skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am guessing the people working on the erectile dysfunction medicines are motivated by financial compensation; and that it happens that the people who provide such compensation do happen to intersect with the people who have ED but do not intersect with those who have Ebola.

This is more than capitalism, it's freedom. If you are suggesting that we spend more money on Ebola or public transport, that's tyranny.
Show HN: SceneXplain – Image2JSON, Image2Text, Image2Audio and Video2Text
The Tails team made the fantastic decision of modifying the Tor Browser, giving Tails users a unique fingerprint as opposed to regular Tor Browser users.
ANT+ is still wildly used, but most (if not all) recent models of sport sensors has both ANT+ and BLE radios.
> Behind the scenes, CEO John Riccitiello shifted 2000 shares last week on 6th September, as noted by Yahoo Finance, which noted this move was part of a trend over the past year where the exec has sold more than 50,000 shares in total and bought none.

This is normal. Many CEOs are paid primarily in stock. No matter how much you believe in your company, diversification is financially wise, so of course they are always selling stock. Typically they sell every month on a schedule pre-determined months or years in advance. No CEO is ever going to buy their own stock because it would make no financial sense.

Reporters looking for clicks love this situation because it means that whenever a company does something that makes people angry, you can always look up the CEO's stock sales and discover that, oh wow, they just sold a bunch of stock in the last month! And they never buy any! The reporter conveniently omits the fact that the CEO has been selling that exact same quantity of stock every single month going back years.

Sometimes the reporter gets extra-lucky and the CEO's stock is primarily in class B shares, which must first be converted to class A before sale. So every month, the CEO converts some number of shares to class A, and then immediately sells them. This shows up in financial records as the CEO sold 100% of their class A shares. So the reporter reports: "The CEO just sold ALL their stock last week!"

CEOs and other top execs are _not allowed_ to just sell stock on a whim, they have to set up a schedule far in advance. The SEC is quite serious about this.

(Now, if you do find that a CEO has sold an _unusually large_ amount of stock compared to their historical schedule, then maybe you have something, but somehow that's never what the reporters are saying...)

(BTW 2000 shares of Unity is like ~$80,000. 50,000 shares is ~$2M. The guy apparently receives over $10M of stock per year so these numbers are surprisingly small, he seems to be holding onto most of it: https://www1.salary.com/John-Riccitiello-Salary-Bonus-Stock-... )
I've got experience with this... `reboot` won't work, as it doesn't cut power, but if you can do `rtcwake -m off -s 30`, the power to the USB ports gets cut in between the computer being off and booting back up again.

(I even replace `reboot` with a script warning of this gotcha :) )

Caveat: this is with a typical x86 motherboard. Not all SBCs have RTCs needed to use rtcwake (e.g. RPi doesn't I think?)
Also you'll be acquired by Match.com
Java and applets. I was never crazy interested in applets but Java lit a fire under me. Cross-platform drove me to Java immediately.
assuming that you don't accidentally use a totally unique idiosyncrasy of yours in one of those comments
And maybe that's OK and we should learn to live within our means
16 contains paid work
Training Tiny Llamas for Fun–and Science
Do you mean that the author meant it in a sarcastic way? My impression was that the author meant it in a literal way.

You are saying I shouldn't describe the whole sentence as fallacy because in any case, part of it is true? I don't know that doesn't go well with writing sneering comments.
I'm not interested in discussing this with you. Take a hint.
They have changed the UI to make you think it is required. Start with old.reddit.com and click next with the field empty.
If it works, this is huge. Could potentially also treat post-viral conditions such as chronic fatigue or even Alzheimer's.
That's a technicality no one has supported for a long time. The reason they don't officially change that claim is because ironically enough that would be seen as escalation by the PRC who would rather Taiwan claim both Chinas than see them as separate
> stock-tanking announcements

Plausible deniability.

