skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just take out of the box and use without spending much time in setup and configuration

That's me. I buy Apple because there's already enough hobbies in my life and I don't need my daily driver devices to also be playful area to tinker with. Give me good enough defaults and the least amount of customizability possible please thanks.

Also, anecdotally, my mom who doesn't do English stopped asking me support questions about her devices almost immediately when we switched her from Android to Apple. On Android it was like nothing ever quite worked right and she couldn't at all figure out how to do things.
Hm that's true.

We're working on ways to evaluate if an image looks "off" - but its a hard problem because a lot of it is subjective
That sounds optimistic. I write as someone who wish that people in my book club wouldn't pick books they haven't read.
They view all of their products as appliances rather than general purpose computers.
Paris is definitely much worse than, say, London when it comes to pickpockets, street hawkers, and other nastiness because they actually do very little about those problems...
> Musk just tweeted about a new all-time monthly user record. It's not impossible that he would lie

On the rare occasion he makes non-trivial, falsifiable claims, its pretty common that they turn out to be other-than-accurate, yes.

> but my impression is not at all that Twitter is shrinking.

My impression is that the set of advertisers (not regular Blue users, though they are a different kind of advertiser paying for reach) are narrowing and moving downmarket in a way which would take truly enormous numbers of Blue users to compensate for.

Whether its shrinking or not is somewhat beside the point.
When you say "bag semantics" are you just referring to Set Theory? Is there a formal distinction between bags and sets?
That's a bit of a relief actually. Every time I read Yerkes I think of the evil alien "Yeerks" from the animorphs scifi book series. Now I know it's a fine match.
> Reducing the number of voters by eliminating a disfavored class from representation while retaining the political power of apportionment that counts the disebfranchised citizens was the whole point of the 3/5 compromise

Thanks-- I [think I] see where you're going but still don't get where this ends. You have a district with a minority of people who can't vote. Yet they are counted among the population.

This directly suppresses presidential votes, but what besides the House benefits from an inflated population of non-voters?

> you maybe want to consider the effect on a mixed-race district where, say, a sufficient minority of whites are sympathetic to black interests that together they would, before selective disenfrnachisement, constitute a majority.

The thought crossed my mind, but the only example I'm familiar with is Atlanta-- a few blue droplets on a red ocean, yet the state is currently represented by two Democratic senators, and the House is split. There's something weird about this but I'm not a political strategist enough to understand what's going on here. Is this where population matters-- density of the metro area outweighing the rest of the state?
I'm sure it's a multifactorial problem, but I have a hard time seeing direct profit as being the original cause of this issue, as opposed to a parasitic growth that developed on top of it. The core issue has to be the basic voter fear and attitude that so harshly punished any politician of the 80s and 90s who was seen to be "soft on crime." Misdemeanors converted to felonies. Mandatory minimum sentences were introduced. Police got free military surplus gear and became more of a hostile occupying force than part of the community.

There's discord between the discussion in this thread and discussion any time the subject of San Francisco policing comes up. They're too soft and let crime happen. They ignore shoplifters. People are just shitting in the streets. Okay, well what do you want the police to do? It seems the options are you either kill petty shoplifters and homeless people or you send them to prison. But then the same people will complain about exploding prison populations.

Am I lacking in creativity? Because there are three options I can see:

- Create a society where even unskilled, somewhat antisocial people who went through great trauma as children do well enough that they don't turn to crime, and actually treat those who are so mentally ill that they'll be long-term homeless virtually no matter what.

- Allow some amount of non-lethal crime to happen and live with it.

- Put massive amounts of people in prison.

It seems like voters have converged on the third as their preference, not because they're being brainwashed by private prisons and corrupt corrections officer unions, but because the first option is too expensive and the second option would mean they need to see human shit and broken windows when they're walking around the city. At least prisons tend to be in the middle of the desert or swamp where it's out of sight, someone else's problem.
One think I have never realised before moving here, is that UK has an authoritarian streak going back a long, long time.

