skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always an alternative of trying to make society more meritocratic and letting the cream rise to the top.

But if it wasn't, recent history shows that someone with bad ideas that starts out with a heart of gold is far more dangerous than an evil genius, so I'd take my chances.
Your comment is great (thank you!), and a banned account can still reply. If the reply is good, users will presumably vouch for it - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch
I've been getting mail that is a variation of my name, wondering if someone used my identity damn. I did put some lock thing on my credit so it's harder to open new accounts, forget what it's called.

I have stuff like credit wise, karma, etc... have not seen weird/unknown accounts so hopefully I'm good.
After a long try failed to use this in my iPhone!
The comment you’re replying to is pretty explanatory and insightful. Do you have anything worthwhile to add here?
There was a thread or submission recently
on setting up a low cost room & board for aspiring people, that I loved, but haven't been able to re-find the thread.

> Sometimes those hermits would band together into brotherhoods. Often they would make beer, or honey or some other collective task to earn enough money for the members to spend the rest of their time in quiet contemplation. I can imagine such a life might be attractive to a lot of programmers who tend to be introverted and feel alien to normal society.

Lovely imagery & idea, thank you.

Rather than focus on the negative motivations (be introverted and feel alien), i think often there's hope optimism & drive; more modernly especially, some are marked out from others by being inspired people, seeking to be active forces. Caring deeply about enormous possibilities trying to spring forth. Finding capacity for the cause, finding support or even just peers for those folks is hard.

Programmers have such amazing leverage, but most day jobs are just work. The idea of sustainable no frills living among other Burton Klein type-1/Happy Warrior types, able to pursue the thing & tangle with it & ideally also have others enmeshed in their questing too: that has huge appeal. It'd be such a worthy investment to support, imo.
> They had an opportunity to report the behavior and they passed on that to benefit themselves at the expense of others.

Under the systems proposed, their amnesty depends on their cooperation with prosecution. (Under the specifics I described, they must pre-register their reporting before paying anything.)

> How about instead, we just hire law enforcement with specific skills in combating these crimes, and then let them work on it?

Because that is essentially the current system, which will result in the current results.

Just expanding the current approach still leaves both sides of the problem with their incentives to both continue the corruption for mutual, & cooperate in covering-it-up against investigation.

Thus, even an extra dollar spent on that enforcement regime that has to fight both payers & recipients, and will be less effective at catching bad actors – and even more importantly, deterring future acts! – than that same extra dollar if the bribe-payers have been turned to assist enforcement.
Pretty ironic that you resort to calling it "US politics" while calling out weird nationalism. You realize that recent European economic/tech policy has had a very nationalist direction. And that xenophobia and protectionism is much more common in Europe than the US?
my workaround is to never click on those links
I’ll ddos whoever the fuck I want you loser
>> entitled customers I had working in food service.

> I'd feel the same way if I heard it in food service. Corporate motherfucker who doesn't actually work.

Hang on, to you, "We need some paper towels at this table" equals "Corporate motherfucker who doesn't actually work"?

Just how sensitive are you and GP?

I've actually worked in food service, and a table telling me "we need some paper towels at our table" didn't trigger any negativity in me at all, nevermind the extreme PTSD sort of negativity that that sentence appears to trigger in you and GP.

TBH, if you're triggered by the phrase "We need some paper towels at this table", then you probably have ... some sort of condition?
Safer individually, but the whole ship goes down together.
> an unpleasant mess for their children to clean up

People massively underestimate the amount of pain and discomfort it causes to have to sort out a house filled with useless stuff, ON TOP of the GREAT pain of losing a parent.

When my grandma died, 6 adults (her 3 kids and spouses) were cleaning a 50 sqm flat for a week. The amount of worthless paperwork, magazines, newspapers, tchotchkes, bank statements from 40 years ago.. clothes/towels/bed-sheets for 10 people.. unreasonable volume of stuff (she was not a hoarder per se - the flat was spotless and you could easily walk from room to room), just needing enormous cleaning/maintenance and offering zero value.

