skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine a world where you're considered a drunk driver because you decided you wanted the AC a little cooler and you were a little slower off the line at a stop light than some historical average. Sounds like a wonderful future.
Why do so many fail to also mention Pi-Hole? :(
> Katz told investors in his Thursday and Sunday reports that damages from the cyberattack at MGM would be claimed against insurance, but it’s unclear just how much would be covered.

I'm curious to see how this plays out. After all, if MGM is audited and found to have been negligent, would insurance pay out at all?
You need to take Type-J from my cold dead hands. The image shows a quite important safety feature (and misses one):

The socket is recessed into the wall, and only the frontmost part of the plug is conducting. That means that while you are plugging it in, there is never any metal exposed. Contact can only be made when the plug is already quite far in the socket.

The second feature would be to mount the socket upside down, so the center hole (the ground contact) is on the top. Metal objects falling down on the plug are prevented from making contact with the two current-carrying contacts and usually bounce right off the center contact.
One weird quirk I've discovered is 2-pin Swiss plugs appear to have smaller diamater pins than EU ones, which means some EU-compatiable plugs will not fit in CH sockets. Apple's BRA adaptors work in CH sockets, KOR ones do not.
He wants to make everyone there an X-worker
Wow that's pretty grim.
As a Brazilian living in Canada, a coffee shop name is a must have. I tried using my name, but then Ill have to spell it. And then they are going to mispronounce it when reading it, so I'm not gonna know it's me they are calling.
> These don't benefit us, the website users, in any way

Except for, you know, allowing those websites to exist in the first place? Ads and data are nothing but a form of payment, the gold or salt of the internet age.

The alternative to ads isn't no ads, it's paywalls and subscriptions. If ads didn't exist or weren't as accurate as they can be with invasive tracking, we'd have far less content out there, and most of the existing content would be locked behind paywalls, making search engines even more useless than they already are. There would be no free video hosting on Youtube, no free music on Spotify, no free educational resources for those who can't afford books, and calling your friends on another continent would still be a few dollars per minute. The internet would be a much sadder place even if you were rich, and almost completely inaccessible to you if you were poor (or a teenager without a bank account / a resident of a sanctioned country / an undocumented and unbanked immigrant.)

Ad Blocking is a "tragedy of the commons" problem, your internet experience is better if you do it than if you don't, but if 100% of users were to start successfully blocking ads everywhere, the experience for those same users would quickly degrade.
Just because a company has found a way to make money off of ads doesn't mean we're morally obligated to look at those ads, nor even incidentally be exposed to them. Consider an example applied outside of the internet.

Let's say I open a restaurant that advertises itself as "FREE PIZZA", and I give them a free pizza if asked but I also hand them a 2cm thick stack of ad flyers. Is it morally wrong to take that stack of advertising and just throw it away without looking at it while still eating the pizza? I (and I think most people) would say that throwing away the ads is totally acceptable; they're the fools giving away the free pizza with the hope that they'll drive business for the advertisers. If the free-pizza shop goes out of business because everyone throws away the ad flyers, that's something we consider totally ok because that's probably not a great business approach.

The only reason we consider ads online different is because it's become so normalized. We the users have come to expect many services for free, and the folks making their money by including the ads have become vocally entitled to users eyeballs and the money it makes them. They say "my business will fail if you block my ads; you owe me your eyeballs." Yeah, that's not my problem; I'm an audience member who owes the content-provider/service nothing and who's agreed to nothing (TOS's and EULA's have tried to move the goalposts on this after decades, don't be fooled), the only party the content-provider/service is actually doing business with is their advertising network, so they should figure it amongst themselves.
It's real enough that companies regularly borrow against it, which is about as real as anything is with money.
But that is my point. Lying about the auction would probably be fraud, which is much different than just raising the prices.
One might argue that your cynicism is (drum roll please) data driven.
You are right we don't have a graphing solution in place. I will look into grafana. Thanks for your input.
The part of using float for this that concerns me is not epsilon. It is all of the other weird edge cases & states. I don't like that 2 flavors of infinity and something that isn't a number are explicitly representable.
Thanks.

Also, not great, hope the hyperscalers can diversify this.
Well you need peer reviewed papers in highish impact journals to get tenure. For some people, the only way they're getting that is by cheating.
Piracy Shield: ‘Insane’ IPTV Blocking System Revealed (and Easily Located)
Australia also has the Digital Transformation Agency[1] to do things in house like the UK does it. I’m not sure how many government IT projects use them though. Some departments also seem to have their own (competent) in house software teams, like the ABS, the DSD (Aussie NSA) and the ATO (aus tax office).

And thank god for that, because there’s also an ungodly number of consultants milking the Australian taxpayers for all we’re worth.