The desire to join such beacon of democracy as Russia in jeaving ECHR is heartwarming.
I'm confused. I thought on a TN or H1B I'm not even allowed to start a company in the US.
It may just be that people who have lower income, and are guided by "status" may make worser choices or are can't/don't understand financial implications or maybe they are just doing their best to "peacock" and fit in with what they think is the right tool to achieve their goals?

It's nothing new, you could've said the same thing in the 90's about Sega, Nintendo and Playstation and with Shoes, Clothes, anything -
I gotta say, the sound effects are very satisfying.
> Since when has someone’s internet browsing been affected by a stalker?

I'm sorry, but you are (were) a privacy researcher though. You should know already that internet browsing can be influenced by and can contribute to stalking/doxing attempts.
what happened to:

- the hamster dance

- peanut butter jelly time

EDIT: https://archive.org/details/peanut-butter-jelly-time
- Whatsapp (Meta)

- Signal

- Apple

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-ministers-lock-horns-with...
> HN is basically anti ads. Tracking / Targeted or not. As has been the case since somewhere around 2016.

That's hardly unique to this site, and hardly as recent as 2016.

I would say that we can trace people with an understanding of technology being anti-ad back to at least 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters?useskin=vector
Cherish it, because that's a rare small town in the US. Usually the reason they don't have big box stores is because they're becoming economically desolate by that point where no economic engine can really help it along. I've heard of it referred to as "zombie towns".

The fact its that small, and thriving, and I hope has a reason COL, makes it a rare gem.

I'm curious too, do you have fiber internet out there? An interesting phenomenon we had in the midwest is that rural-ish areas got fiber to the home years faster than most major urban or suburban metros did because the cost to run the fiber was cheap and often the ISPs out there are co-ops
Can I grant myself a visa with my own LLC? I co-own and run it remotely, it's making 600k profit from 4mil revenue. It's based in the US, I'm from Ireland, living in the UK. It hasn't taken investment but we reinvest a lot of revenue in growth.
Found this, https://mint-lang.com
The Japanese looked to flood the US market with cheap ICE cars. They gained a lot of ground, but the US market is not wholly theirs. The Chinese should look into the history of all that.
What is the "how to work for an American company/startup as a Canadian 101"?
I literally just got home from seeing Barbie and I don’t think this guy understood what he was watching. Sure, the ‘real world’ of the movie was not exactly like the actual real world. Much is exaggerated for comedic effect. That is how comedy works. In the end, the movie doesn’t actually settle on any pat academic idea of feminism or patriarchy.
Nothing other than they're one of the more esoteric and misunderstood features of the language.
In reality all rights are contingent upon and in direct conflict with each other. This is not some special case, and no, contingency and conflict does not make one side immediately the worst case scenario of itself.

"Your right to prevent incitement to violence does not exceed my right to free speech. To have it otherwise is to live in a panopticon."

It factually does exceed that right and that fact does not yield a panopticon.
I want to say that I am sorry for what you went through. If that had happened to me, it probably would have radicalized me.
Microsoft warns of service disruptions if can’t get enough AI chips for its DCs
Maybe close the HN tab and go out get a breath of fresh air if you can't tell the difference between man and machine?
How do you respond to LinkedIn recruiters when you're not in the market for a job?

Previously I had a colleague recommend taking interviews from recruiters to keep your interview skills high and market knowledge current. I gave it a shot but kept getting offers so stopped.
> What if the person you are dealing with is on the other side of the world?

Then you can't be sure.

> you need some kind of trust system.

I agree. I just haven't heard of one that doesn't cause more problems than it solves. Just because we want it doesn't mean we can have it.
Electric recumbent bikes are 80 more efficient than EV (2018)
I've been fortunate to look through an eyepiece at Lick, it is pretty amazing to look at Jupiter (+ moons) and parts of the moon up close through such an instrument.

