skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, yes I have read Black's "IBM" and it left a huge impression on me.
Something I cite from time to time. Thanks for refreshing that
pointer.

On that theme of tyranny recruiting willing mild-mannered regulars,
Browning's "Ordinary Men" is a horror show, well worth a read. I also
dipped into a lot about Rwanda (Hatzfeld's "Laid Bare") while writing
a chapter in Digital Vegan about Facebook's role in Mayanmar. What I
found fascinating about Rwanda was how fast everybody got sucked in,
and the role of the media (mainly radio) in that.

In a "post truth/ post trust" society I think that as techies - with
enormous power of influence - we have a duty of intellect to
understand and counter the abuse of disinformation, incitement,
dehumanisation, and so much of what technology can easily be turned to
in the wrong hands.
I see, maybe that's why they only add motors to the back wheels, though.
Same. My fingers tell me when the dishes are clean, not my eyes.
Yea, they aren’t stalking you everywhere you go, and they don’t install malware on your device.
Yup, here Starbucks is having to explain to Labor as to why foam floor mats for reducing fatigue are a trip hazard and must be removed if your store is attempting to unionize, but not otherwise…
So: I estimated 365 miles/year and you had "hundreds of miles/kilometers annually." I don't see anything to argue about, specifically, especially no one really knows.
So does Meta.
I have no problem with genuine questions like "Who do you think should or would use this?" That's not what I'm addressing.
Well, where would it have grown? Sugar cane is a tropical plant. It's only modern (well, post Age of Sail) transportation logistics that makes it available to global consumers.
I don't want to diminish the value of what he did, but things are so different in first-world countries. Here where I live, if I do that, I'll simply be unemployed for a long time. I, like others, also have personal values. I hate having to use algorithms to influence people to buy more in a world already worn out by excessive consumption. But, at the end of the month, I have bills to pay and a child to feed.
As someone who's worked in time series forecasting for a while, I haven't yet found a use case for these "time series" focused deep learning models.

On extremely high dimensional data (I worked at a credit card processor company doing fraud modeling), deep learning dominates, but there's simply no advantage in using a designated "time series" model that treats time differently than any other feature. We've tried most time series deep learning models that claim to be SoTA - N-BEATS, N-HiTS, every RNN variant that was popular pre-transformers, and they don't beat an MLP that just uses lagged values as features. I've talked to several others in the forecasting space and they've found the same result.

On mid-dimensional data, LightGBM/Xgboost is by far the best and generally performs at or better than any deep learning model, while requiring much less finetuning and a tiny fraction of the computation time.

And on low-dimensional data, (V)ARIMA/ETS/Factor models are still king, since without adequate data, the model needs to be structured with human intuition.

As a result I'm extremely skeptical of any of these claims about a generally high performing "time series" model. Training on time series gives a model very limited understanding of the fundamental structure of how the world works, unlike a language model, so the amount of generalization ability a model will gain is very limited.
> It's well established that island populations of animals trend physically smaller.

Big animals trend smaller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism), and small animals trend bigger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism). Hence the giant rabbits on Menorca that these goats outcompeted when the islands were connected (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuralagus).
They can say the moon is made of cheese, but what's the court going to believe?

The court decides what is more plausuble
"Pretty" is subjective. I think a lot of it just looks like an experiment in minimalism, by people who forgot that there are colors besides jewel tones.

It almost seems like the people who make this stuff don't actually care about usability. They probably have top notch motor skills and can click tiny stuff instantly, or they're not actually using the GUI much, they do everything in CLI and have no idea what a GUI is even for.

We need better input tools to deal with this. AI smart mouse assist that makes the stuff you want "grab" the mouse, combined with algorithms that can cancel out stiction-related jumps. Maybe even eye tracking that knows what you want to click and pulls the mouse towards it. A zoomed view for when you're trying to highlight some text that auto pops up on click and drag.
But maybe we shouldn't enabled people that want to torture others by building them new and better torture implement.
> They have a dual mission

Which is why I don't buy anything from the apologists for "manageable"
backdoors.