I believe we should all check out lists like "how to prepare for dying" with our elder parents. It's a bit morbid and not a fun discussion for the Sunday dinner, but hey.. business before pleasure..
You would, but what about others? Do they get a say?

I’m already playing in full for my kids college. Why should I have to pay for another person’s education too?
My Dysfunctional University
What happens to the internet when CAPTCHAs actually collapse?
Very relevant Family Guy clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbDpp84dhk
The real question is: why are you using Outlook?
Actually, I did something there without thinking about it.

I said "If X, would it be helpful if I did Y?" because I'm about to explain something basic and I don't want to sound condescending and treat you like you're stupid.

"If it's hard to see the difference" = "It seems like this might be true, but I don't want to assume that. This way I give us both an out if I misjudged something and I'm accidentally being condescending."

"would it be helpful if I" - "I am trying to be helpful and not fight and so I am offering this as a question, so you have the freedom to ask for clarification or to discount it if it's not helpful"

It's less about the words and more about the "I am trying to be helpful and avoid sounding like I think you're dumb, which I do not" meaning.
> imposed

This is a world of difference. If you want to spend your money to gain extra travel (by buying a model T), great!

If you are forced to pay for this, because the other options are made artificially more expensive, because of taxation etc, this is only a deterioration of life. You get less (or the same) but pay more.
Do you have an example of what your email address is?
Is it like "john@gmail.com" or "mike@hotmail.com" or something?
Seems pretty crazy that someone chooses it randomly every week.
Have you considered getting your own domain for your email to make this probably go away? Obviously changing addresses is painful, but living your life with a common email seems worse.
NIH doesn't describe this. They bought a model tank from a hobby shop and strapped a drill to it. For an organization plagued by accusations of excessive costs, this is downright cheap. NIH would involve a purpose-built rover to the tune of millions of dollars.
That works too. But then I don't feel like I overpowered malicious design.
Electricians at my work are very fond of SmartDraw.

https://www.smartdraw.com/
What "projection" [sic]? Humour me. This should be a treat.

For that matter, what is the "faulty logic" [sic]? People who bought Teslas and saw the value of their purchase drop are pissed. People who haven't bought a Tesla aren't and probably don't even care about this story. People who might be looking to buy a Tesla would be delighted. Outside of those groups, who cares? I mean, you seem to really care that someone pointed out the first group, and it's weird.

And no, putting "sic" on comments because you think they are "odd" [sic] is an attempt at noisy pedantry. It is trying, in this case in futility, to deride the speaker. It's something people only do when they're really passionate about a subject so they desperately attempt to dismiss opponents as if they're unlearned and dumb.

You'll get upvotes from the incredibly strange Musk stooges, but everyone else groans.
How is the timeshare company ever going to get money once the estate is closed?

The person who singed the agreement is dead and there is no estate to sue.
Large Language Models and the End of Programming
The kids call that a head rush.
Wouldn't the oil just lube it up so it would eventually get shot out like a bottle rocket?
They say there are MAOIs in tobacco that increase nicotine uptake, but I'm not entirely convinced that that's the sole culprit either. I could chew some tobacco right now, or smoke a pipe or cigar, I could even inhale it, and I wouldn't have a problem. If I were to smoke a single cigarette I'd be smoking a pack a day within a week and who knows how many months or years it would take me to rectify that. Whatever it is I suspect it's done deliberately in processing.
> It's a total of 2 clicks: right click to open the menu, then move the mouse down 6 entries, then left-click on the checkbox.

