skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an American who values the quality of my life, there is little I wouldn't give for a working permit in any EU country, especially Germany. The grass is always greener I suppose, or maybe something of an ancestral longing (my paternal ancestor wasn't a willing emigrant, just a captured mercenary with no capo to negotiate with the British for the fare back to his Hessian homeland). Maybe a rarer inclination at present, but in another 50 years I doubt it still will be. It costs 40% less to live in Berlin (on average) than to live in my the fair Verona where I lay my scene, the San Francisco Bay Area, 40% less and a completely functional social safety net that doesn't let its old people starve to death on the streets! I am not sure what anyone means when they say freedom, its an amorphous concept but starving to death in the cold, that's a more visceral and topical thing I can see the hideous reality of by walking a block in any direction in SF. There but for God's grace go I.
Mozilla should develop a rudimentary Blink or Webkit mode for FF that allows it to fallback to a better supported engine (with obvious limitations wrt extensions, privacy policy) for select websites. I think once the user has opened Chrome/Safari because something rendered all fucked up in FF, they're likely to keep using it. The telemetry from fallbacks could be used to prioritize compatibility issues and drive down the number of sites that require it. Oh and replace its own netstack with something better like the one from chrome.
This might be a better link as it points to the original source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-ma....
Yep, not viable anymore.

I'll be surprised if it lasts another decade.

/s
When I was 20 years old, I would have agreed with your position. But that was a long time ago.

Everyone, no matter how materially wealthy they are, gets 24 hours per day. That time is, by definition, 100% of the time that you'll get, which means that its value (intrinsic) is nearly infinite. This is true even if its price (extrinsic) is zero.

My point in mentioning an engineering rate was not to quibble about what free time costs. It was to say that even if someone confuses price with value, we can agree the the value gained from time well spent is very high. So it seems strange to criticize a hardware project that had $X of "hard" costs, $Y of "soft" costs, and $Z of benefits, when we regularly admire software projects that are valued identically, except that $X is close to zero. $X + $Y + $Z = a huge net positive value (judging from the number of HN comments and votes, as well as the pride that OP shows in the writeup). For many of these Show HN posts, it doesn't matter if $X is $300 or $0; the math still evaluates to awesomeness.
So you are complaining about the design of their ad banner. It really is NOT the same thing as allowing people to bypass spam. They don't accumulate in your inbox like unfilted spam does. They are not serviced if you use other systems to interact with your inbox.
(Using Lemmy+Mastodon as an example)

Lemmy has the concept of "communities" - subreddits, basically. On Mastodon, you can follow a Lemmy user and see their posts+comments exactly as you'd expect. And you can follow a community too! To Mastodon's point of view, the community is a single user that "boosts" (re-tweets) every post and every comment made within. So following a moderately active community from Mastodon will absolutely flood your feed with 100% of the community's user activity.

Meanwhile, Lemmy doesn't do direct messages or use hashtags as a first-class feature. So if a Mastodon user tries to DM a Lemmy user, or a Lemmy user wants to follow a hashtag, they're out of luck.

And again, there are other Fediverse apps with even different models than these. Gitea, Forgejo, and GitLab are going to adapt ActivityPub to all federate with each other - this is a huge win, of course - but would we expect someone to make or review a pull request from their BookWyrm account?
It's not just static content. It's Markdowns loaded right into HTML.
> I've heard advice that when trying to name a product, it's a good idea to check Urban dictionary before finalizing a name to make sure you don't accidentally pick something crude

Yeah, imagine picking something like Go Daddy for the name of your company.
I think the most charitable interpretation of their point is something along the lines of simply highlighting the far-reaching and ad-hoc nature of lawmaking capabilities. I don’t think antiracism laws were the best example though.
Yes, you're right, thank you for such explanation.
Isn't that just GAN, but with LLMs?
You'd disagree about 10 seconds after they did...

If suddenly you could be effectively found and prosecuted for every single law that existed it is near a 100% probability that you'd burn the government to the ground in a week.

There are so many laws no one can even tell you how many you are subject to at any given time at any given location.
okay, i had never seen this command used, but i got extremely lucky by it running pretty much in sync with this video. If I had tried to get it in sync, I couldn't have gotten any closer. sometimes, the internet smiles upon you and just gives you a moment.

thanks for the smile to all in this thread from here up!
If this paper is coming out of BAIR at a max 3B parameter model I suspect we'll quickly see much larger models from the industrial players. Hopefully Mistral takes an interest and releases an OSI licensed model.
https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
Which part?
The same plague that gave the chimps intelligence also killed humans.

Wasn't it an experimental Alzheimer's drug? It helped chimps, hurt humans.