> strengthen

This is a good theory and interesting take.
https://dn42.eu/ is a big VPN that you can use to learn BGP, if anyone is interested.
I like it. I'm going to give it a try.
Chicken and egg. The store didn't make the hobby, even if it made it more accessible.
Or you try to organize a collective response that maximizes your and your fellow employees’ power to influence the decision. That’s a legally protected response and is the entire point of the article.
I was aware that x.com was Elon's 1999 banking startup that merged into Paypal.

I thought he somehow still owned it and held onto it, but didn't know about this further tidbit of history:

> In July 2017, PayPal sold the domain X.com back to Musk.[17] In July 2023, X.com was repurposed to redirect to Twitter, following Musk's establishment of X Corp. to manage Twitter assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com_(bank)
> No love for tinc[1]?

I actually looked into tinc, and really wanted to love it because of its simplicity.

Unfortunately though, it seems that the development scene around it has been stalled for several years now, and benchmark reports show that it can't keep up with cloud speed tests when compared with Wireguard:

- Wireguard: 390.3 Mbps

- Netmarker: 369.3 Mbps

- Tailscale: 62.5 Mbps

- ZeroTier: 56.8 Mbps

- Nebula: 38.4 Mbps

- Tinc: 34.7 Mbps

- OpenVPN: 22.3 Mbps

Source: [disclaimer, article written by Netmaker CEO, so implicit bias]

(https://medium.com/netmaker/battle-of-the-vpns-which-one-is-...)
Beaten to death as in proven, or disproven?
> Why do you insist on throwing the red herring “monopoly?”

It is not a red herring.

Instead, it is the most important factor for determining if something is illegally anticompetitive.

* if a company does not have a large enough percentage of the market, then many actions become completely legal* <------ (hint. This is the central point and is completely uncontroversial)

> Again, Microsoft was not a “monopoly” in the 90s

It had over 70% of the relevant market.

According to court precedent ,that is absolutely within the definition of having monopoly power.

And Microsoft has no where close to that amount of monopoly power for anti trust laws to apply.

> You don’t have to be a monopoly to be anti-competitive.

You quite literally do have to have a large enough percentage of the market for something to be anti competitive.

If you do not have a large percentage of the market, then whole swaths of things are not illegal, that would be illegal if a large market share firm did the same action.

Is it literally a factor that determines if anti trust law applies.

This isn't controversial.

Feel free to look up all the information on the FTC website, if you actually care.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Can Nebula work with VPN exit nodes (similar to tailscale + mullvad)
Show HN: Multi node training of Llama 70B without crying
> $391,232,000 goes to the IRS.

Insane! On the one hand this mistake is a rare case of the rich paying a lot of tax. But very odd not to have tried to avoid this by (whatever rich people do)
Thoughts on real-time data display?
I'm responsible for software/web development at a medium sized company, and have been tasked with projecting real-time data on a large monitor—with data primarily coming from authenticated web API endpoints from our website.

I'm not looking for a detailed guide, but rather just some helpful tips, opinions or your experiences with choice of hardware and software. The choice of frontend web framework is the least of my concerns here.

## Hardware

1. "Dumb" monitor/display + Raspberry Pi?

2. Monitor/display with built in computer?

3. Wireless display (e.g. Chromecast)?

## Development & Deployment

I'd prefer to be able to configure, develop, debug & deploy changes remotely from the workstation at my desk.

Depending on the hardware, any OS more suited for this than others? Some software/scripts/frameworks useful in your case?

---

Very much appreciate any thoughts or advise, whether its theoretical or from personal experience with a similar task.
They clearly can't indemnify that all output is copyright free if the person inputting is describing a copyrighted work either.

Sufficiently advanced Gen AI can generate images / text that looks like copyrighted work from description while being licensed for all training data.
Project owner might be able to add data from stationary GNSS reference stations to improve global coverage of positioning accuracy available.

https://geodesy.noaa.gov/CORS/

https://epncb.oma.be/
Google will shield AI users from copyright challenges, within limits
My vet father's opinion on horse intelligence, specifically vis-a-vis being spooked:

"What's the best thing about a horse?"