I wish the floor had still worked though.
Hopefully the role of the UK is:

Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

https://despair.com/products/mistakes
You know that people change their minds and now Guido is working as part of a team at Microsoft that is literally called "Faster CPython"?
no it was actual 30 minute ad - it had the tap here to skip after so many seconds and everything. Now I'm going to check if I have a screenshot from that day - and wonder how to share here, is imgur still a thing or is that the one that was talking of shutdown.. checking.
Yes, I've seen something similar, it's easy to switch from Android and get into Apple's ecosystem, but once in it's difficult to get out.

My brother-in-law would love to switch out, but he feels stuck in Apple's ecosystem because switching now would mean either causing a lot of friction for his family or he'd have to change many devices at once.
> 12,000 people in terms of congressional and state representation. But only half of them are actually allowed to vote

This is egregious.
That kind of stuff has infected so much of modern discourse, if people want to talk about it there are plenty of forums for it. Why should we all stop what we're doing and prioritize discussing a niche political cause who's proponents have been blackmailing people everywhere into paying attention to them and have now come to dominate all sorts of forums and secure power, ironically with no benefit to the people they feign support for.

And when people say they want it discussed, they don't mean they want to read diverse opinions, they just mean they want to see orthodoxy regurgitated.
Did you also delete Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp and Threads?
Well, MySpace for starters.

Facebook Marketplace seems to have totally replaced Craiglist as well, where I live, for buying/selling. Facebook Messenger took over e.g. MSN for a lot of people, the News Feed replaced a dedicated news site for a lot of people, and so forth. Events replaced Evite I think (or similar?), FB Photos basically replaced Flickr back in the day...
MySpace? Most of the other pre-Facebook social media sites too. It's not about being an exact copy, but sharing enough features that it can subsume those roles.
> Cars

This is 99% of it (other 1% is fear of other parents scolding you). There's a beach bike path near us with only one street crossing in 5 miles. My 6 and 7 year old are free to explore the whole thing unattended provided they avoid that crossing. It has playgrounds and all kinds of stuff they can stop their bikes at.

But I won't let them cross the street we live on because none of these drivers are thinking about pedestrians and even if they were I doubt any of the lifted trucks could even see a 4ft tall kid.
Have you tried discussing your non-technical pet topics on a non-technical forum?
It's the same party that's tough on immigration, yet keeps importing lorry drivers, health workers and building contractors because they apparently can't be found inside the country.
The chip area is enormous, and modern GPUs have a similar TDP. I bet it could get away with a beefy but relatively small heatsink.

...And yeah, a mega APU is what many have wanted for ages.
Has demand for your services fallen as VC funding is drying up? I'm curious how "in demand" you are at this point due to economic headwinds
QGis and postgis are the primary open source universal tools
Sadly, no.

The manufacturer is just really incompetent.

I was told their reason when asked was „it was easier (for us)“.
DEA too as the article mentions. I've been on a bus that was stopped in the middle of the route to walk a dog through it. Pretty fucked.
This year we've had 3 times the rain we usually have. My municipality puts a foot bridge in the river each spring and we're at the end of July and they haven't been able to put it in yet because the river is still too high. We're also getting more heat which increases how much water the sun draws up into the atmosphere creating clouds.
I'm still on Pixel 2. The battery is a bit short these days, but I have no performance issues.
The appropriate notion here seems to be Differential Privacy, which is a mathematical definition informally saying "a scrambling of the dataset that is information theoretically indistinguishable from that where one arbitrary person is added or removed". It's a surprisingly deep topic, with entire (very good!) textbooks dedicated to it.

PDF (entirely legal): https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/Papers/privacybook.pdf
> My previous three phones from LG, Motorola, and Xiaomi all had major software bugs

I see this pattern with a lot of IPhone users. They tried the cheapest worst quality android phones and came away with a bad taste in the mouth. So iPhone is the only "decent cellphone in 2023". My dude you never tried the good android phones. Get a Samsung galaxy flagship. These are at par, if not better than the similarly priced iPhone model in all respects.
> people can't

If some people are prone to lack of control, that implies little for individuals.

