skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, don’t be cynical about it. One thing that I think a lot of us could benefit from is learning how to present a point in a way that people will listen. The key is to harness that hype — use your point to unlock some pent up energy for a new direction, rather than merely try to say it can’t work.

A lot of endeavors can work, even if only a little. Find some aspect of it that can, and flip the problem around. Even if the whole thing is mostly bogus, is there a small part that isn’t? Latch onto that.

Or go elsewhere. The wonderful part about AI is that the whole world’s problems are up for grabs. Part of why there’s so much unfounded hype is because of how many real advances have recently become possible. This period in history will never come again.

It’s also a rare time in history that an individual can make lots of progress. Most of us need to be a part of big groups to do anything worthwhile, in most fields. But in this case lone wolves often have the upper hand over established organizations.
Maybe you can segment your YT activity into different browsers (or browser containers).

That's what I wound up doing; each Google account has it's own container. For most of my browsing, the only thing logged in is Kagi.
This is an ignorant take; your thoughts are clouded by hate. 30k satellites are not "pieces of space junk". When they reach end-of-life they will deorbit and burn up. Just because you don't like the man that would own them doesn't change this.
I also love all the "new" threads generated by mail gateways changing the subject to something the likes of "Re: [EXTERNAL SENDER!] Re: Topic"
I think my tinnitus is so easy to ignore because it's perfectly even and at extremely high frequencies I probably can't even hear any more. Which is what I assume the cause is.

Honestly I didn't think I had real tinnitus because I don't notice it for more than a moment for weeks at a time, at least not enough to be bothered, although I've have it as long as I can remember. It's not all that loud, but after concentrating on it for a while it's been there constantly and consciously for a good 10min already and it's not going away!
Both major parties benefit from the status quo, regardless of which one's on top at any given moment or in any given district. I don't even know that it's about who ultimately wins the elections. It's probably even more directly about maximizing the amount of money that gets sent their way.
The way I look at it, we passed the point where there are so many people that no one can read all the papers in their field any more.

Peer review is the first filter that papers go through. It's not perfect (it makes mistakes in both directions), but the output of the peer review process definitely has a higher signal to noise ratio than the input.
This suggests a short-term vision. I think it misses the mark.

Your opposition to RCV should increase with your distance from the center. RCV reduces the chances of fringe candidates being successful. Traditional U.S. systems reduce the chances of centrists.

Most intelligent strategists prefer to lose 50% of elections than to lose 90% of elections.
That's insider trading.
> cleanly divide a minute or an hour into 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 equal parts

Lawyers bill their time in tenths of an hour - exactly 6 minute increments.
I'm sure it's possible to automate, if a sufficient market existed for the end product.
Most of those problems don’t apply to plastic waste.
> To my understand, autoregressive models should be unable to handle the prompt: You must write every answer in reverse, character by character.

Sure, for typical models where tokens usually represent units bigger than single characters (though single characters also have tokens), this leverages two weaknesses: reversing order and decomposing into alternative tokens.

(There are character level models, but they do worse at most interesting tasks; they’d probably be better at this gotcha game though. While I haven't seen systems that incorporate that kind of models to play games like this, its not unusual for systems to incorporate multiple different models glued together by application code, so I think this is just a matter of it not really being anyone’s top priority, rather than any theoretical or even practical technical barrier.)
Didn't Google try that already for their real name policy back in the day?
Agreed, but people usually want practical first.
Starlink, a corporation, has additional motives available to it that are not aligned with either my own or with regulations:

To selectively partner with only the highest bidder, and to sell them exclusivity to increase that bid, and therefore maximize the profit earned from their monopoly.

The CLEC system was put into place to ensure that this sort of maximization wasn’t permitted on the copper networks that were owned by regional monopolies. Starlink has a regional monopoly on LEO satellite cellular right now, and so they’re subject to the same principles.

If Starlink was a B-corp, or a co-op, I wouldn’t be so certain this sort of thing would end up being necessary — but Starlink as a United States for-profit corporation is compelled to prioritize the profits over all other concerns, specifically including the quality and price of service offered to customers. So, the US regulations forcing non-exclusivity will absolutely be necessary — just as we found with US West’s copper in the CLEC era — and those inescapable US regulations are not in alignment with Starlink’s desires.
this kind of concern is a great reminder to backup your google account, because you never know what reason google might have to lock you out of your digital life, often we see this scenarios where even their google fi account is locked so they are even locked out of their own phone number
Legally, Google can probably disable your account for any reason or no reason. Using an adblocker isn't a legally protected thing, so no legal reason not to do it.

