skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're protecting yourself from targeted psychological manipulation. It's like the difference between someone spraying a cyber-attack over the entire IPv4 space, or spending a while trying to drill into a specific server. The latter is much scarier and harder to resist, but it's basically what targeted advertising is these days. They supposedly want just to help you find what you want to buy, but they do this by trying to make you want things you wouldn't actually need otherwise.

I like to think I'm immune (the only ad I've ever taken up was years ago for Privacy(.com), and only because I then knew about it later, and could choose to pursue it on my own), but I wouldn't be surprised if at some point before I started being allergic to every type of advertisement imaginable, some ads managed to get my attention for one reason or another. (maybe subliminal messaging's done something before, I dunno.)

I'm not too concerned about it since I know it's been kept to a minimum, so at this point basically everything I've done is something I actually wanted to do, there are no concerns about having been manipulated. But that's just because I've managed to avoid seeing targeted ads almost whatsoever.
Interestingly the site only shows 125cc 23hp versions. The video shows a 500cc version with a whole lot more power. I guess the 500cc version will be available to the public later.
It depends on the context.

First, there has to be some conflict going on, they might want to do some tit for tat. so if for example China has some problem with Canadians considering extradition of Huaweiwei's daughter, they will definitely single out some Canadian business people of European descent (not very common in China) rather than Canadians of Chinese descent (much more common in China). There is always enough to get you for something if they really want to, like taking pictures of a mountain and surprise...it is really a PLA military installation (but not really, it could just be a place where they have a hotel or something). Remember China is a rule by law country, not a rule of law one, so you can't really count on being treated fairly unless they want to treat you fairly.

Given the recent problems, right now probably isn't the best time for Americans (especially Americans of non-Chinese descent), but it probably isn't that bad either (no obvious singular dispute that necessitates tit for tat reaction). I guess I would go right now if I could get my kid's visa situation worked out (so he can go see grandma).

You are also just as likely not to be arrested for being a foreigner when Chinese are processed for similar violations. For example, hitting a roadblock that is targeting college kids who have smoked marijuana, they will drug test all the Chinese kids on the bus and will ignore the foreigners as too much trouble.
Yes, Uber drivers are constantly canceling rides or just sitting in one spot until I’m forced to cancel myself and then dispute the charge. Thankfully Lyft still exists, I’ve switched to them and haven’t looked back. I can get to where I need to go much faster and more reliably, at roughly the same price or often less.
> We can have higher employment and cheaper prices than we have now if we literally reinstate slavery.

Agreed. And companies would do it too if they didn't also need us to buy their products.

It's basically what has happened to manufacturing. Offshore factories are making products at literal slave wages and they get to sell to Americans for higher prices.
And Uber would have a terrible time finding employees in a university area where most of the local population and workforce is beholden to a part time class schedule. It would leave them open for a competitor who values and works with part time workers to swoop in and eat Uber's lunch.
Prices aren’t that different now. If Uber is cheaper it’s because VC money is paying for your ride.

It’s not sustainable.
No capitalism is private ownership of capital. The profit seeking at the expense of others is a leftist caricature of capitalism just as laziness is the right wing caricature of socialism. No economic system exists to incentivize the stuff that happened during the rise and fall of WeWork.
Is it perhaps the argument between the Molinists and the Thomists around the issue of predestination?
Why? Uber's practices are fairly well known, especially these days, so it's not like any new driver doesn't know what they are signing up for.
Nice, you got a massive stick to beat them with…beat those fools with your superior intellect.
> Google uses legitimate sites to make their search engine a viable product and at the same time directs traffic away from those legitimate sites towards SEO spam to generate revenue.

[Disclosure: Google Search SWE; opinions and thoughts are my own and do not represent those of my employer]

Why do you assume malicious intent?

The balance between search ranking (Google) and search optimization (third-party sites) is an adversarial, dynamic game played between two sides with inverse incentives, taking place on an economic field (i.e. limited resources). There is no perfect solution; there’s only an evolutionary act-react cycle.

Do you think content spammers spend more or less resources (people, time, money) than Google’s revenue? So then the problem becomes how do you win a battle with orders of magnitude less people, time, and money? Leverage, i.e., engineering. You try your best and watch the scoreboard.

Some people think Google is doing a great job; some think we couldn’t be any worse. The truth probably lies across a spectrum in the middle. So it goes with a globally consumed product.

Also, note, Ads and Search operate completely independent. There’s no signals going from Ads to Search, or vice versa, to inform rankings; Search can’t even touch a lot of the Ads data, and Ads can’t touch Search data. Which makes your theory misinformed.
> SpaceX never done a human space program, they are purely about making launch vehicles that, after they have seen substantial development, are taken into consideration by NASA for a human space program.

