skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's immoral - it's their site, after all. Our being able to post here at all is a privilege afforded to us, and their choosing to revoke that privilege for any reason is fully within their rights. No cause or explanation is even required, though they are frequently provided out of the abundant courtesy that the moderators seem to have a natural talent for. If you think about it, even rate limiting is a slightly more courteous alternative to outright banning someone.

I think shadowbanning is a bit unethical as it technically involves lying, but afaik HN doesn't do such things.
This is awesome! Finding an AGN within the halo of a galaxy, especially one as well-studied as the sombrero galaxy, is a bit like discovering a hidden room in a house you've lived in for years. it reshapes our understanding and invites us to question our observational techniques and tools.

also: barred spiral galaxies like the Iris are super neat. If I'm not mistaken (I'm only casually interested in astronomy, not a professional) bar structure is thought to play a crucial role in galactic evolution, funnelling gas towards the center and potentially feeding the AGN. the discovery of an AGN in such a context could shed light on the interplay between galactic morphology and central activity.
So uhh…how does one go about using it?
I think it really conflicts with the "optimise for curiosity" aspect of the site. Downvoting comments for disagreement does not help curiosity, as it just downranks insightful yet unpopular opinions, which obviously does not help encourage curiosity. The real offtopic/flamebait comments get flagged anyway, so downvotes aren't needed to keep the site functional and interesting.

(last sentence was slightly edited for clarity)
I agree, though I think for posts deserving a "thanks" it's not too hard to make it substantive. For example, if I wanted to thank you for this comment, I might say something like this:

Thanks, that's very helpful. You make a good point about comments like "cool project!" not being allowed, which could cause the overall sentiment to feel skewed negative when it might actually be well received. That said, it can feel noisy and unhelpful to see a thread full of empty comments, so what if we had a thumbs up button or something that people could use to register "cool project" ? Maybe not practical, but just thinking through the problem a bit.
I'm not even sure its deliberate.

Automatic1111 and ComfyUI implemented the SAI backend/format in the early days because thats all there was, and now they are stuck with it. The intertia is tremendous.
It's still an incredibly promising career path! With the increasing reliance on digital technology, the demand for skilled professionals who can safeguard sensitive data is higher than ever. The evolving landscape offers room for specialization, be it in ethical hacking, threat analysis, or security architecture.
A new DNA drug to fight blood clots: a less risky way to treat thrombosis?
It's always puzzled me how much <insert appropriate epithet here> people are willing to take from Microsoft for products they pay good money for, without ever considering that there might be an world where not everyone buys their software from the same vendor.
Unfortunately, that reply can sometimes be days, weeks or who knows how old, and HN doesn't inform you of replies to your comments, so unless you happen to see it when it happens you're stuck with having to intuit that "you're replying too fast" is an extremely passive aggressive flag on your account and not just a general site-wide rate limiter. Or notice that your flags no longer work, or your vouches no longer work, or any number of even more subtle effects.
> immoral

That's really not the word you're looking for.
To me, those all seem more like places where the community usually intervenes to the degree it matters. [1]

While the guidelines seem more there to help the community as a whole stay out of potholes, sinkholes, and black holes.

But that’s me and I can see why people might have a different point of view on this. This is a model I use, not an argument.

[1] editing headlines being an exception.
I'd really love a separate "thanks" interface element that only the person you replied to can use.
Wonder why Zuck particularly wants to kill OpenAI instead of increasing revenue with a new product offering.
It's definitely a knowledgable model. I'm seeing a bit of trouble with stopping at the right point and managing chat context, but this is all a matter of prompt engineering. Very promising, and exciting work to be done!
A new way to try experimental 1Password features
I'm doing just the opposite. I support anyone to have any views that they want. It's not the responsibility of businesses to conform to their views.
thanks! this give me some results, but I've had to use a specific construct to get anything meaningful:

using <language> write me a <thing>

it's managed to spit out code, rather than "write a traversal function".
Maybe OP can comment on why they submitted this
What principal of morality does rate-limiting a commenter on one's site violate?
The founder doth protest too much, methinks.
I'd also like to add that the Windows user experience is my "native language", if you will. I have no major problems using macOS, but I'm definitely not as fast using it, I find its window management cumbersome, and my muscle memory is constantly misfiring. I've been using Windows since childhood and there's something to be said for the level of familiarity and comfort that comes with that.

That being said, I'm terribly frustrated with the direction Microsoft is taking Windows and I hope to stay off of 11 for as long as I can.
> it's frustrating both to have one's own comments downvoted without explanation, and to come across a comment that's grey without obvious reason (Was it factually incorrect? Endorsing an unpopular idea? It's not always obvious).

