skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My apologies for not being terminally online.

So says the one with 9000+ HN points, sitting here for a decade and still commenting here every. day.

There's no need for you to apologize for making me laugh at you for not being able to look at the time and it's clear you're very upset over the *silence* comment.

> 1. It still makes your "silence" comment look premature, and

Premature to what? The answer is obvious to everyone and the link I gave earlier already explains the amount of email users one would lose if they were filtered and blacklisted from Gmail which is the whole point of the parent's comment.

If I were to collect lots of emails for a newsletter, I can guarantee you that most of them will be Gmail users and if my domain was blacklisted by Gmail, my reach will be significantly limited, either having it being sent straight into the spam folder or even outright blocked by Gmail by the advanced spam filters.

> 2. If even I can still get mails delivered to GMail inboxen as an ordinary person running a personal mail server, an actual (legitimate) business should have no trouble with that whatsoever.

But most people still go with centralized services as outlined by the article I gave earlier, and they don't run their own email services either. What if this 'actual (legitimate) business' is using GSuite, Exchange, etc which has the same anti-spam checks and blacklists as well?

> Do you have any examples of GMail blocking its own users from sending an email to a domain it doesn't like?

It has been known that GMail has a so-called 'dangerous url' list(s) to prevent its own users from sending emails to domains on their blacklist. [0] There are countless reports on social media which GMail blocks the sending of emails from such domains. Once example: [1], and another [2].

In both cases either way, the centralized email providers get to decide what goes through their spam filters and blacklists and that negatively affect those running their own email servers and trying to reach users that are on centralized email providers like Gmail. Henceforth such problems like this [3].

So in conclusion: Your reach will be significantly limited if you do not pass Gmail's spam filters (or any other of the major email providers filters) and users don't run their own services because: (1) They are not techies or sysadmins, (2) Even if they were they can't deal with the insurmountable spam issues and (3) They would rather sign up to a managed solution on a centralized platform than maintain it themselves. Hence this again: [4]

[0] https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/2696779#ts=92...

[1] https://twitter.com/rk_namo/status/1027469262556778497

[2] https://twitter.com/Marcia_Cat/status/1196387907172364295

[3] https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23403259/google-gmail-re...

[4] https://mailchimp.com/resources/most-used-email-service-prov...
So what would be better then? Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, Bytedance?

At least FB doesn't promote stupid challenges that send people to the hospital with cracked skulls like TikTok.
My rant about OAuth: It is overly complex because it has too many features to satisfy each and every enterprise case.

For me who runs a simple website (no 3rd party login), I learned that OAuth2 is just not a good choice. JWE/JWT and samesite=strict plus HttpOnly cookies are reasonably simple, yet secure enough.
> HDR is probably HDR and not some other clever name because there was no obvious clever name with an easy pronunciation.

Wouldn't matter, people would complain anyway. HDRs gonna H8.
Training Stable Diffusion from Scratch for <$50k
This is untrue. Anyone can verify this by hitting the API using their key:

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/models \
-H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN" | \
jq '.data[].id'

Curious how you got it though. Perhaps you had an account for awhile?
The corner of the weightlifting world I keep an eye on has centralized around protein, veggies, and few carbs.

The other angle to look at is satiety; good food should also have a satiety so you don't go back and munch. :)
I think it’s disturbing you asked someone to change their content and even more disturbing that they complied. You are experienced at moderating Havker News have no business being a global censor for content out in the world. This sucks.

As a reader I’d have appreciated the original. And I’d appreciate a nice HN alternative.
TF1 was pretty rough to use, but beat the pants off Theano for usability, which was really the best thing going before it. Sure it was slow as dirt ("tensorslow") even though the awkward design was justified on being able to make it fast. But it was by far the best thing going for a long time.

Google really killed TF with the transition to TF2. Backwards incompatible everything? This only makes sense if you live in a giant monorepo with tools that rewrite everybody's code whenever you change an interface. (e.g. inside google). On the outside it took TF's biggest asset and turned it into a liability. Every library, blog post, stackoverflow post, etc talking about TF was now wrong. So anybody trying to figure out how to get started or build something was forced into confusion. Not sure about this, but I suspect it's Chollet's fault.
Parents support their children, then when the parents are retired the children support them.

Is publicly funded childcare and eldercare a Ponzi scheme?
People are happy to ignore the reasons why the Brexit vote happened in the first place, or why similar anti-establishment votes keep happening throughout the western world.

There are systemic issues that no main stream political project seems capable of addressing, it's pointless to simply remove some trade barriers again to paper things over, and then pat ourselves on the back and pretend they are being solved.

Brexit has exposed some of those issues, and made it clear where the responsibility lies. by exposing them and focusing attention on them it has created a real opportunity to address them, although I imagine that opportunity will be missed.
>> Look up what a “competitive market” is, and the implications on cost to the consumer.

