skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the US can't legally spy on it's citizens, but it could absolutely sell the same spy software to Australia and let Australia spy on our citizens, and then broker the data back and forth.

I thought that it was well known that, in fact, this was happening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
One of the core principles is that members do not spy on other governments in the alliance. U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis C. Blair, said in 2013: "We do not spy on each other. We just ask."[87]

In recent years, documents of the FVEY have shown that they are intentionally spying on one another's citizens and sharing the collected information with each other. Although the FVEYs countries claim that all intelligence sharing was done legally and followed the domestic law of each nation. [11][12][13][14][88] Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the advocacy group Liberty, claimed that the FVEY alliance increases the ability of member states to "subcontract their dirty work" to each other.[89] The former NSA contractor Edward Snowden described the FVEY as a "supra-national intelligence organisation that doesn't answer to the laws of its own countries". While many claims of illegal intelligence sharing among FVEY nations have been made, only once has any FVEY intelligence agency been shown to have broken the law with intelligence sharing in Canada.[10]
Unless you can steal an actual university's website, fabricating university website won't give you much - a good agent can have a list of sources of truth and proceed from there.

Sure, some sources of truth can be compromised, but it will be diffult to breach them all.
Maybe when all jobs get automated, people will actually look to solve their happiness problem.
Pretty much the thought-devoid "It's new, so it must be good!" argument

If you think people are just hyping ChatGPT because its new without further reflection, you have stunningly missed the moment and have a rude awakening coming.
One thing to consider is that Startups, Tech, the bay area, and life in general is a very small world. You'd be surprised how some good faith spread around becomes a nepotistic interview invite a few years later.
Longer sequence length in transformers is an active area of research (see e.g the great work from the Flash-attention team - https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention), and I'm sure will improve things dramatically very soon.
What about just using a cloud VM with an ansible script? I find ML deployment solutions to be very over engineered
It doesn't seem like there's any reason to be suspicious about Legalweb. The attorneys in jsDelivr's post can be lifted up without putting Legalweb down.

There isn't much said editorially in the jsDelivr post. They didn't use a blockquote but it appears to be quoted until the last paragraph where it says "In conclusion". There are no editorial assertions in the intro. The conclusion appears not to match up with what the attorneys say.

What the attorney says is that jsDelivr, the service, is safe. It doesn't say that about sites that use it.

I agree with both the article and with jsDelivr's posts except the conclusion. jsDelivr will not be shut down just because of this ruling, but site owners may want to stop using it.

Here's the conclusion:

> In conclusion, the ruling that has been so controversial recently does not seem to fully address the factual and technical circumstances of how jsDelivr works, and at this point as a single ruling should not lead to any real concerns about using CDN's services. The arguments for extending to other online services a single ruling strongly emphasizing Google's failure to adequately protect personal data are insufficient and lack substance.

"should not lead to any real concerns" doesn't inspire confidence
Skateboarding Wellcome
Can you please not break the site guidelines like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You may not owe $CEO better but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
> we don't spend $5000 of taxpayer money on it.

If the police spends any time documenting it, looking for it, or catching and prosecuting the guy who did it, it can run up to that. Even if they do the bare minimum, it'll definitely run a lot more than $50...

> I read the parent comment as meaning we're spending 4-5 figures of taxpayer money every time a car is stolen, in which case I'd rather we just buy 2-3 more cars with that money and distribute them for free to people who had stolen cars.

Do you want to pay hundreds of dollars in personal loss, or tens of dollars in taxes that fund measures and mechanisms to prevent or mitigate that loss? It all comes out of your pocket at the end of the day. Whether it comes out of your taxes, or your insurance premiums, or from your pocketbook, you'll still be paying.

I know that all costs being equal, I'd rather live in a world with fewer car, or cat, or copper thefts, or any other negative-sum activity than one with more of them. There's no magic bullet for this, though, which is why each mitigation should be considered on its own costs and merits.
> It makes no sense to me. This seems wide open for massive abuse.

That the true purpose of the web - to harvest information about consumers and citizens, and, soon, to train very advanced language models - doesn't make sense to you doesn't make it any better. Despite your condescending comments, GDPR legislation turned out necessary to even make an attempt to prevent actual "massive abuse". In fact, the emergent generative AI armageddon is calling for urgent GDPR legislation updates, such as a requirement for explicit consent to use your comments, code, and other contributions online as input to ML.
In context, they're talking about removing inefficiencies and increasing transparency by transacting directly through the theoretical Public Ledger system. We already do all of this with extra steps currently. There is nothing new here. A big thing this brings is transparency, because its a lot harder to hide where tax dollars get spent when you also have introspection into how the money gets allocated, rather than just cutting checks, for instance, to maintain / build highways, this would allow for the government to have better oversight with how public highway funds are being spent. Thats one example. Another is more efficient handling of farming subsidies (this is to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars). This is plainly spelled out in the paper when read as a whole.