Ok “2 clicks” is a misleading summary for moving down 6 menu items, and in the end this is an eternity compared to a modifier key.
EU opens probe into TikTok, YouTube and Google
So now it is formal.
Beacon 23
I agree. DP is better than no privacy at all, but it certainly doesn't make me feel comfortable.
It has been a while, so I don't remember the exact details. In both cases, the symptoms were pain and paraesthesia in my hands and lower arm, although the locations might have been somewhat different. In one, the issue was that I was holding my head and neck forward, sort of cantilevered out. This caused muscle inflammation in the back of my neck, irritating a nearby nerve. In the other, it had to do with holding my shoulders forward, causing a nerve impingement on my chest. In both cases, it was part of an overall hunched-forward posture, so... you know, "don't do that". :-) I don't remember the specific exercises, but I think they had something to do with strengthening opposing muscles.
A lot of people just use the defaults (OS, Browser, Email Client, etc.)
Photopea was developed by a single programmer, runs on the web and it’s leagues more usable than GIMP
I work for a data privacy startup, and this article unfortunately groups all forms of anonymization together. It is specifically criticizing forms of anonymization that only treat direct identifiers like names, addresses, and phone numbers. That is usually referred to as "pseudonymization", and they are correct to point out that an only moderately sophisticated attacker can still link people in the dataset using combinations of indirect identifiers like age, birthday, and zipcode. Pseudonymization is a weak form of privacy.

More sophisticated methods of privacy also anonymize indirect identifiers, and in some cases personal attributes. They do this by adding noise to the data in such a way that the noise has relatively* minimal impact on the results of computations made over the dataset, but a significant impact on the ability to re-identify someone using indirect identifiers or attributes.

*There is always a tradeoff between privacy and utility. The only way to achieve 100% private data is 100% noise, but the privacy-utility tradeoff curve isn't linear, and you can still achieve very good utility and very good privacy in many cases, especially with the best tools. Methods are also improving over time, reducing the impact of the tradeoff.
More scared than excited but yeah, definitely excited.

As a non game developer, though, I am wondering if migrating existing renderers would allow me to create UIs, or parts of them, using graphics that is not just html+CSS without the massive overhead that we currently have. I mean, I can draw the frames just fine but these extra cycles suck power and produce heat
It could contain just a few kbit of documents that would get Boeing into even bigger legal troubles for example regarding the MCAS and the 737 Max.
> Once you launch the browser, you will be prompted to sign in with your Google account.

What is the reason/need for this?
The cmd+x/c/v keyboard shortcuts have been around much longer than the ctrl+x/c/v equivalents - copied by Microsoft in Windows 3.0; it was all CUA previous to that.

1. So to cut in applications (or anywhere anything is selectable other than Finder), it's cmd+x, as it has been since the early '80s; likewise, paste is cmd+v

2. In Finder, you'd use cmd+c to copy the file, cmd+v to paste a copy and cmd+opt+v to move the file. This was introduced, I think, in Lion (OS X 10.9).

3. Erm, using the menu bar to begin with? Reading the built-in help? Searching the internet? How do you learn it in Windows and/or any other $desktop or $wm?

4. *Emacs keybindings work in most places in macOS, and they have since the first beta of OS X.

Edit: *most...
Entirely this. That data is so widely collected is the root problem.
Yeah true; mostly do fitness app. Those can also get an exception, but depends on the reviewer & how you present yourself
Both the paper and the video (both of which i've skimmed but not gone through the math substantially) make a case for a maximum speed, notated as 'c'. Let me assume they make a very good mathematic case, and there is a maximum speed that satisfies the fundamental assumptions provided.

Both the paper and the video then finish off by ontologically tying this maximum speed, notation 'c', to the interesting physical E&M phenomenon we happen to call 'light'.
My question - in this framework where we are deconstructing everything (which I applaud), then why make that leap to associate this 'c' with the phenomenon known as light?

Inference, sure why not until any future evidence suggests otherwise, but why do so in the intentionally limited scope of the paper & video's derivations?
A better Java; and with Kotlin native no jdk dependencies. And yes, they do know what they are doing when it comes to IDEs and languages.
The previous poster was talking about Krita (and the one before that Krita and Gimp) and while I agree with some of the criticism of gimps UI, I stand by my comment a lot of that criticism is based around "it is not like program X, that I'm used to".