I'll pass since I have more important things to do.

I've worked with the industry (entertainment that is) and it is graft covered in glitz. Trust me, the major studios including Netflix all collude with one another. They'll use AI to drive down their costs while slowly creeping up their streaming fees.

Deflation for me and not for thee is the name of the game, especially when it comes to AI.
CGNAT routers aren't cheap. At some point you're spending more keeping your IPv4 running than it would take to replace it.
3nm should be (small) enough for anybody...
What a detestably callous comment. Do your job, dang.
lots of vendors sell tractors across a line which all have the same engine, but whose horsepower is limited by the ECU according to the actual model that is purchased. pay for the low end model in a line, get lower horsepower. pay for the top of the line, get more horsepower, even though they are physically the same engine.

it allows for manufacturers to greatly simplify manufacturing requirements and lower costs, and it allows farmers to buy the tractor they need today and to grow into upgrades as they need them, without the downtime or expense of an engine swap if they need horsepower later.

manufacturers are afraid that the tools they would be required to provide could allow someone to "upgrade" their engine for free, but that's not what right to repair is about, and I would be surprised if a law required that upgrades like this be made possible by end users free of charge.

so it's a legit concern if you are a manufacturer of tractors and you compare what's being done in other areas of consumer electronics. oscilloscopes today are often sold in this same way: all models have the same potential for performance but are limited in software, so hackers bypass or trick the software to unlock the higher speeds when you only paid for the entry-level scope. In reality it is not much of a concern, since the percentage of customers who do this is extremely small.

the main problem for tractor manufacturers is that new regulations require them to spend money in order to be in compliance with those regulations. money that was not budgeted and which affects earnings reports and changes work priorities within a company. The desire to avoid regulations which require expenditure of any kind is what is drives the motivation of every company that resists right to repair efforts.
That's not how any of this works what do you even mean by compositional power? Every model speaks a different "language" comparing prompts like this has no merit and shows only that the person who makes the claim lacks understanding of the subject matter.
In most countries you can't even get an ASN as a private individual. I found I couldn't without having a business identity.
The Starlink LTE has a bandwidth of 5 Mbps per cell. It is only usable for text messaging and voice calls. It can't replace Starlink internet service or regular mobile service. It competes with satellite phones and satellite messengers.
As someone who has the bad habit of lying in bed at night with my laptop on my chest and my hands tucked into the sheets reading and watching things, I think this is great!
How does this work? If you're rich you get to refuse to show up to prison? I never realized that just choosing not to show up was an option.

Seems kind of strange that she could (presumably) be in court and sentenced and not immediately taken away to start her time.
> Lawyers for the disgraced entrepreneur told a judge she would not be turning herself in as she is appealing custody ruling

If a poor person did this, they’d be a fugitive.
I agree with you for the most part, but I don't get on their case so much because the kinds of advancement (e.g. re: recycling) that you'd need to settle on Mars are also the kinds of advancement you'd need to fix things here on Earth.

We live in an environment that's we're so conveniently adapted for us that it's easy to take for granted. You can spend your whole life doing damage to this precious thing we all got for free and die before the consequences of your actions catch up with you. It's all too easy to just miss ecological thinking altogether.

On a spacecraft though, or a Martian colony, the f-around-find-out cycle is gonna be deadly short. You're gonna need everyone in board with doing what they need to to stay alive.

Again, something we desperately need on Earth.

So let them fail to colonize Mars. Let them fail 100 times. Because what we learn from those failures just might save us at home.
Unclear what the article is saying. Judge ruled against her and so she’s “declining to turn herself in.” So… Just arrest her and take her to jail then?

Any lawyers that can advise on what’s going on here?
I had a power outage recently, and everything I had downloaded but a children's movie had expired... This feature really got eaten by that policy.
> levying spurious taxes

"The British Virgin Islands were ranked as the “greatest enabler of corporate tax abuse”"

Ahh yes, leveling the playing field is now "spurious taxes" on wealthy individuals and corps...
I think Starlink is going around making deals with mobile providers in different countries. T-Mobile is the one for US, Rogers is for Canada, and I remember seeing one recently for Australia.
> It's a long tail that has to be chopped off

Those ASML litho machines are astoundingly complex, with more parts and a more complex supply chain than a Boeing or Airbus commercial airliner.

So many parts that each part and subassembly must have an outrageously long mean time between failure, something like 16 years, in order for the entire machine to be sufficiently reliable.

No wonder only one company is able to make them.
Pretty sure if I tried the same thing, the PD would kick my front door in and take me.
Firstly, the majority of Canada's geography is not covered by cell service given the population lives in such a small percentage of it.

