skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely not as bad as the author, but slowly losing quality of vision is a nightmare for me. I'm very sensitive to any kind of changes and ~4 years ago my eyesight began to rapidly decline. It's still in very low numbers, but it already affected the comfort of how I live. Without glasses everything is blurry and gives me nausea, with glasses I can see, but it's not the same as having perfect vision. Myopia + Presbyopia, 30yo. It's been ~8 months since last prescription and I already need it updated. Every morning putting on glasses make my eyes hurt for first half hour or so, getting used to "focusing distance" readjustment still. Some days eyes simply feel tired and refuse to focus, yet after doing all the tests, nothing extraordinary was found about my eye issues...

Sigh.
Broken as designed?
OSS federated twitter clone.
> It's research (as in new knowledge) and development (as in new products based on existing research and knowledge).

This is... Exactly what I said?

> And yes, a carpenter developing new cabinet designs absolutely would qualify for the R&D credit (and their salary could fall under the scope of this rule change).

I feel I pretty clearly alluded to the physical process of turning wood into a cabinet, not developing novel new techniques for doing such.
I agree. I'm thinking that online exercises won't get proficiency. If that's all one does, it's just a game.

What I'm seeing for me (and it's incomplete, it might be a fiasco in a year) is that it keeps me doing at least some daily roadwork. Once you get to reading news/magazines/whatever (that's how my father expanded his ESL vocabulary) or childrens books, you can start to work beyond. The real hazard is that once you break the chain, the incentive to do something (even when you are tired) is gone, then you probably drop it altogether. So I see the gamification of 'keep the streak' as helpful.
Not in NYC
What? they are now massively losing money.
Troubleshoot Amazon ECS Apps
Remember when Raspberry Pi was a not-for-profit organization?

Me neither.
https://archive.ph/81tVW
As an American sleeper train enthusiast, my recs are:

- If you find yourself in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, the Nightjet is IMHO the best sleeper train in the world on balance. Between very reasonable fares, high hotel rates in the cities it serves, and mostly new rolling stock, it's a bargain.

- If you live on the East Coast or Midwestern US, there are several Amtrak services that are reasonably priced when booked well in advance (3-6 months). The City of New Orleans (from Chicago) or the silver services (two different NYC - Florida trains, but they take different routes through NC, SC, and GA) have much more reasonable fares than the Western routes.

- You can often get a good deal on Via Rail in Canada; they still allow you to book a single berth, and they regularly release promo fares for specific dates. The deals are available at https://www.viarail.ca/en/offers/sleeper-plus-class-deals/ and you can scroll down to see the dates and routes that there are savings on. The best deals are from the major cities in Canada (especially Montreal) to points East on the Ocean - you can get a discount private cabin from e.g. Montreal to Halifax, but you're SOL if you want to go to Vancouver in anything other than a berth. Book a Corridor to get to Montreal. These are best booked close-in, unlike Amtrak.

However, if you have the means, book a room(ette) on the Empire Builder in winter. It's simply incredible.
You gravely misunderstood the point of the analogy. The issue at hand isn't regulation, because nothing is being regulated, so there's no slippery slope. What cookie warnings and cancer warnings have in common is that they make transparent, to you the consumer, what a company or product is doing to you. You can still do it and opt into everything. It's no more regulatory than a nutritional table on a package of food.

People sometimes then have the weird reflex to blame regulators for making explicit what garbage they're being fed, when you should take it up with the company who is actually responsible for vacuuming up your data.
Very nice! If you want to add a feature, feel free to make use of https://github.com/osteele/prompt-matrix.js, which I (well, ChatGPT and I) created for use in my own playground so that I could enter e.g. "Write a <Python|JavaScript> program to look for anagrams, in the style of <Norvig|Carmack>".
For what it's worth their license is inactive and they are not operating in the capacity of a broker-dealer. They acquired the license in 2018, probably as a hedge just in case, but they are not using it.