Crew Dragon is not a launch vehicle.
I remember back in the day when Ingress was the cool kid (running on HP-UX at our shop I think). Almost overnight there was a fork in the road and everyone went to either Orcale or SQL Server. Now I would touch anything other then Postgres. The more I use and learn about it the more I appreciate all the work that has gone into it over the years.
> It's a failed business model because Uber has to provide a return to investors and livery is basically a race to the bottom without some form of price controls.

Sounds good for customers?
We need more information as the article is made to sound like the employee was lazy. Maybe something else going on. We will never know
Minister defends (UK) safety law on messaging apps
You could have made the information asymmetry arguments perhaps a few years ago. But these days Uber's practices are fairly well known, so no one has to go in blind.
https://archive.li/txifb
I love theologians. Like pure mathematicians, they show the impressive extent of what you can prove with powerful logic and arbitrary axioms.
Now I want to try making a chat system where you just query a dns txt record on a set polling interval
quit redesigning it and spend the effort making it use MB of RAM instead of GB

if BitchX and mIRC can do it, Slack can do it, but they have to try
My understanding is that modern academics studying Catharism take these claims with a large rock of salt. We have no Cathar writings, just the writings of those of their enemies. These enemies saw them as being in the mold of ancient heretics, with strange Christologies and Gnostic beliefs. But more likely they were just a run of the mill anticlerical movement.
I don’t think it’s true in pure science. Like, building a team to solve the Riemann hypothesis would actually be counter productive.

In experimental science, the number of coauthors of a paper has increased, but probably not the number of active coauthors.

Even business is born out of small startups, later expanded into larger teams.
There is 100% a hit piece effort against stability.

It is extremely unusual, for multiple media outlets to repeatedly write an article against a small startup, that's completely unrelated to customer harm or say employee abuse. Wow, the founder fudged his VC presentations, wow, the masters degree wasn't legit, like WHO CARES?

The only missing piece was the motivation, who exactly holds such a grudge against Emad really?

Then the missing piece finally came to light: https://www.reuters.com/technology/stability-ai-is-sued-by-c...

Basically, this "Cyrus Hodes" guy, thought stability was worthless before StableDiffusion, sold out his stake for $100.
That is a fair assessment, because Stability before SD was completely aimless and going nowhere, and definitely not worth anything.

However, Emad spotted an incredible bet, and obtained the naming rights to a latent diffusion model for cheap. And the titanic success of SD instantly propelled Stability to a serious player on the AI world. Hence the 100 mil raise afterwards.

Needless to say, this Cyrus guy is extremely mad. If you check his credentials, he's not a technical guy, but actually extremely political, full of adviser roles to OECD or governmental organizations.
Therefore its unsurprising that he:

1. Is able to organize the multi-month media effort in secret, to give journalists the angle to write against Stability.

2. Is ultra bitter about being kicked out of stability (But I doubt he would have been a good leader anyways at Stability, since AI transitioned from being a hype-based industry to a real product driven one after SD.)

In any case, Stability has had some hiccups, but they appear to be recovering very well in the recent months. They've had 3 separate product launches.

1. SDXL, the first successor to SD that finally has community acceptance (So the actual useful fine-tunes and ecosystems can grow around it)

2. Stablebeluga, a fast-follower high quality fine-tune for Llama2 with decent acceptance

3. Stablecode, a open source coding-specific LLM

It shows their R&D team is once again working, and gaining the confidence of the community again, after the two disasters that was SD2.0 and stableLM
> the US where the no fly list exists with little recourse.

While I suppose its technically distantly parallel to the description in the article, in that there is nothing stopping a private party from asking the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center to add someone to thie No Fly List, there’s actually no established process for such a request and no set of criteria that would make it particularly applicable to a foreign national against whom a local has civil litigation pending, so, substantively, the analogy is badly strained, especially since the No Fly List is not a general exit control.

Also, recourse for denied boarding and denied entry (but not denied exit, because the US, again, doesn’t have exit controls) is available through the DHS TRIP process, which is appealable if a satisfactory result is not received to the appropriate US Court of Appeals.
Ballot initiatives are not rammed through. Consumers want Uber/Lyft. Taxi cartels were so God awful to deal with even crappy tech alternatives are better.
You can be pedantic, or you can listen to KaTe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUQ5ud4akt8&list=OLAK5uy_kqb...
Is minified "code" still "source code"? I think I'd say the source is the original implementation pre-minification. I hate it too when working out how something is done on a site, but I'm wondering where we fall on that technicality. Is the output of a pre-processor still considered source code even if it's not machine code? These are not important questions but now I'm wondering.
It is really easy to break national security laws in China. Just taking a picture at the front of zhongnanhai in Beijing is technically a violation, or a million other places you would never guess were military installations. It isn't like San Diego where even Chinese tourists can take pictures of American military ships in port. (note: the national security laws are considered state secrets under the same national security laws, so even publishing these laws is a violation, so you know...)

