skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
e.g. 'Tesla's Volkswagen's Watergate Scandal'

I suppose soon we'll have FutureCorp's Tesla's Volkswagen's Watergate Scandal Can't we just bring back the word 'scandal' unadorned?

Anyway, this article is trash. Why does it lead with rambling complaints about starlink instead of cutting to the chase, which is that DRM in Tesla cars prevents people from knowing what their cars actually do? (Not news btw, I and others have been complaining about this for years.) Also "The conversion of the VW diesel fleet into mobile gas-chambers" I stopped reading here. VW's crimes were severe but comparing them to the Holocaust is completely uncalled for. Is this supposed to be a funny joke because VW is German? It isn't funny.
Why are the K-12 data non-public? Aren't they from publicly funded institutes?
I really don't understand this comment.

It has no substance other than "stop complaining, you're wasting energy".

I don't even know what's a good response to this. Why even do anything?
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No, he's saying stop letting people live rent-free in your head.
There is some range depending on the size of the U.S. workforce and whether the petition is filed with premium processing. A rough range for a company with less than 25 FTEs would be $4,000 to $5,500. For a company with at least 25 FTEs, add $750 and if the petition is filed with premium processing, add $2,500.
> It is very easy to solve disinformation - have a good editor who notes the quality of the evidence clearly.

- how do you identify candidates?

- how do you know that the candidate that is selected is actually what the judges think they are?

- how do you know that the candidate is not at least partially compromised, on an ongoing basis?

- for any given editorial issue, how do you know that the candidate is performing perfectly (or, when you said "solve", were you perhaps joking)?

- is that air you're breathing right now?
If I could wear a tin foil hat for a minute: it could be plausible that CA could fight this to allow it to escalate to the Supreme Court and establish a judicial standard for these types of cases.

I don’t really understand why, of all the CA government institutions, the CDE finds this to be appropriate stance though. An educational office should absolutely be held to a much higher standard than this, and should at its core value openness of information and freedom of speech. The fact that this lawsuit exists at all is an indication of deeply problematic internal values within CDE that are completely misaligned with its mission and governmental function.
If they didn't seem so stupid, you'd think the biometrics collection thing was the point, but I actually think they're just so dumb it's not even that sophisticated a scam.
It looks like the airdrop gives you something like 25 WLD, or $50. I don't know what the actual numbers are but it seems to be around this order of magnitude. Your hypothetical spoon-wielding lunatic would be risking serious consequences in order to earn $50; that doesn't seem like a particularly strong incentive.
What are the reasons to bring people to san fransisco in the first place and deal with immigration problems? Why can't startups just use a payroll provider like deel and have a semi-global team?
I found the bottom of that page much more interesting.

>> What if you strapped C4 to a boomerang? Could this be an effective weapon, or would it be as stupid as it sounds?

> Aerodynamics aside, I’m curious what tactical advantage you’re expecting to gain by having the high explosive fly back at you if it misses the target.
What is it exactly that is being deprecated here? systemd-sysv-generator? If the unit generator interface is stable, what's to stop downstream distributions from keeping using it regardless?
IMHO,Making the public pay for records, at high expense in a digital age is how the government limit information. Police arrest\crime data, Court data, Zoning Data, Meeting transcripts, Budget Data, etc, and yes, Education data.

Society shouldnt accept this data should be behind paywalls or accept high costs to access it. Or paper only releases to stop release restrictions for costs and size.
How can the huge and expensive panels required to intercept a meaningful amount of rain possibly compete with harvesting the energy of the same rainfall with small and inexpensive bronze age technology? Ridiculously high efficiency doesn't seem likely.
Commercials have their own rights (and they often feature third-party music which, in turn, has its own rights). So, even if you have the rights to rebroadcast the actual program, you couldn’t show the original commercials without massive legal hurdles.
The problem of moving information about the real world (stock prices, weather report, did the Knicks win last night) into a crypto ledger so that it can be speculated upon (e.g. a smart contract that only pays out if the Knicks win).
What Happened to Vivaldi Social?
Maybe the framing shouldn't be "move fast and break things" but more of a computing as pop culture roughly from Alan Kays saying.

Gnome has adapted to changes in computing form factors, supporting more mobile setups (touch and tablet) that emerged over the past 15 years while other DEs may mature around a Desktop/Laptop setup.

