skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unsubscribed as a result. Bit gutted about this. Thing is £200+ per year just isn't worth it. I'd much rather go back to torrenting and managing things in than paying that amount of money. Same with Spotify. The fragmentation of streaming services will be the end, it'll be a slow death, but a new model is needed.

How to offer abundance for free or close to?
this all is based on the voluntary work of many researchers in academia and opensource, and now these big companies are 'standardizing' stuff they did not invent, but was invented despite them going in other market directions..
There are plenty of ad networks. It is just that they pay like 1/10th of what Google does to the site showing ads.
https://math.stackexchange.com/users/97378/cleo
JSON-LD Streaming
Ask HN: Why aren't trams/trains autonomous?
Seems like an easier problem to solve than cars
If you're operating between your devices, that's not interoperability.
Sadly, the DRM-free versions of his books seem to only be available on US stores. I tried to buy The Stormlight Archive from Australia but could only find DRM'ed copies, probably because of international publishing deals.

Still, I wish more authors would follow. DRM is a plague.
Bandcamp has served me well for many years, but I don't use it anymore.

I would really like to see something like Castopod [0], but for artists! Spinning up a website where you showcase and sell your music should (and could!) be as easy as using Wordpress, either via a subscription or self-hosted – on your own domain.

Being plugged into the Fediverse makes it much easier to interact with fans and build a connection with your audience. It also makes it easy for people to share and talk about a track or and album. None of this requires that you tie yourself to yet another VC-funded startup and a closed garden.

Maybe someone is building something like this already, that I am not aware of?

[0]: https://castopod.org/
That's a neat trick. I can imagine getting caught by this if I saw the link in non-ad context. The attackers made a smart choice here. Usual Unicode substitutions are something I've learned to spot, because the substituted letters look off, even if a tiny bit. But here? I didn't notice the dot under "k" even with an arrow pointing at it, because to me, it looked like a tiny speck of dust or dirt on the monitor. $deity knows I have many of those on my screen, and they're the kind of noise visual system is good at ignoring.
I made $200 MMR in 2 weeks after launching
I think the GP's issue isn't with the need for a login, it's with the choice of provider.
If vou've never experienced nitpicking over a 10+y career, perhaps your experiences could have been more diverse.

It's seems healthy to open your mind to the possibility that you're getting valuable feedback for no other reason than increasing maintainability.
Title is misleading. They weren't banned because they "teach Python. " but because Meta has faulty algorithms.
United Airlines to Board Window Seats Before Middle and Aisle Passengers
> "Americans are fat" is a (negative) sterotype

Of course it could do with some context, and some might see it as offensive, but:

"Is America really the most obese country in the world? Well, not quite, it ranks as the 12th most obese country worldwide, but number 1 when considering high-income countries"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/omerawan/2023/01/25/has-the-obe...
Yeah, how much modules/PCHs would help probably depends a lot on your code base. I read about clangs work on modules and they seemed a bit uncertain if you'd get much benefit at all once you switch on optimizations. https://clang.llvm.org/docs/StandardCPlusPlusModules.html#ho...
I've run a consulting business for the last 5 years and use online banks to pay team members, but not receive client payments.

- Banned from PayPal, requires submitting mail from an address I no longer live at (not even the same continent anymore)

- Restricted on Payoneer because my company name (essentially my name) is different than the info I registered with (a cool brand). Fortunately I can still pay inbound requests, but I cannot send outbound payments without an originating request.

- Now currently using Wise and loving it. Hoping I don't get banned.

I guess there is always Revolut?

Or the next "We're not Wise! We're better" startup?
To be somewhat fair to Meta; the "violation of unclear rules part" part is an appropriate response for spam detection.

Usually any entity dealing with the web don't want to reveal how their spam detector works because doing so could in turn reveal information on how to circumvent it[0].

