skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a sorta "satellite" IBM company. There was always a path or solution of some sort in the IBM world. Expensive as hell yeah but there was a path. And if you wanted to do something slightly weird or that IBM just didn't want to do... there were these satellite companies that IBM was happy to work with us to cover other solutions.

IBM never cut us off, was happy to certify stuff to work with them and so on.

There seemed to be a general understanding of "people are running their business off of this stuff so we need to make it work".

Google? Naw they'll just quit development and hit the light switch who knows when. Hard stop.
> The satellite pictures of Crimea i saw a while back looked quite drastic, this wont be any different. And as the other poster pointed out correctly, this is fertile wheat area.

To be specific, Crimea is not (Kherson is). Crimea is mostly dry steppes. They used to grow quite a bit of rice there, but that was because of the dam and the water it provided.
For receive only, yes, aperture synthesis (like the VLA and the GVLBI) is capable of resolving more precisely than even Arecibo could. But Arecibo also did a bunch of active radar mapping of things within the solar system, which aperture synthesis cannot replace. You can't solve the coherent beam problem without actually having an antenna that really is that big.
Yes, but that's a separate point entirely.

The point here is that facebook is particularly abhorrent. It's a risk to offload any data to anyone outside of your own self, but it's a serious mistake to interact with a zuck product in any way.
Well the "naked" reality is a commons, if you want an advertisement layer you put on your AR device.
> All of these regulations impact smaller tech companies more than the big players.

It's also often of questionable value. Attacking cookie banners on HN was taboo for years but while they allegedly helped protect our privacy, targeted advertising immediately adapted - and yet in 2023 - every user continues to be burdened with the casino of modal boxes (they are never the same place or colours or labels) on every website (not just EU users), hoping they get one with a clear "reject all" button so it goes away the fastest, rarely because they care about the implications.
No advertising = no new businesses = back to medieval, pre-growth times.

That is a little bit absurd.

Maybe the person you're talking about is on to something. Why not ban advertising? We could just list products and services in directories as is done with small business. It'd let startups compete more effectively by placing them next to the offerings of behemoths, with no presentational difference between the two. It'd be an amazing leveller between capital intensive enterprises and the rest.

(That's also probably why it won't happen)
> due to long and short positions

Those cancel each other. The important number is how it compares to the net amount. I don't think anybody does fractional reserves of commodities.
Ugh, A Nissan Leaf drivetrain in a fiberglass boat and it costs 300k? How do they need 100M? Bayliner is going to smoke them.

https://www.torqeedo.com/us/en-us/products/outboards/deep-bl...
It's always worth thinking a little more about these things than "Facebook is blocking EFF privacy tips."

Maybe:

* This account already scored poorly on spamminess and attempting to post a bare link (with no content) on their page pushed them over the edge?

* The EFF Privacy Tips link was somehow used in a parallel spam campaign, or some characteristic of the page itself causes it to be flagged as spammy?

* Something about this specific browser session was flagged, preventing posting? (this might go along with the No Violations observation about the page).

I find it much more interesting to try to reverse engineer these strange behaviors of some spam detection systems than to just chalk them up to a "Facebook hates the EFF" conspiracy theory - if this happened to me, I'd be doing some more tests to try to see what's up.
> Even if a person has/had a gray beard, why is that the characteristic used to describe them?

It's been programmer's slang for a very, very long time. At least back to the '70s.

I'm a graybeard, and I don't avoid using the term, nor do I find it offensive. It just means someone who's been doing this for a long time.

> There is absolutely no chance that someone says "I talked to a graybeard about it" to mean that they spoke to a (older) female programmer.

Since I've absolutely heard it used in reference to female programmers, there is more than "no chance".

In my experience, it's a bit like the term "guys". It may have been gendered at first, but it has largely lost the gendered connotations.
Ultimately one side invaded another and chose violence instead of diplomacy as you pointed out in your original comment. This party has a history of such violence. Any other extrapolations are mostly moot and pointless
When I was at Google I almost got in trouble a couple of times by asking if Google might have a monopoly. I was told to delete messages and to never say "The M Word".
>>Advertisements and marketing are immoral.

So if you are selling something it's literally immoral to tell other people about it? How do you think people will ever find your store or product that you make? Just randomly stumble upon it? I'm genuinely curious.
From Twitter yes. But NYPpost being banned and 50 intelligence agencies saying it had all the hallmarks of Russian Disinformation kept the ball out of the court until after the election.
> It's not reasonable because it's unsupported by the evidence.

I guess you missed the link I posted above. (It also seems to link to a slightly different page than yesterday.) The very best Amtrak line is only on time 70% of the time.

