skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> while you must source things, the quality of the source is not checked. So take an obscure book, obviously not in English and claim your fact comes from it

Agreed, this is a problem esp. on smaller Wikipedias.

> The no credentials are accepted policy makes sure the experts stay away in droves.

Perhaps partially true, but without this policy there would be basically no Wikipedia. There are projects requiring credentials like Citizendium where experts don't have to fear being bothered by neckbeards, but they're basically dead.
I skimmed it. Vaping isn't combustion. No tar. No problem.
What percentage of the general population do you think knows the differences between different UV, and their maximum exposure?

My guess is 95 percent of people in this tread didn't know 5 minutes ago.
This kind of comment is not going to play well with the HN audience, it is not intellectually curious and it does not add to, or improve the conversation.

Ben Shapiro’s tactics are easy to argue against if that’s what you believe is happening.
> Just because something turns out to be true doesn't make it scientific.

Right, but how does that relate to pejorative labelling policies?

i.e. If even just 20% of readers will misinterpret the label, then why go with the label instead of something like 'disputed' which has a mis-interpretation rate close to 0%?
Given all the wild stuff to do in Hong Kong, this looks pretty middle of the road.
> They said they got access in 1 week. That they got their roll in univ revoked in 1 week that happened to have a long weekend is dubious sounding either side

Yeah, I am not believing this story at all.

No University is going to disown you if you are late 1 week. The rest of the story is just as weak.
I should probably clarify: the DVD bug was related to playing DVDs on a Mac with Intel graphics and 4 GB of RAM. Certainly it's an odd edge case but it spoke volumes about the quality control with the drivers. Maxing out the RAM on one of those can't have been such a rare thing. Certainly I can wrap my head around why calendaring and enterprise features didn't get much love, but video drivers on the mass market product? Jesus.

With the calendaring stuff: I wrote a CardDAV server that's probably still lurking around on Github somewhere. The workarounds I had to implement for MacOS and iOS clients were beyond pale. For instance stuff would just get cached indefinitely and trailing slashes caused OSX to have a conniption fit. If you told me that the client implementations just hardcoded a bunch of stuff so it worked for Steve Jobs (and that nobody else used it) I'd believe you.

Eventually I did a brief stint at a consultant that was brought on to do some infra stuff for Apple, and that didn't do much to improve my impression. We got a bunch of servers from the basement with expired iLO licenses, and boy were we lucky to get that much.

The attitude was basically, if it doesn't affect us personally working inside Apple,
we don't care. If our personal workflow and servers doesn't use those features (which
I guess is the case for GID), it doesn't matter.

Honestly I'm not sure how to respond to this. If memory serves there was no way to uncouple group mapping, so this was part and parcel of Apple's push into the enterprise space (and in this case AD was behaving as an OpenDirectory server would've). Which is to say, their failure in that space was entirely a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more frustrating part was that an obvious security flaw was treated with such disdain, which encouraged me to stop caring about filing bug report with Apple (and it's lead me to keep the bluetooth modem off almost exclusively on my iPhone).

That gig was actually mostly staffed with Apple alumni so there were 1st gen iPhones all around. Even the less esoteric stuff was simply not good. Obviously voice quality was shit (at least in San Francisco) compared to the CDMA feature phones of the day. One of the coworkers there worked on the mobile Mail.app before bailing for startup life. Autocomplete was a mess. Honestly, I rather enjoyed rubbing some salt into that wound.

What amazes me is that fifteen years on and Microsoft is still somehow worse (what with Windows being adware and all).
When I went to college in 1990 the university was still using punch cards for enrollment. You'd get a handful of cards representing yourself, then go around picking up cards that represented open spots in classes, and finally turn in the stack.
GPTs replacing AI startups is what happens when they are pushed to ship as fast as possible by VCs and YC. What do they end up shipping? Very small +1 features that are already on OpenAI's roadmap.
We're excited to collaborate with the industry and quantify hallucinations!
They have a celebratory tweet [1]. Wikipedia lists the initial release as November 6, 2003 [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/inkscape/status/1721123809002917936

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
This is like back when we had image recognition. A new test set would come out and somehow everything new would be better than everything old but if you talked to anyone using, it would turn out that everything new sucked in general.

Goodhart came to take his slice.

Still I'm very excited about the open models. Lots of potential for true user tools because of what they can be.
Isn't it equally likely that the those who wish the installment of fringe editors will ultimately fail? The universe owes no one justice.
I feel like this is being too charitable to SBF and Holmes :-P They were always going to fail -- they were always going to get caught -- it was just a matter of when.

They were both stupid and short-sighted in a way that the others weren't. They weren't competent.

There was no outcome where they went down in history as good, but were actually bad.

