skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just said that as joke; you couldn't get me into finance unless you had a gun to my head. I do think long though, Intel makes for an interesting investment. It plays in about the 70th percentile for stock volatility for the year, which for a name like Intel is quite surprising. Analysts put it somewhere between -50% and +100% by this time next year. I've read of hedge funds making big bets on way smaller spreads than that. They're 25% YTD, so it's by know means "nothing".
Ask HN: Who's the current “Don't Be Evil” corporation?
We all know that corporations sooner or later get into a spiral of enshittification and become a transnational data-grabbing, climate polluter, lock-in business problem.

However, some take longer to reach this point and we can at least enjoy their offerings in the mean time with less guilt.

So, what are the current least evil corporations?
>it would be smart to ignore it and focus on their great subscription service that only requires a $500 Xbox.

in the same way that nintendo thought it was smart to ignore online gaming for some 15 years, sure. It was true for a while. Until it wasnt

MS isn't doing this because it's immediately profitable. They feel it's the future, and they can iron out the technical issues. They want to be in the forefront when that arrives instead of playing catchup.

Also, more obviously: Gamepass is on Android and Android isn't playing those games natively. It's another way to target the mobile market.
Nothing nearly as common as Long COVID, but yes, ME/CFS and neurodegeneration seem to be linked to herpesvirus (re)activation, often following another immune or stressor event.

I'd guess poor gut microbiomes and sleep disordered breathing caused by poor jaw development and nasal breathing issues to be far more common causes of fatigue and depression.

But yeah, science is slowly waking up to the fact that turns out that psychiatric conditions are, after all, caused by physiological factors in way more cases than we used to think.
The Realpolitik of strikes is "which side needs the other more." In particular in the US, the post-war labor regulations make it harder than in some other countries for the unions.
…how so?
It's not an either or. More people are handling important tasks through the internet it's time we all step up and take that more seriously. We can do so without losing anonymity.

Negating this won't keep you anonymous, we're already being tracked at every possible avenue with profiles created on us the second we open a website or app. We can either tackle this head on by taking ID seriously online on our terms (necessary E2EE, full ID can never be accessed, it's not stored in a central database, etc), or we can let most corporations continue to trade our profiles around for funsies while acting like our pseudonyms will protect us.
> Meanwhile, I'm not sure what about my post prompted you to jump to suggesting I'm an imbecile.

If that's your take I can't stop you but it's just a play on your own wording.
The rich already laugh because their gains are not mostly W2 income. The rich already opted out.
This is an ongoing issue with one of the Lemmy instances.

https://lemmy.world/post/1232070

And a Mastodon instance (mastodon.lol) from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34748195 (though there was some warning)
Yes, punishing people that have nothing to do with the invasion is totally the moral way. Not as moral as preventing people fleeing the military draft from crossing the border, but close.
If you don't need evidence to know things, then what do you actually know?
Then automatically give a tax credit to the poor. (yeah, I know how well that would go over in the US)
Ehh simple example to explain the court’s decision—to the average consumer they are most definitely competing devices.
https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/
Not an expert at all but isn't fatigue connected to depression which itself might not be (or exclusively?) a mental disorder?
Yes, I use retrieval for Endless Academy [1] , and it works well.

Some tips:

- Most vector search is basically kNN under the hood, with some kind of compression. If you have too many embeddings in your DB, this starts to pull up irrelevant text very quickly. The key is to segment the DB using other data before doing the embedding search. Postgres extensions are good for this.
- The quality of the data you put into your embedding DB matters a lot.
- How you chunk text matters. Chunking by paragraph is much better than naive chunking, for example.
- This is a good benchmark for embedding models [2]

[1] https://www.endless.academy

[2] https://huggingface.co/blog/mteb
LEI growth rate is very negative:

https://www.conference-board.org/topics/us-leading-indicator...