The majority of them are below 50% on time, some dramatically below.

https://www.amtrak.com/about-amtrak/on-time-performance.html
Some states (Maine, Vermont come to mind off the bat) have banned billboards. I don't think anyone is talking about a sign hanging outside of a shop - pretty sure people are mostly referring to digital advertisements.
Could you provide some more info? Like for what for instance? Desktop apps, mobile apps, saas, job openings, certification, courses, …?
I can't imagine they sold that many of these.

The correct move here would have been to offer a buyback/refund, starting at say 50% of the sales value for those that bought at launch 7 years ago going up to 100% for those that bought just before they stopped selling them (as far as I can tell: quite recently).

They already got those $600/year "management and support fees".

My take: Google simply doesn't care about its reputation any longer. They are firmly in the customer milking phase in the stereotypical giant company lifecycle.

Also: This kind of behavior in the B2B field influences (lack of) faith in e.g. GCP's long-term commitments.
They've literally been right the whole time, check the other link I posted.
Is FB privately owned?

I disagree with your sentiment. Being public/private doesn't make one more/less trustworthy. I would posit it is the business model of the company itself that should be given scrutiny.
That makes it pretty clear that this is a hardware obsolescence issue - the old hardware can't run newer android, and thus can't receive security updates, etc. The only real option is to cut off the old hardware in hopes they won't be left on and become a security problem for the owners. For a $600/month fee I would think Google should just replace the old hardware with a newer model, or they should have originally made the compute part of the system modular and upgradeable. But now it's just e-waste? I hope Google learns something from this, but they probably won't.
Yes? So?

The stack from boot-to-emulator can be 100% owned + managed by an organization or individual (and in fact, can be 100% OSS, except for whatever binary blobs are needed). Doesn't have to be crafted from bespoke bytes + bits to count. The important piece is that once this is running, there no one else that can prevent it from operating, except the organization or individual managing it (and perhaps dubious legal powers). Replacement hardware can be obtained. Backups can be made. Redundant power can be managed. The software can be re-installed. And if the unaffiliated OSS developers no longer want to maintain the software, the organization or individual can independently decide, if it is worth it to update the OSS themselves if no hardware or environment can run that.

We don't have to get rid of old working hardware. We should prioritize not being wasteful. And we should prioritize empowering hardware owners to decide for themselves how to maintain & manage their hardware, even if they want to go it alone.
That sounds a lot like “Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
hope we can support that in a few months
Do you suppose this dam would be in a destroyed state today without Russia's invasion?

And invoking 'integrity' while covering base for the invaders... Pff.
> If I had an hour, I'd like to expound on the significance of Americans buying precious metal at a loss through a giant vertical monopoly.

The only thing Costco has a monopoly on is $1.50 hotdogs. Also, inflation in the US has dropped by more than half in the last year. I think this is the opposite of countries like Argentina.
I was obtusely pointing out the danger of this sort of argument. If you're a fan of advertising, possibly work in advertising, then "capitalism is advertising" might get people to say "oh, I really like capitalism so I'd better put up with advertising blighting our culture and turning the world into a surveillance nightmare"; but they might instead conclude "is that right? OK, maybe we should get rid of capitalism then", possibly not what an advertising proponent would want to encourage.
Stop giving FB the benefit of the doubt
Perhaps looking at the latest GDP growth numbers will explain what they were saying.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/mnk1gp/eu_euro_area...
A major, important difference between the two is that a median HN user can read the Wikipedia page on STAR voting and come away not fully understanding it and have further questions (do score difference magnitudes matter in the runoff? Or only which is higher?).

Meanwhile approval voting is exhaustively explained by "vote for as many candidates as you like. Candidate with the most votes wins."

A "more optimal" voting system doesn't exist in a vacuum, public understanding and trust make a voting system more optimal. Just not more mathematically optimal.
They sure sell HSM on Azure.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing
What's wrong with advertising in general exactly? Is it such an immoral act to want to share the news that you are selling a new cool product? Are "Show HN:" threads immoral too?

The way I see it it's a consenting relationship between sellers and consumers; good for companies/artisans, good for consumers, good for the economy, good for the spread of new technology, good for the environment (second hand marketplaces).
I run a lot of hardware older than 8 years.
> and it's a mystery how anyone can put up with the flavour.

What do you mean? Do you dislike its taste? I enjoy its taste, although I usually just drink water with my meals.
Are we now just listing "people who aren't your friends" or are you making a specific point?
> You can't solve the coherent beam problem without actually having an antenna that really is that big.

What's the tl;dr on the math here?
I have many disagreements with Richard Stallman. And I think he has many flaws.

But I think the world is better with him than without him and that he's worked hard to further his mission. Not everyone should be like him, but it's great that he is.