These aren't bad things, and they already exist. There is nothing new here, other than streamlining operations to make them more auditable, transparent, and efficient. It cuts out the "extra steps" part, which more often than not, is where most of the waste is.
What a wild assertion.

For many of these problems, the only way you might know ahead of time is if you did a really extensive background check. Such a process would mostly be a waste.

It's perfectly reasonable and fair to hire people, provide clear standards of conduct, and fire those who fail the standard.
Portland city political positions are nonpartisan. Portland "democrats" can range from center right (rene gonzalez) to progressive left (no one). I'm hopeful RCV will help.

Eric Adams may have a D next to his name but he's a traditional Republican according to his policies (cutting libraries/schools, more funding for cops).
I've always been disappointed that number theory, set theory, etc aren't introduced in middle school or high school.

It makes sense, since those are a lot less useful than the subjects that are taught, but something like number theory is incredibly approachable to a middle school student. And it can show students that math can be a lot less about memorization and a lot more about creative thinking w.r.t. proofs.
Too bad Yahoo Pipes isn’t a thing anymore. Would have worked perfectly.
Analysis of Juice Frames
At least it's an ethos
Thank you thank you!! Much appreciated!
>Apple does not spy on me

There's something ironic to find this comment on a video of a former cop surrounded by other cops touting the surveillance features Apple's product offers exclusively.
Impact of Dilution on Whisky Aroma: A Sensory and Volatile Composition Analysis
Well, that's just nonsense though. They have no way to really enforce that.

And I've actually put that to the test. For some medium size websites I manage that get about 30% of traffic from EU countries, instead of an annoying cookie banner, I have a banner saying the GDPR does not apply as the server is not hosted in the EU, they are free to adjust their browser settings as they like, and they're free to file a GDPR complaint and take action. And there's only an 'I accept' button, by design.

So far, nothing has happened, and I doubt it ever will.
Covid is still out there and still spreading and still killing some amount of people. Why they are surprised is beyond me.
Thank you for the response, most likely it is browser cookies, as I've checked my IP address has changed and that there are no leaks. I will try running from a different browser in incognito mode to see if it still works.
You're thinking like an engineer (functionality) and not like a businessman (assets).

You've addressed some of the assets well: the tech, product, etc.

Mozilla isn't just paying for that, they are paying for the audience. I.e. the millions of people monthly who search for authentic product information.

Mozilla may be interested in selling them another product , or revising the fakespot product – who knows?

I'm just calling attention to the assets that the business paid for and that they are worth the money paid.
Staff engineers copy code from that one surly guy’s comment on the question.
> I find that if I want type safety, I'd rather branch out to other languages that were designed for it from the start.

Those other languages don't have pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch. If you are building on top of Python's data science and machine learning ecosystem, it's nice to have both the wide range of libraries available in Python, and type safety. Even if the annotations get a bit ugly looking.
Cops Just Revealed a Record-Breaking Dark Web Dragnet
Tbh, all I recall about pocket is it showed me a load of random content which I had no interest in, which felt spammy. And I think it needs a login for some reason? It certainly looked and felt like an external addon rather than a built-in thing.

If it had just been a reading list I'd have been much more interested.
Is There More to Life Than Oxygen?
I don't even properly know what IBM is now that they spun a bunch of things off.

I guess they tossed all the services/consulting into Kyndryl and everything else got to stay blue.
> it'll depend on whether this does anything, or whether NYPD will tell you to go pound sand when you report your car's location to them with an AirTag

Which is affected by the mayor, a former cop, name dropping AirTags in relation to car thefts in the press.
When my mother died she had been completely unconscious for a whole week, but just 30 minutes before she died she opened her eyes and looked around the room. I was later told by a nurse that this is quite common when people are about to die. It seems to fit with the notion of one last burst of brain activity.
Show HN: eBook semantic search engine in Python, using OpenAI embeddings
I enjoyed watching this Netflix "show" on Infinity.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNFm_DzHDaE
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I was only replying to state the huge difference between proposals for a law and one passing. For example when judging a political part.
There is no similarly capable tool available presently.

