skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, you shouldn't always get to be root on other people's computers. But you absolutely should get to be root whenever you want on your own computers.
The capitalist idea of voting with your wallet doesn't really work that way, it's throwing away the power of collective bargaining and instead leaving every man for himself, which would be an instant race to the bottom.

The workers are unionised because if they weren't, Tesla would be leading the charge on torching whatever rights workers had previously agreed to.

More countries could stand to do this, to show that it is the people who have power over corporations, not the other way around.
BIO selects rare disease advocate, biotech executive John Crowley as new CEO
You are trying to explain the difference between sectoral collective bargaining and enterprise bargaining.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_collective_bargaining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_bargaining_agreemen...
Eh. Every other multinational that tried this bit of brinksmanship backed down, more or less, with minimal contagion. McDonalds remains un-unionised in America, say.
I had to anonymize some data while still keeping some details. You could imagine individual trees that needed to be put into groups of similar trees so individual details were lost.

Anyway, these "trees" were effectively user behavior across all our products. I was shocked that simply knowing *when* (to within a second or two) a person did two or more things, you could narrow it down to *one single person* out of hundreds of millions.
Or applying for a job, or surveying local businesses for a story, or transposed the numbers, or…

It can simultaneously be true that metadata contains less information than real data and that metadata is still dangerous. But when one is known for breathless hyperbole, should we be surprised when that’s what we get?
Congress very much has too much power. If it was a fighting game character, it would be the overpowered character people would want banned.

Repeatedly Congress has shown that it's checks and balances have more power than others.
If Congress picks the supreme court and there are multiple ways for a massed power to keep it's power then nobody else has any real power. The US system is actually rather poorly designed in that form.
I only claimed a minor barrier to unmotivated tracker stripping. By that I mean a hurdle, not tamper resistance. So in the worst case you're no worse off than what the existing unencrypted system affords you.

Indeed, rotating the key here serves very little benefit.

Thinking out loud: I suppose if they strayed further from the light and started restricting timestamp linking to share button URLs they might want to rotate the key to frustrate anyone looking to generate anonymous timestamp links. In that case, you could do something like include some indicator of which key was valid on the day it was uploaded. That limits the blast radius of a leaked/cracked key to the ability to generate timestamp links for all videos created during that period. Still low stakes, but now we need care more about integrity. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if updating the video ID scheme is a huge ask, so at that point a new DB might be the easier solution.
"Features" was Pandora's original design (Music Genome Project). IIRC you can still see it in the UI in how they describe songs.
That's no different than IBM selling a mainframe with more processors and storage than you've paid to access.
Clojure has a gradual type system--core.typed--that I've used extensively. It's... it's very cool, but for my uses it seems to be more trouble than it's worth. I keep coming back to it every few years, though.
A Canadian company became the best acquirer of tech firms
no it's more like: don’t have a smartphone and you are good (perhaps).
The gen z equivalent is taking the L.
> Starting on December 13, developers and enterprise customers can access Gemini Pro via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio or Google Cloud Vertex AI.

Excited to give this a spin. There will be rough edges, yes, but it's always exciting to have new toys that do better (or worse) in various ways.
Is there something that needs to be done other than the filters?
Hippies. It was explicitly targeted at the anti-war, vaguely USSR-sympathetic left. Can't
Cloud TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer
Exactly right that this targets a narrower surface to enable many deep learning models. I wonder how uncommon it is to hit some operation that is not included, though? It seems pretty common from a PyTorch MPS tracking issue:

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/77764

NVIDIA's moat is not just in providing BLAS++ operations, but extending this to a wider range of cuSPARSE, cuSOLVE, cuTENSOR, etc. Without these, it feels like Apple is just trying to play catch up with whatever is popular and unsupported...
It certainly had an impact when Apple and Google shipped platform notifications because each of those systems kept the radio active.

It’s possible that a better interface could be developed but it wouldn’t help privacy unless the implementers were in different legal jurisdictions: the same government which can subpoena or NSL Apple or Google could’ve asked e.g. Urban Airship for the same details. There’s also a challenge in that each implementation is a chance to make mistakes or fail to deliver promised privacy protections, and someone in a country which isn’t the United States might have stronger privacy laws but is also a legitimate NSA target. This kind of problem just doesn’t have simple solutions.
Getting hit by a Cybertruck as a pedestrian is likely considerably safer than being hit by an F-150, a Hummer or any other similarly sized truck or SUV.

Pedestrian impact regulations should make the Cybertruck design illegal, as well any modern truck design. IMO, the laws should be written so that the height of the 1996 F-150 is legal and the 1997 F-150 should be illegal for non-commercial purposes in cities.

1: https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1731918392800510345...

