skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how we can read the same thing and come to such different conclusions. Can you elaborate on your view?

When I read this, I see a company effectively gloating about establishing such a firm monopoly, in part through "marketing/distribution investments", that they could effectively ignore their customers, and focus instead on entirely exploiting them. The document voluntarily choosing to parallel their level of control over their users as something normally only obtained by illicit industries, like drug dealers is, to me, just one of those 'wow I can't believe you were stupid enough to put this into text' type things.

In your mind, what would be reasonably viable smoking gun for a monopoly pursuing corporation to write down? The Sherman Antitrust Act is described by Wiki [1] as prohibiting "1) anticompetitive agreements and 2) unilateral conduct that monopolizes or attempts to monopolize the relevant market." It goes on to mention that "[a] monopoly achieved solely by merit, is legal, but acts by a monopolist to artificially preserve that status, or nefarious dealings to create a monopoly, are not."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
It’s tragic but I’m not shocked.
This has been a huge scam with contracting agencies, to the point I've had to reject some offers because the firm had a history of this.

The stinky part is that it's entirely out of your control. Say BigCorp hires WorkCo to staff up 30 positions with LevelIV skill. WorkCo grabs a bunch of people it thinks are LevelIII, sends them out an Official Uptrain Packet[1] to get them to LevelIV. Then BigCorp decides, eh, nah, we'll staff it internally - they pay the penalty to WorkCo and go on their way. Then WorkCo ditches the new hires, charges them for the LevelIV upskill package they sent out. You'll note that there is zero downside risk for WorkCo here.

How much do they charge? Haha, no one knows. None of these skill levels are documented consistently per-company - the GSO has rules, but they're circumvented constantly with all sorts of horseshit adjustments.

[1] Who certifies these is a VERY interesting thing indeed
The BeOS api was super nice. I was building a source-level compatibility layer for windows in my late teens.. BApplication, BWindow, etc., but implemented in the win32 api :-)
> It’s also partly the fault of the funding agencies. The open access expert and campaigner, Peter Suber, explained in 2005 why they are to blame:

> Researchers sign funding contracts with the research councils long before they sign copyright transfer agreements with publishers. Funders have a right to dictate terms, such as mandated open access, precisely because they are upstream ...

Sounds like the obvious "best spot" to fix the problem has been obvious for quite a long time now. Perhaps we're overdue for some investigations into how the publishers have managed to subvert the funding agencies?
https://archive.is/ljAKC
I don’t think it has to cover every single language to be useful, but of the big ones I’m surprised there’s no Chinese or Japanese at all, not even in beta, considering the amount of translation demand.
Compressibility hack?
No, it's not all or nothing. Good engineering is simple, relies on less, and trusts less -- it doesn't require trusting zero.

I also addressed the difference in the comment -- this type of software has no end-user / operator repair, and the costs of failure are great.

I know how a bike works, and I can repair it. (Time-tested materials like steel frames are also nice.)

I don't know how the OneWheel works. In theory, I might be able to read some of the source code, but that counts for very little. It's certainly more complex than a bike. It also hasn't been tested over a long period of time.

Well it looks like we've had a test... I haven't touched a OneWheel since I first saw them 5 years ago, and now it seems like I have some good info about them.

The test of time works!
Check out Korg Gadget![0] It's got an Ableton-Live-style clip launcher that's easy to compose in, and a variety of "gadget" instruments that produce different kinds of sounds. If you balk at $30 for an app, it goes on sale for half price a good 3-4 times a year, usually around holidays. You can hook up any midi devices (BLE midi or via the USB camera kit adapter, if not on a usbc iPad). If you've got an iPad with a headphone jack you can pick up an iRig clone for <$10 that gets you line / mic / guitar input, too.

If you've got an iPad that's probably the best start (it'll run on any iPad 2 or above). It will run on iPhone's but it's a bit harder to play. There's also a Nintendo Switch version (it's more limited, eg no audio recording or export), and a mac version (but it's pricey). Annoyingly, the Mac and iOS versions are separate, but at least the iPhone and iPad versions come together as one purchase.

[0]: https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/korg_gadget/
Are the employees to blame that the company overpaid? That's what I would ask.
Importance of Goal Clarity for Delegation
Aside: if anyone's trying to talk someone they care about out of purchasing something like this, I suggest tricking them into getting a skateboard first. I think that would ground most people in reality. Fuck around enough at low speed in less-than-lethal environments, you'll get onto a first-name basis with Newtonian Physics, and it'll clarify, on a viscerally intuitive level, what these types of machines are really about.

