skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s to my understanding that YouTube has been developing something in this vein; that’s currently being discussed with creators, to get them to select videos to be involved in the trials.
What could you buy before, apart from the Mac?

Perhaps we need a definition of GPC?
That’s like pointing out how money corrupts or makes you not appreciate wealth truly. That may be true in some cases, but it’s still much better to be rich than poor
> And if there’s one thing Meta knows how to do is to copy successful idea and slowly grind the growth till it dominates market.

How many years/decades of grinding growth will it take to get back to the initial DAU numbers?
Please don't. If now suddenly everyone would use TOR then we would get something a lot worse than Google's Web Environment Integrity, let me explain why. As someone being on the other side of things (running different services for years) thank god that all users are not using TOR.
99% of all attacks, spam, password brute forcing etc came from TOR on many services I worked on throughout the years. Eliminating that traffic or adding additional checks and hops for traffic from TOR solves a lot of issues for many services.
Apple really contributed to this with the non-iMessage "green bubble."
I agree that the comment sections on those articles devolves really quickly. To me, those comment sections are the worst part of HN. The normally very civil discourse found in here tends to be more "reddity".

Of course, I don't have a concrete example right now. But I do tend to stay off those topics in here cuase it feels like a shit show. Really makes me sad because the comment sections on other non-tech topics like music or literature are always interesting to read.
I don't mean the prison(er) labor. Prisons employ not just guards but doctors and nurses and groundskeepers and secretaries, plumbers, electricians, HR, food service companies... Just like colleges or military bases, prisons are a source of jobs for the surrounding area and can be the only thing keeping them even vaguely economically viable.

Making the slave labor illegal wouldn't get rid of most of the economic/political incentive for prisons.
The person they responded to was beyond dismissive but invalidating of their comment. The responder's message "I don't give a shit" was in poor taste and discourages community interaction
Bad replies aren't necessarily the least popular. Any number of people would prefer blue check (basically signed) replies than pseudonymous drivebys whose entire participation in twitter is sharp replies that get massively upvoted.

Also, popularity based in upvotes from nobody, unverified accounts is usually inorganic. Scoring upvotes based on how many of them are from verified or likely authentic accounts can only improve user experience (for content providers, not professional reply guys.)
Very legit. The experience just needs to be professional and well-documented and the evaluation done by a reputable evaluation service.
The counting makes sense: prisoners, too, require the resources of the locality in which they reside, even if they can't vote at the moment

They should be able to vote though
I forget where the term comes from, but in some social science there's a conception of prisons as "universities of crime"
I use DNS to define topology and services (what you'd expect) and of late I'm using it for federating telemetry (the actual data; think of "tags" in the industrial control sense).

I've used it as an observable for asset discovery and classification, as well as for characterizing infrastructure.
June in January, and August in May. As a kid, we wouldn't expect to even see the sun until late May.
People in your personal life deserve the assumption of positive intent.

Corporations, corporate communications, public figures, etc. are not deserving of the assumption of positive intent.
It's understandable that they get flagged because people can't talk about these topics without emotions and it almost always derails into a flamewar.
> It's probably because you didn't really do any research into it. A $100 or less Pixel 4a released in 2020 will easily last 5+ years if you take care of it.

I'm not optimizing for years alive in retirement; instead, it's years of active, healthy life.

Similarly, I don't just care about years of software support in a phone - it's important how long the phone feels like it's still a snappy, responsive phone. I just don't have a lot of confidence that I'd feel that way about the Pixel 4a in 2027.
Definitely luck involved there! But also I think that as long as you have a realistic plan and are able to consistently work on it early (I started learning web dev at 8) you can mostly disregard the standard education and progression systems. I think that railroading a child through the systems without a plan is wasted effort. Not that there aren't good things to learn that way. I ended up learning a ton about art and art history thanks to my college's degree requirements.

I guess what I'm saying is you can throw a child into extracurriculars and just sort of hope the extra work makes the difference between comfort and struggling. Or you can encourage them to find hobbies and reinforce the ones that will lead to comfort and stability as my parents did.
I back them up on my Mac to BackBlaze and TimeMachine . They are just local files at that point.
Grad school.

It’s paradigmatic that physicists look at a problem and try to distill out the essence of it, you can see this at its best and its worse in The Feynman Lectures on Physics where Feynman seems to find a clever trick to make short work of a problem. He’d spent half a lifetime looking for this sort of trick and makes it look easy, one kind of student appreciates that, another kind thinks it is completely unreasonable to expect that they can pull a rabbit out of a hat on command.