Secondly, you can see how few towers SaskTel has here - https://www.sasktel.com/wps/wcm/connect/content/home/wireles... - click Saskatchewan LTE then show the various towers. Look how many towers are required for more "urban" areas in SK than the rural areas. These are pretty low density by european cities standards as well, where you can have small cells every 100m on busy streets.
Doing it because you can aside, I feel like if you're a handicapped person with full control of your face voice dictation would probably be a better solution.
Yes, polymc supports mojang login. This patch [0] I tried to use to bypass login did not work -- I have to login with mojang to start the game on polymc.

For multimc there's a fork called ultimmc that allows playing without an account.

Some servers do not require authenticated accounts and work in so-called "offline mode" where authenticity of usernames is not verified with mojang servers (created for playing on a LAN). Many servers on the other hand require usernames of connecting clients to be verified -- and this does not work anymore (at least for me) with the mojang login. wiki.vg has a large repository of minecraft protocol descriptions: [1] and [2]

[0] http://ni.sijanec.eu/sijanec/n/tree/etc/portage/patches/game...
[1] https://wiki.vg/Legacy_Mojang_Authentication
[2] https://wiki.vg/Protocol_Encryption#Authentication
They're essentially the same company with minor philosophical differences.
Interesting I was just thinking a LLM would do a great job correcting OCR mistakes.
A country's "number of people" isn't an independant parameter that you can just slide down so that your GDP/person increases.

If you reduce the "number of people" (i.e. by reducing immigration) you are typically reduce your GDP at a much higher rate, and thus will have a lower GDP/person overall. Your eating into your economy's ability to support the division of labour, specialization and other efficiencies that can only emerge at a large scale. Intuitively, think of it this way, do you think a village of 10 people, or a city of 2 million people will produce more GDP per capita?

Going back to the example of immigration, you're basically reducing a stream of young, educated workers who are consistently net creators of jobs, especially in Western countries with a very high ratio of aging senior citizens (Boomers) to young workers.
Bread is processed food, and yet that’s insufficient to qualify it. I guess we need better words or less shortcuts.
For one the BSD socket interface for IPv6 supports IPv4 as well via the ::FFFF: prefix: https://www.ibm.com/docs/it/i/7.1?topic=families-using-af-in...
This is a bot or something, trying to garner attention. Few people will believe you, sir.
I had the impression that cross-server algorithmic discovery is impossible given Mastodon's fundamental architecture. That made me lose interest in the project.
The holding company that does no selling to customers and only manages land and franchises has a margin over 40%. Nobody is surprised there.
I have simple rule to start with that helps with so much. If it has a processed sugar, I don't buy it. (I have an exception for organic sugar because, how bad can the processing be?) This includes maltodextrin, artificial sweeteners, etc... (also no artificial colors or flavoring, also great indicators of how toxic the product is)

Why? Because if it has that one ingredient (group) it's almost always a low quality product that will make me sick.

I haven't had the flu for over 20 years.
That’s somewhat relevant, but you have to keep in mind that nflx has much higher penetration to begin with. Percentages are less insightful when the starting points are far apart.
If you use OAuth make sure to use stable sorting.
What ingredient?
On Eve of Trial, Discovery of Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis Atop Fox
Do you have any anecdata on topologists?
> A lot of commenters are obsessed with just finding money.

Right and wrong. We are maybe obsessed with finding money to transfer instead of decreasing standards of living of the average person. The key is in your last sentence:

> You can do what you want to make the distribution more equal, but it can also be true that the pie is smaller for everyone.

Exactly! If you have 9/10th of the original pie and the rest of us are sharing 1/10th, then when the pie gets smaller it makes sense to keep our meager share numerically the same by giving us some of your share of the reduced pie. That is not equal distribution, but it needn't be!

In the economic sense this would mean taxing richer people more to fund social safety nets, while increasing interest rates to cool inflation. Lord Fotheringay will just have to make do with one less Bentley.
I have an unpopular opinion, MPs aren’t paid enough. For the level of public scrutiny and the responsibility/power they hold it is underpaid. A mid level engineering (not tech) manager can earn the same outside of London and most senior devs will be on around the same. If it were paid better then it would attract better quality candidates and reduce the desire to “earn” money from other means, and reduce the proportion of people coming in who are already wealthy.

Government employee salaries are also generally lower than the private sector do again, if you want to attract the best and brightest then pay more
TBP is now proxy software that anyone can install[0] which talks to a central API[1] for torrent listings. Each provider can tailor the experience and add ads or donation buttons as they desire. You can search for "TPB proxy list"[2] to find a list of TPB sites. I currently use tpb.party which I find the fastest and least intrusive.

[0] https://piratebayproxy.info/setup.html

[1] https://apibay.org It has no public-facing site, probably to keep it off the radar.

[2] https://piratebayproxy.info/ is what I use.
Sorry, the statement I made wasn't intended to be connected that way. Data science uses a bunch of math beyond trig. I meant that in general math beyond trig becomes much less useful. I was talking about the general usefulness of different levels/types of taught math for white collar jobs/living. Not what is of use for data science.
https://archive.md/FjMsL
https://www.sasktel.com/store/browse/Personal/Wireless/Rate-... - click 100GB.