[1] https://www.dta.gov.au/
The web version of teams works much better than the "native" one. Pressing F5 when it stops working is much faster than restarting an entire browser.

But then microsoft just decides to kick its users in the balls again by adding a feature that allows outgoing calls only on chrome and edge while blocking firefox. Meetings work, so that's obviously bullshit.

I guess electron isn't what makes teams terrible, but rather microsoft.
Sure. For example, I might not want a borrower to see any data other than their own, so using a chatbot to access their data and output it in any way they want, eg “chatbot, did I make any payments over 50 dollars to Amazon last year. If so, when and can you list them out”. Or “was my groceries bill higher last month than this? Why?”.

I also ask because it seems that once AI can process data in response to queries like this, the software landscape shift hugely.
If you're the CISO or whatever it's basically your job to get fired when this happens tbh
That's how much I was paid as a dev in Chicago. I loved that job and would do it again in a heartbeat. It was for a midsized educational nonprofit, and I was one of the highest paid workers there already (excluding the C suite). We got so much shit done every day, and I learned and grew so much. Amazing coworkers too.

My next job paid $100k and had me working way way less, barely utilizing my skills. It was a bigger company that was very poorly managed. I spent more time there arguing about Jira points than actually developing anything. My skills and mental health deteoriated. It wasn't worth it.

Seems like Lichess hit that sweet spot of paying a livable wage (in a country where social services are actually a thing) while providing meaningful work on a passion project. Most developers aren't so lucky!
I think "company" is the word that belongs in quotation marks. Not in any demeaning way, but, amongst coders, building something like Lichess is about as idolized and likely as becoming a YouTuber is for kids.

Also, the reality of trying is probably gonna suck super hard and require work and focus beyond what most people would ever be willing to do.

But it sure is easy to imagine how great it could be.
You can run 32 bit Windows binaries in 64 bit Linux if you install the appropriate libraries. In Debian, you can enable multiarch[0] for this purpose.

[0]https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch
Yeah, it's quite funny. We know they argued violently and that Gauguin was armed with a sword. We know that Gauguin rushed out of town that night leaving his sword behind. We know that the argument was directly in front of a brothel. We know that Vincent opened the door and handed the receptionist his ear in paper saying, "Hold this for me," then went home and fell asleep, and later refused to talk about the incident in any way.

From this we came up with: after an argument with Gauguin, he cut off his own ear and gave it to a prostitute he probably was in love with, which shows how crazy he was.

I mean, now we have the doctor's rendering and it's clearly a sword cut, but couldn't we have figured this out before? Really?
>More importantly, you paid good money for a TV.

I doubt it. The profit margins on TVs are tiny, with some even negative with the hopes that the advertising revenues put them in the positive in the long run.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VZIO/vizio-holding...

Maybe the high end OLED TVs from Sony/Samsung/LG that sell for $1,500+ earn some money, but otherwise, it is a pretty cutthroat business that is not likely to earn you any money. As evidenced by the fact that only a few companies even bother being in the business, with no new entrants.
> India has 25x the population of Canada, Facebook has no reason to side with Canada

To be super clear, if India actually assassinated a Canadian in Canada, this becomes relevant in America and Europe. (At best it means New Delhi has a rogue security element.)

This is not an editorial decision by Facebook. It’s the mindless implementation of complex policies.
At least what I've seen in the US, there's no requirement for a parental contribution. There are some loans that require disclosure of parental assets to determine eligibility.
2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770624 ( 333 points )
> The advice that people react well if you pronounce their name correctly

Yes, but it doesn't mean you have to keep forcing the person to try to pronounce your name perfectly when it includes sounds that their native language doesn't have.
Python can deal with 1000+ digit integers and you can store them as strings in the database. Not sure about other languages.
I'm fairly certain it was Wing Commander 2 that had this message, not the original.
Nuclear weapons prevent an all-out invasion, but they're not much good at anything else. The US, for example, could not have used nuclear weapons in Afghanistan or Iraq.

The US is something of an outlier. Most countries maintain much smaller militaries. They have them on hand for a variety of purposes: disasters, foreign peacekeeping, border patrol, and keeping their hand in Just In Case.

NATO countries, for example, are supposed to keep militaries so that Russia doesn't get any ideas. Say, Wagner troops meander across the border into Poland. Russia clutches its pearls and says, "Oh, no, don't end the entire world by nuking us even though it's obvious that we ordered it." So troops would get sent... which is why it never actually happens.

How much military you need to achieve that is up for debate. The US often claims that other NATO countries need more, and that the European countries are relying on America to provide most of that deterrent. But the US is almost certainly providing way, way, way more deterrent than is needed -- more about national preening than serious consideration of needs.
It's not spying if consent is given.

The good thing is that every idea is considered. The bad thing is that every idea is considered.

