skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except they're not - the spam/ phishing emails are almost invariably obviously not genuine even at a casual glance.
Maybe 1 in 50 has me partially convinced it might be genuine and requiring me to double check the addresses etc.
I'm actually more concerned about the (very real) reverse problem of genuine emails winding up in my junk folder.
2A is to prevent a tyrannical government.
The EU Digital Services Act Affects Not Only US Big Tech
The EU Digital Services Act hits the usual suspects, the Google Play, Amazon Store, Facebook, etc but also one of the biggest European retailers and marketplaces – Zalando.

The DSA will give us, the consumers:

- Transparency in Targeted Ads

- Clearer Terms and Conditions

- Transparent Processes for Restricting Content

- Less Illegal Content Online

If it delivers :)
Exactly.

But you will find dozens of examples in a google search of people who somehow think they've solved the world's water woes by collecting condensate off a disassembled A/C or dehumidifier, and ignorant uncritical news reporters buying it hook line and sinker. Collected funding, even had a whole embarrassing incident at Cal involving the freshman engineering class a few years ago.

There is definitely a need for clean water out of air, but it's got some subtle limitations: you don't need it when it's already raining, and the further you get from that condition, the less well dehumidifiers work in terms of gallons produced per kwh consumed. Below 50% RH, you're getting bupkis for condensate. Most of that energy is spent cooling off air but not quite cold enough to get it to leave its moisture behind.

Here's an easy thought experiment next time you run across one of these "inventions". If a cubic foot of air at 40% humidity contains .24 mL (sorry for mixed units) of water, give them the benefit of the doubt and say their setup is 100% efficient for pulling every last molecule of water out of air. and it runs on a 28cfm computer case fan. How many gallons per hour would that be? 0.1. The reason these suck is not that they don't work in dry conditions (though they don't), but that they don't move enough air to be useful.
This place ended up with a semi load from some college lab decommissioning it was ridiculous.
> In the recent round of tech layoffs, sometimes it’s unavoidable to have one or two shorter tenures - hiring managers are aware of this, and so this generally doesn’t count against you. But giving the appearance of job hopping in ‘peacetime’ is another thing entirely.

> If you’ve worked more than 4 jobs in the last 4 years, you’re in the danger zone. Many companies will discard a CV quickly if we don’t think you’ll stick around until next year.

I am so tired of this conversation. At this point, all I can do is shut up and be grateful to be rejected by these people if I ever have a spotty resume.
Automated testing and debugging are not the same
I'm not opposed to unbundling for flight tickets. If you don't have checked luggage or don't need to eat, why pay for it?

What riles me up is when airlines intentionally provide a shitty experience when you're not willing to pay the higher price. To me, as a status flyer this is s form of blackmail and I'm not willing to play.

Their error of thinking (looking at you, Lufthansa Group, but others likely pull the exact same shit) is that I don't only buy cheap flights, but will sometimes splurge for a business ticket in long distance.

Just this February my business went to the Omanis (which also offer the better product).

Being treated like shit on short distance flights was not the only reason, but certainly a factor.
> I can sort of understand not spelling out the N word fully to not trigger aggressive filter sensors on some networks, but shit?

Hopefully this isn't why you aren't avoiding the N word. Using the N word if you aren't black yourself indicates either that you are unaware of its history, you don't care about it, or you care about it precisely because it causes offense. And being unaware usually correlates with not caring. People naturally infer from this that your attitude towards black people falls somewhere in the range from "I don't think about their interests" to "I wish them harm". It amounts to declaring one's hostility. The milder end of this range still implies contempt.

Communicating one's desire to offend is sufficient to cause offense. Everyone knows this. One can control one's own reaction to insults, but one cannot control the reactions of third parties who witness it. Everyone knows this as well. So claims that offended parties should just grow a thicker skin are disingenuous. This measure is insufficient to prevent all harm. So one should not say the N word not because of algorithms, but because you know in advance that it will cause harm.