There is a dark art of solving hard problems in physics that isn’t really taught outside of grad school, the problem of simulating the explosion of an atom bomb is one of those problems and so would be modeling the evolution of a star on the main sequence. In either one of those cases your main weapon is the partial differential equation and you aren’t going to find a closed-form solution but you are going to solve it numerically. People were solving problems like the above before they had computers, they did the numerical analysis by hand!

For a problem like that you start out using the technique of dimensional analysis that I learned in high school physics, at the outside of your calculation you’re going to have quantities with dimensions. You will have a handful of those and then many more parameters that are ratios (e.g. if you were modeling the planets in the solar system you would put in the radius of the Earth’s orbit in meters and put the rest of the planets in as ratios, notably you could double the size of the whole system and you could scale the time or gravitational constant accordingly and it would be “the same”)

With that in hand solving the inner problem is a long hard fight, it is not too different in principle from those cases where you can solve in closed form (say prove a spherical shell gravitates like a point on the outside but doesn’t gravitate on the outside) except you are going to use numerical solutions, approximations, and such. Actually you don’t learn very much about how to work at that level in classes in grad school, you learn it the hard way working on your PhD.

If there was something you should read to see how it is done, see “An introduction to the study of stellar structure” by Chandresakar and “Structure and Evolution of the Stars” by Schwarzchild. Those books were written before computers were ubiquitous so they show how you attack hard problems without getting bogged down in how you code it up in FORTRAN.
What are the reasons these days to not enable nested virtualization? I know AWS doesn’t.
You should look into securing your priority date via EB2-NIW and applying through EB1-B -- that's far easier to get approval for than EB1-A.
You must have gone without security or other OS updates then, which I would consider a deal breaker with a phone. Google only recently extended the Pixel OS support timeline to be on par with Android.
I don’t disagree, and I think that’s why we need to make it clear that there’s a difference between implementation and standard.

My education is a mix of formal and autodidactic. One of the best things I got from formal education is the structured introduction to fundamentals like the OSI model.

If you don’t have that kind of foundation, it can be much, much harder to understand the “why” of the endless differences between documented standards and in-the-wild implementations. It’s good to know where you are in the stack to help inform what you’re seeing.
I feel like if we want static charges there must be some sort of potential difference between the top of a large building and the bottom during a thunderstorm. Probably not, though.

While we're at it, can we extract any energy from lightning? Not sure if the blocker is being able to store energy delivered over a short period of time, or if it's the unlikeliness of a purpose-built structure being hit by lightning. Probably both.
So people think Threads is a failure if it grows 100M in 3 days and over 23 days goes down to 50M.

You know for a fact that it it slowly grew from 0 to 50M over 6 months it would have been considered a smashing success.
Or forcing them to downsize and not overspend on militarised weapons?
> Active deception should come with a high cost

Yes, I wish so too. For what's worth, I'd buy "either of Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino write a NYT bestseller book in 5 years, go on a redemption tour, and nothing new happens" for $0.80 on a prediction market.
This is a prime example of why biodiversity is so important, and in my opinion, why protecting it should be a top priority for all hackers.

Genetic information is code - code that has been written over millions of years. Nature is full of such wonderful programs and hacks. We don't yet know how to write even the simplest one, or even know about most of them. Yet, we're turning a blind eye to the current destruction of biodiversity and not thinking twice about it.

I don't understand why the Hacker News community isn't more interested in biodiversity loss, or why articles about climate change and biodiversity loss are not welcome here.

We're in the sixth mass extinction event, defined as a 75% loss of species, primarily caused so far by animal agriculture or, more precisely, by our food preferences. This situation is soon to be worsened by climate change.

But when someone mentions veganism around here, all those hackers flag his post to oblivion.

What makes all those javascript frameworks so important, and the code created by nature unimportant?
Didn't some recent Google Pixels have a baseband issue that allowed a remote takeover of an unpatched device by hackers knowing nothing more than the device phone number?

Security updates are not optional.
Get some tax advice!!! If you own more than 10% of a foreign company your US taxes become very, very complicated. I relinquished my green card after my first tax filing. If you want to be in the US, found your company in the US.
If the actual police and not counter-intelligence agencies were actually intercepting all traffic, use of tor would automatically attract attention to you.
On that we both agree.
Here's a really quick story on how i accidentally worked out this strategy by getting it wrong first. When I started at Amazon and was trying to convince the team that we should do certain things, I did what I'd always been trained to do: I wrote down the problem and then sketched a solution to it. Then I'd start floating the doc around to try to get folks excited about it. And invariably, they'd do what they were trained to do, which was to have a critical response to the proposed solution. They'd argue that I was solving it the wrong way, and I'd be in a spot where we'd have a conversation where I was defending a position. But this was the last thing I wanted — I was trying to get everyone excited about fixing a problem, but I slowly realized that when I approached it this way, I was just getting feedback on my proposed solution.

