skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if executives of companies using mturk-like humans to moderate/classify vile content should be compelled to do the same moderation/classification work themselves for an hour a month. Of course it’s highly unlikely to actually compel them to do this through legislation, but it’s an interesting thought.
SAP CEO push for cloud-only 'innovation' shatters users' trust in Germany
I meant in the sense that money can buy free time, and people will pay for it.
That doesn’t make it a false dichotomy. We have an existing regulatory model which absolves consumers of most fraud risk, and many people like that.
I'm grateful they started doing this sort of thing. It was what got me to finally stop using Google Maps.
Real life everything still seems terrible. Prices are high, salaries are not adjusted to match, service and quality and availability of everything is worse. More things are broken and take longer to fix.
You almost certainly don't want to handle this at your scale. KYC involves handling a lot of personally identifying information and there are big consequences if it goes wrong. Have you considered using something like Stripe's Connect API? [1]

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/connect/identity-verification?locale...
I've been wanting to switch to Firefox for a while, but there is a single bug I filed ~6 years ago [1] that has prevented me from making the leap. I've always wanted to investigate and see if I can pull a fix together but haven't been able to find the activation energy to get a dev environment set up to do so.

The bug is that Firefox on Windows doesn't play nice with virtual desktops. Clicking on a link in one virtual desktop may focus a Firefox window several VDs away. I'm a heavy user of virtual desktops, so this is a dealbreaker for me. Chromium browsers don't have this issue, so I'm stuck in Chromium land.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423768
I was answering this question:

> What childish nonsense has you all up in arms for a product you don't pay for?
Embedded programming is this 99% of the time. Abstracting hardware away is a silly notion. Docker? Cloud? Hard to do when your code only runs
at all on one specific custom board. The protocol you wrote to talk to that one chip isn't working? Time to break out the oscilloscope and look at the actual data going to the pins.

Join us, the pay is worse and the work is harder, but also the prestige is lower.
Cool, cool. Now it sounds like you're doing two jobs for the price of one.
Very good point, eloquently worded
Why Anki Works: Part 1
No no no, the hairy stuff is moss.

I think he's talking about the tiny green knives protruding from the ground that seem to be used as a deterrent for would-be burglars.
I too would prefer being wrong, and I have a hard time reconciling the common position during the mass layoffs that they were aware of what's coming, yet simultaneously everything is perfectly fine.

If companies were wrong, shouldn't that be a gigantic concern they got away with laying off hundreds of thousands for no reason? If they're right, then articles trying to convince us everything is fine is surely alarming!
Are you arguing that the majority of people don't see homeless people as an inconvenience? Or that people are glad to contribute large amounts of their tax dollars to support them? I'm arguing from a place of reality, not imaginary "how it should be" perspective. No one besides a few on the far left wants homeless addicts in their community. If you think that the vast majority of people like the homeless and addicts in their community you are not being realistic.

What is there to educate myself on? I want to live in a safe neighborhood where my kids don't have to worry about stepping on needles or vomit, where my wife can walk down the street without being catcalled by dudes that have not showered in 3 weeks. Where stores and cars are not broken into. Is that wrong? And before we touch on all we need is more housing, sure but that's expensive, takes a really long time to build and how are the addicts going to pay rent or are we just going to raise taxes? Plus I don't want an apartment complex full of addicts next door.
Why were human data labelers involved in the creation of ChatGPT?

I thought the approach was to let the neural network predict the next word in a large corpus of text?
To be fair, it wasn't the lack of search data revenue that wound up bankrupting the company -- that whole data mining industry didn't really exist outside of a couple of players and the USG. What did Netscape in was the browser revenue stream evaporating because of IE getting shipped with Windows, and the huge amount of time and people put into the Enterprise Server project that effectively got destroyed by the birth of Apache, and then double-destroyed by the birth of PHP.