The first thought that comes to my mind looking at this device is "these are failure-is-not-an-option situations". There's many ways to fall off a skateboard without dying, and to me it's viscerally obvious, absolutely none of them will ever apply here. You can't recover onto your feet, because these lithium-battery things are like 300% faster than your top sprinting speed. You can't fall onto your arms either, because your inertial speed is faster than your autonomous reflexes. (You learn all about your autonomous reflexes). It's just your face, and skull. This is the first thought that comes to mind: there's no way to bail, 0% chance. It's just completely not-an-option to fail on such a device at cruising speed. And I'm grounded enough to realize, I'm not a person who never fails physical feats. That's not what a human is.
Water is always present in gas from a well, in pipelines going through permafrost, that water can condense out and block the flow, and eventually lead to rupture of the line.

It requires Western experts to repair and restart things. The last time it took 30 years to get things done, with Western experts, something the current regime lost access to permanently.

Total collapse of Siberian gas production seems inevitable.
That's interesting. Every startup I've ever worked at, the chief compliance officer & mlro was one of the first 2-3 employees to get hired (as far as I can recall).
To clarify: what specific remedy do you want the court to impose on Google, and how would it make things better for everyone?
The newer hollow cranks aren't problematic, so it can't be just that it's difficult to make a hollow crank. And it's not even that fancy any more, considering that the $100 FC-R7000 is also hollow.
>spread in offices all over the world. [...] People didn't understand the plans, were constantly duplicating work happening at other locations, and had very little ability to communicate with leadership.

Fuck.

My heart sank as I read this. I work at a company larger than the one you describe which has recently become much larger, and this absolutely nails what I have witnessed myself.

I have been thinking about pulling the plug and finding something else in the same industry. Maybe I should.
That's a really neat little business. I like it a lot.
Along these lines: https://www.skyfi.com/pricing
Most academic publishers have become parasites: they don't pay for the research, they don't pay the authors, and they don't pay for the peer review, yet they own the result.

One solution: as a condition of receiving a government grant, any derived work must be published as open access, zero embargo. The only reasonable reason for the embargo was to give legacy publishers time to adjust their business models. That time has past. We don't need buggy whip manufacturers, and we don't need legacy academic publishers. Good riddance.

I welcome the good publishers who have arrived at the future. We need to help get that future evenly distributed.
I think this comes down to failure modes. No system is going to be perfect (you'd need an infinite amount of resources) so you need to design failure methods into it. The same is true about laws. In fact, I'd say that this is a big reasons "laws are meant to be broken" because the ecosystem is always changing and intent and implementation don't always align. Sometimes laws that seem very good are incredibly stupid in certain situations. This is why we should never rule by the letter of the law alone. There's a famous philosopher who came up with the (namesake) "Blackstone's Ratio". In short "It is better that a ten guilty men go free than a innocent man be stricken of his freedom." Blackstone influenced many of the early founders for countries in the Americas.

So we have to ask ourselves, is this a thing that is beneficial to normal people. Is their right to be forgotten and their privacy important? You know people will always abuse this system, but is it better existing than if it hadn't? You will __always__ be able to point to abusers with __any__ system, so the truth is pointing at abusers itself isn't an argument against something. It needs more context. If the system is only used by abusers, then this is a problem. But terrorists and pedos use encryption (the common fingers being pointed) but so do normal people and it is highly valuable to normal people and their daily lives. Idk if removing your identity from Google is as important as that, but we should make sure we include more context than saying "people abuse it." That's a statement that will always be true.
I broke my pelvis and elbow while learning to ride a OneWheel+. I overcame the motor’s resistance when attempting to accelerate from a low speed and went flying off the front. Recovery was rough, but not the end of the world.

I still ride the thing. Mostly trail riding; I find the concentration required doesn’t mix well with bumpy streets.

I’ve also had injuries snowboarding and doing other sports.

The recall thing makes sense, but offering $100 to destroy a $1700 toy seems kind of lame.
What if you told them that indigenous people pre-colonization sometimes built dams, dikes and aqueducts, and made use of irrigation?
of course the category of victims of watching the sexual abuse children (ai generated or otherwise) is broad. It's a terrible thing.

You definitely do not fight sexualizing children by normalizing the production of child sexual abuse material. Come on now.
I guess my (possibly naive, definitely oversimplified) point was that if a foreigner wants a job where they don’t have to come to the office, why are they trying to get/maintain a visa in a place that might require them to come in? Seems they could seek most of those attendance-not-required US jobs from their home country (no visa required)
I'm sure that's labor intensive, and the only reason they can provide such a service is that almost no one uses it.
It depends on what level of data they get….

https://www.checkout.com/blog/level-2-and-level-3-data-in-cr...
What is a nosedive in this context?
https link:

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p828-deng.pdf
FastComments does a combination of Flex and a high flat priced tier: https://fastcomments.com/traffic-pricing

The bigger usually customers just reach out anyway.
Creators don't get compensated just because you wish them to be. Creators don't get compensated based on the fact that they put work into something. Creators can't demand money in license fees when something they produced is used by someone else, unless there's a contract saying so.

