skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on local laws.

Also it can be difficult to reliably distinguish between an individual passing on a pet, a properly licensed breeder selling animals, and a bad actor doing the same (selling exotic animals, being an unlicensed breeder in jurisdictions where this is not permitted (generally or for particular animals), etc.). For this reason many advertising companies simply have a blanket ban on advertising any animal trading. Being more selective potentially leaves them open to legal issues if the selection process makes a bad decision and lets something illegal through, and that risk is not worth taking in order to allow (and therefore take a cut from) the more legitimate trade.
Media Confidence in U.S. Matches 2016 Record Low
You used quotation marks but searching for this text only links back to this HN page. Is there more context to that quote or did you just write it?
Renewable energy to reach 22.5% share in global power mix in 2020 (2018)
Who takes the default risk and profit from the loan? Is it all the underwriting bank?
Curve Your Enthusiasm: Concurvity Regularization in Differentiable GAMs
Abstract:
Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) have recently experienced a resurgence in popularity due to their interpretability, which arises from expressing the target value as a sum of non-linear transformations of the features. Despite the current enthusiasm for GAMs, their susceptibility to concurvity - i.e., (possibly non-linear) dependencies between the features - has hitherto been largely overlooked. Here, we demonstrate how concurvity can severly impair the interpretability of GAMs and propose a remedy: a conceptually simple, yet effective regularizer which penalizes pairwise correlations of the non-linearly transformed feature variables. This procedure is applicable to any differentiable additive model, such as Neural Additive Models or NeuralProphet, and enhances interpretability by eliminating ambiguities due to self-canceling feature contributions. We validate the effectiveness of our regularizer in experiments on synthetic as well as real-world datasets for time-series and tabular data. Our experiments show that concurvity in GAMs can be reduced without significantly compromising prediction quality, improving interpretability and reducing variance in the feature importances.
RPN calculator? If it's too short project, you can extend it with some extra functions.
Yeah, you could definitely take a case here, as not allowing someone to advertise is relatively consequential.
You are correct, I have that set to the non-default true. Probably from some other time a punycode attack was in the news ;)
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The author’s point is that their spreadsheet tool /needs/ a data source to actually be usable. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me?
I agree: worth a read!

There are a few big things I don't like about this encoding scheme, though, including:

* It's not end-to-end. The input string must be parsed before feeding it to the LLM, for finding and substituting any numbers in the string with the special [NUM] token. Parsing is hard -- and prone to ugly edge-case failures, e.g., due to misspellings. I'll keep hoping and wishing for an end-to-end solution.

* It doesn't work well with numbers written out as a combination of digits as strings, e.g., "How much is a third of their 7.123% percent ownership of that series of preferred stock?" (note the superfluous "%", which would likely contribute to messing things up).

* It requires that every number be shifted and scaled, respectively, by the mean and standard deviation of all numbers in the training corpus, so it hopefully falls within the range [-5, 5], for offsetting the 'squashing' of features caused by LayerNorm before the first residual block.
It's ridiculous to think people will find it easy type out URLs and that too IP addresses along with a port. It maybe fine for HNerds, but definitely not for others. Shows hows much people in this site live inside a bubble.
We have in France pre-filled taxes, you go to the tax site, click next a few times and you are done. Takes 30 seconds for 90% of the population. Usually people do not even check what they click if they have a standard job.

Is the system in the US much more complicated to require software purchases?

I get it that it is not prefilled, but is there a lot to actually input in the system?
Still quite a bit of time between "after win3.1" and "over 5 years". Like, almost thirty years now where that exact icon has, OK, "been absent" -- but replaced with other icons in the exact same spot. Did you never, even by mistake, click on one of those in all those over twenty years? Wow, you must be a lot better than I at mouse control. And / or a lot less curious.
get yourself DNSCrypt
How to prioritize tasks at work – 5 step system to better productivity
"When you say productivity, what it means is priority." - Garry Tan

When I came across this quote from Y Combinator's YouTube video - I got inspired and decided to check out various 'prioritization' frameworks out there.