I mentioned it in a different post, blender is the prime exhibit for this, its UI received even more criticism than gimps. Now that it has become the (or one of the) most popular 3d modelling tool, most of these voices disappeared, because it has become the first entry point and people are not used to some other way of working anymore.
That is a pretty good idea!
I love the casual misogyny in some of these answers, really demonstrates the nature of the era it was written in.
>> Asking an expert and getting explained is invaluable, but what I found particularly disheartening is the treatment of ‘noobs’ in amateur electronics forums. Being insulted when asking questions is not pleasant. I thought ego issues were unique to software development communities, but they were not. If you need to ask questions on the forums and you’re learning, you better have tough skin.

> So it is with hardware, and personally it frustrates me when software people think they can generalize about the "hardware" space because they printed a 4 layer with JLCPCB and now they know the "hardware" world and its ins and outs.

You appear to be who he is complaining about. I'm an embedded dev, and what he wrote isn't far off the mark - I see more inaccurate posts of about from software-only devs.
What I don’t like is having to rewrite all my compute shaders and being forced to give away the sources.
I'd seen this floating around for a while, so decided to finally watch it.

Was surprised how much the story is very appropriate for HN.
It might be in the Bay Area and north bay. Heard thunder, but lighting was not a really a thing until 2020 from what the natives say.
I'd imagine there's an aspect here of what is an event and a non-event.
Or Paint.NET, which does maintain aspect ratio on shift.
Funny to see after watching the Joining the Panderverse. Billionaire electricians when?
Apple admits third-party app stores in Europe are inevitable
I assume that anybody who had a lot of land would figure this out pretty quickly. Certainly in the era where many generations grew up on large pieces of managed land surrounded by unmanaged wilderness (which is to say, most of history), you'd expect people to notice the difference. There's so much received wisdom about agriculture that comes down through the centuries, and this basic fact about forestry is (supposedly) a 21st century discovery?
> GZR, also known as g//z/r on their first album, geezer on their second, and GZR on their third.

I would be impressed if they had changed the band name from album to album BUT all three albums had the same identical album name.
Live volcano and earthquake stream on Iceland [video]
You're assuming my "bad" and "worst" scenarios do not exist. And also assuming that knock-on effects don't occur which cause issues in other parts of the economy. A cartoon-like example: spend X+Y money to dine at restaurant, spend -Y less money elsewhere, people working elsewhere are laid off and can no longer afford to spend money at restaurant. Restaurant loses customers. Restaurant closes.
I thought the same thing, in my whole life I have gotten exactly ZERO of this events.
Another challenge with this is that the formula I use has prebiotics so it's just a matter of time before gas builds up and things could get painful. I will likely just stick with my method of staying near the restroom.
I recommend first reviewing the methods of any study making bold, universal claims. This one relies on self reporting surveys. We know that stated behaviors (and preferences) vary from revealed behaviors.

Don’t trust surveys or polls.
My experience is if you have a chronic condition for years finding out what it is is often a big relief.
I would recommend Release It! by Michael T. Nygard first edition, the second edition talks about microservices
Also out of all the problems with making your own jet engine, not having the plans is one of the smaller ones.
I'd like to see Experian shut down at this point to send a message to the rest.
Who would be interested in that data?

I’m seriously asking because a while ago, I had an interview that was explicitly about finding a business model for that type of data (flights, on-time, maintenance, etc.) for a reseller. I think I did a good job, but the company closed before they made an offer. I reached out to a friend who was working for a big airline to ask for his help on that, he was helpful but cagey: that’s because that was his job. A bit later, he mentioned that those were notoriously hard to buy because there wasn’t really any client — not a legitimate one.