But these laws are rarely enforced, except when they need someone for an example.
Esolution means gasification. Of course lower pressures work. If the CO2 is already gas, it isn’t explosive; the phase transition is. If you aren’t injecting hyperpressurised CO2 near the mantle, this is a total red herring.
To be fair, any U.S government agency can very well torture you as well, as they can do an oopsie and send you over to somewhere middle in the woods in Poland.

The term whataboutism is also not exactly stable when it comes to politics because nobody plays fairly.
> Agree with their position 100%.

Including the part where they blamed anyone but themselves for hiding old snapshots when robots.txt changed?
If they could just decrease executive pay, why aren't they doing that already? In a sense, executive pay comes straight out of shareholders' pockets, so they would clearly have an incentive to decrease it, if they could.

Executive pay seems fairly independent of the issue at hand.
It starts small. It always starts small. Suggest reading some Arendt.

Besides, littering isn't necessarily small potatoes around here. There are signs at the roadside that warn of potential fines exceeding $6000.
Rule 46. They can ask you anything, but you don't have to answer.
https://archive.org/details/studio-mx-2004

Adobe shutdown the activation servers so they just work now with universal keys (same as the CS2). EOL, they don’t care
Not viable. Slavery is an abhorrent practice. Let's not even suggest it as an option.
Baseless?
You can't be behind schedule and over budget if you have neither a schedule nor a budget.

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Another nice version, although the one you linked is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph1GU1qQ1zQ
I’ve been there, I like visiting it and friends I have there. The only reason I haven’t since the COVID restrictions dropped is the flights cost too much.
The common fallacy is that if we ban anything that any employment that's not utopia, only utopian jobs will be left.

Alas, that doesn't mean that everyone will have a utopian job.
That's true - some level of technical knowledge is assumed, but I'm fine with that. Every article needs an audience. I can't write something that's perfect for everyone.
What standards should they apply to determining whether her employment should be continued? I'm guessing that it's harder to release employees in Australia than in the US, since by most standards here, she would have lost her job well before the keyboard tracking was applied. (based on the accusations of her work performance)
I've always been confused (and rather peeved) at people who refer to Retool as a low-code / no-code tool. The vast majority of our users are software engineers, and that has always been our focus. In fact, we purposely try and filter out non-engineers from signing up. They have lower conversion rates, require more support (they oftentimes ask us to teach them how to write JS), and have lower NPS.

Our target audience is the developer who doesn't believe that building a simple form (that submits a POST request) should involve: 1) installing 30 dependencies, 2) learning a new framework, 3) spending hours researching the best table library, and 4) mucking around with redux trying to figure out how to get a spinny indicator on a button.

The state of web development today is _insane_, and we want developers focusing on being productive, instead of everything listed above. (Fortunately for us, most developers agree and think that web development has gotten too complicated, especially for simple internal forms.) Developers who want to ship is our market, not "non-developers" who don't know how to code.

Perhaps we should write a blog post about this one day, hmm...

(David, founder @ Retool here.)
> If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist's concept.

This is a key truth that works in a number of contexts. If you want to make sure the new security policy won't break your workflows, offer to write the first draft. If you want to ensure the new automation system will work for your team's requirements - offer to chair the requirements meetings.

Humans are lazy, though some of them move around a lot in an attempt to mask this. If you get in early and set the parameters of an enterprise, you influence every iteration of that enterprise until its dying day.
What genocide joke?
All of these long-term research projects in science seem to be popping at once. What a time to be alive.
as i understand it, a smart contract is stored on the chain and is executed on your computer whenever you make a transaction that triggers the contract, or something like that. so the whole thing happens on my or your computer and not somewhere else.

when i host a website and a user access that website, then it causes the host server to compute whatever the user asks for.

if i put my "website" on the chain as an app (a dapp?) then i guess it is downloaded to the users computer and executed there.

how can the blockchain help me access computing resources on third party services?

i suppose that devices could register themselves on the blockchain as having computing resources available, and an application can then access those resources.

am i missing anything?
Wikipedia puts net income at -9.1 billion for 2022. It takes more than one quarters worth of information to update a prior on a 14 year old company.
There is a difference between using a publisher and putting something on Google books ?
Right to work laws need to die. We've made it entirely too easy for corporations to fire workers without cause.
That sounds like it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregatio_de_Auxiliis
BadUSB works by emulating a keyboard HID device. Would it be possible to improve the BadUSB device to allow plugging the actual keyboard in to the rear, duplicating the identity for the port facing the computer, and passing copies of any keystrokes actually sent as well as then injecting the malicious payload when the time is right?