Personally, I don't downvote anything unless it's either complete and utter bullshit (e.g. someone acting like PHP is bad based on arguments barely valid in the end of the PHP5 era), or it is plain and simple far-right/conspiratorial in nature. It used to be the case that this was how most people used the downvote feature.

Nowadays? Seems like the tide has shifted, and even completely legitimate viewpoints (not just on politics threads) get downvotes for unexplainable reasons. It saddens me a bit.

> I'm not saying HN should do exactly the same thing, but one example is Slashdot's system where a comment can get downvoted in a way that tags it specifically as trolling/offtopic/whatever

Such a thing exists. You have to open the comment's dedicated page by clicking on the timestamp; if you're over 500-1k karma you can then flag it. Enough flags auto-kill comments and they only appear for those who have "showdead" enabled.
Thanks, Everything integration is huge. I'll check it out.
the big challenge here is that "politics" nowadays can include nearly everything, and many stories are very relevant to HN audience. Like Tiktok getting banned or regulated. Clearly very political, but also highly relevant to HN. A firmer hand would mean no exceptions for stories like that.
I also wish there was a guideline that only content available on the Internet can be submitted. We are too often being used for promotion by sites with pay walls. Nothing wrong with a paywall, but it should be either-or: you should not be able to get HN to promote you, unless your content is accessible.
Ask HN: Anyone Having Issues with AWS?
I'm in us-west-2. API Gateway endpoints are all 403ing, when I can see the security token in the header. Haven't changed anything in regards to this endpoint in a couple weeks.

Also, AWS web console gives a bunch of errors too, and in multiple regions.
For comparison: I searched for "DOJ sues for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring -spacex" on google to see other companies' headlines for this:

- Microsoft

- Aero Precision

- Technology Hub

- KForce Tech

- Facebook

- Giant Food

- etc.

If there's a political angle here, I'm more inclined to believe that Democrat-lead exec branches lead to more employment discrimination enforcement thatn Republican-lead ones.
Buddy elon doesn't even understand basic physics, like classical motion and energy equations. Or do you not remember the time he was talking about "compressed gas thrusters" on Teslas? Such a system would be laughably ineffective and all it takes to understand that is a high school physics equation.
There's software that comes with the seat included, which is equipped with a mounted inflatable anal probe to tack and maximize butt-on-seat time. Lubricant is extra.

The probe has an admin interface so you can administer reward/punishment remotely (probe expansion, vibration, etc).
I can't imagine War Games had any impact on the industry, except maybe if you were in security. Are you serious?
You can be substantive in your thanks making or praises. And if you cannot then maybe its OK that it doesn't get expressed as a one word 'thanks' post.

I personally don't think this causes the community as a whole to lean snarky - that one might be a pre existing condition rather than the format.

I also think the occasional rule breaking is good, 'I don't have anything substantial to say but your project means a lot to me and I'm grateful' is substantial in a way that default 'thanks' is not anyway.
What fortune, I so happen to need hundreds of blank lines.
That'll be Joseph Spisak, Head of Generative AI Open Source at Meta AI.
I'm pretty sure that it isn't.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.backblaze.com%2F...
What are these iternant code students trying to achieve with all this? Performance? Productivity? Lower defects?

Safety critical code seems to still be usually in C/C++, for reasons having nothing to do with the language being safe. Why are these people not studying Erlang, MISRA C, Rust, some kind of formal proof solver language, or OpenCL?

What do people aspire to one day work on that would make the Haskell or LISP more appealing than a more locked down, static checking, kind of language?

Programming culture is more confusing than the code itself!
That was beautiful. Thank you for posting it.
it will be sticky as long as there's a cambrian explosion of AI innovations happening. NVIDIA built the best swiss-army-knife for handling GPGPU problems in general, spent 15 years building the ecosystem and adoption around it, and then tailored it to AI specifically.

Once the tech settles down a bit, Google and Amazon and others can absolutely snipe the revenue at a lower cost, just like they did with the previous TPUs/gravitons. But then some new innovation comes out that the ASICs (or, ARM+accelerator) don't do, and everyone's back to using NVIDIA because it just works.

AMD potentially has a swiss-army knife too, but, they also have a crap software stack that segfaults just running demos in the supported OS/ROCm configurations, and a runtime with a lot of paper features and feature gaps. And NVIDIA's just works and has a massive ecosystem of libraries and tools available. And moreover they just have a mindshare advantage. Innovation happens on NVIDIA's platform (because NVIDIA spent billions of dollars building the ecosystem to make sure it happens on their platform). And it actually does just work and has a massive codebase etc. Sure it's a cage but it's got golden bars and room service.

