skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Preview images of what?

Lazy loading images drives me a little bit nuts. Previously with JS, now build into the browser. You scroll down and then you’re waiting for an image, regardless of CDN. The latency of an additional connection is notable. It’s particularly aggravating if you’re have opened a page in a background tabs minutes or hours ago and when you start reading it, the page isn’t really there as expected but still needs to lazy load.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...
Maybe in 10 years once I've gotten enough to retire. Dont wanna get James Damore'd.
Couldn't it also be -vP?
I mean yeah it was a rhetorical device. You’re paying for people to stop making everything about race, was the point.
That's a classic case of prisoner's dilemma though.

By acting at national level, news publishers (partially) avoid that dilemma.
Appreciate the candor. But we're all just here to get our fill, baby. B)

I only rockstar when my incentive structure has an unbounded ceiling. If you're paying me a salary, plus meager bonus, plus some bennies, plus some lottery tickets -- you're gonna get me at my 40-60%. Just enough to be above average.

Throw in some profit-sharing, and now we're talking, baby. What ever happened to that? Share some of the pie and I'll jump as high as you need me to.

Anything else is just foolish!
When you are robotically rolling to unload Gs does it still make your heart go boom!?? I love the idea of flying. I see crop dusters and private planes flying in all the time and it makes me wonder if I ought to try it out.
$7 sounds great, I’d pay that. They want £16 a month from me, that’s $20 a month.
Do journalists generally have a great track record of startup investment?

I didn’t think the writing was that much of being a journalist - isn’t finding stories (and having ideas) just going to be even more important while AIs regurgitate irrelevant press releases into articles and turn clinical trials into X-gives-you-cures-cancer (in mice) fodder?
At least you’re honest!
There are tradeoffs. It certainly correlates, and there's risk to that. At the same time, your knowledge about the domain may let you make better investments, growing more companies may mean more demand for you as an individual contributor, and it's probably good networking.

I think if you've chosen to be a journalist, it's probably because you believe there's money to be made in journalism and/or because you believe that journalism is making the world better, and in either of those cases it seems a worthwhile use of your excess funds/effort. You should probably have a separate rainy day fund that's un- (or ideally anti-) correlated, and an uncorrelated retirement fund. Y'know, with all the extra money journalists tend to have.
Last week it was Facebook. Today it's Google too. And the impact is arguably more significant given that Google is delisting Canadian news from their core search engine (not just from news.google.com), which has 92% market share in Canada.
Thanks for the ref, hadn't heard of this!
On of the more evocative things (esp. for those in the UK) was a Spitfire helping out a Vulcan (XH558 no less) with nosegear issues in 2015.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-wwii-spitfire-he...
> Are from professional journalists who do weeks of prep

What you are referring to is called branding and this particular form appeals to your sensibilities.

All the top media outlets try to use a similar brand. Ultimately you are consuming a second hand synthesis woven into popular narratives, not anything more true.
> When it comes to exclusives, Nintendo is on a whole other level than Sony.

That's just because Sony makes very few games themselves.

In the gaming world, exclusives usually refer to third party games, not first party games (which are always assumed to be exclusive).
Tesla Fleet Telemetry
Oh I get it, I just think it's naive. I've read dune several times over the past 40 years, and the person I was in my youth would have agreed with you.

These days, not so much. I believe in building communities via mutual aid and support, and that if people have their basic needs meet they will produce incredible results. People want to do good, but are often too tired or too afraid or too burnt out to do it.
The goal posts never moved. They were always:

- People of color don't experience special violence

- People of color don't experience special rates of poverty

- People of color aren't specially diverted from the pursuit of happiness

We're so far away from this goal that we can only hazily imagine achieving it. For example, white high school dropouts have higher home ownership rates than Black college graduates [0]. Either you think Black people are just bad with credit cards (which would be racist) or you think there's some structural cause.

I think people want a number, like a number of years or an amount of money so we can finally say, "we did it, we made things right." It's even in this opinion. I don't think that's a useful way of looking at it, because no metrics really capture what it's like to be in a marginalized group. Hell we can't even agree on metrics for software engineers; we definitely can't get it right for this.

What we should do instead is create race conscious policies that address inequalities when we find them. We should do this for everyone btw: white people who have been victimized by the opioid epidemic, women who've experienced violence, etc. etc. Race-conscious admissions programs were doing this work for college admissions, but sadly not anymore.

[0]: https://socialequity.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Umb...
A selection and presentation of true facts is a narrative.
When there are problems with fundamental features like this, it ends up feeling the software is "gaslighting" me.

