skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also there has been a huge amount of malicious compliance (though frankly it mostly doesn’t actually legally comply), deliberately muddying the waters and poisoning people’s impressions of GDPR and ePD. People have been convinced to blame GDPR rather than the businesses that have built themselves upon doing hostile and creepy stuff.

(Cookie banners are the most obvious example of this. The businesses say “our hands are tied, the EU told us to do this”, whereas in actual fact the EU more told them to stop doing the storing and collecting. And very few cookie banners and such actually comply, and they made them a much bigger deal than they should have legally. All up there was very clear intent to poison perception in many cases.)
My personal recollection is that long FSCK times on ever-increasing disk sizes was the driving force; I remember switching to ReiserFS simply because my 160 GB mp3 drive would take forever to FSCK if the computer lost power or had to do a hard reset. I didn't even mind the amusing file corruption you'd get from tail-packing or whatever it was because I needed that speed.

I later manually did the needful to get XFS working as it was faster on deletes, iirc.
I appreciate the work on this. That's not particularly easy code to write, so thanks to whoever is working through this.
great question. a few ways

1. no, we're more expensive (at least last I checked they were 3.99/mon we're 6.99/mon or 44.99/yr)

2. yes we just rolled out website support this week.

3. no manual shortcut setup. just one click to add an app you want to moderate. (for websites you can go to an app you've added and just type in which web domains should apply to that app.)

4. yes, probably! we can pull you out of app sessions, which I personally find to be a game-changer. friction on the way in is great, but I tend to get lost in suggested content once I'm actually in an app. I need to be ripped out after a few minutes, and we do that. also adding "teammates" to receive automated texts when I'm slipping up has been very helpful for me personally.
Federal subsidies may contribute, but average farm size has increased, and employment decreased, over a much longer scale - century plus - than any farm program I'm aware of. It's a massive secular trend longer than the monetary items mentioned as well.

Technology/automation is a commonly cited cause, although in this context you'll see references to mechanization.
> When capital requirements, transaction and information costs drop dramatically, the optimal size of a firm will change. I believe they will become dramatically smaller.

I hope so. Oh how I hope so.
Thanks for noting! https://www.permaplant.net/ should give you the landing page.
The true engineering fields have a praxis of using actual signatures on designs, documentation, and decisions for exactly this reason: people are more likely to take meaningful responsibility for understanding the subject matter when their signature is permanently engraved on the decision (and there is in fact more meaningful responsibility when you can trace signatures).
Below 100 feet it is remarkably difficult to detect and stop a drone in time to defend an attack. Especially since they can be fully automated, have onboard inertial measuring units and computer vision. Your best defense would be hunter killer drones over high value targets or trained birds. But defense always lags offense.

Guided missiles used to be an expensive proposition. Now they are off the shelf parts for a couple thousand on digikey.
a lot of good software doesn't take off today because selling it is a slog. AI could help there too, but probably not much (especially for getting the first 10 to 100 customers).

e.g. say you used GPT-4 to clone something like Fivetran but with your own unique features. It could even be way better across some dimensions, but you still need to convince users to try it and I don't see AI helping with that (at least not yet!).
I've been deep in the Google ecosystem for 10+ years and my sentiment has changed simply because their products suck now. Every offering they have is worse today than it was a year ago. Google assistant is borderline unusable in it's current state, and I used to sing it's praises from the mountain tops.
the Hamming distance in the article is about twice the number of moves to get from one position to the other, mate in 4 is important?

A better criticism might be: this metric defines position as close even if can only be reached by reversing moves. There's some discussion in the HNSW paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.09320.pdf of working with non-symmetric metrics but I haven't read further.
Assuming artificial superintelligence is possible, imagine how would its "experience" be in contrast to ours - it would be orders of magnitude faster in both thinking and execution. We would be like some weird plants to them, that take a year just to move from one location to another.

Truly fascinating.
I work in this industry and can provide some insight.

Every payer has the concept of "UCR Rates" or "Usual, Customary, and Reasonable Rates" for every procedure code, for every ZIP code. For example, the median cost of an X-ray should be a certain dollar amount in Topeka, Kansas and a different (higher) dollar amount in Manhattan, NY.

When a provider is out-of-network, they'll bill as much as they possibly can to see what the insurance company will pay — the insurance company will only pay up to the "UCR Rate" for the treatments (or in your case, apply that to the deductible before the payments start to kick in). Whatever the difference is between the UCR rate and the requested amount is almost always ignored, since the doctors' motivation for the high requested rate was to try and maximize payment from the insurance company. In your case, since you paid out of pocket, you're unfortunately on the hook for that difference. In other situations the provider might also invoice the patient for that difference, but it's relatively rare.

