skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I was born and raised there and lived until my late 20's and it's comparable to most of the US in terms of services you get. The issue is as you get older you notice that salaries are lower, a lot of goods such as gasoline are expensive, you get regular power outages, and the government is fairly incompetent and corrupt.

Most people who leave do so because it's like living in a bottom 50 state like Mississippi or Alabama, why stay when your quality of life will improve significantly just taking a 2 hour flight to another state? I was able to attend a top engineering school in the US and most of my high school friends were also able to get great jobs elsewhere too. We would love to go back but the drop in quality of life makes it a difficult choice.
You'd notice in the original screenshot/example linked: https://bouquetoftwelve.tumblr.com/post/186272155342/ommanyt...
effective accelerationism lets gooooooo!
Germans Rebel Against Gas Boiler Ban
Utilizing an infinite amount of computing resources is probably always going to be an inherently difficult thing. It's a task made more difficult by all he snake oil salesman promising perfect easy solutions. The only workable solution is to find out what works for everyone else and, even if it doesn't fit your needs perfectly, figure out how to make it work for you. Never underestimate the power of strength in numbers. If the entire industry is utilizing a technology or paradigm you can either get on board or get left behind.
Talk to any God you want
I standardized a couple queries to open AI so that you can talk to a variety of different gods and prophets as depicted by their respective holy books. It's kind of cool to hear their responses!
My annoyance is more the half-brained projects which Mozilla pursues. Then surprised Pikachu when they have to cut budgets and Firefox is impacted.
And leaves you with a car now with $7k.
https://archive.is/AIxu1
It doesn't seem to be very effective - https://www.kotaku.com.au/2023/03/man-arrested-after-making-...
I was looking at some stuff by Fogus and discovered:

https://github.com/fogus/papers-i-love

Really good resource for a bunch of important papers.

There's also some good information for compilers on github

https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers
Geez, we're never going to run out of things we can blame on the British Empire, are we?

(this is a joke. I'm joking. I think)

Seriously though, I wish that wasn't paywalled. Sounds like a really interesting bit of story.
oh it's dissociative identity disorder, but there are other dissociative disorders that don't include actual dissociative identities, like "derealization/depersonalization disorder" (DPDR). The slideshow thing isn't necessarily DPDR, but maybe you can use it as a search term.
You’re right, it’s not even the case where I live, had the wrong figures in mind. No delete action now I’m afraid!
You made up two things I didn't say and then disagreed with them? That's an interesting discussion style.
> Defaults on Docker specifically are pretty locked down.

That is strongly dependent on your threat model. The default docker configuration completely bypasses the firewall, making it trivial for containers to be exposed to the open internet with no way for admins to prevent it[0]. Likewise, I hesitate to call docker's default of running as root safe since it means anyone with access to the docker socket immediately has root on the host.

[0] It is quite easy for someone even slightly inexperienced to accidentally write, say `-p 1234:1234` instead of `-p 127.0.0.1:1234:1234` and thereby cause a security incident or near-miss; ask me how I know.
Ask HN: How to address fake reviews for competitors on Google Business?
I work for a local service area business. We rely partially on our Google Business profile for business.

The past 3-4 years has seen numerous fake profiles appear in our area. These profiles are fake because they exist solely for the purposes of lead generation (either through a 'rank-and-rent' scheme or for a client specifically) which is explicitly against the Google Business guidelines.

Sometimes these are easy enough to report and Google removes them. However, once they gain reviews they are much harder to get Google to take action on.

The problem is that these reviews are fake.

If you look at the profile of the "individual" who submitted the review, you'll see that they have reviews on several other businesses which can be tied back to the same marketing firm usually in various cities across the US.

It's obvious all these people are not getting tree trimming services is Portland, grease trap cleaning in Chicago, and carpet cleaning in Miami.

I report both the reviewers and the profiles, but it seems once they have reviews it's almost impossible to push Google to take action.