I agree that when it becomes an option, hosted or securely tunable solutions will be preferred in some cost/risk calculations.
Inflection AI, Startup from Ex-DeepMind Leaders, Launches Pi – Chattier Bot
Sorry, I didn't see this a few days ago. I've been offline for a long weekend :)

IMO almost any modern scripting language is totally up to the job of being better than bash for larger scripts. Python, Ruby, Lua, etc. all have facilities to access the filesystem and run external commands while also giving you things like modules and classes as ways to organize your code. The former is essentially table stakes for this kind of job, while the latter is what starts becoming useful once you pass a certain size threshold. 25 lines is, of course an arbitrary threshold, but it seems reasonable enough for me.
I find it strange that your comment on the embellishment of history (an incredibly common phenomenon of the past AND the present) is being downvoted.
Two forms that are widely used right now (ie hundreds of millions of people covered):

- Private personal insurance (You pay the premium and that's it)

- Guild insurance (Same as above, but these companies only insure people within a specific industry)
Thanks for the informative answer. Frankly, it’s a shame that most consumers have to choose between either spyware-computer or privacy-preserving-consumption-console.

That said, I simply can’t blame someone for considering an iPhone to be the default choice for the majority of consumers.
It is starting to get strange
Sloth might help - https://sveinbjorn.org/sloth

(It's been ages since I used Process Explorer so I'm just going off memory.)
Is this a joke? How could you possibly believe in this delusion, when these apps have been shown over and over again to be gaslighting vulnerable people into divulging sensitive information about themselves to a VC-backed ad pipeline. Have you seen BetterHelp's ads on YouTube? Pure manipulation of people who are suffering.
ADHD simulator
> Whatever method you use to generate your decimals, you can just slap an integer on each step of the way. You'll never run out of integers.

Exactly correct! This holds true of everything you can generate stepwise, even infinite sets. Cantor proved that you cannot "generate" (stepwise) all Reals between 0 and 1. Any infinite set you can generate stepwise is Countably Infinite.

> I'll put Cantor and his proof in a box, tell him to give me his fancy decimals quick as he can, and I can match each one with an integer no problem.

Exactly correct! And then infinitely later, when you're "done", having generated every Real between 0 and 1, he will then generate a new Real not on your list. Oops! You have not generated all Reals between 0 and 1, even with infinite time.

> And pairing one infinite list with another infinite list doesn't make either one any more countable, because however high you count, they keep on going.

Exactly correct! Any two sets you can pair together (via a bijection) have the exact same cardinality. Neither is more infinite nor countable than the other. Cantor proved you cannot "pair" the Reals with the Natural Numbers.

You and Cantor agree completely. You're very close to understanding why the Reals are bigger.
Trump did very poorly with the highly educated and with minorities so it wouldn't be shocking to find the intersection was even worse. For instance 8% of black college grads in 2020 and 30% of Hispanic college grads.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-biden...

Doctors had amazing voter turn out in 2020.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

I couldn't find an analysis of how they actually voted in 2020 but only 26% voted for Trump in 2016 before he bungled the pandemic

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/873266

Then there is the fact that a number of doctors think pre-covid trump already was in need of mental health help

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/13/health/trump-mental-health-ex...

Only 15% supported a repeal of Obamacare heavily promoted by Trump before the worst public health crisis in my lifetime.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-obamacare-doctor-s...

Far from it being half of America it looks like a small fraction of educated folks and minorities and a large helping of mostly uneducated white folks. If anything the fact that he has any support at all from educated people in America proves that being an expert in one field doesn't necessarily make you wise.
Cozo DB 0.7 is released
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35770871 and marked it off topic. Please don't take HN thread on generic flamewar tangents. This is in the site guidelines:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

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Yes, for example this one: https://onyxboox.com/boox_novaairc
"People 50 and older hold the vast majority of wealth in the country, but we’re producing products and services for people who don’t have nearly as much money to spend,"

I think there's some truth to this. I've noticed older people value service and high quality, and sometimes it seems like the world is going the opposite way.

Sort of like home depot selling mostly plastic plumbing.
Annotations can come in after you've cracked the architecture. Once you are in that place you really shouldn't be getting bothered by the annotation because you are building on top of them and its helping your code completion.
> despite near perfect credit

Your credit wasn't near-perfect. You hadn't defaulted, but that's far from proving that you can manage your credit/money and make payments on time. A hobo who lived in the woods would also have never missed a payment.
Ask HN: How do you motivate teammates that aren't as involved?
To give more background, I became the manager of a team that historically was heavily underserviced. Regardless, we're whipping it into shape now, but our client engineers (ios/android) are losing motivation as a lot of our problems are primarily backend.

I am starting to consider that maybe the composition of the team is incorrect. I want to give them more interesting projects, but there are really not that many, and the ones that exist involve a lot of digging into and uncovering issues that currently exist.