The issue is that Meta thinks they're large enough that they can apply this to every single one of their business customers and all other parts of their policy as well - normally a company will be inclined to keep the businesses it's partnered with happy because losing their business can have a knock-on effect that could result in a bigger knock-on effect.

The sad thing is that Meta is probably correct in this assessment - losing one business wouldn't hurt them, regardless of spending. Even if you put a few thousand a month on the line, it's not worth for them to consider you. Heck even if you tell your friends about it - Meta doesn't give a shit.

The true Kafka-esque nightmare here though is that even just knowing someone at the company is apparently not even enough to get it properly checked out and fixed (even corporations like Google who have similar black box policies to most users have the means to do that). It seems Facebook runs on "computer says no" logic when it comes to cases they don't have data on anymore. That is truly disgusting.

[0]: This in part because most spam detection is ultimately still just checking heuristics; revealing the heuristic simply reveals what stat to adjust for. There's very few "sophisticated" detection methods - even the big email providers still just rely on heuristics combined with an internal trust score that they gain by checking how users respond to email.
Yep, that's exactly the problem I have with coming up with ideas for a startup of my own:
Everything I can think of is already done better than I ever could.

Here's a universe-eating bubble for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild%27s_Ladder
Are there any good (free) courses on YT or elsewhere for learning pretty cursive?
Five Eyes chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels
Some are. Retrofitting infrastructure necessary to facilitate reliable, safe autonomy in all conditions is expensive and building systems to meet expectations in all conditions is also.

Many railways grapple with issues of reliability and accuracy despite being partially or fully automatic.

With cars, you have the easy out that the responsibility always rests on the driver. If you mess up, it's their fault; their hands should always have been on the wheel. If you break it, one person is late for work. If you break a rail network, everyone is late for work. Different risk profiles.

Being able to ship code of dubious quality and iterate on it is preferred for companies rather than engaging in a massive contract to deliver a perfectly working rail inventory and routing management system.
Mapping the months to numbers, January is 1 and December is 12, and a real clock puts 12/0 on top, not 1.
if u think about it - laws that govern lives today, are predominantly these rules of the information systems. these rules impact us more than the laws governed by the judiciary. so we ARE in this complete dystopia, question is whether we'll see any sort of uprising or dark IT ages are just beginning...
> What does the average American think about this?

Like most problems, the average American has (for political purposes) ~zero mental engagement with this. Vs. those for-profit corporations (and a variety of other interest groups) are intensely engaged. And it's all-too-frequently reported that any politician who wants to be (re-)elected to America's Congress needs to be intensely engaged with wooing interest group support and campaign fundraising.
I often think about how one can visualize these abstract things. I imagine a year going like this:

JAN → FEB → MAR ↩ (new row)
APR → MAY → JUN → JUL → AUG
↓
SEPT
↓
OCT
↓
NOV → DEC ...
I dont think its tripping only over the words Python and Pandas but possibly also the word "courses" used in the same sentense.
They think you are serving those fuzzy animals for dinner ;)
https://archive.ph/Qotip
ASICs are very diverse with many dimensions and it depends on the definition. Pure ASICs like bitcoin miners are very rare. Most "ASICs" are generally on the programmable platform spectrum (apple socs, snapdragon, versal, ML startup chips, Nvidia, amd versal,...). Take a look at the Apple SoC or Versal Soc of heterogeneous archs with a bunch of different programmable elements integrated.

Also...there is way too much emphasis on compute, most applications are IO/ memory bound. How many memory/serdes channels, total I/O BW, on chip cache sises, what type of I/O is much more important than peak theoretical flops/w.
Shuttle Pricing – Call for Feedback
Hey hackers,

We are looking for feedback on our pricing model.

For those who haven't heard about Shuttle yet ─ we are a fully open source cloud development platform that lets you build Rust backends fast. The "fast" part comes from the fact that we utilize Infrastructure from Code to get you started quickly; bypassing DevOps, yaml files & complex consoles; so that you can focus on writing good code and shipping your product.

