skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be very curious to see how a police force which has no credible threat of violence can operate.

"You're going to jail"

- "No"

"Now you're going to jail for even longer!"

- "Make me"

Even more amusing when the citizens have guns but the "police force" does not.
Also not an expert, but I suspect this is the reason:

>Parliamentary elections will be held in Poland on 15 October 2023 to elect members of the Sejm and Senate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Polish_parliamentary_elec...
I'm on O2. The "busy" area is just a normal mini high street. Nothing out of the ordinary.
It's kind of crazy how broken some things like stage mangler are. It's like it has never been used once.
Yeah, I'm serious, I'm not making a 'if you kill your enemies they win' argument but part of learning by doing is having the people who make poor decisions suffer the consequence of those decisions so that there are fewer people around making poor decisions. Especially in the military where you're spending other peoples money and other people suffer the consequences of your misadventures. Of course there is quite a lot of randomness in outcomes, but a blunder of this magnitude is inexcusable considering their line of work. Because of the corruption in the Russian army I would assume there is only a weak link between competence and rank and having an actual enemy around to punish mistakes would be helpful in winnowing out the morons. I'm pretty sure Russia knows they're corrupt and have deliberately adopted a learn by doing strategy to improve their warfighting capability for this very reason.

A big part of the process in undermining an opposition is promoting the worst aspects in them. Instead of killing off a moron, perhaps secretly encourage them to run for office and donate to their political campaigns, secretly buy media coverage for them, etc.
while true that actual CO2 sensors are expensive, this device doesn't even claim to have one
The open web is enormous. Billions of pages.

If in this gigantic sample of websites, not a single one benefits from the techniques which people here describe as essential to build complex UIs - that would tell us that this is either false or that there are not complex UIs on the open web. The latter being unlikely, given the size and variety of sites out there.
Sonic charges you $30/month for gigabit and $50/month for 10gigabit if I recall correctly. No data caps. These prices are similar to what fiber costs in Europe (or at least France).

Data caps are not fair pricing in a competitive environment but it seems that way when you have a duopoly of competition that collude on plans, pricing, and messaging.
I've been on Google Play Music (and now YT Music) for ~8 years. YT Music has a different catalog (by my estimation it's less complete than GPM's was) and also lets you pull up songs/videos from youtube (which can't be downloaded for offline listening like other songs, and are just kind of mixed in with everything else).

Artist and album descriptions are largely gone, and so is the ability to view your listen count of songs, or sort songs in your catalog by listen count (which was my favourite feature of GPM). I suspect they're doing this because they've changed their accounting to get away with paying artists less (the % completion rate to 'count' has changed, or perhaps they're not counting some listens altogether)

The one saving grace of YTM is that its predictive playlists are actually pretty decent, and there are a lot of them.
Ok, serious question, did you grow up in a low income environment?
All mobile networks throttle in terms of different people’s data having different levels of priority.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/tn4733/qci_leve...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QoS_Class_Identifier
Which podcast app works best on Android Auto?
Nobody at Google ever got promoted for maintaining an existing product.

Creating something new and half-baked is what promo packets are made of!
One thing I think often gets overlooked is that trust can disappear long before it's noticed. You can grind away eroding trust with your customers and stakeholders and as long as nothing big changes, it's often fine. The problem comes when you need to draw on that trust and it's only at that point you realise it no longer exists. It's not so much that it was quick to disappear, it was very slow to disappear but you didn't notice.
This has long been a solved problem out in the real world.

Think back to the Nixon watergate scandal. When the reporters were going to press about that, they made damn sure it was 100% real first. By interviewing varying sources, human trust, etc.

All that really changes is they can't take video and audio evidence as fact anymore. So they have to, in essence, audit the video/audio trail, so they will want to talk to the person that filmed it, make sure the story holds up, etc.

Some technology changes can help with authenticity here, but it's not really a technical problem, it's a human trust problem.

There will be learning curves and maybe one or two of the currently well known and trusted news sources totally burn their brand because they didn't do their homework. Nothing really new though.
My point is that, while there isn't a single universally defined future, for every observer there exist events that haven't happened yet, and no observer is ever going to communicate with some other observer and disagree about whether an event has happened yet or not. They can only disagree about the order in which events in their shared past happened.

Additionally, there are events that are in the future for any observer in any reference frame anywhere in the universe (except for those already caught beyond the event horizon of a black hole, but their future consists exclusively of the black hole so it's not that interesting to the discussion). For a simple example, present day on Earth was in the future for any observer anywhere in the universe 5 seconds after the big bang, regardless of their speed. So, there is no reason to say that present day Earth must have already existed 5 seconds after the Big Bang.

