skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the court docs:

> As alleged, Brody left a few "taunts" in the code that he unleashed on FRB. In particular, he is alleged to have used the word "grok," which the government explains is a misspelling of "grock," which, in turn, means to understand.
I agree that some is inevitable, but as that amount increases it will provide a drag in what the organization is able to accomplish. This becomes even worse as an organization is remote locally and globally spread out.
But we do not plan on rewriting SQLite, that much I can say :)

(My reading is that the GP points to the exemplary achievement that SQLite has reached a close to (security) bugfree, at what I consider a nearly superhuman effort)
Suicide rates are a good place to start. Overall the EU's suicide rate is 10.25/100k vs 14.04/100k in the US, and it looks like many places in the Midwest are doing worse than the US average.

[1] US suicide rates https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/...

[2] EU suicide rates https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/e...
Reminds me of the furry who got fired from a company and used a backdoor into their web server to tamper with their site after the fact. Only he knew how the server actually worked because it was a custom server whose scripting language was the FurryMUCK extension language. He blogged about this casually on his LiveJournal like it was no big d. Very Dennis Nedry of him. Few years later he was involved in the Ginko Financial scam on Second Life.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.
I assume leadership at other publications will learn from this -- learn that you should take greater care not to get caught publishing AI articles.
Serious competition in the small model space recently. The main goal of models this small is to be deployed locally to phone/laptop (consumer electronics soon maybe?) I wonder if this will lead to a new generation of apps/UI, if it already has not.

Edit: typo
Can't access the model link due to sone MS auth issue. Does anyone know how large (in GB) the model is? Can it be run locally or is it azure-only?
That confused me as well, I never made the connection to 0 and 1 until someone told me
I really admire the dedication and motivation to be able to work on such incredibly boring things (for me).
I feel this somewhat glosses over the unsolved challenge of how to land a Saturn V rocket.
We should probably add a (2008) to the submission title on this.
I agree that I/O has always been confusing and non-intuitive. O stands for "On"? For "Off"? I means eyes-shut? O means eyes open?

The new symbols aren't any better but the UX of "push this button to turn on or off" combined with obvious lights/etc when something is on has mostly made the semantic meaning of the symbols obsolete to 99% of consumers.
Giving the load of bollocks teachers propagate themselves, I suspect the first problem after automated homework will be students calling out the BS. I recall the system really didn. T likd it.
Funny enough, if the state would offer internet service in my eastern european country, it will be expensive and shitty, while the private fiber offers are dirt cheap and compete with each other on price.

I didn't think the Romanian competition authorities can do a better job than the US ones.

[And they probably can't, see high natural gas and electricity prices.]
Well, you don't add 4s of latency for 4x encoding speed though. You add 4s of latency for very marginal quality/efficiency improvement and significant encoder simplification, because the baseline is current frame-parallel encoders, not sequential encoders.

Plus, computers aren't quad cores any more, people with powerful streaming rigs probably have 8 or 16 cores; and key frames aren't every second. Suddenly you're in this hellish world where you have to balance latency, CPU utilization and encoding efficiency. 16 cores at a not-so-great 8 seconds of extra latency means terrible efficiency with a key frame every 0.5 second. 16 cores at good efficiency (say, 4 seconds between key frames) means terrible 64 second of extra latency.
> Section 230 is the bill that makes it so you can't sue Internet services

Section 230 refers to “The Internet and other interactive computer services” in its findings and policy sections, and it applies its operatige provisions to “interactive computer services” broadly, not internet services narrowly.

> Neither of these services are technically "Internet" in the sense of forwarding IP packets

But they are interactice computer services.
In the US, the person who sold the car will go to jail as an accessory to murder .
I'm not even sure how to compare it fairly. For example, on the Super Nintendo you have to load 2 registers and then wait 8 cycles for the result. But of course those cycles could also be used for something different, if necessary.
Nice i can see the need for this.

> With the polling method, Bracket stores an encrypted copy of your data as an intermediate source of truth. We mostly do this to prevent infinite event loops, but it also helps with merge conflict resolution.

I see you have an on-prem version, but i am still not convinced why you need to store it? Can it not just be stored in an extra table at the client's side?
True - "wastes of designers' time / room in the instruction set / testing / etc." would have been a far better description.
They emphasize several times that “this was all before Bill Gates”.
honestly don’t get this take. it’s a perfectly catchy word, and i find most of doctorow’s writings on the subject of capitalism’s destruction of the internet to be pretty accurate.

what particular things about him are so unpalatable you would be willing to support anti-consumer practices (“turning evil”) to spite him? I assume you’re probably kidding for exaggeration, but still it’s not clear to me what is that offputting about him.
That’s the user name of the submitter.
But if you buy a 16oz box for $3 you actually get a pound of cereal for $3.