That said, it doesn't make a lot of sense. If you have an adblocker on one device, but not others, why drop your account when they could push you to use the device they like you to use?

Especially since, despite the popup saying it won't work, video playback still works as of earlier this week when I saw it.
Is this basically the Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich?
Show HN: A Confidential DAO Voting System Using Homomorphic Encryption
Looks like Miro, but as the main interaction layer rather than a dedicated app. I feel like it would require extra user effort in terms of additional spatial memory to easily navigate?
IIRC (it has been years since I've worked with it) Windows Presentation Foundation does not entirely cover the same problem set? I mean to say, that I believe the solution space of CSS - the problems which can be solved with it - is much, much larger than that of WPF. I'm open to being updated, but can't everything that WPF does be done with CSS media queries + absolute positioning?
I wasn't arguing that orbital debris didn't matter, but my understanding (which could be wrong) was that these very low orbit satellites are not major contributors because they're low and deorbit.
Nice pun.

Jokes aside, that's a good point - but if you think about it, why should we want to ingest something that provides no health value and only exists to make the food product look more visually appealing?

I don't know what kind of epidemiological effects dye has had in the long run, but it just makes no sense to me that as a society we have said "yeah, color our food so it looks more appealing, even though chemically it's probably not great for us". Just sort of odd, honestly.

Nutritious food doesn't always look amazing, and that's completely fine by me. I don't eat food because of the color, I eat food because it's healthy or tasty.
This. Use Firefox containers to use different Google Accounts in different tabs. Or use Vivaldi, which can subscribe to Youtube channels and manage them alongside your RSS feeds.
I'm sure there's lots of B movie directors that made the same film more than 3 times.
The risk of a collison is non-zero. The risk of Kessler from 30K satellites in a 300 mile orbit is zero.
What if we threw those thermoplastics in the oil refinery and let them pyrolyse under the heat of the distillation&cracking column?
Someone apparently disagreed with me but provided no additional explanation. Oh well, such is life... on HN!
I have used Obsidian on my Onyx Boox Nova Air, and it's fine for reading, but writing with the stylus with OCR to write into notes isn't a great experience.
I've been to plenty of national parks with my dog. The rules are generally that dogs must be on-leash, and they are not allowed in especially sensitive areas. Those rules make a lot of sense to me.

The NPS hardly has a vendetta against dogs. At Carlsbad Cavern they even had a free kennel facility so you can visit the caves without worrying about leaving your dog in a hot car.
Yes, I do this regularly.
Another cat and mouse game. I got the same message the other day. I noted it, but also ignored it.

It is possible adblockers officially became mainstream. Part of me ia happy about it. Part of me is concerned companies will respond in the worst possible way.
Seems highly unlikely. If they made that policy then a good number of their own employees would immediately lose access to their google accounts.
Ask HN: Is it ever worth traveling across the world to see a medical specialist?
For over 5 years I've had a gait abnormality that neurologists and orthopedic docs can't identify.

Have any other hackers found success by identifying a specialist somewhere in another country and traveling there for a diagnosis?

When walking my left foot turns inwards, and I often stub my left foot on the ground. I have a video of it, but I guess it's the kind of thing a doctor would diagnose only in person?

• A couple years back it got better for 1 year and then returned a month after I changed my footwear.

• Zero pain, then or now. Normal sensation in the feet and toes. I can jump off the ground on one foot for 30 seconds easily, either side. Just bad walking.

• MRIs of the brain (with contrast), thoracic and cervical spine MRI came back normal, as well as MRI and EMG of the left leg, also normal. Neurologists don't think it's Parkinsons, MS or ALS. They pointed out they see this problem in people with foot prosthetics, not in average people like me.

The first 500 ~ 1500 steps seem fine (!) and then the gait problem starts and gets progressively worse.

I don't understand why there's no obvious neurological or orthopedic diagnosis by local docs wherever I've lived. I've heard everything from muscle weakness of the calf to primary dystonia to "you're not getting enough blood to the foot after walking for a while".

I found a gait specialist in the USA, but it's on the other side of the world from me.

Is it worth traveling there? Are all (developed-country) doctors basically going to be flummoxed, regardless of which country they trained and practice in?
> [The US government] can just put up their own satellite network and use it to wage wars on the other side of the world. Why is it the responsibility of a private entity to enable death and destruction in a country on the other side of the world?

The US military doesn't build their own hardware, they contract that out to companies. If the US government were buying a very large number of satellites, they'd be buying it from a company like SpaceX.