We are in the midst of our pricing roll out and, as some of you might know, pricing is hard to get right. Hence why we'd love if y'all could take a quick look at our pricing page, go through our offerings and let us know what your thoughts are.

You can find the pricing page here: https://shuttle.rs/pricing

You can find our docs (for more context) here: https://docs.shuttle.rs

With <3,

Shuttle team
Good riddance of a far-right pro-nazi bar
Democracy without compassion, which this referendum is an example of, is just the political equivalent of the tragedy of the commons, nicely sanitized for mass consumption.

A smug system of hidden, institutionalized marginalization and oppression.
Dad #3 here, and I concur.

Though more progressive and tribal than the others, Antix's "Lull" album epitomized the early '00s sound for me.

Minilogue managed to keep the vibe alive a bit longer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgiL7lsIATA

Lastly, yes, the techno scene does scratch that itch for atmosphere and psychedelia. I've been to a few techno parties and was surprised by the striking similarities to that '00s sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87y49RmWJeg
Non-USian here. How does federal income tax work for people with a normal, regular job? If someone just works full time in a shop or on a factory line, do they get yearly tax demand that they have to check and/or calculate themself?
In Australia there is a long form with each type and you type the numbers in. Pretty easy.

They don’t check upfront but there is always a chance you can get audited.
Indeed, uncle Om is turning back to acid sounds (not so much psychedelic), but I totally agree that psydub is the logical progression for the psy* genres (don't kill me goa ppl, pls). to me the real progress in the psychedelic sounds is techno dub - a true psychedelic genre for the 21ct century. psytrance/progressive trance seem too 90s in composition and aesthetics to me.
That'd be such a massive time waste if everyone did that tindividually, if you were capable of convincing people to expend that much effort, it'd be way easier to ask them change all the copyright laws
Alternative link:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/19/nokia-to-cut-up-to-14000-job...
Great Movies That No One Even Noticed
They’ve called this new product Radius? I’m a little surprised considering the radius protocol has been in Windows for 20+ years. Just think up another name..

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/arc...
yeah, imagine only creating software when you know it's useful by every measure.
"That people who have only been on this continent for 235 years would refuse to recognise those whose home this land has been for 60,000 and more years is beyond reason."

Top quote the article...
Do it Elon, please do it. I can't wait to reuse a blog aggregator. I so miss the quality of content that was around back then.
Yeah, it's really bad that Google don't actually show the proper characters in the URL. It's hard to spot - but at least if they displayed the actual URL then you'd have a chance.
Of course it is, no box trucks have center-mounted rear view mirrors; what would they look at?

NHTA/DOT requires two rear-facing mirrors, which requirement is met by the side mirrors.
I was waiting to hear from someone else on this. We were planning on spending a decent chunk of our seed money on Meta Ads. After 3 verifications and repeated bans with no recourse we gave up.

I don't think we can blame this on all AI customer management/support, either. Google Ads assigned us an account manager for the first 90 days, we've upped our spend because they gave us good guidance and we saw conversions.

The irony that Meta remains a cesspit for fake news.
Not telling you whats wrong should be highly ilegal, given how important these systems can be for modern society.
Not true, depends on European bank. I did pay my mortgage which was originally 25 years IIRC in Czech republic fully, one time payment, with no extra fees associated to this. Whether bank was happy or wanted me to keep paying all those years is another story, but their contract specifically allowed it.

In my French mortgage, I have 25 year fixed part, no point paying down that one earlier since the fee would be the sum of all the fixed interest for 25 years (what you wrote). Then the other part is calculated every 3 months from EURIBOR (not that great now, just like elsewhere). This one I can pay partially or fully anytime without any fees.

