skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does a website whose sole job it is to communicate official EU news need to collect and handle user data at all?

The answer is likely that the firm in charge of the site themselves can't make sense of GDPR, and included the prompt by default like everyone else does, making the whole thing pointless and leading to nothing but visual pollution.
Good point. I was aware of that, of course, but, like some others here, I like to believe that HN is different in significant ways: no images or videos, no personalized feed, no following or being followed, no targeted advertising, etc.
For me collectively owned (communal/socialist) software has not so much to do with only being limited to paying for software, but much more importantly with it being Free (as in freedom), open source, and collectively developed as a consequence. of code being available to all and everyone can contribute to development. By this I do not mean just coding, but also testing, artwork, documentation, translations, promotion, sponsorships/donations (monetary and in other forms)... It is about collectively owning the means of computation, if you will :)
to some degree it's not relevant -- the data is bunk, and Dan A flogged it hard.

He also was the only one handling it, so if the data is bad then the responsibility falls to him regardless, both as the handler, as well as the head of the investigation. He either deliberately faked it, or got garbage data and didn't realize it when, now, plenty of others have.
The era of tech layoffs is evolving in an interesting way
No, you don't need to solve anything.

Just try hard to please the recruitment team to join a company, then you'll be given problems to be solved.
And sooner or later there will be a reciprocal law as well. It only makes sense.
> Why "not equivalent"?

The Mac pro is just a Mac studio with a "PCI express expansion chassis" bolted on which is of no use to most people. The price says Apple doesn't want to sell a lot of those machines, they probably only fitted a M2 CPU in an old Mac pro chassis to tick off the 'entire range migrated to Apple silicon' promise.
Worth noting that while most musicians don’t “start off” as professional musicians, Rowland entered the game back in the 90s and was basically just a kid when destiny’s child was formed. Leaves little time to learn anything else besides the ins and outs of the industry I’d think.
Being insulted because people think your interests are stupid or boring is weakness. She (and literally everyone else on the planet) has got more to concentrate on than your feelings about Excel.
No the Metaverse is not dead, it is just getting started
Make sure that off-the-shelf AI model is legit – could be a poisoned dependency
It's funny to see the current grayed-out, lowest rated comment about this being a sexually transmitted book. I'll admit I barely remember it at this point and it mostly stands out to me because my best friend and I hung out at a bookstore pretty regularly after school senior year and a girl who worked there, who graduated a year ahead of us, gave me this book and put a note in it saying I seemed like an emotionally sensitive person who would understand it. I'm reasonably sure she just thought I was physically attractive and was hitting on me, because the reality is I was an emotionally vacant person far more into math than people, but it was amusing nonetheless. Definitely a popular pick for 90s girls.

My wife claims Snow Crash constitutes the same phenomenon from her perspective. The reason she first read it is that every high match on every dating site she had in the 2005-2010 era was a dude that mentioned this book on his profile somewhere.

Not intending to shit on Kundera. Reading this book didn't change me because I was 18 and about to spend the next decade going through a ton of transformative life experiences that would change me far more than reading anything at all possibly could, but I still remember it being a well-written, thought-provoking book.
Install uBlock Origin and wipe those virtues away. Use the element zapper mode to temporarily remove things. Refresh and it'll be back. Use element picker to permanently hide parts of a website.
Obviously it doesn't actually matter that much but sometimes I do wonder how I'd fare in a nuclear holocaust scenario and it's depressing to think how useless my professional skills would be. Idealistically I'd be grabbing PC components wherever I could find them and frankensteining machines together, making networks to connect bunkers... but in reality we'd probably not even have power. It's so far down the hierarchy of needs.
A URL is about 2000 characters max, so this definitely works. It's a more portable than localstorage given they can just handle the URL themselves.

This doesn't cover collective access. Eg. high scores, though. I'm still thinking on that one. I think it's going to be impossible to find because of security implications. Services are either going to not want to make it work, or require accounts.
Regardless of the excellent content, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" stands as my favourite book title of all time.
And just with a single post you've demonstrated why Hacker news isn't the place to paste an equation.
Anyway, interesting.
If your program is allocating so much that you can exhaust a 64bit counter, you have a seriously bad program plus a serious memory leak. Exhausting the counter would be the least of your worries.

Practically speaking you could never allocate memory that fast, a memory allocation is going to be well over 1000ns on average.

