skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I swear, some people have the worst instincts when it comes to the question of whether house prices should go up or down.

True, but you want the prices to go down because there is plenty of housing being built, not because people are leaving.
> The Institute for the Study of War has a superb daily briefing.

ISW has some signal, but it's also run by the Kagan family which has been directly implicated in contributing to this horrible mess (see other comments about Victoria Nuland).

Calling it "superb" given this enormous conflict of interest -- a bit much.
"I've never seen thus before, therefor it proves my assertion" is an interesting approach.
The Chief Scientist of US Space Operations Command "confirmed that the velocity estimate reported to NASA is sufficiently accurate to indicate an interstellar trajectory" [1] using "additional data available to the Department of Defense" which I assume is classified.

As far as I can tell this paper isn't making any extraordinary claims about extraterrestrial intelligence [2] (which Loeb is infamous for), it's just confirming that the chemical composition - the ratio of beryllium, lanthanum, and uranium specifically - doesn't match any known minerals or alloys in our solar system.

There are thousands of known minerals so it's not out of the question that they're wrong.

[1] https://twitter.com/US_SpaceCom/status/1511856370756177921

[2] The second to last sentence notwithstanding: "Another possibility is that this unfamiliar abundance pattern may reflect an extraterrestrial technological origin."
Not the person that you asked but I think they’re full of it. Maybe they like to believe that the American government is powerful enough to control beings in possession of technology capable of interstellar travel. I don’t buy it.

Or the cheese is just sliding off their cracker. Happens to many otherwise very bright folks.
I agree, and I’m extremely far from a free speech absolutist - to a level that I’m sure most at HN would disagree with. I completely believe in limits to free speech on a case by case basis, online and otherwise. For example, I think HN would be a worse place without moderation, same with Reddit, I think my home country Canada would be a worse place without hate speech laws, etc.

Not against limits to free speech online, but I think ISPs are the wrong layer for them. Governments can go after specific sites carrying out illegal activities, online communities can moderate themselves to avoid devolving into 4chan, but ISPs shouldn’t make censorship decisions, it’s just too broad a reach/impact for a private company.
I also did that and had never heard of getting the wind knocked out of you. I thought I had collapsed my lungs and was going to die. I tried to tell a friend but couldn’t talk obviously. So I just sat on a bench to accept my fate. “Mom will be very sad” I remember thinking.

Fortunately the breath eventually comes back…
Now add DOM and HTML parsing and you'll have a web browser
agree or not, the author is a great writer with some hilarious lines. "I am just bunch of bees!"
You mean, like, a court of law, where people are only tried for things that are actual crimes instead of behaviors you find personally offensive?
US banks are very tightly regulated, and the regulators haven't ordered these inventions yet.
Does anyone understand the business angle for meta here with these models? I still don’t understand why their research division exists and how it relates to their core business. I’m a huge admirer of their work but don’t understand the why.
Some things to keep in mind about these UFO hearings:

1. The reports are all second- and third- hand. To my knowledge, no DoD employee has testified to anybody in Congress that they personally witnessed extraterrestrial technology or "biologics".

2. The exception here is a "Jonathan Grey", who hasn't testified before Congress, or, for that matter, been identified; he's one of David Grusch's sources, under a pseudonym.

3. Some of the people testifying believe a lot of other things besides this UFO stuff --- Grusch for instance has peculiar beliefs about interdimensional travel, and is also certain that the Vatican is deeply involved in this cover-up.

4. We know about Grusch's testimony because the Pentagon cleared it, where "it" refers to what would be the single most significant military secret ever held by the government of any country.
My question after reading is, why aren't psychologists focusing their effort on real problems? Some of the "problems" the listed articles bring up seem vague and useless. I am not even vaguely familiar with this field, so I hesitate to assert any more than that. Other fields have useful problems they solve and that's were famous breakthroughs come from.

