skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is it. There's real skill in creating simple solutions to complex problems. Knowing the general landscape of what's out there, and easily available off the shelf, really does help.

Developers grow. It starts with simple code that doesn't work. The next step is, complicated code that solves the problem, in messy unmaintainable ways. The next step is writing super clean, almost boring code, that's highly readable and "dumb" and does exactly what it's supposed to do.

The other thing to realize, a lot of great code doesn't just spring from the developer's hands in its final form -- it's extensively edited and rewritten into its final, good, form.
Some mail providers somewhat support this. Fastmail for example allows setting retention limits on each folder including the trash and spam folders. One could make a folder for marketing and make rules for some of the bulk senders and then just keeping adding them as one finds them. Perhaps if enough people asked their mail provider they could add a global check-box for all the common email campaign providers.
Isn't having an S&P 500 fund legally required?
I think taking any action makes you stand out, and if no one's doing anything you "conform" by not taking action too.
The newspapers where they write op-eds, or the radio and TV channels where they give speeches are private too. I don't see a difference
Total market index funds don't go to zero. You would have a bond fund and stock fund and rebalance to more stocks as you get nearer retirement. Sure, but maybe not when there have been very low interest rates for a long time. Holding cash in that case seems better than bonds to me. No upside in bonds, just downside.
I can think of one dystopian application off the top of my head.

A pharmaceutical company develops a treatment for a terminal, currently-uncurable disease like Huntington's. Without your permission, they identify you as having the gene for Huntington's and pitch their drug to you.

Many people at risk of Huntington's deliberately don't test for it, bc the prognosis is so bad and it causes so much anxiety to know you have it. A marketing campaign like this -- even with a drug with marginal benefits -- could be both very profitable and devastating.

Bonus! The drug company itself wouldn't have to be the one to actually make the pitch to you. It could be a third-party pharma retailer who does it, selling the drug to you at a markup.
Degrowth is inevitable. The only choice left is whether it happens relatively peaceably through a shift in values, or through war, exploitation, struggles over dwindling resources, and untold human and environmental destruction.

You are either a degrowther, or you are a fool who doesn't see what's going on (perhaps willfully).
I’ve had excellent experience with Revolut on business accounts. Responsive Customer service, Good app with great features, cheap payments to countries like Serbia.
Unlike most banks they were happy with me living in Portugal but running a UK company.
For those interested in this sort of thing, see also Raft's TLA+ specification: https://github.com/ongardie/raft.tla
You must tell her then update us on her reaction. Bonus if you record it on video. :^)
Would you be equally unhappy about the letters if you knew that they were skimmed over by an intern and replied to with a form response?
Unless you're a dualist the evidence staring right at you in the bathroom mirror.
As a former student pilot in helicopters, my first question is how?

If they are making the joystick perform the same functions as a joystick on a plane, that is going to remove all of the things that make a helicopter work better than a plane.

I specifically notice that they did not say that the joystick can handle hovering.

Well then, why have it?
> If not from ideology, where come you by the idea that "we pursue these curiosities because it is what humanity was made for?" That statement has zero factual content and can be meaningfully parsed only as a statement of belief. How do you mean me to imagine it as not ideological in origin?

I don't need an ideological justification to allow people to do things that they want to. I'm not the one looking to reduce people's rights to pursue their interests; you are. That's why there is a distinction between my position and yours.

> At no point for example have I said I have a problem with placing satellites in Earth orbit, and not by accident have I been specific in phrases like "putting humans in space".

> > Look after the people on Earth first. Once we show we can accomplish that, then and only then do we begin to earn the stars.

I think a reasonable interpretation of this is that you do not think humanity has not "earned the stars." It would not reasonably be interpreted as only referring to sending humans into space.

> Robots in space, serving our ends, are cheap, easy, durable, and worth the trouble. Meat in space, at vastly greater expense and fragile complexity, is not.

Why not? What is the criteria for it being worthwhile?

> My point is simply that the opportunity cost of putting humans in space has yet to be justified by any result - very notably including any output of the Space Shuttle program, where my opinion largely tracks Cegłowski's wellknown 2005 review [1], albeit perhaps with a touch more charity - and with no realistic prospect of that changing, I see no compelling reason to throw any more good money after such a vast sea of bad.

Putting humans into space is a remarkably new thing that has largely been interrupted by its lack of funding. What are you even comparing this against? What returns would be required for it to satisfy your need for an ROI?
Damn there's a lot of stuff in here. Perhaps we should instead recognise these models as "people" to have them fall under existing regulations.
For the next two months our inboxes will be wild with opt-in pitches...
As a fellow amateur batman fantacist and definite sperglord I think it's not so much about justice necessarily, as much as it is about the system. I need for the world to work on a rational systemic way to be comfortable and counter examples are deeply unsettling to me.
No, thank you very much, heard that blame story long enough in my childhood (socialistic country).