My Swiss mortgage is completely different and unique beast (also split in 2 parts, one fixed 1 variable from Saron rate), nothing you can see anywhere else in the world IIRC. 20% cash downpayment as usually, then in next 15 years I need to pay off another 15% of the property, and rest is just interest payments. We'll never fully own the property, and its very disadvantageous tax-wise to own it(so nobody here does it if they can avoid it). Swiss invented an additional property tax (Imputed rental value) that is calculated from hypothetical rent you could extract from given property, and you are taxed also from this theoretical income, even if its your primary residence.
Yes, they're part of the Teamsters, which is who negotiated the most recent compensation increase.
You might need an /s, this is a perfectly plausible comment on HN.
Privacy nuts are always going overboard about things that mean very little.

Genetic data sounds important but in the bigger scheme of things, it's probably the least manipulatable data about a person on the internet.

My genetic data is less weaponizable than if I uploaded hundreds of pictures of myself and my shared my social graph to Facebook, if I shared my political opinions on Twitter, if I commented/posted on Reddit boards of my interests and hobbies. It's also less weaponizable than the multitude of "invisible" data that I feed to Google, my incompetent local government, service providers, every shop that is shipping something to my home address.

I lose genetic data everywhere I go, every day.
50-100 hairs fall of my head, and I leave fingerprints on everything I touch. I "lose privacy" every day by walking into somebody else's photo/video/TikTok, and by mishandling of it by poor government/business entities.

Life's too short.
I've at times made fairly extensive use of d-optimal designs in formulation type research and development, usually in an iterative process, pruning and adding variables as well as refining ranges. Lot of footguns, but the approach can drastically decrease optimization time. In my experience it needs the right combination of: too many factors to make full factorial reasonable, too much (expected) covariance to trust single-vaeiable optimization, and cheap enough to commit to doing 8+ experiments before a major evaluation.
Nokia 3310 (from 2002). It was first and foremost incredibly durable, it had a great battery life, it could send and receive texts and did phone calls and was like a perfect communication device. It also had that snake game which was adequate time wasting entertainment.
Now days phones are more like computers than phones. I feel like the calling and texting is more like an after thought. I love my iPhone, but it’s battery life gets worse over time, it’s screen breaks easily, it’s battery can’t be easily replaced, it needs annoying updates regularly, I feel like it’s not as secure in terms of privacy etc etc…
This is coming to the UK. I'm seeing more and more new houses built that way here with "composite cladding" on the outside, or sometimes still brickwalls on the ground floor but that do not seem to be load bearing.
He should do it. Europeans are kids and we like to only be shown safe and official social news, approved by our parents.
Easily one of my favourite books. My advice for anyone reading it is not to see it as a philosophical book, although some of the philosophical digressions are extremely interesting. Rather, read it as an autobiography of a person suffering from an obsession, and his quest to connect with his son. The end was very satisfying from this point of view.

Edit: so to answer your points

1. No need to.

2. Worth reading the whole thing.

3. At the first reading when younger, one might focus too much on the philosophy and miss the story of the person behind the thoughts. It's not a book where you learn philosophy, but how this person thinks and how it impacts his life. With some life experience and perspective this aspect is much more interesting.
It honestly feels like all of these problems - auto-bans by Meta and Google, enshittification of formerly-professional Apple products, nuke-your-money grabs by Ebay and Stripe - all come from a shared culture of corporate narcissism.

Not only is there no genuine empathy for users, it seems important that giant corporations should have the freedom to disappoint, manipulate, and abuse everyone, should they choose to.
> Ruby was originally going to be a customizable shell/desktop for Windows 3.0, with pretty much what Bill was demoing but a more modest scripting language - and the ability to plug in other scripting languages as desired.

Was it meant to compete with Norton Desktop? Norton Desktop had an extremely powerful built-in visual scripting language that resembled Visual Basic, so powerful it's strange that it wasn't a separate product. I learned about this from https://youtube.com/watch?v=iD7AezjG5YE&t=25m52s.
Not exactly the same topic, but I feel like this is a good context to bring up https://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of....