2: https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-v...
Is sexual preference an identity or component of an identity? I would consider my identity a private matter for me to fully determine. Not all portions of said identity need be public, or publically expressed at all times.

Why is what the parent said offensive? Is it necessary for everything to never offend anyone ever?
> Tesla is free to use other companies or methods to deliver, create their own delivery companies from scratch , deliver the cars with their rockets. I do not think they can cut off the power but there could be problems finding people fixing their electrical issues if they appear.

In theory, but it's not unprecedented for payment providers to refuse to process payments so they'd not be able to pay people to even get started (if they went that way)
For the most part, nobody is working anywhere against their will. Does that mean unions are pointless?
Biff is very batteries included, but because it uses a couple defaults that are not particularly mainstream (XTDB instead of SQL, HTMX/Hyperscript) I imagine newcomers will still have a hard time in it. Learning Clojure, AND graph databases, and potentially HTMX is a bit much. Still, a lot of it is just setup for you. Auth is thoughtful and easy and the server config files are well commented. There are deploy scripts to setup a server in linux and SSH into the production REPL. And if you want to use XTDB, the way Biff has setup document validation is really nice.

I also like using it more than an app running on ClojureScript, personally. There are a lot of ClojureScript wrappers around React, and it's almost a meme. As a react developer, I have not found any of them easier than React. I find them kind of convoluted and un-ergonomic. However, HTMX/Hyperscript works really well with Clojure, because their HTML syntax is just arrays and objects that are easy to manipulate. It's the first time that the whole "code is data" proverb repeated by Clojure enthusiasts has rung true for me.
Protip: the harder a company pushes you to download their app, the more they have to gain from it. 99.999% of the time it's because they want access to as much of your data as they can sneak out of your device, usually for selling it.

One notable corollary is, the shittier the mobile browser webapp implementation is, the more they want to push people onto their app. See: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
Fathoming it is how we got here. That's the easy part. But the hard part is the tension between supporting people in developing nations while not endorsing their policies.

Here in the US there are states that, sadly, aren't that supportive of human rights. And rather than handwring over "should we hold an event there?" they just never consider those places. Because there's no such tension.
Tricks for Reliable Split-Second DNS Rebinding in Chrome and Safari
This is the second part in a two-part series on DNS rebinding. The first part covered a real-world exploit using DNS rebinding. In this post, we introduce new techniques for achieving reliable, split-second DNS rebinding in Chrome, Edge, and Safari when IPv6 is available, as well as a technique for bypassing the local network restrictions applied to the fetch API in Chromium-based browsers.
https://lite.cnn.com
heavy drinking, and the occasional IT cert
Article doesn't state yield w/ respect to best-yielding fields. But up to 40% higher yields on fields that had a good deal of pathogen fungi in the soil ("unhealthy" soils, if you will).

So this is not upping yields 40% across the board. More about bringing poorer-performing fields up to the level of better-performing ones.

Personally I think a well-managed field wouldn't need this type of inoculation, as it would have the beneficial fungi in its soil already (and these research findings seem to indicate this). The #1 thing there would be to disturb that soil as little as possible (like, no-till farming).

For less-well managed fields, this might be a quick 'n dirty fix to undo some of the shortcomings in a field's condition.
I'm very disappointed in the PSF leadership. Their organization has a clear mission, and it's leaders need to be held accountable. Folks leading institutions ought to understand that they are placed there as stewards, not as an opportunity to exercise leverage in other areas, regardless of their good intention. People who donate to PSF do not want to be an instrument for another cause, they could just as well donate to that cause.
Its greatest strength at present, and for a long while, has been serving as an “expert’s tool”.

If you want to do systems programming with less hassles than C/++ (you understand them well), you appreciate the limits and pitfalls of AMM (and you don’t want/need Rust’s borrow checker), and you’re into metaprogramming, well then Nim is a great tool for your toolbox.

It can also serve newcomers to programming decently well and enables DSLs such as Enu ( http://getenu.com/ ). But it doesn’t take too long reading the Nim Manual and std lib docs to realize that a big focus is putting a power tool into the hands of developers who already understand the ins and outs of systems programming.

This is all, of course, my personal take on it, other Nim users may disagree.
To me this sounds weird. I'm from Eastern Europe, no strong unions there by the way so it must be a West/North Europe kind of thing. I understand unions fighting for people who joined a union. But if I purposefully don't join a union cause I don't believe unions are good for the industry (I don't, but this is a hypothetical) why does the union have the power to create a "collective agreement" that affects me? Who gave them that right? I definitely didn't.

