skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it matter? Cat’s out of the bag. Unity has been freed to focus on other things important for the society.
why would you hang around the US with that loot ? go where uncle sam wouldn't be able to touch ya
CFR[] – Extremely minimal drawing language with 5 commands: C, F, R, [, and ]
there's something a bit strange with pyre though, I feel like it makes it too difficult to check types in a subdirectory (like you have to provide a configuration or something)

it works well and fast for a whole codebase though
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If I may, your training is much better than your current YouTube views would indicate. I think it you spent some time on it [1] then it should pay off as your explanations are clear and concise, and it's clear from them that you're a good trainer. Your newsletter is also good, and I've had quite a few "oh, that's why that's like that" moments from reading it.

[1] - When I say this, I don't mean thumbnails with you looking shocked in them and the title being "You won't believe how many Python people don't know this!" or similar.... I know it's a fine line to walk, but you're also better than that!!!
The fed can say whatever it wants but I can go to the grocery store and show you inflation is still increasing. Pretty much all consumer stuff is still going up, despite how much the fed wants to have it not be true.
And some of these companies pride themselves as AI technology pioneers. Yet it seems their automated systems in this case are simply doing keyword matching.

Mind-boggling!
WhatsApp will soon let you stay logged in to two accounts at once
Funny thing about religious people is that very often they do not agree with 100% of what that church is saying and doing.
Ask HN: If client side scanning on devices becomes mandatory, what would you do?
In light of the recent bills (EARN IT, chat Control 2.0, Online safety bill) that are making their way through parliament in different countries, we can assume that one of those will manage to get through.

The outcome would most likely result in an outright ban on encryption or will require app developers to start implementing CSS on every app used for communication (Whatsapp, Signal, Messenger, Telegram, IMessage).

Once that happens, it will only be a matter of time before it will be mandatory for CSS to happen at the OS level.

It could potentially be rolled out to MacOS and Windows as well.

What would you do then? Would that bother you or would you keep on using your devices as usual?

I know the question is very broad but I am interested in what other people think on these matters.
A book I really enjoyed was “Games people play” by Eric Berne.

It made me reflect a lot on the interactions I have with the people around me, and I think I needed to develop a deeper level of self-awareness than I had prior to reading it. So I’m glad I read it.
EU should strongly consider allocating some funds to speed the process up.
very generous tax-deductible interest rules

There is a lot of economic research around the second order impact of these tax deductions. Do they, in fact, increase the cost of homes? There is _some_ evidence that says yes, so the tax deduction is offset by higher purchase price.
And before the gramophone was invented, getting the latest tune for home entertainment often meant bringing the sheet music home and sight reading it at the family piano.
I don't have a wider point to make about modern skill levels, but I do admire such things being fairly common.
It's nice but id prefer having some sorta Explorer extension than having to rely on a second file explorer. Unless it's meant to fully replace Explorer.exe, then Ig it makes sense
Piling some more alternatives, a fork to snapdrop:

https://pairdrop.net/

From the author:
https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop#differences-to-sn...
Yet another re$$it gui.
Punycode is of questionable use anyway. Granted I'm mostly looking into this from a primary latin alphabet perspective, but for the various non-latin alphabet sites I've browsed over the past decade all of them just stuck to regular ASCII domains. (Heck you see this even with usernames on websites that allowed Unicode to be used; most non-latin alphabet users will still stick to the Latin alphabet for usernames.)

The only place punycode really gets used are spam domains in practice. Even most Cyrillic and Asian domains don't use punycode.

I get the concept of punycode and it is impressive technically but for domains it's just been a massive phishing headache.
It can be pretty easy. When I started my professional life in the US, taxes were relatively simple because I basically had two sources of income (job and interest investments). You enter 2 forms, ignore a lot of prompts in the tax software (do you do X? Do you do Y?) and go for it. You can even file your taxes for free - in theory - if you have a simple life like that. A lot of taxpayers do.

The problem that makes things a lot more complicated is that the US has many little mechanisms for reducing your tax liability that are very tempting to use (and oftentimes inevitable): 401k, HSAs, mortgage interest deduction, 529 accounts, long term capital gains, capital loss offsets etc. HN readers tend to be more educated than average and have a higher income than average. Also, a lot of math-inclined, optimizer types here who will absolutely want to take advantage of these features in the tax code.

When you start adding every little way to pay less taxes, or start doing more interesting things in your life such as setting up a small business or buying property, tax preparation can become a nightmare.
Interesting how the article kinda meanders between not-quite-saying that Elan is doing manly brinkmanship and is ready to make a rational business decision, and not-quite-saying that Elan is the dysfunctional captain of a soon-to-be shipwreck.
If we were in a Douglas Adams novel, aliens would now invade, take away our homes and our rights.