I sincerely wish RMS all the best.
Ask HN: Thoughts on marrying someone for a green card
I've been living in the US (on an H1-B) for 3 years now and have started the green card application through PERM twice. The first time, I had to switch companies bc the startup I was on ran out of money. and the second time there were layoffs and the whole process re-started. I give up on this, It takes too long and it is too uncertain.

I think I've found a loophole in the system, pay someone that is ABOUT to get their green card to marry right before they get it. And so, I would just do an adjustment of status. (and completely skip the whole process and investigations). I anticipate less scrutiny since I am not applying to get a marriage green card, I would just obtain it as an extension of my spouse's.

The other option would be to marry a US citizen abroad, wait for 2 years and apply for a permanent green card and then move go back. More time and more work...

Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Ideas?

Ps: this is obv and anonymous throwaway account.
Even if it's automated, it's still not great for Facebook that they are treating EFF as a spam link. That's a story in itself.
It’s not at all clear to me that the account in question isn’t just banned from posting links, and they happened to try to post this one.

And without more evidence, that seems more plausible to me than Facebook banning links to the EFF.
People having a visceral hate of advertising and a vast swath of the internet's users block them in every permutation because advertising is good for ones mental health?

Car ads selling sex appeal, power, status and freedom are provable features of the car? Same goes for influencers pushing products, submarine marketing, etc... It is all psychology and it is manipulation at scale. Words at scale designed to manipulate people into doing something is psychological.
His favourite loudmouth demagogue saying it's so.
warframe, wow. and xbox probably meets your definition of a managed solution. Especially a mmo
GPU Support for Docker Nodes in Bacalhau v1.1
The point of efforts like this is exactly to make selective blocking infeasible. This will force the bad guys to choose between blocking nothing and blocking everything, and with the exception of North Korea, most aren't willing to do the latter.
I git cloned the repo and then ran sloccount after checking out various commits (just did `git log | grep -C3 'Jan 1 [0-9:]* 2017'` or similar to find the relevant commits)
I have at least one complaint with the numpy model:

When you chain a sequence of vectorized operations on arrays, loop fusion would save you from allocating memory for each intermediate variable, and the round trip time of moving it from RAM to CPU multiple times. I don’t know how good JAX’s JITted loop fusion is on CPU, but I’ve been very very impressed by Julia.

Eg: I had some Numpy code that took hours (and needed terabyte RAM) that was very straightforward to code in Julia, and needed only a few GB to finish in a few seconds — on my laptop.

I want to be able to think in arrays, but to also not have to materialize the arrays as much as possible.
>If you don’t trust me, don’t hire me

Exactly, but how can I trust you without knowing you ? Trust but verify right ?

I've also been a consultant and worked in a place where they manage sensitive data.
They told you on day 1 that the computer they provided is monitored for everything and that they can take screenshot from time to time. If you don't agree, you don't work there.

> The output of the work should be all that matters.

Not when you're hired hourly/weekly/monthly, the output is irrelevant.
If a company hire you for your time, it means that your time is at "their" disposal. If they tell you to be at the office during that time, you're supposed to be there.

And if they think that it's best for them to have you sit in a room with 20 other zoom callers for the possibility that you might talk with someone down the hall and that it might raise the revenue, that's their decision.

Work is a business relation between 2 entities with rules in place, if 1 entity doesn't like some rules, the relation stops.

And as they are paying, they have the right to verify that they receive what they're paying for, whatever it is.

Just like it's my decision to accept that I must pay the plumber for his time when I ask him to explain me some stuff about my boiler that I could read online.
Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me
I know that my employer (big company everyone here knows) is tracking badge scans as part of RTO compliance. I've had conversations with my manager about it because I'm supposed to be in 3 days per week but typically only make it 2 due to a physical therapy appointment. It's no problem, since I've worked it out with my manager, but I do wonder if I'll get swooped up in some dragnet and be forced to explain myself, or worse.
The destruction of the dam is so devastating to Ukraine that it is honestly insulting to even consider that Ukraine could have done this.

I don't think people in this chat realize the absolute horror of this dam destruction and how it has deeply destroyed the area, and been such an immense hit to the morale of Ukraine.

Only those with no connection or knowledge of the area, or the knowledge of the ecological and economic destruction, would even contemplate that Ukraine could have done this intentionally.
Advertising is a psychological war where thousands of experts in the art of manipulation combined with hundreds of years of learning and research funded by dump trucks of money are against you alone.
It's ironic that data governance and access control are getting to be a bigger deal every year exactly because everyone migrated off premises to the cloud. People lost control over their data when they migrated it to the cloud and now they try to take control back by imposing more and more policies.
Internet dependence is the difference. Even consumer electronics that don’t rely on Internet services often last a couple decades, and sometimes more.
Thank you. That answers the question I had which was, "why does trying to get the portal page return a load of data about the plane?"
How recently was one of these phones sold?
> A consequence of the first act of any (marginally) self aware entity: to believe it is at the center of the universe...