Ofc the argument to be made here is that they're paid to do a job, but at the end of the day I want them to feel like they're a part of a mission/team and while we do have objectives and we track them, they seem to be pretty unmotivated with the broader problems we have at hand (they're not super interesting to anybody outside of backend).

I was considering letting them leave standup early once we start talking about backend work, and same for sprint plannings. Or maybe just re-shuffling the team a bit. I'm not sure, would appreciate some advice
"Click the button that looks like two magnifying glasses pointing left and right" clearly!

I get what they were going for with this design, but it's impossible to describe this over the phone. I guess they want you to use Chrome Remote Desktop if you ever need to support someone remotely.
FWIW in Washington state where I live (and in the 3 cities/towns I've lived in here), multiple times a year Waste Management/WM sends out a flyer explaining what can and can't be recycled. It changes over time and it's extra confusing because the recycle cans have different rules printed on them than what is in the flyer. We used to be able to recycle juice boxes and milk cartons, no more. Then we were supposed to recycle glass jars and their metal lids, but now "no lids of any kind." We were told to flatten and recycle all paperboard boxes, but now we are supposed to skip recycling any paperboard boxes that have a clear coating on them (every freezer box, according to their instructions). Plastic bags have always been prohibited. But of course I see my neighbors putting plastic bags in their cans all the time. There are so many rules about what plastics can be recycled that I can't even remember them.

I think the "education" aspect has been attempted and it's not working. It's time to go nuclear and have the government dictate what types of materials can be used for packaging and ban everything else.

If I never see another blister pack it will be too soon.
Not really. A table presumably holds multiple of whatever the "thing" is, so one row (and its column names) can be assumed to be singular.
Kind of funny how cellphones went the opposite way - we all hated "paying for usage (minutes/txts))" and now we want just the Plan.
LWN is great. I also enjoyed this; I didn't take it very seriously, and I enjoyed the presentation of this history as a variant of the Iliad. I laughed quite a few times.
That's fair.

I honestly did not think about foreign key column names when I was typing, so thanks for pointing it out.

I'm always a fan of making foreign key column names more descriptive than just the table name. Widgets may have a user_id but it probably makes more sense to have an owner_id.
> currying is bad (overall)

Super easy currying is great! Automatic currying is bad (overall).
1000% agree. I shudder to think what I would have done at the time if the non-standard treatment cost tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket because insurance wouldn't cover it. Through insurance coverages we're kinda locked into the meaty part of the curve when it comes to treatment options, unless you have money or your doctor really makes a good argument why something should be covered that goes against what insurance will cover for your condition.
Python would be so much better if it was expression orientated. I don’t think it would even detract from Pythons design goals at all.
Yes, this is just a roundabout way to invest into stocks with borrowed money. There is probably an optimal portfolio for this strategy to minimize the risk but then it is no longer the obvious win that so many people think it is.

If we assume 8% returns and you only put 50% in the stock market and your loan costs 2% interest then your total benefit is only 4%. Putting all of it might get you 6% but you are now taking a significant amount of risk.
Rent and utilities rarely report to credit scores.
> Having another chrome layer around he same engine is kinda meh

Yep. Browsers in general are meh at this point. Mozilla is looking for things like Fakespot because all of the big browsers have been good enough for quite a while now. There really isn't anything they can do with the core of Firefox make a difference. Users don't care.
I can only speak for Germany where over 90% reach 10th grade, where derivatives are taught.
We don't do IT cybersecurity. That stuff is boring. :)

Our work is much closer to the metal. There's a big hardware component. Based on what you describe, we have work that I strongly suspect you'd find interesting. Your intuition was correct - low level coding and OS stuff is where all the goods are at.

Shoot me an email at cushychicken@gmail.com and I can tell you about what we do in a bit more detail.
How do you think selling is being handled nowadays that the nerd percentage has increased within the companies?
It was a long time ago, something like an optional course in Advanced Functional Analysis. It was about the algebras of functions with and without unity, and how to complete the ones without unity using the compactification (i.e. including a ∞) and a few variants.

> two infinities (±∞)

It depends. In the real numbers it depends, but in most cases I agree that it's better to use two. In complex analysis it's much better to have only one infinity. And there are more weird case like the projective plane where you have one infinity in each direction.

> So it makes sense to say that ∞ is not a number.

I agree, it's not longer a field and the operation lose many properties if you try to extend them. So I said "(almost) a number". Anyway, the weird part is that in some cases you can write f(∞) in an advanced math course, but you can never write f(∞) in a fist year math course.