- mostly happy Gnome user
discussions like this are good reminders of how low quality most HN threads are. a huge mass of random whinging about the people involved, non-technical whinging about imagined architecture decisions (like "systemd is a monolith") and then conspiracies about Microsoft like it's a slashdot thread in 1998.

notably missing:

- discussions about how fucking shit PID files and things like start-stop-daemon are or how annoying it was writing a sh script for every daemon, or how in sysvinit things can become un-shut-downable

- discussion about how making containerisation/chroot/resource limits trivial is good actually

- reflections on how hard making a reliable good init system is, cf upstart/launchd/whatever solaris had and how nice it is that someone actually did it for linux

etc etc
Seem like the movie Don't look up has a more realistic script than I would have imagined.
If an international student is on a stem opt extension (24 months) that just started, and does YC, is it possible for them to get a green card before the stem opt expires?
I'm guessing detailed information on individual students, anonymized - that's not something that any edu department will make public.
With i2pd you can set up Web, IRC, Mail and NNTP proxies against retroBBS and chat with people at acceptable speeds. Also, to talk on actual daily lives beyond propaganada with Ukrainians and Russians.

Ironically, anonimity here stops terror and helps innocent people. Any terror.
A while ago I realized, nowadays we all have pocket TVs with on-demand video libraries, and the biggest one is even free...
It's certainly not a magic pill, but there is a higher barrier to entry for making en edit through git. PR discussions could help minimize bs.
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I think you are wrong.

The Guest Additions (GAs) are not part of the Extension Pack (EP). As far as I can recall, after I think 15 years of using VirtualBox now, the GAs never were part of the EP.

The GAs are FOSS.

The EP is not FOSS. Since VirtualBox 4.0, released December 22, 2010, the core product has been FOSS and the proprietary bits were in the EP and only the EP.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News_pre_4_3

VirtualBox 2 and 3 had separate freeware PUEL and Open Source editions (OSE), but that is back in the noughties. You are reaching back nearly 15 years here to get to when the product was not all-FOSS.

I think you are confusing the names and the descriptions of the two totally separate add-ons, one of which is a proprietary addon to the hypervisor itself, and the other of which is a FOSS addon to the OS running inside the VM.
Crimes so bad the nazis asked them not to proclaim them in official publications.
no not true - lazy, imperfect and damaged cognitive functions have similar results.
A popular term in the LLM space is 'confabulation': https://community.openai.com/t/hallucination-vs-confabulatio...

It fits better than the alternatives I've seen proposed.
Bullshitting has a goal, hallucinations are random, seems apt.
There’s a law protecting individual student records: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Educational_Rights_an...

It also goes beyond K-12. Quite a few parents try to get their children’s college grades and run smack into this law.
Any TV antenna will work ("digital antenna" is just a marketing term).
Hi! I have a full time job as iOS dev and that is my pet project. It had in-app purchases before, but I dropped them completely and make it free because huge amount of Monetal users was facing problem since this war between Russia and Ukraine. I don’t collaborate with any company or share any user data if that is what you mean.
I think there are legal limitations like IP and compliance for some industries that make it tricky.
Your point is well taken, although I have a hard time grokking how'd I'd fair on that amount of income.
Their Glassdoor and some Twitter accounts I followed, it's been years though.

Plus if you've ever interacted on their forums their mods are really pushy and dismissive.
> The two worked together on a paper about how to "nudge" people to be more honest on things like forms or tax returns. Their trick: move the location where people attest that they have filled in a form honestly from the bottom of the form to the top.

Another strike against the entire concept of "nudges". Its become clear that it was a bit of a liberal pipe dream saying you could accomplish huge changes in people or even society with imperceptible "nudges" that conveniently meant you didn't need to address systemic issues and stone wall any attempts at grander change.

"Be more honest by changing a form." "Make people less fat by moving where the produce is in the store." Turns out things are more complicated.
> Embraer is skilled

That's an understatement, they're a top 3 if not even top 2 aircraft manufacturer in the world.

I'm not entirely convinced in the electric taxi model's financial viability, but Embraer are certainly capable of manufacturing them.
What information does a school system possibly need to keep away from the public? This smells.
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What’s the easiest way for a startup to poach H1B workers from competitors and large, established companies? Is it even possible, or are they trapped at their sponsoring company? If there is a process or workflow for accomplishing this in a repeatable/scalable manner, I’d be keen to know!
I am collecting almost every day all the best DS/DE/DA internships I find out there on LinkedIn.

I think an internship is a great place to start learning as a Data professional and many are starting right now.

Also, it's Summer and many of those ads have a low competition (everyone is on holiday). Today I saw a job post looking for a Data Engineer with only 1 applicant.
My Facebook phone screen many years ago consisted of an HR-sounding woman asking me three questions, the first two I answered correct (according to her), and the third one I answered correctly (I checked afterwards) but didn't use the term that was apparently written down in front of them, was told 'wrong, it's <term>', was thanked, hung up, and got a rejection email a few days later.

In that case I think it's pretty clear I was rejected based on getting one answer incorrect. The phone call wasn't even that long at all.