It provides (in some sense) maximally un-aliased parameter choices when trying to cover a (continuous) parameter space. It generalizes to arbitrary dimensions, doesn't require you to choose the number of samples/experiments beforehand, and actually expands trivially to parameters representing classes (including possibly weighting the classes).

I think it would be interesting to see how using this sequence fares in such a fractional factorial analysis, i.e. how close to optimal the (e.g. binarized) pseudorandom parameter choices are for different numbers of experiments!
Why do you cite this? There are multiple style guides.

Do you want to say: Google bad, Google good or what?
YouTube's New Ad Blocker Crackdown–What You Need to Know
They weren't a company-specific union but a branch of OPEIU which looks like a general union for what letting agents call "professionals". To translate what I think was happening into British parlance: they were trying to negotiate employer recognition plus a collective bargaining arrangement.

I don't know if their leadership was good or not but American trades unionism is pretty different to ours. Employees typically don't have a huge amount of legal rights and so getting your workplace unionised is much more of a battle than here. On the other hand, America has de facto closed shops which are illegal pretty much everywhere in Europe.
App Store Employees Fired in China for Accepting Free Meals and Nightclub Trips
> In a free-market economy, the companies that make less optimal decisions will have their lunch eaten by those that don't.

In a race to the bottom, concern for others is a liability. Ugh.
Nokia Lumia 520. It was a blessing to have a device with 512 MB of RAM where both OS and apps perform without lags and freezes, UI is accessible and text input doesn't suck.
> It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out. You know, democracy.

Democracy isn't about winner takes all. Its about you balance the needs and aspirations of everyone in a society: literally the demos.

Sometimes, as in my country (UK), democracy is practiced by imposing a thresholding function on decision-making processes ("first past the post") but it's worth remembering that this is largely for political convenience. It doesn't have to be that way, and plenty of places do it better - and have healitier, more equal societies as a result.
> I may not be good enough to participate

That's what we all felt when it started. Just try and try again, you'll learn, you'll meet great people and in the end, you'll shine :-)
I never liked Elon, but "far-right pro-nazi bar"? Are you from reddit or did I just miss something?
Show HN: Open-source background removal in Node.js
IMG.LY's popular background removal js library is now available for NodeJS.
Assuming that prices adjust to keep total payments constant, high interest rates actually help buyers* since the mortgage interest is tax deductible.

*As long as you ignore the value of equity
a common mantra, but almost nobody actually does it
The core concept of democracy is proper representation of interest groups.

If groups are being excluded and abused, that's not democracy.
He should do a vote on X to find out what people want.
"Netflix raises prices because of password crackdown success"
Seems like they made a lucrative decision with the crackdown.
They have special rules for advertising desktop software. I hit the same issue but wasn't banned. Eventually it got mostly sorted out.

The most irritating problem: Apple forbid the use of any of their trademarks in Google advertising, for any reason whatsoever. That means you cannot make an ad like "Foobar for Mac" because it will trip their filters. Manual reviews and escalations don't help, the only solution is to get Apple to fax Google a personal permission letter granting authorized use, which is of course impossible. This absurd problem has existed for at least a decade. Presumably it's deliberate and to push people towards the app stores by preventing Mac developers from advertising their app outside of Apple controlled channels (which aren't comparable).

Windows has no such difficulties.
I am in a researching of a similar problem and here is what I can tell you.

Suppose a program which accepts some requests from Internet (server in client-server terminology). One request needs 1 second to get done, but the client might send you either 1 request per 10 seconds in best case, because the server has 9 seconds to poke or 10 requests per 1 second in worst case, because the server needs 9 extra seconds. How to handle this?

Use an MQ software (zeromq, rabbimq, apache kafka etc). It is a doubly-linked list with pointers to undone tasks, if any. If you have a 10 one-second requests in one second, you just do them as fast as you can and use MQ as a storage.
AI Hardware with Jim Keller [video]
Oh my god you're right – I see high school physics teacher shaking his head at me!