skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holly cow!

Well the only time I get near that is once a year when I have my habitual one week vacation at an all-inclusive resort in Crete (Greece).

I actually tried eating all-meat but I guess my taste is too permanently distorted now. I can't help but eat the soup then raid the appetizing cooked vegetables area. Not counting the absolutely delicious bread, I could eat just that. In addition to the obscene amount of meats I'm placing on my plate, with the limitation that I'm eating them all and if I want more I take another plate and go pick another round. Obscene compared to my regular, I guess. I hate it when I'm starting to get full which happens pretty quick actually.

I read an article here on Hacker News which said what truly getting rich means. Well for starters, food no longer matters. At all. Like you don't even know it exists, let alone care about price and quantity.

Well, although I'm far from worrying about food today as a senior software engineer in Romania, food is still a weakspot of mine.

Like, employing company struggles like any other to convince people to come to the office as opposed to fully remote.

Well, when they offer food I endure the gruesome 1.5 hours commute each way because it's worth it! At least that's what my monkey brained trained through communist penury tells me c:)
People are always unconcerned until their data leaks, then it turns out that the stuff they considered uninteresting was actually something they'd rather have kept private.
I'm aware. There is also such a thing as "choosing one's battles", sure. You can't make a crusade of every little detail. But you must raise the issue.

Proposed way to do it: One argument I have used in the past on the job is that 0.5% here, 0.5% there, after 40 corners have been cut, does add up. It's enough to transform a project from "quick and dirty" to "customer support headache" and "bad press".
Because Microsoft has decided to continue providing security patches for severe vulnerabilities despite it being out of support:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/microsoft-zero-day-windows...

But you have no guarantee from Microsoft that they'll continue to do so like you do with something still in lifecycle.
Agrivoltaics map: https://openei.org/wiki/InSPIRE/Agrivoltaics_Map

Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep, 4th Edition: Breeding, Care, Facilities: https://www.amazon.com/Storey-Guide-Raising-Sheep-4th/dp/160...
The article addresses this.

>But let’s be honest, while some users will certainly see Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, or Debian as a viable alternative (or upgrade) to Windows, most personal and business users aren’t going to go that route.

Yeah, you and me could save one of these machines from being e-waste, but most people won't bother. The headline is a bit questionable, but that's more common than not. I had a similar initial reaction to you (minus the Apple Silicon bit, I have high hopes for Asahi), but upon seeing the website url I was pretty sure they'd mention GNU/Linux somewhere in there.
For history's sake: Bitvise SSH server's ability to block by client id killed all bot login attempts for me... nobody recompiles libssh!

I think this will be good security-by-obscurity until OpenSSH offers the same feature.
The argument I've heard against this is its much harder to report views this way. It basically becomes an honor system between Google and the advertiser, when today its the user getting the ad, so it's easier to verify.

Google is big enough where they could eventually do this most likely, but smaller sites won't have the 'credit' to pull this off.
I suppose that’s the other side of this. There’s a kind of privacy-as-ideology black hole that I’ve seen people get sucked into, even if in actuality they have nothing and do nothing actually illegal/immoral/sensitive.

Taking the time to install a custom ROM, run only FOSS apps, or find workarounds for needed apps, etc only to spend 90% of your time watching YouTube just doesn’t seem like a gain.
Yeah, disregard my facts about the Clinton family's war crimes just because a known rapist for once did not rape a woman.
How do you communicate in real time? Even a phone call can lead to bias unfortunately (accent, name, etc). Unless you fully are anonymous it is hard to eliminate bias
Re-encoding is probably too expensive. And storing the same variant for everyone would effectively double the storage requirement (for ad-free users) and will be quickly defeated with Sponsorblock
> how are they going to be able to keep youtube up and running

The very same way that they’ve been doing so far. YouTube/Google/Alphabet is definitely not short on cash, so that means that even with ad blocking they’re doing just fine.
I will repost mine :

Can someone please disentangle the motives behind the deep state actors behind such poor journalistic standards? Or can we attribute all of these to mere lethargy and a particular ideological momentum/bias?
Can't see anything on publicly available street view images. The stickers are generally small, have low contrast, and are often hidden by the dot pattern surrounding the windshield if you look from straight ahead. (They are inside the car, on the dashboard. Example: [1]) You need to stand right next to the driver's seat and look down.