What are the real local businesses supposed to do? Is there any real people at Google we can talk to?

We're tired of losing business to fake companies while Google sits on its hands and does nothing.
If it was past experience involving a boat, you'd think they'd attack powerboats. I really doubt a sailboat would have likely been involved into hurting orcas to the point where they would have learned to attack sailboats. Sailboats have keels in front of small propellers, and the propellers are usually purposefully not "exposed" or the first thing to be hit when colliding with an underwater object.

On the other hand, power boats have very shallow draft, basically no keel, and much larger and exposed propellers. And yet, it's sailboats that are attacked.

Hence to me it's quite obvious that the orcas are taking on the sailboats because sailboats are easy, slow and vulnerable targets. It's more likely that a bunch of young orcas are being jerks, like teenage humans are to vulnerable people. Also I don't buy that somehow orcas would be this pure, unable to do evil, species that is merely induced to be angry as a whole group because of the big bad humans. If they have a social structure, they have members of society that are jerks.

One way or another it's a problem if they target vulnerable boats.
Also to add, Elon/Tesla is 100% transparent about pricing strategies, and it's exactly this. Other manufacturers obscure this behind dealership models, Tesla does it out in the open.
The dividing line here is that it's fallacious to argue that something is true simply based on authority. That doesn't hold where there are external cogent reasons for following that authority (eg. in this example: it's a difficult problem that's well studied by many, and the body of work has not yet yeileded an answer such that it's unlikely that a more casual hunch will do so).
> The cloud is renting someone else's computer at a way higher price than it would cost you to use your own.

This is a simplistic view that doesn't discuss any of the trade-offs inherent in the choice between running your own hardware and using a cloud service.

Yes, it's a higher price, but it allows you to stop paying for it when you stop needing it. You can scale up rapidly. You don't have to deal with buying, maintaining, or replacing hardware.
Am I the only one here who thinks the prof's statistical reasoning, which is being waved at as proof, is really, really bad?

And I mean, aside from the whole typical fallacy of treating a p-value as a statement on posterior probability.
Heh, and the professor is polluting the info space too... That is if other parties are taking this fake test out of it's multiple choice format and using the answers as data for other sources. You know, in the same ways bots steal information from recipes and mix them on pages to try to get ad hits. You start building chains of misinformation based on unethical behavior.
The challenge here is cost. You need 20-40 perspectives at ~$1000 bucks each including the camera body, lens, trigger system, remote download, and output pipeline. So a hand built cost optimized system will cost $20k - $40k in hardware. Operating is also kinda painful: calibration of each camera is required every time the rig is moved or exposure is adjusted and all shots must be designed ahead of time. It's just kinda a limited market due to the complexity and cost.

Neural Holography should arrive to market within the the next 6 months, which will allow for any frame to be seen at any angle with as few as 20 cameras for 360° x 180° coverage, allowing for bullet time shots to be designed after the fact with the added bonus of having cinematic quality 3D live action content for use in VR and other 3D environments.
If you're using Docker Desktop, and have it run at startup, that VM is already running when you launch your docker command. It's not like you have to start a new/fresh VM every time you do docker run.
Good reminder to get the shingles vaccine. Never even gotten chicken pox!
Hey! I’m the app creator. I’m really glad you are enjoying it.

I plan on adding more advanced lessons and an constantly improving it so there could be an advanced track within the next few months.

In any case, feel free to shout me an email if you have any feedback/feature request.
I had never heard of endogenous retroviruses before! They raise the question: if a virus writes itself into the genome, is it even a virus anymore?
I'm sympathetic to the idea that society treating people with university degrees better than those without is harmful in a sociological sense and likely to increase cheating in universities. I'm less sympathetic to individual students actually cheating in the manner described.

The article says the test was take home, meaning in a practical sense, they could access any resources they wanted while taking the test. They did not need to memorize material as your comment suggests, and would have had the opportunity to copy answers.

