skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say what this article talks about hardly scratches the surface. I won't say more but I am surprised at the reaction here, all of it is legal, if you don't like it, talk about passing laws. And what would you penalize? Lying on the internet?

The 4th amendment is a restriction on the government not private companies. You have no right to expect people joining your discord server have honest intentions. Why are you using discord to begin with?

You know, there is a reason gang members require newbies to commit a heinous crime when they join.

How can I put it, trust establishment is not a technical problem, anyone can betray you, so find sociological methods to prevent that.

But if you are a criminal, if you justify your harmful means by some ideological ends or use whataboutism to justify stealing from or harming others, the people that gain your trust and betray you are heroes to me! How can you act outraged when they too justify their means by their ends? Don't get mad at someone beating you at your own game.

You all should know that an agent of these companies that engaged in hacking (getting past any security control without permission) is criminally (federal) liable. Conspiracy to committ most serious crimes itself is usually a crime. It's illegal to hack criminals. What is being talked about here is criminals that suck at vetting who joins their chatrooms.

This is what krebsonsecurity does except these companies sell it as a service and they have certain useful commercial relationships.

The FBI, if it was half as competent as people think it is (must be the suits?) would also legally be doing this if it paid people well. Undercover agents have always been a thing, they even get immunity for crimes while on the job! Unlike civilians doing threat intel.

Lastly, this is threar intelligence research & development. There's a whole sub-field in infosec on what to do with intel once you have it. But really, marketing aside, this is HUMINT mostly. The information is technically about threats (humans) but it is usually not about their techniques. More like "look out for this IP" or "you're about to get ransomwares" or "this person's creds at your company is pwned".

I hope I don't piss off anyone but if you really don't like this, make it commercially non-viable by requiring disclosure of compromised info or potential compromise to all affected parties.

Oh, and just to add: I said I hope I don't piss off anyone because like they mention in the article, they monitor you at a young age and will develop enough text from you that you can never type long text like this without being identified (stylometry). But I don't think I've said anything that controversial. Just keep in mind, those of you who dabble in criminal stuff, even at a young age, you're never escaping that stuff. Before it was just stylometry, but I have no idea how much LLMs have improved this technology in recent years.
Or about inherited wealth. America at least has better social mobility, for now.
Persistent metabolic adaptation 6 years after “The Biggest Loser” competition
Agreed. Fitness and proper vitamin levels don't require sunburns, skin cancer, or prematurely aged skin to attain. All of the "macho" men who thumb their noses at skin cancer (or smoking and lung cancer) are usually the ones who have their noses removed when a malignancy is discovered.
SCSS? Never used it myself -- normally CSS in JS. I definitely understand that it's hard to move away from big build processes though.
I see some folks in this thread underestimating casinos and exactly how far the odds are tilted against the players.

I grew up in Vegas and have a lot of family and friends who work in the casino industry. A particular family member is an executive at one of them and told me that he has control over the odds on machines (within the legal limit) down to a particular machine being used by somebody. Apparently this means if they need a particular high roller to stick around for awhile and spend some money they can go ahead and grease the odds on the machine they’re using to give them some winnings to spend. Then they can just make it back the next day or whatever by cranking it back and making the odds worse. Honestly at first I thought he might be exaggerating but some time later I had a friend who worked corporate finance at one of the big casinos independently tell me the exact some thing.

These casinos though are really no joke. It’s one thing to skew the odds, and most people understand that, but being able to skew them in real time feels a lot more rigged. I assume some machines don’t operate this way because for many years the smaller casinos had machines that you could break even or win a bit consistently in poker, and some casinos even advertise odds. Still though its pretty shocking if my understanding is correct.
By ban books we mean what? Not allowing certain books to be rented in the library?
You are correct that this is the exact same dynamic as "big tech" censorship. This topic pertains to the de jure government [0], which should make freedom of speech as codified in the first amendment more relevant.

Your mistake is expecting consistency from a group that has devolved to seeing hypocrisy as a virtue. It's no longer about lofty ideas and the categorical imperative, but rather fake bravado strong men pushing half-baked agendas to demonstrate naked power.

[0] (being a libertarian I believe there is a strong argument that the tech monopolies constitute de facto government. but that isn't even relevant here)
No one needs to save face, getting a vaccine is possible without even mentioning it, or indeed lying about it. Harping on about making a personal medical decision like it's some measure of righteousness is very fashionable, if the pandemic was anything to go by, but it's still not normal.
Damn, I searched the sources on GitHub for WITHOUT-GC but found nothing; I should have searched for SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING which is the actual user-facing interface. Thanks for the correction.
>Make an HTTP server and client that only implement a subset of HTTP. Then use a subset of HTML

which subset?

the older html/http versions are older versions, not a subset of the modern html/http. afaik modern html/http doesn't have subsets.

