skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech hardware industry generally has terrible marketing. Look at laptop SKUs. None of them are effective at delineating product tiers in an easy to understand way. Even Apple post-Jobs is bad at this: wtf is an air vs pro vs just 'mac' or 'macbook'? What in the hell is an ultra max?

As someone who keeps tabs on the products I can pretty quickly get an intuition for what they mean, but the semantics do no favors. They're just placeholders for 'better' and 'best' when used in various combinations. But once you stop labeling the base model (such as plainly 'Macbook') you're not qualifying what the marketing term is trying to convey (what is it 'better' than?). 'Air' as opposed to...? 'Pro' compared to...a product you no longer sell? 'Ultra' or 'Plus' for phones but 'Pro' for desktop OSs?

If you tried to chart out the marketing terms used in the tech hardware industry it would look like the Always Sunny Charlie Conspiracy meme.
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> Cultures don't think, individuals do. And almost every individual in America doesn't think that two weeks of vacation is adequate. They think having a job and being able to put food on the table is better than not being able to do that. Most Americans are victims of shitty corporate policies. It's hard to push for better working conditions when billionaires have spent millions dismantling the labor movement over the past several decades.

The average unskilled Australian teenager doesn't have more ability to put food on the table or negotiating power than the average US software developer, but will be much, much more likely to spend the next six months travelling round Europe (closer to San Francisco than Sydney) without even having to join the Peace Corp or learn a language to prove their worthiness, or to turn down or quit a job that doesn't give them enough holiday entitlement.

Corporate policies and legislative priorities are a product of culture too: it's not like Australian billionaires love their labour movements.
Being able to pick up on these memes would’ve saved me a lot of time in my early adulthood.
Your benchmarks are not concrete and realistic. I have never seen any language but (unsurprisingly) Julia, to compare its performance with the performance of other languages by calling those languages from within the host language. Definitely 15000 times faster than MATLAB as claimed by JuliaComputing can be achieved with such seemingly concrete and realistic benchmarks.
LLVM has benefited and learned so much from Fortran and its compilers. But free food and service are always undervalued.
Shouldn't explanatory information be on nostr.com? What credibility does this 3rd party site have?
I wrote about why it's likely that AI will kill us. No background knowledge is required, even of ML https://medium.com/@mridul.mohan.m/ai-takeover-scenario-5a72...
> One thing that i feel people really aren't getting right now is that rates are still extremely low and they are moving slowly too compared to previous financial shocks.

Are you sure? This graph says otherwise:

https://ibb.co/hW9TP0x

It's true that this graph excludes the rate increases we saw in the 1970s and 1980s, but it's the fastest and highest raise of rates in the last ~30 years. See here for a full timeline: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
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it gets quickly less fun when all your family is woken up in the middle of the night by a SWAT team, your kids are yelled at, your equipment is seized and your partner ask for divorce.
Lots of things that are fine rapidly become not-fine when mandated by the state.
so they can just raise taxes?
Well, maybe don't go with a buck converter that is quite that cheap.
No, you seem to be misunderstanding what WASM is and isn't. WASM is the specification of a bytecode format (i.e. something like a virtual ISA) and the corresponding execution environment.

It's perfectly possible to implement a secure PRNG in WASM and supply entropy/a seed as a parameter to that, and this is exactly what emscripten does. Trust just happened to provide a non-secure PRNG in their implementation (and ironically quotes emscripten's PR while doing the opposite).

They reimplemented low-level crypto primitives in an insecure way, and quite possibly without even realizing that they were doing so, and their users are paying the price. No language or framework can protect developers from that.
CSPM False Positives
> If you want to thwart the law

Or, if you want to comply cheaply with the law, when data you may possess on an unresponsive device could be subject to data handling and disposal laws.
Nah. Adding the IMG tag. Without that, it is text only, and destined for limited uptake like Prestel or CEEFAX.
This difference in our perspectives is fascinating. I think of cultural works to be owned by society. The moment you make something public then society can do what it wants with it. We give exclusive rights to the author as a pragmatic step to allow them to afford to spend time creating. We won’t need this temporary band-aid when we are fully post-scarcity.

I think that society suffers when we artificially make cultural artifacts scarce. I don’t know how to quantify that suffering. I feel like there are parallels between the explosion in quality software and what we can do with it and the availability of open source software (including the languages, documentation, and discovery/distribution).
Cryptocurrency is optional.
Most mormons I've met are actually pretty normal. If it didn't somehow slip they were LDS, you would never know, and that's in Salt Lake City where there are many.
> I see, because it's not on holiday. Wouldn't everyone doing this make it more likely that your kid meets a playmate, then?