Manufacturing is negative:

https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/manufacturing-pmi-ism-s...
FWIW the open source scene (at least in the US) can often have very similar dynamics. I believe it was Ashley Williams who put it best by saying that in the Rust community (where I am), one's influence is determined by one's free time. I've noticed over time that in certain areas it can very much be those with the least experience on a subject (but the most free time) who wield the most influence.
Yeah, I can't really tell the difference. I liked beer more for the taste than the buzz anyway.
It's the Postgres license: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/legalnotice.html
Good riddance, I've had nothing but trouble with NUCs, like memory errors from the CPU cache, and Intel wouldn't support it or help in any way. Another example, having to hotplug thunderbolt devices after boot due to IRQ conflicts, Intel's tech was clueless, even after escalating.
A passion for the work and a desire to work in the industry.

And I'll go a step further and seize on the word "passable". Would you rather watch a show that's simply good enough to "pass" as a show, or something of higher quality? Plenty of people can write something that you could pass off as a show, but I'd imagine that that number drops as you reach for something of a higher caliber.
Why weren’t they getting ported before Metal when OpenGL 3.1 was still at parity with the rest of the industry?

The graphics API is not the significant portion of the porting issue. It’s market share and the fact that until recently, very few Macs by market share had great GPUs.

The game porting toolkit works alongside wine and Rosetta to make time to first pixel easier for developers to consider the platform.

Regardless of metal or not, time to first pixel and consistency of hardware has always been the biggest hurdle. Most big engines support metal just fine already, so it’s not the primary hurdle people claim otherwise we’d see more unreal and Unity games running natively on Mac’s.

Now every Mac has a decent GPU (for some definition of decent) with very similar hardware.
I think the two biggest players plateauing is in itself an interesting indicator.

For instance sister comments are mentionning TikTok growing in revenue, but if Google/Meta were already saturating the market, it means that growth is eating from the other less successful players (Twitter/Reddit ?), and at some point Google and Meta will also see dramatic decreases or TikTok's growth will stop.

That also
Evernote fires nearly every US employee as it shifts operations to Europe
Common Types of Test Automation
As I said, anonymity should always be an option.

But it should also be an option to engage in platforms where anonymous spammers, trolls, and criminals are not feasible, where reputation matters and some level of social integrity can be restored. And ideally without a secretive corporation exploiting your attention and data for their profits.

I promise you that this latter group (youths, "normies") is vastly larger than the group of people who actually need anonymity.
I wish they would eliminate being able to execute .scr files which were used to share screensavers...back when anyone cared or windows even bothered to use them since its all lock screens. Now they are nothing but guaranteed malware and pretty common for that purpose.

There's absolutely no negative impact disabling the support other than someone still using Windows XP with custom screensavers saying "SEE MICROSOFT IS EVIL!!!"
DynIBaR: Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering
Introducing morality is shifting the goalposts.

Besides, complaining about immoral people doesn't fix the problem. Changing the law might.
Infuriatingly, Hulu sometimes shows ads even with their more expensive "No Ads" plans: https://help.hulu.com/s/article/ads-no-commercials
The contrast is so bad I simply can't look at it. The flickering that happens when you click something is quite annoying and disorientating. It's a shame because this looks like a really nice font that's easy on the eyes.
Like the EU instance, this seems only for the government?

For mastodon to be successful, people need a neutral ground.

People don't care to join a server for functional programming that then turns into a server for anarchism at which point they get kicked out because they're not an anarchist or the wrong kind of anarchist.

Governments are the obvious providers of such neutral ground.
So “written in stone” should not be taken so serious anymore.
It constantly seems like the BoC and the Government are at odds when it comes to inflation. Government spends, gives out cash to help (grocery rebate program) and the BoC raises rates. I guess the grocery rebate is aimed at lower incomes, and it’s redistribution, but that’s not the only example.