The difference, in Musk organizations, is that ideas are aired out. You might think that's a bad thing, but would you rather have this executives slipping backdoors into your products without anyone knowing?

If you notice, the manager in question wasn't afraid to push back on Musk. That's a big difference between Musk companies and your company: in your company a manager would probably fold and just do it.
Yep. You're right, and I should have been more clear about that. There is nothing in the story, however, to suggest that this woman changed anything other than her employee-end deductions - and if she had, I'd expect there to have been a fairly-prompt criminal prosecution, rather than a drawn-out administrative "investigation".

Many years ago I worked for a restaurant whose owner was playing games with those employer-side deductions, trying (I believe) to stay solvent long enough to make it to the summer, and then pay off the back-due amount out of (expected) seasonal revenue. He almost made it, too. On June 15, however, I showed up to work to find the doors padlocked, with scary signs on them from some federal agency. The owner ended up having to sell his house and hold a yard-sale (seriously) to pay them off and avoid being prosecuted.

Everyone who worked there knew the state the business was in. For months I'd fully-expected not to receive my final paycheck, but the tips were good enough that I stuck around. Credit where due, the owner was honorable enough to send me, and the rest of the staff, personal checks to cover our final wages. I'd work for him again.
> I just assume I'm not interested enough to be spied upon by randoms

I believe the fewest are. But constant surveillance is an advantage if you need to monitor general opinions or if they find you interesting at a later point and want to check your history.

So if you talk about burning wood in your stove a lot and it later becomes illegal you might have a hard time denying you have a stove if they ask you to pay extra carbon emission taxes.

Or if you talk about chest pain a lot and later want to get a new health insurance you might find that your options are mysteriously more expensive than others.
You can train a 13B QLoRA (maybe even an 8bit LoRA, I don't remember) with a 3090/4090.
No, I did not miss it but told you that people and language don't work that way.

In common language there is no difference between "Yes, almost always, except.." and "No, not 100% always, there are some very rare exceptions". That sounds contradictory at first because one starts with yes and one with no, but both say the same thing and people are perfectly fine with shortening "90% true" to true.

The reason for that is that your question is kinda trivial to answer and kills any discussion for no gain of insight. "Is A literally, always B with absolutely no exceptions?". No, unless you talk about mathematics you don't get absolute statements.
It's because speech to text, text to speech, and LLMs all have latency. They are working on it. There were rumors that Apple is spending a million dollars a day on its secret AI. Probably some form of it will go into Siri.

Edit: you can try the gpt4-enhanced Bing, it works pretty well with voice
My point is that in the parable about Americans bragging about economic achievement while the European auto replies while on vacation we are to assume that the European has the wiser and more worldly lifestyle. But if this parable ends with the Europeans grandkids have markedly worse opportunities in life because the elder generation chose leisure, then it’s not really wisdom they were invoking but some mix of selfishness and / or hubris about the sustainability of it.

Europe is trending down.
The insight here is that, for unsigned values, rounding down to a multiple of N is cheaper than rounding up to a multiple of N.

In addition to simpler arithmetic, rounding down always succeeds - 0 is a multiple of all N - while rounding up may fail if a larger multiple does not exist. So you need to check in the round-up case.
I think you're accidentally telling on yourself here. You're looking at somebody getting a result which is surprising to you but rather than being curious about how they might be on to something you're turning off your brain and assuming they're malfunctioning.

Something being in a category, such as "a study", doesn't tell you much about a thing. If you read multiple studies on vaccine safety critically and reason about them and what experts are saying about them, IMO most functional human being are going to reach the same general conclusion about vaccine safety. If you do the same thing on studies about seed oils or aspartame you're also going to come to the conclusion that they're safe! If you're not reaching these same results it doesn't necessary mean you're the one who is malfunctioning but you should seriously consider it and try again to learn what you might not know.
https://archive.ph/vNEMG
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Yes I also think that's weirdo behavior. I'm just pointing out there may very well be a reason why someone may be insisting on pronoun/name correctness-- if the other guy's being a dick about it.
Yeah the lack of anyone packaging this up was kinda weird to me. I understand these are done on someone else's dime, and no one owes me a free lunch though.

I don't really pay a lot of attention to Java releases but I was actually excited about this one. No one ran a build process last night in anticipation?
Next.js 13.5
It all contains back doors.
This seems overly simplistic, I mean part of the reason so many studies are so difficult is because they can happen over the period of months or years. This isn't like your High School chemistry experiment. These studies can be massive longitudinal studies that take years to conclude and work on.

If the answers were easy I'm sure someone would've implemented it already, it turns out those kind of things are hard.

I'd recommend checking out the following article. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
> We can start by increasing the standards for experimental proof past words on a piece of paper.

That is overly cynical. We are already well past that standard.