After a couple of generations they would have a vote on giving us some of our rights back.

They would vote mostly among themselves using their proven cosmocratic framework.
We have the opposite experience. They pay more, it’s just that the average ad-quality is also lower. We actually had to raise the minimum price even higher for the network to not show tons of borderline scam ads (now they are delivering fewer ads, but they are more relevant and higher quality)
I used to help out on a farm in my youth.

Collection of bales was manual. Picking them up with a hay fork and lifting them up to an increasingly high person on a trailer.

This was ok with the ancient baler, but when that broke and he borrowed another the bales were twice as heavy, which isn't fun when the pile on the trailer is 9ft high.
https://www.fsf.org/
Yeah so property prices will go down as a result but considering most people in the west cant afford buying without a mortgage it will still be expensive for the average joe.

So this is good news for cash buyers, who will make a killing once rates drop, and bad news for wage workers.
Siege of Sarajevo
The most precious IP you own, which you drop in the form of 50-100 fallen hairs every day, and is smeared on everything you touch.

People submit more weaponizable (behavioural) data to Facebook, Google and HN every day.
Non Australians commenting on this article who want to take a critical view would be encouraged to research outside editorialised media opinion.

This referendum was asking for the equivalent of a new representative body in dc comprised of only native Americans and all levels of gov would be required to seek their advice on all policy that effects them which as any of would understand is everything.

What are the chances of a us constitutional amended getting over line for this?
So Australians should solidify their status in to the constitution in perpetuity? How do you square that with basic principle of liberal universalism?
This isn't just bad AI or ML.

It's just straight up bad product management and development.
Some small group of people decided to make this the behavior and implement it.

Don't attribute to machines that which was clearly malice, ignorance, or apathy (or all of the above) by the builders.
What can I say, my kids love netflix, and we watch many shows there (virgin river, the recruit, the diplomat, lupin, kim's convenience, etc.).
> Rather than saying that a tab character places the text that follows it at the next Nth column, we should say that a tab character is a delimiter between table cells in a manner more reminiscent of how they're used in tab separated value (TSV) files. When used for text or code I call this format "Tab Separated Columns". Seen in this light, we can see that space aligned files are analogous to the old fixed width data files, and we all know the advantages that delimited files have over those.

If we're lifting abstraction one level up - from dumb plaintext to delimited records - maybe it's time to revive the ASCII control characters that were specifically meant for this? I'm talking about ASCII 28 to ASCII 31 - file, group, unit and record separators.
now compare how UI development is done in the likes of react and such.

that app if done in react - would be so full of subtle bugs. and way slower too.

we really have regressed backwards as an industry.
>You don't have any anti-discrimination laws to prevent sellers choose their customers on subjective basis?

US businesses can choose to not do business with whomever they want as long as they aren't a protected class. Besides that point, what damages could you sue over?
This is misplaced compassion. Giving people who happen to have a specific genetic heritage a privileged position in the law because you feel sorry for them is not compassionate - it's racist and demeaning. And exactly how much genetic heritage does someone need to qualify? One drop? Is it really healthy for society to even start having that conversation and categorizing people by their genetic characteristics? If "compassion" is driving you to toss out equality before the law, you're on the wrong track.
I believe HP has been on that spiral for a very long time… since maybe the mid-2000’s.

In general though, cheap printers suck because they’re so cheap the vendor needs to try and milk money out of you somehow after you purchase. I’d expect most if not all sub-$300 printers to have vendor trickery included (unfortunately).
I had the same thing with Ebay. Tried to sell an old linguistics textbook. First thing I ever tried to sell, new account. Instantly banned. Refused to tell me why.

Total lack of accountability.

Guess I'm never buying anything from Ebay.
Every company does not have as many resources and tax lawyers to minimize their tax burden as Amazon.
Someone needs to write an open-source client-side scanning daemon for Linux, and sharpish.
You do not possess sovereign rights on digital platforms. I am curious about how much time it will take for the entirety of humanity to recognize that we are currently inhabiting a digital medieval era.
https://archive.ph/err47
There isn’t a country on earth that’s wasn’t taken by force by the current majority people.
Why buy an MBS when you can buy a mortgage pool from Fannie or Freddie directly? The fees are lower, but you own the full mortgage -- and the full risk of default from borrowers. MBS is better for Alt-A and below credit scores, where you want to protect yourself against losses.
If you're talking about the original X-Com, there's no hard time limit. The game gets more difficult over time, but you can never lose purely by playing too slow. Notably, the aliens never attempt to infiltrate Russia, so you can never lose by complete infiltration of the Council of Funding Nations.
Doesn't AirDrop use it though? Not sure you can consider it archaic.
250mbps would seem fine for most files.
https://pairdrop.net/ is a fork of SnapDrop with a more responsive maintainer (apparently: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/discussions/115 )
To be honest, according to our potential misbelief about the world and how it works treating the project as a "sacred child", which might be an attitude very unknown to some of you here, it hasn't striked us that someone would go to look and read the Terms of Service, before really looking at the site, its mission and the music.