Compare:

"Up to 16oz for $3*"

There's a $0.75 fee to pay for the new box art, a $1 fee for renting the milk jug, you actually get 14oz of cereal if you eat during peak hours, and if you eat a second bowl on the same day they charge you for excessive usage.
Just have to keep it in emails and they will never know!
> very context-specific expertise you only get through experience.

When giving advice, I'm often tempted to point to a given situation, and to explain what rule of thumb I used to solve it.

But then I would see a junior programmer applying the rule of thumb in a completely different situation and I'd want to say, "No, that will end in tears!" And I realized that a lot of my rules of thumb were really dumb when taken out of context.

As far as I can tell, a huge part of expertise is having a large set of mappings like:

- In contexts like "C1", use rule of thumb "R1" or "R8".

It's very tempting to talk about R1, R2, etc. You can write blog posts like, "How R2 will transform your team!"

But a lot of real expertise comes from being able to say, "Oh, this is a combination of C7 and C78, so I should consider rules of thumb R7, R49 and R102. Ah, wait, no, R49 is just gross here."

So I've learned that, when mentoring, I need to spend a lot more time talking about the context before proposing any rules of thumb.
It’s a username
Fair point, didn't think it would matter so much. Can't edit it any more, otherwise I'd change it to add OpenAI to the title!
They could have adapted to the modern era instead of getting wiped out.
yeah for sure that is definitely an urgent pagerduty request I might have sent once or twice before: /!\ DO NOT CLONE/PULL, DISCONNECT YOUR LAPTOP FROM WIFI
I'd agree IF he didn't pretend the AI written articles were actually written by humans with fabricated biographies.
Section 230 needs to be gutted such that it separates transmission from content publication. The intention of section 230 is to isolate delivery mechanisms, for example ISPs and cell towers, such that they cannot become victims of torts for the content carried upon them, which remains necessary. Will separating transmission and content with regards to section 230 harm social media? Absolutely. I am not a huge fan of walled gardens or the preposterous legal shield provided to online content providers versus any other publisher. Commercial entities that proffer from walled gardens exist to subject their users as the product as opposed to proffering from their users' commercial desires.

But but but then social media would have to be moderated... It is already aggressively moderated, such as YouTube taking down terrorism violence videos or removing anti-vaccine content. So, that argument has largely evaporated already.
"Maybe"? I think it's pretty clear that's exactly it.

Capitalism demands constant growth. Any company will reach a point where they've achieved maximum market saturation, where anybody who would ever use your product is now using it. But profits must continue to go up! So you have to find ways to monetize. You either start inserting ads (and redesign the site to make sure you see the ads!), or start charging money. Often the second option involves making the default experience shitty while making the paid option equivalent to the previous standard.

Whatever the method, it doesn't matter. The line must go up, even as daily active users remains sideways or even down!
The universities were just being consistent - calls for genocide were supported before, and sure didn't result in congressional hearings, so why should it be different now?

Professor behind 'white genocide' tweet says he has university support - https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN14G1O9/
> Democracies are less likely to wage wars than autocratic regimes.

I think that is just selection bias because pretty much all the democracies were aligned for the last 50 years (see Cold War)

But Rome was a republic and Athens was a democracy and they were quite aggressive in pursuing wars.
> One example of tacit knowledge is knowing the Dell T420s Tower Servers have very poor cooling for the raid controllers and often, this can cook them over time, requiring replacement or, at least repasting the heatsink.

I don't even think that is tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge is how do you know when the edge of your chisel is too dull and need re-honing. (It feels off.) Or knowing how much weight transfer you need to safely navigate a given turn with a motorcycle.

Or to grab a more similar example: Tacit knowledge is looking at a computer case you have never seen before and thinking "that doesn't look like enough cooling, we should calculate and check".
You are so stuck in your bubble that can't even imagine that societies exist today without a massive homelessness problem. Societies that do not have a "supportive loving community" but that combine individual responsibility with strong social services.

> There is absolutely no logistical or material reason that we can’t do this

Yes there is. What you and other "progressives" fail to acknowledge is that for every well meaning supportive and loving member of society there are two people who will use them and their resources endlessly until they drop dead. If your plan is to wait until we change human nature - then good luck.

Want to see a preview? Socialize with families of alcoholics, drug addicts, psychopaths, etc. Look how their "loving and supportive" families are destroyed by one person who abuses them with no end in sight.