(Spoilers: they are! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities)
Nah, Loom is a really valuable tool. I cannot count the number of meetings I've been able to skip because I could just send a video out for comments. It's also much better than screenshots for providing context to Jira tickets and bug reports.
It's not really that people can't use them. It's that they're slow, annoying, hard/impossible to automate, hard/impossible to customize and give you RSI.

We've seen Web interfaces, they're hard to avoid. We've just decided that they're worse.
this sounds complicated, does this sort of thing work in reverse for things "developed" in the EU and used in the US?
Loom makes it very easy to voice over and annotate a recording, with both individually editable in a way raw screen recordings don't support, and to share the result via a link.

It's not (yet?) heavily used among engs where I am, but we love it anyway for massively shortening the feedback loop with designers who can drop a 30-second demo of some prototype UI at the head of a Slack thread and asynchronously receive the kind of nuanced feedback that'd usually need to start off with a (necessarily synchronous) huddle.
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Well, glibc could be considered part of the operating system, although this too is arguably not correct, because some technologies go out of the way to not depend on anything present in the system and be completely self-contained, e.g. fully statically linked Go binary with no Cgo usage.

Nevertheless, glibc is not the only system dependency which is often used by apps, another such example is JVM of a specific version, which is not tracked by any of the popular JVM build tools and package managers; and OpenSSL, which is too installed by the system package manager.

Dockerfiles exists to fix this by defining all the necessary installation steps as a sequence of instructions, but this is far from a proper package manager.
Onyx Boox have larger models (10 inch screens) with the added advantage of full Android with all it brings (lots and lots of apps) if you can swallow their disregard for the GPL.
Wasn't the US housing crisis of the late 2000s caused by that 99% threshold?

Not in finance at all but I do use reverse Kalman filters, to which this seems similar in core concepts.

While reverse Kalman filters are incredibly helpful in reducing cloud spends by predicting when to auto scale, you still have to have metrics to quickly recover from mistakes.

Based only on tech interviews with HFT companies, I would assume someone could predict your moves using these methods based on historical data.

But perhaps I am just too risk adverse or am missing the core concept.
I really wish they didn't just blatantly disregard the GPL
> Blood of your first born

I mean, that's just straight-up reasonable. There's no free lunches on this world /s
So if I was a former member of the KKK and someone published that they are the bad guy?
They still have airflow on the space station. And since brownian motion does a fine job of spreading smells up against gravity on earth, I would guess that it works ok in space too.
Same is true for tickets that have security policies in Jira.
Ask HN: What are you currently learning?
What’s a new skill / subject matter you are trying to learn? Do you have a particular motivation for doing so? What has your process been like?
Generative AI and Hollywood Can Co-Exist
I understand importance of respecting access control but if you're sharing a Google Drive on a private or public slack workspace, you probably are doing it wrong to begin with because anyone who has access to the channel is ideally someone you trust with the content ur sharing
The 12 factors go back even further, to Joel Spolsky's "Joel Test" in 2000:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
> How the heck is the anti-capitalist camp somehow aligned with the pro-war camp now?

I think both of those labels are way too generalistic. "I think people should cap out at a billion dollars" isn't anti-capitalistic. It's anti unrestrained capitalism.

Similarly, "we should aid Ukraine in defending itself against an invasion" isn't "pro-war". It's accepting of reality, i.e. there is a war no matter your feelings on it. And letting an aggressor do whatever they want is likely to lead to more war.
How does Krita compare to the current painting tools on the market?

As software, Krita seems pretty nice, albeit with a little bit of a rough UI. But the website and release notes IMO don't really excite or inspire compared to a lot of the other art tools. (Not trying to demean anybody's hard work, just giving a casual artist's opinion)
Tinnitus may have a psychological component. Many people, in this thread, talk about reducing or removing alcohol and having improvement. Alcohol does very weird things to sleep and the stress cycle.

One of the things that occasionally freaks people out is that magical talismans, regardless the magic.. actually work - at above placebo! In fact, even fake magical talismans.. work.. at above placebo..

Psychological things are very real and can be measured but can be influenced in funny ways. Something may genuinely fix or help the issue and not actually treat the direct symptom.
They give you the option to pay for the service and not see ads, maybe you should look into that before fantasizing out loud about them taking your account away from you.
Base Model 3 is under $35k and has well over 200 mile range.
Hype doesn't mean it isn't real.

There was hype with the Internet, and lots of scams, and naysayer, and bogus money, and real money.

I remember reading a Java 1.0 Book, and someone just casually saying "why learn that, that internet thing isn't going to last, it's all hype."
But Wh would be just as handy, and then wouldn't need voltages to be fixed in the comparison.

