skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks really awesome! I'll try it out on some of my projects that I never tried to share outside of the Python community because setting up Python and/or pipx always felt too much of a hassle for end users.

Leave it to ofek to tackle one of the toughest problems in Python!
If all some companies are doing is throwing a flashy control panel onto FOSS and reselling it, perhaps FOSS should refocus a bit more on the user experience and provide the control panel themselves?
I don't think that a back button at the top of the screen is very usable. I think it kinda makes sense to have it there, but it's not something you should be using as the primary back input.

I don't know what you mean by "the back gesture itself only works within your app". I assume there are cases in Android where one app took you to another app and you can do the back gesture to go back to the app you came from? Anyway, the iOS model is that the back gesture just navigates within the app, and there are other features for navigating between apps. I won't make an argument about which is better, but I don't think iOS's model is obviously much worse.
I've had friends observe that I'm sometimes extremely oblivious to public signage that gives important information that I should really be paying attention to, or looking around lost to figure out my way when a directing sign is right in my face.

Perhaps some of that is that my head is too much in the clouds, but I suspect a huge part of it is that the overabundance of ads everywhere trying to manufacture desire has conditioned me to filter out most public signage.

At least in my lived experience, the noise to signal ratio of information out in public is way too high.
Is there a great speech generation model that runs on MacOS, to close the loop? Something more natural than the built in MacOS voices?
Not sure. Something doesn't need a solution to be a problem, and pointing it out in a crowd of people gleefully patting themselves on the back about making the problem worse every day is a worthwhile pursuit.

It's sacrilegious to even imply prioritizing the profit machine at many other people's expense isn't a requirement of any plan, but maybe the policy experts can figure out how our society could treat people like they're inherently worthwhile so when industry dramatically improves efficiency, we won't just casually toss the affected people out the window like a bag of moldy peaches and tell them its their own fault. The only people who got a congressional hearing were the people running giant AI projects begging for regulatory capture to prevent boogeyman problems. They did not hear from someone with kids to feed and stage 4 cancer about to lose their family health insurance because chatGPT tanked the market for their labor overnight and the only work they can get is gig work which makes them just enough money to not qualify for most government subsidies. Despite what many private health insurance fans say about health care being free for the poor, hospitals are only required to stabilize you. They'll stop you from bleeding out, but they sure as fuck aren't giving you a free supply of chemotherapy, heart medication, colostomy bags, dialysis, or insulin.

I'm not proposing one, but am skeptical that this reality will be seriously considered at any point before a large-scale violent uprising is on the table.
What is considered as mass? 10, 100, 1000, 10K? Number matters.
Where I'm from, billboards are another monopoly. Sure, they're not the big tech monopoly, but is that the part that matters?
tried that but the content creation side of that was taking way too long and etsy has a larger flow of people just browsing
I don't feel knowledgeable enough about the expected process to comment on that. Two points of speculation though:

1. It looks like the commission believes Starlink is trending away from the targets rather than toward them, and that can't help their case.

2. It's hard for me to see how there would not be at least some political considerations here. The fact that this program exists at all is a political decision. So it's part & parcel of the playing field — which is probably why most leaders work hard to not piss off their regulators.
Ask HN: Have any of you dealt with male infertility?
Coming to the hackers here to hopefully get some pragmatic guidance.

My wife and I have been trying for kids for some time and it was eventually discovered that I was infertile. I have no swimmers.

It’s been a year since we found out and even after a plethora of testing, medication, and even surgery, the chances of me fathering my own children is near-zero.

I’ve been having an incredibly time coping with this reality and have found little support for other men similarly struggling with this issue.

Would really appreciate any guidance from those who’ve gone through this or know of others who have.
There's no other handmade marketplace with nearly the same buyer reach. I've been on GoImagine, MakerPlace, etc for months and they literally generate zero sales against Etsy's hundreds in the same time.
Depends on the company. A lot of companies only give a few weeks, if any, so you're scrambling for a new job in the middle of the holidays, when most companies aren't hiring anyway.

Netflix is different though. They tend to give generous severance packages.
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It would be to much to have an additional build step and Python dependency for a file that never changes, but not too much to add cog and python as dependencies and then slow down the build for all users?
> So there you go: CVS, Kroger, Rite Aid are clearly sending us to their competitors. In most places, it's easy to shift prescriptions to a competitor.

Where I am, every pharmacy is one of those three. There are no competitors to shift to.
> He wasn’t threatened harshly. [...] he was told the data would be deleted within seven days

How exactly is that not a harsh threat? Sounds like a harsh threat to me. They were nice before, he didn't comply, now they're jerks. But it remains just a threat unless they actually wipe the data. Which they won't, because he's surely downloading it right now while we yell about it on HN.
And the Linux mailing lists are a great example of what I mean - deciding what to do and why is a huge upfront discussion - one they do in the open. but it's a crap backwards looking method for a summary.