Then there's the little matter of address space. Pointers on x64 are limited to 47 bits, meaning that if even you had a magical memory allocator with no book-keeping overhead, and all your allocations were 1 byte, you'd run out of pointers first. The actual virtual memory space is limited further on many operating systems, but you're still always going to be well short of 64bits.
It sounds like you might have read it already, but you might enjoy “I am Strange Loop”
off-topic (or not): the newly launched Threads app has over 100 million users already
Ok I imagined it, and once again noticed that, no, the "effect" is not the same at all, because once again I'm free to associate with other websites that do not choose to remove my opinion.
This is arguably the most comprehensive GenAI ecosystem that exist today. And it works on laptops/desktops!
Thanks for posting the Baltica! I didnt know about that and Im excited now
I had a difficult time reading this page, the low contrast reduces legibility. Surprising for a site focused on fine details of type and design.
years and years ago I played hearthstone but after a couple seasons of "surprise your decks don't work anymore" I realized this was just an endless grind to get me to buy more packs and never logged in again.
I think the poster meant a global nuclear war - where all 12000 warheads are exploded - nuclear Armageddon.
Yes, also 'veg'.
It's not even non-WYSIWYG mode, this isn't like those text mode programs that preceded it where you have Latex-style markers everywhere and only ever see the formatted text in print (preview).

This just hides the page barriers to give you more space to type.

Most of the Word documents I've typed never even made it to paper so the only reason I didn't disable pages all together is that some of my school projects had page count requirements.
The Europeans are people they can sell stuff too.

China doesn't manufacturer everything you use in your daily life for humanitarian reasons. They do it because they can earn money doing it.
> What would be the incentive for people in the southern hemisphere to help nuclear wasteland Europe to get back on its feet?

Money and power
That's true, but ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics are only phonetic when writing names.

A better example would be modern Hebrew. It has vowels, but they are an optional annotation and often omitted as a matter of course.
The assumption is that people are buying Plus accounts and then abuse it with a bot - maybe a browser extension.
This video is amusing and all, but is the author's point that enshittification isn't a thing, or that it's not a legitimate reason to go elsewhere? If so, I must disagree. What's the alternative? To just continue sitting in the slowly boiling water?
Getting Started with Pixel Art
Little known fact about birds - they can fly.
Ah so that’s what my manager does all day.
To me that reads as "he would be interested, if not for the volatile nature of the copyright owner".
I love that tour. I recommend it to everyone for their second trip.
Thank you for the suggestion! I actually thought about using terraform, but I wanted to keep the experiment somewhat minimal regarding technologies and as I had already added AWS Lambda and Rust to the tech stack, I wanted to stay as close to the metal as possible. Besides, this is not for commercial applications, so I don't think high availability is in scope.
and

1981 - "Two years after DuPont learned of a famous monkey study in 1979, 3M shared the results of another study (with Dupont) it had done, this one on pregnant rats, whose unborn pups were more likely to have eye defects after they were exposed to C8. The EPA was also informed of the results." [4]

[4] https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti...
I'd love to chat how do we exchange contact here?
Yes, ArrayLists are array-backed, but Arrays.asList instantiates a List and does not instantiate an array.
NextDoor doesn't work because:

1) it gets dominated by whoever shouts the loudest/who can spend most time on social media

2) You only get one local community really, and if you aren't in it, you aren't in it. I can join one of thousands of gaming discords, if any of them get too toxic for me I can just join another one. I can't do that with my local community, so you don't have the stick of "if you continue being toxic assholes I'm going to go somewhere else". You can of course stop using it but that's not "taking your business somewhere else".
I don't think you can set hard limits, only alerts. In my view there should be a plan designed like this, but I don't think they care about small time users enough to introduce it. I think the big 3 services are all the same in that regard.
It's just a variation of self-help books/articles.
This tutorial is very complex. Here's how to get free semantic search with much less complexity:

1. Install sentence-transformers [1]
2. Initialize the MiniLM model - `model = SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')`
3. Embed your corpus [2]
4. Embed your queries, then search the corpus

This runs on CPU (~750 sentences per second), and GPU (18k sentences per second). You can use paragraphs instead of sentences if you need more text. The embeddings are accurate [3] and only 384 dimensions, so they're space-efficient [4].

Here's how to handle persistence. I recommend starting with the simplest strategy, and only getting more complex if you need higher performance:

- Just save the embedding tensors to disk, and load them if you need them later.
- Use Faiss to store the embeddings (it will use an index to retrieve them faster) [5]
- Use pgvector, an extension for postgres that stores embeddings
- If you really need it, use something like qdrant/weaviate/pinecone, etc.

This setup is much simpler and cheaper than using a ton of cloud services to do embeddings. I don't know why people make semantic search so complex.

I've used it for https://www.endless.academy, and https://www.dataquest.io and it's worked well in production.

[1] https://www.sbert.net/

[2] https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/...

[3] https://huggingface.co/blog/mteb

[4] https://medium.com/@nils_reimers/openai-gpt-3-text-embedding...

[5] https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
He’s referring to the P75 from Chrome’s field data. Now, Reddit definitely could do more here and get that LCP at the same time as the FCP (eliminate load and render delay). But a big purpose for these metrics is to make the web more accessible/usable, and the reality is most of the world doesn’t have iPhones or fast networks[1].

