skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or they don't want to pay a little extra for something that almost no one listens to. I think it's valuable, maybe for my favorite movies I'd want it.
More Google tracking.

I wonder if they get your device fingerprint on login too.
I recall reading where some philosophers were skeptical that people actually had mental images when visualizing. But an experiment was performed asking people to rotate mental images in their head versus calculate the rotation, and there was a measurable difference between the two activities. The person writing the article suspected that the skeptical philosophers were bad at visualization and assumed everyone else was unable to rotate images in their mind. Which is a logical fallacy.
I think if you ever spoke with these people supposedly peeing in bottles and asked if they liked their jobs, what they did before, what their goals are, you would get a very different opinion about how miserable the American work force is. They are not miserable.

The language of socialists / Marxists - “workers are ‘exploited’” etc. is very inflammatory and inaccurate. It is like once you get this worm in your brain that all work is just evil exploiters taking advantage of the workers, you became a bitter cultist and can’t see how backwards your thinking is.
I was also wondering why an SFF PC case manufacturer was making minigames
Well, that was better than I was expecting.

Sokal's name raises my hackles. I don't believe his "hoax" was as informative as people like to imagine. The kind of postmodernism he was challenging is deliberately about exploring genuinely novel ideas that aren't easy to understand, and is thus easy prey for a deceptive credentialed person. He was tilting at a windmill of a tiny subset of people doing a different thing than he wanted them to be doing.

I still think he's missing the point of sociology. Sociology is not physics. It is an evolving field that is trying to describe the insane complexity of human relationships. It's no surprise that it doesn't have a fully solid epistemic grounding. Scientific revolutions occur because we spend time with one ontology and suddenly discover a new, better one -- which often comes with a rewriting of the epistemology of what can be known. It's hardly surprising that we don't have a fully formed epistemology of the human mind, much less of human social interactions.

Nonetheless, he is right to point out that the epistemology exists, and it's worth making it explicit. It's especially important in this age where deliberate falsehoods are spread, knowing that they are false, to people who choose to uncritically accept them. Race is one of many areas where people will defend their own racism, justified on grounds that are flagrantly false and which a moment's reflection would reveal that they cannot possibly have the information they believe they have.

I think this is, overall, a pretty good paper. But he's also very clear that it does not invalidate the fundamental thesis made in DiAngelo's book.
It has been a long time I stopped reading news whose title uses some form of conditional. You should try, it saves a lot of time. OK I clicked though ;) just to notice the subtitle uses "might". Closed the tab.
The reality (mine at least) is that every time I've been asked to estimate in t-shirt size or points, there is a helpful chart mapping those to units of time.
Typo, thanks for pointing it out. Edited to month.
+1 I have a twit(ter) filter/group on my reader https://hackerer.news/
Which browsers force https when you type in http:// before the domain?
> disregarding Recommended Music for this Paper: Dr. Dre – High Powered (featuring RBX))

Why?

> that paper seems too short to adequately explore the topic.

The paper was published in CIDR (https://www.cidrdb.org). The paper submissions for this conference are meant to be short (typically 6-7 pages) to ensure that people can get their ideas out quickly.
Some BIPOC people have been socialized to care for the egos of White people, to express their emotions only in ways that are palatable to White audiences, and to tread lightly around “White fragility” (White people’s discomfort and defensiveness regarding their legacy of racism and complicity in systems of inequality) in order to maintain their relationships, professional status, and safety.5 In a space without White people, BIPOC participants can bring their whole selves, heal from racial trauma together, and identify strategies for addressing structural racism.

Ironically, the implicit message being promulgated here is that of BIPOC Fragility - molded by socialization; unable to hold their own, or even be themselves in the face of the all-powerful and eviscerating influence of White person in the same room.
There is a slight possibility that this is an unintelligent question, with humanity being ignorant as to why that's the case.

The universe we live in is only around 14 billion years old, which under the ideas of how long a universe could be around is actually a tiny immeasurably small blip on eternity. Before our universe started there was a vacuum metastability event somewhere that we at least assume had a nice even entropy. Again, that instability happened pretty damned recently...

So what if the first thing any super intelligence realizes is that at any moment our universe could have another such instability event? It's not going to work on exploring the vast distances of space... It's going to figure out if it can develop a plan to GTFO of here to a plain of reality that's more stable than this one.
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Indeed it was: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Doom-developed-on-a-NeXT
Just my 2 cents.

Numbers are used in a sequential manner naturally, and more importantly we subtract numbers from each other all the time. Basically, we have practice. Try reciting the major irrational numbers numerically backward. Until you've practiced, you might find it easier reciting them alphabetically backward.

I'm sure for children reciting numbers backward is about as difficult as reciting the first 10 letters of the alphabet backward.

