skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s completely illegal but the people who do it are conservative white men, so the police almost universally look the other way (it’s extremely common to see the trucks equipped with this also have blue lives matter or fraternal order of police stickers, those thin blue line flags the fascists like, etc.). You can see them intentionally blast cyclists, pedestrians, Prius drivers, etc. so it really should be treated as assault since there’s both premeditation and deliberate targeting.

What really needs to happen is nailing the shops which do these modifications. Individual drivers are hard to track down but if it involved your business going bankrupt they’d decide it’s not worth it very quickly.
The banner in your readme says excalidraw but links to your site.
It’s more about the convenience features and melding of the two methods not so much that the underlying API prevents them from working together. Vue router doesn’t have a mixed mode for instance
I think R has ALTREP to support this. It’s on the C API side and your code is pure R, but I there may be online packages which let you create vectors where some of the contents are stored on-disk.
It's been subject to many academical research projects[1], I lost count now. It even made it into books[2][3]. We used to provide raw text dumps to researchers, or they would crawl the site themselves. One interesting paper claimed that Eksi Sozluk users were able to detect earthquakes very early and reliably[4]. Internet Archive also hangs around the site, archiving here and there. But a proper and full archive should be preserved, I agree.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?lr=lang_en&q=eksi+sozluk&...

[2] https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Global-...

[3] https://www.twitterandteargas.org/

[4] https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/4/69/2021/
one reason this happens is Executive A needs to justify a non-obvious decision to other executives (or perhaps it's not in their interests) so A dresses up the decision in status credentials and money to get the others will respect it. A can shift culpability off themselves in this way as well.
Specifically for A/B or A/B/N testing, you can use a beta-bernoulli bandits, which give you confidence about which experience is best and will converge to an optimal experience faster than your standard hypothesis test. Challenges are that you have to frequently recompute which experience is best and thus, dynamically reallocate your traffic. They also only works on a single metric, so if your overall evaluation criterion isn’t just something like “clickthrough rate”, this type of testing becomes more difficult (if anyone else knows how multiple competing metrics are optimized with bandits, feel free to chime in).
So they were fined, but there wasn't any change of leadership as part of the terms nor some other way of discouraging similar behaviour from others? That's not good enough. :(
I just thought of something else.

Apple has a business chat function in iMessage where you can chat with customer service at various companies via iMessage.

Presumably the businesses pay for this functionality? If so, someone using Beeper mini to contact a company is making Apple money.
Disgusting is a word, but I'm guessing you'd say the same about most unsupported feature code (aka unsafe). You can make code like this reliable in the ways it needs to be while still being "unsafe". That's kind of table stakes when you start dabbling in unsupported things.
The cost of Tesla updates to 120k cars or 2 million cars are essentially the same - zero dollars.
I appreciate that link. It seems subsequent research did not contradict it. I am open to changing my mind, but in the section about perception, it lists numerous studies that found differences between populations. It does not appear the differences have been definitively explained. I’m not sure how you concluded that either the research or my point were contradicted, but again, I’m open to the being wrong. I often am.
Some times it blows my mind to discover that some bleeding obvious things arent well established. Next thing you're gonna discover that kids with funnier parents tell more jokes, or that kids with angrier parents shout more.
I expected to find that this was just another VC funded “steal users until the inevitable mass enshitification” and I was unable to find anything pointing to this.

Colour me surprised. Going to definitely check it out.
Could you elaborate on "He also followed up with attacks on the Superior Electoral Court (TSE)"? What form did these "attacks" take - a machete, or written statements?

> My question is, is this censorship or is this an investigation?

Those are not mutually exclusive. In fact, censoring someone under investigation is the most pernicious censorship of all - it's scary enough to be targeted by the vast resources of the State with intent to imprison you, but then silencing you so you can't tell your side of the story, try to get public support (or legal aid/funding), or alert the public to any injustice or corruption in your prosecution, makes it outright tyrannical.
> I've seen this countless times both in both Tech and the NGO world - some roadmap is running pretty good, managers then hire a bunch of "cool looking people that come in with a big old white board to make a cool workshop" then follow the process for a short amount of time, giving extremely shitty advice because they haven't been involved in the process at all and are going to leave soon without delivering anything.

Management consulting is a specific subset of consulting, and while it does sometimes provide no value or net negative value, even when it seems to provide little to no value from the perspective of other employees, they often just aren't in a context where they could see that value.
Here's a recent webinar from PyMC Labs' Max Kochurov (with some slides and code too):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QllfKQH-yQ4
This is going to be great for accessibility! Imagine being blind and loading up a video game and using this to figure out what's around, having everything described locally. I mean, um, well that's what I'd use it for anyway. But knowing Apple, we won't be able to prompt the LLM directly so that probably won't happen until 5 years from now.
It’s pretty hard to break something that was already broken. But I’m guessing you have an ideological point to make?
Definitely not just a language for kids - When I worked for the Navy in the early 90s, they were still using software written in Rocky Mountain BASIC on all the submarines in the fleet.
Bayes theorem is fairly elementary probability. It isn’t the part that is questioned in Bayesian statistics. Someone disagreeing with Bayes theorem would be like disagreeing with addition.