[1] https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/
Eventually, people will learn that dulling enthusiasm for a thing by limiting it to only people who can afford it is actually more hurtful to your success in the long run. There's literally millions of kids who can't afford your concert ticket/game/movie/whatever but who would become lifelong fans if they could experience the thing NOW.
Yes. I'm using it built from source and as far as I can tell, the classic layout is the default. The sidebar and search bar are still there, though I haven't tried to turn them off.
Russian hackers lured embassy workers in Ukraine with an ad for a cheap BMW
https://archive.li/X4l54
> And high unemployment due

Sorry, that meant to say “high employment due to a disabled workforce”. Text to speech error.

I don’t know opinion about the 2% rate, it’s just wet the Fed names for. They’ve said it over and over again that that’s the goal. And you can say it’s made up butt inflation at 4% is unsustainable when wages aren’t rising at the same rate. And when wages do you start to rise?
How many books would not exist if copyright had the suggested reduced impact?
Show HN: A generic cross-platform and high-performance C library
The youtube channel hunt primitive also did this including "hunting" the bison using atlatl and and clovis point spears. It was very interesting and probably useful to people studying ancient people's but it's pretty brutal and not a quick death so definitely not for the faint of heart.
Were you able to report this? If you can get me enough information (e.g. via bcachefs dump), I'd like to track this down.
>I just want a reliable search engine tool that doesn't hide information from me

I don't think this is something that a ranked search algorithm can do while keeping everybody happy.

As an example, let's search for "vaccines cause autism". If you put "vaccines cause autism" content on top, some people are going to get very angry and think you're "hiding information" -- you haven't shown all the content debunking the claim. But, if you put "vaccines don't cause autism" first, some people are going to get very angry and think you're "hiding information", because you're not listing the original sources of the claim.

There are a million such examples with varying degree of controversy; you've listed some of them already, but others could be "penis enlargement pills", "best truck to buy 2023", "dakota access pipeline", "thai king opression".

You can't make an algorithm to distinguish fact from fiction, what counts as "information" and what doesn't. You can, at most, rank by consensus or popularity, but what's "popular" (or "allowed by the government") isn't necessarily true (or false). And you must rank your results somehow, there's just too much content.
> always records your gameplay
> video share
> live stream

it's called hardware encoding video. it's great that those features are present, but HW encoding (even in consoles) isn't new
Correct, and a lot of it is posting either very short comments, which are parsed easily, or very long comments that seem like they are correct by length alone (Bardfinn and PoppinKream). Neither has much to do with being "good" comments
You can introduce indirection layers without OOP since a function's signature is its interface. I do it all the time.
what does kernel.org look like after the sun sets on Linus

I'd say the answer depends on Red Hat more so than anyone else. They are the largest single contributor.

It's pretty clear that Red Hat is prepared either way --- with or without kernel.org. And their recent moves suggest that they may actually prefer without --- at least in it's current form.
Wikipedia is still a centralized service. It is better than some others, but I can see countless examples of spooks editing the pages of important people or issues to tell the desired narrative. Many of us do not bother viewing or citing Wikipedia on some topics.
Honestly, it's going to be one of those things I champion now whenever it comes up in conversation haha. Very solid points.
Meh. I switched (back) to Ubuntu this January after a few years of Windows, because my AMD CPU+GPU setup kept BSODing on Windows, it kept failing to wake up from sleep (and because I got fed up with a lot of other nits), and ... surprisingly most of the things just work. Brother printer? Next-next-finish. As it was many years ago on Windows. (The same printer takes an intensive 30 minutes of cursing and downloading some godforsaken software.)

Steam and Lutris (StarCraft 2!) work pretty well, Detroit Become Human just works. (Enable proton in Steam, and click install and play.)

(I removed snap, however, as it's just in the way, but I don't remember what was my exact problem with it.)
I think the point of the video is to advise people to not join these centralised corporate-owned platforms in the first place.
The employee unionization was likely a result of the cost-cutting measures being implemented on their backs, meaning the business was already failing.
It is completely unbelievable how bad printers are. I have an "enthusiast" 3D printer and somehow that thing is far more usable and user friendly than what you can buy in a store today.

Nothing in the world stops printer companies to produce a printer which you can connect via USB and which will print the the desired document through a system dialog, but somehow they are incapable of even that.
True, but only if you threaten their business model, which is unlikely if you selfhost for yourself and relatives.
How would you host sentence-transformers model for free? You need it to vectorize each query so that has to be hosted somewhere. Is there any way to do it for free?
Too often symptoms get confused with problems. Symptoms are also not The Problem. But act, they do. In the end, it's more or less a riff on the Monkey & Pedestal syndrome (?).

https://www.annieduke.com/newsletter-monkeys-and-pedestals-f...
Ask HN: Are the low performers on your team still there?
Our layoffs happened a month or so ago. The three low performers on our team were let go. Has it been a similar story at your org?
A good manager is an "umbrella" and you have no idea what they do.