Can the FTC show company leadership knew the announcement would be a "stock tanking" one? After all, why would they intentionally do that? Price increases are positive announcements for many companies.
> This is a big victory for the parents, teachers, and students

Who should never have been using computers in the first place. There's really no point. Using gmail and gdocs doesn't teach anything of value. A lot of the other software is pricey and sometimes even detrimental to the school result.
Also check out https://o3d.foundation and Godot as options... open source gaming engines should be at the heart of modern game development imho, just like Linux is the heart of many infrastructure things we do
There are no real "alternatives"; but see I2P, Lokinet and Freenet for some other options.
One of the many moments when I thought Trump had gone too far during his run for President was when he started complaining that wages were too high.

But, sadly, no, that wasn't enough of a warning sign for wage earning voters.
Alternatively hear me out you could have people who actually care about other people make a website that treats people like they want to be treated charges a modest per month fee to users looking to do a good job and turn a profit. Unless you've already signed a deal with the devil with people who don't give a fuck about other people it doesn't have to be a maximal profit per user it just needs to be more than the cost to run the site.

If you don't constantly redesign your site or feel compelled to use the most expensive hosting possible, or cosplay as google it doesn't even have to be that expensive. A single actual physical computer could serve a hell of a lot of people for a modest amount of money. The $20 OK cupid charges per user could trivially pay for the oh so complicated task of allowing people to find and message like minded users.

A doctor doesn't need to work around the market economics of not making people sick so you can cure them they have agency they can choose just to be a good doctor and most of them do.
Oh no! Can you open a github issue with the size of track you tested? Or email the track to me at sevagh@protonmail.com

I can make the segment size smaller (right now I'm using 60s segments).
It was always going to happen.

It's like how the Soviet Union got nuclear weapons - they were able to develop an indigenous program because there was already a decent talent base and a national priority.

No one argued that these policies would ever stop China, but they would at least slow down any military technology R&D.

Also, we shouldn't be surprised when South Korea, Japan, Germany, Malaysia+Singapore, Israel, and India end up building similar capacity within a decade. The same thing happened with 4th Gen Fighter Jets and is happening with 5th and 6th Gen ones too. It's all engineering, and talent+knowledge is very diffused now in 2023. It's just a capital allocation and execution problem at this point for most large countries.

This is the policy paper that inspired the "Chip Wars" talk btw - https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/silicon-twist/
Have prices actually plummeted, or are we just funneling thatthe much more money to the cartels? Because I don't remember prices falling at the super market, I can't imagine the black market is any different.
Many versions of utilitarianism never specified the function to compute the sum for the many. Your example assumes that the function is simple addition, but others have been proposed that reflect some of the complexities of the human condition a little more explicitly (e.g. sad neighbors make neighbors sad).
As it turns out, that isn't the case:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/contrary-to-rumors-t...
Even before the recent upsets, for technical reasons the vibe I had been getting is that for a long time now Unity has been tolerated, not celebrated, and this latest move has tipped the scales and made tolerance no longer possible for many.
Unity is selling picks and shovels to a gold rush, but they aren't as good as Epic's. My guess is their reaching into their customers' pockets today to pay for better picks and shovels tomorrow, but they don't know how to do the latter yet only that they know they need the money today.
Go for backends, Typescript for Frontend and Pulumi
I'm kind of amazed at the Chromebook I got for $250. I can do pretty much everything I need with it, it has good battery life. I can even do some coding with it. I bought it as a stopgap when the Dell I ran Ubuntu on died, but since I don't do a lot of coding these days outside of work, haven't replaced the Dell yet.
You might want to look into the works of Melanie Mitchell for some pointers; IMO she gives a balanced view with both feet planted firmly on the ground.
If your great grandfather was growing alfa alfa to send it to cattle feed lots in Saudi Arabia all the while risking the lives of his fellow pioneers who lived next to him, he wasn't entitled to that water in the first place.
Worse for whom? The purpose of the absolute majority of software is to make money. The means of achieving this are varied, that's all.
The only one who can lock the boot process is the device owner: school/company laptops might be locked down and they might not bother resetting that.