I don't consider these plans unlimited; after the data allowance of 100GB speeds are shaped to <512kbit/sec which is close to unusable these days (some carriers in the UK offer similar but they consider it 'emergency' data to keep connected for basics, they wouldn't sell it as unlimited).
I could see both synthesized being super powerful. maybe with eye tracking too?

like gestures on a trackpad
https://archive.ph/r8E4M

Considering Pill's boss Andrew Bailey was excoriated for making the exact same point last year, Pill can't claim he had no idea he would be misinterpreted. Or perhaps he is just as stupid as his boss (an incompetent buffoon who failed at the FCA but failed upwards because he was the only Brexiteer the Tories could find for the job). This wouldn't be out of character for the upper reaches of the British establishment.

Authers' loyalty to his classmate is admirable, unlike the Cambridge alums who turned a blind eye to the Cambridge Five, but the incestuousness is a good part of why the UK is so badly misgoverned.

As for how ordinary people can take action beyond striking for higher wages, one example is how they are switching to hard discounters Aldi and Lidl for their groceries (food inflation is at 17%). Luxury retailers like Waitrose or midrange ones like Tesco and Sainsbury thought, incorrectly, they were above the fray and tried to preserve their margins. The customers they have lost to Aldi and Lidl will not be coming back, even after inflation subsides.
Money is zero sum and it determines who owns the 'stuff'. Higher wages mean working-age generations are able to generate some wealth whereas until now only older generations could, as their assets continuously appreciated without losing value due to inflation.

I see the whole thing as intergenerational conflict. Pre-genX'ers went through a period of high inflation, which was also one of historically low inequality, followed by a period of very low inflation and very high inequality. This enabled them to accumulate and maintain vast wealth. Now post-genX'ers think it is their turn.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yonatan-Berman/publicat...
It starts at about fifty minutes into the video.
How does it work now? When I did it twice before (including semi-recently), I could only do it via chat or over the phone - either option took about 5 minutes and required talking with somebody.
> disgraced entrepreneur

weird way to spell "scam artist"
I appreciate your comment in that it has made me think about what a processed food actually is, and I think it's true that it's a bit of a gray area. Personally, I think my own definition of processed food would be things like Cheetos, Pizza from 7-11 or Pizza Hut, cookies, cakes, etc.

I did a quick google search and found that some countries use "NOVA" groups to classify how processed a food is, and I think it's a helpful guideline. https://world.openfoodfacts.org/nova
I don't think that's really true, but you don't need the full context in ML in order to apply it to your field of interest. Just like you don't need the full context in Physics to apply it to an engineering problem.

Some of the most successful ML researchers have read several decades of research papers. It's not uncommon to see references to papers from the 70s or 90s.

Edit: No doubt that the relevant parts of stats, random matrix theory, and ML is a newer field than Physics or Chemistry, though.
Joules are about as likely to come up in this thread as coulombs
Just to nerd out a bit, according to the ST: TNG Technical Manual written by Michael Okuda (co-designer of the original LCARS graphically) and Rich Sternbach, LCARS is also a tactile interface. Pressure sensitive, with force feedback, depth and resistance of the display can be varied slightly, creating ridges, variation in texture, which can complement the display. It's a fascinating idea.
Indeed! I built a system just last year with - count em - three parsers to deal with PDF table extraction, including one built on TableTransformer. And then when GPT4 came out I just copy pasted a PDF into it as-is and darned if it didn’t do at least as good a job.

Now I can’t do this in earnest because of document privacy issues but I’ve diving down the rabbit hole of how small can we go and still get decent results. Spoiler: gpt2 is too small. :-)
The fastest way to get rich is through a successful deal.

Sell something valuable, especially where the value is defined by future intangibles. In this way, you pass the risk/reward opportunity on to someone else, but you get the cash now.

For example, a piece of property that could be worth a lot more in the future.

Or, a small business that is profitable now but could be twice as profitable if certain things work out.

Remember:
“The money is in the deal.”
This is a great idea, well done! Nice and simple but very useful!
That’s assuming there are no externalities whatsoever to immigration and that the immigrants will be able to satisfy the demand in labor and in entrepreneurs as well as the natives.

From my own experience, in France, both of those assumptions are heavily violated. It can vary depending of the type of immigration though, I bet the story is different for California
> Nations also have the right to self-determination

Where do these states gain these rights? Divine investiture? Might makes right? Inertia? What is is not what could be.
I get real tired of hearing all the hate for rich people and the fact that they even exist.

But special treatment for rich criminals? who got their wealth through the very same crime? Nah.

Do rich men also historically get similar treatment? Or is gender also playing a role?