Of course, the block universe model is self-consistent, so it's possible it's correct. All I'm claiming is that an evolving universe is also consistent with relativity, though the way it evolves is more complex than a single universal arrow of time.
Clicking a link in a web browser means that any image decoding happens in the browser renderer sandbox.

That sandbox is pretty robust - the difficulty of finding an exploit somewhere in a browser renderer is much lower than the difficulty of finding a way out of the sandbox the renderer runs in.
https://imgur.com/a/XpdiWer

If i know which gate I'm going to, this is what I would do. Google for my gate
State-sponsored chopping up a journalist and putting the pieces in trash bags.
‘Unprecedented’ Secrecy in Google Trial as Tech Giants Push to Limit Disclosures
Hate to break it to you, but we still live in a time where education is a privilege. Reading is a very good activity to partake in for countless reasons.

If you’re worried about people being discouraged from finding good literature, I promise that the gatekeeping attitude you’re perpetuating is way more damaging than a group of online book lovers
there isnt one
If anything I'd say Fez's real achievement is the art. Once the novelty of the 2D/3D hybrid gimmick has dried up (which happens pretty fast), the gameplay is pretty mediocre.

If you watched Indie Game: The Movie, it seemed like pretty much the entirety of Phil Fish's effort went into obsessing over the art. And I have to give him credit that it looks pretty damn good.
>The fact is that they CAN, and to be so deliriously ignorant as to believe that “it didn’t happen yet, so it will never happen” is just… what is happening here?

What is happening here is see you are disingenuously misrepresenting the opinion of those who disagree with you, and then dehumanizing them by comparing them to robots. Both of these are gross and should stop.

The actual argument is something like this:

1. ISPs are profit seeking monopolists who will do anything to increase their profits (axiomatic, at least on HN)

2. ISPs have had the opportunity to "turn the Internet into subscriptions for different cloud providers" in the United States for not just the last six years, but rather throughout most of the life of the Internet.

3. Despite ample opportunity (especially for mobile carriers who were exempted from most of the requirements), they have never taken the steps to do so.

4. Therefore, it is likely they have decided that this kind of extreme siloing is not in the best interests of their profits.

It's not too hard to imagine why point four would be true;

- Most users are loyal to products, not companies. Most use products that are owned by or hosted on entities that compete with each other. This would severely complicate any kind of negotiation between the ISP and provider of the services.

- The result would be a product that is confusing from a customer standpoint. Nobody knows whether the product they interact with is hosted on Azure or GCP or AWS.

- Managing it sounds like a logistical nightmare (so, expensive).

- It opens a new venue for competition (which contradicts point 1) that a competitor automatically wins by virtue of simply doing nothing.

- It's almost certainly sure to result in expensive legal involvement from interests with the money to make the process painful.

- Even if every prior issue did not exist, this concept is legislatively contentious. As in, the rules are likely to change in four years. The rules also are different state by state.

Putting myself in the shoes of the CEO of the most greedy ISP imaginable, I don't see how this siloing idea is going to make my company enough money to make all of that worth it. It seems like a great way to fail to show quarterly growth, which is the last thing I want in my position
Sorry, HN previously had TFA's actual title - "Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies".
It'll just bring in a whole new meaning to the term launch window. Not only do you have to wait to launch your new thing for the orbital mechanics to work to your favor, but you'll also have to wait for the opening in the space shield to align as well.
Could be hardware related. Did you check your memory and/or overclocking settings?
https://archive.ph/fanqN
Arctic Ground Squirrel
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programmers are absolutely terrible at naming things
By accepting bitcoins on your onlyfans page.
Stupid people are unavoidable, that's why accountability is important.

Stupid doctors don't stay doctors.

Stupid mothers remain mothers for life.
Same here. Lazyness bit me. Back to antennapod I guess.
Love that the charts and several data points are actually about Binance US which has been dying for a while. Binance global though seems to be doing okay.

Binance US is dead no doubts about it. Binance won't be available for US customers.

I'm not sure if the article has a point though. The TLDR seems to be Binance's overall size is reducing because Binance US is closing shop.
>2A is important to fight the government who can't be trusted, but support the troops and arm the police!

I fail to see the contradiction here. 2A proponents would say that 2A is there for when the government goes wrong, or "when in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another." At all other times, however, it would be up to the government to enforce the law and protect the people. Destroying the state is a different ideology.

(To be clear, the last few wars may not have been about protecting the people. But that the US has not been attacked since Pearl Harbor may be a result of the investment made in "defence" since then, as well as favourable borders ect.)