The fund and spend, but not too much growth conflict throws me for a loop.
Regardless of if it's bartering or sharing, it's definetly not a sale :)
Adding and removing packages based on demand is standard procedure for physical repository maintainers.
There is a poetry to it. It's all fake, all fiction, all a narrative (and whether or not the intended audience buys it). A trick of the light. Did we expect anything else out of this particular industry?
Very few people are going to bother going to the Dutch government's website every day to see what's going on with the Dutch government. They might be sufficiently interested to follow an account or two. I follow a couple of the European Commission's accounts (they also have a Mastodon instance), and occasionally find them interesting; I certainly can't see myself regularly going to the EC's horrible website, tho.
You seem to be confusing CEOs/companies, Pantheon was done by AMC not Warner Bros. Discovery.
Heterogeneity is an important part of defense in depth. Monocultures are more likely to be attacked.
He was a prolific poster on a carnivore-diet type forum way before it was popular. He was genuinely interesting person, he wasnt just a sound engineer, the deads wall of sound was a profound design.
Characterizing and identifying shills in social media (2017) [pdf]
I don't really know how Mastodon works, but one thing I've wondered is, how does is a small instance affected by federating with a large instance? If, for example, some instance were to grow to a significant percentage of Twitter in terms of usage, does that spill over into servers that are federated with it? Or do instances only pull data by request so that it's own userbase size is the main determiner of load?
I don't fully agree on this one.

Linux has a wider attack vector since there are tons of packages out there. Yet the core has a lot of attention and many eyes on it, just because it is so open.

Vulnerabilities get patched rather sooner than later. Linux versions and gnu packages are running basically the entire internet, so there is definitely incentive to break into into it.

It's also a lot clearer in linux when a process is doing something it shouldn't, since it's a lot easier to probe into it to check what's going on.
Another new buzzword (yaaaay) – Composable Architecture?
I hope you participate in the conversation in a better manner in the future.
Writers who have no aspiration of writing in America? WGA blacklists you if you scab
The Nagasaki bomb may not have been necessary. As well a simple attack on Japan, the Nagasaki atomic bombing was also a cold-blooded test of the implosion bomb technology, and a demonstration for the rest of the world, particularly for the Soviet Union.

But between 100,000 to 250,000 died, Japanese and American, in the battle of Okinawa in 1945, the 3 month US invasion of Okinawa, before the atomic bombs were used. That was the first and only US attempt to invade the main Japanese islands, and it was a tragic and unnecessary loss of life.

About 80,000 died in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

But Japan should have surrendered long before any of the atom bombs fell. They had obviously lost. If Japan's leadership could not take that obvious step, then there was no easy solution.
I think you were downvoted because your comment wasn't substantive and perceived to not be on topic. If anyone cares about their data privacy I would expect HN users to be on the frontlines.
No there aren't really.

Writing for American TV and film is a very unique skill set and virtually everywhere you would work is covered by the union. All productions have been shut down.

The same union covers if you're writing in New York or Atlanta. And they're not going to pick up and go to London or Mumbai.

The backup plan really is DoorDash, Uber, etc.
Yes. I work in the oil and gas industry. When our employees do their pre-job safety meeting, we have an app that makes tailored recommendations about job hazards. The steps are:

1. User types in the planned work (e.g., "replace discharge line on water pump")

2. The app embeds that and look for similar historical work in a vector database

3. We retrieve the most similar historical work and the safety observations that were made on those jobs

4. We summarize the major hazards or mistakes from those previous jobs using gpt-3.5-turbo and deliver that to the user
> you should never use 512-byte recordsize even on an HDD with 512-byte sectors

I think you meant to refer to the pool's sector size (i.e. "ashift" property) rather than the recordsize.

I agree, but I wouldn't say "never", as that's too strong a word.

It would be useful to use a 512-byte ZFS pool sector size even when the HDD uses 4K sectors if you care a lot about disk space efficiency but don't care at all about performance or HDD wear (for example, if you plan to use a ZFS pool almost exclusively read-only).

