skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His argument is basically just that redefining words can be used to make statements true that weren't true before the definition was changed.

This is great, I can make the statement "pigs can fly" true if I redefine "pigs" to mean what we currently call "birds", or redefine "fly" to mean "roll around in the mud". Easy!

So if it is your stance that men who call themselves women are female, or as you stated it, "trans women are female", then any disagreement is easily solved: simply redefine "female" to include those men. A brilliant masterstroke of non-argument, as you don't even need to justify this nonsense. It's true because you said it's true!

Of course as per usual this is without any regard to what people who are actually female might think about this, being lumped in with these prostate-havers who fetishize their existence. The Categories Were Made For Man, indeed.
Imagine… It’s easy if you try.

Funny every brand thinks it has to have an app so you can lose it in a maze of twisty little icons that all look the same, but when I want to find a web application I use often my iPad turns it up after typing 1 ow 2 characters…
thanks for the book rec.

Who are your other favorite radical psychoanalysts?
Can you recommend some p2p technologies that people can start building with today?

Eg I’m tempted to go with a stack of a centralized Postgres with a SQLite for each user (a la Electricsql, mvsql, etc.) because I want users to have their data local as much as possible (in their own SQLite db) but a centralized Postgres database still feels logistically necessary to coordinate eg user accounts and sharing.

I’m all ears on better p2p solutions. I’ve looked into things like eg using matrix or nostr but they don’t feel like the solution I’m looking for yet. But I’m eager to find something that can keep data local and have sharing done more p2p.
How much are they worth nowadays? Like if I wanted to buy one (second hand, obviously) where would I get it, and how much would it cost?
I’d think that the locality would only matter at the scale of your query. I’m sure someone has queries with a window less than a second and so much traffic, but it seems niche enough to not optimize the standard for it.

I could definitely be off. I work at a company that gets those levels of traffic but don’t deal with it directly.
It’s hard for me to be unhappy when I check my bank account and future prospects when it comes to jobs. My upbringing definitely didn’t make me happy at the time. But as an adult I see why my parents pushed me. They had absolutely nothing then they scraped together something all for me to do better than them.

If entrepreneurship doesn’t work out worst case I’ll be making 250k plus somewhere, or 400k plus at big tech.

And if I don’t want to do that I could just learn something new since I learned how to learn. Yo dawg.. jk but seriously I can’t complain. Given our socioeconomic circumstances (dad was making like 30-40k and once my mom was able to get work authorization she could only find temp or part time jobs) I couldn’t have asked for a better set of parenting and parents.
>> "it's going to be really difficult for a lot of people to take it seriously with all this."

Putting off people with an aversion to furry art is a great way to filter out the most tedious sort of people. Try to please everyone and you end up pleasing no one.
For example, Azure App Gateway WAF has a policy category for “known bots”

So why should we take Satya's testimony seriously? Azure is a Microsoft product and if what you're saying is true, Microsoft is part of the problem.
I thought C.S. Lewis was an ardent apologist for a particular omnipotent moral busybody?
You could literally ask ChatGPT to write a program that automates composing those images
An actual metadata-aware browsing system that works from my couch, controlled by an ordinary remote or by my phone, is great, too. “Sort by release year” or “what else do I have by this director?” work seamlessly.
You guys have your whole genome? Damn, I’ve only got my exome.
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have you paid for your non-existent apartment in full already?
Well this is an amount of hyperbole I simply won’t interact with.
> ...you’re almost guaranteed to fail, but only because of your own _definition of failure_.