By default it's locked-but-user-unlockable (presence test, user data removal), with various levels of trade-offs between "degrees of freedom to replace stuff" vs. "ability to recover without external hardware tools". When user and owner differ (e.g. schools or companies), the owner gets to decide.

As for source code, go wild: https://review.coreboot.org/plugins/gitiles/coreboot/+/refs/...
The link you've given shows Google had the majority of market share by October 2004, which is in line with what the parent comment states (at least the way I parse it).

What were they paying to be default on prior to October 2004? Smartphones didn't exist, Firefox didn't exist, Internet Explorer didn't have a dedicated UI element that led you to a search engine.

Are we talking about software that made Google the default home page? IE Toolbars? Feature phones like the Blackberry?

I was active on the Internet since the late 90s, but I only remember having to type "www.google.com" prior to 2005, but I'm certainly no means an expert.
Looks like I'm not the only one experiencing this with Obsidian. I have been trying to incorporate it with my flow but it feels clunky? I guess those are the micro-annoyances you are talking about?

Thanks for this. I got a new plugin idea!
That's the power user route but we're address the business model of reddit which is slowly inhousing all content.
> Similarly, yes, functional indices are quite nice if you know how and when to use them.

In fairness to MySQL, you can simulate this surprisingly well by adding indexes to computed columns.

> I’d love to see benchmarks comparing the two RDBMS, properly tuned, with the same workload. I’m OOO this week but I might do that in the future to see for myself.

This is where I see most existing database benchmarks falling down.

tl;dr: testing database performance across engines is a lot harder than most folks realize.

Imagine you have a DB where you're tracking classroom assignments for all public schools in the state. Here are some requirements:

* A classroom must have at least one teacher and at least one student per class scheduled.

* A classroom must not allow more students than its capacity.

* No teacher or student may be assigned to more than one classroom at the same day/time.

To solve this in MySQL, you MUST use application code to check for conflicts and will always be subject to race conditions at your data layer.

The check for existing slots must always be a separate query from the insert, and MySQL cannot restrict overlapping timestamp ranges at the data layer. This requires data custodial work to resolve.

Postgres on the other hand both supports a timestamp range type but also allows exclusion constraints to prevent the same person from being assigned to more than one class when those ranges overlap—a data layer restriction that makes app support code unnecessary and race conditions logically impossible.

Testing "the same workload" is difficult because the data schemas do not match, the application code calling it will not match, and if you did implement it, folks would cry about "apples and oranges" and how they're not the same workload.

In MSSQL, you might write a .NET component that lives in the database and handles the potential race condition. You also might use temporal tables in that engine to track changes over time, something that (again) would involve non-trivial code changes for MySQL and Postgres to match requirements.
Haha, there’s that meme about five websites or so that r just screenshots of the other websites.

And yea it enables those stupid posts so I try to refrain from engaging
> Microsoft is repeating in VSCode all the things it did in the Windows/IE era.

Example?
Maybe my wording could have been clearer. The hardware within the hubs listed (which you linked and I'd already seen)... I'm assuming there's something in common among them, for a library to work broadly with them.

I know other hubs, like those by Acroname, have their own libraries for power control of USB ports. (and I would guess are not supported by this library)
I blame Carl Sagan[1]. Carl Sagan was the Martin Luther of science communication. He showed us how you could figure out the size of the Earth just by measuring shadows at noon. He showed a vessel full of gases creating the precursors of life with just a little electricity. He reduced the history of the universe to a 1 hour PBS show. In short, he made science understandable to anyone.

But just as the Reformation led to faith-healing and megachurch preachers, Sagan's teachings made it seem as if anyone could be a scientist. As long as a chain of reasoning made sense to you, then it was true!