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198

So I guess I'd say it's sticky until the technology settles. Steady-state, I think competitors will capture a lot of that revenue. But during the periods of innovation everyone flocks back to NVIDIA. AMD could maybe break that trend but they'll have to actually do the work first, they have tried the "do nothing and let the community write it" strategy for the last 15 years and it hasn't worked. You gotta get the community to the starting line, at least. Writing a software ecosystem is one thing, writing runtime/drivers is another.
Those 6 discrete chips will probably use less power.
enshittification is such nonsense. the original article gives Facebook, TikTok, Amazon and other super successful super profitable companies as an example

"Then collapse" - nope, then generate tens of billions of profit per quarter. Im sure the people of Hugging Face would love that
I just remembered this ancient comment on HackerNews :-)

"... you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting ..." [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
every journey starts with a single jira. -C#onfucius
I’m not sure Burning Man today is a good example for post-capitalist idealism. Longtime veterans of the event have complained that Burning Man today (and for years now) is largely attended and driven by people who spend most of the year acquiring wealth through cutthroat capitalist means, and then only come to the event to blow off steam.
The problem isn't that; it's all the information you don't have such as "how much are they theoretically willing to pay me," "who else would hire me," "how hard can I push before they just pull the offer," "do they have other candidates they liked," and so on. On top of that, lots of people in this career are not smooth talkers and they're risk-averse.
That is the basis for https://synthesis.ai/
This is in the context of AGI, not artificial life. We're not concerned with making an AGI that can photosynthesize or lay eggs. That's not what general intelligence refers to.
This is not only a "market of ideas", but a virtual world. And in the sense that it is a virtual world, you're also telling him "you can't exist here".

Which is a pretty shitty thing to say regardless, but when the real world withers away from us a little more every year, it starts to become monstrous.
You just tax on CO2e (CO2 equivalent) for any greenhouse gas emission. Same way emission accounting is already being done.
> As I have argued before, we need a new mission to Mars dedicated primarily to life detection to test this hypothesis and others. It should explore potential habitats on Mars like the Southern Highlands, where life could persist in salt rocks close to the surface

And the refutations to the authors original pleas are still as valid as they were then: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1749
> it was tied to App Engine, which wasn't serverless by itself

Yes it was. I’m not sure how long you’ve been doing serverless for but App Engine’s entire concept was stateless functions.
OP might also be interested in Bentley's book, Programming Pearls:

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Jon-Bentley/dp...
So the idea is that the DOJ is deebly goncerned that one of their political enemies du jour is not hiring the "refugees" (in most cases economic migrants) they are illegally allowing to enter the country with approximately zero screening or even basic proof of identity, to work on highly sensitive dual use military technology.
> The real harm seems to come from publishing, and making the connection (i.e. claim that this image that looks like this actress is in fact, image of this actress), so the image can be found under their name. That's where I think we should draw a line.

Does it have to be publication?

Suppose somebody creates a picture of actress X doing something she'd never do, with somebody she'd never do it with, in circumstances that she finds degrading, and, heck, let's say with "pig whore" painted on her... and privately emails it to her. "Thought you'd like this picture.".

No publication, just a private message. No caption on the picture, nothing like that; it's just her mind that makes the connection. No defamation; obviously she's not going to believe it actually happened and obviously the sender doesn't expect her to.

It might be hard to do that particular examples without it coming off as a threat, but even if it were clearly not a threat, I don't think most targets would be very thrilled about it. It's not just publication.
Updating the job postings addresses "SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying", but does not mean they have resolved the other half: "refused to hire or consider them".
> which is so crazy-complicated primarily because the Drools language is Java-based so you need all sorts of things that Clara or CLIPS don't need

from drools website

"Drools is a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) solution. It provides a core Business Rules Engine (BRE), a web authoring and rules management application (Drools Workbench), full runtime support for Decision Model and Notation (DMN) models at Conformance level 3 and an Eclipse IDE plugin for core development."

No expert here, but it doesn't come across as a fair apples-to-apples comparison.
>Is there another explanation for why these fossils might have been missing despite early hominines inhabiting Africa?

Most biological and organic things decompose quickly. Every time we find a fossil, we are winning an insanely rigged lottery. We barely have significant remains from 10k year old towns, so you can't really take any info from a supposed lack of fossils
You correct. If my dad had only relied on the feedback from his doctor he would still be under the impression he was perfectly healthy. Always remember, it is smart to trust modern medicine, not so much to trust any individual practitioner.
But 'disagreement' is a bit vague. If I use a dwonvote (which isn't for totally inappropriate stuff) it's not merely disagreement, but because the comment has demonstrably false content for instance. I'm not sure what else I'd use it for, just opinion-based disagreement doesn't quite cut it indeed.
I can imagine the wear levelling function on some SSDs looks pretty similar to the encryptSector function
Every dupe I've submitted has automatically de-duped to an existing post that someone already submitted - probably because it's the same URL?
Read code of something you use or are generally interested in!