Stop fantasizing about changing human nature. The future where we all meditate in peace like that advanced society in Fantastic Planet won't happen any time soon. The more likely future is that we will completely stagnate and fail to resolve any societal issues because we treat people like they are lost babies that just need a supportive and loving community to be found.
That's what I would guess too. In general it is much, much harder to fire somebody in the EU than it is in most US states where you can fire for pretty much any reason as long as it's not for being a protected class.
Before we know it, even voice might be obsolete when we can just think :) But maybe at that point, even thinking becomes obsolete because the AI:s are doing all the thinking for us?!
> but it's not actually addictive

Youtube is definitely addictive to a large population of people. If you can live without it, the only thing we can infer is that it's not addictive to you.
Companies which sell though Amazon.
Amazon uses a smart strategy of erasing the individual seller identity. Even if you already bought some item from some seller and very happy with it, you rarely would get similar item from the same seller. You usually would just get some which is first in the search, i.e. the one which makes Amazon the most profit.

If company cares about paying workers enough, your item would be more expensive, but you are still "noname" for the buyer on amazon. And now amazon would push your listing away, because it is expensive. Besides, the client will buy the cheapest option in a lot of cases.

There are exceptions though, when you more or less know what you wanna buy and from which exact company. But if you shopping for something like "massage gun" an have nooooo idea which ones are good or bad, sustanable or not - here you probably get something from the first search page with 5 star review and reasonable price. Not something from a company which cares about longevity of the product or about their workers.

And amazon workers are not living the happiest of their lives to begin with, so probably people would not shop their if the care about sustainability. People care about cheap prices and fast delivery though.

Chick-Fil-A has a lot of control about their operation.
Sellers on Amazon have minimum control. It used to be that good price and good reviews would make your item easy to find, but now you also have to pay for it in more and more cases.
As someone who spent most of my life in Novosibirsk I was amused to see the Vector lab mentioned in this context. Some googling reveals that indeed there was an explosion in the facility in September 2019.

I still think that this theory is way too convoluted to be true (chinese secret police and stuff), but an entertaining read nevertheless. I wasn't aware of either the explosion or the covid leak allegations.
Anyone have a pointer to preferred solutions nowadays for extracting SMS/MMS?
> I live in the flyover states and this would NEVER play with our voter base

GP said they live in Arkansas.
Springer does sales all the time. I got the 3rd edition of Peter Corke's robotics book for 17 USD directly from springer earlier this year.

I also got Nathan Ida's book on Electromagnetic, hardcover, for ~40 USD direct from springer.
Canada uses WW2 housing program to boost home construction
US ISPs don't have computers and databases? :)
If it is genuinely too complex ISPs could always take the approach of making the advertised price tax/fee-inclusive, like T-Mobile did.
> the law is clear that downloading videos you do not have license to is illegal.

Is the law clear? I thought it was only illegal to upload. Don't people get in trouble with torrents only because BT clients upload while they download? Has something changed over the years?
It's totally legitimate to simultaneously hold that the real perpetrator is, er, the perpetrator, and that the victim could have done more to prevent the incident from happening.

Jail the guy, and let his story stand as a warning to implement proper IT and HR practices.
Much easier to do on the moon than on Earth though at least, right? No atmosphere, fraction of the gravity.
What ever protections the constitution may have provided in the past have been eroded away to nothing starting with the Massive Expansion of the federal government powers from the Wickard case, everything is down hill from that time period.

We no longer have a Government subservient to the people, we have a people subservient to an unelected bureaucracy.

Free Speech is the next target and it is well on it way to erroding that last freedom using code words of "mis Information", "Hate Speech", "Authoritative sources" and the like
This is the narrative that the “Opan”AI marketing team is trying to sell business people.

Why don’t you try to write some software using ChatGPT?

Its output varies between somewhat viable but not very good suggestions and complete garbage.

Can you tell the difference? Faster than writing the code yourself? Can you spot the subtle bugs?

In my experience it’s a waste of time except for the cliches.

It is a autocompletion machine for cliches. All hallucinated, because it has zero relationship to reality, just statistical one to bodies of text.
I used to be so pleased with CenturyLink myself. symmetric 1Gbps as well, and it was dreamy.

Then I began to exhibit packet loss. For gaming/discord, it's a death knell. I isolated the source of packet loss to be within the CenturyLink network, basically between me and the first traceroute hop. (Also retroactively verified by switching ISPs)

CenturyLink as an _offering_ is great, but their company operations and customer support is... kafkaesque and absurd. They are beyond incompetent and seem to have neither the capacity nor desire to fix any real problems.

When talking with some of the technicians and support people, the insight into their world was sad and disappointing. What a ramshackle company.

I really hope nothing ever goes wrong in your network segment :)
Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist
In the US, health insurers can only price based on age, location, and tobacco use. Setting health insurance premiums or denying coverage based on any health-related factors has been illegal for over a decade, and changing that would be totally unviable politically.

However, it's a significant risk for other types of insurance including life, disability, and long term care.
Yeah exactly. One-way data syncing is a big market, and these companies have plenty of use cases to tackle, which is why I think two-way syncing has not been a priority for them.

