skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evil as a moral judgement isn't. Acts can be good or evil. In more secular terms we prefer to say "harmful" or "unjust" but the meaning is arguably the same.

But the idea that "evil" is an attribute a person can possess is 100% a religious one. If you're not religious, there can be no evil person unless you think there is an "evil" gene or an "evil" psychosis - "sociopath" and "psychopath" are often used this way but usually in ways that have very little to do with diagnostic criteria and more with trying to sound more profound than just calling someone a bad person; in pseudoscience this also sometimes manifests as the idea that some people are more predisposed to crime, though usually nowadays this more often manifests as vague notions of "racial culture" than measuring skull shapes, but this too is just a more elaborate way to call groups of people inherently bad.

As a religious concept, "evil" can be somewhat nebulous where people just take some wrong turns and "evilness" seeps into them making them irredeemable: many Christians (especially certain sects of American protestantism) believe "sins" (i.e. disobeying God's rules, not necessarily causing measurable harm to others in secular terms) work kind of like this where habitual sinning in one way can lead to sinning in other ways as sinfulness takes over the person's life (like an addiction spiraling out of control). It can also be a much more literal idea of outright demonic possession (e.g. the kind of thing you need an exorcist to help with) or demonic presence (e.g. evil people actually being lizard people masking themselves as fellow humans to hide among us). And yes, I'm labelling certain fringe conspiracy movements as religious as they operate on a similar framework and often have direct ties to religious traditions and concepts.

Conversely, not only are "evil people" a religious concept but so are "good people". If good is something you do that means you need to continously demonstrate your "goodness" by doing good things. But if good is something you can be then any accusations of wrongdoing are highly suspect because a good person would do no such things. This is why most people don't take kindly to being told even in the most polite terms that something they did was kinda racist (or sexist, or misogynist, or...) because "I'm not a racist" (i.e. thinking of it as an innate attribute of their character rather than one of their actions and hence something they can and need to actively control) - mind you, liberals did not do a good job with this distinction either over the past decade because as it turns out even self-professed non-religious people often have religious upbringings that stick with them (i.e. self-applied labels like "feminist", "anti-racist", etc should only ever be read as statements of intent and dismissed if they do not manifest in their actions which they rarely do).
LLM for self-serve data–this is what no one is talking about
LLM is not a quick nor simple “plug-and-play operation” to integrate LLM technology into your BI platform
that file format is mainly used in professional settings and yes, it is good.
but saying that png is bad is nonsense. png has been designed to REPLACE GIF
that was the target : do what GIF does, without the Lempel-Ziv patent issue. and drop a few improvements... that's it.

comparing something that was designed to replace GIF for Internet use to a professional-level image format designed for specific industrial (as in cinema) work... what the hell ?

if you/they want to push for EXR, make a proposal to the browser developers. and in the end, the website developers and public will choose.

how big those pictures are, how fast they load, how costly it is on the CPU (we are going in a world where how much power you use IS going to be important, and on fixed machines as much as phones).
Use chatgpt. The math isn't actually hard, it's just the person who wrote it wants to look smart so he makes it hard by writing it in a mishmash of formal notation.

There's a lot of domain specific stuff too that a straight up math major won't understand.
I was going to argue generative AI, but the British Museum collection is definitely a good contender.
The music union they belong to should help with a most favoured nation clause.

But it's not going to make the slightest difference.

This is exactly what everyone whinged about in the 80/90's when no one made money on album sales but they made money touring and selling teeshirts.

There was never any money in albums for artists, and to use Beyonce as the example since you brought her up

https://parade.com/1138672/jessicasager/beyonce-net-worth/

> Beyoncé's estimated net worth in 2023 is $540 million.

> In 2019, The London Evening Standard estimated Bey's earnings from album sales to be about $13 million.

She has shifted 100's of millions of units, one of the most successful artists, and yet her earnings over multiple decades work out to single digit percentage of her actual worth.

She makes more from a single concert than her total album sales.

She makes more from a single clothing run than she does from her total music sales.

Musicians have a completely warped view of how other musicians make their money.
Maybe we can agree they are still _mostly_ at gateway. But their ambition to answer your question through zero-clicks (i.e., show the answer right in their search results) does make them profit from direct copying. The copyright owner will not get any clicks, show any adds, or get any other kind of feedback to their work, in those cases.
> Nowadays we got employees who bragged about their “lifestyle” on TikTok

And bicker around Blind about "TC" to show off how much money they are making. It's like a new generation of yuppies but instead of working in finance in the 80s they are working for Big Tech in the 2010s-2020s.