That said, I would also recommend a 4K pool sector size in almost all cases, as HDD space is cheap.
For an idea of what things can be like for strikes in the entertainment industry, look at the 1942-1944 musicians' strike[1]. Yes that's a multi-year strike, not a series of strikes.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%E2%80%931944_musicians%27...
It's not about punishing those people, but about not supporting the government which is currently invading another country. You can't stop supporting the government without "punishing" the people, and it's not acceptable to keep supporting the government.

Ultimately the people who are being punished are responsible for stopping the punishment by removing their government.
I'm sure that preventing average everyday Russians from using Grammarly is going to have a material impact on Vladimir Putin's executive decisions.
I believe Cormac McCarthy did as well, at least until his recent death.
This is exactly what I do. "Discipline" in the traditional sense isn't an option. I have a severe impairment with executive function and can't do specific things at specific times.

So I gave up on that. I go with the flow of my brain. When I can, I build and shore up systems that will survive chaos and reduce my cognitive load. When I can't do plan A, hopefully I can manage plan B, C, or D.

This seems to work pretty well. I'm more reliable long-term when I allow myself to be unreliable day-to-day. :)
The recipe changed after the acquisition by Sapporo. Fans of the original Anchor Steam didn't like the new taste and stopped buying. So it faded into the background with the other ~3-5 domestics being served at a given bar.

Lots of people talking out their ass here, clearly none of them spend any time in SF dives talking to other patrons.
on the other hand, I loved Twitter when it was chronological, and hated it with all my heart after they started changing that. Mastodon is way better for me.
>I'm not actually convinced "new content" is all that necessary, even though that is an intuitive assumption on my part.

I somewhat agree. I think that "new content" is certainly necessary, but I think there's a massive deluge of it, beyond what we actually might need/want - the volume could certainly decrease, IMO. But we digress...
My favorite part of the BeagleBoard are the PRU's: two little 200Mhz realtime coprocessors. [1]

[1] https://beagleboard.org/pru
I'm confused how you came to that conclusion. Steam isn't threatening Windows gaming because a linux installed device sold 2m units. An Windows is still very relevant for computing despite more enterprise trying to move off Windows to avoid licensing cost.

I think the reason is much simpler and smaller scale: Microsoft has always been behind in the gaming space and a huge 3rd party company with valuable IPs can bolster some incentive to buy Xbox and even PC's. It also further gives value to gamepass which seems to be their big focus this generation.
backwards compatibility is the cause for all of this, and it's a bitch to deal with

in an ideal world every time you need to break compatibility you would provide extensive documentation and make migration as painless as possible.

this might work if it wasn't for the tiny little problem of abandonware. the amount of critical tasks for which a piece of software that nobody knows how it works anymore is required is astounding.

should it be illegal for businesses and public-adjacent entities to operate proprietary software that is not actively maintained by anyone and has zero support contracts attached?
Show HN: SIXELs in XTerm
> The only other alternative is turning your computer into a glorified phone (a.k.a. a locked-down media consumption device)

There’s a third alternative: keep the platform powerful but increase the default isolation level for third-party software and let the user choose what permissions it has. macOS is headed in this direction. Qubes is a more radical example and I think probably the future of desktop computing: everything will run in its own virtual machine.
We can start dropping useless affectations like "I think" now that ChatGPT has utterly co-opted them and revealed how meaningless they are. You could have simply stated that reading hurts you. I'm already reading your comment, you don't need to tell me that you think the things you write.
Where’s the North Pole on Google Maps? (2012)
Sandboxing isn’t incompatible with a highly customizable OS. Malware is really more a question of being able to install software without the users control and the inability to remove such installations after the fact.

Windows suffers from Malware in no small part due to the systems design rather than simply being common. Plenty of alternatives have more users than windows did back in the late 90’s when it was a huge target.
Greedy CEO, greedy business owner, rich Nazis, foreign govt, there is no reason to focus the message on the variable in the room. The problem is greedy lawmakers who accept brides, full stop.