>using a popular browser like Chrome

Gemini is created so that anyone would be able to write a Gemini browser in a couple of days. Or server.

I don't want "popular HTML browser" because I won't be able to write something like it in whole life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB0cXGvuw9A
YouTube still has the dislike button. It just doesn't show the count or ratio.
(2) isn’t private equity. Private equity simply means funds investing in private, not public, firms. In fact, if you look at other comments people post about how companies are terrible because they have to please shareholders, private equity actually solves that problem.

What you’re talking about is LBOs (leveraged buyouts) which are a certain kind of private equity investment.
Those are completely different topic than residential solar though. I don't disagree, we should be moving to renewables. But even in a community microgrid, are you going to incentivize private solar? There still isn't really a way to incentivize too much without passing along costs to those who cannot afford solar. I would much rather have a community owned solar power station, instead of funding individual private residential solar.
Except realistically you've never going to accurately gauge exactly which books taxpayers do and don't agree should be purchased with 'their' dollars, nor are individual vote counts going to determine the choice of books that public libraries choose to stock. If the public happen to vote for a party that once in government then decides particular books should be restricted in public availability, it's still censorship. I'd like to think there were basic constitutional principles in place that determined on what grounds such censorship is and isn't genuinely in the interest of sustaining a healthy liberal democracy.
Inference is not that flop intense for modern IGPs... the bigger issue is the sheer memory requirements.

Training requires a ridiculous amount of both, but again the raw compute requirements would be much lower with huge memory pools.
I don’t think that’s true of all corps like cooperatives.

That’s not all profit is. How would labor theory, surplus value, and so on, be explained?
I didn’t sense sarcasm. I could’ve misinterpreted.

Cloudy days still have plenty of UV, depending on where you are (especially near the equator).

Skin type matters, of course, and I would probably be less heavy handed with the recommendation, but the “zero tolerance” issue wasn’t the original point as I understood it.

[edit] Quote from the very article you posted:

“It's important to note that these results are from one study (Valisure), which hasn't yet been validated. Strangely, they also detected benzene in blank test tubes (no sunscreen), leaving some to question if the testing methods contributed to the levels detected.

Toxicologists note that even if you applied the worst sunscreen on the Valisure list to your entire body, you'd be exposed to less than half the amount of benzene you breathe in normal city air in a day. Benzene is also very unstable, so it's unclear how much would be absorbed through the skin.

Don’t let this study convince you to skip sunscreen altogether. Although benzene is a potential risk, it pales in comparison to the known, real risk of UV radiation. Instead, take the time to check that your preferred sunscreen isn’t on the list of contaminated products.”
Nope - and that's great!
This thread is about YouTube. But the videos you mentioned are fine and no one would call right clicking on a video and downloading it a DRM violation.

But I'm quite confident you can't view or download YouTube videos if your browser doesn't run JavaScript. They require the client evaluate intentionally obfuscated JS in order to determine the video content URL's signature. Whether this counts as DRM or not, I don't know, and I hope it doesn't, but it's clear that YouTube is making it difficult intentionally.
Sounds great when you are rich, not so much when you aren't
Ancient Chinese Philosophers' Life Lessons Men Learn Too Late in Life
Yeah but “banning books” isn’t much of a thing. Even the ALA talks about “challenged books.”

And most of the controversy involves school libraries - although there are some exceptions.

This bill just doesn’t do much. I’m not opposed to it. I guess it might do a little good.

But it’s posturing by politicians.
There's a spectrum of executive focus and health. Will help some people, but for some there's no wishing or habituating it away.
Mom is an accountant for small films.

I think the previous comment was to say the majority doesn't get spent locally. Sure some does, but a lot less than many would expect.
I guess ex-Presidents get an extension:

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-05-23/jimmy-...
I’m begging everyone in this thread to stop eating octopus. There’s a very good chance they’re sentient, and stopping once you know that is a moral imperative.
> Illinois tilts strongly to the left above I-80, so outside of a few rural western or southern counties, this is an immaterial policy change.

I think this is actually far less true today than it once was. Yes, Chicago alone makes IL a blue state, but outside Chicago it's not so clear anymore - even north of i80.

It's been rather jarring on my last few visits back home to the West Chicago suburbs. We used to joke about the i80 boundary separating the yokels from regular people. Now I encounter plenty of overt right-wingers without even going south of i88. Just the gun craze alone has converted a lot of people IMO. Concealed carry and little NO PARKING style gun stickers on business entrances everywhere becoming normalized in the state I'm sure has played a role here.