Yes some of us can reason.
> It’s all one thing, and you can’t really think about it just as software. It’s
> software, hardware, and people, and it’s always growing and constantly evolving.

This is a lesson a lot of software people haven't yet learned. Bad UI, bad operational experiences, insufficient logging to resolve issues, un-fixable code because it's too complicated, and so on. But they use git.

The other term of art for this concept is "system engineering", in the aerospace sense. There are a lot of good texts and courses.

One example: Wesson: System Analysis Design and Development, Wiley, 2005. ISBN-10 0-471-39333-9
No, my argument is that if you don't KNOW what truth is, everything you say is a lie.
"The 28 schools whose librarians are on the chopping block are located in predominately minority and low-income communities."

So it's Texas day in Texas.
Even with a totalitarian regime, they cannot stop the rest of the world from using encryption. People can pull their business entities out of the UK and they have no jurisdiction outside their borders.

If I create an E2E messaging app, I don't need to listen to the UK at all. The UK can't tell me what to do any more than China can. China can block my app if they want, but it's on them, not me, to block it. Same goes for the UK. They can set up a firewall too if they want. But I don't need to change my app if I don't set foot in the UK.
> only be done without adult supervision.

I disagree. It's best done with adult supervision, by adults who either at least allow play, if not are still playful themselves.

Yes teens do need some time without adults for a sliver of contexts, but the vast majority of learning is optimized when having the availability of at least 2 responsible adults who aid when called on but do not impose.

Lots of our ideas about teenagers, what kids can and cannot do etc are very recent and very contrary to history's proof that they absolutely can
Captchas reduced a real problem, certainly, but didn't solve it. And they come with collateral damage.

I'm not asserting that the compromise they present is a bad one (or a good one). Just that they're a compromise.
> The government might be able to force/convince Apple and Google to take it out their app stores in the UK

Apple has even threatened to withdraw their own systems from the UK rather than comply with this.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/apple-imessage-facetime-remov...
It is clearly not a fork. They follow upstream Chromium and then apply patches, as explained here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser#update-brave. A fork diverges from a point and then doesn't rebase upstream after that. Eich is lying.
It would likely make more sense to put turbines on the downspouts of your roof gutters.
Redux is very straightforward until you start adding middleware, then the complexities start piling up.
I clicked through from the sibling link to Elon's profile, and only see posts from last April and older? The reach of the site is.. not reaching. It is pulling back.
I want to setup part of the development team outside of a US in Nepal. The country has very restrictive policies around transferring dollars outside of the country. It maybe the case for others as well. I am not sure what to do next. Do you recommend different kinds of attorney - tax? corporate? Do you recommend a company that has done these kinds of setups?
I mean... morally speaking, how is it worse than working for Meta or Google?
It depends on your data. We ran comparisons on objects with lots of numbers and arrays (think GeoJSON) and messagepack came out way ahead. Of course, something like Arrow may have fared even better with its focus on columnar data, but we didn't want to venture that far afield just yet.
Anecdotal, but still.. back when I was a kid, we had school until 13h (1pm), maybe an hour more or less, and after that we were 'free'. We did have some homework, but that was usually left for the evening, or copied in school the next day. We did a bunch of stupid stuff, went around, from 'adventurous' trips around the city to sitting on the same benches for 6 hours talking about stupid stuff and arguing about stuff, that we couldn't google right then, because google didn't exist yet. They (the parents) didn't even wait for us to come to dinner, since sometimes we were impossible to reach (if we weren't on the same benches next to the apartment buildings).