Saying shit is different. Except in particular contexts -- a conversation in a retirement community, say, or a preschool -- its use cannot be construed as an attempt to harm particular classes of people. Outside of these contexts those who take offense are generally understood to be mistaking the intention of the speaker.
the ministry of defense in ukraine posts photos on their twitter of soldiers with totenkopf centered prominently
Most multi-storey buildings are made from prefab elements at least where I'm from. Making those carbon-neutral would be a big deal, even if the concrete couldn't be used for bridges and whatnot.
Pendulum Swings: Microservices to Monoliths
Except that it's not. YouTube is a giant hole of suck that brings everybody else down to their level.

YouTube being subsidized has driven any competitor out of the space. Since YouTube has a monopoly, your content will get copied and posted over there even if you don't give permission. Since YouTube is backed by Google, they are larger than lawsuits which could bring them to heel.

If you wanted YouTube to improve, split it out from Google again.
Show HN: Xline0.4.0: Geo-Distributed KV Store for Metadata Management
Dioxus (https://github.com/dioxuslabs/dioxus) is pretty React like, and has a TUI rendering mode.
> nice foreign function interface between R->Julia and Julia ->R

JuliaCall[1] and RCall[2].

Python<->Julia is similarly well exercised with PyCall[1], and recently PythonCall[2].

[1] https://non-contradiction.github.io/JuliaCall/index.html
[2] https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl
[3] https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl
[4] https://cjdoris.github.io/PythonCall.jl/stable/
TIL: "[T]he US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) forced* Cambridge Analytica, as well as Everalbum, the owner of a photo app, to destroy entire algorithms found to have been trained on illegitimately appropriated data and scraped photos."

* https://digiday.com/media/why-the-ftc-is-forcing-tech-firms-...
A random sleep of up to 10 seconds turned a 150gbit/sec spike into a 5gbit/sec spike on the Akamai bill from a newspaper app I once worked on...
I still have an Alpha code. Is that a goner?
They also make it really, really hard to purchase the goddamn game for your kid and set it so they can play on your local server. I've done it three times, and just budget a full damn hour for it at this point, though I think the first time took more like three hours.

I mean, they did get my money so I guess why should they care, but I have no idea how people without an actual computer science degree and mumble years of experience un-fucking broken computer horse-shit manage to get through the process.

[EDIT] Oh, advice to any parents considering embarking on this: just lie about your kid's age. Don't try to use their child accounts. It makes the whole thing a much bigger pain in the ass.

And while I'm at it, may as well ask: anyone got a good list of allowlist addresses for Minecraft? I lock down my kids' laptops (you know, like a responsible parent is supposed to) but modern Minecraft is so full of friggin' spyware that it can't even launch without connecting to a bunch of never-seen-before IP addresses every time it starts, which means I have to go put in a pin multiple times to allow those new addresses every single time.
I think there was a lot of discussion on this when Microsoft took over GitHub but as time goes people kind of accepted the reality.
OpenTelemetry (or OTel) is in no way an existential threat to DataDog. Primarily because OTel is simply the substrate/protocol by which data is collected from your apps/systems. DD does _a lot_ more than what OTel provides (RUM, SIEM, synthetics, on-call, dashboarding, anomaly detection, and much much more). If anything it's an existential threat to the more legacy vendors that aren't equipped to provide an OTel ingest layer.

OTel _does_ prevent lock-in on the agent side (making it easier to switch vendors) with open source components and consistent schemas, but OTel doesn't enable you to do anything that you couldn't do before with a specific vendor. It just empowers you to take ownership of your observability data, should you want to. Many don't, though. They want to throw money at someone else who can do it relatively well, hence the ridiculous DD pricing.

Regarding:

> Not sure how companies rationalize these types of services at scale when there are so many open source options to run for a fraction of the cost

At Coinbase's scale (which I assume is a lot due to the DD bill, but I haven't looked closely at it) the open source options simply won't cut it. Plus there are no scalable open source options for many of the things that DD does (synthetics, SIEM come to mind - not to mention onerous regulatory requirements). 65M seems like a lot, but it also means their cloud costs are insane - so maybe it lets them put focus elsewhere?
Except I think Vietnam has crazy high humidity.
I'm happy about all movement in this space, but I don't really see the unique value proposition yet. What is special about papis?