Somewhere, there's an alternate universe where Jim Clark is able to do a licensing deal or acquisition with Microsoft; that halts the development of both IE and IIS, and nodejs is never born because server-side-Javascript already exists in the form of Livewire living on. That alternate reality probably also kills off server-side-Java faster just because of how good Livewire really was.
Thankfully that's probably not feasible anymore given how prevalent HTTPS is these days.
This time could be different of course, but there is a definite boom/bust business cycle. At least that is my impression after 50 years on this earth, and general study of history.

Generally the bust lasts 2 years, so if you can stretch it until then there is a good chance you'll make it.

Of course, that's not a guarantee. Some parts of the economy simply never recover, because their fundamentals have changed.
The issue is modern newspapers. They need to generate traffic and impressions so they go for what people click and what people click is not thoughtful, researched, and nuanced articles on what’s happening. What people click is bold titles and articles with strong arguable points made somewhat forcefully. That’s why you see jarring articles. What passes nowadays for journalists need an angle for you to read their rag.

The solution is to stop reading daily newspapers and focus on the few remaining publications which can still afford to stay afloat while doing quality work while they last.
Q1 and Q2 of 2022 were negative growth. The past 4 quarters were not and Q2 of 2022 was just barely. So technically there was a brief recession in H1 of 2022. Right now there is no clear sign of a recession as per definition.

I think recessions are also widely misunderstood as being a binary thing. Like going from "everything is A-OK" to "OMG it's all going to shite". There can be a recession which people barely feel. It's not like an event horizon from which there is no turning back.
AFP sues Musk’s X for refusing to enter news reuse payment talks
Strong agree. There is enough to learn in one's professional career that keeping up to date on tangential technologies may not be worth it until you have a need.

Having hobbies where learning and applying things is not just fun but can also scratch that itch to keep your mind fresh.
The Tragedy of Being a New Mom in America
Didn't the US have 10% inflation for 2 years. That's a 20% reduction in everyone's real cash balances.

Imagine if you had $100k savings in the bank and you were suddenly required to pay a once-off tax of $20k paid off over 2 years. There'd be riots.

It's the same thing administered differently.
Not disagreeing with the core assertion in this post because I think the author is correct that you can absolutely over-engineer things. But one thing I don't quite understand.

> Some controllers had to do some things a little differently.

....

> And young me? I just kept going. Adding the proverbial knobs and pulls to my abstract class

Aren't the ways in which the concrete implementations vary supposed to be in the subclasses? One of the points of the abstract base class is to encapsulate common behavior. For things that differ, those belong in the concrete implementations. So _one_ of the mistakes here was to try to write a god class that could anticipate all of the ways in which the subclasses differ and to encode those into the abstract class in order to leave the subclasses as simple as having to specify the entity type.

I guess that was the author's point ha?
In the mid-90s, when CPU heatsinks didn't need to be screwed in, thieves discovered that the new ZIF/zero-insertion-force sockets also make good zero-removal-force sockets.
It's been 4 years for our team? Maybe in 12 years things will be different, but this is where we are for now.
Now I'm tempted to write that book, maybe it could work. Find examples of things people desire and write the simple 'common knowledge' rules to achieve it, acknowledging the role of bad/good luck.

Want to be healthy, in good shape? Get lots of sleep, eat well, exercise. Unless you suddenly get cancer.

Want to be rich? Work a steady, boring job that pays well and live below your means. Unless a financial disaster occurs and you lose all that money you saved up.

etc.
I don't see the point of that. I like Chrome, it solves all of my problems well and it has top notch security too. I like the integrations it has with gsuite, etc.

If I'm going to switch for ideological purposes I'm going to need to see a browser that can actually follow through on its ideology.
> house inventory is very low because no one sells their low interest mortgage.

Short term yes. I would 100% delay moving to a 2 bedroom bigger house and just make do with a slightly smaller house to avoid a 25% more expensive house having a 100% higher mortgage payment.