Context menu key does nothing? That's weird -- I must need a new keyboard.
> I assume you are trying to break into the game industry?

Curious what lead you to this assumption.
>How do we get poor kids access to the same healthcare

Medicaid attempts to accomplish this. I'm not sure how well. Careful when you say "same," the solution might end up being equally bad for everybody.

>same schooling prior to college.

Stop funding by zip code, that's the cause of it. Fund by either voting district or entire state.
I'd put a lot more faith in this if their results didn't just show that people attribute traits to their mothers like tolerance, empathy, monogamy (positive traits that most people want in a relationship anyway) and look for those in a partner but had instead found that people whose mothers were narcissistic, controlling, or emotionally distant overwhelmingly sought out partners who shared those traits.
Now you can search on Google for free: Solution with API
Lately I've been struggling to get search engine results via API. If you ever had the same situation, this project might help you
Wow, I TOTALLY forgot how long it took to boot up machines back then! Windows 2000 was the worst about this!
The news sites in Canada are owned by billion dollar media and telecom companies. Nowhere near the scale of Google & Facebook, but among the largest companies in Canada. Speaking as a Canadian, this is very much a protectionist law trying to prop up an old media business the public no longer has much interest in.
This is a pretty standard maneuver - it's similar to a "soft field landing" (eg grass runway). Assuming you have a long runway, you avoid braking since that would slam the nose down, and use more and more elevator to keep the nose up to as slow a speed as possible.
> There's no imbalance here: newspapers produce content, search engines/social networks surface and link to it.

As evidenced by the average RoI at Google compared to news organisations.
In many cases, this is a fine approach: see Syncthing, or every router GUI.

Also, you can throw away the DOM and render everything via WebGL, which may be fine for something like a video editor.

What bothers me for decades is the stubborn refusal of browser vendors to allow connecting to domain sockets on Unix or named pipes on Windows. That would solve the problem of connecting to some random port on localhost, where TLS is a pain.
John Roberts said it was fine if the applicant brought up race, either in an essay or otherwise.

Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant's discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.

John Robert did say universities cannot construct race based quotas indirectly from essays or through some other means.

...universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.
When you really think about it, Citizen's United makes a lot of sense as a decision. It seems self evident to me that a non-profit trying to, say, save the local wetlands, should be able to make political statements like "Don't vote for Dave, Dave wants to pave our wetlands". Likewise, labor unions should be able to campaign against politicians trying to attack their ability to exist. Okay, so, only non-profit enterprises can engage in political speech. That still leaves you with the whole PAC thing, but maybe it's an improvement. What about Creedance Clearwater Revival? Or Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth? Their art was certainly political, does that mean they should be barred from selling it?
>If every innovator listened to expert advice to stop, we’d have a lot less new things in the world.

However, for something to be useful you have to prove it. Rush could have contributed if he used his VC money to rigorously establish how many deep sea dives a carbon fiber submersible could make and concomitant with that whether carbon fiber was cheaper than titanium. Rush seemed to object to serious scientific validation but instead did minimal testing. Despite taking paying customers we don't really know anything more about carbon fiber submersibles that we didn't already know before OceanGate came along selling their undersea tours. Maybe scientifically you'd have to replace the carbon fiber hull after 10 deep sea dives to maintain a safe operating environment and maybe that would be more economical than titanium hulls, but seems like OceanGate wasn't even looking for such data. It's not like the hull rating groups were unwilling to work with him on carbon fiber, but he instead refused to work with them.
Nursing may be 88% female, but outcomes in nursing show a disparity based solely on race.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4799908/#:~:tex....
Yes people are working on it. The thing you’re missing is that many of the contexts where the money actually is being spent is not really relevant to the public discussion around AI generated content. It’s more about making sure that nobody gets a bank loan using an AI generated voice and face, or that people don’t get scammed by a deep fake of their relatives, or that your government office isn’t being slammed with subtle propaganda, for instance. The trick to your concern is to change your expectations of accuracy. Flagging something as fraudulent with an ML is not treated by these systems as if it’s actually being fraudulent.
Rocky Linux claims that there are other ways to get RHEL sources
A few weeks ago I picked up, I must've given some people some fake data because the telemarketers always ask if they're speaking to a Mr. $[not my name], and I interrupted her as she blah-blah-ed away. I said "Hold on. So, from now on this phone conversation is recorded. If you consent, continue speaking, if you don't consent, hang up.".
There is simply no comparison between the two. Its like comparing MS Notepad with MS Visual Studio. Jetbrains IDEs are so much ahead of even Visual Studio.
> But people are being treated badly due to their race

Unfortunately, I do not think you can force racists to stop being racist. Bigotry is perfectly legal.

