skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> refers to as corrugated fiberboard, which most people call cardboard in english. it's made of paper and glue ... there are different kinds of paper

Isn't that exactly the point I just made? I'm confused as to why you're restating it. In English nobody is going to mistake someone that makes a statement about "paper" as talking about "cardboard", whether they're referring to corrugated fiberboard or plain fiberboard (which are both often referred to as cardboard depending on whether the context is arts, crafts or something else).

> your talk about 'losing the thread' makes me think you are playing some kind of game where the objective is not to find out what the truth is but to sound convincing even if what you are saying is false

If you look at my original comment, what I said about paper is purely an example to illustrate that commonly recycled doesn't necessarily mean worth supporting harvesting for base materials. Many other things go into that assessment (such as whether the base material can be easily separated from other materials and how its cost to transport affect any possible profit that might motivate people to do so.

That you refuted that example by using an entirely different material seems to either be a non-sequitur or misguided. While presented as a counterpoint, it doesn't really seem to affect the claim I was making at all.

That is what I meant by it lost the thread. It didn't really add to the conversation at hand usefully in the way it was presented. If it was presented as an interesting factoid about recycling and cardboard, which is related to paper, that would be one thing, and I would fully support it. But as to whether it means something that can be/is recycled will be scavenged for profit in all cases, I don't think it really says anything one way or the other, and that was what I was trying to convey.

If you're trying to say that paper itself as what any native English speaker would assume we're talking about if they read it, and not just cardboard, is also profitable to recycle and people collect and turn that in for profit then please clarify that point. Otherwise, while an interesting fact, and I'm happy to now know it, I'm not sure it actually affects what I was trying to communicate originally in any way.
Chat with Cockroach DB
Area hospital becomes first in the world with sepsis detection technology
There is a Photos program Apple makes for Windows, and I think it has the same option.
“unlike virtually every other website that is used for prostitution and sex trafficking, Backpage is remarkably responsive to law enforcement requests and often takes proactive steps to assist in investigations.” - DOJ

"In short, contrary to the public narrative you may have heard, Backpage worked closely with federal law enforcement to actually stop sex trafficking (and not just take it down, but to track down the perpetrators). But they refused to do the same for consensual sex work and that is why the feds eventually came down on them like a ton of bricks, all while telling the media and politicians that it was for sex trafficking. But that was all bullshit."
I wonder how we handle stolen biometric data? Do we invalidate it like a stolen certificate?

Sorry sir, your eye has been revoked, you can no longer authenticate to this, or any of our partner services.
Hi I'm Patrick, long time lurker, first time poster. Looking for my next role. I'm passionate about building great products, coding, and learning new things. My current interests are in cloud, ebpf, code generation, observability, virtualization, k8s, and LLMs. I have experience with frontend/fullstack but would prefer to stay doing backend development. I've worn many hats in my career and have a wide range of experience. Feedback on the resume would be great to have as well!

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: go, python, ml, elixir, k8s

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> If I don’t recognize your number, I send you to VM.

This is about silently rejecting all calls from non-contacts. You don't even know somebody tried to call, and any voicemail notification is easily lost among other e-mail and SMS and app notifications.

You're totally excluding your ability to respond to anything urgent unless you happen to check your voicemail notification at that very moment.

I'm glad your doctor calls all come from the same number -- mine don't at all. Nor do calls from delivery people asking where to safely leave a package, and so forth.

I'm glad it's not a problem for you -- I thought it wasn't a problem for me until it had negative consequences for me. So it's just to warn people, you know?
A bold claim considering the shitshow that is ContentID ? (To be fair to Google, they were stuck between a rock an a hard place...)
Yeah I’m always surprised to hear of Dave’s commitment to Chrome via Shoptalk Show commentary.
Quick question for Boz: so are you saying the Quest Pro was line of business proof of concept to give cover for PMF to downstream the tech into Quest 3?
Agreed. And nausea is a real problem for many people, which many supporters like to hand-wave away. “Just get your VR legs” is crap.

I think VR will always be niche.

I’m curious if AR is really the thing. The need for bulky stuff like the Vision Pro is a hinderance, but it will get smaller.

The VR/AR difference is kind of a problem as I see so many people arguing past each other on this and the Vision Pro by comparing one company’s position in VR against another’s play in AR as if they weren’t two totally different things.
Nice, congrats on the launch!

I'm probably your ICP -- I live in NYC and have been burned by a surprise bill that was frustrating enough that I'd try a service like this. But after I entered some details to try it out, you hit me with an email wall, so I bounced immediately.