Actually because of unions in Germany (where I currently work) it's really really hard to get a raise even if you're a top performer. Say I am 2x faster than anyone in my factory. I cannot go to my employer and ask for a raise. They will say: "Well, this is already discussed with unions. You're in the company for X years, this is your salary range. Work extra hours if you want more money". So all I can do is not work 2x as fast as everyone... waste time, and do extra hours so I can earn more. Waste of time. Without an union I could have negotiated my own salary based on my own merits and earn the same money I earn with the extra time in normal time cause I am efficient.

So unions are not some holy grail. They come with drawbacks. And I find it wrong that a union I am purposefully not part of decides my salary. That makes no sense to me.
You misunderstood me entirely. People can sell their content for whatever price they like. For example, I sell my science fiction and fantasy novels although I could give them away for free. I also used to sell shareware in the past and plan to sell commercial, proprietary software in the future.

People can freely decide whether they want to sell the content they've created or give it away for free. If it's the former, they should sell it, and if it's the latter, they should give it away for free. They just cannot and ought not rely on business models that restrict how people display information on their devices that has been sent to them voluntarily. As I said in the beginning, I have no quirks with Youtube going subscription-only.
OpenView Venture Partners stops investing, in surprise move
If I’m not mistaken they’re called NSLs and the legality of them when challenged are reviewed by a secret court with secret laws that have secret interpretations of words. The whole thing as far as I can tell is an out of control nightmare and our corrupt congress doesn’t give a shit.
After Paris banned electric scooters, a shift to new micromobility modes
https://github.com/korma/Korma
To be more constructive, I agree that personal spam/nom-spam decisions should not be used to train a general model, at least not without a significant signal from multiple users. Possibly users should be matched to models according to their behaviour.

But the onus should be on the model builders not on the final user.
XTTS voice cloning with only a seconds of audio
With Coqui.ai shutting down it's studio and API it looks like they are reinvesting their efforts into their XTTS models and framework.
A recent update to their GitHub also has a no-code gradio ui to facilitate fine-tuning and inferencing locally. https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/releases/tag/v0.21.3
* Google Cloud Run - https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/deploying#command-line

* OpenFaaS - https://www.openfaas.com/blog/porting-existing-containers-to...

* AWS Lambda - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...

* Scaleway Serverless Containers - https://www.scaleway.com/en/serverless-containers/

* Azure Container Instances - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/...

Probably others too, those are just the ones I know off the top of my head. I see very little reason to use traditional Function-based FaaS, which forces you into a special, locked-in framework, instead of using containers that work everywhere.
Looks like a great integrated take on carving out serverless work. Curious to see how it handles the server parts of serverless like environment variables, db connection counts, etc.

One potential gotcha I'm curious if there is a good story for is if it can guard against code that depends on other processes in the local supervision tree. I'm assuming since it's talking about Ecto inserts it brings over and starts the whole apps supervision tree on the function executor but that may or may not be desired for various reasons.
It's a bit chicken and egg though: I would expect that a grant would be much more likely to be granted for an event that had a decent amount of groundwork already done? For new events especially, you'd want to see some commitment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38444491
Why is it that American society automatically considers a field “useless” if it doesn’t produce massive economic value? Have we all been entirely brainwashed to maximize profit over everything else?
> I suspect that part of the political push to eliminate the humanities, especially from off-campus sources, is connected to the myth that the price of college has skyrocketed. In fact, the real price of college attendance has been falling modestly in recent years. Consequently, the share of undergraduates taking out student loans and the loan values are also down slightly.

Disingenuous nonsense.
Price going up 1000% and then down 10% doesn't make it not "skyrocket".

Worthless article.
Where exactly did the poster say he should not be able to do so? It’s just vain.
The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Messages_in_Water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto
There is clear chain of links : Belief (Jesus solves problems) -> Action (Going to church) -> Finding solution (Other church goers helped her). How is this different than original gettier problem? In original gettier problem, his problem was solved in unexpected ways.

As I see it, there are four quadrants : 2 (action, no action) x 2 (solution, no solution). You can build any story based on outcomes.
Bard will now be using Gemini Pro. I'm excited to check it out
Security by obscurity :). Accept that they will probably do this and work towards a counter-measure. Political solutions might be a counter-measure, as the Op of this thread is probably alluding to.
Some of the main players, like IBM, are not VC-funded companies.
* Some of these platforms have cheaper tiers that are ad-supported.

* All of these platforms favor algorithmic recommendations (which are ads) over your personal content queue.

* A lot of content on Prime forces you to watch an ad of new Prime content before your show starts.

* Some of these platforms have auto-playing previews that distract you while you are navigating. Sometimes you can disable them, sometimes you can't. Sometimes the setting resets itself. These are ads.
In Defense of Systems That Fail
> You know very well that coders are among the most reserved people on earth, why punish them for their government rules?

I'm more or less on the same camp, but I am not African I come from another similar challenging demographic for the mainstream axis of tech (USA and Europe) and I'm reflecting a lot about it and I think we're going back to the "equal but separate" world in tech.