> affirmative action for example is a very realistic plan

It's also kinda racist.

> people are being treated badly due to those nebulous groupings

This is one of the valid reasons to discuss race. However, I do not see why this means people need "help". What kind of help? How are you going to help? I still have no answers.
I mean, you can do good work with Visual Basic and an overworked Excel spreadsheet, but it will probably be worth your while to find some alternatives.

Just because something works, doesn't mean we can't improve it, and just because we can deliver value with one tool, doesn't mean that we couldn't be delivering more value with other tools.
Why? There are lots of other products named Gorilla. Gorilla Glass (breakage resistant glass for phones) and Gorilla Wear (clothing). Trademarks are only relevant in a particular field. Comuputer utilities aren't adhesives, glass, or clothing.
whenever somebody posts the oversimplified “1% of things are down 100% of the time” form of distributed downtime, i take pride in knowing that this is exactly what we have at the physical layer today and the fact the poster isn’t aware every time their packets get re-routed shows that it works.

at a higher layer in the stack though, consider the well-established but mostly historic mail list patch flow: even when the listserver goes down, i can still review and apply patches from my local inbox; i can still directly email my co-maintainers and collaborators. new patches are temporarily delayed, but retransmit logic is built in so that the user can still fire off the patch and go outside, rather than check back in every while to see if it’s up yet.
Huh? Foods like beans or rice or potato or whatever hasn't been studied a lot? That strikes me as surprising.
"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk”

It seems like you could calculate how much data is within X% error of a 5GB model, and what X% should be for 'visual data'.

I bet it's pretty big.
What's the difference in the example of the embarrassing public auction? In that example, doesn't one of the two bidders leave the auction when the price rises over $4? Leading to the same outcome?
Yep, some google cloud server:

SERVER_URL = "http://34.135.112.197:8000"
I already go directly to the websites. Have always done that.

I subscribe for a specialized publication that offers free articles because i find the publication useful.

I might be dumb but i can't understand how content matters less than reach. Without content, reach is useless. (and without reach, content is mostly useless as well..)

My take is that both are things of the past and using legal ways to fight for relevancy, each for different reasons. I don't have a horse in this race.
The post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36501742
Wasn't running them all, but a couple recent companies had ratios of about 1:4 and 1:2 (employee cost : cloud cost) with cloud spend in the low-to-high hundred Ks annually.

Curiously, the company with the higher cloud bill also had the lower ratio (spending more on both, but proportionally more on engineering); my diagnosis after the fact is that they were building for a "do 10x the scale" future that was never realized but which would've pushed the cloud spend higher without needing more dev spend. In the future, I wouldn't spend so much that far in advance of actually needing to scale.
I'm not going back to using Alta Vista, no thanks.
But the question is still… who would work through this in a few seconds?
> eBay sales for $1.99, $50 shipping, and should be banned by policy.

eBay deprioritizes listings like those, and is generally up-front with fixed&calculated shipping costs.

In an effort to compete with Amazon, eBay really wants sellers to offer free shipping but sellers hate it because it’s often not a fixed cost (especially here in Canada).

eBay used to exclude shipping costs from their commissions. So sellers, like me, used to list things for $0.01 and $X shipping (literally in the title) until eBay caught on.

But nobody was stopping you from paying more for the same item with realistic/free shipping.
Search engines were bad in the 90's, but the web was much smaller and community-driven. Most of the websites people visited were created by individuals and people linked to each other to form web rings.
I don't know about GPT-4 but you could get ChatGPT to spit Carmac's Fast Inverse square root with the comments and all (I can't find the tweet though…)

Edit: it wasn't ChatGPT but Copilot see https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
I actually forgot about google-news. It used to be my landing page, long ago. Now my landing page is an actual (online) newspaper. I like the fact that it is well-organized, with curated content by professional reporters. I pay a little for this, but find it to be good value.

I won't miss google news. And I never saw any real value in facebook.

So, my response to this, as a Canadian, is "who cares, eh?"
Congrats :-) I wish you all the best.

You could take a look at Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 10th edition

Pretty complete book of all the different phases without being to dogmatic.

My personal advice:
Try to reduce stress (and work) wherever possible. It's good to be prepared, but don't try to plan or read too much, because you can't prepare for everything. There is always something, you did not have in mind. An example: The things you read about sudden infant death syndrome are frightning, really. The fear of doing something wrong will be with you from day 1. Try to keep it on a healthy level and do what you can. You will both be very tired in the first days, there are so many little things that WILL go wrong, but pretty likely nothing will ruin your childs life forever. It's ok, nobody is perfect.