It's not just that I don't want to give my email until I've seen more of a product; the fact that you string me along until I get to the payoff is destructive of user trust. There was an article about this phenomenon on the front page just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962502
Or "board of directors beholden to share-holders".
> Anybody can spin up a website hosting .mp3s like Audible does.

That's like saying anybody can sell iOS apps outside of App Store. Yes, it's technically true¹ (the best kind), but effectively there's no real alternative, and Amazon knows this and treats creators accordingly².

¹ https://buildfire.com/ios-app-distribution-without-app-store...

² https://www.audiblegate.com/
I've been able to piece-meal RiotJS components into an existing code base pretty easy.

Tools like React, etc al, requires almost doing everything that way.

RiotJS fits in for adding a bit to "old-school" web-apps (PHP, Ruby, Perl, ASP3).

Legacy backend, slightly more modern frontend.
I finally was able to upgrade my 5-node P4/4GB cluster to an 8GB cluster these past few weeks. Took a mish-mash of vendors, but I'll finally be able to run more complicated Spark jobs.
That was sort of my point. If only one or two are acceptable, Clarkesworld's never going to make the cut.

I'm wondering for whom it is their first or second choice.
A Red Shirt found out too late that authorities don’t care about stopping the actual problem because then they wouldn’t be employed. There is no value in helping a department with their work unless you have something very specific to gain. Just don’t talk to them.
It's a very nice proof of concept that could revolutionise self taught language learning. It would need to provide lessons and this AI cools provided guided generated exercises, their corrections, explain the correction and check the pronunciation
This was a very interesting read.

From childhood we instinctively draw lines, but I never questioned how we produce them from real objects, and why they work so well at representing real objects. It’s one of those things we just take for granted.
Most people are not communist or libertarian but selectively socialist/liassez faire depending on the domain. Which is why almost all politicians end up seeming hypocritical, people don’t hold principled positions but practical ones based their own value judgements.
Here is a great treatment with sources, musing on the real meaning of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
From the Wired piece mentioned:

> The government indictment that triggered Lacey and Larkin’s arrests, United States v. Lacey, et al., includes 17 “victim summaries”—stories of women who say they were sexually exploited through Backpage. Victim 5 first appeared in an ad on the platform when she was 14; her “customers” made her “perform sexual acts at gunpoint, choked her to the point of having seizures, and gang-raped her.” Victim 6 was stabbed to death. Victim 8’s uncle and his friends advertised her as “fetish friendly.” The indictment accuses Backpage of catering to sexual predators, of essentially helping pimps better reach their target audiences.

Tough issue overall balancing free speech and legitimate consensual sex work against flagrant exploitation. My understanding is that even in jurisdictions with legalization and formalization of the work trafficking still occurs. No solutions to provide, Larkin’s suicide is still tragic and unfortunate.
That electric price is far from accurate. $.21/kWh is what the average person is paying to power a few light bulbs and occasionally run the oven. Not use an EV that will triple or quadruple the electric usage and be charged at a much higher rate.
So it was ever since computers started playing chess.
I was approached by both Apple and Facebook back in the days, and decided to join Facebook instead of Apple. Why? I like to be able to post about the research I do, and I didn't like the secrecy approach of Apple. I'm guessing that this is a big factor for more than just me when choosing a company to join, especially when you do interesting things that you want to be able to share with the world.

I remember reading that Mark Rober was at Apple (nobody knew about that!) and I just feel like that must have sucked massively for someone who loves making youtube videos to work in a place like that.
> A group of Internet service providers that won government grants are asking the Federal Communication Commission for more money or an "amnesty window" in which they could give up grants without penalty.

This would still probably result in a large loss to the government due to administrative and opportunity costs, but honestly I think this would be the best outcome at this point.
Also this is one the reasons why i absolutely love PayPal. It gets a lot of hate but i never lose any chargebacks.
The study also adds in "deadhead" time and miles required to drive to/from commercial chargers. It also calculates 12 hours/month waiting for the charger at $33/hour, so $400 extra a month.
Von Neumann deserves tremendous recognition but not for his sense of diplomacy.
Surely anything other than duplicating each pixel x times both horizontally and vertically (so 1 turns into 4, or 9, or 16, ...) adds information?