It's a totally different culture of no-flag-too-big and they'll-take-your-guns vs. what I grew up in.
The Wikipedia article mentions that many prominent figures claim that this principle doesn't exist in physical reality. Oof.
These ”mega donor” scandals happen near monthly as they are revealed via DTC autosomal DNA tests. It’s a combination of the unchecked power banks have to recruit and collect ad-nauseam sperm that sells very well. Donors may also go to other clinics where they are likely to be approved as well, but are not required to disclose their prior donor status. This results in an unmanageable number of sibling in these group.

Also, ever since the industrial process of sperm and egg freezing, the accidental incest argument isn’t statistically significant anymore. It used to be that donors donated to clinics who then stored and did rounds of AI, IUI, or IVF depending on the needs of the client. Because these clinics were hyper local, donors were often in the same city or at least metro area as the DC offspring. Nowadays, gametes are shipped all over the US and the world so the likelihood of encountering a half sibling goes down significantly even for very large cohorts.
In my case, Tree-Sitter grammar for C has many shortcomings (ignore preprocessor bugs, they can't be solved in the current TS model anyway): https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c/issues
Plants are going to get less sun and how would that impact the global ecology and economy? Would we need to grow more plants to make up the difference? Would this disrupt ecological balance in areas all over the earth? There’s a lot more to consider than just reducing global warming.
Seems fair. A city should try to give equal treatment for all its citizens, this is an effort in that direction.
How China Got the Bomb
What was the old world where things were diff?
>I have a browser where I can right click on any video and download it locally.

What browser is that?
Roko’s octopus?
What did AARP do?
Really cool! Any thought to Baremaps as an OGC API data provider for something like Pygeoapi?

https://docs.pygeoapi.io/en/stable/plugins.html
Congratulations on the publication! As a dabbler in strictly typed functional programming languages like Scala and F#, I have always been curious about proof-oriented languages such as Coq or Agda, but found it difficult to justify the time investment. Lean seems to position itself as a theorem proving language that also supports general-purpose programs. Looking forward to digging into your book!
Worse, a veneer decorated mouth is a maimed mouth, whose healthy tissues were destroyed.

Veneers don't last forever, they will require lifetime commitment.
I don't think it's crazy to think what you're suggesting and I'm open to the possibility of pretty much anything being possible in the future. Of course we'd have to work out if we are actually communicating with them, whether they actually understand what we're proposing to them, and if we can unambiguously confirm their consent to be sent to another star in an effort to save all of Earth's species.

Before all that happens I think it'd be better to work out an arrangement where they help us crack some of the mysteries in the ocean first.
Vultures do more than eat. True, that's one of their functions. But a literal vulture capitalism would have probably included business entities created and maintained by the vultures themselves. They'd probably need an economy, a legal framework for establishing business entities, and a host of other traditional capitalistic structures. They'd have fantastic recycling and decomposition industries.
Miles-long trains are blocking first responders when every minute counts
Oh I remember those cases! They seemed brilliant… until snap parts got stressed and snapped themselves, or worse when they “got you” snapping back in.
The most common impedance in actual practice for the sort of transmission line you have in mind is 75 ohms, not 50. Most of the cable TV network, and thus cable Internet, runs on this. That's why RG-6 and RG-11 grows on trees.

There is no big secret behind all of this. Transmission lines by definition have some impedance. Practitioners long ago adopted a handful of standard values that suit the common use cases given prevailing constraints, mostly driven by cost.
Informed consent means it’s unethical to give this vaccine without parental permission anyways.. one would hope that the medical profession continues to be trustworthy in this way.

I let my kids get the nasal spray flu vaccine if it’s available only because it has a 20 year track record, this will be great for their kids if it works out (they, meaning my kids, got the MMR shot). Lots of parents are willing to use tried and true medicine but are more hesitant for brand new treatments regardless of what trials say. This isn’t a javascript framework.
https://archive.ph/Mnlvm
Thank you very much for this book. It has been invaluable for my introduction to Lean and a joy to study from. I still have not read the last chapter, looking forward to it! Kudos for your effort, and I hope you will write some more stuff about Lean in the future.
As a counterpoint, though, is the very idea of running a business providing end-of-life care evil? It’s not like there’s a government program you can use.
What’s funny is the anti-ESG crowd don’t even understand what an ESG score is. It’s not about how environmental or socially conscious a company is. It’s about how exposed a company is to environmental or social or governmental risks.

It’s one thing for random HNers to not understand this. But then you have Musk who should know better and probably does, but chooses to instead misinform his massive following.