> Were they copying someone else's tests?

Yes. They were copying what they thought were a previous student's answers to the same test.
Sorry about that, please use this link: https://docs.winglang.io/blog/2022/11/23/manifesto
I'm out of the loop. What's up?
Daniel Micay has been a rare powerhouse, founding and leading a great project.

From the little I'm aware, it sounded like he was being harassed, and some of his public comments sounded like he was powering through stress.

(PSA: Bad stress is bad. No matter how strong and resourceful and outwardly cool you are, the stress is not only unpleasant, but it's also secretly taking a toll. The smart move is to keep stress low.)

I wish Micay all the best for health and happiness. I hope that he doesn't let recent stresses get him down, and that he gives himself a chance to recharge.
I think that the balance has swung so far due to how obnoxious and callous the adtech industry has become, that right now many people (including me) would consider it acceptable "collateral damage" if a bunch of decent sites would become unviable and shut down. In many areas is an over-abundandance of content with scarce attention, so even if majority of the providers shut down, there would still be "enough".

And also IMHO the business has changed over the 20 years you mention - back then, sufficient compute power and bandwidth to run a site were meaningful and more users directly required more expenses; but right now the hosting costs are trivial (e.g. I'm involved in a non-monetized project with a few million views/month / 100k MAU running off of a single small VM that can get hosted for free) and the primary expense is your time - so if you want to make some content and spend time on that, you don't need to monetize it; if you're willing to spend an evening or two, then paying a few dollars for a domain name won't be an obstacle; and if in some community there is no one who wants to put in their time if there's no money in it, well, then there's no big loss if that community doesn't have that site, as apparently no one cares.
Bill Gates’s alleged Russian lover linked with notorious Kremlin spy
Everything agree with, until:

> but if you have a blog post that hits the front page of HN.

HN traffic is so small that unless you are using Raspberry Pi Pico, it is fine.

Your 5-year old Android phone probably can handle HN traffic just fine. (HN traffic is in a range of single-digit kilo qps).
https://grapheneos.social/@DanielMicay

He is also posting the same to his Mastadon
>Was the push for Wayland in the hands of entities who perhaps didn't have a particularly strong interest in a classically useable desktop? As in, a combination of entities who really have no interest in a Linux desktop

You answered your own question.

The Linux community's (read: most graybeards') love for Linux is inversely proportional to their love for a GUI. The terminal is still the One True Way(tm) of doing anything serious in Linux.

Consider that among the hottest topics in Linux in the year 2023 is still the holy war between vi vs. emacs, nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century. The people in charge of Linux (be it literally or figuratively) do not give a damn about GUI, which includes desktops. Using a mouse is heresy, a touchscreen is sacrilege.
> a lot of songs are incredibly similar to older songs (see ed sheeran v marvin gaye), and they're not infringing

They're really not that similar. The Marvin Gaye family lawsuits are absolutely frivolous and a stain on his legacy. Suing over the same chord progression (ignoring tons of small variations that actually matter) would be like suing an author because they also had a character who was an angsty teenager with overbearing parents. Suing over a mostly-kinda-similar riff is like suing an author because they also used the sentence "Terrified, he ran." The songs only sound similar when you ignore all elements of the whole song and focus exactly on a few ways in which they overlap out of context.

They're nothing like GitHub CoPilot literally outputting comments that include copyright notifications from their original author. It's much more like suing someone who directly samples your song as a core element of their own (the Vanilla Ice example in the other comment).
It requires large amounts of formalised and human defined domain specific knowledge, for every domain that you work with.

The overheads are huge, and it's very bad at dealing with fuzzy situations.
I completely disagree, though, you're not getting my point. There is a type of "standard" warning that I routinely ignore, the "don't cut yourself with the tablesaw" warnings. Or "knife is sharp". Like, yeah, that's why I'm using the knife.