The controversial part is the methodology for statistical analysis built on top of it (e.g., you need a prior but where did that come from?)
It's a shame that the economics don't quite work out.

Things like milling machines are expensive, and spend 99%+ of hours unused in home shops.

On the flipside, accountability and safety are expensive in shared spaces.

The best version of this that I've usually seen is where 10 people who want to work on cars rent a shared space and provide shared tooling.

It would be neat to see votech programs/community colleges fulfill some of this role, particularly as a "meeting space for makers."
Most impressive part:

> Our estimated annual budget is $752.36 and we have spent $174.49.
This

They ceded the data center environment years ago.
Totally agree.

I've found they're great things when they're run like studios, with one or a handful of principles at the top that are there for the long haul and then folks that come in and out as needed and available working for them. This is what I've modeled my product design consultancy around. Then there are the other ones that are often owned by private equity folks, or run by manager types that can't do the work themselves. These in my experience are not built around passion for the craft like the first bucket. These usually end up being sweatshops.

My advice- hire a firm that you know the owner(s), and they're people, not a board. It's the same for Vets, doctors offices, hardware stores, etc.
It's absolutely purely a monetary choice. Rumble isn't any more principled than any other free speech platform, they still moderate plenty of stuff that they find disagreeable.

It's a very American sense of "free speech" that allows for Nazis and forbids video that contains any topless people. (Which, if you've been to many parts of the world, is not at all obscene.)

They also ban this:

> You may not post or transmit any messages pertaining to charity requests, petitions for signatures, requesting donations, relating to pyramid schemes, or pertaining to the manipulation of the Rumble Service.

"Hey, can you sign my petition" sure seems like a cornerstone of free speech... surprised to see it considered against the rules by a supposed "principled" company.
There is nothing truly new in this world. It goes in spiral and that will be the next loop on upper level. Think of it, you can't train in the latest news in LLM. Once you finally understand it you need a solution. ChatGPT is using Bing. It's a clear separation, right? Is it the best possible solution? Obviously not. What is better.. it's a research area right now.
Sorry I shouldn't have come through as "obsidian is worse", that's not the intent, my point was mostly about "obsidian does everything because it has plugins".

I do have a reason for avoiding obsidian, which is the one I outlined, but your case is totally legit AND a good reason for choosing obsidian over logseq.

The outline vs non-outline is really the big difference between the two. I'm not sure if it's possible to have both approaches in a single editor given the huge difference in behavior
This is true, but it is the most efficient way that doesn’t induce complexity like having to serialize every option chosen to the backend immediately. Knowing we can re-create everything in first request is much more simple than other methods and doesn’t require the end user to get a special link generated for sharing they can just share straight for the URL bar.
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Mainly in the first year, to be fair. My children would only sleep with active assistance (stroller, in my arms as I walk around) so I spent many hours walking and had an e-reader with me for that.

Now at 2 and 4 I have the same experience ad you. I hear it gets better!
> Are they training it on Linux

Yes. Apple has always run their servers on Linux e.g. App Store, iTunes.

And training isn't right now an end user activity but something reserved for server farms.
I’ll take the other side on this. OP said “surest” which you seem to interpret as “certain.”

Of course not _all_ beautiful artifacts persist - no one takes that position. But it is reasonable to say that most artifacts which receive attention today are just the artifacts which were formed with special care and whose beauty was preserved, probably by accident, for us.
Can you navigate between tables using foreign keys?
I cannot stress enough that I think your second bullet is missing the point by a country mile. The Substack post is specifically talking about Nazi viewpoints, not "bad" viewpoints for some shifting definition of bad. And because we're talking about Nazi views, I think your first bullet then falls apart, too. There's no new scrutiny required for Nazi views because we've already done that work.

Additionally, Substack is allowing the monetization of (and thus profiting from) Nazi viewpoints. That's more than "shining a light on it".
"... who crawl the web using the Firefox extension and command line script"

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/mwmbl-web-cra...

https://github.com/mwmbl/crawler-script
Why would I hate the first programming language I learned?

What I hate is the number of tools since created to enable endless tech debt and horrible engineering practices so as to increase the hiring pool of fungible coding talent.