It's not _mine_ definition of failure. It's the definition of _people around me_, those I'm spending my life with - try telling them another definition, they'll laugh in your face about your cheating. That's harder to crack than just carefully looking and redefining things.
This seems incomplete: why was the only real package tested this QR package? Is this specific package a performance anomaly or a real reflection of real-world performance difference?
Got any reports/statistics to back this up? I highly doubt websites are not wanting major search engines to index them. AFAIK it's been standard practice to use `User-agent: *` for a long time. There are other anti-crawling measures because the bad crawlers are not going to respect your robots.txt.
mutual funds and asset managers owning a vast swathe of the index isn't the big conspiracy you think it is...
Extremely underrated comment XD
I understand there are hereditary cancers, but isn't cancer a metabolic disease in a lot of cases?
SIP is a useful bit of extra security that doesn't cause any other issues for me, and there's no need to disable it for encrypted volumes either if I use anything but VeraCrypt.
You’re confused why in an anti-trust case they may want to hear from competitors?
If I use the hosted version, I don't care that it's open source.

If I run your open source software myself, I don't care that you have a hosted offering.
I'm 'fortunate' to live near the US 'ground zero' for these and the stinkbug. The lanternfly seems pretty rare now, but those stupid stinkbugs (brown marmorated stink bug) are still everywhere.

From what I understand, the lanternfly is worse for crops, but the stinkbug, in my opinion is a far worse residential pest. They fly like they're drunk; constantly crashing into things with an audible clunk, and they're able to sneak through cracks/holes that don't seem possible. It's almost impossible to actually exclude them from your house, and once they're in, there's not many good ways to kill them without releasing their nasty odor. Even squashing them with a folded-over paper towel, the stink can still get on your fingers.

The best way I've found to kill them is to use an inverted air-duster spray, where the cold liquid propellant instantly freezes them before they release their malodorous oil. They drop off what they were clinging to, and they can be thrown away.
2013 - $220,000

2023 - $293,319.96

Federal minimum wage 2013 - $7.25 an hour

Federal minimum wage 2023 - $7.25 an hour

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
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I'd suggest changing the headline to the original, more sensationalized one.

It certainly went against my initial impression that an Amazonian brought Amazon culture to a startup, and got booted for it. In this regard, I'd imagine Meta's concurrent efforts to slash management provided a convincing pretext.
If you consider that it just "aims to" and makes no claim of succeeding to unify all languages, it isn't that wrong
I don’t know about Tetris, but in Pac-Man you can play it until the game crashes. I dunno if that constitutes a win, though, especially when the vast majority of the players are unaware that it exists. I think you’d be hard-pressed to argue that it is so significant, that it changes what kind of thing Pac-Man is.
This kind of reminds me of phone phreaking.
No, it's more like, if you and your neighbor have competing businesses, and you were accused of fraud, your neighbor testifies that you're an asshole. It's an opinion from someone who hates you/benefits from convicting you. Now, if they had actual evidence it'd be different (I assume not from the title, article is paywalled).
Isn't this more of the same? Now, after the fact, claiming you wish all voices had gotten equal attention? It seems quite apparent that the government + media + corporations collaborated for 2+ years to push one singular narrative and to do as much as possible to reduce or silence anyone who questioned it or attempted to demonstrate that it wasn't entirely true.
I was not able to reproduce and speed improvements over 3.11.
If you spot more you can post some pictures on inaturalist. There are 3 observations in Chicago at the moment.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=35&subview...
So what? Weed has had popular support for 60 years… You’re giving an example of a law that has very slowly changed across America and arguing that laws are very slow to change. It’s just irrelevant to this conversation. You’re talking about the supply/demand of pot while I’m talking about the economic consequences of copying human work without compensation. I agree ChatGPT is popular. So what?

Certain refrigerants and aerosols were very popular. Then we found they were blowing a hole in the ozone layer, so they were regulated. Popular things are sometimes regulated.
characters that alter their appearance to be one or more display units depending on the characters that are next to it (before and after). that would be a very crude example, but these types of characters appear all the time in human language
In the United States we have an adversarial system of justice. That means the prosecution gets to present their evidence and arguments, and the defense gets to respond and counter.

The defense will have ample opportunity to cross examine and present rebuttal whiteness.