Take something like whether the earth goes around the sun. Sagan showed how Mars sometimes moves backwards in the sky, and he implies that this can only happen in a heliocentric model. In reality, of course, you need much more evidence to come up with the correct model. It wasn't until Newton could predict orbits from simple equations that there was no longer any doubt.

But watching Sagan you get the idea that if you can just come up with ONE piece of evidence for whatever you believe, then that's enough to prove it! This is why flat-earthers rely on meme-like "evidence" that takes effort to refute.

In the end, it's a trade-off. Do you want people to just trust authority or do you want people to think for themselves? If we want the latter (which I think we do) then we have to put up with those who are wrong.

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[1] I love Carl Sagan. He was a huge influence on me, and I think he benefited society, even if I think his teachings also (ironically) stoked some pseudoscience.
Unity cancels town hall over reported death threats
Sure, I'm not saying that ARM is in a good position per se, but that RISC-V has way more catching up to do than people realize.
The sooner the public loses faith in Reddit and Twitter, the better. Making their archives seem deserted or abandoned helps. I was not going to leave over a decade's worth of my content on those sites to benefit them.
Per my wife (an actual microbiologist with her undergrad focusing on immunology - providing this as context for why she I asked her, not just an appeal to authority) the core mechanisms are not new, quoting verbatim from messages:

That’s actually not new science

That’s antibody / mhc molecule immuno treatment

In cell lines and just started in mice

So this sounds like what they've done is found a set of molecules/receptors/something that are responsible for the MS and chrohns auto immune disorders that don't take out other things.

This doesn't mean this isn't a major development - MS especially is an awful condition - just the underlying mechanism isn't itself new.
Modern pumped hydro has a round trip efficiency of around 80%, I understand.
> lumpenbourgeoisie

Liking that a lot.
I don’t think any discussion about virtue vs. self-interest is complete without discussion of where both come from.

Self-interest is the psychological expression of our entire bodies purpose, to survive.

And virtue comes from the shared positive sums, toward survival and growth, by aligning interests between things.

I would say that the best work any of us can do, is to create and be rewarded from increased alignment between each other.

Whether that is providing a service or product, or designing systems and organizations that work for us all.

If I were going to assign emotions behind that, they wouldn’t be humility, but a strong combination of caring and ambition.

Although humility does help avoid a lot of counter productive behavior!
I've never had an issue with system resources since about ... 2003?

I think that argument is overblown. People don't LIKE seeing the resource bloat, but it has almost zero impact on today's systems. Maybe back when I was using a WD Fireball HDD for swap space, sure...
50k will get you a great life in Prague, which is hardly bumfuck nowhere
But do Chromebooks harvest user data to sell to advertisers?
Show HN: A vector database with semantic SQL-like filtering
Hi HN!

It’s always bothered me that there’s no real equivalent of SQL WHERE for vector content. Filtering is one of the cornerstones of a modern database — but vector DBs only support either top-k sort, which is only useful for fuzzy search, or metadata filtering, which isn’t semantic.

I’ve found myself wanting all the results matching my semantic query, not just k! Aside from data analysis, it's relevant if you’re trying to do any LLM reasoning: you don’t make good decisions or reach good conclusions by considering a small subset of information.

So, we’ve designed a filtering primitive on top of vectors and assembled a demo on customer reviews from Trustpilot, Yelp, App Store, etc. You can select any brand/restaurant/app, and slice the review data however you want. The filter should find all matching documents, not just the top-k.

Check it out at https://reviews.emberml.com! Not super optimized yet, and really just an exploration, but hopefully gets the point across.

FAQ:

- Can I try it on my own data? Sure, shoot me a message at hello [at] emberml [dot] com.

- How does it work? We’ve built a custom vector-based index, and we learn a high-quality decision boundary between relevant and irrelevant vectors at query time. You can think of it as forming a few-shot classifier each time.

- What’s the catch? It’s far slower and less scalable than KNN/ANN right now. But I’d rather solve quality before trying to scale up quantity; tbh I’m not satisfied with vector DB performance even at @ N=1,000. A hot take, maybe?