But if interest rates stay up for 2, 3, 5 years - more and more of those want to moves will just suck it up and do it.
> once upon a time someone needed the Excel 95 icons, and I obliged

May I introduce you to reshacker.exe: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

Spent a lot of time as a teen using it to change windows graphics. (E.g. the image shown when loading windows or shutting down the PC). Fun times
Ask yourself this question: Why does resistance occur at all? Why is it that electrons moving through a material cause them to heat up? What is actually happening to cause that?

At micro levels, like molecules bouncing around in a gas, collisions are lossless. What makes electrons moving through materials different?
Cwtune – CLI for selecting and back-testing Cloudwatch alarm config
If you're using AWS and struggling with multiple loud Cloudwatch alarms, this tool is designed to help. Cwtune aids in refining your alarm settings, enabling you to efficiently detect issues while reducing unnecessary noise.
The retirement system is completely broken over here. As an employee you have to pay into it. I pay > 500€/mo, which a big part of my pay check and one of my largest expenses. My employer has to pay the same amount on top. You might or might not consider this essentially an additional cost for me as well. It is intended to be the primary pension plan for most people, though by the time I will go into retirement, the whole system will be unviable financially and I might get nothing. If I do get something, I get it starting after completing my 67th year of life. Of course I'd rather invest that money privately. If I choose to go into retirement early, I will have to pay hefty life-long penalties - 0.3% per month that I retire early. Obviously a couple of percent over 20 years of retirement or so can hurt quite a bit.

It might sound silly, but it's one of the main reasons I want to leave this country.
I think the big issue with MV3 is the limit of like 30k content blocking rules per extension, whereas Safari's is unlimited(?)
It varies state by state in Australia, but if we take the largest state, NSW, they operate the Torrens Assurance Fund - Which until recent privatization of the land titles office, was integrated directedly into it. With a fee from each plan and dealing going towards the fund.

"The Torrens Assurance Fund (Fund) is a statutory compensation scheme designed to compensate
people who, through no fault of their own, suffer loss or damage as a result of the operation of the Real
Property Act 1900 (RPA)."

Torens Title is a beautiful system. I can't believe how chaotic land title is is other parts of the world. While NSW does still have some old system land, or chain of deeds style land, it represents less than 1% of the land in the state, and that numbers shrinking every year as its titled out.
This title is somewhat misleading. "Google contractor careens into creek after 100mph cop chase" may be more appropriate.
> If you’re on Linux, you should use the system Python provided by your operating system. You will be able to complete most of this tutorial using a non-system Python, but you won’t be able to package your application for distribution to others.

Why not?
Yup. Most complaints about the cloud are people who dont understand how to use it. They have been left behind and havent reskilled. They call it "too complex". In reality, using AWS is 10000x better than some custom infrastructure.
There's companies that will do such checks for you. Last time I opened a bank account they sent me to a co-branded website which handled all that. E.g. https://onfido.com/ https://www.idnow.io/identity-documents/passport/
What exactly is your definition of a AGI? Because we’re already passing the Turing test, and so I have to wonder if this isn’t just moving the goalposts.
I've been thinking about that lately. It seems like, depending on which source(s) you follow, you could easily convince yourself of either position: "everything is great" OR "everything is terrible". I find myself struggling to disambiguate which is more real. That's one big reason I recently started contemplating taking a cross-country trip across the US, by bus. That it, just head from NC to CA, then turn around and come back. I expect doing something like that would offer a real "ground truth" perspective of a large swathe of America.

The only problem is finding the time to do it. I think it would be a rewarding experience, but my $DAYJOB employer might not be as enthusiastic.
Imagus

When you hover your cursor over an image it opens over your cursor and you can enlarge it

Can't live without now
>the fucking planet is dying, because of carbon emissions and you want to just dismiss the obvious

They never cared about that, but corps are happy to take government grants and tax cut to “protect” the planet.
The alternative to the cloud isn't running a server in the broom closet. It's running (racks of) dedicated hardware in a datacenter. Even "on premise" is often in a datacenter somewhere, and thanks to virtualized networking it's just as if the hardware is in the same building.
That would be insanely good Id say

Dont they predict like 15 out of last 3?
I have admitted that the Allies committed war crimes, so why aren't you satisfied? Why are you upset that I insist on pointing out that the Japanese did so as well?