In any case 'both sides' have people who people who actualy care about society. And there are people on the left who may simply want power, and complex people who seem to be a bit of both (for example perhaps Lyndon Johnson depending on how you see him).
"He's a son of a bitch but He's our son of a bitch" One of long time US politics guides.
Sometimes it goes wrong, Saddam Hussein, Al- Qaeda, etc ...but hey only a few peasant lives is good value for the business
Particularly since the report says that dozens of other Grandmasters cheated as well[1], and we’re not even being told who they are.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-cheating-hans-niemann-rep...
It's quite good -- with some footguns to watch for (serialization to JSON, for example).
As someone who immigrated to the US, the US has a standard of living that is "different" than it is in the EU. It's not better or worse than the EU, just different.

It's not big stuff but rather a combination of a bunch of small stuff.

- Houses are typically older, smaller and most scrunched together. This might be normal for someone in Europe but it's jarring for an American who expects a house with a lawn and white picket fence.

- The cars are typically smaller, again not something that's objectively better or worse but different. American's are used to big cars and the compact car culture in the EU is also jarring.

These are just two examples but it comes down to just about everything. I am not saying the standard of living in the US is better than it is in the EU, it's just different, and that difference is why most Americans will never move to the EU.
The VINDSTYRKA does not contain a CO2 module which is the most expensive part of the BOM, so it's not directly comparable.

For this blog post I only looked at the monitor tested by AQ-Spec [1] and the Ikea one is not in their list.

[1] https://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/evaluations/criteria-pollutants...
Sure.

Anyone working on a sponsored visa has a very short period to find a new job, or they have to leave the country.

Unemployment insurance maximums is below minimum wage in some states (e.g Arizona). In Washington, where I live, it's higher, but would barely cover the typical mortgage payment for an experienced software engineer.

The lack of universal healthcare means that anyone who uses medical services regularly (or has family that does) may end up having to navigate whether or not to find an exchange plan or spend most of their unemployment benefits on COBRA.
I inform, you influence, he propagandizes.
Tinder and Bumble implement many of the same patterns. I expect it’s a matter of what the company feels it can get away with while maintaining their preferred brand image. Nintendo is famously protective but even stalwarts like Disney seem to be chasing breadth over quality these days.
I know how they do that with video, but how do they extra compress images when most traffic is https?

It works with video because all video sites automatically adjust quality based on throughput so they just figure out when you’re streaming video and then throttle. But most websites don’t automatically change image quality based on throughput and pages load more quickly and are harder to shape…
You see far too much of this attitude on HN with regards to a number of idiotic business plans.
The gaming data is all stored server side and subject to the tightest controls imaginable. You would never be able to twiddle bits and get an advantage in the game. Your PI however is sold to all and sundry, as well as being made available in an S3 bucket with no permissions for anyone who doesn’t want to pay for it.
Yeah I can understand that for sure. Personal project and a friends business I consulted had the use case at that time.

Was thinking about the architecture reading your code and imagined I'd build that at its core and go with a more event/usage based model. Great business, product, and success story none the less. I'll keep it in mind for future projects. Nice job.
This is common.

Bluetooth headsets? There are only a handful of chipsets in all.

A to D converters? Same.

On and on. There are often not more than a handful of options for many ics.
Where can I get a personal savings account with that kind of interest?
Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“
To each their own then?
For the latter:

> The company notes that all users can listen to podcasts on-demand, offline, in the background, and while casting
the term is contagion. and in this case it is probably hyperbolic, but basically when people rely on one asset as a medium of exchange, and that asset turns out to be of poor quality or worthless, then it affects many other assets and businesses.

if balance sheets and collateral for loans for big businesses were all in tether it stopped being redeemable or traded at $0, the businesses would have nothing on their balance sheet and all their lenders would realize the collateral was also missing, and the lenders also would realize they wouldn't get paid and had lent on bad assurances. The lenders would also lose money on all those loans, and their capital partners would lose money (private equity firms and their limited partners) and everyone that relied on payouts from the PE firms would have to change their forecasting, and the PE firm would not be investing in the economy anymore, making a hole in that market. Depending on how many PE firms were doing this it could grind a significant part of the economy to a halt.

good news is that typically the government fills in the gap. but people don't like that.
Hum... Nope.

Eggs are not homogeneous substances or mixtures for what the word "melt" even makes sense. But also, most of an egg's mass is composed of substances that suffer chemical transformations in much lower temperatures than other parts can melt (at any pressure).

Even if there is no oxygen on your environment, an egg will decompose itself before all of it is molten.
This feels a bit like arguing over the arrangement of the furniture as the house burns. The web is a hot mess of garbage SEO, ads, incendiary clickbait, and political echochambers. THIS is the thing that warrants fixing first?
Show HN: MyGPT a toy LLM which can be trained on Project Gutenberg and dad jokes
My puny version of ChatGPT.