Who cares if monkeys are paying for sex if people are killing themselves from depression? Are there not tons of psychological illnesses where progress could be made in new techniques to help people live their lives well? Maybe reduce the need for drugs?
Hats off to whomever it was who made the logo for the thing. That is super pretty.
US Open’s new video review system fails embarrassingly at the first attempt
Cloudflare has issued statements in the past that they desire to provide their service to everyone, but have been put under immense external pressure not to.

Sometimes they cave, sometimes they don’t. But they’ve begged the public, and presumably the customers/investors pressuring them, to treat them as dumb pipes, not editors.
A good parallel in medical devices is dialysis.

The dialysis industry is dominated by 2-3 large players who dominate the market, reimbursements, everything. They are Da Vita, Fresenious and I think there is a smaller third one.

Dialysis machines are very similar in practice to ice cream machines. They have peristaltic (and other) pumps inside with wearable parts that need to be replaced on regular intervals for not only reliability and safety concerns, but for biological concerns. Bugs grow inside them, even though thy have a daily self sterilization cycle they run. So they need to do preventative maintenance every few months and change out plastic wear parts inside like pump heads, seals, valve seats, etc. Keep in mind these machines are used constantly, these companies view an empty seat at a dialysis center like lost revenue, so they do there best to keep the machines busy.

Da Vita buys Gambro Dialysis machines, Fresenious makes their own. In both these cases there is a huge volume of disposables and accessories that go with these machines, both the daily disposables but the PM stuff too.

Lots of these dialysis centers do things to improve their bottom line that is off label. They do things like washing and reusing dialyzers which are explicitly single use. They do so with other stuff also.

Some newer systems are starting to use different techniques to not allow this, not allow these kinds of practices.

This isn't just dialysis. So many medical products have the classic razor/razor blade model and they typically actively design in proprietary lock in features so as not to loose out on that precious razor blade revenue.
Hylo page says it was formerly Val.

IIRC, Val has been mentioned on HN sometimes earlier.
Avi Loeb is an interesting scientist. I read a longer article about him that gave some more background about his work [1]. While he is famous for going on podcasts and making wild claims about objects being signs of alien intelligence, the actual hard science that he's doing is interesting. E.g, this expedition he managed to get funding to recover these extrasolar particles. The clickbaity pop media says that this is "alien tech" but reading his blog [2] shows some hard science about how his team isolated the extrasolar candidates and launched an expedition. He's also trying to fund another project to watch the skies for more UFOs/extraterrestiral technology [3]. Even though the clickbaity aspect is that this is for hunting aliens, the likely worst case scenario is that he managed to raise a bunch of funds using the current UFO hype to gather more evidence about meteors entering Earth's atmosphere. I think it's unlikely that any of the unknown sightings are aliens, but I fully support Loeb because the science he is doing will have interesting results even without the discovery of aliens.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/magazine/avi-loeb-alien-h...

[2] https://avi-loeb.medium.com/

[3] https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home
If they choose not to host a platform that they don't like, isn't that free speech? Ironically, appealing to authority to enforce an internet service provider to provide speech they don't want to transmit seems like an imposition on a private entity operating freely.
This isn’t even true. The 13th Amendment applies to everybody,
I would argue that Elixir is due to Phoenix being a "batteries included" web framework....but as always: use the right tool for the job.
To be fair you are vilifying crypto here. You’re just saying it’s justified. Which proves its vilified. Im not even into crypto but it’s value proposition starts to look better in this context.
Another good example was IKVM, which basically transpiled Java bytecode into .NET IL. Saxon XSLT used to build on top of that to provide .NET libraries from the same codebase as the original Java version.

(Saxon had since moved to transpiling the source code instead - the languages are close enough that this is fairly straightforward.)
What safeguards prevent the LLM from generating Cartesian products?
Which hardest problem would that be? There are a fuckload of astrophysicists.
Kk, so if I want to do crimes I just gotta be a political opponent to whoever is in charge this year and no one can do anything to me. Got it.
Redox is full fledged OS written in rust by Pop OS developer

https://github.com/redox-os/redox
Not just electric, specifically battery electric (says cited report), ruling out both fuel cell and catenary electric.