So I started doing an experiment where I'd write that same doc, including the ideas i had on the shape of the work we should do, but then I'd delete my solution before sharing it. To your question: I'd still totally write my solution ideas down. Partially because I can't help myself and honestly it was a helpful way to think things through. But when I deleted it and shared a doc with just a problem statement, I'd get feedback on the problem statement. It's pretty obvious, but it was also a pretty surprising result: all of a sudden i was in conversations where we were all on the same side of the table. Feedback was either refining the problem (which was awesome) or proposing solutions. And when the person reading your problem statement starts trying to solve it, it's really cool... because they totally start getting invested and the conversations are great.

Like everything, none of this is actually either/or. There are points in between, like including a sketch of the shape of a solution, or properties that a solution would have to have. But the overall thing of separating the problem and the end state of where you want to get to, from the solution and the plan on how to get there is a pretty effective tool from a sharing ownership perspective.
>The biggest difference is that today, it never comes back around the dial - the dial is practically infinite.

And the TV analyzes your dial-flipping to determine what channel to change you to / generates a channel you are more likely to stay on.
Thank you! That's super cool - I'm not nearly as familiar with data science as it sounds you are, I've just made some choice placements in building a UI around the Spotify API. They're hiding the nuts and bolts of turning a set of music feature parameters into a list of recommendations.
Thank you for taking the time to look at it and commenting.

It is indeed the nature of contracting and project work. Note that there are 3 times where I have done contracts back to back for 4 or 5 years for the same company, which should show that I don't just jump ship all the time and am able to commit for a long time.

It made more sense to highlight each project individually in an economy with a lot of need for contractors for short stints, but point taken, I'll see if I can highlight the fact that 2, or 3, or 4 consequent contracts are for the same company. Maybe even just bold the company names.
TN visa
Pretty cool. I enjoyed asking Vito Corleone to clear up some things about Fredo's murder and who broke the peace with the other families as well as grilling Bill Gates on his Epstein connections.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children...

I love this article with the comparison across generations.

I grew up in Europe in the '80s, and was riding streetcars and taking subways when I was 10.
Man, that's fucking insane. Really sorry about your friend.
Just cause they are related to humanities or discuss masculinity, minorities or race in tech doesn't make them political by default.

A topic being discussed a lot in politics doesn't necessarily mean that that topic is political imo
It's basically impossible to share e.g a long screenshot of text because WhatsApp compresses so aggressively, it's a joke.
My young kids would be totally unaware if they were bumping into others, or causing them to stop abruptly, or otherwise interfering with others. Of course if those strangers yelled at them or provided some less harsh form of feedback it might register with them, but I find most people don't say anything so it's on me to let my kids know the effects they're behavior is having.
Yes, it's a LOT better. Charging the phone connected to it is automatic and the screen is positioned in a safe location and much more visible to not only the driver, but other people who can help with navigation. It's a game changer, I'll never have a car without a screen again.

My Mazda has both Android Auto and its own decent mapping solution, but Android/iPhone is just better than what ships with the car. The phone also has more information on speed traps, detours etc.
With all the money Meta has (even more if they didn't blew so much on Metaverse) they should have built some kind of monetization opportunities for the users from the get go. Something like Twitter is doing now.

Nothing attracts people more than money. Give 1/10/100 USD per month to super active users that attract views and engagement.
> That second argument was valid like 5 years ago, but definitely not today.

I disagree. It's still valid.

> Samsung devices do still have a lot of customization, but most of it is actually pretty useful in my experience.

Ahh, that may be why we have different experiences. You consider their stuff to be useful -- which is a totally fair opinion -- but I consider it all to be worthless bloat -- which is another totally fair opinion.

I don't mind that it's there. I do mind that I can't delete it.
Glad you're enjoying it, always open to nitpicky feedback. I'll put all of these suggestions on the backlog and see how they play together - thanks!
Same ISP, fiber/wired connection, WiFi?
PAT and WEI can allow and disallow whatever the hell they want, there's nothing preventing WEI from allowing ad blockers just like there's nothing preventing PATs from disallowing them. They are exactly the same technology (remote attestation, entirely outside of the user's control).
They're doing it incrementally.
They ran out of GC numbers for the year. It will probably jump back to 2022 in Oct
Though I see what you're saying, using a PPL for VAEs just seems like overkill given the simplistic nature of VAEs.