With all those jargonish frameworks - I did not stick to any of it.

However, I took a few lessons from each framework and Paul Graham's essays to create a system that helps me plan my daily work using the Kanban Board.

I have shared 5 steps that will help you prioritize your daily work on the latest in the Redqueen blog - it's simple and actionable.

Read it here:

https://redqueen.blog/systems-thinking/how-to-prioritize-tasks-at-work-5-steps-to-better-productivity/

Let me know what you do to prioritize your work! - I would love to include quotes in an article update in the future.
> seem to only be available on US stores

Surely the many "free trade" agreements Australia has entered mean you can use US stores as much as you please? ;)
Depends on your definition of wealthy I guess. There are many tax exemptions that also affect less affluent people. There are simplified filing schemes, but one would leave a lot of money on the table using those.
defaultdict doesn't seem to easily solve for the main topic of deeply nested values.
Sounds like that would be the better choice. :)
It's also pretty easy to insist on your publisher being DRM-free when you can presell 4 books for $41 million[1].

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-fo...
There's https://toffeeshare.com/nearby
Completely forgot that they now own Bell Labs.

I wonder what Nokia have as a core revenue stream these days? They really dropped the ball when the iPhone & Android came to market (and to a lesser extent, the Blackberry).

Guess they're still making a killing on telco hardware/software/infrastructure.
With the appropriate dish?
> Once that happens, it will only be a matter of time before it will be mandatory for CSS to happen at the OS level.

Yes, but this may in fact take much longer that it may look at first glance. Think decades, not years.

Do not overestimate churn. Compare to how long it took / is still taking for virus scanners to become integral part of Windows. Similarly, at some point it will become empirically clear that CSS (like virus scanners) aren't the end-all blessing they promised to be.

There will be accidents in the mean time. Obviously: false positives, misuse by oppressive regimes. But also: malware, DoS, exploits and other mischief we've already seen in the wild with virus scanners, spam filters, intrusion detection systems, DRM, corporate firewalls.

I'm confident that at some point, legislation will be loosened to aim for more realistic goals. Especially once legislator realizes it fails to meaningfully "protect the children and fight terrorism".
A History of The Internet And the Digital Future - Johnny Ryan

The Master Switch - Tim Wu
Is this the normal course of things?

"We are now beginning the process of consultation on initial reductions."

I'm not in the know.. but it comes off as if they have no idea what they're doing. You'd think you'd decide who you are gunna lay off before announcing it..? And they will be laying people off for two years straight? Seems like it'd just tank the moral of the whole place.

I thought companies generally rip the bandaid off and do it all very quickly - and have a concrete plan before an announcement
Edgy, dissing on developer's time.
I live in a different country where this sort of racketeering would be extremely illegal and a national scandal if it happened. I find this article far too mild in calling out the blatant crime that these police officers openly engage in. With full knowledge of the city. People should be going to prison for this. A lot of people. That this is allowed to continue so openly is incomprehensible to me.
In Apple Pay, why does the merchant see my real credit card number? (2017)
Well I doubt you could beat Redis for pure performance but bigger Redis cache would likely cost more to run.

So the real question is about cost/performance and picking the one that best fits your use case.

I also wonder how tweaking the backing DB's in memory cache will effect things.

Either way it's great to get this stuff out of the box with Rails and then be able to swap for Redis later if you observe that being a better fit.
Despite its many flaws, I use Plex as the single place for all my video and audio content. If you pay for the lifetime pass, you get access to an app called Plexamp which is designed for playing back audio.

Cancel your subscription, download all your books from audible, put them on a NAS, run Plex, and use Plexamp for access.

I still buy things via Audible, I just immediately download them and load them into my Plex server.
No it’s not. The reason being the public sector Union gets large enough to pick winners. The winner is the person who approves their contract and budget and is likewise incentivized to grow the Union more to secure more votes.