If American war crimes are worth mentioning, then so are Japanese war crimes. Wanting to discuss one without the other isn't reasonable. What you are asking for is the erasure of context, and to that I say No.
I disagree. You could have done a better system. I think it's a must to be "clever" regarding code, especially if the repetition is huge.
At my last org, the exec reaction to the cloud was to say we should build our own, AWS-compatible, in our own DC's.

Yes, really.
Can someone enlighten me as to how a foundation model is better suited for visual geospatial data analysis (satellite images) versus an intelligently designed "filter?"

For example: you can easily use Photoshop to distinguish between various hues, apply a mask based on the selection, and then apply a color overlay, essentially "highlighting" a particular hue with another. (I imagine a similar approach can be used with hyperspectral imaging as well.)

As visual data is color-based, why can't such "dumb" filters be used? Why is this an AI challenge, let alone one well suited to the flexibility of foundation models?

*Edit: I believe I may have answered my own question. I assume the advantage this approach has is in the efficient bulk analysis of geospatial data. Platform consumes visual data, and spits out numerical data based on an analysis of the images. That numerical data can then be manipulated and fed into prediction models.
That's (mostly) great! I personally don't use it, but do appreciate competition in public DNS resolvers and having a high-quality fallback for networks that have a mediocre native resolver.

Maybe this would be a good opportunity to stop truncating EDNS client subnets from requests [1]: It doesn't really help user privacy, but is quite anti-competitive since it can degrade latency needlessly for other (DNS-based) CDNs [2], especially in regions where Cloudflare does not have a POP closer to the user than the other CDN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36970702

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36987315
>Blaming poorly optimized sorting on a whole ecosystem of a language feels lazy at best.

The sorting is actually fine. On my Mac the sort completes in less than 1ms.

The performance issue is because of all of the hooks of the svelte framework trying to do their thing in the middle of the sort, and then another frame-sizing script trying to do its thing in the middle of the sort. This is an endemic problem in Angular apps as well.

Not javascript's fault, or even the sort algos fault.
https://archive.ph/7SpV8
In a quiet room I can hear some faint 'tick tick' noises if I place the back of a cellphone against my ear. I live near cell edge so my devices broadcast at max power. These sounds do not happen when wifi is turned on (lower power level) and are not the old GSM signal that gets picked up by analog circuits.

If it's not RF, it's likely some other component inside the phone resonating when it transmits. There's sometimes some higher frequency tones mixed in but in general this doesn't sound high pitched. I remember reading something about soviet experiments with humans exposed to strong microwave radiation and hearing it as 'clicks' in their head.... so maybe?
The beach in Coronado is strikingly beautiful because there's so much mica in the sand.
Advertising has reached a new low in the age of podcasts
A fun project for someone would be to run this through Midjourney to get an un-pixelated, huge animation.
I think you can tell people other ways that you degraded their experience intentionally. I guess I’m actually fine with popups too. The goal is to make Chrome known as the slow browser so people stop using it.
Would that work over HTTPS? My understanding is that, when the browser connects to the IP returned over DNS, it validates the TLS cert returned by the server at that IP contains the website name.
That is a bit of an exaggeration.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...

4.7% in 2021

8% in 2022

4%????? in 2023.

if normal is about 2%.. we are looking at something like 11% "extra" inflation over 3 years. Which isn't nothing, but isn't 20%.
Same thing on iOS. Every time I open the App Store the "Today" section is the same goddamn set of "popular apps", the same stupid-ass MTX "matching" game with the same goofy face, and the same old same old services and apps.