Power trains aside one of the biggest changes to trucking is buried within the small print:

With a Megawatt Charging System (MCS), batteries can be charged within the legally prescribed 45-minute rest period after 4.5 hours of driving.

suggesting that battery electric will eliminate tired drivers being pushed by souless companies to routinely break the law by cooking books and popping bennies.
But this is a very dangerous argument you're making: "who cares if people are making up complete nonsense about them, they're bad anyway?!" I'm not trying to be uncharitable, but that is more or less the core of your argument.

I don't want to "defend" anyone; I just want to have an accurate understanding of the truth, insofar that's possible. It bothers me so much misinformation is being spread about this and I think this is also harmful overall for many reasons.

This was, IMHO, also the problem with Stallman: yes, Stallman was/is not good and should have stepped down a million years ago (in my opinion, anyway), but no, he's not a transphobic sexist nonce and most of those claims are complete bollocks. But hey, who's going to defend an asshole like Stallman? Especially when a significant section of his more fanatical fanbase is so ... unpleasant (in my experience, anyway)?
I have an iPhone 13. When I upgrade (which will not be this year) I will get all the features in between, which means that it will be a substantial upgrade.

But it will feel less than that, because I have read so many of them in between.

Still I am looking forward to the action button.
That source is a bit thin for that kind of statement.

Regardless, thank you for pointing that out.
What is Loeb's reputation among astrophysicists?

He's written "over 800 scientific papers". Is that... a good thing in his field?
That's an amazing name.
It is beautiful.

If you watch the Foundation series on Apple TV+ the opening sequence uses a similar technique and I imagine that this event logo was inspired by that production. When watching a series, I usually skip over the opening sequences, but I like to let that one play and just watch the animations.
Yes, it is pretty weird to think that VB.Net flavor was fairly used in web dev even as late as 2006.
I totally can’t get why he (Jassy) and these other CEOs can’t just level with people and say “we need to keep our tax breaks and we’ve invested a lot in corp real-estate. We need you to come back.” People would be upset and rightfully so, but more upset than the myriad excuses they make up for this? We’d at least appreciate the honesty.

And if they truly were striving to be the world’s best employer they might actually pay for your parking or give a RTO bonus.
It's the "just works" part of magic that's the gotcha. I lead a team with a multi EiB Hadoop cluster and magically list status and rename dir can only be done with more and more caveats as you scale.
"Unlike other sites dedicated to harassing Internet users until they commit suicide, KF is public and has a rule against harassing Internet users until they commit suicide" isn't the defense you think it is.

It's perfectly reasonable to push against censorship, but KF being censored isn't a reason to portray them in any sort of favorable light.
> if the Nazis had been denied access to oxygen

>As some of their heirs openly talk about murdering us

> People who openly advocate for mass violence even if vague and theoretical belong in prison.

Wait.......didn't you just openly advocate for mass violence (denying them oxygen) against the philosophical heirs of Nazis, even if only in a vague and theoretical fashion?
> Ironically, appealing to authority to enforce an internet service provider to provide speech they don't want to transmit seems like an imposition on a private entity operating freely.