It’s a massive conflict of interest.
I wouldn't want to use such a device. For desktop, Linux would suffice or removing/blocking the CSS malware. For mobile, I'd either use a Linux phone or some patched version of Android, or a ROM without CSS.
It should be about culture, not race.
Just guessing here, but if the senteces sounded like "how to use pandas to help you in work" AI could have decided that you're going to use a cute bear to lay bricks for you. Plus the "exotic animals", as someone else mentioned.
Remote Async means not everybody has a good connection 24/7. Not every position requires being online immediately if it’s not prescheduled. Picture someone doing Van Life across the US with friends. They know they need to get to a Starbucks for the 10am meeting and be at a truck stop for a meeting at 5, but outside those time periods developing locally and having slack for text chat on a spotty connection should be good enough.
Not human beings.

Things.
I can assure you personally that there are all kinds of sectors impacted (also R&D). This is happening also to get rid of people with large salaries and upgrade cheap sites.
Probably means that folks in Finnish, German, and US offices are out, and in Romanian and Polish offices will receive no rises of their already meager salaries.
Ask HN: Did any of you first encounter programming through Scratch?
I'm old enough that my first encounter with programming was though BBC BASIC and LOGO. I'd be interested how many of today's younger programmers had their first experience in coding while using a block based language, and what they're experience was like.
Yevgeny Prigozhin: the hotdog seller who rose to the top of Putin's war machine
AtomVM: Erlang virtual machine for IoT devices
At no point does the author provide a single example of an advert they created.

Does no-one else find this slightly fishy?
Actually, you get Cherenkov radiation and ionization in air, too.

Even when transported after storage in water they do emit copious quantities of radiation, hence the rather cumbersome transport "cases". You might want to familiarize yourself with the dangers during the lifeycle.

Btw., people die from wind turbine blades in accidents (when they break, for example).

Perhaps you might want to work in a reactor for a bit to get more of a feel for the dangers and the many things done to contain radiation related risks (instead of just shouting how it is all a non-issue).
I'm curious which images he used to advertise.
That and also refocus efforts on revenue producing products/departementets.

I just hope Nokia has learned from their mistakes and don’t cut too much from their R&D.
This is the first multimodal model i hear about that is open source. Are there already other alternatives?
The Beamer class: User Guide for version 3.70 [pdf]
Nokia’s been a zombie corporation for a long time. This isn’t news… this was a scheduled calendar event from at least as far back as 2007.
Google also acquired then killed Sparrow[1]. I really enjoyed that mail app.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_%28email_client%29
> Elon agreeing with a point a conservative politician made makes him a nazi to you

I can't read German - what was the point?
In 2023 it means...

An apple...not processed.

An ear of corn...not processed.

Oatmeal...not processed.

Frozen peas...not processed.

Breakfast cereal...processed.

Heat & serve meals in the frozen section...processed.

Yogurt with fruit (and tons of sugar) pre-added...processed.

Soft drinks...processed.

Kid's "Happy Meal"...processed.

And so on.

Btw, Slaughtered and butchered meats !== processed meats.

Recommened book:

- Exercised - D Lieberman

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/29/exercised-by-d...

- Burn - Pontzer

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/16/1016931...

- Comfort Crisis - M Easter

- Scarcity Brain - M Easter

https://eastermichael.com/

Also recommended, the series "The Foods That Built America" on the History Channel.

p.s. Again, key phrase "as we evolved". Last I checked archeologist aren't digging up McDonald's from eons ago.
Why should Meta be forced to give people second chances who didn't read the rules the first time.

A lot of the times when you actually dig into this stuff, the person banned did break a perfectly reasonable rule.
In the EU you are generally required to inform and consult with staff in advance of large-scale redundancies. https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/employ...
> It doesn't work perfectly fine over in-flight wifi.