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I think most of the "fallen heroes" you list have done things competently -- sometimes amazingly competently -- but their behavior was terrible in some standout cases.

To take Gates as an example, he started a company that arguably made the computing world worse off for a couple decades with anti-competitive tactics. He arguably "stole" a lot of money from his competitors.

Microsoft treats a lot of their enterprise customers like shit (but that's not a crime).

But I don't think Microsoft was at its core a fraudulent company (I personally avoid most of their products -- but then again I avoid a lot of software companies). It may have been bad, but at the end of the day there was and is an actual business there. It's qualitatively different than the frauds.

(Also, Microsoft arguably "invented" the idea of selling software (without hardware), which unlocked a lot of value. They were very early to the game. And, the more we learn, there seems to be less and less light between Google in the last 10 years and Microsft in the 90's. I also don't consider Google fraudulent at its core, though it's been taken over by bad actors.)

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SBF is a lot closer to say Bernie Madoff. Madoff just took people's money and literally never invested it. He just had a computer program print up reports that showed 25% a year gains. He was running a confidence game.

SBF was maybe a hair better than that, since I guess he did actually perform crypto trades lol. (But if he had Madoff's regulatory access, he probably wouldn't have)

Either way, not much better. He sent the same kind of fabricated reports, and made up safeguards out of thin air, and he didn't produce anything positive to compensate for it. It was a pure loss for everyone!
Time to change the benchmarks! Says openai.
So you're saying the data pins inside the device are attached to something, and when that something makes a connection it stops the device from drawing power?

Does this happen when you plug them into chargers and when you plug them into hubs?
Like students who can get into medical school should have that covered if they agree to render their services for a time.

Its absolutely asinine that everything is so high-stakes where you may very well end-up with 10s-100s of thousands of dollars with no material benefit and we also expect people to pull the full weight of preparing them to hopefully one day help that same public. Like the whole current configuration needs to get fucked and get someone to radically restructure so irs not so stupid and debillitating.
Business advice that is tantamount to "Oh, you should just make a better product" is basically bad business advice. Of course they should, everyone should. But the problem is that if they tried, it (1) costs money and (2) leverages no existing advantages.

These low-margin companies live and die on compatibility and integration. The reason you pick a STM32-whatever as your choice for your new product is generally at least partially because your existing staff know the tooling and your existing production people know the board integration requirements.

Swap that for some new RISC-V gadget and, well, you might win! Or you might find your customers walking across the street to buy someone else's gadget, because yours has no advantages.

Ergo, if you're STMicro, RISC-V is a threat in a way that "Oh, you should just use it yourself" doesn't address.
K. And what legal apparatus was involved with assembling and publicizing the accusations arrayed against this individual?
I love Inkscape. Along with Gimp, it covers all my non-artist needs. For work or personal.
I don’t think there is anything stopping people from talking to other students while drunk at parties as was traditional in my… and all other days.

However, talking doesn’t have to lead to dating. It can just lead to hanging out platonically in large groups, then hooking up casually.
https://hackaday.io/project/26038-butter-robot

I have not tried it, looks close to what you are after, and it is the pass the butter robot from Rick & Morty!
And that's the best part.
I imagine both IP and export restrictions on x86 and other processor technology have been instrumental in motivating adoption of RISC-V in China.

And I imagine Nvidia export restrictions will accelerate the continued development of alternative technologies for AI/ML.
I tried this by playing Factorio, and realized I was doing similar "work" as my job, but without the added stress of deadlines, compromise and people. Ironically, it felt extremely productive, but not very recharging.
This.

In advanced driving lessons, in both dry and snowy conditions, goodn driving instructors not only acknowledged but demonstrated, it is POSSIBLE to break better than ABS. But in an uncontrolled, unanticipated emergency (where you don't necessarily get to pick your breaking point and posture etc), ABS gives you steering control. It takes practice to utilize that ability, mostly people just focus and fixate in the obstacle ahead of them they are trying to not hit. But the miraculous, magical ability to steer with ABS is an absolute life saver.
It's not NIH. It's independence from geopolitics.

Don't forget Trump's America First movement shook our confidence in our decades-long alliance. And I don't just mean militarily (NATO)
Making music inside, learning to grow my own weed outside :) Also, I'm fixated on Muriel Spark books right now.
How am I supposed to interpret this? That we're currently at the same point we were just before the 2008 GFC?

Because that's how I read it, and I hope it isn't a rhyme.
I'm on a long and complex project. However most of previous folks were not very good and one reason I'm here to fix it. Their history is not particularly useful except to giggle at.
At one point a well-known FTP server would let you access it with Samba, complete with R/W access to certain directories. I had an Amiga with a small hard drive, a modem, and the "VMM" virtual memory program. Experiments led to me creating a 2GB sparse file on the FTP server, mounting that server as a volume, and pointing VMM at that sparse file. Voila! An Amiga with 2GB of RAM, so long as you didn't mind swapping at about 5KB per second.