"Kids these days" (at least the ones I know) have their whole days scheduled for 'stuff'... school, home, music lessons, sport practice, come back home at 8pm, homework, sleep. On weekends, they're packed in the cars and taken somewhere 'in nature/countryside', so they wouldn't spend their days at home or outside sitting on a bench for the whole day.

I'm an adult now, for quite a few years, and the thing I miss the most about childhood is the "freedom",... after school, you were free to do whatever, and during the summer, you were free for 2.5 months... no responsibilities, no timetables, schedules, no nothing... just kids and stupid (then important) kid stuff.
The key dimension for refracting astronomical telescopes is the diameter of the primary lens, which is 36 inches at Lick and 40 inches at Yerkes.

However, my understanding is that the Yerkes lens has suffered cracks around its perimeter and the telescope has been stopped down with baffles to mitigate the optical problems these cracks would otherwise cause, such that presently the Lick telescope has a larger clear aperture.
What stands out to me is short work stints. You don’t tell a good story and why do you have your work experience dating back to the 80s?

I personally have been working professionally since the mid 90s. But I realize that no one cares about the fact that I did C on DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes in the 90s, VB6 in the early 2000s along with C, C++/MFC/DCOM or C# for ruggedized Windows mobile devices in the late 200x. I’ve cut out everything on my resume before 2012.

Your resume is full of responsibilities. But not accomplishments. If I were to ask you why should I hire you over the dozens of other generic developers who run across my desk, what about your career sets you apart? I’m being completely hypothetical. I’m not in a hiring position and I’ve only been in one for a brief stint in my career. But put yourself in hiring manager’s shoes. Why would you hire you?

I’m not sitting on high judging you by any means. I’ve had a fairly unremarkable career myself until 2018 and nothing that really stood out.
I would start with this submission by my colleague Nishad Gothoskar to NeurIPS: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/4fc66104f8ada... as an excellent starting point to what good inference abstraction can enable
The AI intentionally makes things up because that's literally the whole point of the LLM concept, both abstractly and concretely. WE MAKE IT LIE by conditioning it to lie. The "AI" part is not separate from the humans who made it, we are part of the system, and we made a computer that constantly and continuously lies in order to generate seemingly credible responses.

We made a computer that lies, all the time, about everything.

"...Why?"

<insert the shouting robot comic here>
Free play is but one element of an ideal childhood.

A kid can play free as much as they like, but that doesn't parlay into success if that kid routinely goes home to unhappiness and imbalance in other areas of life.
It wouldn't surprise me if Twitter revenue is down. It also wouldn't surprise me if Twitter revenue is up. Unfortunately, with it being private I don't think we'll ever know.

> Whether its shrinking or not is somewhat beside the point.

In a thread entirely about Twitter/threads user count, whether it's shrinking is the entire point.
Funny thing is, this doesn’t hurt criminals at all. If you’re doing serious crime, you bring your own encryption. There are cartels that spend a lot of money rolling their own crypto.
I think its his diet, more specifically. Sucks that it's forced on him, but at least it's only a second-order effect.
He's also got six fingers on his right hand and his index finger on the left hand is way too long.
Flushometer toilets seem to be the worst, which means there is room for improvement. I wonder if codes could be updated to restrict aerosol production.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666014/
> It seems to have enough people that it has some legs.

My view too. Not the best service ever offered, but allows me to continue distancing myself from Twitter.

Would I much prefer it if Twitter was a public company and/or ran by anyone else? Sure, but that isn't happening, so, I'll take Mastodon and any other reasonable alternative. We'll see how the market pans out.

An aspect of me wants Mastodon to win... but there's a deep cynicism in it ever working at Twitter scale (which may be the point, in the end).
I remember a friend telling me why use iPhone instead of Android:

"I already deal with problems at work, I don't want to deal with problems with my phone"

Truer words never said, I also had several androids over the years which went crazy after some time, switched to iPhone, never an issue again.
Half a billion users? Is Elon counting everyone who sees an embed tweet as a user?