Who needed nice things anyway when we have 280 characters and inspiring influencers?
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Of course you have a say. Many policies are made above the municipal level, and California is a good example of a place where people eventually got tired of not having a say in zoning decisions of neighboring municipalities and did something about it.

And beyond a direct say any person of course can be an advocate for anything. And should be, if it affects their society.

Not sure you meant to make the exact opposite point of the one you stated, but convincing people they don't have a say, when in fact they do, is a pretty longstanding trick of the ruling class, so perhaps you've been convinced as well.

Or are part of the ruling class.
Looks like it might benefit from having dynamic column widths determined by the content. Lots of wasted space in the IDs.
zstd -19 compresses the text of the song to 309 bytes.

To be a fair comparison, though, you'd have to write zstd -d in 604 bytes. I suppose to be REALLY fair, though, you have to count the bytes of code in the compiler itself. A convenient enough implementation of compression could index into the C compiler binary to find the bytes it needs. (For example, my GCC contains "first", "second", and "third" in the binary, which a sufficiently clever implementation could make use of. "Exit on the first error occurred.", "Append a second underscore if the name already contains an underscore.", "Warn about suspicious calls to memset where the third argument is constant literal zero and the second is not.", etc. I didn't check but I doubt turtle doves or maids-a-milking come up that often in the description of warning flags.)
Yes. You make a good point. I would fully support a system that account for diversity of thought directly. That’s hard to do. Your suggestion of means testing applicants is interesting. Do you have others?
You don’t even need to use iMessage. You can fully disable it.
fnchart is basically: Stock Chart + Reddit == facts + context.

We then build on top of that a whole new way to navigate historical posts, so that you can actually look and interact with a stock chart by pulling up news & discussion from any time in the history of the stock.

Here's a scenario:
You're interested in stock AAA, but you notice on the chart that it fell 30% 2 years ago, and hasn't begun recovering yet. But today you read that they are embarking on a big turn around plan. So you click on the time period on the chart 2 years ago to find out what the cause of the drop was.

You find out it was a critical supplier that went bankrupt, and they have only now found a replacement.

Now you can decide whether to buy their stock or not, and you are informed about the context.
> what works for America doesn’t work elsewhere

Free speech is the only exception. Bad ideas can be rooted out with good ideas. Banning opinions have never worked ever and it will never work. It is a pure waste of everything.
I just don't understand what barrier you are talking about. I just checked, it doesn't even whine at you when you use it, the help just notes that you should cite it if you publish a paper where you used it. And... anyone publishing papers knows about citation requirements lol. Anyone else can ignore it. What is this barrier?
VW group includes Audi, Skoda, Seat, Porsche, Bentley, Seat and others
I am curious as to how a court in Brazil can require a company that appears to be based in Canada and the USA to block access. If countries are allowed to assert extraterritorial jurisdiction, anyone running a website might need to know and obey the laws of nearly 200 countries.

Some of those laws prohibit criticism of their respective governments, sex education, or pornography (including things most people in the US or EU would not consider pornographic).
It has always been x86 Linux going back to the NeXT days.

Today they have large scale Kubernetes ands some legacy Mesos clusters.
GOTO has its uses here and there, even in C/C++. It's just sometimes simpler than enabling exceptions or overthinking the indentation to annihilate the readability of code. But it's a horrible generic control structure and that's all anyone notices.
I was taught to use the null hypothesis in a US high school science lesson on the scientific method in the 90s. It never clicked to me “why” until your explanation. Funny how that stuff works.
A statistically significant result without something like a Hedges G (or Cohens D if comparing means) measure would be called out by even a moderately attentive reviewer as a matter of course (especially if small sample sizes are involved), and many reputable journals actually require effect sizes to be stated, so you run the risk of being desk rejected for leaving it out.
Management consulting is very much so the blind leading the blind. I would consider it to be a pretty bearish signal for management to be hiring consultants for leadership guidance. Hiring contractors or agencies to deliver actual work is a different matter altogether though. When it costs well over six figures to hire a professional full-time, and you have less than full-time year-round needs, then the economics of contracting may be attractive for both parties.
Lying enough to get people excited to fund you, but not quite enough to catch a fraud charge.
The GP didn't mention "white trash." Your comment, while sensitive and reasonable, is talking past them.

I've spent a decent amount of time in and around small towns, and I've encountered my fair share of coal rollers (including people who demonstrated visible glee at seeing a target on a bicycle). Those people do make the kind of purchasing decisions that are aligned with this corporate behavior; companies are often incentivized to target their most "extreme" purchasing base, knowing that more moderate consumers (like yourself) will shrug either way.
Both 2022 and 2023 were after the dieselgate rulings, so how are those changes relevant?

EDIT: I wrote this comment before parent's ninja edit.
China's New Gaming Regulations Prompt Market Value Loss for Tencent and NetEase
To be fair, a judge with $100k+ of diesel powered RV isn’t white trash.