Copyright is not about consent to use. It's about consent to copy.

You're confusing copyright with licensing, where, for instance, I pay amazon to contractually license me an electronic copy of a book.

AI companies did not enter into and then violate contracts with anyone for the material they used to train. Some of them may have run afoul of ordinary copyright law to acquire the content in the first place.[1] Even supposing they did, that act is the violation; it wouldn't subsequently be an additional violation to train an AI using those works, instead of keeping the works around on a storage array, as long as it wasn't redistributed.

The alternative to AI models currently at issue—created by OpenAI Midjourney StabilityAI Meta Alphabet et al from a corpus of partly openly available content and partly content of dubious provenance—is not some license scheme where creators get compensated equitably. The real alternative is for companies like Disney and Adobe and book publishers and record labels to band together and have their own paywalled AI models and extract rent from that forever, which would still be sufficient to saturate the market for imagined content, and would still kill demand for everyone else's work.

[1] I'm skeptical, though open-minded, about this. I'm not aware of any successful lawsuits, or any lawsuits at all, targeting defendants who only downloaded copyrighted content from pirate sources, as long as they did not upload or re-upload at all. There might have been, and probably were sometimes, threatening letters sent to people's ISPs. Threatening letters don't mean anything at all.
What does this have to do with Android? Other Android mobiles do not have any difficulty making emergency calls.
Strip mining requires fertile hills to mine I suppose.
I like using a heavily scrutinized phone. When Apple throttled my iPhone 6, there was so much media backlash that they responded by adding an option to disable the throttling. Android issues like this would likely get swept under the rug, especially with a non-Pixel device where someone else makes the hardware and both sides avoid blame.
I suggest you make some (may be non-profit) ds project, to show as portfolio.

Mean, create site, create some ds pipeline from internet data and make something valuable, and add this site to your cv.

Try to sell what will output your ds pipeline.

Unfortunately, I have not good answer, on how you will pay your life expenses, may be you have to get job of waiter or courier right now, and make your ds project when happen free time.
Guilty! GPT is the best colleague I ever had, but boy does it speak. You can't just copy paste, but if you consider its responses as input I find myself less dependent on other senior consultants sharing their insights. It also makes me more confident in my assessments and deliveries.

Purpose of technology is to enhance our performance, GPT is very much doing so - but with great powers comes great responsibility.
Your libertarian take disregards that Google is only answerable to its shareholders and uses money as a primary motivator while the government is answerable to the people it governs and has public good as its primary motivator.
Ask HN: Is Canva Down?
I doubt it's political, Czech was included in the extension but is not available now that it's integrated into the browser. I guess more languages will come later.
what does "writing a database" mean?
You can get a loan without any collateral in some countries and under certain conditions. Banks in the countries I've lived in, across 2 continents, would all still perform checks on you before handing you any money and this process has nothing to do with whether the transaction happens in fiat, crypto or a new car.

Services exist to do what you want, but like in fiat institutions the checking process has to be performed "off-chain" in lieu of collateral. If your follow up question is "well then what's the point of crypto?", consider that getting a fiat loan at a bank with collateral still requires human checks in order to ensure that, for example, the collateral exists. In crypto, the collateral check is performed automatically and autonomously, and is therefore immediately more efficient.
Some very good points here. What happens to a Segway when it runs out of battery?
Scootcase
I am no C++ lover, but the success of Obj C is directly tied to iOS, and the success of iOS is directly tied to the iPhone.

The iPhone made VB6 developers learn Obj C. It was a seismic change.
Lost me at “muh capitalism”, pro tip if you want to be taken seriously don't reveal your misunderstanding of economics and 101 level vocabulary words so early in a video about an industry.
The article says to test by calling the non-emergency number, but that seems like a really unrealistic test. Even if they offered a test version of 911, I wouldn't trust that it works exactly the same as 911.
You believe that the government actually follows the law and that judges don’t just rubber stamp requests?
We can write safety-critical software. Look at NASA’s CMM level 5 processes for some of their flight control software.

I’m not as familiar with applications in other domains, but I know they exist. This is typically not fun code to write. It is bureaucratic and developed over decades. It is more an engineering discipline than most commercial software. And, it is organizational, this is not code written by a single individual. I would not trust that at all. More eyes mean more trust, broadly speaking.

The 737 Max issues were not as much about software as corporate cost saving efforts.

I have no idea if the OneWheel software can be fixed. I’m sure there was real talent that went into it. I suspect the first to market and other financial incentives were big factors in this outcome. Just the fact they are only now, apparently, adding user notification of error states is kind of crazy.