Being hackable (python) is certainly nice, but many of the steps listed on the homepage are a lot faster and easier with other tools such as Zotero or straight BibTeX. Especially manually entering titles or other metadata on the cli - that would be the seventh level of hell for me. I want one click on a paper's webpage and be done.
Ah yeah my MSFT is in a state where everything is usable except Mojang account transfers. Support was unhelpful to gracefully resolve the situation, and recommended I give up and create a new MSFT account to hold the Mojang account, which I ended up doing. So now I have several MSFT accounts to hold various Mojang accounts.
How Federal investigators found more than 100 children cleaning slaughterhouses
I'm a license holder for Java edition, which I feel entitles me to run the cracked version without issue.
Some special forces groups insist on using lighter calibers because the round bounces/tumbles through.
The dynamics of parabolic flight (2008)
yeah those numbers seem like they're from 2003 not 2023
Biochar is simply charcoal with some specifics as to how it's made, and charcoal is just pyrolysed biomass.
> People here are generally well-educated
This isn't a given (anymore?).
Ironically it seems like you didn't read my comment. The first line explains why thats a bad solution, because its just moving clutter around the page but with extra steps
First one's on me, the rest you can pay for, or google:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_against_ethanol_bad_...
Funny how half the "rounds" in question, the goal is to raise money to impress the next round of investors. No focus on profit at any point is required for these companies. Crazy
Google's login situation is because they tried to turn everyone into a Google+ user whether they wanted to be or not. Very different histories.
The images aren't rehosted, but the text is. Arguably even more parasitic given the relative costs involved. (Navigate to e.g. https://readable_techcrunch.mvlab.workers.dev/article/253956... and open the dev tools)
One that I vividly remember because I tried to mediate it was the edit war over the name of Pristina (capital of Kosovo) - whether it should use the then-traditional phonetic English spelling "Prishtina", Latin Serbian "Priština" (either with or without the diacritic), or Albanian "Prishtinë". It got bad enough that at some point the article used double naming throughout.
Humans aren't immune to manipulations. Neither personally, not in mass. LLMs should be possible to manipulate to some degree if attacker controls significant portion of information on some topic. For example manufacturers can 'upgrade' specs on their devices. Till they get caught LLMs will parrot them as a ground truth. The same with 'human values' and political events interpretation. China already introduced policy on LLMs, they should be politically correct. LLMs producers can manipulate, but not eliminate, the bias by selecting and weighting the sources. Which they do. Plus humans interventions when they see unpleasant output.
Not all that surprising, nor is it really special at all. It's probably blocked in most corporate environments as well (it is at Qualcomm) along with any other tool/site where people might be tempted to paste large chunks of company info, whether it's copy, source code, etc. I discovered the other day that we have regex101 blocked! Very annoying, but understandable. Fortunately someone set up something similar internally that we are allowed to access. Of course there are always alternatives, or ways around the blocks, but it makes sense to target whatever is most popular/viral.
OK, first thing to remember is that in most trials the lawyers for both parties probably know each other and the judge professionally, and often personally, depending a lot on the size of the courthouse/venue (technical term for the geographical area the court hears cases from). This is important because all three sides, plaintiff, defendant, and court (judge) want to make their life as simple as possible. In practice this means that before trial the judge will ask everyone to sort out the foundation before trial so that things can go quickly and in the case of a jury trial the jury's precious time isn't wasted on technical matters (as generally the jury isn't allowed to have an opinion on whether a piece of evidence is real - that is a matter solely for a judge to rule on).