Besides, there have been multiple data leaks of pretty much everyone's phone number, and over 80% of all available mobile numbers (010 + 8 digits) are in use. It would be much cheaper for spammers to buy a previously leaked dataset or even just call random numbers.

[1] https://images.app.goo.gl/42Yevdz3uoAo3tDZ9
People seem to forget the web existed before widespread advertising. Ads are not necessary for all content on the web and, personally, I'd be fine if every last ad supported site on the internet disappeared.
Decoding two 4k HDMI streams is hard. Decoding two NTSC/PAL streams was easy.
If you've used the competition (ChatGPT, Claude, even Perplexity free version), you will find that Bard is not good in terms of quality of answers. (I'm forced to use Bard at work. The UI is responsive I'll give you that, but the answers are often more wrong than ChatGPT and Claude)
I literally said “earnestly or not”. It doesn’t really matter what the underlying truth is, it’s an excuse, let’s remove it.

No more SWAT teams needed if it’s just robots doing tracking and catching.
Just a reminder that Windows 10 LTSC IOT has support until 2032. It runs just fine on any PC currently running regular Windows 10. In fact, if you have a low-end PC I recommend running LTSC over regular Windows because it performs significantly better.

No, there really isn't a way for regular users to get an official license. So if that is a problem for you, then it's not an option. For the rest of us it's a great option and will allow you to use your current computers and receive windows security updates for another 10years.
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How do you guys access Claude?
I’d also add that phones and in-car TVs are a huge distraction which didn’t used to be there. Something like 20-30% of people are driving around looking at their phones now and it’s common to see people watching videos on a phone or things like Tesla’s gigantic dashboard TVs. It seems like this is understood to be related to the rise in fatalities but the regulators don’t want to acknowledge it since they’d have to do something politically unpopular if they did.
They're running a javascript on the device that is not needed to deliver the service. And that script accesses attributes of the browser. That's illegal without user consent.

If they would detect this server side it wouldn't be illegal.
Minecraft (2009)
F-Droid: WireGuard inclusion policy violation (auto-update w/o explicit consent)
At that point I think my challenge is to not have anything you’d rather be private on a platform you don’t actually have control over, or why have it on a phone in the first place.
The article does discuss the alternative of installing Linux. The reason it's not a good alternative is that businesses are unlikely to run Linux for day-to-day operations. While Linux may be a common topic of discussion in this online community, the majority of people affected by the increased Windows system requirements may not be familiar with Linux. I can also predict that by the time Apple decides to remove 1st generation silicon Macs from their OS support, there will likely be a Linux distribution that can run natively, such as Asahi. However, businesses using M1 Macs are unlikely to opt for Linux as an alternative; they will likely opt to purchase new computers instead.
It would put pressure to develop on a low-cost, universal micropayments system to make up for the lost ad revenue.
That sounds like it would take way too much processing power. Google is not like Twitch where relatively few streams are served to many millions, it's more like many millions of videos to many millions of users.
The internet before huge conglomerates started stealing and monetizing people's content through forced network effects would have absolutely blown your mind then.
Also MultiLisp, QLisp, *Lisp, and others. Parallel lisps are not a new concept, though they were often written with specific machines in mind (*Lisp for instance).
I will also repost mine:

This quickly reached the front-page of HN (a few minutes after posting) and was within a couple of minutes flagged to death. Nice to see it was vouched back to life.
Twins can have dramatically different experiences in life, i.e. "nurture" and the experiences you are exposed to you end up meaning that while your genetics are the same, the phenotype which is expressed is ultimately quite different. For example, one twin could be being badly bullied and hiding it, hurting their confidence and also damaging brain development due to high levels of stress hormones.
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I think it’s because this article has been caught in a flag/vouch war.
It's really not that simple at all. Israel pulled out of gaza and gazans immediately voted for a party whose main goal is the extermination of Jews. ending the oppression of palestinaisn would immediately lead to massive terrorist attacks against israelis, why would they let that happen?
As other commenters said, Windows 10 will continue to work even without updates, but also, if you insist that your OS receives updates, you can bypass the TPM requirement for Windows 11 because it isn't a technical one. It doesn't rely on the TPM for any critical functionality. This "requirement" is entirely fake.
We could always use this same logic however, saying there are barriers to some business with some law. Turns out certain barriers are good. We decided if your business model relies on unpaid or child labor to be profitable, its no longer a good business model, and enforce that with legal barriers. Likewise here, we are starting to realize this slimy attention seeking advertising model is also not a sustainable business plan. If businesses fold as a result, so be it, what remains will be the stronger business plans that don’t need to resort to such low and morally dubious tactics to survive.
it hard to compare it to something, but it seems to be correct. you also must to recalibrate it once a month with cuff monitor that they provide (automatic process, a couple of clicks in their program)
This sounds like something from vxjunkies.

It's hard to understand what this is actually for. Does anyone have an ELI5 for this?

Info on a Rydberg atom is on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg_atom
And my other comment:

Yet it is not even anti-Israel, it perhaps paints Hamas in a better light ("Such a bunch of liars! Oh, actually lazy journalists"), but really, must the pro-Israel flagger contingent degrade public discourse so much?
Sulfur selenium solid-state battery from NASA breaks energy storage boundaries
Exactly. RAG is great if you need certain paragraphs to answer specific questions but there are limits.

Assuming a new unheard of play called "Romeo and Juliet " RAG can answer "Who is Rosaline?".

But a large context window can answer "How does Shakespeare use foreshadowing to build tension and anticipation throughout the play?" "How are gender roles and societal expectations depicted in the play" or "What does the play suggest about the power of love to overcome adversity?".

In other words, RAG doesn't help you answer questions that pertain to the whole document and aren't keyword driven retrieval queries. It's a pretty big limitation if you aren't just looking for a specific fact.

RAG limits you to answers where the information can be contained in your chunk size.
Would you really know if it had happened? I imagine a high profile incident would need to result from it for most people to realize.
The idea that this anti blockers is a privacy issue is silly.

The idea that somebody can afford to give something away is just insane. It also shows how little you know about the cost of running a streaming service.
What remains will be cable TV bundles in the ashes of the internet.
Mentioned in another comment, but 6000 bombs went into that small area, within a week. Mostly JDAMS that have a really large kill radius.

Look at the number of bombs dropped in an entire year, into an entire country, by the US: https://progressive.org/latest/usa-bombs-drop-benjamin-davie... That gives an idea of the scale of the bombing in Gaza...it's HUGE.

There's almost certainly an extremely high number of civilian deaths, without having to look at the Gaza Health Ministry numbers at all.
When it comes down to it these are fallible people just trying to do a job.

It's a good thing that computer systems never fail or we would look just as stupid.
We were always in this regime. In general, it has been far more effective to take a proven model and fine-tune it. It was true five years ago taking a convnet out of a model zoo to fine tune and it’s true now.

If you can achieve the moonshot of gathering, generating, annotating enough data with the right distribution to train from scratch, and you use a SOTA bag of tricks to regularise, you might do better.

Bear in mind fine tuning is literally just more pre-training. Starting with a trained model is like starting with an incredibly well-initialised network.
Meh, IoT devices and ancient Android phones are a much lower hanging fruits for botnets and hackers than old Windows PCs. Targeting Windows PCs is sooo 2006.
Re-encoding is difficult but you don't necessarily have to do that. As far as I know it's possible to just splice segments of video between "key" frames without otherwise re-encoding the full video.