Currently, everyone with kids takes vacations at the same time. That means that all kids go on vacation at the same time, so whenever they're on vacation, there are likely to be lots of other kids there.

If everyone with kids took vacations at staggered times, fewer kids would be on vacation at any given time, meaning whenever they're on vacation, there are likely to be fewer kids there.

That is the tradeoff that OP is referring to.
Well that's not surprising, PushShift is probably the biggest / most common way to get realtime access to reddit.

API violations aside, pushshift would have allowed developers to side step the reddit api restrictions anyway so I don't know how this relationship could have continued.
Was that advice even ‘medical’?
Arkansas woman pleads not guilty to selling over 20 boxes of stolen human parts
From their website:

>Nostr is a protocol, designed for simplicity, that aims to create a censorship-resistant global social network.

So they basically want to create twitter without Musk (or anyone in charge for that matter). Nothing wrong with that goal, it's just highly unlikely to succeed given the fundamental shortcomings of this approach.
What you're describing was tried with "steemit.com" and it ended as you would expect; lots and lots of spam.
The Potentially Dangerous Non-Accessibility of Cookie Notices
Yep, all of my vacations growing up were either hunting or fishing trips. While getting out in nature is nice, when you take your kids out on a boat for 10h / day because you haven't caught enough fish it very quickly stops feeling like a vacation and more like work.
Heh. If any of the official Kiki images has a Kiki with melon-sized boobs, _I_ would have melon-sized boobs, and I've only been on HRT for a year and a half, and am an A-cup. (Aspiring to a B-cup, though!)
I haven't heard people say "land votes" (except in this thread). Only, "land doesn't vote".
OK, so that's one anecdote saying there's a difference, and one anecdote saying they are the same. Would be sweet if someone bought a couple of different CR2032 cells and tested them.
I didn’t call it unambiguously NSFW. The top comment (not mine) didn’t either, they used the qualifier “semi”. This obviously isn’t porn, it’s art. The famous Lena image has no breasts at all, and it’s considered semi NSFW. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna “it is no longer considered appropriate by some authors” … “Suggestive pictures used in lectures on image processing ... convey the message that the lecturer caters to the males only.”

You don’t have to be in a puritanical setting for some women and men around you to be uncomfortable with your pin-ups, regardless of which body parts are visible. They might never even say anything about it, and yet it can still be slightly inappropriate and/or unprofessional.
This is called a T-note? And it is issued by the government?
> The modern Luddite, I think, doesn't necessarily "hate" looms, or their inventors. They just don't have any faith that those necessary compensations you describe will ever happen, or at least not quickly enough to save them. Perhaps the government is convinced by exactly that argument above. Or at very least too apathetic (or financially tangled) to fight it.

Agree

> We all act along the axes where we can affect something, effect something. Smashing looms is a fool's errand, but sometimes that's all the power you feel you have.

However I think what's fascinating about this is it requires believing you can't change your skill set to something else. Sometimes I don't think its as simple as feeling empowered, but also fear and anxiety about change.
Status symbol? The blue check used to verify that the notable person behind the account is who they claim to be. Now it lacks any meaning other than "I paid $8 for Twitter".
Ah yes, on the 205th try we'll finally nail this impossibly complex and moving target.
Salt Lake City is the only city I've lived in with late night/24 hour coffee shops.
Still common in many countries (where you never discuss religion or politics unless it’s after 2am and you’re all drunk).

Personally, I dislike the “bring your whole self to work” thing that companies like google encourage (used to?), where people talk about extremely polarizing topics on the company chat groups.
Apple’s New Savings Account Draws Nearly $1B in Deposits in First Four Days
there are shredding services that can handle devices like phones, are there not?

Or the bench vise in your garage could crumple it up pretty well. Of course then you have to dispose of the wreckage.
I'll add to the list:
The closes my dad ever was to 'travelling abroad' during the soviet occupation was when they filled up a bus and went to Yugoslavia. He knew everyone on the bus except a couple of guys who showed up last minute and sat in the front row of the bus all the time. It was quite of a journey for him at the time, because he mentioned it at least hundred times when we were growing up.
> Look at what happened with Q-Anon - just a slow stream of text messages issued by some guy in his basement, but enough to rile up millions into believing something totally ridiculous (baby-eating politicians, etc).