In contrast, when a provider is in-network, they have contracted rates for all of the procedures (also typically varies by ZIP code). These are called the "fee schedule" rates, and every payer (including Medicare/Medicaid) has their fee schedule rates defined and agreed upon with the physicians/providers.
I think Helion has a 50% chance of achieving net electricity next year. When hearing about fusion research, the vast majority of people immediately react with something like "fusion is always 30 years away lol". There's a good chance they will be very surprised.
I mean, I do see the appeal. I would guess it's better to cheat and be successful than to be honorable and be a failure. I can say that the latter really sucks.
I knew immediately it was going to be lead...

Imagine incestuous inbreeding coupled with lead poisoning and what morons were built with those inputs.

I wonder if the fact that east asian cultures were building piping from Bamboo, and with enameled ceramics are the reason their cultures persisted much longer than imperialists with lead pipes.
Wind powers Britain more than gas for first time
thank you! these anecdotes are literally what get us out of bed in the morning
Terathon C++ Math Library from C4 Engine
Thanks. Besides the reels, just about the only part I could swap out was the light bulb, and even that had a process around it - for instance, I had to wear lint-free gloves because if I touched the bare bulb with my fingers, the oil from my skin could cause the bulb to explode when 1000+ watts start coursing through it.

Fire safety was a real concern. I had to be tested and licensed by the state, and most of the questions were about what to do if there was a fire. Part of the projection machinery included venting to get all of that hot air away from the projectors and out of the room (not unlike a server room).
I was pretty dismayed how NYT framed her as this "life turnaround, devoted mother" facade when in reality she put lives in danger by promising a fancy scam.

I generally don't care about the investors she duped, they should've performed their due diligence and they didn't. What Theranos proved is that 'investors' will back your company if you wear a fancy turtleneck, and speak to prospects like Jobs did.

Ridiculous all around, the real victims got nothing. Just another reminder that the law only works for those who can afford it.
Alpaca itself looks legit - however they use third-party providers to source liquidity for your crypto trades, and I don't see it disclosed who those providers are - so that's who I would be worried about. Not only that but the trades are very opaque; I don't see an order book endpoint.

You're probably better off just connecting directly to Coinbase or Gemini APIs, or interfacing with Uniswap directly. You can also take a look at hummingbot, they provide some nice abstractions.
They said "Using robots.txt as a model for anything doesn't work." but it does work for the case described in the text
Spain asks US to clean up site of 1966 nuclear accident
The problem for the industry with the "no questions asked" plans is the only people who sign up for them are the ones who have no other option, which makes them more expensive, which makes the only people who sign up for them ... etc etc etc.
Let's see Paul Allen's Turing machine
I'm probably failing to articulate what I'm describing. Not really. I've been part of the SSTV scene. I know about packet and things like PACTOR etc too.

I remember operating a UUCP site, and I remember how well network news gracefully dealt with quite a wide variety of sites with different ad-hoc setups. I miss that. I wish more of today's internet was a bit more like that: all the interactivity in the world when the network is good, but gracefully degrading to offline copies, snapshots, etc as the network is intermittently disconnected or one-way or whatever.

Secure ScuttleButt ("SSB") does a lot of this, but there's no real one-way provision and it's a bit wack to use and discover your way through.
Unrelated but "offensive" is not necessarily bad.

We should accept that people can get offended by anything and, because of this, just demote the concept.
Is unfortunately inactive, see https://github.com/Ecohackerfarm/powerplant/issues/116

https://www.permaplant.net is alive and kicking!
The remaining issues I had are: I heard there are still bugs in the standard library regarding changing index offsets (from 1 to 0 for example), and IIRC also the language build depends on a fork of LLVM (https://github.com/JuliaLang/llvm-project)

Are both of those still true? I'm a zero-index guy, but having index offsets is fine as long as the standard library is high quality. As for LLVM, I'd prefer it not need a fork but that's less important.
> that it isn't inherent to the discipline of technology itself anymore

Sorry to say, but it never was. Anti-cheaters have always been the extreme minority in every profession since the dawn of man.
These people keep projecting their own attraction to certain people onto those people. She's not magical, you just love being in the presence of rich, pretty, young white ladies. Your desire is not one of her qualities (or her fault, really.) The most astounding thing about Theranos was how little work it took to pull the fraud, and how chintzy it was around the edges. If you had been born where she was, looked like she looked, and had powerful older men constantly blowing smoke up your ass and declaring you a wunderkind, it would be hard to resist scamming them.