After all, they are making the case that nothing they list are securities, so if that's true, they wouldn't fall under their broker-dealer license in the first place.

Parent is correct, a broker-dealer may not facilitate the trade of unregistered securities except to accredited investors. So unless the IRS accepts the registration, they would be in violation anyways. Which is why they're pushing the argument nothing they facilitate the trade in is a security at all and therefore exempt from registration.

I didn't read the parent comment as saying that coinbase was operating a scam, but rather that just because ICO A tries to register and fails doesn't make it somehow 'not a security' but instead that it remains an unregistered security. This is true. And in that case it could only be sold (with or without coinbase) to accredited investors.

> If they can't be registered as securities, then how can they be securities?

Simple. Not all securities are suitable for registration. A security that cannot be registered remains a security, it simply cannot be sold to individuals who are not accredited investors. And selling it to the general public would be a violation of the Securities Exchange Act.

Is a car that cannot be registered because it's not street legal somehow not a car? The fact your car fails its emissions check doesn't change its fundamental character. But it does make it unlawful to put on a highway. The DMV isn't bound to accept the registration of 'anything deemed to be a car' and if they refuse, it somehow becomes something else.

Similarly, the SEC isn't bound to accept the registration of 'anything that passes the Howey test' - quite the opposite. After all that would mean any company whose initial S-1 application is rejected could claim that their shares are now somehow actually a commodity so yolo. But that's not how this works. At all.

> They are just saying you can't register any tokens at all.

Yep.

And if the DMV said I couldn't register electric tricycles as street legal vehicles, well, I can't just go ahead and start driving them around can I? No matter my personal opinion on the matter, I'm still going to get pulled over.

Like Brian.
Explain to me why as an employee, I should care whether my employer greatly succeeds, just slides along, or slowly crumbles? As far as I can tell, except over the very long term, I end up in the same place.

Or for a more specific example, I am aware of about a 50K a year in cloud waste. But in my org, I know I won't get anything for reporting it as I am not going for a promo (promos pay a lot less than job hopping where I am) and I won't see a penny of that waste reduction as a bonus, so it is not worth it to even write a ticket for it.

I invite you to convince me otherwise.

People are finally coming to realize that as an employee, 95% of the pay is had from showing up and not getting fired.
I’ve been using this and deploying straight to vercel (where they run as serverless functions.) Took some obscure googling to get things like sequelize to work, not overall it seems to work pretty great. However I would like to be able to control the resources (e.g. adding more cpu etc) and haven’t yet found a way to do so.
Nah. I have the same code running locally without the browser IDE and same issue. CPU is all spent in the engine loop.
California is trying to build a high speed rail line connecting Merced, Fresno and Bakersfield as early as 2030-2033!

"Between 2030 and 2033, begin high-speed passenger service between Merced, Fresno and Bakersfield" [1]

[1] https://hsr.ca.gov/about/project-update-reports/2023-project...
Yeah, these people say that they want to have 7 kids because they're worried about population decline, but how many of their kids do they want to be janitors or plumbers?
CEO of Nintendo: Doug Bowser.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bowser
Well, as a comparison - the distance between SF and LA is approximately the same as between Tokyo and every city on the island.
Apparently she is still alive at 102!
How about fucking Signal. You know, the privacy oriented app that's written by one of the supposed good guys. On iOS at least the prompt to gain access to your contacts provides two choies: Yes" "Remind me later".

No. Fucking. Thanks.
> And Windows really goes the extra mile to remember what was last playing, sometimes resuming sound in a browser tab I haven't looked at in several days!

And sometimes calling up some random contact on Teams because it sticks around in the "media" panel. Good times.
Ask HN: My CTO is wrong (or worse) and nobody is challenging him. What can I do?
I am regular reader and occasional contributor to HN. This is a single-use account for reasons that are, or will become, obvious.

My company’s CTO suddenly decided that he wants to rebuild an important part of our software by buying and integrating with a certain BigCo solution. At one point, a document circulated and explained that our current software is not able to extend, scale, support new clients, etc, therefore the BigCo integration will be the way to go.