That's not really the whole story though. The reason why a ridiculous thing like that gets legs, is because there isn't push back from the Republican party. They are happy to let these things go on, and they even involve themselves in it. They even elect people who believe in these theories to office, who then go on to perpetuate them.

Remember back when a gunman invaded a pizza parlor because he thought the Democratic party was running some sort of child trafficking ring in the basement? The Republican party could have, at that time, mounted a full-throated defense of Hillary Clinton, to say that of course she is not doing that, and to think so is completely insane. But they don't do that, because then they would have to defend Hillary Clinton, or any other Democrat. So they let the lie hang out there, unaddressed because it helps them politically, and it metastasizes.

So really, yes the Internet is a problem. But the real problem is that people in power are using it for this kind of thing on purpose, and it works.
> not because the work is actually worth less in some sense.

It depends on how you define value. If you mean value in terms of how much money you receive, you actually need other people to agree that what you're doing is worthwhile.

If you only care about the feelings that YOU get from doing the work (which is totally OK) your work is still valuable, but don't expect others to provide you value in the form of money when you provided them nothing.

In other words, I'm cool with you being an artist. But you can't force me to pay you for your art if I don't want it.
It’s not accuracy, it’s sensitivity and it is something people will be working on for years.

I was a physics grad student in the 1990s and I remember going to a talk about the LIGO project back then, it took until 2015 until they got their first detection.

There is hope that will build much better detectors that don’t just detect gravitational waves from colliding ‘compact objects’ (black holes and neutron stars) and can pick them up from starquakes plus the ‘big bang’ and/or inflation era.
Ok. So it is regards to a false prosecution or to frame someone else for a crime. That is not the same as baiting someone to commit a crime.
No one here said that war is NOT hell, what exactly are you trying to say?
There won't be a good answer aparts from 'it has always been this way', HN is super conservative when it comes to web design.

See if any of the apps https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news use a style of your preference.
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As you imply there are significant ethical questions raised by the highly hypothetical case of a sentient AI, and those are just a few good ones. And there's certainly room for disagreement.

But you are not a legitimate whistle-blower just because you disagree with something. Since there is no ethical framework, let alone a legal one, one can't just cover themselves in the cloak of a whistle-blower just by deciding unilaterally that something is sentient, then go on make up one's own moral and ethical framework about that out of nothing. If that were true, you could justify and condone anybody who wished to leak anything that offended them.

"Wouldn’t you want an honest person to blow the whistle?"

No. Firstly as I explained, they wouldn't be an honest person, and secondly wouldn't want them to do that because I don't believe there's a significant overriding moral, legal, or ethical issue there WRT. machine intelligence, let alone sentience.
They’re using a clustering algorithm, which is effectively comparing against peers, isn’t it?
That's just sovietophobic fiction.

I remember the slogan "Family is the unit of society" and childless people had to pay a special tax. Also infidelity in marriage was frowned upon and could negatively affect the career.
I really wish this had been Fly or Supabase. I’ve used Neon and it is much less performant and often times completely non responsive.

My company already uses Cloudflare so the rest isn’t a big change for us.
> Fundamentalist Church of (Jesus Christ of) Latter-day Saints

The correct abbreviation is FLDS I think.
> What’s important is what the law says and the way it should be read, and that’s going to be inconvenient for someone but typically any perceived defects in the law lay squarely at Congress’s feet.

Congress writes laws with the assumption that ambiguities and complications will be intelligently and justly resolved by a human being - namely, these 9 people. The issue is not that one side or the other may fail to educate the Court, it's that the problems of "what the law says" and "what justice is" and "how the internet should work" may not be entirely coherent, especially when societal norms are changing as fast as they are today.

When the Constitution was written, the word "publisher" had a completely different meaning, completely unaware of the possibility of YouTube. Even in 1996, algorithmic Internet moderation had a different meaning to what providers are doing today. How will - how should - people in 5 or 10 years moderate websites and consume content? I'm not the greatest expert on the Internet, I started using it at approximately the same time that section 230 was passed, but I'm very familiar with it and that would be a really hard question for me to answer. A senior citizen who formed and solidified most of their ideas about the way society works or should work three to five decades ago would have a really hard time wrapping their mind around the concept even with excellent guidance from the best attorneys.