Fix the lawmakers and you stop all the bad faith influence.
No reason to make it even worse. Some rich guy I know wanted to show me his art collection, a whole bunch of non-descript stuff that sold for an immense amount of money. All I could think was to encourage him to buy more art: his money would be in better hands if it flowed back into the world through the artists. Then I learned that it is just a speculative thing, that there is a whole industry around this and that the artists see almost nothing of the money. But the galleries, the 'connoisseurs', the auction houses and the brokers all make bank. And they too are rich people... quite frustrating.

My grandmother was a walking collection of proverbs and one of the more pointy ones was 'the devil always shits on the larger heap'. I'm not sure if the meaning comes across in English but the gist is that once you're wealthy more wealth is pretty much guaranteed whereas the poor just get poorer.
Point is: why did an open standard for direct messages not win over proprietary solutions?
Are you talking about money or creativity? It could be argued the late 1960s to mid 70s is the greatest creative output artistically, the New Hollywood style, and after that the start of the blockbuster age, which made more money anyone has ever seen.
I'd say it's even more important for them to be able to use English now, in order to be able to communicate with the rest of the world to see other perspectives
I'd imagine that IntelliJ products use whatever text renderer java has instead of the system renderer.
>Yes, punishing people that have nothing to do with the invasion is totally the moral way

So companies now have a moral responsibility to provide their services to everyone across the world even if they may lose money in the process or get fined for violating sanctions? That's a very interesting moral framework you got there.
Im fine with that. Most of their dev is in Ukraine. F#ck Russia.
> executives are much better positioned to weather the drought than writers.

Why? Due to the way Hollywood treats writers, they're already used to having periods of 6-10 months or so without any writing work.

> there is just so much content out there, re-running old stuff is a valid tactic until other steps are necessary.

But it doesn't raise the stock price. At best, it might keep it afloat for a while. Unlike the writers, the studio execs are expected to show growth on a regular basis.

And bear in mind that the studios have already been using "Your favorite shows won't have new episodes! Doesn't that make you want to force the writers to accept our utterly one-sided contract??" as a cudgel toward fans—so they think that "watching old content instead of demanding the new right away" is, at least to some extent, not in their best interests.
I'm certain if this is the intent, but the end result is a smaller middle class.
... but imagine that Disney, Warner Bros, literally ever major studio did that all at once. The WGA would have to blacklist them all - which would almost be certain implosion.
Yes, a website with an RSS feed is the most basic thing the government should use for communication. This also avoids the question of who to peer with. Anyone can request the RSS feed.
None of this is exclusive to Mastodon. They could have done the same on Facebook or any other network that isn't federated.
Doesn't sound like they needed a microblogging platform, just a web page that could be easily updated. Their use of Twitter in the first place would appear to be the crux of the problem.
>"bitch, I don't know what a flofof is, and I don't want to know, looollll, keepin' it real bro!"

It seems like you're getting some kind of racial McGurk effect here? Kelly Rowland does not talk anything like this in the linked video. Here is what she actually says:

"Here's the sitch. I don't know what that is. I don't know what Microsoft Excel is. I don't know. I don't have a clue. So when I saw all these memes, I was like 'I don't care'."

Apart from 'sitch' and 'like' (which are both very common usages in informal conversation) this is all fully standard American English. You're getting worked up about someone saying that (i) they don't know what Microsoft Excel is and (ii) that they don't care about some memes. The "performative idiocy" exists only in your imagination.

The irony is that you're doing your own version of performative idiocy in your attempt to (I guess?) imitate Black American English.
Windows has been king of malware for decades, only in the last decade has it seen this dominace challenged, by android.

While windows evolved into a data exfiltration and malware distribution platform, android was designed for the task from the beginning.