For example, I've got a battery pack on my desk that says its a 10,000mAh battery pack. No additional documentation on it. It has two USB ports for output and one USB port for input. Is that mAh rated at the 5V for USB? Is that mAh rated at the probably 3.6V of the lithium pack? Is it using some other voltage internally? Is it a 36Wh battery or a 50Wh battery or something else entirely? How long is it going to run my 5W load? 10 hours? 7.2 hours? Less? That's a nearly 30% swing in runtime that I don't truly know unless I go measure it, when they could have just stamped how many Wh its good for and I'd know.
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Sorry, but that's simply false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT#1985_test destroyed a satellite at 345 miles. Debris from it persisted until 2004.

The low orbit reduces the long-term impact of such a chain-reaction - we wouldn't be locked out of space for a thousand years - but it would still be a serious disaster.
It's my hope, but not my realistic expectation. I expect the ongoing class war to go hot.
Google's third-party cookie culling to begin in Q1 2024 for 1% of Chrome users
> Interesting that this project supports features you'd need for an internal network setup (trusted headers, forward auth) and an external facing network (support for Google/other identity providers, anonymous clients based on domain name).

Yep. There are two primary schools of thought on self-hosting, with echos of the VPN vs BeyondCorps tradeoffs.

The VPN approach is to keep everything locked down on a private network, likely a virtual network using WireGuard, and likely provided by Tailscale. The main tradeoff here for self-hosting is that everyone you want to share with needs access to your network, and unless no one has any private data you're still going to need account management of some sort. Also if one of your trusted devices gets compromised, the attacker can get access to the "soft squishy" inside of your network. If you're doing single user instance (SUI) hosting, this is likely what you want.

The BeyondCorps approach raises security to the application level, and exposes services directly to the internet. The main tradeoff here is that each app represents a potential attack vector. Since I host websites and file servers, obligator was built to facilitate this use case.
You can look at it this way if you want. Or you can look at it as people in rural areas and undeveloped countries are no longer slaves to the single telecom company that is out there charging them an atrocious amount of money for horrible service.
Interesting - I saw this article and thought it'd be talking about red #40, which has been linked to ADHD-like symptoms in children [1]. I've been pleased to see more food items replacing artificial colorings with things like beet juice lately.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441937/
Laundry, and the Responsibilities of Search Engines
"Entry" level?

TIL I can add "entry level cars" to the list of things I can no longer afford.
To a degree. However, they're also able to take out loans for liquid funds at near zero or zero interest rates (because the banks want their business) secured against stock holdings.

Just because you don't have access to 100% of your net worth in liquid cash today doesn't mean it's not worth anything/as much.
Tonga is 100,000 people. They could have aimed to Tuvalu, close to Tonga and only 10,000 people. Or Niue, same area and less than 2,000. I'm not sure Niue is an ITU member though.
I think this also explains in large part the change in Steely Dan's sound in the 70s/80s vs in the 90s/00s. The significance of perfection changes entirely when you can ctrl-z.

Great case in point is "The Second Arrangement":
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/26/the-most-impor...
Apparently living in California gives people cancer. I’m not sure how the rest of the world survives without all the same laws.
My immediate reaction was that value-wise it was a joke, how can they be worth $1 billion?

I agree with what you're saying here though, one click, ACL controlled and simple to use videos.

Concur with the enablement of the remote culture. I would have thought Atlassian could clone that so simply.

The Loom software is super buggy though, I have to open their site or extension or desktop app multiple times before it starts working, but when it does work the editing is just about OK. I have thought about using Google Meet to record my desktop, I've heard the editor in that is pretty good, and you can stop, start, trim/edit & share in Google Drive or share further with a link.
Anybody have any idea how well it works for reading books from web sites like RoyalRoad?
This thread seems a bit out of touch. Most folks are speaking on the practicalities of a 3 party system but are missing the elephant in the room.

IMO This isn't so much support for the 3 party system. It's the American public saying "Hey this is obviously broken so we need to do something.... anything".

Just like if you ask the average person "Hey what should we do about AI?". They'll say something like "Stop it immediately! I don't want that crap taking my job". We all know it's wayyyy more nuanced than that but the takeaway is people are uncomfortable with AI. Most people are too busy to be well read on everything.
Weren't there a couple of Black Mirror episodes that were trying to tackle this topic?
They should simply have gone the the industry standard route and lobbied to make it illegal to squeeze the bags by hand.
YMMV of course but it is straightforwardly useful in my experience.
Ah, so it's more about having a git remote to run `git pull` or `git rebase` against than the forge-specific stuff.