I thought it was pretty realistic, given that premise.
They mostly shut down at the beginning of the year - https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/
> We really need to have much stronger anti trust legislation and enforcement. It is absolutely ridiculous to allow companies to behave this way.

You think? I have been wondering the same thing myself for years and i'm still flabbergasted that people don't treat this stuff more seriously.
They used to be black-on-green, now they are white-on-green. iMessage also used to be black-on-blue, see the announcement at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBIgjodpFs
Those "progressive ideals" have long since ceased to be progressive, ever since the "progressives" gained more or less permanent power in those places. Progressives should not remain in power for too long since they are not capable of recognising a local optimum and keeping those policies which have been shown to work. Conservatives should not remain in power for too long since they are not capable of recognising the need for change when external or internal factors have made the traditional way of doing things obsolete or counterproductive. What is needed is a balance between the two, a form of checks an balances on ideology.
I have no idea. My point is it's irrelevant for modern humans.

As a social construct: caste could be useful for specialization. But I sort of fail to see the point of making the specialization birth-based (observation seems to indicate that people's interests and skills, particularly in technology spaces which dominate the human condition now, are randomized / environment based more than bred. Give me an interested kid who wants to be a programmer, and I can teach them how to program regardless of who their parents were).

Whether there's some natural selective pressure to encourage caste is irrelevant in the modern human condition. Probably better to optimize for letting people have experiences and finding what fits them best under the theory that people do the best work / live the best lives if they're doing what they're into.
I like the premise of Bun, and early speedups are impressive, but I'm not convinced by the project management yet. Lots of design decisions seem to be made arbitrarily (on a whim rather than deeply thought through), and want to see a track record of stability first.

I follow commentary from the dev team... there seems to be a tendency towards "this thing is useful, let's add it" without thinking through the larger API surface area or future issues adding those APIs will introduce. Not sure it was ready for v1 yet. If I were them I wouldn't be afraid to break things and increment the major version at this point.. but once you have real users you pretty much have to maintain your design decisions

I'd love to see these concerns turn out to be unfounded down the line! Also want to see Node adopt an incremental approach towards Rust or similar and focus more on performance in response

Deno I think just missed the mark by a wide margin out of the gate. Seemed to focus on things that nobody was asking for, and also hurt DevX. Perhaps the situation has improved more recently
I agree that most technological innovations, scientific discoveries, and broad historical events associated with a "great man" would have happened anyway if that person did not exist.

Even Napoleon was very much a product of the times he lived through as a young man.

But one specific person that in my opinion personally changed world history in a drastic way was Lenin.

The history of the Bolsheviks rise to power is pretty insane. Nobody thought they could seize power, and once they got it, which was pretty much solely because of Lenin browbeating them to commit at the moment they committed, nobody thought they could hold on to it. And for good reason.

If just a few things had gone slightly differently Russia would have been governed by groups with different belief systems than the communists.

Disclaimer: 100% armchair historian who's knowledge mostly comes from a handful of podcasts. Hopefully someone will correct me :)
Always an enjoyable read from Doctorow.

Noticed this that stood out;

> "emotional (or financial) strain of knowing ..."

As an astute observation about which few care to
"psychologise". Namely, that beyond simple profit, the blind reason of
markets, and business just being business, there's a lot of plain
bloody-minded egotism out there in the corporate world. There's folks
who will destroy value and opportunity, not because it's "competitive"
or "necessary", but because it pleases them. And they throw their toys
out of the pram if anyone threatens their lunch or questions their
entitlement to have it.

We don't acknowledge or talk enough about the /emotional/ landscape in
the tech world. That is a serious blind-spot when you have people like
Musk and Bezos in the mix.
Safari is a niche and is missing features.

And Brave and Vivaldi are based on Chromium, so they help Google that Chromium sets the standards for the web.

You already shot yourself, just didn't recognize yet.

Why do you support a crooked company like Google?
Black Swan – Dawn of the Super Soldier – I/Itsec 2023 [video]
I don't think you understand where I'm coming from. Those statutes and documents aren't trustable.
The protests were protests, the riots were riots. I knew some of the people at both. It was half panic and half LARPing. I had to work because I was put my wife through college at the time.
Let me guess. Someone will train a LLM on the stock prices to predict the stock market. It might work as well as how human has predicted the market.
what's wrong is wiki editorship
Are web standards that bleak that specific browsers need attention still?
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...

>For millennia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.
Indeed, Democracy originated in an environment where suffrage was highly limited.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/democracy-...
What are you going to do? Drive an old car? Government has a solution for that!
What is the "great expense"?

Mobile battery life and performance is already pretty amazing.

