skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I more or less agree, except for this:

> Every politician who accepted money from SBF should also go to prison if they don't return 100% of the money given to them.

Even if they surrendered all the money given to them, and lets assume they even paid interest and another fine on top of that, I'm not sure they should be allowed to be politicians anymore.

Politicians are very specifically a "trust" job. The fact that they even took the money signals that they were receptive to bribes, and I think should signal to the courts that they cannot be trusted to represent the will of their voters. Just because bribes and lobbying are commonplace right now doesn't mean they should be.
Ask HN: Web app for building family tree
Hi HN, I’m looking for a good web app for building family tree. Preferably one that’s almost free or with one time payment. Features should include ability to upload photos. Don’t care about fancy bells and whistles but ability to export image of the entire tree in high quality would be super. Thanks in advance!
> It's also "way too old and way too energy-hungry housing which cannot be fixed anytime soon".

The obvious thing to do with the Ukrainian refugees was to put them to work retrofitting insulation. But it's better to keep everyone impoverished and cold, in the minds of politicians.
"The video from the autonomous vehicle showed the front and left side camera angles and started when the AV is stopped at a red light, to the right of the suspect car, at the intersection of 5th and Market Streets. The light turned green and both cars proceeded through the intersection and approached a crosswalk. As the two cars approached the crosswalk, a woman was seen walking across the crosswalk despite the oncoming cars. She unsuccessfully tried to beat the manned green vehicle to the left side of the AV."

"When the pedestrian was hit by the green car, she landed on the hood of the car, flipped over the roof and rolled off the right side of the car. She slammed onto the pavement and landed right in front of the AV. The AV brakes engaged as soon as she hit the pavement and then stopped on top of her. She landed parallel to the lanes. It’s unclear from the video if the front tires ran over her or if she just ended up underneath the car."
> Just as the early internet was allegedly only used for crime

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Tinder gets around this by sending fake "You have a new like" or "You have a new match" message nearly daily. You open the app and have neither. I turned off all notifications except new messages to get rid of this.
I have been working from home on and off since pre-pandemic, but when it become a full time thing, I bought a KVM and a vertical laptop stand.

My team members do not care about being on video in calls, so this works really well for me.

I click shutdown, click the button on my KVM, and I'm done.
What would be unrealistic is if they spoke exactly the same dialect as us.
I've also seen that too. The no-free-form entry sucks. I went to a pretty big public school, but for some reason it wasn't included in the pre-populated list on one job I was applying to. No clue what the company using it's controls look like, but I even checked over big name public universities to see if they were on the pre-populated list and it was surprising how many were missing. Like UNC (University of North Carolina) wasn't listed.
More the latter. Why would any retailer carry your product if you're going to undercut their price with your own direct consumer sales?
Because it's "X premium". The oldest trick in the book is to advertise an "Anal ticker, send cheque for £10 payable to Personal Services Ltd." in a porn magazine, cash the cheque then send a cheque for £10 back on the account "Anal Ticklers Ltd", sorry we ran out. No-one cashes the cheque out of embarrassment.
Richard Stallman is the safest, most protected pedantic nerd in pedantic nerd-dom. He resigned from the FSF and was just let back in because he's Richard Stallman, without so much as a vote or a note to the membership.

I get the feeling you're trying to turn this into a "normies hating the neurodivergent" argument or something, which I've seen done countless times in defense of RMS, but that isn't what this is about. No one is out to get the guy who's too weird. He defended pedophilia passionately in those ill-advised posts for years and only bothered to retract after the whole debacle went down. Only once, afaik, almost as an afterthought. And he had a history of creepy behavior towards women that people aggressively ignore, discount or otherwise invalidate.

This is the issue - The reaction to him and to his words was perfectly reasonable even if he didn't mean what people thought he meant. If RMS were anyone but the ur-neckbeard "install Gentoo" avatar of nerdkind, with his history and paper trail, no one here would be giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Can quantum computers bring an end to corrosion? – IBM Research Blog
It’s the law in most countries. It is a fact, averaged out globally.
As the OP said, they go for a run with that time.
I read a great quip: If a person can't be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?
I didn't state anything like that, actually.
If anyone really cared, they would fix the broken ecosystem that encourages people to redownload the same packages millions of times.

Picked a popular package at random, webpack. npm says version 5.88.2 released 3 months ago has 5,992,398 downloads in the last 7 days.

I don't know how anyone can look at that see it as anything other than a massive failure.