And just because a witness is presented doesn't mean the fact finder (judge or jury) will find them credible.
It's funny how eager Americans are to break up the Big Tech companies that happen to be the only reason the US economy is not a complete dumpster fire. Look at GDP growth for the US vs. the Eurozone since 2008. The high level of integration, both horizontal and vertical, is what makes the US Big Tech companies so economically productive and valuable.

But sure. Kill your software industry. Does the US even know how to do anything else? Does the US even manufacture anything physical anymore? Last I checked tiny little Denmark produces more wind turbines than the US and tiny little Switzerland produces more CNC machines than the US.
800,000s per 1PB, off by a 10 factor
I ran technical operations at EnterAct. :)

(I left about year before the 21st Century Cable acquisition).
I like this! But I do think many markets make sense to be heavily regulated, beyond just anti-trust. (For instance, my work involves wholesale power markets, which are heavily regulated by necessity, but in my view remain better than vertically integrated monopoly power providers.)
Would you be comfortable about having everyone you interact with secretly videotaping and recording you, and possibly publishing embarrassing clips 5 years later?

Deniability allows you to have low-stakes, casual interactions rather than having every stupid utterance timestamped and notarized for possible public viewing later.
Microsoft has all the same services that Google has, including the ones you just mentioned and more.

Bing, Outlook, Bing Maps, Microsoft Store, Azure, Windows, Edge, Office, OneDrive, XBOX division, and more.

If they can't compete with Google, then maybe they aren't offering as good a service for most of these, and it's not for lack of trying to manipulate the market into using their services.

I do agree with what you said though, both Alphabet and Microsoft should be broken up, and I don't mean just having multiple separate companies that operate closely together, but proper separation. This also goes for META and Amazon.
Oh, i missed that re healthcare.

You are arguing a semantic issue that practically everyone is aware of. "free" in this context refers to the person receiving the service without paying for it, irrespective of who else is paying for it. Everyone knows it's not great wording.
I already felt the name of the field was terrifying, conjuring up thoughts of famines and quotas for workers with some arbitrary trait the network hallucinated. If we bring big corp into it, it gets so much more scary.
I have no idea how to prove he is lying, but theoretically there would be criminal consequences for lying in this case.
Well, actually, Google paying other companies to make Google the default is stopping Bing from getting traffic. That's why we are having this whole case, among other things.

In general, making contracts with 3rd parties that negatively impact your competitors is sort of looked down upon.
“An interstellar cloud of gas will remain in hydrostatic equilibrium as long as the kinetic energy of the gas pressure is in balance with the potential energy of the internal gravitational force.“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_formation#Cloud_collapse
LLMs are evaluated by asking them a set of standard test questions and seeing how they respond.

But they are not supposed to train on these test questions. If they do train on those test Q/A pairs, intentionally or not, the answers will be conspicuously good. A purposely seperate test dataset like that is standard in basically all ML research.

But Mistral has given basically zero information about the Mistral 7B training dataset. And they have less reputation to lose from "cheating" than Meta does.
> Unicode the complete, total and utter clusterfuck that it is.

I'm inclined to agree - they took a big problem and made it into a big & complex problem.

I propose a fix - immediately depreciate all multi-codepoint graphemes and provide single codepoint alternatives. That we should need to normalise something a basic as our text leaves soooo much room for problems. And the idea that some graphemes encode magically colour (emojis) ... :rolling_eyes_emoji:
My side project is a personal budgeting web app [0] based on these principles. The technologies to support this type of architecture are available and fairly mature.

For example in my budgeting app:

- All of the user's budget data is stored client side in IndexedDB
- Offline support via a service worker
- Peer to peer synchronization between devices via WebRTC data channel
- Lightweight IdP server which also handles the WebRTC signalling (via web sockets)

This setup is nice because the user's data never touches the server and very little server side infrastructure is needed (none at all if you don't need data synchronization). One downside with the data sync is that both devices must be online with the app open at the same time to sync, but perhaps this could be improved with web workers?