That’s just Clarence Thomas.
People say, "I hate <minority>" in America all the time? I can't count how many times I've heard I hate the gays or I hate the Blacks/Indians/Mexicans or I hate women.

It's truly staggering how common it is here.
>and I have 40 years left of spending to do in my life.

Given the amount of unnecessary shite in the air, I'll guess you're about 11 years old and not expecting things to improve much.
It reads like wishful thinking, or an upper bound of what could happen in the best-case scenario.
BASIC is what got me into programming, so there is that.
Absolutely!

The hardware, that is.

With software, their Come to Jesus moment is still in the future.

(To me, Swift is sort of the Jony correlate on the software side. Doesn't fit perfectly, of course, but very similar "we are perfect who cares about evidence la la la I can't hear you" vibes and results)
I found that article to be great. The author does a good job of trying to understand what was going on in the 70's with programming languages. I have a small issue with their use of "Fortran 70" rather than Fortran IV (or Fortran 4 as it was called) which was far and away more used, especially in university/scientific contexts.

As I've told unbelieving students that I learned to program using a Teletype and line numbers were really really useful. Later I actually used an "editor" on a DEC Writer and it was even more convoluted. (it would print the line you were editing, down arrow would move to the next line, up arrow to the previous line, right arrow would print out the current line character by character and if you typed other characters they would either be inserted or replace characters depending on the mode.)

I think a case insensitive python with group delimiters rather than using indentation for groups and a line terminator character would be a good replacement. The goal is to minimize the number of new things you have to learn to get going. Concepts like grouping and individual statements seem to "stick" better with students when they can easily express that with characters in the code. (my experience teaching people to program YMMV of course).
Yup. It was a very old computer for the time. You should've seen our cars.
Eh no, 7B Mistral / Deepseek would certainly almost already be able to function as a super Siri, but probably something closer to PHI-2 + the new MLX apple optimisations. Have you tried those? https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1735355067673526360

If trained on an iPhone API + documentation and given a little web access it would blow absolutely everything out of the water.

If they can already create -basic- Python/Swift/JS/rust apps that sets timers, save things, create lists, how's that too dumb for being a Siri replacement? They just have to give it access to an iPhone/Web Api like ChatGPT's code analysis tool.

So if you ask it "hey siri do this, this and this", it will create a script, then run it on the internal API, or fetch an article then work on that etc.

I know it's still logically "dumb" but i'm not trying to play game theoretical scenarios with my phone or do logic tests or advanced math (yet).
That is interesting. I imagine the veins forming along a fault makes them much more difficult to safely mine
Our ElasticSearch cluster was running out of RAM. We were doing everything in 32-bit mode, for performance (we couldn’t do Compressed OOPs for some reason) so each node could handle, effectively, 4GiB of data. And we didn’t have the budget for a new machine.

But I did notice that the most-recently-added node had 16GiB of physical RAM, for some reason. So I added a hypervisor and spawned two more VMs inside of it, each running ElasticSearch as well, thus increasing our cluster capacity by more than one year of growth!
Or overindexing on biased data points might cause biased conclusions, without considering standard variation.

Lots of people use it without any issues -- if something isn't truly a dealbreaker, the "I won't bother" crowd tends to become a minority. The Law of Large Numbers will work as expected.
Same, 95% of my edits are POI data in the past two years and I fixed two of the main shipping streets in my neighborhood

But yeah, not sure how scalable even such a campaign would be. I’m the only user I know that use EveryDoor to confirm/update POI in a city of 500k people…

You’d probably need at least 1 out of 1000 people globally to actively contribute. That’s almost 10 million people, quite a bit more than the 1 million Organic Maps users and 250k OSM contributors in 2022 :)
Hijacking this thread (sorry) but does anyone really love Superhuman these days?

I want it to be great, and have given it a couple chances, but it never has paid off for me. Having conversation view for email be mandatory is one of several examples that make me thing it's just not a serious thing.
It’s a recall according to both Tesla and the NHTSA:

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCAK-23V862-5126.pdf
Why not just submit your project to Hacker News yourself in it's own thread? Whenever I come across these sorts of posts I think exactly what you say in your first sentence.
> I am only staying with Rust because of the ergonomics of enum and iterators

Don't other languages have things that are close enough?
Add some sampling bias, a significance threshold of 0.05. Baby, you’ve got a replication crisis going!
LIRGO and VIRGO are barely able to detect black holes of neutron star merging, it is not going to detect the disapearance or appearance of a small spaceship
NOx has a half life of less than 4 hours and is a distinct issue from global warming. NOx actually has a cooling effect, but acidifies the rain and ocean.