The army of fawning reporters (and ex-generals and other officials) are the real problem. You're not giving us a peek behind Holmes's curtain, you were Holmes's curtain.
I only recommend people blocking things that they can't handle. If you can't handle opposing viewpoints, that's a big problem, but telling you that you can solve that problem by forcing yourself to be exposed to them is mistaking the symptom for the disease. The cure for that isn't to read opposing opinions but to read arguments as to why emotional reactions to such things is not the path to a well examined life.
Honestly, inhousing your knowledge repositories is the least you can do to avoid those all-powerful companies from taking everything you know and using as they like.

If your knowledge is minimally valuable, you should self-host your git and collaboration tools. If it's not, then whatever.
Yes, you can. You can do that by making the monetary value of the idea zero when it used to be non-zero.
There are reasons beyond direct redistribution of the CEO's salary to take issue with the vast inequality represented by that 1,000X. The board and CEO will place all of their network in the executive ranks, cutting off access to rank and file employees. These people also use their out-sized reward to have a huge impact on society at large outside of the company. The negative externalities created by exec compensation are borne by the public.
This is wrong. Look how whois works on .eu domain.
Considering the state of ai right now you probably are better off deleting your robots.txt file
Putting a permanent dent into their friendship.
How and why we acquired our .com domain
The problem was that he was terrible at problem solving. He failed at simple logical problems like flattening a nested json array, cleaning data before running operations on it, etc. And probing further on his memorized answers, he couldn't explain anything. He'd just repeat the same thing but change voice of the sentence (active/passive)
> We have a lot of junior developers out of bootcamps who can't find work due to saturation

Most bootcamps simply aren't that great.

The early bootcamps were extremely selective at choosing students who were already good at math or logical reasoning or some other helpful skill, and putting them through an intense process.

Some combination of policymakers, the HR industry, and the DEI industry then decided that this could scale.
Not OP, but to be clear, "low trust society" has a specific sociological meaning relating to interpersonal trust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_trust_and_low_trust_socie...

It doesn't mean that individuals from that society are less trustworthy.
More details here:
https://medium.com/thirdai-blog/thirdais-pocket-llm-a-comple...

Summary:
ThirdAI Corp. efficient AI software makes the following capabilities possible.
- No internet needed, completely air-gapped, providing the strongest privacy possible.
- Notice the speed of search and summarization. It runs entirely on your device without any wifi.
- Interact with 1000s or more pages of pdfs or docx on your laptop. Size and scale, no issues.
- Elaborate and not just keywords. A long paragraph of details works even better to locate what you are looking for.
- Teach the model to search like you. See real-time rlhf in action and adapt the model to your taste.
- 50 million to 1 billion parameter models trained from scratch in minutes on your device CPU.
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What's the relationship between abusive marriages and no-fault divorce? Won't abusive people be the easiest to divorce with fault?
> People give modern farmers a lot of crap, but overall they are very interested in taking care of their land, and using as few fertilizers and pesticides as possible, if for no other motive than the profit one.

You must be exposed to vastly different types of farmers than I have been. I've worked in the ag tech industry and have lived in Iowa most of my life. The idea that farmers are responsible stewards of the land doesn't seem to have any basis in reality. Half of the water bodies in Iowa are unusable because of pollution. Beaches at lakes are closed often due to bacterial blooms caused by farm runoff. Iowa has an advisory on limiting how much caught fish you eat due to farm pollution. In addition, farmers are destroying the top soil by not rotating crops (corn and soy is where the profit is at) and over tilling. This doesn't even touch on the hog factories that are literally overflowing with shit and all the damage that does to our environment and air quality. Where are you seeing farmers actually taking care of the land?
Rare myocarditis after Covid shots: Study rules out some common culprits
Can I ask what they suggested and what you ended up with eventually?
I am not talking about tomorrow. I am talking about the potential of what you can do with the energy density.
Also a rebuttal to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUPhsFoniw
What I don't understand is how come nobody talks about Microsoft Clarity? I don't know anything about GDPR but I would think if anything violates GDPR, it would be a literal screen recording app that tracks your mouse movements and can show literally where you put your mouse and your moves on the screen.