"They taste like chicken."

But I guess you get suddenly kicked, bit, leaned on, etc., you develop strong feelings on the matter.

... oddly enough, he's rather fond of cows.
To your knowledge, has one of these nuts ever actually failed? That thing looks substantial.
I mean, if we’re gonna train AIs, I’ll take the ones trained on the WEC & family over most sources.
DJB (the mathematician in the title) is the guy who rolled the crypto in the first place, at least where Ed25519 and ChaCha20 are concerted.
Write code like you just learned how to program (2010)
I'm not sure I agree with him.

Yes, Robinsons are known for mast bumping. On the other hand, they have the best tail rotor authority.
This complaint has nothing to do with whether someone was told to work at x or x location anyway. The complaint is typical organizing/unionizing type stuff.

> The NLRB protects workers’ legal right to engage in “concerted activity,” which is when two or more coworkers band together to address workplace issues.

The girl allegedly tried to "organize" other workers on Slack by telling employees who were already planning to resign to "not quit but to get fired".
I worked at the grand opening of the new classic restoration center next to the ATL airport and saw for myself how committed Porsche is to keeping their entire lineage of vehicles on the road. IIRC they said ~75% of all Porsche vehicles ever made are still registered.
> Still it is hard to find the best match,the person who is good at hard skills

That is such a self-inflicted failure.

Employers always claim to want the best talent and simultaneously write job descriptions that treat developers as stupid commodities for their ease of selection. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either you want bell curve average people that are easy to hire/fire or you want competent people that are capable of solving hard problems. This is a forced dichotomy. You cannot have both, as people cannot exist at two separate points on a bell curve simultaneously, though you certainly try. That is why you are getting hundreds of applicants, most fail to pass your entirely unrelated HR filter, and the rest are crap.

As an example of this fail on steroids there is a major financial institution near where I live: Fidelity. I keep seeing the same job openings from those guys week after week go completely unfilled. They have completely ignored their application portal, because they are getting too many applications to process. They claim to want talent, but yet simultaneously they are only selecting for the shittiest Java developer who can magically somehow understand client-side JavaScript like a magician and yet defer everything to their bloated framework. Strangely enough they cannot seem to fill these positions even after 8-10 weeks. I promise its not for lack of compensation, and yet they still fail repeatedly. WTF... epic fail and entirely self-inflicted.
aka drive it like you stole it
my search patterns are probably not wildly dissimilar to that

>As for Brave... well, I don't abide cryptocurrency in any form, so that's an ideological "nope" for me.

I understand distrusting crypto, but this seems like really childish reasoning. I think it's fair to generally distrust strangers at first. does that mean that you should never interact with them?

Brave has an optional crypto feature that I turned off once and never saw again. reddit also has in-built crypto features, do you refuse to use reddit too?
The free speech brigade at work.
Dumbphones a.k.a feature phones, are perfect for children, especially young children that need a means to call their parents, but not a means to browse the internet, engage in malformed social interaction, or game for hours at a time.
https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/evolut...

The reality is even worse. You think business want to pay for office space and lose employees trying to bring them back to the office?

They don't. What they want is for things to get done and its not happening as it was before.
Neat!

And because I know there are a ton of coastal US folks here, east-of-Rockies / west-of-Appalachians has storms of a whole different breed. In terms of ferocity and suddenness.
> the boss became jealous after he saw my girlfriend. Why would I want to continue working for such person

Disguisting. Why should people lose income over your bos's immaturity? You are allowing him to get away with contemptible behaviour. People in power must be held to account.

you have rights, people fought for them, and if he wants to get rid of your he should cough up compensation.
That argument is only true for humans and other "long" lived species. For example look at at how much canines have evolved in the same time span that homosapiens have stayed relatively "static".