If it's bad -- let's make it illegal. Law is a reflection of what people consider fair and just. If it's legal -- it's fair and just.
There was that moment when a friend had a Dual G5 PowerMac only to have it trampled in performance by the new Core Duo Mac Mini. That was when we knew Apple had made the right move. I called the G5 tower (Steve's shame), you could just tell that every time those fans kicked into top gear that there was a sense of shame that that thing even shipped.

The M1 felt like that all over again. I didn't really get that feeling during the 68K to PPC era but that also wasn't handled as gracefully.
Can you give an example of any of these places that get universally used and cited by news organizations and politicians the world over?
> brandonq/xml vs parsers/xml with no clue if one is better then another.

You will have this problem only once. After an initial research you settle on one and move on with life.

I don't get how having to vet a dependency is going to be more difficult than before. The process is 99% the same, you still have to do the research work initially in both cases.
This is exactly why GDPR exists. What you are describing is illegal in the EU. Sending marketing communication requires clear opt in consent.
>And it is possible for a poor person to encourage their children to study and become a doctor or engineer (see for example the Asian immigrant communities).

The Asian immigrant communities benefit from a much more stable environment than other immigrant or domestic communities have (and less systemic racism and exclusion). The same is not the case for the black or latino communities for example.

And even if the child of poor immigrant community (Asian or whatever) studies hard to become a doctor or engineer, they'd still have to do it under less opportunities, with less connections, more sacrifices, in worse school districts, with less access to tutors, with more stressful family environment (even less nutricion, more need to move, in more dangerous neighborhoods), etc than the child from a upper middle class or rich family. That's the injustice and lack of meritocracy.
Lego.

They have a service to order, for free - not even delivery fee, parts that you lost or broke.

A year or so ago my 6 year old son sent them a handwritten letter alongside a drawing of a castle. He was asking them to please bring back the castle theme, and if they didn't have any idea they could use his drawing for inspiration.

A few weeks later he received a response. The rep congratulated him for his drawing and told him that they used it for the set that they were just releasing - The Lion Knight Castle. The timing was excellent, but the rep was also very clever in their reply, making it very personal. You could tell someone took the time to sit down and figure out how to craft a response adequate to the original sender.
To be honest I had to block mails from @gmail.com as its the only place i get spam from, so if they try to make their service less of a wasteland thatd be really appreciated
> We really don't want kids escalating from school shootings to synthesis and deployment of mustard gas.

They’d probably end up killing fewer people with a lot more effort. Chemical weapons are not really all that effective.
In the US, it's easier to get a loan to buy a business than it is to get a loan to start a business. That tells you all you need to know.
Perhaps a dumb question, but why do we store embeddings as "vectors" and not "points"? I thought the difference was that vectors have magnitude, but an embedding doesn't have a magnitude - they are just points in an n-dimensional space?
It's a prank. Meant to be funny. Best when signing up for something which might be construed as embarrassing.

I've also done this where I've donated $25 to U of California in the name of my friend who went to Stanford (rival universities). He's likely still getting calls.
Eh, opposite experience, Gmail filters out almost entirely spam email for me and extremely rarely legitimate email. The filter learns fast in either direction.

I get daily spam coming from Gmail and Azure tenants especially.
I created a POC for visualizing relational data in a codebase
I developed a data visualization tool to analyze file relationships in a codebase. While the current version provides a compelling visual, it's still a proof of concept. There are limitations and much room for improvement.
I'd argue that workers who don't feel exploited are more productive and that more productive employees can have a positive impact on a company. I'd bet that employees who are treated well tend to stick around longer too and that also can have a positive impact a company.

I think research might be a little difficult since there are a lot of things that can impact a company's longevity and success (however that's being defined) that have nothing to do with employees (unionized or otherwise), but I imagine a good study might be able to account for that to some extent.
I am going bet a pillow case of slightly squished mini candy bars that Tim Brown might have been a good technologist, but that he might have been told to sit down and color.

I am saying this because reading the interview notes:

> BROWN: It was crazy. So our CEO got a call in the morning from [Mandiant CEO] Kevin Mandia. And then he called me, and then the CTO for FireEye called me. That’s our nightmare moment. [Oct. 26, 2021 Cybersecurity Dive]

Was the Mandiant CEO friends with Solarwinds CEO, to make the call to the CEO instead of the person that (presumably) signed their vendor contract, the CISO?

> SolarWinds did almost immediately was create a cyber-specific committee on your board

I read this as "there was no one, not even the CIO at the board."

If you are a CISO, and you are have to decide between your livelihood for the rest of your life guaranteed by a company, or your livelihood for the rest of your life taken by regulators, where do you go?