The runtime/std lib of the PL of your choice. Your text editor or a plugin that you use etc.
Why Authorization Is Hard in Microservices
I’ve wondered this too. Far too many resources rehash the fundamentals that I learned in middle school/high school/college.

I know things can get dangerous with high voltage, but it’d be fun have a “playbook” for low voltage applications.
I think there is a category past those that is a much more appropriate for flagging. Something like: abusive / hostile / grossly inappropriate. I think people on HN do a great job of flagging these, but it's weird that the same mechanism would be the best choice for something that is merely off-topic.
Maybe we'll merge that one hither to split the karma.
When will tools/models like these start integrating with code servers and linters in IDEs instead of just yielding supercharged autocomplete?
Oh, indeed, it's been a while since I read it. Then I would like to add the guideline "Read the posting, before you comment."
What I really want to see is a tool which will open a scan of a check/invoice and review it to find:

- Invoice number --- it should resave the pixel image using that number as the file name
- check amount and date --- this could be written out as a meta-file using the invoice number as a file name

that would let me automate pretty much the last aspect of my day job which is suited to automation which is not yet automated.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37248494, which was posted a bit earlier.
Meanwhile:

> Switzerland will lift all restrictions on imports of Japanese food products from Aug. 15, Swiss Ambassador to Japan Andreas Baum has said.

> The EU has announced that it will completely abolish import restrictions from Aug. 3. After Switzerland lifts its restrictions, there will be 10 countries and regions that still have them in place, including South Korea and China.

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/europe/20230801-126804...
In the specific instance of a "thanks" message, I'll somewhat regularly send an out of band message to say thanks for helpful replies(or general comments). It doesn't pollute the threads for others, and I'd like to think the added cost of a personal note gives the reader a sense of the value I found in their writing.

I'm yet to have any pushback on sending a thank you note, but who knows maybe it will upset some people in the future ;)

Which - I guess - also deserves a "add some contact details to profile" note.
Securing AI Container Images
Are you sure it isn't only happening on unpopular CPUs? I couldn't see anything about which CPU makes/gens/models are affected in the article?
It's precisely correct.
So I pulled up my jpg of the Sombrero galaxy to see (its been my laptop background for a few years). I could barely make out Iris in it. Absolutely awesome though!

Something about the deep field and ultra deep field pictures that makes me happy. Also makes me wonder about how many beings in these other galaxies look out, see Milky Way colliding ever so slowly with Andromeda in their own deep field views.
This is just a front-end to CloudWatch Log Insights, right?
> What exactly is your complaint?

My complaint? I'm just calling into question your counterpoint exampkes supplied when someone stated that Apple only likes standards they control. Whether it's warranted or they have good reason to in some cases is somewhat besides the point, they have a long history of developing their own standards, sonetimes because they are addressing a problem that isn't solved by another technology, and sometimes just because they would rather have something they control whether the market segmentation and user confusion it causes is best for the customer or not.
I'm just saying that if you're going to say you comply you'll at least update those kinds of statements. You can't claim at all to comply if you're still saying "citizens and green card holders only."

That could easily be a veneer of compliance, where you're still rejecting all those similarly situated candidates, or rejecting them at comparatively higher rates, but just doing so without explicitly stating their status as the reason. That would be much harder to prove but not actually complying with the law.
Wherever you go, always do unto others as you would do when dang is watching.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

This is one of the more serious pain points I notice (thankfully only occasionally).

Obviously getting some visibility is important for people launching new projects. Sometimes adversarial comments seem to be motivated by commercial rather than technical reasons.
As a complementary to 2), if the submission is a video or a PDF append [video], [pdf] respectively at the end of the title.
Operation Paperclip may have served us in the 1940s, but the CCP in 2023 does not play by the same rules as Nazi Germany. Their playbook specifically exploits the vulnerability of our anti-discrimination policies by pressuring otherwise-upstanding employees into subversive acts once they secure sensitive positions. Compromised employees are never held accountable when caught at anything because they immediately run back to China to avoid indictment and trial.

Using civilians as sleeper agents, and using our own policies against us as cover-- it's the perfect espionage program.
It’s a loss leader so msft can point to something when you complain about the abusive hellscape that is modern windows.
Can you explain further? I don't really understand your comment
> Asylum seekers and refugees are U.S. persons under current law.

Just a nit: there is a difference between an asylum seeker (someone who has made an application for asylum) and an asylee (someone whose application for asylum has been approved). Only the latter are US persons for ITAR purposes.

Given the long waiting times for asylum applications (multiple years), the low approval rate (~25%) and the fact that asylees can apply for permanent residence after 1 year, I would expect the number of asylees to be dramatically smaller than the number of asylum seekers.
They could always spin it out as a separate company.