Fast connections and free bandwidth have caused people to completely ignore the fact that every time some CI pipeline runs, npm goes off and downloads 100MB of dependencies. Dependencies that haven't changed since the pipeline last ran 30 seconds ago.

npm could fix this by aggressively rate limiting clients that have already downloaded the same package multiple times, but I guess as long as the vc funding is paying the bandwidth bill it's not a problem, and those "millions of downloads" make you look good.
all Democrats voted against him, so he certainly didn't "work with the Democrats" by their measure.

basically he made friends with noone. the next speaker should be a little more careful
I am curious, do you see a lot of transactional / high velocity updates to vector embeddings in an underlying operational database system? Guess we'll see more of that in future and still at the beginning? I ask b/c you describe regularly writing the data and latency to merge/keep up BUT one could argue that using a completely distinct system makes it even further from the source of truth and hence inherently harder to keep up
Interesting number: how does this relate to their monthly profit and monthly users?
Thanks for the kind comment. While I'm sorry that the service wasn't the right fit for your family member, I'm glad that our support team handled it gracefully.
Erik has a ton of excellent work! I remember stumbling across his Wanderers video several years ago.

https://erikwernquist.com/wanderers
Thanks! I was looking at stuff that lasted the mentioned 3 years which I couldnt track to anything, and grouped the Poland invasion as part of this pact, though it's worth mentioning separately.

Fwiw, Non-aggression pact means no aggression against each other but it was an coordinated invasion of Poland, so your right.
Very funny that it comes from WSJ, which preapproved all of these narratives in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-criticism_(Marxism–Lenini...
Leporello.js follows a pragmatic functional approach. You can use IO functions and throw exceptions as you typically would, without the need for an IO monad or an Option monad. However, there is one critical limitation – you cannot mutate your data structures. Mutations are not allowed because they would make time-travel debugging impossible. For instance, the following code is forbidden:

const point = {x: 1, y: 2}
point.x = 2

And instead you should use this:

const point = {x: 1, y: 2}
const another_point = {...point, x : 2}

In Leporello.js, it's vital to avoid mutating data structures; instead, you create new ones. You can watch Rich Hickey's insightful talk [0], where he discusses the advantages of immutability in functional programming.

In many ways, Leporello.js bears a resemblance to Clojure. Clojure served as a source of inspiration for Leporello.js, to the extent that I even contemplated building Leporello.js for Clojure first.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsiVyC1kM
What? No, that's confusing enough it's almost hostile. The fact thst your math is wrong is proof enough. 50% to 200% more time is 1.5x to 3x slower.

I don't like how it was worded by the author. But all you've done is essentially invert the wording while making the math MORE difficult in the process.
To be fair to Cruise, training data for situations like this is going to be sparse.

Most of us will drive for an entire lifetime and never come across a body in the road.
>The only solution is for Republicans to start working with Democrats across the isle and just ignore the clowns.

Those "clowns" actually represent the views of the republican voter base, not donors in the military-industry complex. A decade ago democrats would have been celebrating an anti-war win like this, but now roles have swapped and democrats have become the party of the warmongers.
You should run a sales team where you pay commission on how many offers to sell they make.
> No one forces you to use all possible arrows, you can learn just one, and use that.

Not if you want to read other people's UML diagrams, which is rather the point.
How could you return gas to a gas station? Why/how would they take it back, especially with no receipt?
I would bet money the correlation between number of hours worked and criminality is inverse.
(Here's some evidence that increasing the minimum wage increases crimes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004727272...)

In terms of impulse control, here's a study that shows people commit less crimes on Adderall than off of it, which in addition to all the correlational studies is pretty strong evidence that improving impulse control reduces criminality. Also in my personal life I know people who are poor and rich and too a man everyone I know who's committed the types of crimes we care about had some combination of poor impulse control or psychopathy.
It's well known that the consumer welfare focus only started in the late 70s, thanks in big part to Robert Bork's (the one whose SCOTUS nomination famously failed) "The Antitrust Paradox".
VM or hot swapping a drive works fine.

> I would also never pay any money to maintain a computer to do work for a company.

Yet you’re seemingly happy to shell out your own time and money to pay for a train trip when it rains. I doubt your arguments here.
https://github.com/Narsil/rdev#linux
> Not sure what you mean

Look at the risks a poorer person in the US has to contend with, many of them life-ending expensive, as well as the difficulty of finding places to live that offer decent job markets, services, amenities, and are affordable.

Life here can get really ugly for people that are well above the 'poverty line'. That's not to say it's really the overall economy making things hard for them, but more like microeconomic constraints. However, that's the lens they see the economy through.
"Price matching" is standard practice in virtually every major retailer...
Runner-up headlines:

“Voluntarily joining the Nazis doesn’t necessarily make you a Nazi.”

“Does signing up to take orders from Hitler make you a Nazi? Science says no.”