- Why don’t you just classify the data beforehand? Unstructured data has too many degrees of freedom, so it’s hard to anticipate every search/filter a priori. Our approach is somewhat analogous to schema-on-read.
Epic pays for temporary exclusivity. Lots of devs turn down that deal and release on both Epic and Steam. The reason so many devs take the offer is because it massively helps reduce risk.

Gamers got angry at Epic because they didn't want to have to install a new launcher for a game they wanted. That's really it. And to be clear, I feel the same way. I have a ton of free games on EGS that I've never installed because I don't want to install another launcher.
As someone who would never want to use such shared infra. I would be pretty angry having to pay for it. Though I do suppose the saunas and washing room in place I live isn't fully covered by fees, they aren't that high anyway.
I thought about it at one point, but then I saw the pricing for the training you need and my jaw dropped.
Oh, you are preaching to the choir, I am not arguing against Reddit. Discord is an information wasteland.

But if users want to start and join one to shoot the breeze, I think they are mostly going to pick Dsicord.
I know it sounds weird, but unless you reviewed the source code AND built the binary from it, no open source software is to be trusted.

The versions ready for download may be based on code slightly different than the one in the repo -either deliberetely, or because the NSA managed to redirect the download link to its' servers.

There is always a probability that an anonymity product will be proved to be a honeypot. Even open source projects may either do as mentioned (provide a "hacked" version for downloading), or even include some code that downloads and runs a seemingly harmless module from an external source, that is not so harmless in reality.

If the CIA gives enough money to the core developers or even just the website owner, what do they have to lose? Their reputation? Not everyone cares about that.

I know these scenarios sound far-fetched and paranoid, but nothing should sound impossible after Snowden's revelations. Even for open source software.
Nothing about systemD, really?
Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Deceased NBA Player “Useless”
Seems like there's plenty of room for a new party imo, that maybe is just a bit younger an in touch. I think it sohuldn't be too hard to find policies with broad support:

- weed legalization

- right to repair

- 99% vs 1%

- Oversight of corruption/congress

- Envirnonmental safety

- digital privacy

- EULA reform
Tor, Tails, surfing from an open WiFi, VPN, encrypted emails, etc
These things are usually outside my threat model.

Can anyone break this down? If a person were concerned enough to follow all of the steps listed in the article to stay anonymous, why not also use a VPN or Tor as an additional layer that can thwart many types of tracking and provide additional risk mitigation?
exactly which law would I be breaking “where you live”? Chapter 9, Section 11.A - Does not know which code to enter for proper Bananas at self-checkout lane?
As much as I agree that there is a ton of dead weight in the public school system as a whole, and I strongly feel that the buildings themselves are a big part of that in many parts of the country,

I don't agree that the 15% scales linearly in most cases you can't remove 15% of a principal, or security guard, and in most cases there aren't enough math teachers or similar for a good class size to really help - if a school has 2 math teachers you can't remove 15% of them because you have 6 less kids in the school.

I am all for less buildings, less football fields and all that though for sure - a complete rework of the whole complex would benefit most kids in the low and middle.
Writing papers in a word processor is a far different experience from writing papers on paper.
This type of logic doesn't really hold for healthcare providers, at least not in the US. The licensing restrictions is how they make their money. The demand for service so far outstrips the supply of providers that they don't really need individual repeat business. They'll do just fine with positive word-of-mouth. In the specific case of dental care, there is also the problem that "fixing" the immediate problem generally can't fix the root cause, which is some combination of bad genetics and people constantly drinking loads of nearly pure sugar. As long as those things don't change, you'll keep coming back with new problems even if they fix the old ones.
https://archive.li/dU6iz
Ukraine Says It Eliminated Advanced Russian Air-Defense System in Crimea
And many of those publishers are now also publishing on Steam because it's close to a monopoly. Like Blizzard recently with Overwatch and soon their other games. And Microsoft published games.