This made me realize for all of the USB security/token devices (I don't think there is) an actual secure/signed transport mode for USB verifying the two aren't being snooped. Or maybe there is and I just don't know about it, this would be a much stronger method of securing devices.
I bought a puzzle box with an online adventure game from The Modern Rogue (my second one). There is always a monthly Reddit reunion of people who bought the MR puzzles, which lasts for a year, to help with hints for solving each month's online part of the puzzle adventure.

So hopefully Reddit can keep it together for at least that long! Part of the success of these puzzles is the intermittent Reddit community it creates around solving the puzzles, and we haven't even received the physical boxes to begin yet!
WeWork’s Struggles Threaten More Pain for NYC’s Slumping Office Market
Ask HN: What Is More Compute Efficient Between Golang's If and Switch Statements
I am curious to know which between the two is more efficient and how they work under the hood.

Thanks in advance.
Uber had a profitable quarter. They are still $30 billion in the red over the lifetime of the company.
Depends on your definition of war. War typically implies a larger scale and organisation.
Show HN: Bubblic – end loneliness together using the power of your voice
We have gotten over 1000 voice messages left by the users of our platform.

We take privacy seriously, so all data are anonymized and are not sold to anyone.

So far, we had a user who said that 'had it not been for Bubblic, I might not be here today'. This gives us so much drive to carry on with our project!

We'd appreciate any feedback you have :)
This website says data is sourced from the NPI national database. The number one problem with any provider directory is that it is woefully out of date, because HCPs move around to different practices and areas and they change their phone numbers and emails so often, that you can't trust a provider directory, but you just find a name in there and then you Google them or something and figure out where they've gone off to in 2023. I don't know if the NPI data mitigates this. Of course, I couldn't find names, addresses, phone or emails anyway.

What am I supposed to see here? Is this just a count in greyscale? I don't see any pins on the map, and I don't see any way to search by name, or surface any provider's name.

I zoomed in carefully on one particular ZIP code, and then I selected a filter and it zoomed right out again, so I fought with the zoom at every stage of filtering.

Does this have anything to do with adblockers?
Going Faster in Linux with BPF
You should educate yourself on the drug development process and FDA regulations.

"More" data is always better, nobody disagrees. But more data costs more and takes more time to gather. So the trade off is - do we approve this medicine now, knowing what the risk are, are do we not and deny patients this medicine?

There is no "safe" drug. There is no drug where all the risks are known. Even the FDA will tell you that. It's all a risk-benefit trade off.
In Brazil Uber fairs are half the price of Taxi.
[https://tecnoblog.net/especiais/taxi-ou-uber-preco-qual-mais...]

Isn't Netflix and a load of other successful companies also not profitable?
And how do you even measure 'power'?
As a complete layperson to these sciences it sounded like a GPU for chemistry... massively parallel operations
It may be simple battery (the usual standard is “harmful or offensive touching”, without a legal excuse, including by causing any object to do that.
False dichotomy. Don’t use customer service; nor “go to court.” Just send them a legal Cease and Desist letter re: their making of fraudulent charges against you.

The real “customer service” department of any corporation is their legal department. Someone will personally look into your case in response to a legal notice, I promise you. And, in the process of determining whether your claim has standing, they’ll ask the people who can actually address it — and boom, your problem will go away.
> Probably everyone who has used a Taxi in Germany in the past can tell you how professional, knowledgeable, and safe Taxis were there, and that came through very strong regulations.

If you required taxi drivers to have a PhD, they would be even better!
CNET did this a while back, but it didn't seem SEO related then. They used to have tons of old tech specs. I remember them being the last source of specs for an obscure managed switch. Then the whole of that data just went away with no notice. Really great resource lost.
Fell in love with Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube, then was relieved when Virtuoso 2 was ported to Mac OS and Windows as FreeHand 4, and used various versions of that all the way through beta-testing Freehand/MX and providing feedback on _Real World Freehand_ (which was one of the best ever computer books, and much of which was re-used as _Real World InDesign).

Still using it in Windows 11 on my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 --- I just wish that there was a reasonable way to run FutureWave SmartSketch.

There have been a number of attempts to re-create it, most of which have stalled:

- GraviT

- Serif's Affinity Designer (I believe this actually opens FH/MX files)

It kills me that Adobe couldn't at least put all of Freehand's functionality into InDesign. Even so, I'd rather draw in ID than AI (which I've been using since v3.2 on a NeXT Cube and have never found very comfortable, despite the many FH features which it has copied).
I have 10,610 songs in my music library, I listen to a lot of different music! Linkin Park, however, is quite popular — of course, "In the End" itself was widely shared as a meme when I was younger, but I've also just heard it playing out loud in the world.