“Is fighting for the Nazis a bad thing? Experts say it depends on who you hate.”
Are you on Windows? I've had the issue and was able to fix it by manually adding these system variables:

PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_LIBRARY = c:\Program Files\eSpeak NG\libespeak-ng.dll

PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH = c:\Program Files\eSpeak NG
I guess the name 'zitsel' was already taken.
> On the whole people commit crime because they are desperate

You recognized that drug possession is widespread and illegal in SF. Are they committing these crimes because they are desperate?

Since it really depends on the crime you cant largely attribute it to 1 factor.
The editor tried REALLY hard to get that driverless thing in front in the title... fucking scum.

"Woman, on red light, gets hit by human driver and gets yeeted onto autonomous vehicle", ah, yes, make the article about autonomous car that just stood there.
The anti-NATO pro-Russian wing of the Republican party becoming increasingly dominant sends a worrying message across the Atlantic especially to the Baltic countries.

Honestly at this point I don't see any other option than the Baltic countries developing nuclear weapons.
Lest anyone think this is limited to "soft sciences" we should recall that this "settled science bias" happens in hard ones, too: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/264/timeline-of-meas...
> Kagi, as everyone seems to forget, is a frontend for the Google Search API

Do we have recent numbers for this? I find Kagi’s results hands down better on most queries than Google.
If you have never heard of Bernstein, this may look like mad ramblings of a proto-Unabomber railing against THE MAN trying to oppress us.

However, this man is one of the foremost cryptographers in the world, he has basically single-handedly killed US government crypto export restrictions back in the days, and (not least of all because of Snowden) we know that the NSA really is trying to sabotage cryptography.

Also, he basically founded the field of post-quantum cryptography.

Is NIST trying to derail his work by standardizing crappy algorithms with the help of the NSA? Who knows. But to me it does smell like that.

Bernstein has a history of being right, and NIST and the NSA have a history of sabotaging cryptographic standards (google Dual_EC_DRBG if you don't know the story).
Excellent ideas. In the US, metropolitan rail transit systems need a dramatic reimagining. They are expensive, slow, and often crime ridden. Would love to see their right of way put to better use.
Wouldn't you just order one as the legitimate manufacturer, check if it's fake, and the sue the shit out of target and the seller for willfully selling counterfeit product after having been warned about it? I don't know about the US but in some places knowingly selling fakes is illegal.
The problem is computers. Just get rid of them and this becomes irrelevant.
You have maybe missed word and I used between those two. Because my post was not clear enough that I was talking in general about both presidential and congress elections.
Ok, the thread here is someone talking about a 6 to 21 minute commute. IMO that's not a significant amount of time saved.
I think this approach isn't ideal because you're representing pixels as 150x150 unique bins. With only 71k fonts it's likely a lot of these bins are never used, especially at the corners. Since you're quantizing anyways, you might as well use a convnet then trace the output, which would better take advantage of the 2d nature of the pixel data.

This kind of reminds me of dalle-1 where the image is represented as 256 image tokens then generated one token at a time. That approach is the most direct way to adapt a causal-LM architecture but it clearly didn't make a lot of sense because images don't have a natural top-down-left-right order.

For vector graphics, the closest analogous concept to pixel-wise convolution would be the Minkowski sum. I wonder if a Minkowski sum-based diffusion model would work for svg images.
No, no one thinks it's just for death row, only that executions are final and there's no undoing them, and so the expectations among the general public are that we're much more careful in those cases. We can release a falsely jailed person and even pay restitution or the time lost, but we can't do the same for an executed person so the stakes are higher and one would expect a lower false positive rate as a result.
> I guess most people don´t care that much about participating in forums that are, for all practical purposes, essentially ephemeral

For me at least, chat in general is ephemeral - I don't care about history past the last couple hours - the same way as I don't record regular conversations with people and listen to them later.

For this reason I'm much less concerned about vendor lockin with a chat solution than I would be with email or more forum type stuff - if Discord starts sucking I don't lose anything by moving to something new (assuming it sucks enough for the communities I'm in to move too).
personally when I come into the office, I can focus a thousand times better than at home. I go absolutely crazy at home. When things are wrong at the office, I often ask myself "why did I come in today" but I regret working from home every time.

For context, I have an amazingly comfortable at-home set up that is often better than the office. I also worked from home for the last few years very successfully. And I have to commute an hour each way. I have been less stressed working from a chaotic office than a quiet home.