If the CISO says to the Corp "no, I am going public/won't lie/[insert insubordination]", no one will hire them thereafter.

If the CISO says "okay, let me sit and color", go to jail, and no one will hire them thereafter.
> It'd probably be hard for us to standardize this in a way that worked across platforms which likely precludes us from doing anything quickly here. The stuff easiest to standardize for WebCodecs is stuff that's already standardized as part of the relevant codec spec (e.g, AVC, AV1, etc) and well supported on a significant range of hardware.

As I said, oculus link worked with off the shelf encoders. Only the Nvidia one needed some special work and even that’s not even needed anymore since they raised the number of encoders (and the amount of work was really trivial - just adjusting some header information in the h.264 framing). I think all you really need is the ability to either slice a VideoFrame into strips 0 cost and have the user feed them into separate encoders OR to request sliced encoding and under the hood that’s implemented however (either multiple encoder sessions or using Nvidia slice API if using nvenc). You can even make support for sliced encoding optional and implement it just for the backends where it’s doable.
I implemented this recently in C as a numpy extension[1], for. fun. Even had a vectorized solution going.

You'll get diminishing returns on recall pretty fast. There's actually a theorem that tracks this - Jordan-Lindenstrauss lemma[2] if you're interested.

As I mention in a talk I gave[3], it can work if you're going to rerank anyway. And whatever vector search thing isn't the main ranking signal. And you don't have that much data. It's also easy to update, as the hashes are non-parametric (they don't depend on the data). Constantly updating vector search systems is often neglected in benchmarks.

The lack of data-dependency, however is the main problem. Vector spaces are lumpy. You can see this in the distribution of human beings on the surface of the earth - postal codes and area codes vary from small to huge - random hashes, like a grid, wouldn't let you accurately map out the distribution of all the people or clump them close to their actual nearest neighbors. Manhattan is not rural Alaska... and more dimensions, more data points, the more ways it has to be lumpy.

Annoy, actually, builds on these hashes, by creating many trees of such hashes, and then finds a split in the left and right. Then in creates a forest of such trees. So its essentially a forest of random hash trees with data dependency.

Hope that helps.

1 - https://github.com/softwaredoug/np-sims

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Lindenstrauss_...

3 - https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2023/09/05/vector-search-the-h...
> This isn't because of the organization size, and doesn't apply to copyright, which is handled by the DMCA.

Ok, I'll rephrase: the clarity of its mechanisms and protections benefits small and large organizations alike.

My understanding is that it no longer applies to copyright because the DMCA and specifically OCILLA [1] supersede it. I admit I am not an expert here.

> Which is the problem. It should be unambiguously legal.

I have conflicting opinions on this point. I will say that I am not sure if I disagree or agree, for whatever that is worth.

> But the DMCA takedown process wouldn't be the correct tool to use even if youtube-dl was unquestionably illegal

This is totally fair. I also am not a fan of the DMCA and takedown processes, and think those should be held as a negative model for any future legislation.

I'd prefer for anything new to have clear guidelines and strong protections like Section 230 of the CDA (immunity from liability within clear boundaries) than like the OCILLA.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...
Welcome to hard determinism
In general, we need a data bill of rights. Corporations are enslaving us digitally, and I feel it's reaching a boiling point.
Where do you live that you think this comment is remotely correct? Try living comfortably in DC on $100k.
The bird seems to be named after the place, so if we fix how we pronounce and spell the place, we should also fix how we pronounce and spell the bird. Although, the bird was never really from the place at all.
Not that I think there’s much credence to this signal as you’ve stated it, but it does have overlap with what I try to convey to people when I ask them to leash their own dog: it’s for the safety of their dog as much as it is for mine. In other words, as I’ve tried to explain it, “even if your dog is perfectly well behaved, you have no idea if my dog or any other you may encounter is a danger to your dog.”

This has been universally unconvincing to those dog owners who walk their dogs off leash. They don’t—in my experience—actually care if it puts their dog at risk, any more than they care about putting anyone else at risk. Anecdata still, but my experience tells me that whether a dog is leashed or not is mostly an indicator of whether the dog’s human is more concerned with the dog’s safety, or with their own selfish convenience.
Cable and satellite radio do not have much government involvement. Terrestrial broadcasts in the US are really the only place your argument has any standing and almost no one uses those these days in comparison.
I believe gstreamer has support for fMP4: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/fmp4/index.h...

I stumbled upon a MoQ video by kixelated a couple months ago and have been meaning to give the above a try, but haven't gotten around to it yet so not sure if it will do the trick.
You're not reading that right: the problem isnt that this engineer knew the problem, it s that he gave management presentations about it and they didnt fix it.
I have mild autism (not entirely politically correct to describe it that way) without intellectual impairments and I frankly see normal people as disabled.
Do the math, and you’ll find the delta is uneconomic.

