skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why American gyms are set up in this way when in the UK almost everywhere lets you pay by the month with no cancellation fee.

One of our biggest chains Puregym has something like a 20 quid joining fee that you can usually get around with a promotion. That's it. Most of the gyms have day passes for about £7 as well, more expensive in bigger cities sure.

I don't understand how the "economics" can be so different. It's a box with some machines in it.
The vilification of capitalism is so unjustified. Everyone who does it should first listen to Milei’s recent speech [0] and then try to coherently explain which of any of the anti-capitalism policies they support have any empirical evidence to justify them.

[0] https://x.com/aphysicist/status/1747868626948907325
If you ever work at a 7-11 in the US, you will get to experience a gun pointed at you so they can rob you for less than $30 because that is all that is allowed in the cash register at any time.
2024 is just another 2023. Google laying off, followed by everyone else laying off. Supply >>> Demand, barely any hires.
Eight years is forever, we can wait.

I've heard that under 10 years is the optimal for a long term government project. Anything longer, and it's equal to "forever," and it's never done. This was the rationale for setting the goal of landing on the Moon to within the decade.
I was speaking to sun setting IPv4 in general.

That said, I have to imagine that there probably are plenty of those devices that do access Czech internal services at least.
This is what I hate most about modern UX-- especially on TV apps. A menu with two items: one is bold white and the other is bold black. What am I about to click?

The youtube captions toggle is guilty of this too. It toggles between black on white and white on black. I just have to click it and wait until I see someone's lips moving with no captions then try the other icon mode.

It's like the move to touchscreen erased everyone's common sense for stateful positional input feedback.
My experience with biometrics in general is that it gives you X tries, and then asks for a password. But IIRC if you close the app, and then re-open it, it will give you another X tries with biometric. It isn't like failed password attempts, where it will rate-limit you after a few misses.
Most apps like this us GPS to verify as well. A lot of gambling apps require that permission so you can't just VPN to legality.
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Yeah, paranoid. The data in hibp are all public elsewhere on the dark web
I cant imagine how much "fun" its going to be trying to lock down a governments systems when every single device on their network is potentially reachable directly from China...
You can get pretty powerful, nearly mint condition Surface alternatives from Dell and Lenovo for fraction of the price, if you look at post-lease hardware. My last two portable machines were such 2-in-1 devices - specs comparable to top Surface 2-in-1 line, but for one third of the price.
Both are fine forms of taxation.

Taxation of wages is evil, and they get around it by pretending wages are income, as opposed to a trade of time for money.
Thanks! We used Adobe and svgrepo.com for vectors.
German far-right leader hails Brexit as 'model for Germany'
https://archive.is/gzlaW
Well, Lora works just because it's a low rank approximation of full updates - much in the same way that SVD works, and regular gradient updating works. It delivers good results by both acting as a regularizer and by allowing larger models to be updated with smaller memory footprints.

My point is that the original Lora paper choosing the last layer is one choice. And it is likely the most common one because of its higher symbolic nature typically being all that's needed for good performance on downstream tasks.

Depending on the size of your finetuning job I've personally seen updating more layers (or updating some only on a certain learning rate schedule) to be more effective. Lora is just the mathematical technique of updating, it doesn't really have a hypothesis on the ideal training regimen.
And my day job involves a lot of LoRa. I always do a double take on these. I'm grateful that at least the caps is now being done differently.
Which is why this time US government for example is only allowing extensions to government agencies on case by case basis, but not to vendors.

AFAIK they allowed extensions for vendors in 1990 and that's why original EOL date for IPv4 continuously slipped until success by Network Translation and its PIX devices helped kill the attempt completely.
No, they are a tech company, they produce software for their main product.

Like a lot of companies, tech and not, they use their power and resources to keep their position.

The difference is that their actual competitor is the government. But that's also a big part of why private healthcare is way too expensive in the US, for worse results than other places.
Sorry, someone who gets laid off is not a victim. It's a known part of the deal of having a job. You might decide to quit and leave the employer. The employer might decide they don't need you anymore and lay you off. You both have that option. You know this going in and you both are supposed to make arrangements to be able to deal with this possibility.
> using email addresses from previous breach corpuses

> enumerating a publicly accessible resource

> Trello advised that no unauthorised access had occurred

That sounds like a credential stuffing attack to me!

Most likely the attackers used the password reset form, and that Trello acknowledge the existence of emails. This used to be considered bad practice, but it's more nuanced than that, provides basically no useful information, and is now considered to be a relatively safe practice.

Alternatively it's possible they used some sort of sharing functionality to try to share Trello content with other addresses, and again the availability of that for usage would be by-design.
> What if B pays 10000x what ACDE do combined? What if B pays for that capacity?