My point here is: for some people WFH is the way, for others it is not. Having flexibility to stay home on a day and take my daughter to the doctor is amazing. Having to stay home every day is painful to me.
The fact that automated vehicles operate with much broader safety margins with regard to driving conditions definitely contributes to them being safer overall - humans choosing to drive in worse conditions objectively makes them more dangerous drivers. I also suspect that what others are getting at - that under the same driving conditions safety margins as robocars, humans have a lower accident rate - isn't true, considering the bulk of motor vehicle accidents occur during normal commutes during daylight hours in nominal weather at low speeds. I suspect that even if you control for the elderly, the drunk, and inclement weather, humans will still have worse statistics. I think that humans have a tolerance for risk and ambiguity that makes for statistically worse, albeit more predictable, driving behaviour. But much like you, I don't have any better data to back this up.
To some extent, but the TikTok craze was just crashing it, which happened to my parents. The car made it all of 30 ft and they hit a tree. Honestly not sure what local police can do to stop that.
I just assumed they were a well-oiled ~~corporate~~ [strikethroughed] marital unit
That's why I said I and not in the second person. I'm not interested personally.
It sounds neat. I'd need to see how productive it is for a real world production environment to figure out the value. The splash page design though is an absolute delight for me. Scrolling feels slow though.
Kansas police chief who led the raid on the Marion County Record has resigned
The vast majority of lottery winners are not of the instant robber baron generational wealth level. "1/3 of lottery winners" has to be qualified with what the minimum payout was that we're talking about here because obviously a lot of lottery winners are exactly the sort of people who are going to be living paycheck to paycheck, or even in such dire circumstances that they are likely close to bankruptcy anyway. A 50000 or 100000 or even 500,000 dollar/euro lotto windfall is likely to exacerbate their fundamental problems rather than solve them.
So, and I'm feeling a bit stupid here, not visible light? Because the pulse must be a complete wave, right? It goes from not being there, to being there, to not being there. And "a few dozen attoseconds" is very much shorter than the wave period of visible light. These flashes are low end x-rays?
I’m sure you realize how abnormal your opinion is. Most people and societies disagree with you. You shouldn’t speak as of your ideas are inherently correct.
I always felt more connected to my coworkers when we are regularly working from home. The office is such a false environment people just act very differently.
Portugal to scrap ‘unjust’ tax breaks for foreign residents
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37752461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37748405
did.. did you remember this? it's accurate, that's amazing.
I'm using Starlink in Nebraska. It is reliable with cloud coverage. I have only lost connectivity for 5-10 minutes during the fiercest part of the worst thunderstorms.
A group of funders represented by charitable institutions and organizations provide care grants for families, children, education, etc., starting from $250 to more than $200,000. Hurry to review the eligibility and ineligibility conditions and submit your application to obtain one of these grants now.
Programmation Par Contraintes [pdf]
Python 3.12 Preview: Static Typing Improvements – Real Python
AFAIK the drug laws the US deals with today primarily stem from the “Drug War” which was politically motivated to target Nixon’s “enemies” (blacks and anti-war activists):

> Americans have been criminalizing psychoactive substances since San Francisco’s anti-opium law of 1875, but it was Ehrlichman’s boss, Richard Nixon, who declared the first “War on Drugs” in 1971 and set the country on the wildly punitive and counterproductive path it still pursues.

> [Ehrlichman, Nixon’s advisor for domestic affairs] “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-shocking-and-sickening-st...
Yeah. :(
Sorry, was FTX a florist? I'm confused by your remark. Can you show some evidence that FTX was selling flowers, and that they had been using customer deposits for flowers on business expenses?
This headline should be illegal.
At my last job, I occasionally ran into people worrying about SHA-256 collisions for non-maliciously created build artifacts, so I wrote an internal wiki entry with the back-of-the-envelope estimates.

If you're really paranoid, use getentropy() to seed AES in counter mode, and generate 256-bit cryptographically pseudorandom IDs. Assume your system consumes 1 trillion (2^40) IDs per second for 1 trillion seconds (34,000+ years). The probability of a collision over that time frame is roughly (2^(-(256-80)/2)) = 2^-88.

(Actually, in counter mode without throwing out any bits, the probability of collision is even slightly lower than this random oracle model suggests. This is true even if there are multiple independently seeded streams, as long as they're all seeded with high-entropy sources.)

Assume the probability of a life-threatening dinosaur being cloned in your lifetime is one in a billion (2^-30), and if so its escaping is one in one million (2^-20), and if it escapes the chances of it entering your house and you being able to save your life by looking for it is one in one billion (2^-30).

In this case, it's roughly 256 times more rational (assuming your death and the consequences of an ID collision are equally bad) to check under your bed for dinosaurs vs. checking for ID collisions.

Also, the probability of radioactive decay flipping the comparison result bit at the exact moment you compare you random 256-bit IDs is much much higher than the probability of collision. So, if you're paranoid enough to check for collisions, you should be checking multiple times.

Of course, the above analysis all hinges upon correct implementation and high-entropy seeds. These are the real weak points of using large random IDs, so audit and test your code early and often.

Carry out the above analysis with 122 bits of entropy for UUIDv4, substituting your actual system lifetime and expected consumption rate, and you'll likely find similar results.