Perhaps you haven't had a chance to arrive there yet, but we will take your comment as a recommendation for the improvement, which will be implemented in the coming days so that also "law-oriented music lovers" will be pleased with the law-confirming evolution.
Rama Demo Gallery (Beyond the Mastodon Impl)
The bank transfer module is particularly neat: https://github.com/redplanetlabs/rama-demo-gallery/blob/mast...
For me the year is like a ribbon...almost like a an old film reel. It's an interesting study, though. It reminds me of Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month:

> I have long enjoyed asking candidate programmers, "Where is next November?" If the question is too cryptic, then, "Tell me about your mental model of the calendar." The really good programmers have strong spatial senses; they usually have geometric models of time; and they quite often understand the first question without elaboration. They have highly individualistic models.
Can you still jailbreak the latest and greatest kindles? "Apparently", it was possible to break the DRM using the PC Kindle reader but that stopped working some time ago.
I just tried it and… it redirects me to the actual page https://keepass.info/

That is weird. I don’t have mobile debugging set up, or I’d try and figure out what’s going on there.
The silver lining here seems to be that Meta deletes logs after 180 days? Shrug
If what you're building on top of leaks into other parts of your codebase, can't be isolated and can't easily be swapped out, I'd say avoid building a product on top of it.
Dunno where the year in the title comes from. I first saw this web page in 2006 https://dotat.at/:/C8PC9.html
> The housing stock in England is shit for a reason and it's entirely historic.

To an extent that's always been true I'll agree but it has gotten better and worse at times, when we where looking at houses I specifically gave more weight to stuff built in the 70's/80's over anything after that or before that, relatively new (for our housing stock) but built at a time when pride in work was still a thing.

As a result the build quality on my house is excellent (and I used to be a sparkie so I know a lot of the trades tricks).

The new builds we looked at had much better energy efficiency but god when you go look in the loft/anywhere that wasn't immediately visible was the quality dire plus tiny in comparison, 90sq/m2 for the same as we paid for a 4 bed 128 sq/m2.
Oh! Pascal! was magnificent. The other influential Pascal text for me was “Elementary Pascal”, where Holmes writes Pascal for Babbage’s engine to solve mysteries. Books these days don’t seem to have the same whimsy.
At a previous job at an enterprise cybersecurity company, we were spending tens of thousands of dollars a month on ads across Facebook and Instagram and _constantly_ were having ads and posts flagged as being about "hacking".
What are you suggesting about the sun, that it might be some kind of alive?
I’ve been playing around with something similar for factual nouns, where the next token prediction is a token like [PNOUN] and then a downstream predictor chooses the actual result.

One major Problem is that you need to autoregressively access the correct embedding when doing inference. And in particular in batch inference. So waiting for the downstream prediction to complete is gonna slow inference. One way I was considering getting around it was running all auxiliary classifiers in parallel with the main LLM, and just accessing those results when needed.

Which then runs into the problem that those auxiliary classifiers have to be smallish relative to the main model, and then there are performance questions. A complicated thread to unravel.

Their approach to num doesn’t have the same performance implications but there are some clear issues - large numbers will have blowup issues, 0 and small floats have big problems here.
The US mortgage market is essentially backstopped by the US government. Banks can sell the fixed rate mortgages to a government backed bank at a guaranteed rate and so don't have to hold the interest rate risk on their books. The US government (both parties) has long believed that home ownership is important and have a lot of policies to encourage it, this is one of them.
What is the advantage of using Spacedrive over mounting the network disk with rclone (https://rclone.org/) and using any other file explorer?
The Fed is pausing

They are likely to raise rates (25bps) at the next meeting. Economic indicators continue to be very strong, and inflation has not meaningfully reduced.
I meant mechanics like in Enemy Within where every action you do brings certain events closer.
why does it look exactly like https://snapdrop.net
Like https://www.sharedrop.io/?

It finds devices on the same network automatically but also works across networks when using the plus button on the top right.
I see it as a 3d object ala the Menologium Rusticum Colotianum. This way you get the cycle, the split into 4 quarters, and a sequence view per month.
You can see an image at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIL_VI_2305_-_Menolo...
…or, I guess Barbara Liskov in 1987, with Argus. And yet, we still seem to debug programs interactively in isolation. Perhaps it’s because all of those systems assumed a system developed in isolation, that didn’t evolve independently and weren’t implemented in different programming languages communicating through different network protocols instead of function/method invocations.
haha yeah exactly I feel like they all follow the same pattern of really focusing on The Customer in the beginning and getting super popular through word-of-mouth praise.