What actually happens though, for the most part, is that none of the lawyers want to waste the time of a photographer to come into court to spend two seconds to say "yes" when asked if these are the photos they took. (Getting any witness into court is a nightmare). So the parties agree to "stipulate" the foundation of exhibits. So if the prosecutor asks to introduce a crime scene photo the defense lawyer will accept a stipulation that the photographer would swear to the images. This might buy the defense lawyer some brownie points as it saves the prosecution a lot of grunt work. The judge will also look on it favorably too, so more points there.

What is sad is that a lot of cases can be won on foundational grounds if lawyers stop stipulating to make things easier. There are many ways for foundation to fail and lawyers should require foundation to be proven on all but the most infallible cases.

One big issue coming through courts is child pornography. In many jurisdictions CSAM is legal if no real minors are involved in its production. To prove an image contains a real minor you either need the photographer (!) to vouch for it, or someone else that can verify the contents (e.g. the victim).

There are many other technical pieces to foundation that I could spend hours on. For instance, recorded security cam footage has no "photographer" so it is validated by swearing all the equipment was working fine.

The actual court Rules of Evidence for this process are really tiny, and practically all of the determinations are actually made based not on the wording of the rules but from the millions of pages of opinions of appeal court judges (case law) that has been written on this subject over the last few hundred years.
No, it isn't hard to get at all, that's part of the problem.

.223 one of the more common AR-15 rounds is cheap and most options have free or reduced shipping[1]. You can get 1000 rounds shipped to your door for ~$400.

[1] https://ammoseek.com/ammo/223-remington
Call it a very good bet, based on inductive reasoning.
Yep, I actually ordered that exact same textured sheet you linked, and it got delivered a couple weeks ago, but I am yet to try it. I still want to make PETG work for me, as the prints i actually managed to finish with it were great.

> While I'm waiting for the printer to reach temperature and the print to start, I make sure to remove any filament that might be dribbling out the nozzle using pliers or a wire brush until either the print starts or the nozzle pressure decreases enough for the oozing to stop.

Yeeeeppp, been doing that exact same thing, and it was working quite well. But not going to lie, I felt a bit destroyed on the inside when I still got the nozzle clogging issue about 10 hours into a 16hr print I had going. I wrote it off as a one-off, but I have been hesitant to try another 16hr-long print with PETG since then (until i at least get the textured sheet set up).

Thanks for your comments in this thread btw, they definitely highlighted quite a lot of issues I had and potential workarounds.
Glue multiple applications in Docker container, or a custom reverse proxy in Go
Form letters happen to be one of ChatGPT's more-underrated areas of utility.

"Write a legal demand letter to Facebook about..."

Verify any addresses and don't let it cite law, but sometimes it can help articulate what your grievance even is better than you can (by putting a name to it in some cases). Aggrieved parties are seldom as coherent as they could be.
Should be available to all users now, previously was on beta
It has always been tolerated in math. The more unpronouncable the Greek letter, the better. If you want to sound really badass, you start using Hebrew letters as well. The pinnacle of badassness is multiple capital Pi and capital Sigma with some set notation below instead of indexes laid out clearly like a for loop. Or "Einstein notation" where you stop writing the summation symbol because a small group of people think it is implied, which helps gatekeep others from the field of research because they can't make sense of your equations anymore. At that point, people give up on reviewing your paper and just publish the damn thing because you're from Google, Stanford, or wherever.

If mathematicians worked like software engineers they'd label things like "density[x, y]" instead of "\rho_{xy}" or at least stop using PDFs and use HTML with a tooltip over each variable name like we have in pretty much every modern editor, but we all know they hate readability.
> The only difference between me and every other random joe that buys a gun safe at bass pro/cabela's, is that I know what an /actual/ safe is, and I went about acquiring one rather than the cheap RSC you can bypass with a pry bar and a hammer or a sawzall.

While I'm on that topic, there's a few things everyone should know about safes.

An RSC, or Residential Security Container, has a very minimum standard, and the "gun safes" even though they are heavy and bulky at bass pro are usually RSCs. They are legally required to be marked, and if they are marked RSC, they are no more secure against burglary than your typical sheet-steel locking cabinet at the hardware store. Sometimes they're actually worse. The big thick door and the big thick walls on those "gun safes"? Well, generally it's two thin sheets of steel with drywall sandwiched between them. Why drywall? Well, it helps with fire protection and is the primary way in which the safe gets fire rated.