If B's load is consistently that high compared to the others then presumably the system has enough total capacity that those requests don't impact the latency for everyone else. If B pays for dedicated capacity they should ideally get their own queue.

> What if B was silent for the 10000 seconds prior?

Then B should smooth out their load better.

In this extreme an example, not much is lost for B by prioritizing C, D, E first sometimes anyways.

There might not be one single definition of fairness, but preventing one noisy user from impacting other users is a pretty common way to approach it.
https://archive.is/js5uX
> Depending on the type of business you run, I can almost assure you these customers are not going to be in your target demographic.

Don't be so sure. I'm plenty "banked" and will out of principle never buy anything from a place that does not take my cash.

Privacy is one of the most important freedoms we have and cash is absolutely vital to maintain that freedom.

The other vital freedom enabled by cash is the right to participate in commerce. With a third-party gated electronic payment, said third party (sometimes multiple third parties in the same transaction) all have a say on whether you get to spend your money or not. With cash, it's your money you spend it as you wish.
From comments in threads like this I think most people would be shocked that Intuit makes the largest segment of their income from business customers, not individual consumers.
Please educate yourself properly and try to understand capitalism the single biggest force behind the improvement in the human condition. Vilification of profits is a disgraceful attitude.

https://x.com/aphysicist/status/1747868626948907325
there is a related discussion on this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39006092

as an austrian who has lived in the US for a few years and many other places in the world, i came to appreciate that style. the friendliness may be superficial with some people but it only takes a few interactions to find out, and, what is much more important, in many situations it doesn't even matter. when i am in a shop, i don't care if the staff are friendly deep down in their heart or only acting friendly because they want to sell something (well duh, it's a shop). shopping in the US is still more pleasant because i am guaranteed that people will be friendly (and if they are growling internally because i didn't buy anything, it's their problem not mine). in europe friendly people exist, but it's luck of the draw.
> … We want to make sure Rioters who are leaving us this week have a bit of time to identify and unwind any personal info or accounts that may be tied to their Riot email addresses.

TIL: people of recent generations use work e-mails for personal usage.

I have only seen this phenomena with older generations when they worked for a single company their entire life until or up to retirement.
This feels like FUD. You can still assign a block of ipv6 as internal to your network and put it behind a bastion. Forcing ipv6 isn’t the same as going zero trust or something where now everything is publicly routable.
What's the endpoint? Why did it provide personal information? Why wasn't it throttled?

Many things don't matter at a small scale, but they do at 15M-scale.

Trello users are about to get bombarded by phishing attempts and spam.
Troy gets sent some of the data, and some of the breaches come along with good story. Even the FBI has provided some data for HIBP.

https://www.troyhunt.com/tag/have-i-been-pwned-3f/
> Never give out your primary bank account information to any merchant.

This is pretty ridiculous advice, since every time you write a check, the recipient receives your bank account information. It's printed right at the bottom of the check!
They have no competitive advantage on engine, while they have huge competitive advantage on battery
I enjoy it. Mono is fine for getting music to our ears, but then we invented stereo. Stereo is fine for getting music to our ears, but then we invented spatial audio. Neither stereo nor spatial are required to hear and enjoy music. However, I vastly prefer stereo to mono, and I can imagine a near future where I'd prefer spatial to both.

It sounded gimmicky to me until I experienced it. Now I get why Apple (and others!) are pushing it.
Having a public IP != publicly reachable. IOW, have the router block incoming connections just like the goreish nature of "NAT" did for you.
police knock on the door

“DAD, YOUR SPRINKLERS ARE HACKING THE RECYCLING COLLECTION TIMETABLES AGAIN”

(spend enough time around places like this, though, and one could easily imagine this being a thing in 2032)
Scientific deception? It was a philosophy paper (in my original post). There weren't any scientific claims. I just made a statement in one paper that I had previously made about the same topic in a different paper.

If I had taken two classes that both requested an essay on the symbolism of Plato's cave, I'd be stoked I already had one at the ready. Wouldn't even occur to me that there was some problem with it. But even that isn't what happened in my original post that prompted the question.

I'm in the U.S., and I was pursuing my degree at a university people have heard of in New England (but not the one that probably first comes to mind, especially about this topic lately).
Ditching hyperthreading in server processors would create an interesting pricing/communication challenge for cloud providers. Currently, they tend to sell single hyperthreaded cores as if they were two cores.
> Given this, why doesn’t spaceX jack up its prices? I mean it could double them on these numbers and still be less than half the competition.