To become facile with reciting the alphabet backward, I was taught to "chunk it" into small groups. ZYXW - VUTS - RQ - PON - MLK - JIHG - FED - CBA. I can now recite it backward almost as easily as forward, without chunking, even if I start in the middle and not the end. The only part I still sometimes get caught on is the order of I and H.
This is a first. I've never even heard of a definitions of processed foods that is based on their packaging. But what you're saying is that it is not the food or things added to the food but the packaging that makes it processed?
Increased prevalence of CCTV perhaps.
Seems like some sort of "spark" breakthrough is still needed though. Just make the model bigger just seems to make it broader but not really AGI
I worked at Microsoft back in the day when we got anti-trusted for not removing IE from Windows. Seems like there’s a lack of institutional memory over there.
> the optical disks proved unreliable

Fun fact: this is what the "spinning beachball" cursor represents. The wait cursor looked like a magneto-optical disc in NeXTSTEP/Rhapsody/Cheetah/Puma because original (1988) NeXT Cube booted from a single MO, no HDD. It was redrawn into a glossy sphere in Jagwire.
I use trackers for my keys and wallet, which wouldn't work very well if I only granted the location permission when in use. Granting background location permission means that I can get the last seen location of my items when I'm already out of range, and I can help others find their lost items, too, just like they can help me, as part of the network.
This seems like a bad idea - These types of unique usernames attract the wrong kind of crowd[0] (some have used harrasment up to physical violence to get vanity usernames). I would prepare to see a lot more account hijacking and sketchy behaviour over Discord.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGUsers
> It seems to me that we work better when we are together in person

> In the short term you probably can be equally productive, but your career does suffer

It's leadership like him that shape people's careers in an organization so what he's saying is that because he feels that "we work better when we are together in person" he won't support people working remotely from advancing in their career. Gotcha, good job!
From what I understood they don't use Haskell underneath at all, but they copy paste code from Haskell and sometimes have to modify it.
The frog the article talks about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenohyla_truncata
But what about all the pensions that are shareholders?
It'll be interesting to see if this accelerates Twitch's plans to support AV1/HEVC
AI vs. Hollywood: Writers battle “plagiarism machines” in union talks
This is really excellent, thank you!
The thing is, your mistake isn't just distrusting the language model, it's trusting the search engine. No matter what tool you use, the responsibility for ensuring accuracy is ultimately yours. Similar degrees of caution and skepticism must be applied to results from both ML and traditional search engines.

They are both insanely powerful tools, and like most insanely powerful tools, the hazards are considerable.
In my experience, automation is an effort-multiplier, not a substitute for expertise.
Me too – I'd much rather trust my password manager, so I'm hoping that platform/browser APIs will eventually become available that will allow such third-party implementations. (Android is planning to; iOS hasn't stated anything yet.)

Even then I would probably not add my bank credentials or other high-sensitivity things there.
It's quite clearly different in many important ways. Not being lazy is a pretty huge one!
Frankly in the particular case where you have cascading downloads of small files, HTTP/1 is so unbelievably bad at that compared to HTTP/2 (especially in cases where the user-agent throttles TCP connections, like the limits of ~6 in a browser) that the "overhead" argument isn't really relevant because it might imply they're roughly comparable in some way. They aren't, in my experience, it's more like "Does it work" versus "Does it not work." I'm talking like one-or-two orders of magnitude in performance difference, in practice, in my cases.

Server push wasn't ever going to help use cases like this because pushing those files doesn't actually work very well; only the client knows about the state of its own cache (i.e. the server will aggressively push things even when the client doesn't need them). I tried making it work in some cases very similar to the "recursively download based on import structure" problem, and it was always just a complete wash in practice.

103 Early Hints are a better solution for that class of problem where the server has some knowledge over the request/response pattern and the "structure" of the objects its serving for download. They're also easier to support and implement, anyway.
I checked my notes and 20-30x seems was the target next-round multiple for the A's and B's I talked to. I get that earlier companies get a higher multiple based on growth, but I don't know if 2-3x the multiple for top public co's is reasonable or not.
"ctrl+f" looks at github
"home" looks at youtube
> Fortunately, both iOS and Android also support "detachable passkeys" a.k.a. Yubikey and co

That’s good to know.

Although my concern would be, that’s really good for people who use YubiKeys, but regular people won’t, and they can then get bitten by account lockouts.

Is there something regular users can do to use Passkeys (let’s say they use Google) and have some recourse if Google locks them out?

Also, what happens if they use Android, have no other computing device (this is fairly common in some parts of the world), and their phone gets stolen?
Not immediately, no. But what about in 25 years?
Let's make this more realistic since it's just mortgages but divided by 100. I'm bank of Spivak and you just submitted your loan application to me.