I would hazard a guess that the main problem with in-flight wifi is that it is going to DPI'd beyond recognition.

So you're never going to know what is "real" packet loss and what is the DPI saying "computer says no".

The Sandvine/Procera[1] system that many (most ?) airlines use is an ML-based DPI that looks at absolutely everything in an effort to correlate obfuscated traffic to the actual flow. IIRC they claim 98% accuracy.

[1] https://www.sandvine.com/
I had no idea what they are up to these days.

I own a button dumb phone by Nokia, it's fine but would not explain even 1% of that employment number.

PA says they're making telecom equipment now. Fun thing it also mentions Ericsson, which used to make phones under its brand, then Sony-Ericsson smartphones (not unlike Microsoft-Nokia) and then had to drop it completely.
Most of the issues stems from corporations trying to save a buck. If you want to see how it should work go to a Market Basket. When you pull into the parking lot, the first thing you will notice is the place is packed. Then you think, wow the lines are going to be long and you notice people's carts are packed full. Now that your cart is full its your time for the check out line. In two minutes your in the parking going wow that was fast. Most Market Baskets have 18 cash registers each one is open with a bagger and two managers standing watching and waiting for any issues. Then your thinking there are at least 38 people at the registers
> just hope Nokia has learned from their mistakes and don’t cut too much from their R&D.

If the executive board will receive bonuses from doing exactly the opposite, they will decide doing the opposite.
Correct URL: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-10-19-json-schema-to-nickel/
Sorry for the UI misunderstanding, Your podcast is here https://pods.ee/260
The right to have a human review a decision predates GDPR - it was part of the Data Protection Act.
Why do po police officers buy their own guns? Do they not get their guns provided to them by the police department?
Back in my school days, when I was around 7 years old, one of the most vivid memories that stick with me is of a vertical timeline displayed across the entire width of our classroom's back wall.

It started with September on the left, and it ended with August on the right.
To this day, whenever I think of a year, I picture it like that timeline.
Digga

1.) Tino Chrupalla im Artikel erwähnt ist rechtsextrem. Merz z.B. ist konservativ. Musk kennt wahrscheinlich nicht den wichtigsten, deutschen konservativen Politiker.
2.) AfD Propaganda ist zu teilen ist das Teilen rechtsextremer Propaganda.

Bisschen raus aus der AfD Blase.
Related blog:
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
How can developers help SREs?
Collaboration between developers and SREs is crucial for the success of a product's reliability and performance.
Developers can help SREs by adopting practices such as scaling the platform with a 12-factor app method and sharing performance testing data insights.
Documentation, configuration files, AIOps supported system admin functionalities, and increasing observability of the system are key areas where developers can make the SRE's life easier.
Same here in Sweden. You can also just send a text message to confirm all is good as is.
I wish we could vote with our votes… I know it will never happen, but I would love it if our government tried to strike a different balance between the rights of buyers and sellers of ebooks.

DRM should be allowed, but it must expire when the copyright does, it must accommodate transferring titles from one person to another, it must provide a way for accessibility devices to access the book, it must not lock readers into a single ecosystem, etc…
I can't tell whether the article is a work of sarcasm or the author is unable to grasp the entirely subjective nature of beauty.

Very analogous to the numerous articles both on WSJ and elsewhere complaining about "ugly" architecture.
> Some CEOs

The executive class exploit the labour of the working class to benefit themselves. CEOs are in general opposed to collective action among the workers beneath them as any shift of power to the workers necessarily represents a loss of power for the executive.
Depending on who you ask, the silicon area overhead of programmable logic FPGA is 25X-100X compared to hard coded logic of an ASIC (at the same node). Very few applications can afford the cost of full platform programmability with large devices costing over $5K.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/amd/XCVM1802-1MSE...
I'm Meta's defense, a Python and a Panda trained to work together would be really dangerous!
You're also not providing us a single example advert.
On Facebook I get ridiculous amounts of crypto scam ads falsely claiming to be associated with Elon Musk or his companies. I think even simple text based filters could catch them. It's been happening for years. I keep thinking surely they'll have it under control soon.