I've been in the tech since the early 2000s, right after dot-com bursting, it's been very palpable the change on types of people who wants to work in tech, before it was geeks who learned to fiddle with computers since we were kids, the later cohorts came specifically through a path of learning CS to apply for jobs paying US$ 100-200k as their first salary.
Always disappointed to see minidisc on these lists, especially as it was much more successful outside the US (I think the perception is often US centric).

But OTH, you can still buy CDs, it did fail as a replacement.
No NTP means no crypto.

Most of crypto cyphers nowadays relies on having both computers in sync clock wise.

I learned it the hard way with openwrt routers disconnected from the internet.
unsure about the medical initiative, but most of these endeavours have had some tangible benefits for the overall field.

he is in a rare position to throw money in all of these fields without worrying about the ROI. so i will not throw too much criticism his way.

but yes the ai bubble is real, but sadly we don't get to short on it this time.
It always is. Now that a significant percentage of the population religiously believes in climate change, it can be used as an authority argument for whatever prince increase or service reduction from corporations, and new taxes and regulations from governments. And most people will either welcome them or won't have the balls to go against the grain by fear of being labeled a climate skeptics. Genius play.
How much profit does Amazon make these days again?
Hmm, big caveat there is that in most jurisdictions that would only be considered trespass if you’ve been pre-warned that you’re not allowed in.

The “key” analogy though is a bit stretched.

It is clear that here, the credentials were used in a way other than intended.

The questions are now rather “is it reasonable to expect that a person interacting with a website normally would reasonably be permitted to use anything sent to them by that website in any way they choose?”

A lot of us here are more tech-minded and would likely say “yes, if you don’t want people using credentials, don’t provide them”. The courts on the other hand may take a different view and say “well we already restrict what people can do with content on a website through copyright laws, this person should not automatically have the right to use those credentials in any way other than the way provided”.

It will become even more complicated if the website has terms of service which clearly state something which has a similar technical meaning to “no trespassing”’s physical meaning.
> 'Local' unfortunately isn't something decided at design time, it's decided when someone connects it to a network.

It's obviously connected to the public internet when it talks to cloud servers, and that's somehow (claimed to be) secure.

Comparing a good cloud API with a poorly designed local API is a false dichotomy. Would you set up your cloud servers with default credentials of admin:admin?

Have a hidden physical switch that toggles local control, and require a physical button press to (re-)generate secure credentials. Have the user upload TLS certificates (non-optional), then hand over the credentials over a secure connection. There, the security of local API should now be up to par with the cloud connection.
Apple maps is ... pretty bad though.
> An app password is a 16-digit passcode that gives a less secure app or device permission to access your Google Account. App passwords can only be used with accounts that have 2-Step Verification turned on. [1]

Isn't it funny, how the "less secure app or device" is completely on par with OAuth-capable apps regarding security just by using a server-side mechanism Google could have promoted since… forever? Almost as if it technically isn't a feature of the app at all.

(Yeah, I get it, "apps where the secure workflow is less convenient" doesn't have the same ring to it, so the simplification is justifiable for easy communication – you will say. The greater problem is that it is kind of Google's thing to always interpret security concerns in such a way that it furthers Googles agenda and this puzzle piece is no exception.)

[1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833
What if anything do you do in practice to help in those situations where she doesn't read his social cues?
I suspect if the EU courts consider denying access to a website if they refuse GDPR permissions illegal they'll probably consider ending a contract based on not accepting new terms as forced.
App-specific passwords are limited to just a couple of services, so somebody stealing one of them can cause a lot less damage than if they got the actual Google password. The app-specific passwords are going to be unique rather than something you've reused on dozens of services, so the password being stolen won't be automatically pivoted to compromising your other accounts. Finally, their use can be audited, and each app-specific password can be revoked independently of each other and of the credentials giving full access to the account.
> set her nose to the grindstone

Worth calling out the key observation: it takes practice, and lots of it (for most people, anyway) to get good at math. Just reading about it does zilch.
My 18v weed eater kicks ass. I have two acres and it pretty much chews through everything. I shove it down in ditches and chop up all kinds of stuff with it.
Sorry, no, Nordic languages are not compact. They may stuff more words together (e.g. generalforsamling instead of general/annual meeting), but just putting two words together doesn't make it more compact or easier to read.
I grew up in South Asia, with my window facing a large public ground.

Weekly, Random schools blast deafeningly loud speakers into our windows. All this, just so teachers could shout left-right-left, as kids marched on out of sync.

I'm not exaggerating. It was physically painful and I have heard my parents utter words reserved only for the worst of scum.

Who is it for? If I'm losing my hearing, surely the participants must be in lot more pain.

I suspect that many people in public event planning suffer degraded hearing early....... which in turn leads to them setting even higher volumes.