As part of your loan application I can see your savings, income, employment history, and credit history. The payment on a 30-year fixed $5000 loan is $35/mo with current interest rates so that's the bar I need to hit.

* I see that your monthly cash flow is $200 which puts your loan payment at 17.5% of that.

* You're putting 20% down or $1250 which demonstrates to me that you're capable of saving 35x the loan payment.

* Your borrowing history is sparse but you pay of your $5 Spivak CC every month which is 20% of the loan payment right there.

* The loan is collateralized by an appreciating asset whose market value is $6000.

Yes. Obviously I'm giving the loan. To second order no one has a six figure credit history. Their first mortgage is likely to be the first and last loan of that magnitude in their lives.
Very interesting idea. I'd hypothesize that it won't achieve the same(ish) accuracy, and that pruning might be required (similar to how humans go through a heavy pruning phase at an early age[0]). Would be worth setting up an experiment on a smaller scale.

As some other commentator stated, there's currently a lot of low hanging fruit in optimizing NN.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning
Yes hence my going straight to kill-bots. You won't starve to death, you'll get shot by a kill-bot for breaking some law on the books that permits it, like messing with the capitalist autocrat's stuff.

I'm not saying it's a guaranteed win, I'm saying I really don't see how AI is anything other than a net win for an autocrat with plenty of capital.
For the checkmark (BIMI) a company need to get certified. That costs about 1500 USD/year (https://store.entrust.com/default/vmc.html).

Startup founders, if you listen to this: create a cheaper alternative.
To sum up, since the early 1970s, the cost of constructing nuclear power plants in the U.S. has been steadily rising. This can be traced to a constantly shifting regulatory environment, which has continuously changed plant design requirements, and added more and more safety features, which often were required to be implemented on plants under construction. The regulatory environment is partially a reflection of the fact that nuclear power and the risks of radiation had become increasingly controversial, and that early understanding of the likelihood of a nuclear plant accident was often inadequate.

Mysteriously, it doesn't address how expensive it is to build them in EVERY country. The PRC doesn't have environmentalists and 'regulatory requirements' to blame it on. The PRC can't even copy Westinghouse AP1000s without cost over runs.

TL:DR Blaming the environmentalists again.
There's a number of rules around using https first/only. I recall that all .app domains only use https as well as any domain using HSTS.

- https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/set-https-default-your-...
Imagine if the US Congress or the President was in charge of these decisions.

To me, anyway, it's more calming. Haha.
I would imagine "smart" surveillance cameras which can do all kinds of coordinated motion sensing and tracking, and possibly keyless entry systems which eliminate the guard at the front door.
Mathstodon is nice, we have LaTeX.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@JordiGH/110306262198084936
I haven't been able to resolve it. My Framework is basically a desktop with a (really weak) hinge. It's the only computer I've ever had that falls all the way open if you pick it up even partially open, and the only one that won't ever actually go to sleep.

I still use it a lot. I just don't ever unplug it for more than a couple hours.
Show HN: OneMoreSecret – Rethinking Password Management
My factor is 5. Works like a charm. It’s just not politically correct to say so.
First, there is a semantic argument here, which is exactly why people will disagree on how many tenses a language has.

But that said, the fact that you CAN communicate something, doesn't mean that you did it through a tense. I already pointed you at Chinese, which has NO verb conjugation at all, and therefore is often claimed to have no tenses. What does it do instead? It has words for things like past, yesterday, tomorrow, and so on. Once one of those has been used, this is a context that is assumed to continue holding through your conversation until someone says something else. Then you continue in that new context with no grammatical cues to remind you of the timeframe under discussion.

See https://www.thoughtco.com/mandarin-timeframes-2279615 for a more detailed explanation of how this actually works in practice. But it is clear that treatment of time is grammatically different as you go across languages.
> Yeah, none of big tech wants that, they don't want to make it easy for 3rd party.

iOS has an API for password managers and HOTP/TOTP authenticators. Android is planning to introduce one for passkeys.
Of course they’re choosing their best option. Because there aren’t better options. That’s the point of pushing these discussions right? So that as cities evolve over the next generation, Americans get more options
Hollywood Writers Strike May Give Studios Chance to Slash Costs
I work on a trading desk at a financial firm. I just checked out all our applications, and they total 388444 non-comment lines of Java, 73889 of JavaScript, 13619 of Python, 9160 of C++, and some other things. The JS probably includes some vendored libraries. Also, this is just apps - we have a bunch of libraries used across our apps which will add tens or low hundreds of thousands more lines, but i have no systematic way to check them out, so i can't tell.

That's a single trading desk!
No government forces you to have kids. If you’re up to the task then do it perfectly and enjoy while doing it; if not don’t bring misery upon yourself, your baby and potentially the society by raising a kid without catering to their emotional needs because you’re too busy.