Most businesses hide the upfront discussion (or at least keep it to a smaller set of people who have often conflicting incentives for decisions as well (we tend to refer to this as politics but that's a bit like fish moaning about water.)

Anyway the point is that Linux shows how to make good decisions in the open (usually) - a process that I think most would 10x good decision making in most businesses but also lead to huge other sets of problems (worth it in my view but ...).

But Linux does not have a simple way of post-hoc justifying the decisions unless one reads the threads (which is where the recent post of open source journalist at lwn was a great idea)

But things like Jira, external ticket stores are good at providing a hierarchy to post hoc justify the decision - even if they are a terrible way to plan forwards.

So the ideal I guess is some kind of open architecture discussion upfront and some kind of extract and rebuild the rationale from commits (ie in house journalism?)
We may disagree politically, but I still want the best for you (although the debate lies in what that looks like). Take care, and I enjoyed the conversation regardless.
Thats not really what the article says.

>We’ve written a few times about independent journalist Tim Burke. Earlier this year, the FBI raided his house and seized all of his electronic devices after he had obtained and published some leaked video footage from Fox News.

It just says his electronic devices were seized. Not that backups were included here, though it is implied.

Event still the FBI raid occured in July [1]. Backups are N-1. So he was down to nill back in July and didnt seem to act from there.

Also based on the dates in the screenshots provided, he went into grace period on the Google Drive data ALSO in July..

So I say again....its his lifes work. Its invaluable to him but its just data to anyone else. Its incumbent on him to make sure this doesnt occur some how, some way. Even on backblaze that would be 20k/year. I would be having that on multiple disks at multiple sites that I control. But that is just me.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/journalist-tells-fbi-to-...
It can be difficult to tell what is drop shipped and what is still being handmade. I'm much more hesitant to use it than I was years ago.
I saw someone recently mention that book covers are really samey now (BIG BOLD title and author name) and that's because they need to stand out on phones for ebook stores, audiobook stores etc.

I remember book covers having so much more personality about 20 years ago.

Some examples off the top of my head:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91DEcBOO+UL._SL1500_.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Extremely_lou...
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/513YI87BvhL.jpg (although using Chip Kidd isn't really fair, it's just what popped in my head)
All that's changed is the year-over-year velocity has decreased

This is literally inflation – the rate of change of prices.
So I found 20tb drives as low as 270 (which is what I used for my own pricing out of a hypothetical build), but if you feel lucky you can get large capacity refurb drives for a lot less than brand new (I did this recently for scratch space on my NAS). A refurb 20tb can be had as low as 200, which gets you down to 4200.

But yes - I realized my mistake in tossing off that comment offhand.
I didn't read the paper, but are we sure that A (wealth/education) follows B (IQ) and not vice versa?
I’m an unqualified casual observer and working from memory, but I seem to remember capacity and throughput promises related to the “Starlink 2.0” satellites, which Mr. Musk claims are “an order of magnitude better” than the current birds on unspecified measures [0], and without which Starlink couldn’t credibly deliver the promised service to the promised number of households in the promised time to earn the subsidy [1].

The new satellite designs got a bit mired in regulatory complications until December of 2022, but it turned out to be moot since they’re too big and heavy to get up to orbit without Starship’s lift capacity and Starship isn’t there yet (and might not be within the period the subsidy contemplated). After the decision to cancel the subsidy (which is on appeal here) was taken back in 2022, Starlink seem to have rejiggered the 2.0 satellites into a “2.0-mini” configuration suitable for launch via Falcon 9 [2].

Apparently they would like for the FCC to reconsider the subsidy decision in light of them engineering around the Starship dependency?

[0] https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/spacex-starshi...

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/starlinks-current-pro...

[2] https://starlinkinsider.com/starlink-gen2-satellites/
There is a point in the company size (in some metric) vs. job responsibility curve where you can successfully make contract changes, within reason. One thing you should absolutely consider is pushing for a specific severance clause.

This serves two purposes, an indication of their seriousness about your position, and some peace of mind (e.g. have 6/12 months or whatever in your pocket).

That being said, there are scenarios where you won't see a penny of it.

Also, depending on your jurisdiction and job tenure, you may have a very viable claim for more severance. Nobody is likely to offer you more than statutory (or whatever is in your contract) without asking, but it may be worth paying a lawyer hour or so to find out properly.
Checking the article again it might have been one, but not one she was capable of taking at the time.

"Back – or forward – to 2012, and as my world shrank into a tiny flat, as friends fell away and I started to isolate myself from my family in shame and self-loathing and depression"
Some irony there...
(And I guess that mindset infected the UK as well. Perhaps through 5G?)
I know it's just an anecdote, but my biggest problem with Google's Bard/Gemini is that the moment I tried to ask a question about something - I started getting ads all over the internet and social media related to that.