And while other interviews have been longer, I suspect I've been rejected a few times based on me struggling with one particular Leetcode problem.

One guy didn't even let me finish it beyond five minutes of trying to figure out the recursive function, just rejected me on the call. That guy had a huge ego and I already wasn't certain I even wanted to work for him anyway (but I didn't have any other offers yet so I gave it a shot anyway), so not a huge loss there.
Rad! Now I can rewatch MTV videos before the channel was utterly destroyed by low budget "reality TV" game shows.
That’s extremely odd, and you’re not on some older Windows 10 build or LTSC? I definitely have long uptime bugs on my work computer but they’re more to do with Explorer than DWM/UI.
How do the immigration efforts change between US political regime changes? Is it easier or more challenging, or does it stay the same?
False. Mastodon blocks those CSAM instances (speccially the Japanese ones) in masse. It's the opposite of you say. Twitter and FB have a harder problem on that because they are single-net based.
An ongoing effort to reproduce LK-99
> How can data collected by the government be private? That should all be available to the public since it was gathered with public funds. Has no one issued a freedom of information request?

Agreed. What gives the government the right to reject my FOIA requests for the exact specification and design files for gaseous centrifuges, implosion devices, and nerve gas?

Extreme natsec examples aside, there are a thousand reasons to keep government data private, not the least of which is constituent privacy. Deanonymizing data is far easier than preparing it for release and the data schools keep on students is particularly sensitive (I'm not claiming that that's the case with this data, just making a general observation).
Have you been interviewing recently? The qualitative interviews that test design are actually the ones that are unreasonably challenging now. You have to cater to the interviewers design philosophy.

For example I tend not to prefer putting data into a class if it's not needed, but we had one interviewer who wanted all my logic as methods on a class even though it's fine to have functions operating on a data structure. Not a big deal either way right? But there it is... With the influx of candidates they measure this bs.
> The goal is how do you verify humanity in a world where bots are indistinguishable from humans.

You don't. Crypto evangelists, as usual, are trying to put their square blockchain peg in a round hole. They need to stop and check their premises.
That’s because it’s mostly schizoids creating this stuff (myself included)
Professor Dee was one of the authors of some excellent research regarding SFUSD’s math detracting experiment: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/san-francisco-insis...
Because what is the difference between a remote worker in Kansas vs. a remote worker in Bogota, apart from 80,000 USD / Year?
What is the best source of government data on the H1B program (e.g total visas per year, count by industry / job function, nationality of recipient counts)? Also, do you know of any original sources / documents which discuss the future of the program and how it will be assessed whether there is enough talent domestically in a given field of work. Thanks
> Small stores carry the same shit as big chain stores.

Not always. Go to a dedicated board game store and you'll see such a wider variety than the branded Monopoly sets on sale at big box stores. Plus they usually have an area dedicated to actually playing games, something you'll never find at a chain. This community charm is paid for by the small store tax, but the benefits far outweigh the cost.
What is premium processing?
In slack indeed there is no good way. But other tools provide better ways to do it (with examples among sibling comments). I am not saying zulip solves much of this, there is probably a better tool, but they are at least not at rock bottom like irc/discord/slack.
Things involving minors tend to have stricter regulations.
I haven't seen that with any YC founders but other clients of ours have opted for foreign citizenship investment programs and they seem to have worked well.
> You cannot know if a solution is viable unless you actually implement the solution. So you won't know if you're right or wrong until it is too late.

It is certainly possible to sometimes know when a given idea cannot work.

> There are no good ways to approach wicked problems in general, because each has its own complications.

You are guessing, necessarily. That people are generally speaking not able to stop guessing, and realizing that they are guessing, is a lot bigger of a headwind imho.
Ouch. That's not just scientific dishonesty. It's also politics, and the legal system, and advertising, and internet conversations, and...
Are these claims verified? It should be trivial ie for 2nd hand owners to chip in whether with sales extra equipment is disabled and new owner needs to purchase it again. I think I would remember any outrage around this, and this for sure should produce some.
It's a miniaturized version of this:

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

The actual device is: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.2866.pdf
This has everything to do with demographics and science that presents findings contrary to ideology/politics. The same kinds of people pressure police to omit demographics data in police reports.
This is also my experience. The forums were dismal, everything is "That's not a bug". Sorry, but exporting images from designer that are incredibly blurry for no reason is a bug. Please try explaining resolution to me again, I swear I still didn't understand it after the first few game engines I've made.
Might need to ask a Canadian immigration attorney. I’ve reached out to a few in the family and will report back if they have anything to say.

Edit: sorry. Got the “not that kind of lawyer” response. They do refugees.
Funny, but also very inaccurate for large parts of the PNW? Maybe it is always raining in Vancouver, but summer is remarkably dry in large parts of the area.