However my views are based on the economic/societal/parental expectations in (progressive) North America and it’s certainly different elsewhere.

Edit: Added specificity
Outlive. It will not only help improve your odds of living longer, it will make those later years "better". Better as in, instead of being wheeled around a retirement home, you will be limber and able to live on your own, much longer.

In addition to the personal benefits - I'm convinced there are societal benefits to taking care of your health at this level. Reduced healthcare costs if more people take care of themselves, financial incentive for food producers to invest in healthier options, etc.

Book was very eye opening. Sure, people can just TLDR it and say "Eat well, exercise, and sleep", but there really is a lot more to it. You break those categories out in to specific pieces, most people don't know how to eat well. They don't know how to properly exercise. They don't know how to get the most ideal sleep.

As a side note, I feel that there should be an obesity rate for health insurance, similar to how there is an increased rate for smokers. The risk level is the same, and in the vast majority of cases it can be nullified by lifestyle decisions.
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> Tangentially, it would be great if we got cryptographic digital identity cards like Estonia has for signatures but that’s more of a long term goal

Wonderful. Until every second web service starts to require a signature from such digital identity ("age verification" perhaps?) and that's the end of pseudonymity.
They absolutely are useful analysis. The fact that under fractional reserve banking, banks do not have enough cash on hand to pay out all their deposits at once does not make them insolvent. Every time a bank writes a loan they create an asset (the loan) and a matching liability (the bank deposit created when that money was loaned out). Their inability to pay everyone out at once is a liquidity problem, not one of solvency; they have the assets to cover their liabilities so long as their loans are still good. (The banking system isn't actually fractional reserve anyway, but the exact details of why that's wrong aren't particularly important here.)

The problems that've been happening recently - duration mismatches on ultra-safe assets like treasuries together with record rates of interest rate rises from record low levels - do actually make banks insolvent. The actual present-day market value of their assets is less than their liabilities to depositors because the fact that investors can get higher interest rates elsewhere means they'll only buy those assets at a discount that reflects the lower interest rate. Alternatively, the banks would have to pay more in interest to convince depositors to keep their money there until the assets reach maturity than they'd receive in interest themselves. Either way they're in deep trouble.
I'm the opposite of what you're asking.

I've been trained by dozens of years on dozens of systems to accept the BS that's built in as much as possible. The only thing I carry is my data (on dropbox, I know) and my begrudging ability to jump through arbitrary hoops and guardrails that someone somewhere somehow thought were helpful.
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I think we can agree that this discussion does not involve general consumers!

"Many cases" is not the opposite of most cases.
> followed by truck/bis drivers

If AI fullfills its promises these are probably under the most danger.
Or "How Does an FPGA Work?"

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35804935
You mean the average pensioner - the bottom 90% who own 11% of the stock market between them?

What about them?

Do you think the bottom 90% of pensioners do not deserve to own more than 11% of the capital stock of the country?
It's very touchy and all about the contract. The scope has to be very clearly defined as well as what an expansion of scope is and then what happens next. Basically, how the change order process works and what qualifies as requiring a change order. So, in a way, it's not literally fixed price. Or maybe "fixed price with an escape hatch" is a better term.

A sophisticated enough client can design a fixed-price deal that can completely devastate a software development firm if the guardrails are not in place. On the other hand, a sophisticated dev firm can design a fixed-price deal that will nickle and dime a client in perpetuity if the client doesn't recognize the trap.

Fixed-price is like handling dynamite, you have to know what you're doing.
When I was a kid I used that exact chunking to memorize it backwards as well.
Heh, another one I see

"LLMs don't create anything new" and "LLMs hallucinate all the time"

I want to ask those people which one is the correct sentence as they appear to be in conflict with each other.
How would you prefer to do it? Like China?
Interesting. This seems like a weakness of natural language understanding. If you rephrase your prompt slightly it would get it right. Try:

// return even numbers that are also more than 10
const arrayFilter = (array) =>

It would do the right thing. The fine-tuned version gets your prompt right so maybe it benefited from natural language data. Will look more into it.
This is just more unworkable bullshit from the FTC...really looks like a vendetta at this point...
There were tons of alternative hypertext systems before the world wide web.

Major reasons WWW succeeded:

1) Open standard, no license required. (My understanding is that TB-L worked hard to make this happen.)

2) A forgiving text-based format that was trivial to author, serve, and display. And evolve with forward/backwards compatibility.

3) One-way links. (Many other HyperText projects were hung up on bi-directional links.)

4) URLs didn't require any centralized authority other than already-existing DNS.
Tell 'em you're a remote company, if you are. State it in your pitch so they don't ask.