Look up "net neutrality" and "common carrier".
I always think about how Ben Carson was one of the most skilled (if not the most skilled) neurosurgeons in the world, so knowledgeable about the human brain and so deft at operating on it that he was able to separate conjoined twins in a then-unprecedented procedure... and is also a creationist who believes that the Egyptian pyramids were biblical grain silos.
Zoom... 25 years ago I left an MBONE service running unsupervised and changed roles. 6 months later a colleague sent me the dic pix that were being shared in low-fi B&W slowscan MBONE video.
The grandparent comment explicitly draws a distinction between the social contract and the Constitution, and explicitly points to the Constitution as the mechanism that apparently protects Nazis, specifically pointing out that they aren’t talking about the social contract.
If you have so many flaky tests, and their flakiness is so intractable, that you actually need to come up with SLOs for handling the flakiness to negotiate being allowed to address the flakiness in the test base, then quite frankly, you should be looking for another job, one where you can actually go ahead and just fix these things and get back to shipping value to customers, instead of one where you play bureaucratic games with management that cares neither about craftsmanship nor about getting value out the door as quickly as possible.
Sadly, this isn't over. The appeals court simply overturned a lower court decision and remanded the case back to the lower court.
It is irrelevant whether what other countries believe. Attempting to equate this with child porn (yes, call it what it is rather than the euphemism-du-jour CSAM) does not make your argument stronger, and indeed will just lead most people to distance themselves from you. They aren't providing material aid to terrorists, nor did they engage in those acts themselves. They're reporting on it (and in some cases reveling in it)....... but that is not illegal, nor should it be.

People really should stop trying to be the mutaween of the internet. It's getting tiresome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r_8Wf8nRr8
The EPA removes federal protections for most of the country's wetlands
Nice work! that project is looking great.
Any plans to open source this project?
because AAA is a cost, and now we have some of the A provided externally, its a lower cost to say "validate over here" than it is to roll your own. Cost including doing it right, meeting KYC/AML/Age barriers which incur legal risk, and having to front on your community and say "sorry, we lost all your private data in a hack"
Errr... we have those too. Though we get our coffee trends from Australia and New Zealand.

And tea in the UK has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with "elitism", which is something you projected onto what I said for your own reasons, I guess. The very opposite: tea serves the same function as coffee does in the USA, cutting across all class and status.

In fact the kind of tea you drink in the USA tends towards being what people here would call "posh" tea, because you drink the more unusual, expensive stuff as infrequent drinkers. Most of what we drink is robust and cheap.

Americans find our tea to be the same way we find your coffee: a distinct culture and taste that is acquired, not instantly loved.

(We'll leave it to the Aussies and New Zealanders to talk to you about your coffee; they came over and fixed ours.)

But I am reminded that it is foolish to try to convey a point in a humorous way on Hacker News.
Google is bringing generative AI to its security tooling
Wouldn't this action eliminate section 230 protections for Hurricane?
.5 is a small number? Right? So no big deal then!

200 billion dollars is an absolutely massive amount of money, all you're really demonstrating is how percentages can be used to distort that truth.
Iran executes pedophiles, but I don't have to love the Iranian regime.
> If you get a model running in Python, and decide you want to be able to run the code via an API, put it behind Flask and ta-da!, now it's a network service.

You could say the same about a model (or any function) running in R. Want to instantly convert it to a web service? Use plumbr or RestRserve packages for that. Want to make a quick web application around it? Use the shiny package for that.

Just because Python is good at X, doesn't mean other languages are necessarily worse at it.
Were did you get these? I have been looking for a USB-C female to lightning male connector for some time, but I don't think they exists. What you have found seems to be the closest thing.
No problem. FWIW I use doas over sudo on all 3 of my Nix hosts and I've only ever had one issue - VeraCrypt has a hardcoded shell-out to sudo, so I can't use it.

The proper fix would be VeraCrypt implementing polkit, but I just use cryptsetup's implementation.
You may want to reload the page. Safari on MacOS plays the animation just fine for me.
> some people have decided the ends justify the means essentially

...and it's long past time they were told in no uncertain terms that the proletariat has had enough of this bourgeoisie nonsense. Laws exists for a reason. No one should be subject to the whims of bourgeoisie overlords. Just because some imbecile believes they have a great idea and thinks it should be forced upon others does not make it so. This is such an important point that there are entire religions built around it.

I didn't think I'd live to see it, but I'm proud, delighted, and amused to see that people are finally starting to wake up to the notion that maybe the rule of law is a good idea and should apply to everybody.
I gave that a bunch of tries over the last half an hour with longer and longer training data and it never got better than random chance.
I have some questions perhaps you can answer,

Do you have a git repo i can star and check back for updates ?