What's pushing me to discover if every time I open it it's an ad begging me to install TikTok?
I would think the idea is that if the rates stay up, prices should eventually come down a bit to help bump people into moving? Is that not the idea?
Not to forget the rating downgrade for USA loans...

I don't think we have seen much yet, whatever the bulls say. It might take time to come, but I think we will see something pretty big eventually.
Oh no, the conclusion is so funny. That's the problem with "magic frameworks" like ASP.NET, where it's not obvious how to extend things if need be (if even possible).
Debugging a flaky metabase.com Cypress test
what projects are trying to use knowledge graphs to retrieve truth? i've been playing around with that approach. how do you encode your own "truth" that may be different from anothers?
Klaksvik is first Faroese team to play in group stages of a European competition
Our org decided to take the worst of both worlds; now we have "IS requests to (I shit you not) create a branch in a repo" level of nonsense. The cliques with their turfs still exist, the hoops are still there to jump through, and the "cloud tech" is just absorbed into the corporate ineptitude mindset.
It's a funny trick, but you could probably also use setjmp and longjmp with ctypes.sh :-)

https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh
I think the notion that these jobs are useless is wrong. Most of the categories in bullshit jobs are just straight up not bullshit. Most jobs are useful.

Things like lawyers, secretaries, corporate compliance officers generally provide value.

Things like middle management are more dubious, but I think they generally do provide value.
https://matrix.org/blog/2023/02/09/finally-a-hybrid-conferen...
I mean, you can still lie, it's just made more difficult. Unless i'm missing something, running your OS under a hypervisor with a virtual TPM (or a forked browser with TPM access stubs and custom kernel drivers) still allows you to do whatever you want. It's certainly more difficult, and unreasonably so, but it's still quite possible. While i'm not familiar with Safteynet, i'm sure it's also possible to bypass it that way.

The issue with this seems to be a sort of a restricting freedom for the greater good idea. If you restrict the ability of web developers to check security values and stuff, then they can't do some good things like improve security, but they also can't do any really bad things like block ad-blockers. But if you allow this access then you get the opposite.
I mean, Paywalled articles difficult to comment
I remember one with the Mozilla lizard.
NoTunes: Simple macOS app that prevents iTunes, Apple Music from launching
And Computer Shopper.
I am this guy
It's very strange to me how sentiment on the American economy is still so poor. Yes, the economy is worse than the bubble fueled mania of 2021, or the 2012-2019 years, but guess what? There were massive economic dislocations due to COVID and the related supply chain issues. I don't think that's the reasonable baseline to compare to. If you compare to similar high GDP countries (UK, Germany, France, etc) or high growth countries (mostly China), we are doing amazing.

This country has unique economic advantages due to natural resources, geography, and the ability to integrate both skilled and unskilled workers. I think it's hard to form a consistent Doomer thesis about America being a laggard when it comes to economic growth - unless you are comparing only to America's own best years.
I found this surprising until I read “Florida driving license”
13 of the last 2
Well, that position is right 99.9% of the time.
Yeah - I apologize for how slow it is right now. I didn't anticipate nearly this much traffic. I'm going to be making it faster and more robust over the next few days
The market detached in 2020 from the economy and that's why we had a K type recovery. Its like Whose Line is it Anyways? Everything is made up and the points don't matter.
RISC-V and AI startup Tenstorrent raises $100M from Samsung, Hyundai
This is the worst of it. My partner and I want to buy our first house but the market feels perpetually in limbo and it feels like there's no clarification or end of the tunnel in sight.

It feels like horrible timing, but then again they also say you can't time the market so maybe we just buy now.

Millennials are getting nonstop shit on, ugh
Sure, and maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but your point is that changing that model might make things worse for consumers by pushing more liability onto them, right?

I'm just saying that this isn't necessarily a consequence of improving fraud rates, although it's definitely important to keep an eye on issuers – I've heard about attempts to use it as an opportunity to limit liability in the past.