(This submission is going to have me reaching for my old textbooks.. about time really!)
Right. They didn't even know plutonium existed. It was discovered in 1941, at U.C. Berkeley's cyclotron, and kept secret.
Yes, being in my room and talking on IRC is exactly equal to driving 150mph on the highway. I'm glad we've cleared that up.
First we start with our policy agenda. Then we co-opt institutions. From there, some of us get rich, others famous, and then there is the narrative. You see the narrative tells us we have to do. When we start to pursue the agenda, the problem becomes worse. Since we have co-opted the institutions, the consensus is that it is because we are not doing enough. Which means we really should be doing more. Not different, oh no, remember the agenda, but do not talk about the agenda. We talk about the narrative.
Wow. You pointed out the exact thing I discussed in my comment.
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Fine, but you came to a thread on the prototypical future variants of VR hardware. Just don't click if you don't want to read about it.
Love this type of composite photography, really gives a fun perspective of a location.
They may have gotten the AHRA passed, but they essentially lost in every important way:

> "This exception was crucial in RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.,[14] the only case in which the AHRA's provisions have been examined by the federal courts. The RIAA filed suit to enjoin the manufacture and distribution of the Rio PMP300, one of the first portable MP3 players, because it did not include the SCMS copy protection required by the act, and Diamond did not intend to pay royalties. The 9th Circuit, affirming the earlier District Court ruling in favor of Diamond Multimedia,[15] ruled that the "digital music recording" for the purposes of the act was not intended to include songs fixed on computer hard drives. The court also held that the Rio was not a digital audio recording device for the purposes of the AHRA, because 1) the Rio reproduced files from computer hard drives, which were specifically exempted from the SCMS and Royalty payments under the act, 2) could not directly record from the radio or other transmissions. "

From the AHRA itself:

> No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.

and from Wikipedia again:

> In regard to home taping, the provision broadly permits noncommercial, private recording to analog devices and media. However, it fails to resolve the home taping debate "conclusively," as it only permits noncommercial, private recording to digital devices and media when certain technology is used.

> Two reports by the House of Representatives characterize the provision as legalizing digital home copying to the same degree as analog. One states "in the case of home taping, the exemption protects all noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog recordings,"[22] and the other states "In short, the reported legislation [Section 1008] would clearly establish that consumers cannot be sued for making analog or digital audio copies for private noncommercial use."[23]

Similarly, language in the RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia decision suggests a broader reading of the Section 1008 exemptions, providing blanket protection for "all noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings" and equating the spaceshifting of audio with the fair use protections afforded home video recordings in Sony v. Universal Studios:

>> In fact, the Rio's operation is entirely consistent with the Act's main purpose – the facilitation of personal use.
> Are you saying these "Robin Hood" style civil forfeitures are simply not legal (constitutional)?

No, I'm saying criminal charges are only required for criminal types of sanctions, and what civil forfeiture does isn't in that scope.

That's not to say I think its fine: I think its often bad for policy reasons, and the details of some of the current uses (especially state/local seizures under federal law) have particular constitutional and policy issues.
Gnuplot in shell. It's old and finicky, but it works and whatever you want to do, someone has done it before and written it up. Those instructions from 15 years ago will still more or less work as well. I output to SVG as part of website stats tools sometimes, which is handy.

For web I like plotly. Usually I will use the UI tool to make a chart I like, and then just automate the data portion. Same for highcharts. Those UI plot makers are fantastic if you just want to template something.
This topic hits home.

For anyone writing exploits for windows, please! I beg if you, don't write PoC's that need visualstudio and it's libraries (e.g.;vc++). Use mingw where possible. Or just do python with pywin32.
Unless he's talking about the same project in both cases, it's a meaningless comparison. Can you take that OSS dev and put them in the consulting firm and have them replace everyone else in terms of productivity? I worked in an enterprise software company with a couple of people who founded some very well known and widely adopted OSS components, and while they were great by all accounts, they weren't 500x developers, or indeed even 10x. The difference is that with the OSS projects, they could do whatever they liked.
Anybody know about 'Oxoscript'?
I’m pretty old and I’ve been on silent unknowns for a few years.

I add lots of contacts. The iPhone also tracks if you’ve ever sent or received a real call. So it’s pretty easy to maintain.

The other day I had some contractors working in the house so I turned it off for a day.

With this on, I get zero spam. And I’m way better off than with it turned off and getting 10-15 daily spam calls.
The innovation needed here is for everyone to be able to have a premium rate phone number, and be able to set fee rates for contacts or "classes" of callers. Spam & robocalls need to become too cost-prohibitive to pursue. Everyone's time has value, so it seems mad that we can't set fees for incoming calls or texts.
Not to mention Xerox and Alias.
Or start with more common languages then switch to another type of grouping. For example, Swedish, Finnish, Norweigan, German, Dutch, etc
Otherwise known as "If it's more than one page, people won't even look at it."