Long and static, in very very relative terms, of course.
Whenever the talks about bilingual, trilingual, quadrilingual, or multi-lingual come up, it gives me a nice feeling that we take it for granted. I grew up where people speak a different language every few miles.

In India, most of the new-age Indians are trilingual to start with. I’m not surprised when I meet someone who speaks English, Hindi, Sanskrit, French, along with their native language or a couple more Indian languages.

I have two daughters. The elder is already bilingual and is becoming OK-ish in the third. The younger one is still in English and can occasionally understand and blurt out the second language. My elder and I think French is a smooth and sexy language, and we might add that too. A close friend and parents (husband was a french teacher) in the neighborhood speaks French, so that might help.

We started with the “one-parent — one-language” approach very early on, which helped. And Thanks to Peppa Pig for being the best English teacher at the early stage.
https://archive.ph/KPiub
Cars Have brakes on all 4, but thr fronts do 70% of the work.
On device client side scanning requires a DRM for devices.

This means you could not install Linux on computers, you must only install what the hardware lets you install, from some cryptographic chip.

Besides encryption, besides all else. This would lead to a world where whatever levels of control could be put on devices, they will.

- Iran phones won't let you install free communications apps.
- Chinese phones won't let you install VPNs.
- Indian phones will put a backdoor into your encryption PGP, so it can sign messages acting on your behalf, or DocuSign behalf.

This isn't talking about Apple phones that do not let you install software you want. This is saying there will be a MARKET restriction in the European Union, such that a free product IS NOT POSSIBLE.

---

However there are truths:

1. Once hardware is published it cannot be changed on the fly.
2. Peer to peer protocols cannot be stopped.

As long as hardware is not locked, and people still can code, there is hope.
I use a lot of “modernist” or “precision” cooking techniques, and I feel like these would be perfect for the blind.

1. Take meat out of packet and break into single layer on quarter pan

2. Put into Anova precision oven at 160F, sous vide mode. Idk, wait an hour

3. Take your control freak and turn the temp to 350F.

4. Dump quarter pan into control freak, brown slightly for 3 minutes
Maybe I can vote for tab groups like chrome has it. Grouped by color and clicking on them expands/contracts the group.

I use simple tab extension currently, it's okay. But it's not what I want.
If you're going to make a list like this, at least make sure all of them are right. "The Crack Epidemic" is not one conspiracy theorists are right about. As the common conspiracy trope is that the government invented crack and gave it to black people to destroy their neighborhoods.

Iraq WMD's is also wrong and case of what happens when conspiracy theorists get a hold of the US government. Most countries and the US house did not accept the WMD conspiracy that immediately turned out to be untrue as most conspiracies do. Now the conspiracy theorists are that it was all done for oil, which is also a blatantly dumb characterization.
That wasn't my argument ...

... though Apple has had monochrome devices (the original Mac, the handheld Newton) ...

... and often makes preparations years on advance for long-term strategic moves.

I'm putting very low emphasis on that last, as e-ink really doesn't seem to fit particularly well with the Apple ethos, except, perhaps, for watches.

But if Apple were planning, or even contemplating, an e-ink device, ordering a flat white UI/UX might be precisely the first step in getting there.
Atlas but not spatial? Kinda false advertising.
P2P should be easy. Bittorrent has worked for years.

But all the projects try to do stuff that is hard to do with P2P when we haven't even covered the easy stuff.

It doesn't help that IPFS still uses insanely more idle bandwidth than BT and doesn't work in the same use cases because of that.
always glad to be of service
> These regulations just harm competent people

You mean like when US goverment charged the 4 largest tech companies with conspiracy to suppress wages? Those regulations?
Thanks, that's generous thinking. If I ever become a billionaire, I wouldn't concern myself with pinching pennies and would focus on creating incentives and rewards that support value creation.