This was based on the excellent LLM lecture series by Andrej Karpathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

The main points of differentiation are that my version is token-based (tiktoken) with code to load up multiple text files as a trining set. Plus, it has a minimal server which is a drop-in replacement for the OpenAI REST API.

So you can train the default tiny 15M parameter model, and use that in your projects instead of ChatGPT.

I trained it on 20Mb of Project Gutenberg encyclopaedias, then fine-tuned it on 120 dad jokes, to get a Q: A: prompt format.

This model + training set is so small that the results are basically a joke; it's for entertainment purposes only. The code is also very rough, and the server only has the minimum functionality filled in.

I embodied this model in my talking LLM-driven hexapod robot, and it could give very silly answers to spoken questions.
Search Engines really need to get together and find a way to not index part of a content surrounded by a tag or something. Even though in this case it might be completely premeditated to increase SEO.
Ahh cool! I was unaware of Wuffs. Thanks for sharing!
Ask HN: React Native vs. Flutter for iOS/Android apps in 2023?
I have some experience with React and Typescript. But my primary background is in C# so Dart looks really attractive.
Wow that's impressive! Though I always thought bootstrapped was more that the product pays for itself from an early phase, not that you use debt/investment to fund a big make or break effort that's going to need a show lot of revenue fast.
As a fan of Allulose et al, my peeve is when the box says No Sugar Added but the nutritional label clearly states that the product is mostly date powder.
Been waiting a long time for this.

Container orchestration always seemed like a natural progression as systemd already manages cgroups for other services.

Unified plain text format.
The new "reformist" leader of Saudi Arabia bone-saws critical journalists, so I'd say the effectiveness is zero or close to it. Has this caused anybody in the relevant positions of government or industry (or you) to update on their beliefs on whether these arms sales are a good idea?
For what it's worth, World Book still publishes the print version of their encyclopedia.
Fugitive Wirecard ex-Mgr Marsalek allegedly behind Russian spy ring (German)
Is this that the n-grams are wrong, or that they are limited in what you can do/say with them? I find the data fun, but I'm not entirely sure what to make of it. You will be doing a query on past books on today's lexicon. Which just feels wrong.

As an easy example that I know, if you search for "þe", you will not find a lot of hits. Which, is mostly fair, as historically we know that "þ" dropped off around the 1400s. That said, add in "ye" and you see a ton of its use.

Is that an intentional feature of n-grams? Feels more like an encoding mistake passed down through the ages. Would be like getting upset at the great vowel shift and not realizing that our phonetic symbols are not static universal truths.
New ‘supercontinent’ could wipe out humans and make Earth uninhabitable, study
>he formation of a new “supercontinent” could wipe out humans and all other mammals still alive in 250 million years, researchers have predicted.
Google Listen (2009-2012)

Google Play Music (2011 - 2020)

Google Podcasts (2018 - 2024)
It is extremely handy to have a map of airport gates. Airports can be very big, and a gate you're transferring to can be a ~20 minute walk away from your arrival gate. Signage usually is sufficient to get you where you want to go, but seldom tells you how long it will take to get there.
Please link me a single story you think NPR was untruthful about.
Following the links, it might be using the Marian NMT framework under the hood? I'm wondering where specifically the model weights are coming from, and it would be interesting to read more about the training process[0].

I'm excited to see a more open translation system that seems to perform pretty well and runs locally.

It definitely needs to add support for more languages, and based on other models I've seen recently... I have to wonder if building dedicated models for each pair of languages is still the best choice. I believe SeamlessM4T just uses a single model (available in different sizes), and I have definitely seen that Whisper only uses a single model for multiple language pairs as well (although it was only specifically trained to translate into English). Similarly, virtually all of the LLMs are multilingual. It seems like a single model is able to learn shared insights that apply across languages, reducing the amount of training data needed for each additional language (or increasing the accuracy with the same amount of data), but I admit that I could be wrong. This has just been my perception of how things are developing.

[0]: Some training info here, it looks like: https://github.com/browsermt/students/tree/master/train-stud...
When do you stop digging?

When you reach a primary source? If I can't get a cheap, reliable answer to a simple question without looking into a potentially dense primary source, then online search becomes about as useful as a library card. Besides, not every domain is expected to include primary sources. Did the author of this recipe really think that a wok is better than a skillet for fried rice, or is this the written delusion of a gemerative AI?

Do I instead only look for answers found in reputable sites? Aggressive SEO has made badly formatted sites indistinguishable from GPT sludge. Personally, I don't trust answers from sites I haven't heard of before my search.