Old knowledge.
Bad throat -> chewing required.

Good throat -> chewing not required for that reason but possibly for other reason.

Chewing -> bad throat possible, but not required.

Not chewing -> bad throat badge not unlocked.
Smith Chart: The scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering [video]
Related quote I like:

”Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” says Steve Jobs, Apple’s C.E.O. ”People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

The Guts of a New Machine: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/the-guts-of-a-ne...
You're comparing a hardware company with a software company. Meta only got into hardware in recent years. I would also point out that Meta is massively ahead of everyone in terms of VR (including Apple).
For me, the last point depends on the concept.

Sometimes I start with a geometric idea in 2D and see if it generalizes.

Other times I think of a 2D caricature that encapsulates some important operation but doesn’t necessarily relate to the actual idea. It's more like a heuristic visual than anything. A simple example might be if I’m thinking about projecting onto a linear subspace. The subspace is some convex blob in the plane in my mind’s eye, even though that’s not a linear subspace, it’s easier for me to conjure and the important part, the projection, remains intact. If the linear part was also important then I’d probably make it a line but I can’t think of a time I’ve done that.

Some concepts only made sense to me when, as you said, I stopped trying to visualize them. The most notable one to me was quaternions, because those are 4D, but even complex numbers only made sense when I stopped looking for physical intuition and realized they’re just a description of certain operations for points in the plane.

Now, I can suffer through a lot of abstract nonsense, but the worst classes I took were heavy on the abstract nonsense and light on answers to “why do we need all this machinery at all?” If I couldn’t imagine an application I cared about, I had a hard time figuring out what were the important concepts and how to fit them together.
Isn't any decision that affects more than a few people political?
Everybody has a smartphone these days. I’m not asking for a professional production.
I'm guessing a language issue, though. Since it's a .ch site maybe their first language isn't English
Not to be confused with Reflex, allowing web apps in pure Haskell: https://reflex-frp.org/
You can already sideload APKs on Chromebooks with developer mode enabled, so I don't see why they couldn't allow the same thing with Linux binaries.
I'll gladly laugh and accept the jab that I'm a little too active in this thread. I don't know why this topic got me today, but it clearly did.

That said, please educate me on where I'm giving a clear lack of understanding on how it works. I'm basically seeing a couple big name authors that are effectively telling me I'm a bad person for buying audio books from Audible. But, far as I can see, every alternative is complete utter shite. Except the library, from which I still gladly get audio books on CD.
Europe defunded their oil and gas industry and only great things happened from it. Just ask Ukraine

The only way to stop pollution is to consume green. That’s it. The Saudis and the Russians don’t care about ESG
It was in rats, that one doesn't fit.
That…feels very plausible? Microsoft has to be peeved at how much of the education market has been taken over by Chromebooks. Providing some locked down OS, with minimal specs, friendly to corporate management software, Teams preinstalled, etc feels like a pretty good move. The Chromebooks only work though an app store, so this idea could feed into Microsoft’s as well.

Unless Microsoft would rather target the cream of the market through their tablets.

Edit: then again, maybe they have become hooked on the Win11 telemetry + ad revenue. Stripped down OS has a harder time justifying the need to include Candy Crush.
> simple fact that most people using LLMs (in general) are not understanding this.

And why does that matter? Plenty of people "use JavaScript without fundamental understanding of the language's inner workings" but things are fine (not). My point is, people have always misunderstood the TOOLS that they use, but I don't see the same kinds of rejection before? Yes, people use LLMs thinking it is the end of programming but you can become way, way more productive as a programmer if you use it as a TOOL. The other day I used it to create a simple Python function to generate N distinct colors. It works, it seems to work, it even suggested using hue instead of rgb since its better or whatever (so I looked it up and it is for the eye) so I just used it. Should I spent a week going on a deep dive into the human eye perception and reading up articles on this?
Unlike IP addresses, phone numbers don't need to be "routable" to originate a call. Most spam robocalls are made from spoofed numbers, often from a randomly chosen number in the same exchange as the recipient.
In this case I expect it’s because they wanted outside developers to work on software for it before launch so it’s ready day one.

Otherwise I agree it’s very likely they wouldn’t have said anything yet.
Which syntactic features have changed in ways that aren't backwards compatible? I've had some minor headaches, don't get me wrong, but in each case those headaches are a result of interface changes to common objects, like Exception-types. Python has added some syntactic sugar between minor releases, sure, but never at the expense of backwards compatibility.
Not baffling if you know anything about the history of the US or the USSR.