No one was tracking these very real risks until recently. The risk that a company highly exposed to California homes might possibly be at risk of the increasing number of wildfires. Or one dependent on the Russian market may lose it entirely because of sanctions.
I like the checkbox-support. Other than that it looks like a harder-to-write and harder-to-remember version of html.

But as long as it scratches your itch and you're productive in it, that's what counts.
It’s wild seeing US centric and Euro centric povs. How do both sides not see the problem with the Global North as a whole. The lack of self awareness between the Great Powers is interesting.
Sure, but as discussed elsewhere in this thread, the studies (at present, which doesn’t mean we won’t learn more in the future) do not support the assertion that sunblock prevents Vitamin D synthesis in any meaningful way, despite what a random blog post might tell you.
It's a shame they have gone off the rails so badly with Gutenberg.
Link: https://janet-lang.org/
Saving and rebuilding America’s local free press system
All things Wordpress aside, I have always had a bit of admiration for Matt Mullenweg. From afar, he seems like a principled person that has worked hard at building community while keeping humility. I am extrapolating of course, as I've never met him in real life, but he is one of the few tech leaders I've actually looked up to over the years.
The f is not an equivalency number. It's the actual f stop number. F number is the ratio of the lens focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil and is independent of the size of said lens.

The depth of field on the other hand does depend on the size of the lens (or hence the size of the sensor the lens focuses it's incoming light on).

Let's take an 18mm F/2 lens on a Micro-Fourthirds camera. Those have a 2x ratio of sensor size compared to a full-frame sensor. So this 18mm lens would be an (2x18=36mm "equivalent") full-frame lens, meaning the perspective of said 18mm would be the same perspective a standard 35-36mm full frame lense would have. This 18mm F/2 lens would be F/2.0 based on the amount of light it lets in. That's the ratio of said lenses focal length to it's entrance pupil. Only in terms of "how the background will blur" we multiply this by 2 to show what the visual effect of this would be.

So really the best way of saying it would be "hey this is an 18mm/F2 Micro Four Thirds lens (36mm, F2/F4 equivalent).

Personal opinion: Even better if we used a different acronym for depth of field, say d or doF or something. Then we could say "36mm f2.0 DoF4.0"-equivalent lens.

So in the iPhone 14PM main camera case we'd call it a "28mm f1.78 DoF8.1"-equivalent as it has an about 4.6x sensor size crop factor from full frame.
I mean, yeah that IS a form of censorship. A majority saying “we allow free access to any knowledge except X domain or Y specific book”.

But just think this through.

Imagine how terribly ideological available book selections would become if we had to have “the voting public” decide which books were available. I have a feeling that you would not be happy with the books that the voting majority decides are “acceptable”.
Life is slow euthanasia.
Daisugi
The decline of HeathKit and also the decline of anything related to blue-collar as "low status".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit

99% of modern Americans can't do anything for themselves.
Ok, but what is the end game? Those parents will either have to homeschool, which they can already do, or you are going to force your kids to attend school with the families you paid a premium to avoid living near.
Sure, that’s obviously true, but misses my point; on average, European teeth are less healthy than American teeth. At the same time, American teeth tend to have too much work done on them on average.

Both of these things can be true simultaneously.
Not sure why anyone would do that but good info
I'll eat my files if this gives 8x on normal applications reading normal sized files from real SSDs or HDDs.

The commenter mentions "greater than 8x" on a very artificial benchmark of reading /dev/zero. The original PR author than copies that to the PR description as "8x has been observed" (lossily dropping the greater, but not adding any additional datapoints).

The reality will be that disk IO dwarfs the overhead of syscalls and threadpools in all real cases.

That all that's being saved here: the overhead of having to manage a threadpool, and make a few more syscalls.

Compared to reading a few MB off disk, that overhead will not be noticed, and definitely won't be 8x.
Losing your teeth is also a lifetime commitment.
Painless is nice but a subcutaneous injection isn't really that
painful so I'm skeptical payers will see the value-proposition
for that benefit in isolation

I'd expect that folks funding vaccination programs in underdeveloped countries won't look at any one cost or benefit in isolation. Well, I hope so anyways. Dropping the cold storage requirement is potentially huge IMO.

As for pain, I suppose that for some folks their fear of needles has more to do with the expected vs actual pain (or perhaps nothing to do with pain at all). No needles and thus one fewer excuse to avoid vaccination is a huge win IMO.

As an example we've had intranasal flu vaccinations

This was offered to me by my GP once and I wasn't a fan. It left me feeling worse than any flu shot I can remember. A quick look reveals that it's an attenuated ("live") virus vaccine (the common injected vaccines aren't) and carries a higher risk of side effects and lower efficacy. It's not recommended for children and comes with more contraindications than the injectable vaccines which goes a long way to explaining why it's not more commonly available.