I am a senior engineer with a lot of experience in and of of this company and I seem to be the only one vocal about these problems:
- nobody actually attempted to evaluate the existing solutions that are in production and working well
- the development process is completely backwards. First, he decided on a vendor, then the senior management is working backwards to a solution based on the vendor, then some use cases are slowly popping out, and then a problem statement is written when someone is finally asking for it formally. There is no user or market research
- There are many drawbacks to the solution, and almost no advantages
- The cost of the proposed solution (including outside consultants) is very large. There is no clear benefit even on the long term, with huge delays and costs on the short term. It could bring down the whole company

In private conversations there is some skepticism on the solution, even suspicion of conflict of interest, but nobody is standing up to the CTO challenging this solution and his choice of the vendor. The CTO is known to be stubborn and authoritarian, so in these tough times for job seekers nobody is taking any risks. I am many levels below the CTO and all of of my attempts to raise concerns are quickly silenced by all the senior management I am interacting with.

Playing along feels safe but also horrible from a moral point of view. I could not keep my head up with friends or family if I do not escalate this.
But how? To the CEO, to HR, to the board? What are the legal/employment implications?
Additionally have an ICBM capability. (What is Delta?)
You have twice now misread something I have written and strawmanned a weaker argument.

But, yes, if Midjourney trained on copyrighted works, anything produced by it is in my opinion IP theft.
Well yeah, I would be pissed too if I couldn't go home proud of the work I did. Like what is even the point of pouring you heart and soul into a thing if by the time anyone sees it it's just a wall of ads?
This calculation will apply with any level of profitability. The tax simply goes up. My questions is how the large software development companies (Google) are dealign with this? It would be $10s of billions of extra tax for each of them. We didn't hear the outcry. If they were to pay extra $10s of billions, presumably they could get the whole country up in arms quickly. Maybe this relates only to the portion of software development that us declared as an R&D expense? The regular software engineers' salaries would be the cost of goods/services sold?
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944772
Update: One of the things I overlooked when using that quote is that it appears to say that we can prove the truth of any undecidable sentence, but Penrose's argument is made only with respect to the formalization, in a consistent and sufficiently strong [1] system S, of the sentence "the truth of this sentence is not provable in S". Both Lucas and Penrose claim that we will see that it is true (but, as it asserts, not provable in S) as the alternative leads to contradiction.

This depends on S being consistent. Lucas and Penrose apparently suppose that any proposal for explaining thinking as a computational process would, ipso facto, cast a mind as a concrete instantiation of a consistent formal system. [2]

Putting aside any thoughts of whether this is persuasive, I think this seems to be a case of Lucas and Penrose doing what they claim is uniquely human: thinking outside of the box of formal proof. More generally, almost none of human knowledge is couched as a formal proof of something or other, and almost none of it has been acquired that way.

[1] More precisely, one in which a “moderate amount of number theory” can be proven.

[2] J.R.Lucas, "Minds, Machines and Gödel", 1961.
The concept of a Federal government was only expanded in recent (post Commerce clause) times. Historically, the government was meant to be a thin layer uniting a bunch of States together. Within that framework, the Senate made more sense; it was meant to be more of a UN of the States than a representative body. The Constitution throughout was a balance between populist and non-populist interests as the founders had a strong distrust of purely populist rule.