That was completely useless, but it was great fun to get working at all. I hope my sparse file was actually sparse on the server, too.
It's interesting how long we've been waiting for fair queuing to fix congestion problems in the Internet. The first proper research on this was published in 1989:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/75246.75248

I'm a big fan of fair queuing, and have it enabled for my home network. But in core routers, the best approximation is likely to be WFQ, where you're likely to have each flow hashed to one of something like 256 queues. This means one badly behaved flow can't force well-behaved traffic out of the way and take over the whole link, but it can take over its WFQ queue, starving well behaved flows that hash to the same queue.

I'm not aware of any backbone router that implements true fair queuing. But even if all routers did, it's not a complete solution. Typically flows are mapped to queues based on the 5-tuple (src IP, dst IP, src port, dst port, proto). If you do this, then all Brutal-NG needs to do is use many source ports so it gets many queues, thus many times its fair share, and take over the link again. In fact, this would enable DoS attacks on router state, so no-one is going to do this.

An alternative would be to map to queues using just the source and destination IP addresses. But this has problems too. Brutal-NG could spoof the source address of most of the packets (but send ACKs back to the one unspoofed address), again taking over the link. And it could still cause DoS issues on router state.

The only thing you can't spoof if you want to actually exchange data (as opposed to DoSing the network) is the destination IP address. But now one Brutal flow can achieve the same fair share as all the traffic headed for a busy Google server or an entire ISP's CGNAT. Equally, one flow Brutal flow sending to a host behind the CGNAT can deny service to everyone else sending to the same CGNAT IP address.

So in the end, while I really like what fair queuing does for my VoIP latency on my home network, it is unlikely to ever be a complete solution for constraining misbehaving flows.
This chart is hard to interpret, because it's depicting the change in a ratio over time, without necessarily showing the trends of the underlying measurements.

Thankfully, there's another chart that's linked from the first chart, representing personal savings rate:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

So I guess personal savings rate is falling over time (from ~10% between 1960 and 1990, to ~5% in 2000 and beyond), and gross national income is growing (and maybe even accelerating), which is why the ratio of one to the other has a more pronounced decrease.

Yet I wonder how this data squares with this report from last month:

"The US economy's safety net is bigger than anyone thought"

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-household-savings-estimat...
In the cult of BoredApe, you are not allowed to disparage BoredApe.
>or calling protestor who want a Gaza ceasefire 'violent extremists'

You're doing an egregious sanitization of what a lot of participants of the Palestine protests defend, establishing a Caliphate for one.[0]

There are valid reasons to call Corbyn an anti-Semite. I will list them below, they are far too many.[1]

None of these examples are comparable to the pressure to label the lab leak hypothesis as a conspiracy.

[0]https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/anti-israel-protest-in-essen-si...

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/21/do-not-forg...

Some of the evidence that supports calling Corbyn an anti semite are:

- Corbyn wrote the foreword for a book that claims Jews control banks and the press[2].

- Corbyn expressed support for a self-described Holocaust denier and others accused of anti-Semitism[2].

- Corbyn laid a wreath at the graves of Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972[2].

- Corbyn failed to suspend or expel members of his party who engaged in anti-Semitic conduct, such as calling Jewish people "child killers", "Tory Jews" and "Zio scum"[3].

- Corbyn rejected the internationally accepted definition of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance[4].

- Corbyn was formally investigated by the UK's anti-racism watchdog, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which found that Labour had unlawfully discriminated against, harassed and victimized Jewish people[5].

- Corbyn refused to apologize for anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in a BBC interview, and claimed that the issue had been "dramatically overstated for political reasons" by his opponents[6].

- Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party over his reaction to the anti-Semitism report, but later reinstated after he said he regretted his comments[7].

- Corbyn lost the support and trust of many Jewish voters and organizations, who feared that he would pose a threat to their safety and security if he became prime minister[8].

[2] Jeremy Corbyn | Politics | The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/jeremy-corbyn/2023/feb/....

[3] Mike Katz on Twitter: "It's beyond time @guardian stopped giving Corbyn .... https://twitter.com/mikekatz/status/1628175186947080196.

[4] Politics | The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics.

[5] Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's anti-Semitism row explained - BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-43893791.

[6] Document lists 9 instances of anti-Semitism by Corbyn among thousands .... https://www.timesofisrael.com/document-lists-9-instances-of-....

[7] Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn over reaction to anti-Semitism report - BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54730425.

[8] Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn over reaction to anti-Semitism report - BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54730425.

[9] Jeremy Corbyn's Anti-Semitism Crisis | The New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/jeremy-cor....
> However, from a code perspective, it is a function of the key and a relatively small API.