PPLs are useful when the data generation process is not easily represented by something like a simple multivariate Gaussian, etc. You find many good examples academic research, e.g. epidemiology.
> For example, today wifi routers “just work” right out of the box. In the early 2000s it would have taken a network engineer

Or a nerd buying a WRT54v1 to install hyperwrt.
I've been looking for a node based image editor for a while. It seems like something that would serve the scientific community by allowing people to program complex processes and handle images procedurally. If you aren't familiar, I would suggest you check out ImageJ/FIJI and perhaps consider integrating some of the analytic functionality into Graphite I definitely expect there's a market for it — I don't know anybody that likes using ImageJ.
Convenience and access to plugins such as wolfram alpha.
GPL3 License https://github.com/chieapp/chie/blob/main/LICENSE
Thanks! I looked into it when that article got posted actually, and near as I can tell that isn't a solution to this problem - and that is fully intentional on Apple's part - because:

1) That article is for things in iCloud Drive, which is everything EXCEPT iCloud Photos. Though you can put photos in iCloud Drive (as files), they just won't be seen as photos, visible in iCloud Photos (or the Photos app), etc. without importing them on an Apple device manually into the Photos app. Where they'll then be synced into iCloud Photos.

The photos that are imported/stored in the Photos App on Apple devices also are not visible in iCloud Drive after being imported into iCloud Photos.

2) It only works on Mac/Apple devices. And only locally. So you'd need to sync to a Mac device, then backup the mac device, then hope it all works. No direct backup is available. So even if it did allow syncing iCloud Photos, it is a really awkward and brittle way to back them up.

3) There ARE APIs for iCloud Drive. But not iCloud Photos.

The web iCloud Photos interfaces also only does manual per-album level downloads (no Takeout or global download equivalent) of photos using the web interface), which stops working at scale VERY quickly.

Notably, Google Photos stopped providing the Google Drive interface to Google Photos shortly after Apple made this their standard operating procedure. So it's a common theme.

Though Google Photos does have APIs and Takeout, so it's lockin is less 'firm', and they're definitely less obnoxious about it. The Takeout data requires some significant massaging to get equivalent from what is visible in Google Photos though.

This is the kind of sneaky trap I've learned to be wary of, as Apple does this a lot for lock-in purposes with their hardware too.
Twenty years ago these stories were not commonplace. The three I listed are from the last couple of months, and considering I could list them off the top of my head, it's more like last couple of news cycles. Not to mention the surface temps of the oceans are getting to be in the 100s fahrenheit, which wasn't predicted until closer to mid-century. They are indications.

No compelling evidence like the increase in global population, global temperatures, sea level rise, extreme weather events that cause greater amounts of people to be permanently displaced, political sectarianism, authoritarianism, extremism, and violence; and the concordant decreases in democracy, due process, habitable land, resources, and the ability of institutitions public OR private to handle the uncertainties. Because there's an "absence of evidence"? Because it would be a "black swan event"? Because it would be... unprecedented, perhaps? Have I made my point or do I need to keep going?
I think the 55% number is specifically referring to June 28 and 29? Not clear what the scope of the 50% number is supposed to be - could either be the “evening peak” (not sure what the scope there is either) for those two dates, or June generally.
For EB1 - probably Oct.

For EB2/3 -- likely 15 years or more...
Thats only on EdgeOS though. UbiquitiOS uses a different system, built around Podman and Debian
Cars do make it worse, but probably aren't what it all stems from. As an example, I lived a 5 min walk away from the primary school I was attending and wasn't allowed to make the trip on my own for years. They gave me a payphone card and I had to call one of my parents to come and walk me back.

Helicopter parents don't let things like logic and convenience get in the way of taking every atom of independence from their kids. It may also have something to do with trust. Nobody trusts their kids with anything these days anymore and then they expect them to somehow grow up capable of taking responsibility? Like, how?
I think the parent was referring to this rather massive and long outage very recently:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/01/tech/twitter-rate-limit-excee...

rather than cloud providers it would probably be more useful to compare to eg Instagram or TikTok
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Maybe start by reading the book Code by Charles Petzold.

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...
"beating into submission" is a phrase that does not mean physically beating.

> I never neglected her if that's what you're trying to get at.

If you did that to a child it would be neglect, that is the point. Children aren't cats.

It is more complex with a child. It's easier when they're a baby, but increasingly more subtle as they get older. Nobody is saying you can't take things away from them or set boundaries, but you're talking about very simple things that may work with very young children but aren't enough as they get older.

"Do as I say because I am the boss" is just not good enough. Maybe you'll get compliance but that's not enough if you want a healthy relationship with your child as they grow.
I got there just by searching directly and it works. I wish the reader mode had an option to make it work like a book though, web scrolling is a nightmare on this thing.