If you're a believer in the somewhat more modern American ideal of a purely populist government then yes, the current Senate makes more sense, but then it doesn't make sense as to why the Senate grants equal power to each state no matter how populous.
FDNY deploys robotic dog for first time in collapsed garage search
Had the most sublime soba ever at Juugo in Kyoto. Small shop right off the Philosopher's Path. Literally farm-to-table, every serving made to order by chef-owner Ishhibashi-san who harvests his own buckwheat on his farm. Amazing what magic he conjures with just buckwheat and water. Try his sobagaki as well.
I am not sure what you mean by 'trust it'? As in, does it display the data as it should?
It is difficult to find free open source data visualization tools that can run in the browser, that anybody could log-in and use right away.
For my personal analytics I use Tableau, connected to the same dataset.
In Mexico you can buy a (private) head
MRI scan with contrast for around $300 USD. It's really cheap. So theoretically you could do one every couple of months.
Yes that does sound quite interesting and valuable v line of research but don’t you think one-off high-res MRI scans might advance humanities understanding of the brain in a meaningful way more so than low-field MRIs for all? I think this is more about the long game (scientific development) than how an average person right now could benefit from the new advance perhaps.
Yea right now sure. Later, there will be a clear incentive. Or not, if AI fails to become useful.
In french theatre has specific words for left and right. Côté cour et Côté jardin. Courtside and garden side.

In geography left and right banks of a river are always in the direction of the flow
With the loss of Netflix DVDs, what happens to everyone who wants access to the huge catalog?

Or who wants to refer people to obscure titles, even if those people normally aren't interested in a huge catalog?

(Are we back to monitoring eBay for used discs of titles we want to watch? Do we end up paying for all the umpteen half-butted streaming services, every time we add another service to get a specific title? Is there some tablescraps streaming service that can pick up all/most obscure titles, to supplement subscribing to one mainstream streaming service rather than all of them?)
Netflix has up to 16Mbps bitrate for its 4k video streams. Bluray is up to 128Mbps. That's a ton more space for avoiding compression artifacts, even though Bluray is lossless. Netflix compresses its video to shit so that it can save money on network costs. (https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...)

My subjective opinion is that Netflix has the worst video quality, though I've had some really bad experiences with Amazon Prime too. But Netflix is worse for me because some shows on Netflix can never get to the max bitrate they offer. For example, the last season of Peaky Blinders on 1080p Netflix had a ton of very noticeable compression artifacts, but that's not always the case for 1080p content. They just encoded it very poorly on the backend.

Apple TV+ has the best bitrate (up to 40Mbps), and Disney+ and HBO Max are decent as well.
> What I want to add is that the Raspberry Pi 400 always stayed in stock, and I’ve bought one for my child. So you’re also wrong on that aspect as well.

Not in my part of the world. In the US, Chicago area, the Raspberry Pi is carried by Microcenter. They seem to have a steady supply of the 3 Pico variants. It ends there. I think I've seen the 400 on average one or two days/month for at least a year. 3A+ same. A bit less for the Zero/Zero W and even less for the 4B variants. I haven't seen a CM4 at Microcenter ever that I can recall. I found 3 US vendors who will take a backorder for the CM4. I've had one on backorder with all three since 3rd quarter 2022.
Where did you see that title? I'm a fullstack Javascript ML data scientist and I've never seen anyone call themselves a prompt engineer.
Fortunately he has passed away and can no longer argue this idea with the hagiographic veil of authority.
They have linux app, just not as good as in Windows, Mac.

https://tableplus.com/linux
"Any company can theoretically choose to not be profitable, by reinvesting all of its profits, and investors typically don’t care if their value is returned via growth or dividends. " - the Amazon model for its first 20 years :).

Amazon was founded in 1994 and it started to make profits reliably in 2016 : https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-in...
Completionist
There are people who look at my portfolio and say that the work done at Appleseed is the best of all.

And I completely agree with them, this rendering engine is a direct competitor not only to Luxcore in terms of "delicacy", it not only significantly outperforms Octane, V-ray, RedShift, but also outperforms Corona.
I think Luxcore and Appleseed are two of the best rendering engines out there.
Unfortunately, they are both on the verge of extinction.
Appleseed is good because it renders quickly, although it uses only the processor. Minimum settings, very simple. The most responsive interactive rendering in Blender, even faster than Cycles!
Seriously, stopping the development of this project is the biggest blow to the rendering engines available in Blender.
Seriously, with its support for modern versions of Blender, with Bevel-shader and CryptoMate, I am ready to use it on a paid basis, paying around $200 annually - this render is so good! So much better than Octane even free. So much better than Cycles.
I hope Appleseed gets a revival one day
https://cdn.freelance.ru/img/portfolio/pics/00/40/66/4220552...
It happened to me on Arch during the switch from init to systemd.