Doing this with ChatGPT 4.0 for months and months did not cause this type of behavior.
You do understand that "Starship" is the literal name of a prototype space craft that is currently in development, but has not yet made a successful launch to orbit, rather than just a generic term, which may include the earlier, well-proven Falcon 9, right?

SpaceX themselves have said that the future of their satellite internet business essentially depends on being able to put up a bigger model to replace the current ones, so much bigger that they can't feasibly use their existing, well-proven rockets to launch them.
Machines and free energy (solar, for example) make free meals possible.

Maybe if we can reduce the need for profit we also reduce the need for fertilizers, maybe the relation between fertilizers used and crop productivity is not linear (-20% productivity but -40% fertilizers?). Food processing won't be necessary: why have a factory for chips? or for hummus? _Most_ people can cook.

The thing is, contrary to other things, like fusion, this is possible. Now more so than ever; we have everything we need to start a food UBI.

The rest are just accounting details, like how less rich the 1% should be to fund all this.
There's a term for that: linguistic skeuomorph. With a stylus on a tablet was how the ancient Romans and Sumerians wrote. That imagery and history is evoked when those words are used to refer to portable computers. They were chosen by analogy with historical understanding. It's like when you pattern the plastic tiles to make the floor look stone or wood. There are iconographic skeuomorphs too, like when someone born in the 21st century taps a floppy disk icon on their computer to copy data, when they have never seen a physical floppy disk.
I have experienced intermittent performance with the web interface.

I am really curious about the object detection performance so I’ll be rerunning that test regularly.
I might be missing it but I can't find where it says how the data was generated, it mostly refers back to the previous paper which started they used 3.5

I'd not be too surprised but I can't find anything in the technical report paper saying they're using 4 specifically.
Inflation is trending down, the entire mandate of the Fed is to achieve maximum employment and keep prices stable. There's also some data coming out that a lot of the inflation wasn't real, and corporations were using it as a cover to price gouge.
I.e. "Guilty until proven innocent" in the eyes of the enforcement branch.

You're a guilty criminal, so why wouldn't they trash your stuff just for being who you are?

And who is with them who's going to tell them not to do that?

It's also especially ridiculous behavior in the context of CFAA raids (compared to drug or armed robbery), where the most lethal thing on the premises is likely to be old pizza.
And...

DISSENTING STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER NATHAN SIMINGTON

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf
My reference point is electric cars. They were a complete non-starter, all but physically impossible because the energy density of batteries was so incredibly much lower than that of gas.

Then batteries got better, and hybrids came out that had dramatically better mileage than ICE cars. But they were expensive, and looked weird, and electric cars still weren't possible.

Then electric cars came out that were expensive, and low range, but pretty viable for city driving. But the range would never match ICE cars, and they'd always be to expensive.

We're now at a point where the infrastructure and economics hasn't caught up, and the range is still arguably a little low for super long road trips, but once we get working fast chargers saturating most transit corridors, and once we get cheaper, smaller cars offered, we'll be pretty much there.

From "The physics really just don't seem to add up" to "Well they're a little pricey" in, what, thirty years?
Wow, that culture page reads like something from Black Mirror. But I guess I'd also endure a lot of stuff for a year of outrageous salary, then peace out to a beach somewhere.
thats a big leap backwards. from minimum quarter million to minimum wage?
Yes, I did. Never exceeded 40k trivial queries per second. That was my last day with Go lang. Did not analyze what amounted to such bad perf, I entirely lost interest with the language. Later I learnt the way of Go's date formatting and then I put it in the same drawer as INTERCAL or Brainf*ck.
Well, then YOU are stuck (although Amazon mail order might help you). The rest of us will avoid these 3. That's fine.

It's about adding pressure - since no matter what no pharmacy will be completely immune to a cop "leaning over the counter". And pharmacies are only a small part of the problem.
free speech in the USA prevents this. What do you define as "ad". Can I talk to the person behind me in line at starbucks and tell them how I feel about the new iphone? Am I advertising to them? What if I work for apple? Can I wear a tshirt that says "iphone are great!" Ban that??
Probably two or three key places:

- They have nearly 3000 employees, which seems like way too many

- Marketing and ads to increase reach and presence

- Acquisitions (h/t to ojbyrne in this thread)

Remember Uber was losing $2 billion a quarter, much of it going to pay for those reasons. Also I'm not sure how stock buybacks are accounted for, but Etsy did $290M in September according to this one chart:

https://ycharts.com/companies/ETSY/stock_buyback
you can generate serviceAccounts in google cloud that act as clients for your google workspace with no additional cost. It's a neat hidden trick to circumvent the google quotas, but you need to write your own clients/wrappers to utilize that properly.
If you can query for the flashcards once and save it on device, that would cut down your reads quite a bit and make your app work offline.
Company "families" can be cut at any moment in a state with at will employment also (and they absolutely will lay you off too). They just gaslight you into thinking it won't happen so that you'll stay loyal as long as they do want you to stay.
https://code-cwa.org/

https://code-cwa.org/organize
If we're gonna have a curious conversation I must say that I don't understand the distinction between civlians and non-civilians (combatants?).