We need judgements that put our society in the best position for the next decade, and these 9 people may not be sufficiently able to be coached to think ahead far enough to do that.
On video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3msMuwqp-o&list=PLctkxgWNSR...
It can be surprisingly hard to find much in between the super cheap stuff and the really expensive stuff! Those cheap ones work in a pinch though.
Those are real interest rates. The real rate currently is still extremely low. There's still a huge difference between an economy where you get:

* 2% mortgage, 2% real growth and 2% inflation

* 7% mortgage, 0% real growth and 5% inflation

If we wind up in stagflation we may still have low real interest rates but everyone will be having a bad time.
I lead a team of physicists and software engineers that develop games whose core mechanics are natively quantum.

You can see our work:
- https://quantumchess.net (has run on Google's quantum computer)
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Yup.

[1]

> Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US

[2]

> For instance, using Gorgon Stare, a 24-hour aerial surveillance system, the U.S. Air Force had been able to plot back from a car bomb explosion in Kabul in 2019, which killed 126 civilians, to find the location of safe houses used to execute the attack.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-bal...

[2] - https://warontherocks.com/2023/04/ai-at-war/
Whether any given individual thinks that sounds appealing is more or less irrelevant. What's salient is that it was state mandated.
The Costs of Caution
> More than half the sites make money by running programmatic ads ... The concerns are particularly challenging for Google ... whose advertising technology generates revenue for half

I like how 'challenging' is being used as a synonym for 'the primary business model of'
My sister had RA in her early twenties. For years no treatment was able to restore a reasonable quality of life. There were many side effects which needed treatment as well. She went from doctor to doctor, while she lost the best parts of her life.

An unexpected path led her to a tropical diseases doctor who had positive results with RA patients by using an unconventional treatment not supported by mainstream medicine at the time: He tested the patients blood for bacteria (by cultivation in a lab) and prescribed an antibiotic course that matched the detected bacteria. This treatment (testing + prescribing antibiotic)was repeated in regular intervals over the course of a whole year.

Her RA flare-ups stopped and recurred only in ever longer intervals which were arrested by this treatment. After a year the progression of the RA had stopped.

This treatment is controversial because it is considered bad practice to prescribe antibiotics liberally, for several good reasons. Mainstream medicine did not have a theoretical foundation to justify this treatment path.

The tropical disease doctor founded his treatment on the empirical research by some research factions that the “auto-immune” theory of RA was not showing the full picture.
Better video quality, same source material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3msMuwqp-o&list=PLctkxgWNSR...
Would the world be better off without MAD?
You may or may not have intentionally started a flamewar in this thread, but you've certainly broken the site guidelines by perpetuating it badly. Please stop and please don't.

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

Edit: when a new account shows up with a dossier of links under one arm and a briefcase of arguments under the other, on a classic flamewar topic, that's not a good-faith use of the site. Pre-existing agendas are not what HN is for. They're repetitive, tedious, and usually inflammatory—certainly that's the case in this thread. This destroys the curious conversation that the site is supposed to be for, so please stop doing this.
I just want to point out that ”to collect inflammation in it's citizens" is an great typo!
Similar sufferer of recurrent uveitis here (spent 10 years doing several tests none of which ever explained what I have, only excepting HLA-B27 which occurs with several of these auto-immune diseases). The only thing that helps me now is Humira.
I wonder if gut bacteria has anything to do with my condition and how I can even go about digging into this :/
Is there any indication that current methods could lead to a model that generates text as if it had an IQ of 200? These are trained on texts written by humans who are, quite overwhelmingly, much lower in IQ than 200. Where's the research on developing models that don't just produce better or faster facsimiles of broadly average-IQ text?
I’m not a warrior for animal rights and actively trap pests including mice. But the animal testing here gives an uncomfortable feeling.

However it’s hard to think of an alternative that doesn’t end up with things like coerced adults or poorly consented paid volunteers.
Ok, it drops to 1fps, normal AGA Wing Commander framerate is around 3-6fps https://youtu.be/n5wXmeI8w9k?t=479. A500 is ~2-6fps https://youtu.be/iR1Nc4hLKq4?t=936 ? and this was full 25pount/$50 retail release game with 85-90% ratings, simply amazing :o
The Reddit API team are so absolutely awful at communication or thinking about the consequences of their actions. The next ninety days are going to be a catastrophe.
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I'd wager yes, for that very reason. Years ago I was in hospital and a registrar told me that guts are smelly but they're the next big frontier of medicine. I didn't immediately know what she meant, but having thought about it since, she was absolutely right. The biome has a lot to answer for.
any way they like...as long as it's in Bitcoin.