Your existence can have meaning without thinking you belong in the center of the universe. People can give meaning to events in life to make it easier to deal with them. While the meaning we give to things do not have any objective reality they still have a subjective value to the individual human that perceives it.
The suggestion was some expert based system...
Very cool! This makes a lot of sense across the board. Thanks for explaining this!
Disclosure: I cofounded the Bacalhau project

Unlocks a big speed up in ML workloads! Up next, WASM :)
Bush, Trump and Biden are all boomers, as were most people in congress. If you're blaming federal spending, it sounds like a reasonable statement to make that "boomers tanked the economy"?
I dont think that is the case and fractional reserve seems to be the name of the game for some of the ETFs. Would love some numbers regarding the long/shorts if you have them.
> When people suggest FSF is bad at advocacy, what they really imagine usually is they could have been nicer and said some of the things that everyone else in Corporate Open Source world say.

This is a straw man entirely of your own construction.
Of course you patch it, but you don’t assume that every system affected by this 0-day got exploited.
You try to check if some were and it’s obvious that people at Microsoft are doing exactly that.

Not saying that MS’s response was great, but I agree with GP that the whole thing is hyberbolic.
> That is authoritarian. Let people decide for themselves. I promise they are capable of making the right choices.

Who is making which choice, exactly?

I don't get to decide which adverts are presented to me. Best I can do is install ad blockers and get almost all of them… or campaign for laws.

Governments already have some rules about what is and isn't allowed in advertising, and block certain categories entirely — for example, the UK bans all cigarette advertising everywhere.

I don't know about the USA; I assume liquor and gambling have some rules, but that's just an assumption.
winrar is actually version 6.23 (2023-08)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR
> I’ve had my own startups and worked with tens of others. I don’t know anybody who has had good experience or ROI with paid ads.

And how many of those startups had a great product market fit and were successful, without a ton of incumbents in the industry eating their lunch?

How much budget did they have and how much of their runway did it eat up to try and run ads?

Many people blame ads for simply having a bad product that no one cares about and never finding the right audience for that product for them to even serve ads to in the first place.
All undesired&unwanted attention grabbing ones, simple. If one opts in to getting an overview of new things, or just trash, that's fine (so yeah, I think also all in public spaces). Personally, I really don't ever needed and will ever need them. I'd prefer just going for good objective test magazines / trusted reviews / known people recommendations if I have the need for something.
Yes, that's just my view and personal dream ;)

Anyway, the industry so far imo just brings >95% harm and bad and unnecessary stuff over humanity, and grabs my attention unasked everywhere, even where I kind of didn't opt in.

What btw about laws where certain advertisements were forbidden, e.g. alcohol or tobacco, or lottery, also in western countries.. that's not authoritarian but protecting children, right at least?
Surely Baez's even in American English (yeah, I know it's a Spanish name).

British English almost always adds 's for the singular possessive, even when the name ends in s, so Dickens's and St. James's.

However, American English often uses the plural possessive suffix ' for names ending in s. One Spanish name example I have seen is Bezos' for something of Jeff's (his billions, or his wives, I forget which).

But Baez' makes no sense to me on any side of the Atlantic.
I accept free speech as in I am free to listen to any speech of my choosing without interference from a third party. I do not accept that I have to hear any specific speech. The fact that reality lacks a good filter is a very serious bug that I hope gets fixed immediately.
What's Audi's excuse? 1/3 of a large number is still a pretty big number, and they don't have the excuse of being in their first year of operation. If there are pitchforks out for Tesla there should also be pitchforks out for Audi.
Slightly off topic but someone was convicted and faces ten years of prison for tweeting a meme about voting for Biden by a Facebook hashtag.

I've seen numerous instances of this meme appealing to supporters on both sides. Can't imagine someone on the other side getting thrown in jail for that. It's obviously inforced extremely subjectively, which is my point. Pretty wild that you can go to prison for such a long time for that.

I think in general this "election interference" is often used as a cover for politicians to exert pressure on social media and curtail speech. Often when you read about it it seems so clear cut (protect our democracy is the new protect the children). But govt forces often use it to censor.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/social-media-influencer...
The problem is that to afford those social benefits, Europe inevitably also needs to care for its economy. Since tech is now the biggest economic sector and will likely continue to be for the foreseeable future, it is concerning if the tech sector in the Europe gets suffocated by regulations. Perhaps you think this particular one is fine, but in general I agree with the sentiment that the regulatory approach in EU hinders progress and economic growth for not so tangible trade-offs.
I work in this area and to me, the tech is still super interesting. In particular, things like zero knowledge proof and related scaling/privacy solutions are at the forefront of cryptography in my opinion.
Lot of judgement about your fellow human beings, their desires and needs.