Isn't the whole point of war to kill the enemy's civilians and destroy their infrastructure, so that their nation can't support a standing army to defend whatever natural resources the attacker wants in the first place?

I wonder if there is any example from history, modern and not, where an invading army simply disabled the inveded nation's standing army and then just ... turned around left.

Or if there is any example where a nation was occupied and the civilian population did _not_ take arms, meaning that at least some of the civilians turned into combatants.

In the end, I don't get the logic of giving different status to civilians and combatants, in war. If it's illegal to kill enemy civilians, then it should be illegal to kill enemy combatants, too. After all, why should we value the combatants' lives less?

Of course, making it illegal to kill enemy combatants would effectively make war illegal. Well, yes. I can't see how war can still be legal in the current stage of our civilisation. I don't understand how we can still accept that some of us will kill others, destroy their homes and take their stuff. I don't understand how that can be seen as ethical, let alone legal.

"Dispense with the war, learn from the past" - Sodom, Ausgebombt.
Offering it as an option at the customer's expense seems like a fair way of avoiding burning a user.
False dichotomy. The alternative is to have a cheap popular bikeshare system supported by taxes.

[Edit to reply to okr, because I'm rate-limited:

Well, then, make the users of the bikes pay the full cost of the bike service.

As it is, you're pushing ads in everyone's face, whether or not they use the bike. Also no thanks.]
Sitting here in Michigan I still see auto company software positions sometimes that are mid/late career positions and pay under 100k. The legacy auto industry really doesn't get it. And now GM is forcing RTO, so I expect they'll lose more talent and have a harder time attracting engineers.
There's a lot of software, but their business is making and selling hardware. That almost always leads to the business viewing software as an afterthought and a cost center. Embedded is absolutely rife with this and the quality is often awful as a result (yes, even in safety critical applications)
Still harms the employee.

Preparation isn’t free, and even if you’re prepared, you’re still harmed. This isn’t some moral lesson on independence and discipline. Companies don’t need any single employee as much as that employee needs their job.
The unwritten social contract is with shareholders. A layoff announcement is like a Christmas gift in a financial system that rewards workforce cuts.
> But I cannot think of a single time I have ever made any purchase based on any billboard. I would love if more municipalities clamped down on these.

In California the billboards are now predominantly cannabis and casinos.
Well - I may be biased, but I've been seeing a lot of claims from Republicans lately which do not closely match reality.

Until there's actual evidence, I would be inclined to dismiss them.
I mean this appears to be a similar model as a utility. Right? Basically a legal monopoly with a set of restrictions. I don't see how it's really a bad thing.
'The Road to Wigan Pier' and 'Down and Out in Paris and London' (also by Orwell) are the starkest accounts of poverty and what it does to you I have ever read.
Advertising isn't a zero sum game because not all ad dollars are spent equally. Two companies can spend $5M each and get different results. One main variable is, to what degree do their ads exploit and abuse human neurology? Advertising is a hostile action. It's parasitic. Almost all forms of advertising ought to be illegal in a reasonable society.
Privacy and smartphones are mutually exclusive depending on what your threat profile is.

If your OS isn’t collecting telemetry, your ISP probably is. If somehow both of those aren’t, most phones modems have so many vulnerabilities in them a bad actor can exploit the RTOS and your application processor will never be the wiser.

TL;DR modern smartphones are the devil.

Source: been doing this type of work on/off for about 10 years.
Wait, so Google lied about selling an unlimited storage plan and the response is to punish a person for believing them? Sounds to me like the wrong party is being punished here.

Trust in Google might be near zero on HN these days but they still have a pretty good reputation with the general public. Expecting every non-technical user to see through the BS feels pretty wrong to me. I mean, what's the point of consumer protection laws if they don't push companies to be honest?
If you think of the current Israel occupation as the latest colonizer in a long line of colonizers throughout the history of Palestine, then the victimhood makes perfect sense. Colonized people often adopt the religion and sometimes even the language of their colonizers. As an example, the Irish adopted the language of the English during their colonization, and the Albanians adopted Islam when they were colonized by the Ottomans. Likewise the Palestinians adopted both the language and (mostly) the religion of the Arabs when they colonized Palestine in 637.

Now when Israel is their colonizer, things are a bit different. Not only has Israel imposed a new language, culture and religion onto their lands, but they have also severely displaced them. No colonizer has done that to the Palestinians in the past, not even the British.
GUI for a Vocal Remover That Uses Deep Neural Networks