A warning I won't ignore is one written by a friend about something unusual or unexpected. "The supposedly insulated handle on this pot will melt your fingers off"

I just think that comic sans draws my eye in, in a way that Copperplate instructions from HR do not. Don't tell HR, or they'll start using Comic Sans.
until you realize you have to build a datacenter yourself. Or order purestorage appliances for 3 datacenters you have your hardware in. And then realize dc 1 does not physically have enough space to add more storage servers. But you need that third site. There is no convenient 4th “spare” site. Let alone 100 across the world.

Or that your business has to replace a router on one of the dcs and then you have to do all the work to ensure nothing goes down yourself. You cant blame anyone if it goes bad.

Then you realize how much work that is. The cloud is really convenient.

Source:
Always worked “in the cloud”. Current client is on premise(s) for solid reasons. A very unusual case though. Fun. Inconvenient. Makes you respect the big clouds even more.
I think it amusing and I don't have a problem with what he did, but I guess I don't really understand why teachers get so fired up about the subject in the first place. If people are in the class to fill out a general education requirement or something and otherwise don't care about the topic or will never use it again, why get so vigilant about it? And the students that do want to continue in philosophy would just be punishing themselves by cheating.
Path finding algorithms have had options to add penalty for turns for as long as I've been alive. I remember offline navigation systems allowing you to tune this (e.g. TomTom on the palm pilot, Microsoft Streets & Trips on the PC).
Because the punishment for cheating is not a poor grade but severe discipline (typically suspension or expulsion), the bad grade was for not learning the material in class.
I suspect you might be mistaken. The IPC uplift at same clock rate compared to a stock 68k is over 5x in all cases, often more.
> Copyright infringement is when you take copyrighted work and distribute it directly, or so close to directly that it can't be said to be "transformative".

“Transformative” is one consideration in one of four factors for fair use, so that's not right on the exception, and infringement happens when any exclusive right (literal copying, creating a derivative work, public performance, etc) is done with neither permission nor an exception such as Fair Use, not just at distribution.
Heads of to you Daniel, I am sure you are reading this. I still believe GrapheneOS to be the best custom rom out there by a mile and a half and I hope you will find a little more peace in your private life without social media! Thank you for all the work!
> libinput is leaps and bounds above everything that came before it

Oh Lord no. Clickpads are still basically unusable with libinput. There's a reason it hasn't actually displaced synaptics.
That's a terrible example, random reddit post from 6 years ago with no explanation
Pop music is perhaps the worst example you could have chosen. It is highly derivative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpB_40hYjXU
I agree so much with the article about cloud being to complicated and fast feedback being import. I wish them the best of luck.

PaaS solutions and not IaaS is also a solution for many.

No code / low cose beeing a solution for someone else.

It's not to many days since my solution was on HN. Windmill.dev is really something special.

And by mine i do not mean that i has any affiliation with windmill, just that it solves my problem. quick iterations including ui building.

But it's not a low code plaform either. I would call it a code platform for developers
or make the neck vertical instead of horizontal. I found myself craning my neck to look at it that way.
It's hard to say they even do the first two. This one for example is not "sorry we added ads", but a "We're sorry you're concerned or confused".
Can someone provide a CliffsNotes version of what the "whole saga" is?
Wow TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_and_Me#Parkinson's_disease
Am I the only one finding this fretboard representation not jiving with their mental model? The thing is, I'm no Jeff Healey, so I never place the neck before me this way. Generally, I look down only to correct my longitudinal position, and then I just place my fingers in the right place. At the moment of actual finger placement I don't really visualize the fretboard, but I kind of see/feel it through the neck outward of my body.

Also, the unnatural trapezoid shape of the board throws me off a bit too.