We require words on a piece of paper that were written by somebody from a recognizable institution, or by an AI operated by somebody from a recognizable institution.
but are ads actually served using resources of the site? i just assumed that the ad was served from the ad provider. the only resources used of the site was the initial JS code. redirecting through the host seems very inefficient.
Both these computers were fan-less, like nearly all hobby computers at the time (clockspeeds were single digit Mhz). The Amiga only had a floppy disk drive.
It happens pretty often, a lot of accounts are penalized for not being sufficiently devout to HN guidelines. You'll find most of their comments are fine, even helpful. But, have a bad day, an unpopular opinion, or be rude once in a while and your account will be penalized, whether by automated rules or targeted by moderator.

Another example: One day dang didn't like one of my comments and my account has been saddled ever since... I can't post more than three times per three hours or so. Otherwise it says "slow down!" If it told me ahead of time it would be OK, but it waits until I've written a lengthy post, only to lose it on submit. :D :-/
What is 'hardcore immigration'? Japan doesn't have to adopt the immigration policies of France or Italy. However, implementing some form of selective immigration with assimilation programs appears to be a potential solution
Show HN: Auro – Instant Voice Memo Summaries App
The Control Group Is Out of Control
> my prediction is that in a few years it will be in the same state gcj has been quite some years now

I'll take that bet.

GraalVM has only gotten more and more popular.

There are a lot of situations (large server applications) that don't benefit much from AOT.

But others do. Android is (partially) AOT.
The reason for this is probably that Hindi has a few extra sounds that just don’t exist in English.

For many consonants Hindi has 2 versions (aspirated and non-aspirated). It also has several different kinds of “d” sounds instead of just 1
Brazil does this too
Venture capital firm makes 'unsolicited' bid for MariaDB buyout
I wish we developed a culture of managed retreat. This change is an opportunity to consolidate some villages and remove old ones letting the land re-wild. We can better serve the needs of people when clustered closer together than spread thinly and we get back some of the nature we lost.
Teachers pay goes up. Drunkenness on the increase.
> it's called "Autopilot" but it yells at you (and punishes you!) if you look at your phone or stop paying attention or take your hands off the wheel.

There are many things to break down here:

1. FSD sucks mostly sucks (as commenters have alluded to). Autopilot is quite good, although it does “fuss at you” for things you mentioned.

2. Autopilot is a misnomer. What the feature as documented does versus what the name suggests are not the same. Imho, this is actually a marketing failure by Tesla — calling it “Advanced Cruise Control” or some made up name would have been just fine.

3. You should keep your eyes on the road when using advanced cruise control.

4. Related, you should not be looking at your phone while you are driving (with the exception of maybe a quick look at a message when you’re stopped).

5. You actually can take your hands off the wheel, often for quite a bit of time, while in autopilot. Also, just touching it is not enough — there needs to be some tension on the wheel. This is not hard to do, and is a reasonable ask imho.

6. To stop the car from fussing at you about a few things, I recommend getting a little slide cover to cover the interior camera that you can get on Amazon for $5-10. Works like a charm.
>Snowden leaked a shit ton of documents, the vast majority of which had absolutely nothing to do with any kind of NSA wrongdoing

Like how NSA collects a shit ton of data on citizens... the vast majority of which has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of wrongdoing.

I'm only pointing this out because your comment has a negative tone towards what Snowden did.
Some feedback:

- Some indication of how far down you've scrolled would be useful for "situational awareness". Perhaps a percentage number in the status bar (like emacs/vim?)

- I miss not having the Home/End keys bound to the goto top/bottom actions

- The cursor behavior when pressing PageDn/PageUp throws me off.

Emacs when pressing PageDn: Cursor ends up at the top of the window.

Vim: Cursor stays at the current position.

notepad.exe: Cursor ends up in the middle of the window.

Fx: Cursor ends up at the bottom of the window.

- The . navigation is very neat with the tab completion. Probably stupid observation: If you remove the alphabet key shortcuts you wouldn't need the (non-discoverable) dot. :)
While Type F is clearly (mostly) superior to all alternatives, I wish Type K was the winner in Europe because it looks like a smiley face.
As someone who's been using Linux for around 15 years, this is a sentiment I often find myself expressing to younger (at least in Linux time) friends complaining that some commercial app we both use is Electron-based - I'm too busy being amazed that we have first party Linux support at all, and I can see clearly what technology it was that led us there. Yes in theory companies could all be writing cross-platform Qt apps, but the reality is most were/are not, and the proportion of non-FOSS desktop apps that have official Linux support has gone noticeably up via Electron

The old (Qt?) Spotify client was better and also supported Linux though, I'll concede that
Benny, there are valid reasons to downvote for you first comment to say nothing about your replies. Your top level comment is now gray and that is not because of jahsome.