Depends on the elasticity of demand. Maybe if they doubled the price the demand would more than halve, resulting in a lower revenue. It’s hard to tell.
Dylan Jadeja has only been CEO a short while, although he's been at the company in an executive role much longer. He took over after the previous CEO left after years of being tainted by various sexual harassment scandals at the company. https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/12/23720971/riot-games-new-c...
>they've invested infinitely more in lobbying to keep tax-filing complex

I always feel the need to point out that anger at this is misplaced. Intuit is a business lobbying on behalf of itself like countless other businesses do. If the result makes you upset, you should be upset at our political system and the politicians who are willing to sell out the country for whatever those lobbyists are pushing. It is those politicians who are supposed to prioritize the good of the country, not Intuit or their lobbyists.
Compared to when Apple announced the Ipad and it's SDK this is abysmal (percentage wise) even though its a niche market and not a lot of units will be sold. Apple is expecting developers to clamor to be an early adopter, but the developer and customer experience with Apple, the Apple tax and the approval process, future IP theft/similar products developer under the "Created by Apple", I think people feel its not worth the effort for a product that might flop with no games or killer apps. Right now it's a hands-free Ipad.
Yes they did. Trello leaked usernames, full
names, “other account details” in exchange for an email address input. Credential stuffing requires knowledge of the password.
Guess I'm right to have never used their services.
> max frequency

There is no such thing, basically core speed is a curve where they get more and more inefficient the faster they run, and the hard frequency limit is just some arbitrary point on that curve.

If a particular HT friendly workload gets more done at a specific clockspeed, that is a significant boost to efficiency even if it uses more power, as clockspeed power usage scales very non linearly towards the top.

That being said, I dont think you are wrong. In consumer devices, HT seems like a bad tradeoff for a bigger, more cache heavy core.
Tech companies are supposed to take bets. Not all of them will pay off, that’s what makes them bets. So yes, most tech investors are happy to see their companies have failed bets.
Firewalls exist.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/putin-alaska-illegal/
Multiple references to R&D at the end suggests to me they’re pointing to 174 as a factor.
Well, no, even that isn't a problem, because you can run a Wayland compositor on X too.

E.g. I tested, and Firefox runs fine in Weston in kiosk mode w/X as the backend.

So even when Firefox drops X, it will still run on X as long as a single compositor with an X backend is still running.
Everyone had cellphones, and smart phones when Apple released the Iphone. Different comparison.
I know that; real-time interbank settlement is the first and necessary step for real-time consumer settlement. ACH, our current interbank system, is incapable of real-time settlement.
> while another one-third said they simply “don’t trust banks.”

I don't blame the poor people who mistrust banks. Surprise bank fees can be downright predatory and devastating.

At a time when I had to live off credit cards, a major bank started charging me $15/month for my checking account with ATM/debit card, because my balance was too low. Which seems minor now, but was painfully worth a lot of frugal groceries at the time. And I was so afraid of closing the account and possibly disrupting the credit cards that were the only thing keeping me from being homeless, that I kept paying the fee.

Then there's the overdraft fees. (I've seen $50 for one instance!) Combined with the bank ordering transactions for the day, highest-to-lowest, to maximize the instances of overdraft fees. Overdrafts can happen without your awareness, such as when a service erroneously pulls from your account.

Then there's credit cards. Accidentally late on one payment (IIRC, an e-bill didn't come through), and I had 29.99% APR penalty rate kick in, compounded monthly. When I could least afford that, and was in no position to pay it off.

Banks aren't all bad, I appreciate their services, and I generally like my bank branch people. And there might be additional reasons that some unbanked people avoid banks. But I understand if poor people mistrust banks, since surprise predatory fees or other problems can make the difference between barely squeaking by, and no longer squeaking by.
It's not Trello, it's Atlassian who did not learn and doesn't seem to care that much.

Even in 2017 it seemed to me Atlassian only bought it so anyone else couldn't have it and they would like it to die in the future but for the time being they could use it as future customer acquisition entry for their main products ( Jira and Confluence )

Their disinterest in Trello in recent years might just be what has saved it for so long. Once their crack teams of product development people arrives it will be game-over.
> I recommend using the backlog as a diplomatic tool and a polite way of letting things get lost.

I hate this approach. I totally get it, to be clear. I've done it. But I hate it. It's a sign of a really bad culture if you have to placate people in this way.

If your senior leadership is clearly communicating priorities, you should be able to say, "Look, this is an interesting idea, but as you know this quarter we're very focused on X, and this just doesn't align with that. The best route to get this done is to give your feedback in the next planning process and see if you can push Y to be a priority, then we can definitely talk about getting this on the roadmap."