YouTube already re-encodes every uploaded video into multiple formats; it would be possible for them to develop a "smart" encoder to be aware of the visual content of the video in order to place "key" frames at natural breaking points of the video, such that subsequent ad insertion would be semantically correct and not too jarring.
Yes, your understanding is correct. However, instead of adding a head on top of the network, most fine-tuning is currently done with LoRA (https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA). This introduces low-rank matrices between different layers of your models, those are then trained using your training data while the rest of the models' weights are frozen.
Yes it is for performance. But it is performance at a reasonable cost.

The new Qualcomm Oryon chips are more powerful but also much more expensive. So the X lineup is actually quite reasonable if you want smartphones to be "affordable".

https://www.androidauthority.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-4...
Some of the most fun I've had outdoors with friends is when they want to try biking (or bikepacking) with me. You're right that people generally have no understanding of what they're capable of (and that no herculean effort is required).

I suspect that some of this is a result of humans being increasingly unable to estimate true distances. In my city, it can take 45 minutes to drive 3 miles, so most non-bikers understand 3 miles to be an insurmountable distance.
I think there are two aspects to this which are worth challenging.

First and foremost is the issue of companies trying to dictate what you are allowed to do on your own computer. If Google sends you the data, who are they to say how your computer decides to interpret it? What's next? Mandatory camera access so they can monitor your living room to make sure "unauthorized" people aren't watching? They would if they could get away with it.

Two is the business model of offering a free, useful service until people are hooked and then squeezing people for money. It's dishonest, it's extortion. Especially something like YouTube where the site itself is meaningless without the content creators who all largely started out as volunteers. It's the digital equivalent of a time-share sales pitch. Trap your audience. It perverts the normal operation of markets because everyone made decisions to use YouTube based on false economics, and now they are such a behemoth that moving to other platforms is not realistic for many. Had they not been allowed to do that, then the competitive landscape would look much different.
Because human person traffic is a tiny percentage of actual internet traffic.

Where is most internet traffic? To places like Netflix or other streaming services.

Then you have the top X sites that serve most of the rest of the traffic, a significant percentage of that to cell phones and all of it needing encrypted.

You'll just have to accept no realistically secure protocol will be universal. This last tiny wedge of traffic is either going to disappear in the noise of bots in automated attacks, or we'll have to find some reasonably secure way of letting it co-exist.
> I'm used to walking about 30-35Km a week in suburban Toronto. Close calls with cars happen on a weekly basis.

Can you expand on how exactly do you have close calls with cars ever, let alone weekly?

I don't walk as much as you but a decent amount. I've had close calls with cars... literally never. I'm having trouble picturing how that happens?

I walk on sidewalks, zero chance of close calls with cars there. For busy streets, I cross on pedestrian crossings which are protected by red lights, so no issue there either. On quiet streets I cross wherever, but only after making sure no traffic, so no issue.

So how does it happen? Are you forced to walk on the street due to lack of sidewalks? That's the only scenario I'm able to think about.
How many 4 or 2 Mhz antenna/transceivers are necessary to sufficiently cover a 0 to 1 Ghz (0 to 1000 to 1000000 Mhz) band? What about to cover 1 Thz: (terahertz) band(s)?

How should they be placed in spacetime to minimize signal loss e.g due to crosstalk and cost?
There's a word for this! Cool. I first learned about it from Game of Thrones, but having a word for things usually makes them easier to remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnMZuOe3r_k
This is happening. I mean, I saw a post on reddit the other day describing the exact thing. Some poor person decided to limit their social interactions to AI because they were frustrated by society (and claimed they didn't have enough money to hang out with real friends).