So let's talk about that drywall for a second. When you have a fire rated safe that uses drywall and it doesn't hermetically seal it, that drywall can actually cause corrosion of firearms or other metal objects and degradation of papers stored within the safe. Modern drywall is exceptionally corrosive, but usually this isn't a problem in homes because it's painted over on the inside to seal it and it off-gases to the outside where homes aren't perfectly sealed. In a safe though, you have a seam-welded outer shell, drywall, then carpet glued over it (which is also corrosive as well), or in better safes a seam-welded outer shell, drywall, then a tack welded inner shell with no carpeting.

Why does drywall cause corrosion and degradation of paper? Two compounds in drywall are responsible: Formaldehyde and Sulfur. Carpet also contains huge amounts of Formaldehyde typically, as does the carpet adhesive. Formaldehyde off-gasses and is itself deeply corrosive. Sulfur compounds in the drywall combine with moisture in the air to produce a chemical reaction when encountering naturally occurring pyrite in the powdered rock base of the drywall to produce iron hydroxide and sulfuric acid when coming into contact with exposed iron and high carbon steel (e.g. what guns are made of). The iron hydroxide off-gasses and the sulfuric acid is left behind and causes corrosion and pitting.

Don't be a big dummy, buy a real safe, not the crap they sell for thousands of dollars at big box stores with less than $100 in materials costs. If you are okay with the security level of an RSC you can get by with a plain locking steel cabinet.
oh, I beg your pardon. You did say "very few of them have been in the trenches with ML (not just using, but designing and building the actual architectures, working on theory, or writing cogent philosophy about it) long enough to have good opinions about it worth listening to."

I thought you meant that your opinions are worth listening to, unlike the other HN'ers. Are they not?
Just wait until they find your wife's phone number. (OK, this wasn't datadog, but some similarly aggressive headhunting agency went from calling me to calling my wife - who is in no way affiliated with my company - to ask her if she could tell me about how they could help me in hiring, yadda yadda.)
From the tweetstorm

> We follow. We do not have valuation rules (clearly).

> We prioritize 2nd time founders, rev traction, and fancy co-investors.

So these valuations are for the best 10% of YC, which is the best accelerator. Nice if u can get it.
Yep. NOR and NAND flash are constructed differently, but programming/erasure and tunnel injection/release are changes in configuration rather than accumulation/release of charge.

Core memory (ferrite bead), SRAM (4 transistors/bit) and DRAM (1 transistor with a pseudo capacitor/bit) would increase in relativistic weight depending on their state.

The same is true of batteries, ultracaps, or anything that consumes or stores large amounts of energy. m = E/c^2. 1e17 J weighs about 1 kg. That's about the energy of 2 of the large nuclear weapons ever tested.

Let's suppose we have an average largish lake, 100 km^3 or 1e14 kg of water, and we store it at average height of 60 m above a generator. PE=m*g*h. That 6e16 J of potential energy weighs 651g.
For a span of years, I would periodically (every month or two) manage to get Google in some weird state where it'd just redirect-loop me through a half-dozen domains forever when I tried to do anything. I'd have to delete cookies and start with a fresh session to fix it. It hasn't happened in a while, but I think that might mostly be because I interact with Google a lot less these days.

Crap like this is why people hate computers. How's some non-geek supposed to figure that out?
LOL.

you're not alone my dude. i have a similar challenge w/ my engineers. my best lead is an artisan and its proud of what he authors, and like me sees their code as part of the product UX / funnel (1%). the others (99%) i have to get a bit draconian or simply create company templates they must adhere to or PRs get rejected and they hear from me on their 1:1s.

you either love it or you don't. and if you don't, follow the rules like a big boy or get called out.

ultimately you have to set a culture for it even if it is pulling teeth because you net net it impacts the PnL.