I'm a big fan of the hustle and bustle of big cities. But, there is a reason for targeted defening sounds being used as torture in Guanatanamo Bay.
I am that author, submitter, and lousy typist. Thanks for the correction: you are right in all respects.

"Just call me Mr Butterfingers", as Emo Philips said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlV5iwi0ubg
> it must be a tree, not just a directed graph

It may be a tree. But it must be a DAG (directed acyclic graph).
Keystroke spying, you mean the autocomplete of google search terms or what else?
The two things can go hand in hand.
The activity indicators look nice and the configurator is great! Bookmarked.
> THead C910

This has an extensions that support conditional move and indexed memory access :-D

See https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/RISC_002dV_002dCusto...

In any case you aren't going to be able to see the benefit by comparing totally different cores. There are too many other factors. The article says:

> Arm considered eliminating predicated execution entirely, but conditional move and a few other conditional instructions provided such a large performance win that Arm kept them.

It would definitely be great to see numbers here but I see no reason to doubt that.

> Only for people who bought a company with a fast Aarch64 core that Arm is suing them over using so are trying to convert it to be a RISC-V core instead, with minimal work.

I'm not sure what you are talking about here. I was referring to the fact that the C extension means uncompressed instructions may not be naturally aligned which leads to all sorts of complexities, e.g. fetching instructions that are split over a page boundary, different PMA regions, different PMP regions, etc. It adds a lot of complexity to CHERI too. It's not a "big deal" to implement, but it does add significant complexity which would have been nice to avoid if it wasn't actually necessary.
I wish legislation was pushing for open APIs.

I know many people push for interoperability, but that is a very hard problem. Open APIs are easy; I should be able to write e.g. my own Slack client, for my specific platform.

It is not a problem that there exists an (official) ElectronJS Slack app. The problem is that I am forced to use it. And what does it bring to Salesforce, except an opportunity to add telemetry in the app? With an open API, they would still make companies pay 5$ per account per month.

I believe that open APIs would enable better clients for popular services.
You just need to get the bigger Ryobi blower. Mine isn't even the biggest one and it's almost as powerful as my backpack gas blower. The battery doesn't last long in it though. Maybe 15 minutes. So I use it for quick work, and on days where I need to go longer like after a big fall storm I use the gas blower just so i dont have to stop and chsnfe batteries.
Yeah, but that's living culture. They only preserve the artifacts, so it all balances out or something.
Yeah. There is a reason why “recycle” comes third after “reduce” (which this does) and “reuse” (which this promotes).
this is some "Tim Apple" energy right there.
Interesting, though I have no idea why the government is using AWS in the first place. This isn't a startup hacking away trying to find PMF, or dealing with unpredictable marketing-driven traffic spikes. We know we need these services running long term, and can make solid predictions about usage patterns.

We could build a public sector cloud and/or adopt a sensible on-prem approach. This requires funding, coordination and technical leadership, but would save the taxpayer an enormous amount over the long term.

Public sector IT is a disaster in general ofc, but I know there are good engineers working there.
You say that, but the company valuation and revenue fell through the floor, to an extent that everyone can tell, even though the reporting burden is much less now the firm is private.

Maybe some of the activities you decry as censorship and corporate bureaucracy have more to do with the bottom line than you think?
> Facebook you've got.... an email address[0] and possibly a phone number....

This doesn't seem like a conversation that's being had in good faith.
The only thing that was correct in your link regarding Japanese is "varies".

As for Han characters, Chinese uses those. Japanese uses a mixture of kanji (ancient Chinese characters) and native phonetic characters. So the space needed really depends on the content. As I said before, if it's full of English loanwords (or worse, English technical terminology that's been adopted into Japanese), it'll likely be larger, since all that is expressed in katakana (phonetic characters). If it's something that can be written in mostly kanji, then it'll be quite compact.

Korean does not use Han characters at all. It uses Hangul, an artificial phonetic writing system invented about 100 years ago.
I have a project which acts as a local cache for the HIBP database.

https://github.com/lorenz/hibp-cached

It downloads and continually updates from the upstream database while serving the identical API. On a fast link it can download the entire thing in a few hours.

It just uses a giant BoltDB file to store compressed chunks.
Outside of barrel plugs, I don’t remember any 90s phone having a symmetrical connector of any sort.
Give it a rest, mate.
I thought I was a MS-DOS 6 expert. But I had never heard of MemMaker. Probably because when it appeared I was already an expert at tweaking CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT for gaming (I made a boot floppy with menu for each game that setup memory and launched the game), and MemMaker wasn't compatible with the menu system.
Khan Academy is good and free, but it is inferior to Math Academy in many aspects. It's more tedious, takes more time and, most importantly, it's not as streamlined, as guided and as fuss-free as the MA. The latter got the process and the UX absolutely nailed down. All the praises you read and hear are 100% deserved.
I keep an eye on the trends and kinda dip my toe in a bit so that I know the basics.