Are you developing on Linux or MacOSX ?

I'm keeping a list of awesome lfe projects , even if you make it to a 'demo' stage, I'd love to list it, please consider letting me know.
> Back when I was a junior developer, there was a smoke test in our pipeline that never passed. I recall asking, “Why is this test failing?” The Senior Developer I was pairing with answered, “Ohhh, that one, yeah it hardly ever passes.” From that moment on, every time I saw a CI failure, I wondered: “Is this a flaky test, or a genuine failure?”

This is a really key insight. It erodes trust in the entire test suite and will lead to false negatives. If I couldn't get the time budget to fix the test, I'd delete it. I think a flaky test is worse than nothing.
I had the same experience with AppEngine. I kept hitting snags and just couldn't get them solved so I gave up on it and moved to AWS.
Builder pattern is a similar concept
Commoditizing your compliment (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/)

Meta runs on UGC (User Generated Content), so making it easy and cheap to make great content is in their best interests. If they can reduce the cost of making a Billboard 100 quality song to $0, or make it so anyone with a 1.3MP webcam can use AI to get MKBHD level quality streams going, they:

- increase the amount of content being generated

- increase the quality of that content

- make the content cheaper to acquire/license (since there's dramatically more supply)
Yeah, python 2->3 transition was painful. But, I would argue that was self inflicted. Guido and company chose not to develop a 2.8/2.9/etc series where people could move their code base over incrementally.

I mean, I love python, but that sucked!

Yes it would have been more work for the devs, but the amount of work it meant for the users were worse.

In fact they pretty much just threw away anything before python 3.6 anyway now. Many things introduced in the 3.x series before 3.6 just don't work anymore (asyncio syntax being the notable one).
> This is a pretty realistic balanced real-world benchmark of web frameworks (and languages): https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

I can't take seriously a benchmark that doesn't even show memory usage.

Hahaha, yep: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/39.... Nothing to see here.
I can't say I've had much trouble with it; I have generally found it more than adequate.
Can someone explain to me what FB in the Context does?

it's... an array of pixels?
does that imply all apps must draw themselves?
> KF is public and has a rule against harassing Internet users until they commit suicide

You're putting words into my mouth. Kiwi Farms has rules against harassment and bans anyone who does.

There is a long history of communities organized specifically to troll people in real life (Something Awful, Sons of Kojima, The Idea Guys, etc.) Kiwi Farms is explicitly not that. Do people say mean and hateful things on it? Sure. But I've yet to see any actual examples of these alleged harassment campaigns, which should be easy to find considering that the site is open.
8x8 Jitsi as a Service
Not by default, it does require a flag (-za99).
As long as I move my head back a bit, I have no problem getting the scan to work.

Fingerprint on the other hand is a no go if you are wearing gloves. And I live in a northen country.
> and he hasn't once been able to elaborate on what evidence they had.

Would it be possible there's an ongoing investigation, and he was asked by authorities to not detail those posts for fear of letting them vanish in the wind?

My understanding is this is a common tactic used by law enforcement to prevent "spooking" the targets of an investigation.
heh. To be clear I wasn't referring to mere nudity or p0rn, I don't think it is even illegal? That's just morality policing.

Gotta wonder if Mbone was also used for the really ugly stuff which is in fact very illegal.
Why, what happens if signing in with google?
I understand 100% where your coming from, thats just not the thinkpad way.
Honestly I think it refutes itself, with the Pentagon clearance and Vatican conspiracy alone, without the political bank-shot argument.
> My guess would be pornography.

Sexually explicit "meetings" wouldn't even be a particularly surprising use case, and 18 USC 2257 has a bunch of carve-outs for service providers.

My suspicion is that there was CSAM or similarly abhorrent content being broadcast in meetings. Unfortunately, this is a class of users which would be drawn to a service which promised anonymity and E2E encryption.