A world where we have our very smartest people putting text on a screen instead of ending world hunger or something, or where all the apps are broken constantly, or where development randomly halts as teams come and go, or where only top geniuses can be hired and the rest of us have to work service and labor with basically no career path to anything else except maybe management, doesn't sound like what I want.
No, I don't. Lecture the guy about how to do it correctly, maybe make him pay for the pollution he caused or something.

Locking him away solves nothing.
if google analytics is undercounting firefox in a way that may make websites to drop firefox support, i suppose this is a case for antitrust?

because google is using a near monopoly on analytics to bury a competitor in another segment
>> You buy a house for $400K and take out a loan of $300K using your $400K home as collateral. There is no gain here

Correct. You have a $400K asset and a $300K liability giving you $100K in equity.

>> Later, you want to refinance. Your home is now worth $600K, and

Nope, no "and". Before you even consider refinancing, you now have an unrealized gain. You have a $600K asset and a $300K liability giving you $300K in equity for an unrealized capital gain of $200K. Whether you take out a new loan or not, your net worth has increased $200K.

>> and you'd like to pay off your existing mortgage and take a new loan out for $500K. This should be considered income! Your net worth has suddenly gained +$200K

No, your net worth increased when the value of the house went up, not when you took out the loan. The loan is not income.

>> and you have realized the gain

No, the gain is still unrealized. You have a $600K asset (the house), a $200K asset (cash out from the refi) and a $500K liability (the new loan) giving you equity of $300K. You have not realized the capital gain. You have not made any income.

What you are trying to do is to use a refi as a trigger for taxing unrealized capital gains.
I find this an overly harsh take. The image is indeed stunning and unlike any other I have ever seen of an aurora. And of course when you can see an orange aurora there must be a mechanism; the clearly state that the orange hues in the new image are caused by red and green light mixing. This only happens when vertical bands of red and green auroras perfectly overlap, making them very rare. Where is this a 'boring "plot twist"'?
It's just how we try to narrow down the uses cases that the product would be better suited for. I'd love to come up with a better name for it. At the end of the day, I think we're all just different approaches to a similar problem/use case
Dang is a pos censor is why
This is huge news!

What services are companies migrating to? Zoom? Azure Communication Services?
I found it a little weird the acronym was not spell out in full term.[1]

After all, we could also looks for a discussion in the article about the need for an STS, and how that should defined before GA or after the RC. Definitely at least before the EA versions of Kubernetes and at least before EOL of the product....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_support
Apart from the support, onprem is basically free as no infra costs. Why would it be more costly?
OK, I sense the sarcasm, but what do you have against IBM?
$280 million settlement for securing global OS domination for a few years. Pretty cheap.
You’re in tech and you hate abbreviations? That must be rough.
Why did google break out Google Play Services as a separate app, was that when they started integrating more with third-party android phone suppliers, and they didn't want to have to wait for OS upgrade cycles from slower-moving companies?
I agree with some of what you said about social brownie points. Advertising can be really off putting (I'm very anti-advertisement but I'm not really their target audience since I mostly use Firefox these days). However, they have to do something to get the word out. There needs to be a reason for people to care to install Firefox.
How long will h actually serve?
Sure, I've made this argument myself. I don't see its relevance to what I've said here.
congrats team!
I don't have to justify them to myself or anyone else, because they are figments of your imagination that have no basis in anything at all. In all the articles and comments I have written anywhere, I have never before received any response so unhinged from what I actually wrote.
I was pumping gas and the gas pump decided it should advertise at me and clue me in on the latest celebrity gossip. We really have no concept that we shouldn't degrade the public realm.
Are you implying RoR isn't a "sane" option anymore? I'd wager it's infinitely better and easier, for 99% of use cases, than the likes of Go, Rust, Elixir, etc.
Thank you so much for sharing that! Beautiful / elegant and simple!

It's been decades since I looked at any of the details involved in any of the various types of reactors that have been designed. When I did, in the past, I hadn't even encountered concepts like "control theory" or spent any time with the subject matter of "systems engineering" or even "chemical engineering". I.e., areas where you start thinking about how to combine all of the different simple "laws"* and properties and such of energy and matter to create "robust" (ideally) or even just practical "systems".

Although I had read about the Chernobyl disaster, and "run-away" that occurred - the massive volumes of water being pumped in, partly as a result of such levels, at near boiling ... the steam voids, etc. I'm not entirely sure whether I really encountered the point about temperature and density, but, certainly, it didn't 'click' quite the way it did now when I read your description.