BTW, I don't believe the reversed vertical orientation makes it any better for me. Looks like I just use my spatial orientation and tactile facilities, not visual.
... well, DELETE is more fun.
Including the standard Slashdot line: "I for one welcome our XXXX overlords" in the training corpus was a mistake we should have seen coming.
You can do that with synchronized video cameras and AI inbetweening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsY0sKH3nG4&t=4s
How many totally-different-yet-common sets of requirements are there for user uploads or task processing do you think there are that necessitate the ultimate flexibility and complexity? I suspect vendor lock-in is a more likely cause of the complexity.
Twitter stopped paying its Redis Labs bills, then Twitter Spaces failed DeSantis
Before Gov. DeSantis' glitchy campaign launch on Twitter Spaces, Twitter stopped paying Redis Labs--whose software is crucial for Twitter Spaces.

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Article except:
"Starting in 2015, Twitter paid a firm, Redis Labs, for the software to support Periscope, a live audio- and video-streaming service it had bought that year, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Twitter started Spaces in November 2020 during the pandemic-fueled fever for online audio forums, using Redis to support that, too.
After Musk's takeover, Twitter stopped paying its Redis Labs bill but continued to use the Redis Cloud software, said a person with direct knowledge. At Redis Labs, executives discussed whether to shut off Twitter's use of its software or intentionally degrade the software's performance to pressure Twitter to pay, said the person.
At the end of last year, Twitter put its contract with Redis Labs on a list of potential cuts, according to another person with direct knowledge of the move. At that time, the media infrastructure team that runs Spaces lobbied to keep the contract, calling Redis a
"hard requirement" to operate the feature, the person said. (Mark Kalman, who runs the media infrastructure group under Musk, declined to comment.)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-cut-key-soft...
I’m the app creator. I’m working on a mobile app but I wanted to start with a web app since I’m new to coding. I can’t promise anything but I’m hoping to release a mobile app within the next few months.
Exactly. He wants enough regulation that it strangles his competitors, but not so much that he can’t do whatever he wants.
It would've been a neater prank if they'd actually chopped off serifs from the original letters and used those for the sans glyphes.
At my previous university, this would constitute as blatant plagiarism.

Plagiarism was punished by a "three strikes and you're out" principle. If you got caught more than twice over the three years bachelor course, you got kicked out and couldn't start the same program for a few years. You also had to explain (or defend, but rarely anyone ever got accused on false grounds) your transgression to the graduation board, with the possibility of worse punishment if you were particularly blatant about the whole thing. Obviously, you immediately failed the course you were caught on as well.

This system worked well. Cheating was rare and students appropriately shot down team members that would suggest any type of plagiarism. So, why go through the process of accusing them? Because cheating deserves worse than just a bad grade, in my opinion.
If copyright were at least set back to 14 years, people would still write books.

After that we could explore other economic models that make sense in a world of internet and AI, instead of blindly sticking with the system we designed for the world of the printing press.
Time for copyright laws to be rewritten then.
Thank **ing god! Hiding behind jargon and "the process" is an indicator of having nothing to say. I see this as a rolling up of the metaphorical sleeves, a sign that stuff is actually happening.
We've got to stop calling this a "Google Memo." That's a false narrative. It's just a random doc written by one of 140000+ employees.

> Google has been contacted for comment but it is understood that the document is not an official company memo. [1]

There are moats to products, but less so to pure language models trained on the same web-scale scraped data that many share.

Not all data is readily available to language models, and integration can be difficult.

A company that specializes in say AI for trash sorting likely still has a moat.

Microsoft integrating AI into Windows still has a moat (for Windows).

GPT-4 is ~200 Elo better than the next best semi-public Vicuna-13B in Chatbot Arena [2]. That is a non-zero moat - perhaps due to hosting larger models, training data, licensing, output postprocessing, etc.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/05/google-en...

[2] https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-05-25-leaderboard/
I am unaware of the drama surrounding GrapheneOS, though I have been using it on my Pixel phone for a while now. What happened? I understand that there was some SWATting, but I know nothing else of what caused it or why people are upset