Like with AI, I've tried Copilot (in the free beta). I've poked around GPT both on the web and using the API. I've tried local LLM models and StableFusion.

Not going to go all-in on any of that, but I kinda know what's going on and where the tech is at.

Now if someone pays me to take a deeper interest, I already know where to start looking and who to ask for more information.

Also: look for the boring stuff. There's a ton of work in the uncool industries.

There's software in tractors, mining equipment, smart metering etc. It's not the cool whiz-bang stuff where you can rewrite everything in Rust, but on the other hand it's stable work where the software is just a part of the bigger machine and you're usually not writing code with a fire under your ass. Nobody expects 16 hour work days and there's actual work-life balance.
They kind of resemble Arabic writing. Especially the words "adder", "fed", "hit" or "city".
True that! Though with Pentium MMX turning on those WinAmp visualizations led to significant drop in system responsiveness that I don't do anything other than watch those visualisations when I turn them on. Simpler, fun times though.
> providing access to everybody else's copyrighted content in novel ways

This is a cartoonish interpretation of what Generative AI does. You might be coming from a good place trying to defend the "little guy" who supposedly is getting ripped off by GenAI (they aren't), but in practice you are helping copyright trolling and big rusty corporations that live off the perpetual copyright scam.
As I noted in the other comment, there does exist multiple guidelines that do suggest a relative text compaction of many Nordic languages when translated from English. Guidelines themselves may have been biased to specific set of texts, of course. If it's the case I'd like to hear counterexamples.
I see the big difference in design. VR consumer headsets were designed being cheap first, trying to sell in the millions, then adding features later.

If they don't sell millions, there is no income and the product dies, or it does have a big company like Meta burning billions of dollars at it from investors.

What Apple is doing is bringing a product to market with no compromises on quality. It will be much more expensive but if it is useful for someone they will pay. They won't need millions of users for breakeven but tens of thousands.

I bought and restored a second hand Lisp Machine (with hardware accelerated Lisp). It was über expensive, but was a dream at the time to use. Even today it has things normal IDEs do not have. It was super expensive but did things nobody else could do at the time and that was worth it for companies that needed those things.
Real estate is alluded to throughout this thread. I don't really get it. Is the theory that companies do RTO so they can rent out real estate to themselves via a holding? Just looking at profits I don't understand how that would be beneficial. Every dollar that the holding gains comes out of the coffers of the parent company.
> You couldn't fit a four stroke engine to a leaf blower or chainsaw etc.

Actually not true - you can definitely get four stroke blowers, chainsaws, weed whackers, etc.
I did. They replied a generic corporate answer that we do the best for our customers and they said I’m free to cancel my subscription
A lot of it simply comes down to management being butt hurt because they signed up for a 20 year lease on office space in Expensive City.

That said, I think more focus should be on making remote nicer and productive as possible rather than fighting it. More actually listening to employees and making it work. Making having get togethers in person every so often.
In the case of Syria, it wasn't a conscious choice, it was their civil war. Specifically, it was ISIS doesn't care about any of that cultural heritage, but many other people still do. Why should the most destructive attitude overrule all others?

In many other cases, it was a dictatorship trying to amp up their perceived legitimacy by destroying traces of the past. Again, not exactly a conscious choice of the people living there.

I'm not defending British cultural robbery, but your argument isn't any better.
$1000-$7000 for a million views. It’s better than anyone else by a mile.
If only you'll have the money to get high after you no longer have a job.
The closest thing I can think of is patio11’s Bingo Card Creator. But he moved on to… venture funded payments processing.

I think, though, the people who can and do bootstrap small businesses like that don’t necessarily hang out here. The site is literally VC-owned, after all.
Don't be nasty.

Especially ridiculing a tech person giving detailed and interesting answers as a "marketeer".
I think Substack is a pretty clear example of subscription model working well. There's also Patreon that is doing very well.

I wouldn't discount YouTube Premium and Twitter subscriptions. They don't cover the majority of users, but are a viable option if you (like me) can't tolerate ads.
4GW of renewables are only available 20% of the time at most, while nuclear power plants are available more than 90% of the time.
If votes were visible, and everyone was allowed to downvote, Hacker News would indeed probably be a lot worse
That's a good point. For a business owner that has to decide right now, it's little comfort to know that the market will sort it out. I'd guess that big corps are most affected here. SMB owners probably know exactly what they need.
>the Gervais Principle

Which it's not really, as it only considers the US version.
"The characters portrayed here are based upon other characters that RG invented."
If the mat was in their driveway, maybe.
I think you don’t realise how much math you know. I’ve heard of set theory, but never studied it.