Not sure at what scale, agree that this is unlikely to significantly affect Meta's bottom line, but the threat is seriously there.
> people are paid great salaries, they have a ton of fun doing it, work life balance is way better than at startups

Compared to AI startups, neither of these is true.
Don't forget the abominable nanny states. I.e. all nation states I know.
The overkill of laws and bureaucracy, that affects directly and indirectly parents and kids, must be destroyed.

Normal childhood is an evolving exploration of the environment, with growing age more and more independent and (self-)educated. If you steal that from the kids, you steal their whole childhood. And as one cannot grow up without this progress, you steal their adulthood, too.
Why should people not have the right to block ads? It's my client and my device. If your content can only exist if you have to force feed people advertisements for some corporation to profit, maybe your content is not that important

Most of YouTube is just clickbait anyway
> what does Europe have to take part in world trade?

Build actual physical goods that all this bullshit "services" economy nevertheless requires and takes for granted?
> Most pedestrian result from pedestrians doing stupid things like walking in the middle of the road at night wearing black while drunk

According to the local statistics I have [0], in something like 75% of car collisions the pedestrian had the right of way, and the immense majority of them occur at intersections rather than in the middle of the road.

> 60% of pedestrian deaths occur on high-capacity urban roads

And how does that compare to the amount of walking that happens on one area vs the other?

> Men account for 70% of pedestrian deaths, because men are more inclined to have a severe disregard for their own safety

What percentage of pedestrian Km are walked by men vs women?

> You're getting yourself freaked out by numbers that don't actually apply to you (or shouldn't if you have any sense.)

I am concerned for my safety because I actually walk and have noticed how often drivers don't even see me, in spite of wearing hi viz clothing. The statistics merely confirm what the risk I already noticed empirically: what sort of vehicles are dangerous to pedestrians (SUVs and pickups), where the danger occurs (busy intersections) and whose fault it is (predominantly drivers).

Finally, it there is an inherent contradiction in the simplistic narrative that people barely walk anymore "even though nothing has changed": there is far more car traffic now precisely because people barely walk anymore.

Walking doesn't kill, cars kill, so more traffic means more dangerous streets. It is rather obvious.

[0] https://www.york.ca/transportation/traffic/traffic-safety-pr...
Shouldn’t the one public free good be something like alphafold, not YouTube.
Brave solved this 4 years ago
Apple has made it clear that they won't move forward with client side scanning after feedback from researchers and customers. Instead, they added optional E2EE for iCloud. It's not perfect yet but significantly better than most other cloud providers.
First some context. Since long past, I've heard that public school teachers in the USA generally come from the bottom 20% of their class. In contrast, applicants for teacher training in South Korea are required to come from the top 1/3 of their class. I've experienced a huge difference in the quality of discussion I can have with American versus Korean educational professionals. My point here is that Korean teachers have a higher level of training and professionalism than Americans might expect, so if they are complaining about something, it's really serious.

Now, on to what has changed in Korean society the past decade. TFA points to the symptom but not the cause with "the teacher-parent dynamic is unrecognizable from just a decade or two ago" and "parents are regarded as like a consumer, with consumer sovereignty." The big issue that TFA doesn't mention is demographics. With a declining student population, schools are desperate for cust--...err...students. I teach at the university level and academic standards have fallen through the floor. I'm not saying this is the only source of change, but I do think it is the main factor.
Google has enough cash and is big enough. I want it to be smaller and less powerful, the economics of this is that we are tired of superpowerful Google.
Not necessarily, if the enforcement of these regulations allows domestic competitors (that respect the GDPR) to appear?

If Europe takes this stance, those competitors could also be allowed to mirror the content from foreign, non-GDPR-compliant companies, effectively giving them the best of both worlds?
Fine, then don't use YouTube. But don't yank away from the rest of us the ability to trade ads for useful free services.
10+ a day? If that's legit, it explains entirely what's become of reporting quality. Do you have any links that go into more detail on how the day of a journalist has changed?