A bad manager is a "funnel" and you know exactly what they do.
Reply to this message with a messaging platform of your choice. Or click on the link in my profile, that also works.
I don't know, I have too little faith for even that. For your "top general" on Ukraine example, do you really think a top general is actually going on Twitter and writing tweets telling you the honest truth about what's happening, vs. just writing what they're expected to in order to maintain the wartime propaganda message they're supposed to be pushing? For your covid example do you think a "top scientist" would go on Twitter and really risk being cancelled and having their career and life destroyed if they write what they believe to be true, if it goes against the narrative they're supposed to agree with?
Ask HN: Restoring an Amazon Associates Account?
... so I created a site to help people navigate the extensive used / open box selection of outdoor gear in the amazon warehouse: down-river.net

Inspired largely by another Amazon associates program site diskprices.com, even though it appears barebones, I spent a lot of time getting things right behind the scenes. I wanted it to feel like you, as a shopper, are getting great deals via some secret database created by an obsessed hacker.

Which, they kind of are.

... and people love it. Used gear is big in the outdoor community now -- both REI and Patagonia have increasingly important programs related to it.

Even my promotional efforts have been well received.. which, as I'm sure you guys know, is somewhat unusual. Maybe the highest compliment one can get as Dev. People were buying items off the site -- another strong signal of being on the right track.

I was surprised to see my site was blocked for content reasons: "My application was denied for non-specified reasons. Well... vague reasons: "Your website did not meet our content standards as the content on your site is insufficient. When reviewing a website we look for a beneficial reason as to why a customer would seek out your site. We want an associate site to be one that adds value to the customer by giving them insight on a subject or product they might not get easily. A website needs to show original content that exemplifies these components when we evaluate your application."

No shenanigans or link cloaking or anything like that. Everything else is 100% above board, etc...

What can I do? Is there anyone I can contact?

Any tips would be appreciated!
Shameless plug: I built Mighty Inference Server to solve this problem. Fast embeddings with minimal footprint. Better BEIR and MTEB scores using the lightning fast and small E5 V2 models. Scales linearly on CPU, no GPU needed.

https://max.io
I also found while writing the article but after I had already done my research that cargo-lambda has grown some additional functionality that could have removed the need for the AWS CLI, but I wanted to get the article out, so I didn't test-drive that.
Oh, but we've moved past that into much better resolutions, of course more resolution is better.
You mean if the government of that nation censors speech that challenges the status quo? I think it's very bad for governments to do that, and would go to some length to ensure that the government of my own nation does not allow that, but I also don't get a direct say in what the governments of other nations do and how the citizens of those nations respond. I can certainly criticize from afar, but I don't get to vote or protest or fight to change the laws of those nations.
From : https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

What will be the consequences of non-compliance?

Fines

of up to 10% of the company’s total worldwide annual turnover, or up to 20% in the event of repeated infringements

Periodic penalty payments

of up to 5% of the average daily turnover

Remedies

In case of systematic infringements of the DMA obligations by gatekeepers, additional remedies may be imposed on the gatekeepers after a market investigation. Such remedies will need to be proportionate to the offence committed. If necessary and as a last resort option, non-financial remedies can be imposed. These can include behavioural and structural remedies, e.g. the divestiture of (parts of) a business.
> What am I ever going to use my skills in analysing 20th century literature for.

You can use the same skills to spot when a news article is trying to manipulate you.

> What am I ever going to use my knowledge about Roman history for?

You can see how empires fall, and vote against those things.

> What am I ever going to use my knowledge about the structure of our government for?

Understanding why things happen around you is the first thing you need if you ever want to try and change something you don't like.

> Certainly no employeer of mine ever cared, my University didn't care, nobody seems to have ever cared, except my teachers.

You might care, though. Or you might not know what you know now without them.

Thankfully you did all those things, so now you can write a well-written letter to the correct person in government, citing the parallel problems with the current education system and the fall of Rome, and stop children being taught this stuff (-:
This page[0] describes how you can accomplish this.

[0] https://rpcs3.net/quickstart
Use my app twitter2nitter
It is if your goal is to recreate Bee Movie.

By claiming those are not problems, I can present 60,000-ish frames of random scribbles and call it a reproduction of Bee Movie.

There should be some effort made to actually achieve the stated goal.

And while the occasional one-off joke frame could be funny, everyone wants to be that guy. So the thing becomes nothing but a string of joke frames, most of which are not even remotely funny.
Detroit is now a fun and affordable city.