One thing that you should keep in mind is that a lot of folks within PSF have some pressures regarding optics and at the end of the day they are on the hook in their local conferences, companies, and local meetups, even if they personally do not believe in those restrictions.

At the time that I had the same issues at some local/national conference for other "X software foundation" the concrete action that we took was to de-risk and get local companies on board, individuals, and move forward.

I do not want to sound cynical, but I think those folks should get rid of PSF baggage and its "control by money", high horse cultural posturing, the politics and start small without all this.
This article [0] lists several cases of warrantless searches, one of which was in Florida. Apparently that 100 mile radius isn't just from the Canadian border or the Mexican border, it's also 100 miles from any coast, which means that 2/3 of the population lives within that radius.

As far as "reasonable suspicion" goes, I'm increasingly unwilling to support the right of law enforcement to independently, without oversight, determine what is "reasonable".

[0] https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/border-patrol-warrant...
Yeah my career was as a cook before programming. I would hone a knife before applying it to a task and then sharpen all my knives every week on my day off. Programming has nothing remotely equivalent to either task. It's just not a useful analogy I don't think.
> And yet, people who exercise more are overwhelmingly more likely to be a healthy weight

This is what can be called a “correlation not causation.” Control for eating, and the picture would likely look different.

In the same way as “people who ride subway are more healthy than those driving cars.” It isn’t that riding subway on its own produces some miracle health benefits, riding subway usually means that you walk more and sit less (compared to driving a car as your primary commute method). If you control for that and start walking the same amount even if you drive, you will likely find the difference in health outcomes between driving and using subway disappear.
I think you mean “female nude” not “explicit” here.

They aren't synonyms; “implied explicit” is an oxymoron, “implied female nude” is not. (Thouugh really, “suggestive of” or “evocative of” is probably more accurate than “implied” here, too.)
A couple millions IIRC. Nothing "large" compared to modern transformer models.
I don't understand why they would even consider it for heating? An electric heater is already 99.99% efficient.
Game would be a lot more fun if it were simplified - the betting / offering market / trades go way too fast, especially with bots
Much more interesting link: https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/
This looks great. Hopefully Microsoft are paying attention because Azure Functions are way too complicated to secure and deploy, and have weird assumptions about what kind of code you want to run.
The director of the NIH is a prime example of a position the people should have direct control over. As is the police captain. Are you claiming otherwise? Have we really forgotten about 2020 so soon?
As another pointed out, from the fact sheet:

> 2. There is no practical way to eliminate all mold and mold spores in the indoor environment; the way to control indoor mold growth is to control moisture.

> 10. Molds can be found almost anywhere; they can grow on virtually any substance, providing moisture is present. There are molds that can grow on wood, paper, carpet, and foods.

But I'd also add:

11. There are many kinds of mold, some more harmful than others. Some are literally penicillin. Some just smell musty, but don't pose a threat. Some can cause severe health problems. The only way to be certain what type of mold you have is to have it tested in a lab.

12. DO NOT try to clean mold yourself. If you try to do this without knowing the proper procedures, you will spread the spores all over your house and into your air conditioning system. Generally every house has mold in it, somewhere. Exposed molds should be remediated, but don't go tearing apart your house to find mold (you'll definitely find it if your house/apartment is over a certain age).

13. Bleach doesn't kill mold. It only turns it white. Hydrogen Peroxide does kill it. You can by concentrated hydrogen peroxide from a lab supply store (we buy 35% and dilute it to 3.5% for everyday cleaning). Spray it onto surfaces in a fine mist (don't soak things) and leave it for 5 minutes. At this point it's mostly stabilized into water that you can wipe away with a paper towel or cloth.

14. Insurance companies really don't like paying for mold remediation. We recently uncovered some (Aspergillus, the Penicillin mold) below our kitchen sink and had to rip out a bunch of cabinets to get it all cleaned out. It coincided with a leak we found in our garbage disposal unit, and our insurance company (Front Line) is now attempting to intimidate us into dropping our claim by using words like fraud and sending forensic inspectors to our house.

The best advice I can give is to take pictures before you think you need to, especially when it comes to moisture-related damage and repairs. We had a plumber come fix our garbage disposal, never suspecting we'd be filing an insurance claim, so we didn't record as much as we could have or take photos of the initial issue, and that may end up costing us.
> Few people working at Tesla Sweden have joined the strike

Tesla claims that 90% of their employees in Sweden have refused to strike, but that figure seemingly includes office workers and others who would never have been part of the metalworkers' strike to begin with. The union itself claims about 50%. [0]

[0] https://da.se/2023/11/sa-manga-strejkar-pa-tesla-if-metall-g...