That’s one reason why people trying to stand up two-way syncs have been stuck with dated tech (Heroku Connect) or have had to build in-house.
We're not talking about the NSA here. We're talking about copyright trolls trying to pick up low-hanging fruit with a dragnet of lawsuit threats. If they can't pick up your information from subpoenaing the ISP that manages the offending IP, then I doubt they'd go to further effort to hunt you down.
Why do you consider such regulation to be heavy handed? They have definitively proven that they are happy to profit by harming others.
The only thing Cox gets right here is that they are reliable. I'm still paying an exorbitant monthly fee with a crazy low data cap, but the alternative here is Frontier; everyone I know with that experiences at least one outage a month during business hours.
You are not a shopkeeper being extorted for protection money, you are a (unwelcome) shop customer demanding things you don't want to pay for while being free to go to another place.
I interviewed for a security position there a few years ago, but they cut the role before the interview process was over. Kind of feels like they didn't prioritize security - you reap what you sow.
I did a double take as well - what an excellent username.
You can skip past those pretty easily. I let them play for creators I actually like, who also tend to pick less scummy sponsored ads. Some of them even make the sponsored content really funny or personal to them.

You'll find the same quality spectrum. At least I know that the creator is seeing more of the ad dollars.
The Climate Summit Starts to Crack a Tough Nut: Emissions from Food
The encoder has a lot of freedom in how it arrives at the encoded data.
Nobody is excusing him but it’s possible for multiple people to make very bad decisions as part of the same problem. In this case, the bank has almost certainly claimed to have security policies in place which would have prevented any of the damages in question. I don’t even work in banking but “how do you deactivate accounts when someone leaves?” is in every single system’s approval process and ongoing audits.

Think of it as if he had stolen money from them after being fired: there’s no question that the culpability would be his but also regulators and insurance would descend on the bank’s management asking why they lacked such basic internal controls for such very well-known risks. Most places will remove all forms of access as soon as the decision is made to fire someone because it’s the most likely time to have anything from theft to, in the US, a workplace shooting.
Please note how you dismiss apps requiring Google Play services as "silly," when most people who use those services use them as part of the hardware root of trust programs for work apps, or other device attestation for banking apps. Putting demeaning adjectives in front of the things you're arguing against isn't a compelling argument, I think you'll find, and "life without" banking and work apps leads to a lower quality of life for a lot of people.
Nice. The two-way syncs are where all the complexity lies, and why people end up paying the big bucks to like Mulesoft.
"Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming"
Tom Wildenham (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3loq22TxSc

Really fun, kinda blew my mind. Guy got a job at Microsoft shortly after giving this talk.
I use ffmpeg all the time, so this change is much appreciated. Well not really that often, but when I do encode video/audio it's generally with ffmpeg.
Hyundai and Kia unveil new tire with retractable "snow chains"
I don't. I mean I do a bit, but the main reason I find it unsurprising and actually logical is that it is easier to talk about stuff we do not know about in terms of things we already do.

A lot of us here have more experience in working or introducing microservices that shaping drug abuse policy. I would be surprised if there was one politician here who actually was responsible for dealing with the problem himself/herself.
> blocked other municipalities from implementing similar municipal fiber ISPs — and prevents EPB from offering fiber to customers outside of their electricity-supplying jurisdiction.

much freedom
UK climate minister makes 6,824 mile round trip for Rwanda vote
US states typically can organize their municipalities, school districts, fire departments, public power agencies, etc. however they want.

If the state constitution doesn’t say otherwise, the legislature can just pass a law saying municipalities can’t get into the internet business and that’s that. This comes up a lot with liberal cities in conservative states.
Gladly I never used any of these services, not just knowing my ancestors origins will add zero value to my life, but also I don’t trust any cloud services to store my passwords or notes, let alone a biometric I will never be able to change, alive or not.
Cool, this one is real 3D, looks like. Ever heard about any content made in this format? VR games are, well, games - we know they can do actual 3D just fine
>Starship heat shield isn't ablative

Yes, it is. There is no such thing as a non-ablative reentry vehicle. The tiles are effectively no different than what was used on the shuttle.

>There are literally wings on the ship.

Starship has no meaningful aerodynamic control beyond what is required to perform the flip. It has no ailerons or elevators. It falls to the earth in a completely ballistic trajectory.
It could go either way. Some places will like and promote one to do different/more interesting things. Other places will eliminate the position with k, thx, bye! Moreover usually people have only so much energy to be always concerned with job / career growth/ changes etc. They are fine their little pieces of knowledge that make them useful at work in a unique way.
- Download mp3

- Play on VLC.

Not complicated.
Jobs did have a penchant for making a live demo feel natural. With anyone else, it just doesn't feel the same. I much prefer the pre-recorded videos now.