to track you.
I'm not an AI company but I believe these changes will impact me
I didn't really want to go in to direct server return. I think most people will be more familiar with using something like nginx as a reverse proxy and load balancer at the same time. It is very cool tech, though. :)
Yeah, he sure does gleefully admit that he'd abuse presidential power to lie in under to get what he wants! Good thing there's no other context where Carlson's in control of disseminating information in order to get what he wants!
You make a good point about the relatively small size of Fox News, but I'd argue that they can still afford it and their relatively low financial capitalization is outweighed by the enormous political capital they are able to leverage.

Except they basically didn't buy their way out of the humiliation.

Yes they did. The embarrassment of having text messages quoted in legal documents (and subsequently in the media) is nothing compared o the having Rupert Murdoch, Tucker Carlson etc. being subjected to cross-examination under oath and having to make admissions (probably on camera) in a forum they don't control from top to bottom. Bear in mind that the target audience for Fox News watches a lot of TV because they don't enjoy reading. Words don't have the same kind of emotional force as personal testimony.

If your answer is that Fox has caused more harm than just the harm to Dominion, that's a different trial.

It is, and the fact that it's a different trial is part of the problem. The anglo-American legal system is full of procedural arguments which are generally gamed for the advantage of powerful incumbents, and even a large-ish company like dominion has to balance their desire for full accountability and transparency with the fiscal reality of a bird in the hand being worth two in the bush. It's extraordinarily difficult to mount class actions and meet the procedural threshold for establishing harm, so all the incentives run towards a transactional approach.

This is a bad thing my view, on the basis that 'justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.' As it is Fox writes a painfully large check to Dominion but gets to issue an anodyne statement expressing its commitment to the highest standards of journalism [puke emoji] while continuing to pursue the lowest common denominator in its audience's imaginary. As you're probably aware, Fox has barely covered the fact of this litigation. Unless its audience sees someone like Tucker Carlson sweating it out on the witness stand, this whole thing may as well not have happened for them.
You're incorrect, the first filibuster was 11 years after the Constitution was ratified and have been common since 1917 and common in their current form since 1970 (that's 53 years not 10-15)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_State...
So none of the BS was broadcast over public airwaves by Fox?
very cool , gives me a headache
I doubt they would adopt and maintain something like a formatter or linter in the core nodejs project. Look into Rome Tools, it's incomplete and progress seems pretty slow, but it's what you're describing, and they have some great developers working on it.

>Rome is designed to replace Babel, ESLint, webpack, Prettier, Jest, and others.
https://rome.tools/
> Microsoft is selling your eyeballs to advertisers: You are the product not the customer.

> Vendors are buying windows from Microsoft and installing it onto a computer and selling that computer to you. You are buying a computer not windows.

Sometimes people are buying Windows[1].

It is possible to be the customer for the OS and the product for the ads at the same time.

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1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-home/dg7gmgf0kr...
To be fair, software development in 1954 is not software development today. It's less pure research. It's more akin to building the electrical infrastructure you need for a business. Even though I see the logic of treating software developed as a capitalized asset, I don't necessarily think the outcome will be net good.
I honestly don't wish to do the original poster down, but has anyone actually found code visualisation things like this (graph or otherwise) useful, as opposed to just pretty?

It seems like you would only really have need for visualisation if your codebase is complex enough. And if it is complex enough, visualising it is generally something of a mess.

What actionable insights can be generated? Has anyone changed anything as a result of such a visualisation?

It always feels to me like you're better off figuring out which modules you have shouldn't depend on certain other modules and finding only those links. Which is often best done with a simple ripgrep, no?
What's missing from cryptsetup? What would you like the state of the tooling to be?

One big issue I see is that generating an initramfs is a very distro-dependent process and the glue to unlock your disk is not the most consistent. On the other hand, systemd now handles crypttab.
There's no way to register these securities with the SEC, because their creators aren't interested in being in compliance with securities laws. It would require more transparency and accountability than they would like.

As a result, the SEC does not allow anyone to run an exchange that trades those illegal securities.

Being a registered security isn't hard, all sorts of stupid and speculative instruments get registered. If your shitcoin isn't able to get registered, the fault is with it, not the SEC. If your exchange isn't allowed to trade that shitcoin, the fault is with the coin, not the SEC. It's not the SEC's job to provide guidance on how to run an exchange that trades in unregistered securities. The only guidance it should provide in answer to that query is 'You can't.'
This is exactly what will happen. Even if Trump doesn't run independent, a large portion of his cultists won't vote for DeSantis because they will feel betrayed by the GOP.

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/72760452215622860...
Just like AMD, Nvidia and by extension TSMC and ASML?
I remember DVDs coming with a message before the main feature asking you to call Fox if you had rented the DVD instead of purchased it so they could crack down on unauthorized distribution.
List of Windows 11 CLSID Key (GUID) Shortcuts
But that matters very little. What matters is people at large not wanting these machines anymore, until then, we will keep having them.
Yeah, it's kind of suspicious when the police go in to arrest someone busting windows and everyone in the protest tries to stop the police...
Yes, but in all those cases, the settlement terms were not disclosed. What is somewhat unusual here is not just the high amount, but also that it was disclosed — which may very well have been another condition of the settlement that Dominion insisted on.