I highly doubt I would ever need more than $10 to 15 million in wealth for myself. I feel greedy for even suggesting that I may keep so much. I would probably find a way to share anything above 15m through some incentive structure.
Pretty exciting that we're getting COW support in ZFS. It used to be one of the key features of XFS, but I can stick to ZFS only now.
What problems is it introducing?
I was trying to find an SVG icon for 𝕏 today. Good luck finding a search box that will accept a one-character search term.
If it were just up to randomness with an unmodified ROM, then (barring a glitch) they would have soft locked at the Safari Zone which costs some currency to enter and needs to be traversed to the Surf HM in a relatively tight number of moves. There's only a finite amount of money in the game, so they can only fail at most a few hundred times before the game becomes impossible to beat.
You can’t really exhibit anti-competitive behaviour if you don’t have any competition to speak of.
I wish they would finish starcraft ghost
I don't think the electrical system load on the engine would amount to much gas saving, a 100 amp alternator may use only 4HP of your engine's power. Outside of the starter motor you don't use anything close to 100A for the accessories. Even an electric A/C is only a 5-10 horsepower saving.
A cubicle is the greatest perk if some company seriously want RTO
> Such an impromptu evacuation would not have been possible using EVs.

This is, in fact, precisely backward. A fully charged EV will stomp all over a fully gassed ICE in a stop and go evacuation situation.

EVs don't have to idle. So, unlike older combustion engines, they don't use energy unless moving, and they recover most of the same energy when braking. At very low speeds, EVs stomp all over combustion engines. You don't need to refuel people because the EV isn't running out of gas from idling in stopped traffic.

More modern combustion engines turn themselves off. But, even that has its limits as you can't recover the start stop energy like an EV can.
> One might be the MTHFR mutation. I forget the percentage, but a dizzying amount of westerners suffer from it - and it basically always gets misdiagnosed as depression.

MTHFR has been hijacked by alternative medicine and exaggerated into an "explains everything" diagnosis.

The first red flag is that MTHFR pushers use it to explain ever vague disorder under the sun: Depression, anxiety, stomach issues, being tired, being unhappy, inflammation, etc. If you name it, chances are someone on an alternative health board will spring up and suggest MTHFR as a narrative, or other variations on the theme ("methylation", etc.)

The second red flag is when they moved to diagnosis anyone with any mutation, including heterozygous people, as "having it". This isn't backed by evidence and was purely an attempt to stretch the diagnosis to cover more people,

Internet MTHFR and "methylation" advice is generally terrible. Don't buy into it.

You can actually test for high homocysteine levels in the blood, but most MTHFR proponents skip that step and just assume they "have it" and that B12 and Methylfolate will solve all of their problems (they don't). Alternative medicine has stepped in to provide endless articles, podcasts, and paid advice about supplements to add to deal with MTHFR, which of course never work because MTFHR isn't the root cause of all of their symptoms. It's terrible.
"Rain" is surprisingly relative.

As someone who recently lived in north GA, now temporarily in Florida, it's quite different too.

What someone would call a rainy day in GA ('I wake up, it's raining, and it rains all day') FL gets... maybe 4 non-hurricane days a year?

In contrast, rain in FL terms ('It's sunny, then the sky opens up and pours for 30 minute intervals between 3-6pm, between and after which it's also sunny') is essentially most of the summer.
Idiomatic error is "would of"
If you’re looking for something that allows media keys and custom keyboard shortcuts: https://displaybuddy.app/

Works on both Windows and Mac
So don't employ people you don't like, thats what hiring process is for.

This is about treating people with decency after you employed them. Apparently some people have a problem with that.

You know where this leads, having no Accountability and no decency? Casting couch, sexual favours, corruption.
Yes, this is the only way to clean by hand. Your fingers feel things that your eyes could never see.
While far from perfect in its current state, adding context and corrections via community notes to posts with incorrect information seems better than deleting them outright.
It doesn’t matter if the Muslim Arab armies conquered it directly, or after others had already done so. They’re the ones who are there now, not the Romans or Babylonians.
I'm going to hijack my own comment.

This is the currently most requested feature on this page. I guess the page is more of a "Vote on Firefox Features (that we actually want to implement)" rather than actually doing what the users want.