A huge part of the job of a PM is to say no. If people aren't able to take a no on feature requests, there's a problem somewhere. Maybe it's with the way you're delivering it, maybe it's with the overall culture or maybe it's with the person making the request. Whatever the issue is, though, it's better to deal with it and create an environment where people understand that sometimes their requests will get declined for valid reasons.
Taxing consumption is much harder to make progressive and achieve the presumed aim here.

Consumption taxes start out heavily regressive, and require modifications to make them neutral or progressive. These might be excluding clothing and staple foods from sales tax or other tweaks to exclude the necessities of life, which lower-income people necessarily spend a greater portion of their income on. (Income taxes are quite easy to make progressive.)
This is why I'm asking whose definition it is. Whose idea was it to start using this term, which had a useful and important definition for generations, to refer to something else now, and then act as though everyone should just know this?

I'd assume it would have had to be somebody pretty important, for their fiat to have such weight. I'd like to know who it was.
As an aside, I notice a lot of the recent commits to the ESP32 repo are for ipv6 fixes. It already works in the tasmota esp32 builds on devices at my place.

This said, by then, maybe the core OS will not be metal, but Linux on all these device and we'll get top ipv6 support.

More likely, in 2032, well have a bunch of crap, built from very old SOCs running Linux 2.4.
What’s the right action then? Tickets?
It's generous, yes, but it's also decent (though I don't think that's what GP meant). The computer/laptop thing is a nice touch, and the email thing seems genuinely thoughtful.
Tencent's Riot Games to lay off about 11% of staff
Until you speak it out loud. Then it sounds like a creme you apply where the sun does not shine.
I've watched the video again.

Brendan tried to get the Chinese woman to "dance" and made a remark that British girls are more fun which was really inappropriate and disrespectful when the Chinese woman respectfully disagreed to dance.

The Chinese woman then again respectfully requested to not film them in a nice tone and not in a condescending way well at least not to me.

Brendan then again started to retaliate and did not respect the request which is by the way, not that hard to honor such a request. Brendan could've moved on and just played music after that but instead, he wanted to make a fuss about it and for me, it looked like he tried to escalate it.

The Chinese guy then comes in to explain in a very commanding voice because Brendan isn't listening and being dismissive of the whole thing. He explained clearly that they do not give consent on being included in the video because they are way in the background and Brendan had the camera point to the Chinese group in the background for the "dance" request.

The Chinese guy then sounds frustrated when his initial request was not even acknowledged by Brendan and was answered in retaliation by asking a question instead of respecting the request which should've been a fair request to begin with.

Brendan then escalates further by saying "We are not in Communist China" which was way out of line and very racist because in this conversation, their country of origin is irrelevant. They are just people asking not to be included in the video which by the way is used for profit. It's not a Chinese thing to not be included in any video by the way.

To me, Brendan / Dr. K was in the wrong in this one. He clearly did not listen and tried to be a dick about it making it all about "FREE SPEECH" when clearly it's not.
Sure. How much don't you blame the rat whose claws are embedded in your hand as you try to throw it in the river?
I'm struggling to reconcile this:

> This used to be considered bad practice, but it's more nuanced than that, provides basically no useful information, and is now considered to be a relatively safe practice.

Against this:

> 15M email addresses

While you're saying that Trello leaked nothing, it strikes me as odd that an attacker could successfully interrogate a public resource enough times to confirm the existence of 15 million addresses without triggering some kinds of checks/balances to prevent such enumeration.

I understand this is meaningfully different than other kinds of leaks (i.e. an actual compromise), but it still indicates an issue on the Trello side.
First company I've seen doing a large layoff and also has zero open positions on the careers page.

https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/jobs
Yep, that's the point in the last sentence: many of these financial services companies end up partnering with banks, but not for the "wallet" component of their services. The "wallet" part remains a relatively under-regulated financial product, while the debit card is only accessible to those who can pass KYC or otherwise meet the underlying bank's requirements.
How widespread is Slurm?
Try LAION Aesthetics: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-aesthetics/
Yeah, these days stopping force pushes is a checkbox (default?) in GitHub.
He had this weird manic energy.
Could someone here with experience tell me about how important hyper-threading is in whatever code they have experience with? In my prehistoric experience we got support from Intel to put hyper-threading code in a game around 2001-- that would have been with a Xeon processor. Our mandate was clear but unwritten, have a particular level of the game perform much better on an Intel CPU then any other x86 and then talk about it. As I recall we really had to jump through hoops to get a meaningful performance improvement. It was more like we slightly crippled non hyper-threading cpus on a handful of assets. We wanted to sell the game everywhere. It was like, if you looked at a particular rock in a particular level you really could measure the difference.

It probably got a lot better with the i7, but experiences like that make me take new CPU features with a grain of salt. Hopefully someone can share more contemporary experience with hyper-threading.