Seems they are busy creating filters & banning accounts, just not the right ones.
We need a social credit system that is more like what eBay feedback was like in 1996 than what China has today.

Everyone who has ever had feelings with me should be able to leave feedback on me, and I should be able to leave feedback on everyone I ever dealt with.

It should be illegal to share a calculated score for money. Instead, a scripting interface similar to Excel formulas should allow us all to write out own metrics for who is a good guy and who is a bad guy.
Tuition Fees in the United Kingdom
I a digital forensics investigator who owns a small business. I was also banned for life from advertising. Not told why but the only thing I’ve changed is that I started teaching a social media evidence course at university - then almost immediately banned.

Facebook/Meta don’t accept messages from people banned for life. The NSW small business ombudsman won’t touch the case because they only will resolve cases with companies that have Australian contact details.

My history on Facebook is pretty boring. Family photos and news about my advocacy for blind and low vision people and the occasional work post. Pretty mundane stuff.

This article is useful because I thought I was the only one.

I’m not sure about my next steps. I am probably required to notify the uni but I also don’t want to create trouble for them.
Fear isn't the point here. It's just normal corporate ass covering. If you don't know, you can't complain coherently.
The implicit point of comparison looks to be the monolithic Unix of old, where the entirety of the code of the system is (hopefully, ostensibly, allegedly) developed with a single vision, except for the application programs in the narrowest sense of the word (e.g. the particular piece of numerics you needed to design your airplane or whatnot, but not the editor you used to write it, the cluster scheduler you used to run it, the typesetter you used to write down your results, or the 3D viewer you used to present them).

As far as I understand, that—compared to the Linux distro which derives a similar range of capability from a primordial soup of small nuggets of software—was Raymond’s “cathedral” as well, and the original model of the BSDs, before the range of expected functionality was broad enough that distro-ish “ports” became unavoidable.

One example that’s just plain interesting to read to see what things people were exploring (because, let’s admit it, historical Unix source gets plain boring after a while) is AT&T Research’s https://github.com/att/ast.
Removed leading spaces to your comment to make the links clickable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37841013

(347 points | 8 days ago | 155 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37721663

(14 points | 18 days ago | 5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37841110

(9 points | 8 days ago | 0 comments)
90% of these posts are just sob stories because they fucked up and he fucked up at least with "waiting a year". Makes absolutely no sense to me.
Seems like a good place to mention QR-filetransfer and it's forks, as alternative solutions in some situations:

* https://github.com/sdushantha/qr-filetransfer

* https://github.com/imba-tjd/qrsend
OK, good advice. I will take a look at it.
Kya backchodi kar rahe ho bhai
You mention a vertical timeline but the flow of time was horizontal? And the vertical part was what? (the things that happen in a month?)
They're not employees. These aren't technically layoffs.

The company is being acquired and then they are choosing not to issue a bunch of people contracts.
Paradoxically netflix et al made pirating even better because now we don't have to wait for the DVD release to get good video and audio quality.
And the government is unaware of those or? Where I live the banks reports stuff such as mortage interest payment, capital gains etc, it's time for taxes it's all filled out already and I click OK or text the tax authority to confirm.
Queue fifty comments about how language on the repository is misleading, “does this download Microsoft weights?” and other friends.
Thus separating the model’s logic from the model’s data.

All that was old is new again :) [0]

0: s/model/program/
Google taps gen-AI to help users in India search government welfare schemes
For his 5head-200iq-4d-chess-brain he plays by the playbook a lot.
Awesome - now the rest of the world please as well.
In Finland there is a mandated period of 'consultation' - usually at least 2 weeks long, between company and employees (or their representatives) when such things happen. I don't know if the actual term in Finnish is supposed to sound as euphemistic as the English one - but at this point it's pretty much decided.