Then they turn on the money taps and just scale up and "move upmarket" to a point where they can't provide good customer service any more to smaller businesses until the next small startup comes along and focuses on smaller markets.
Hey, the author here :)

My point is that there's also good that can come out of social media. Completely disregarding any social media as useless and a waste of time is wrong, in my opinion.

My point is to start blocking so that you can turn whatever social media of your choosing into an enriching experience, rather than a doom scrolling one.

But of course, even if you do so, we should all keep a limit on our internet consumption as a whole.
You can now pay a 2% royalty instead which seems reasonable
I always though QED was a strange phrase, it translates to "that which has been demonstrated" but how did they get there?
Huh, this might actually not be that difficult to make nowadays - modify a copilot plugin to prompt LLM for "grammar check" instead of completions, run it in the background like error checker, and use that output to add the blue squiggly lines to parts of code the LLM has an opinion on.
Beyond them creating it in the first place you mean?

I spent a long time investigating the effectiveness of everything governments did during COVID. None of it worked and a lot of it backfired badly, lockdowns being only one of the most prominent examples. Even the vaccine programme was a disaster: the data claiming otherwise turns out to have all been juked in various ways. We'd have been better off without governments doing anything at all.
This is only my experience. I had great organic reach for my page. I thought I will get even more if I advertise it. Big mistake. Advertising helped a bit, but the moment I stopped paying they cut my organic reach.

I'll never touch advertising again. It seems to be designed for start ups with VC money to burn and not small business.
It sounds like the number of instances needed fluctuates heavily, maybe max number of concurrent instances needed in a month is ~500 64GB instances while average could be ~100 instances?
The idea that businesses operate with laser focus on revenue is fantasy. Businesses are filled with individuals acting mostly on emotions and vibes, people who waste time empire building, etc.
Thanks. Presumably such a person wouldn't need tax-return software?

The system here in the UK is similar, except that "regular workers" don't file a tax return. Work-related deductions/additions (e.g. private health plans) are reported by the employer and are automatically accounted for. Non-work stuff like capital gains on personal property sales are mostly dealt with as part of the transaction.
I disable mobile internet on the phone, turn on hotspot and tell friend to connect to my phone. Then let them scan qrcode from serveit app, which will open web server address in browser.

Click on file you want to download.
Does not use mobile internet or outside wifi.
Have a look round at how many social distancing signs there still are. Signs don't get updated, so is that 8am opening the actual opening time or have they not updated the sign?

And if you make an appointment for 8am at the other side of a (not) time change. Does that appointment change, or do you need to attend an hour earlier or later?
and what is your surname?
Isn't it already under GDPR where entity using AI to make decisions need to provide an explanation how it arrived at it?
Why should a publisher abandon DRM because some middleware ebook app doesn't like it?

The publisher wouldn't have to do anything if the tech was built to protect works by default.

Youtube protects big hollywood with copyright strikes, but apparenty books are beneath protection.

It's your tech industry, stop blaming the publishers.
Of course, how typical of FDR to regurgitate a bunch of mumbo jumbo. Good for thee but not for me. In the end the federal government is just like any other employer.
Yeah, it's more like a sine wave for me. Winters are the hills and summers the valleys.
Here the current underground trains are almost fully autonomous. They still carry a person in the cabin "just in case" and mostly because of union pressure. There's also a plan where new trains to be delivered in 2025 will be fully autonomous and have no driver at all.

AFAIK the situation is similar in some other European cities.
Yes, but the HN can easily remove offending content. How do you remove something from blockchain?
Not every employee is a good negotiator. And poor negotiators get underpaid in a market system even when they are great at their job. Unions fix this market inefficiency by having good negotiators act on their behalf.
Oh, so is that the famed Time Cube?
I know this is an old thread but also just remembered - what folks are describing in this thread (where it just picks the mode) is actually explicitly one of the reasons we use diffusion instead of GANs - it's called mode collapse and it's something people spend a lot of time and effort trying to prevent: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/44a2e0804995f...
"How sarcastic do you want your answer?"

Yes!
Also, the return is guaranteed in the case of mortgage repayment.

The returns from investment are estimated based on historical performance. You can lose money investing, not so paying off a mortgage early.
They may ask, and you may plead the fifth, and I might decline to talk to the police on principle.

Executing a general warrant compels everyone to “answer the question” in your analogy, which is clearly very different. You keep saying “ask” but here they seize.