I love this kind of stuff - the "how it all fits together" from what can otherwise be these seemingly dry / 'dead' "laws" and such that can seem too simple / narrow / etc. to do much of use with - even if your teachers spend as much time as possible giving you homework questions etc. that certainly seem practice-oriented - but who gives a rat's-keister about whether comparing the weight of a duck to a putative witch might establish flammability and hence witchcraft when they're 15, right? ;)

* Simplified models describing various types of matter and physical processes - models that are valid (for some definition of ... as the mathematicians &/ Humpty-Dumpty [Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll] might say) given certain assumptions / pre-conditions (on scale, frame of reference, etc.)
My guess would be all of it. They rarely shorten sentences that are this short.
FYI, it’s “on-premises” or “on prem”.

“Premise” means something very different, so I recommend you use “on-premises” or “on prem” if you’re trying to demonstrate competence to the majority of your audience who will know the difference.
Still, a 10 hour AC charge would get you a sizable chunk of that total range and eliminate a stop that where must charge at for at least one day of your trip.

Selfishly, I have family in this range where it would be nice to get all the way to their house without needing to charge. I would probably pay to have a decent AC charger installed in their house. Spend the weekend there and I’d leave with a full battery, and never touch a DC fast charger.
While this account comes from Plutarch, Suetonius also relates the same story. Suetonius, of course, was much more interested in a good story than any concept of truth and was writing in roughly the same period as Plutarch relating tales told and retold long after whatever original events there were transpired.
I'm taking a masters in mathematics, and for me the steps are at least three-fold: understanding what you are trying to prove, which is mostly thinking about it and maybe reading or talking to people; picking up pen and paper and proceeding with a sketch of the essential points; typing the proof into LaTeX for a human readable homework :)

I suspect lean will change the thoughts a bit but not eliminate step one. Maybe step three becomes interactive with lean4 etc. and ends in a PR with green build, but the work does not seem likely to end there.

Put it this way: Terrence Tao is unbelievably better at maths than I am; Terrence Tao with lean4 is also unbelievably better at maths than I am with lean4. As far as the value embedded in all already proven mathematics, having it in mathlib is going to make it easy to use, but extending it in the way Prof. Tao can is still pretty hard.

As a side note, I've extended my experimenting with GPT4 from writing Go and emacs lisp to asking it questions about my classes and it does sound smart but will happily give fractional results for an application of Burnside's Lemma, and say things like:

"An example of a simple group without an element of order 2 is any non-abelian simple group of odd order. By the Feit-Thompson theorem, every finite group of odd order is solvable, which means that non-abelian simple groups of odd order do not exist. However, this theorem does not rule out the existence of infinite simple groups of odd order."

Now this answer is correct in describing how (Feit-Thompson theorem) to show that there are no simple groups of odd order, but "infinite simple groups of odd order" is pretty non-sensical. If the order is infinite, it is not odd.

One hopes future iterations will develop understanding in a way that this text lacks.
I genuinely don't see any perceivable delay on a Macbook without any third party keyboard customization software installed. Typing caps lock and the letter "a" in quick succession results in an "A" for me.
They're not decrepit; they're unfashionable. Programs and websites that were somewhat decently written 20 years ago should and pretty much do run exactly the same today as they did then. It's not until "web 2.0" and SaaS that you find things that stop working after a few years/months.

That's exactly what you need for "poorly funded" sites, and I don't see why a site that's meant to be functional needs a Hollywood budget.
Check out https://github.com/OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl
RDAP contains some of the WHOIS information in a machine-readable format. (JSON) Not everything, but I think it's better.

Not everything runs an RDAP server, though; I do wish ICANN/IANA or whoever would enforce that.

> Nowadays it's much worse; nearly everything is hidden behind privacy shields, which purport to protect PII. But WHOIS records aren't supposed to contain personal information; they're supposed to contain contact information for network operators.

Network operator info can also be PII. My info is PII, but I have a domain name, so putting my info into WHOIS is putting PII into WHOIS.

The privacy guard just forwards everything to me, minus spam.

(If it's a corporation, I don't think there's a good reason to permit privacy guards. But not all domains are owned by BigCos, yet.)
It's because every small business has this problem and need, and there are a lot of small businesses. But selling technology to small businesses is extremely hard.
They’re trying to weather the storm and keep their crime stats low. It’s a political game.
The best you can do now is run whatsapp apk on an emulator or spare device, then auth that with the matrix bridge, then you can avoid needing to use whatsapp clients on daily drivers. Works decently well: https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp
Wouldn't it be enough to measure the (fluctuation of the) total gravitation force ( = gravitational constant times mass) exerted on the second particle, in order to draw conclusions about the nature of the gravitational force at small scales?
As it was mentioned above, you are not measuring connection from the client to the server, but from the server to the client. It can be a completely different route, and internal routing behind the IP is hidden.
You should try 0trace to get the real route