And yet:

> Clarity is GDPR-compliant as a data controller. For more information, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/faq

Is this true?
I hope so. There is so much money spent on technology that is meaningless, so much pessimism over technology that could actually help us. I hope to see people as shocked by fusion as they are by LLMs.
Answer Set Programming is an incredibly powerful tool to declaratively solve combinatorial problems. Clingo is one of the best open source implementations in my opinion: https://github.com/potassco/clingo

- Based on conflict driven nogood learning, it has incredible performance (including good multithreading)
- It has different optimization and enumeration modes
- It has strong built-in heuristics, but also allows manual heuristics
- It allows incremental solving
- It has a nice API to integrate other solving paradigms (like difference logic and constraint programming, for which implementations already exist)
- There is a huge ecosystem around it

And much more, go check it out!
Impressive what pwa can achieve nowadays. I would like to have one of these for pre iOS7. I like the skeuomorphism in the old iOS.
Like all observations, they are reflective only of the individuals observed, even if a pattern emerges. 17% of all people in the world are Indian, India alone has 1.4B people, and that doesn't even count the hundreds of millions of Indians in the diaspora around the world. Nothing you could possibly say about Indians is true for every person in that group, because the group is so large that it necessarily includes every possible facet of humanity, good, bad, or otherwise.

I say all that to say, that I stand by the truth of my observations, but I do not intend for those observations to in any way imply that it would be acceptable to discriminate against people from India, or anywhere else, on the basis of their origin or ethnicity. I do not discriminate in this manner, as it is just as ethically reprehensible, incorrect, and dishonorable as the behavior I was pointing out in my original comment. I have worked with many Indian colleagues throughout my career that were excellent engineers, managers, and otherwise decent people.

Just to clearly state it, I do not in any way think that any individual person I meet from India is any more likely to cheat or otherwise be dishonest than any individual person I meet from anywhere else. India is far from the only low-trust society in the world, and in general most of the countries in the world qualify as low-trust societies. These are academic terms, and it is entirely expected that there is a higher variance in behavior for individuals in low-trust societies versus high-trust societies, so if anything honestly referring to India as a low-trust society implies within it that there is a higher variance of individual behavior and it's even less accurate to generalize about the behavior of Indian people.

I would be happy to work with anyone who loves computer science and embraces the cool things that we can do with technology to reshape the world and improve the human condition, no matter where they originate from.
C++: idtech 4.5 math library
I don't know the history of the bar exam, but I could imagine something like that one day being instituted to protect our repetitional interest.

Even though we're both talking about SWE, whereas CS is a different thing altogether.
Depends on your definition of mainstream computing. Samsung's f2fs has been in the linux kernel for many years and is used on their Android devices. It can be used on desktop or server SSDs and gives impressive results on some workloads compared to more traditional ones like ext4, but I've been steering clear of it because at least in 2019 it had really bad error detection (just silently discarding most i/o errors, not something you'd want in a filesystem):

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc19-jaffer.pdf

It may have improved since then, who knows.
It’s amazing for prototypes and writing utility functions, but for fully scalable and supportable architecture it’s a long ways off.

Likewise, it often generates very complex and confusing code - specifically regex in my experience where I can get the job done in a much more readable way.

Don’t get me wrong, I use it all day as a little coding helper, but while it can say, advise you on how to set up a distributed system, it’s not rolling out VMs and DB clusters.
> Also, seeing a major league sports game for $15 is incredible. In my market, even at $20 movies are usually way cheaper than tickets to a sports game.

When I lived in Brooklyn we'd go see the Nets for low 30s in the cheap seats both before and after Kyrie came back from his vaccine vacation. Pretty competitive with movie prices in NYC.
but copyright is not for information or ideas, information and ideas cannot be copyrighted; it's for creative expression
Of course it's choice. I'm not criticizing the choice. I'm criticizing that they complain that they don't have the time to do anything different. Refusing to own up to your choices is worthy of criticism IMO.
This is not correct as stated. It does not “tend towards extremes” as you might expect intuitively. That would be the case if half the time it approached 100% blue and half the time it approached 100% red, which is precisely not what happens.
You are describing a scenario that's very scary for any economy that depends on fossil energy sources to some extent.

Do you really not see the geostrategic advantage in being able to control who gets "free" energy and who doesn't?
It’s always a bummer to open a thread like this and realize all I can do is open, skim, and promptly exit. I have zero expertise on fusion power so I don’t have much to add in a top level comment - but all the top level comments are not communicating from a perspective of expertise, just broadcasting cynicism. I have this queasy feeling sometimes that HN is really not a healthy social media community any more than the others I have quit.

I’ve learned a lot about fusion power in previous threads on the subject - all you can learn here is how bitter and cynical some people are about this particular company’s efforts.
To me the NYT piece read as “lol here’s the current scam of Holmes”. I guess my lens is rather harsh though :)