Edit: Granted, the time of the year that solar is likely too spotty, we do have rain.
Zoning data and meeting transcripts generally are public? At least in NY that's been my experience.

A lot of the rest I'd rather was private. Although it'd be nice to get aggregated data for certain crimes which currently are tracked at each individual department level and not in any sort of national manner.
So your example is… someone advertising their app so a teacher can spend slightly less money? That’s your choice for targeted ads being used for good? Seriously?

That’s a long way down from those theoretical local non-profits.

And if that’s the best you’ve got, then I don’t know how anyone could say anything but fuck no to invading their privacy for a shiny discount to an app they likely don’t even need.
We can make a product that gives us money, but wouldn't it be nice to have more money?
Not entirely, for example:

Units can depend on networking managed outside of systemd-networkd using the target -- think of this as a 'run level'

Units can depend on mounts outside of systemd .mount units -- there's a generator that considers fstab

At a certain point, you might want to go further into systemd... but it doesn't require it.

The basic 'this service wants/needs these other ones' is very self-contained, and inherits a lot.
No where near as cool; but ages ago when I worked at Tumblr, and when we were expanding the office, they were going to throw out the MAME arcade cabinet - since I lived about 15 minutes walk away, I put it on a dolly with a coworker and we pushed that thing through Manhattan to my apartment building. Got some great looks from people as we tried to navigate it up and down curbs. Still have it over 8 years later sitting here in my home office.
Most obviously, personal information about students.
I’ve been told you can use Monero to buy drugs.
Does it? What prevents a factory owner from having all of his employees grab an orb, scan their irises, claim their coin, and then hand over their wallets to him as a condition of employment?

Assuming this thing actually works and won't accept irises grown in a vat or someone scanning a chimpanzee, it at least rate-limits you to creating new wallets with new coin at the rate at which you can find and coerce other humans, but it doesn't actually guarantee the 1:1 mapping of wallet:human or an equal initial distribution of coin.

All it's doing is shifting the balance of power from people who command many machines to people who command many other people. It's like reverting industrialism back to feudalism, a digital replay of the same mistake made by every communist revolution of the 20th century.
So are you meaning to say that California is afraid these Stanford researchers are going to imprison people, wrongly or otherwise? Come on. This isn't the police, these are academic researchers.
But it doesn't achieve that goal. It can't.

Worldcoin only verifies someone is a real human once, when the identity is created. There is nothing stopping someone from lending or selling their verified identity to a bot.

It already happens. Identity dealers will go to poor areas and buy people's proof of identity for just a few dollars, before selling them on the black market.

A company I used to work for had a massive problem with this. I'd detect a fraudulent user and check their proof of identity, and in retrospect it was obvious these were black market identities. They always fell into clusters, one vendor always sourced their IDs from an area of southern Russia.

Another vendor sourced their IDs from a city in northern China. They weren't trying very hard, you would find a bunch of new users all created on the same day, the users were always retirement age women and the photos would show them all in the same room.
Might it bump against privacy? If you do a search on third graders receiving speech services in towns of pop less than 3000 in county... at some point you have private information.
This same kid also walks around in Bergen, Norway
Except here, there is static before the content appears on the channel. Which is not the same as stumbling upon an empty channel.

Very old TV's did not have memorized channels, and so you had to tune to find the next channel, which would give you a progression to static and back.

Then TV had a memory for the channel frequency. It would switch instantaneously the video. So fast that sometimes you could see the first frame in black and white. Then color info would come (color TV is atop of black and white and spread over frames if I recall). Then mono sound would come in. Then stereo (like color, the stereo signal is an augmentation). Still all of that faster than any modern technology.

Then came digital TVs (still receiving analog TV signal) which could have a second or two of digital lag during channel change, but it wouldn't display static, simply a blank (dark) screen.
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An amusing joke, but while rain is frequent in the winter in the PNW (Pacific Northwest USA) the rain is often light. Seattle residents tend not to use umbrellas unless the rain is particularly heavy. It might not be a very good power source.
It's good at some tasks, but it's ranging from inferior to inadequate for many others. The biggest drawback is its opaque affordances. It's not immediately apparent what is the range of things I'm able to ask a chatbot about, even if its language processing is advanced. This is a problem with humans as well. Like if you ask me which questions I'm able to answer, I won't be able to provide an answer.

Overall I feel like natural language interfaces is like 3d cinema. It's a novelty more than bringing much actual value.
Storage was a problem back then.
Tangentially related Q: in the USA there are “illegal” immigrants who have moved into the country. I worry about human rights abuses against these people. What are the methods available for these people to become citizens if they so wish?