So I agree that certain types of organizations are not trustworthy, but I also think the safest code we have ever written was done by…organizations.
No one argues, that digital logic is indeed analoh, however you rarely see reliance on a passive element (in analog sense), to be "active" in a digital sense. DRAM is the only widely known example.
Laws have to be taken in the context of the culture in which they exist. If the culture is one in which it is normal to produce and watch the sexual abuse of children (ai generated or otherwise), then that culture should definitely not have a law that enshrines the tolerance of this behavior.

And yes, if you allow for the spreading of child porn, you approve of it with your silence. If, on the contrary, you believed it were wrong, it would be your duty to do something about it, such as making it a crime.
Related question: any suggestions on what to try next after LMMS?

I was planning to try Reaper or FL Studio.

My biggest complaints with LMMS are: doesn’t support VST3, can’t see notes for multiple tracks at the same time (although I saw a “ghost notes” patch someone was working on for this scenario).
It’s funny how people are focused on “deterring china” than fixing problems at home. For a developed country our labor protections are poor, public transport is laughable and universal healthcare system is just non-existent. US has invaded more countries than china ever did. It gets me angry when $800 billions are spent on military(Raytheon/lockheed Martin), Apple is stashing their money horde outside US for avoiding taxes and we ask teachers and poor people in general to just pick up by their bootstraps.
China has definitely done bad things but definitely not as much as US. How about we take a page from their rapid infrastructure development and improving quality of life for most citizens rather than dumping money into arms dealers under the disguise of fighting “communism/socialism”.
They give a 6-year old 600 mg of itaconazole per day when the adult dose is 400 mg/day and there is a risk for liver damage because he is "silly", "jumps", "shrieks" and has "foul stool odour"?

This kind of quackery has crossed into abusive territory, and heavy flogging as seen as in the Passion of the Christ would be appropiate for the physician and the parents.
diet coke has 25% or so more caffeine according to some comment on this thread, and I personally see my neurodiverse friends consuming more caffeine than neurotypical ones (esp in non-tea/coffee ways). think monster, mate (sparkling drink, not tea), caffeine pills etc.

that's be my guess why, assuming there's any correlation whatsoever.
I asked GPT-4 if they could "summarize for idiots". I do not have enough knowledge to say if they summarized it accurately, but for anyone like me, who felt like a very big dummy while reading this, here's the summary:

The essay discusses a method to prevent Sybil attacks, where a single adversary controls multiple nodes on a network to subvert the network's functionality, in blockchain networks by making it unprofitable for malicious nodes to add unnecessary 'hops' in transaction paths. Saito's mechanism rewards nodes for efficiently routing transactions to block producers, thus making Sybil attacks less lucrative. This is further illustrated with mathematical proof and examples comparing honest and Sybil behaviors, highlighting how the expected rewards change in both scenarios .
I think you're naive if you imagine that medicine is innocent of these problems. Medical companies have huge incentives - literally worth billions - to make their results "come in right".
More like Europe in general. There is hardly a country in Europe that wasn't in a number of wars and/or its borders redefined several times.

Europe's history is full of clashes between & within its states.
Studies have been looking into this effect (whether media consumption leads to more violent behaviour). They did not find anything. Death metal does not turn people into church-burning Satan worshiper, Doom did not cause Columbine, Hollywood movies did not increase homicide rates, and there hasn’t been an explosion of rape cases as porn became ubiquitous.

Stop moving the goalposts and your transparents appeals to emotion all over the discussion. If you have data or sources, show them.
"Always write a database. Even if you don't want to, even if you think you shouldn't."

Sometimes, naivety is a good helper when it comes to learning - too much knowledge of the task ahead can be demotivating. No one was born a professional developer either, and only by encountering and considering problems as they occur can one truly understand why certain decisions were made in the past and stuck around. Also, many great projects started as hobby projects. And not all projects have to become fully functional, or correct, or ready for production.
There are releases, they're beta, but quite usable.

https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta4/
I'll be worried when I hear the first case of an employee getting in trouble for doing something innocent on corpnet. Right now I assume they can see everything while using one of their devices or on their network but they never bug us about it. They seem mostly interested in stopping malware/leaks, which seems quite reasonable.
Building/developing/creating a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database [management system].
Translating between European languages is easier for a couple of key reasons:

1) In most cases, European languages are fairly closely related to each other, so there's less inherent "impedance mismatch" in translation than there would be to a more distant language.

2) The EU translates many of its official documents to the official languages of its member states. This makes for a large corpus of high-quality training material, e.g. https://www.sketchengine.eu/eur-lex-parallel-corpus/
Wi-Fi 7 Sensing: Adding Motion Sensing to 2024 Intel Wireless Platforms
Writing software to store data, with retrieval and querying APIs, not using any existing database system.
Please provide some evidence. How is it hard to understand?
Get the variety that's statically charged, those are really deadly. Insect asbestos.
40,000 a year for a support contract.

https://bionic-gpt.com/services/