The only potentially interested parties he could mention were people looking at tourist trends (they get overall hotel and restaurant stats: flights aren't the right breakdown) and possibly taxi companies to get on-time stats (that’s actually another project I worked on; small world). But landing data is public, or at least scrapable.

Chinese manufacturers (if you believe the rumors that they like to copy technology) care about R&D. Airbus, maybe, to price them out when competing on bids? But it would seem obvious and not that helpful. I’m not a sales guy.

This is “parts and distribution business” so, essentially, the business branch recently transformed by a lot of machine learning to predict failures. If another maintenance company could train a similar model, they would benefit, but is there such a company? Does anyone do that in both partnership and competition with Boeing?

I’m genuinely curious: Who would want that data?
These articles are so tiresome. If a shortage actually materializes, the market will incentivize people to enter this profession. And if it doesn’t, it won’t. For a few years there will be a premium those workers earn as new entrants get trained.

The government trying to predict demand, and students deciding to enter professions based on said predictions, is risky and is why central planning is inefficient - we simply don’t know. It’s better to wait for the market to demand something, show increased prices, and then let the market solve it.

Similarly, perennial shortages now of employees in XYZ profession are always because pay is too low to match the undesirability of the job, or the government is preventing new entrants (i.e. we need more doctors but licensing and the monopoly on training doctors).
This is super cool. Mistral is great, the full 128K context will fit on cheap (24GB, maybe less) GPUs thanks to exLlamav2, and they just pulled support into transformers instead of dropping some weird proprietary code.

One critique of the graph though... I measured perplexity of MistralLite myself, and its good out to 32K, but in the graph it drops off where the base model drops: https://huggingface.co/SciPhi/SciPhi-Mistral-7B-32k/discussi...
> But you don't have rtx, peasant! [j/k]

On Linux it's basically the opposite now. Nvidia should basically be seen as unsupported, which to be clear is 100% Nvidia's fault.
How much do you think it would cost to send a bottle of water to space? Even on a Falcon Heavy you're looking at spending around $700 [1] to send one 16oz bottle of water. That's a far better than past times, where it'd cost around $25,000 to send it up on the Space Shuttle. But with Starship? You're looking at that price drop to as low as $5!

Because of this, trying to meaningfully predict the future is not possible. You're looking at a incomparably large revolutionary leap being made overnight. Up until now costs have made any significant scale space project a complete non-starter. If Starship succeeds, then costs will instantly become almost entirely irrelevant. Space colonization, industry, tourism, mining, and so all become completely viable - instantly. Really, everything becomes viable. Space just becomes another domain for casual exploration, exploitation, and expansion.

I think this is why everybody is waiting before adapting. So many industries are simply impossible to even toy with, without Starship. And while it seems ever more imminent, there is of course still the possibility that it somehow ultimately proves unviable, or perhaps it only sends that bottle of water down to $300, which would still be a great leap forward, but probably not far enough ahead to really open the door to space, just yet.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competitio...
anybody that's cohabitated with a different gender agrees with that
There are a small handful of us out there, targeting slightly different but overlapping use cases, but this is me https://www.privacydynamics.io. Happy to answer any questions about it.
That's one of my fun speculations for the drop in sperm fertility. There's less violence in the world; men spend far less of their time practicing and preparing for war. So, as well as the concomitant lack of physical exercise (which almost certainly plays a part) there is something in our biological makeup which says since there is less danger, there is less need to procreate.
France's math culture is a facet of its rigorous education system. Which in contrast to other western nations that will remain unnamed, doesn't easily award advancement through it.
> > Then, in the end you'd be blamed when the entire network died.
>
> I mean, you clearly have a paper trail showing you raised the issue at the
> highest levels twice. Not really sure how you could be blamed.

This is sarcasm, right?

The "highest levels" can't possibly be wrong, so either it's space aliens, witches, or you.
Conclusive? No. But like tire tracks leading to a pulverized deer in the middle of the road, you can see the signs clearly.