You're thinking of traditional apps and APIs.

In an AI application, most of the work is in prompt engineering, not wiring up the API to your app. Prompts that work well for one model will fail horribly for another. People spend months refining their prompts before they're safe to share with users, and switching platforms will require doing most of that refinement over again.
It talks about dopamine, which is literally the placebo effect. It's typical of HN users to post and upvote news stories of weak studies like this one.
I dislike immensely the use of the 'Buzz Word du Jour'. It smacks of pure laziness.

It reminds me of the time somebody suggested always replacing the words 'user-friendly' with the words 'lemon-scented' because those words would be just as meaningless anyway.
So you approve what Krebs is doing then, since he is not anonymous and identifiable to be sued for libel?
> Because the same leadership, military and political, are in power as they were at the end of the cold war.

OK, I don't think so.

> The soviets weren't the evil empire.
When the Berlin Wall fell, which direction did the foot vote move?
Furthermore, under federal Title IX regulations, if you are accused of rape or sexual assault the college is required to adjudicate your case using a preponderance of evidence standard. You face expulsion and utter loss of professional reputation if your accuser can convince an administrative panel that you assaulted them. The administration can impose arbitrary obstacles including preventing you from retaining counsel, confronting your accuser or even knowing their name, or submitting evidence in your defense. The Trump administration overturned these rules but I believe they were reinstated under Biden.

Best thing to do in college is keep your hands or other body parts to yourself. You don't need to be worried about getting laid while you have studies to focus on.
I think people's still imagine the technology's availability as it was 40 years ago.

* Launch sites:
https://space.skyrocket.de/directories/launchsites.htm

* Satellites by country (I expect most didn't launch their own)
https://space.skyrocket.de/directories/sat_c.htm

(Perhaps someone knows a list of countries with launch ability.)
Bravo! More drivers should do this. It's also how I was taught to bed new brake pads and rotors, so it might actually have been good for your car.
aviation is really remarkably safe
Not all wrappers are created equal.
Being finally able to work in US, after 15 months of spending savings to survive. Ouch.
Hi Elon; the name is fine, the folks above were just offering context.
this is a proper website, there is one match for "div" and its in "individual".
Gotta love how I pointed out 2 of the 3 companies already gone RISC-V, and you ignored this in your reply, to focus on STMicro, the remaining one.

It's amusing, because I had deliberately elected to avoid mention of how STMicro is a RISC-V member[0].

>Or you might find your customers walking across the street to buy someone else's gadget, because yours has no advantages.

They will for sure should they not switch to the standard ISA. In their shoes, I wouldn't want to be left behind.

RISC-V is rapidly growing the strongest ecosystem.

0. https://riscv.org/member/stmicroelectronics/
If I see "racist undercurrents" brought up as reasoning against something, the argument is worthless to me. And yes, this article does read like an argument, which is unusual for Wikipedia.
I would like that. I wanted to create the simplest possible reference C implementation first so the language can always be bootstrapped with a C compiler. After that, I'll probably make a better one. I'm considering a Rust implementation as well.

At least that's what I tell myself. Just this simple interpreter has already generated a lifetime of work. It's making me wish I had infinite time to work on it.
>capture sunlight and use and use the energy to capture CO2 in some chemically stable molecule

If only there were such a molecule!

Maybe with a couple billions of dollars in investments, scientists could find a way to make this molecule taste sweet, too.
Going through recruiters is the worst. I recently referred a friend of mine to a CTO friend of a popular company that they wanted to work at. The CTO told me that my friend should go through their jobs page because their team is very much on top of hiring. I told my friend to do that and let me know if they don't get a response. A week later, my friend says there was no response (I kind of predicted the what was going to happen). Pinged the CTO and before I could even respond to my friend, the recruiter had set up a meeting. Good lesson for the CTO and hopefully my friend gets the job.

I assume that during your 4 years you made a few friends in CS. They might be working at a nice job now. I'd ask them to put a good word in for you or somehow fast track your resume. It isn't guaranteed, but it is far better than cold emailing.

Also note, a lot of the big companies have recently had layoffs and hiring freezes. You might be shooting too far for the stars. Try smaller companies that you might not have heard of before. Get more creative than cold emails.
I’ve not seen people wearing NIST T-shirts.
The thing that struck me was not mentioning the length of time he was walking for.
Also embroidery machines and fabric cutting machines:

https://inkstitch.org/
It isn't ok to make fun of people just because they are stupid, no, these people can be made fun of because they are stupid AND greedy.
You called me a bunch of names, used classic harassment tactics and now you're negging me.

I'll continue to respond to you by stepping over these tired traps you're trying to set.
If you punched the right extra holes could you get a larger refund?