Unless the air is 600C or something. In which case, have you checked to make sure you’re not on fire?
Among other factors contributing to corporate/white-collar corruption & fraud, this is what happens when you have a culture of nepotism & nepotistic CEO.

The HR Chief of SolarWinds is the cousin of the CEO (Sudhakar Ramakrishna) of SolarWinds. Same was true at their previous company (Pulse Secure).

In many global cultures, this is completely normal-- and those are cultures which have high rates of endemic, prolific corruption, such as South Asia & Latin America.

I would like to see more insiders speak out & blow the whistle on corrupt trade practices under this CEO.

If any investigators or journalists would like more info, feel free to contact: anti.corruption.123@proton.me

"As they sow, so shall they reap."

"In human life seek justice, truth, temperance and courage, and you will profit from the supreme good that you have discovered." (Marcus Aurelius)
These businesses are 100% tax-evading.
There has to be a better way to balance the ability to use cash and not have people evade taxation.
Several antivirus scanners and mail providers open links to check for malware. I believe they add some randomness to either bust through cache or to detect if the URL is encoded as an exact match (some exploit kits will redirect to google.com if you alter the URL in any way or after x requests to the same URL).
Arnold S .. ch ... war ... err big lad, ran California for a while is being interviewed by Graham Norton on BBC1 now. That's an Irish host on a chat show in the UK with the Governator, a Dame, a comedian and the host of the Repair Shop.

Their accents cover quite a lot of ground but I doubt anyone who has a reasonable grasp of English as a foreign language would have any trouble understanding them.
The rival university one seems like a solid prank. The user I replied to did not make it sound like the intent was to be funny.

> whenever I don't feel like putting my own email or phone number I just put his

This sounds more like malice than well thought out humor. If I found out someone I knew and respected was using my primary contact information for spam emails at <insert random pet supply store or random restaurants' rewards programs here> I would definitely consider not talking to that person much any more. The rival university one however I would let slide because the intent from you is obviously different.
I suspect all of the exempt employees of Meta, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, and pretty much the ones in any of the other fortune 100 companies.

There is a funny thing though, you can have "too much" in your 401k/IRA :-). When you hit 72 you have to withdraw 10% annually and that amount can put you into the top tax bracket if you've been saving your whole career and have more than a million bucks in there.
A friend of mine had a critique of videogames that has stuck with me. He called them "antiknowledge". Your brain's learning faculties are repurposed into "learning" something that isn't actually a thing. You get really good at some artificial skinner box treadmill system ... and then they change the meta and you have to keep up with the new stats and strategies and so on. Yet after sinking in hundreds of hours, you don't come out the other end with any tangible real-life skill, that would be useful outside of the game.

That's what Python packaging feels like. At least videogames are fun.
Reading all the comments makes me think I'm an outlier.

I very aggressively unsubscribe from everything so I get very little mailing list spam. Maybe a few messages a month.

What I do get _constantly_ is spam email messages to my inbox from Gmail and Outlook domains. At least one a day for many years. Because it from Gmail, they have very little spam filtering done, yet if any other provider sent these messages then Google would block the entire domain.

These particular spam messages get on my nerves, and these are the only ones making it through to me.
> Complexity very very bad.

> best weapon against complexity spirit demon is magic word: "no"

> sad but true: learn "yes" then learn blame other grugs when fail, ideal career advice

Complex wisdom from grug.
My observations were the opposite, everyone went germaphobic during the pandemic and the last holdouts switched to cards, or worse yet, phones.
Believe me they use those mediums plenty. They even pay for ads during election season.
I guess this is part of why Windows has so much enterprise popularity, and why Apple keeps shedding macOS developers (especially for games).
Well, My target audience definitely interprets foreigner as gaijin, farang, gringo, etc.
There's plenty of AI being trained by hobbyists, artists and enthusiasts too.
In most cases, being (truthfully) told that you have a disease and being offered a cure (at least attempted in good faith) is a good thing. Most people throughout history could only dream of something like this.
People who communicate more, show expertise more likely to be seen as essential
Apple has had VP9 hardware decode support for a while.
> When a private-equity fund buys a publicly traded company, it takes the company private—hence the name. (If the company has not yet gone public, the acquisition keeps that from happening.) This gives the fund total control, which in theory allows it to find ways to boost profits so that it can sell the company for a big payday a few years later.

Concentration of wealth at the very top driving further concentration of wealth to the very top.
Texas has expansive clay in much of the state. This type of clay makes basements impractical.
> Your analysis is wrong. @livpost_br, @cosasdevida_13, @humseila, and @Steven_Mr9 are all bots.

Can you link the proof or analysis behind this claim?