[0] https://dollero.app
(Rewind CEO here) I’ve been at this for a while: https://x.com/dsiroker/status/1708997628506292255
I actually skipped winXP entirely because my main computer was an old thinkpad with win2000, xp would have just slowed it down and filled up more of the screen with UI candy. When I eventually got a new laptop it had vista which was fine for me (this was several months after its release, so the teething issues were basically fixed)
Debatable. For example, software mediated interaction can transcribe, store, and share the results of conversations with little or no effort on the part of their participants.

You could of course wire up your workplace to do the same thing. But that would be creepy and intrusive.
> "We believe the marketplace should determine what innovations consumers want." - Microsoft, 1998

https://news.microsoft.com/1998/04/09/microsoft-advertisemen...
Does Google penalize sites for not blocking other bots? If not, then it is not Google "maintaining their monopoly", it is everyone deciding for themselves to only support Google.

The government forcing restrictions on companies that people choose freely is extremely dangerous and will definitely be used for political reasons.
From the article:

>I was amazed to know that woodworking was such a deep-rooted tradition
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Smb over the internet sucks. So good for multiple TVs single location.
> Do you have a source for this [power output profile of naval reactors]

I was a submarine nuke reactor operator. Can confirm, we spent most of the time at essentially idle. There are effectively three things that will cause you to operate at high power on a submarine:

* Boat needs to get somewhere _right now._ I've spent days at All Ahead Flank, which is mildly unnerving at first, because every parameter you can think of is just absolutely maxed out. Imagine Le Mans, but for multiple days, and when it's done you don't get to rebuild everything.

* Coners (non-nukes) are practicing maneuvers.

* Return To Port. While your Squadron more or less dictates this, I have definitely seen dates flex a little if your boat mysteriously makes far better time than expected.

Carriers AFAIK have a somewhat higher average output, because they use their steam for flight ops as well as propulsion and electricity, and the topsiders have their own schedules.

> ...they've got some average power output at which they could run perpetually over their shortened lifetime. What's that output?

Actual power output for current naval reactors is classified. You can find guesses in various places, some of which are close, and some of which is hilariously wrong.
I got long covid and was forced out of the work force as a result... but I'm not retired... I'm in the precariat... just hanging on.
I want to apply for intern role, whom should i reach out?
Well explained, thanks for the insights.
Questions:

- Can you specify a skeleton, so you can use existing animations?

- If the mesh needs triangles subdivided near joints to get smooth bends, will the system add them.
The railroad right of way that passes nearly under TCS is packed with the lanternflies favorite host species, ailanthus (tree of heaven). There's a large band of them running all the way from the river up panther hollow to Carnegie Mellon. It's a perfect breeding ground for the lanternflies.

(The gates building is covered in them too.)
Right! Is there a term for this phenomenon where people think their incredibly niche requirement should be ubiquitous and are astonished that it isn't?
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Nice, I'm sure that works great on an iPad in the car
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I don’t get why he saying “MS can’t compete” matters. It doesn’t mean it’s in any way true.

MS has almost every opportunity that Google has when it comes to search. They fail to compete simply because they aren’t good enough.

Google being default on Chrome the leading browser? Edge freaking comes with Windows and defaults to Bing.

Google being default on iOS? MS has every opportunity to take Google's spot on iOS. The fact that Apple, a major competitor with Google in the mobile space, sides with Google says a lot about Bing's quality - can't be money because MS is worth like 2.4 trillion.
See https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-...
That’s not actually a great analogy, since many musicians get along perfectly well without being able to read music notation.
I use Jellyfin quite often, for a fairly large library, and I don’t pirate anything.

You can still buy physical media, and if you own that media, it’s totally legal to rip to digital storage.
And then you have to deal with all the other antivirus vendors... it's so tiresome.

See also this helpful list (getting out of date unfortunately): https://github.com/hankhank10/false-positive-malware-reporti...
I was joking but yes, the waste is sickening. You just gotta laugh at some point. Or at least I gotta laugh at some point.