Update was documented, but I didn’t look. Did my `pacman -syua` as I normally did on a daily, and rebooted to a totally borked system. This is when I was a grad student and really needed that laptop that week.

I still love Arch, but I can’t trust it anymore as a daily driver.
That doesn't seem to be achieving dynamic DNS :)
Purchase on Amazon?
The modern ("two-track") system was designed to be less disruptive to the Senate overall because it allows votes to happen on other, non-controversial bills while the filibuster is ongoing.
I'm quite sure there was a way of preventing this without having a random app running. I actually did use itunes, and later music, but also used that key for other purposes, like Spotify. iTunes / Music never came up on its own when I used my BT headphones (Sony and Shure).

I don't use a mac anymore, so don't quite remember the specifics, but a quick search brings this up (old, so may not work anymore): https://www.howtogeek.com/274345/stop-itunes-from-launching-...
I did this on Windows too. Why even bother giving someone "click here then here the look for this menu on the right" when I can just send them a PowerShell script.
Great visual - very elegant! Although the denied requests look slightly wrong: perhaps quickly “bouncing” (less ease-in) and off the outside of the receivers would make it more understandable? But still a fantastic demo without any changes, bravo.
It's evident by the replies that many people don't share your experience. I've also had very effective support from AWS, from technical issues to spending optimizations. You seem to really care about whether a ticket exists to track your issue, which I don't really care about if I'm emailing a person and my issue is resolved.

Based on all the feedback you are receiving, it may be wise to reevaluate your points of contact with AWS and make sure you are speaking to the right person, and in the right way. Sorry to hear you've had bad luck until now.
I think we're talking past each other a bit. I know we were talking about browsers but then you mentioned the API for following. There's two ways to interpret that: the way the client communicates the request to follow to its home server, or the way that server contacts the other server to take the follow action. I'm asking you which you were referring to when you say it's Mastodon specific.

The web browser protocol would only need to take you to the user's profile on your home server. The actions you request with your client after that are a separate step.
They just launched 2000Mbit down here, for only 8 bucks more, but still 35Mbit up :(.
Indeed, and not only with HTTP. Stateless UDP protocols are the poster child for bad load balancing as a result of technology “tricking down” from HTTP. Push makes even more sense for those protocols.
Contra Kriss on Nerds and Hipsters
An additional starboard/port issue is right of way for sailboats. Suppose that you're going upwind and two close hauled boats are crossing. Who has right of way?

When boats are on opposite tacks, a port-tack boat shall keep clear of a starboard-tack boat. Rule 10.

A boat is on the tack, starboard or port, corresponding to her windward side. RRS Definitions.
In India, you can book an appointment for MRI scans at private clinics the very same day or at worst within 1-2 days. Costs about USD 100 or lesser.

There is also this startup - https://qure.ai (Not my employer, I know someone who works there) which has already automated the report generation part for several classes of X Ray / CT / Ultrasound scans. This takes away the requirement of having a trained Radiologist to go through the scan and then create a report, which certainly helps in scaling the availability of such scans - you just need the machine and trained staff to operate it, and are not dependent upon having a doctor with a postgrad in radiology to write the reports.
You can do it in the dconf editor UI but showing the commands is way easier.
I dunno, it still might be pretty tricky to put together 60 votes for cloture in a 3 or 4 party system. It might even be harder!

Fractious multi-party coalitions in parliamentary systems commonly fail to scrape together bare majorities- they're not exactly known for making it easy to produce supermajorities either.
"Stop using telnet" sounds like it's advocating to stop using telnet because of something that's wrong with it. The article actually is about writing scripts to do more complex things on top of telnet and other utilities.

While the content in the article is useful the title is misleading.
I'm loving Proton on Ubuntu.