The things you should prepare is a pregnancy course (where you get much more information), organising a midwife after birth and get your documents ready... nobody want's to fight a paper war in the first days after your child is born.

The weeks after birth will be extra hard, especially for your wife. Try to help her regenerate and keep an eye on her. Best case: Ask your / her parents / friends to support you in this time, e.g. with cooking, shopping and all the things that take much time or are exhausting, so you can focus on getting a rest and getting to know your baby.

Oh, and get rid of the rumors, that breast feeding has to stop after 6 months. It's the best for your child, even with more than 18 months. Of course your wife should decide this....

Good luck!
I don't think it's even relevant. Hiring practices that are based on class discrimination but result in racial discrimination can still be racist even if that isn't their intent.

But more to the point, racial discrimination has been replicated by many studies constructed in different ways. A famous 1978 study found discrimination when sending equivalent resumes that had a headshot of either a white or black person attached. Other studies have looked at including extracurricular activities that imply a certain race.
Ethics concerns itself with moral right and wrong, but those are not necessary things that cause third party harm. For example, sex out of wedlock was once considered unethical, but nowadays it's not. That's not because we've found a way to eliminate third party harm from a voluntary transaction. Ethics is too broadly scoped to be the tool used for policy decisions.

Of course I never took philosophy. It's a waste of time.
Wouldn't it make sense to allow encoding additional data in the suffix? For instance a sharding key (or whatever you wanna call it)?
I think the cookiewalls are older than 5 years, no?
Honestly I can't imagine them ever giving up Gmail.

When I got the student roster from my kid's school, easily >95% of the addresses were @gmail. With that kind of adoption, they have so much opportunity to upsell users into new services they create. Also there's the pure data potential for ads and training machine learning.
Did some more research, you seem to be right. Although the design I proposed could still be viable--when the wind is still the sphere would simply hover, and when the wind is blowing the sphere could move controllably, just not against the wind. At 10k feet there should be sufficient wind to control the sphere most of the time.
Does your current company have any lower level positions open? It may be easier to switch internally.
Google Photos does a great job.
> I do not think that large corporations are inherently bad.

There does seem to be an extremely high correlation between being enormous and no longer bothering to play by the same rules all other players are forced to play by though. So I agree, I just think that large corporations are empirically bad.
While I agree with them, it's important to note that the EFF is very pro-big tech and is largely funded by them.
I will bet you $1000 that time spent learning Awk will lead to better results much faster than time spent polluting your privileged user directories with Python's excuse for "dependency management"
You don't choose to leave in a Vickrey auction, your participation is limited to one bid.
Probably. I don't really know anything about american education so it's not wise for me to comment. I do have this perception that software is suffering from that problem worldwide though. People used to study this stuff because they liked computers, now everyone is learning to code because they want the comfortable rich programmer lifestyle. It just feels soulless to me.
> I am hypothetically okay being discriminated against in the short term (as you are) if it provably corrects a clear issue and we have an agreement in place to evaluate the program as it's happening, make sure it's contributing to the desired outcome, and to stop the discrimination once clear end conditions are met.

Do you consider it discrimination that disabled folks get to park in special spots? I don't consider discrimination. Some people just need more help to get where they're going, and some of us will be just fine using the legs we were born to walk with. In the same vein, I don't feel like I'm being discriminated against by affirmative action. And I'm not worried about my kid even if those policies remained in place.

Nobody thinks affirmative action is perfect. For example if I could make a change myself I'd focus on the economic part of socioeconomic more so that it's not mainly privileged people of color getting priority. But you have to start somewhere. With systems governing people it's just not that realistic to ask that everything be perfectly measurable or that there is a neat objective function to optimize.

> Therefore I am not phased by an argument that lists all the bad things that happened and concludes "oh you must still atone". And it is not justification outright for introducing discrimination to me or my children today.

You're very focused on yourself. Nobody is asking you as an individual to "atone" for anything because you didn't do anything. What we are discussing is _systemic changes_ designed to help folks who are disadvantaged _also without having done anything_. Broad, high-level changes like affirmative action just don't have the impact on individuals in the majority that you are making them out to have. They do however have outsized impact on folks in the minority.

In general I find it gross to be so focused on what you're calling your own discrimination when it totally pales in comparison to the experiences of folks who face actual discrimination. You say you're able to consider others' experiences compassionately, but that's clearly just lip service, otherwise you wouldn't be calling affirmative action "discrimination."