skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People write candid stuff on internal channels all the time that are not official company statements. And it's mostly not about illegal shit they did. It's things like $COMPANYA is eating our lunch because our sales processes are so screwed up. So when you file a lawsuit against $COMPANYA claiming that some questionable action caused you to lose business, their lawyers can cite the fact that you were already messed up for totally different reasons. [Corrected confused who is who :-)]

(Very loose retelling of just a few of the sorts of things I saw when writing an expert witness report years ago.)
True, but there was a good 20 year period or so when even non-technical people were familiar with it from using their own computers.
Yeah, I used to do a lot of p2p too, I miss it. I used it heavily in HS but fell to the convenience of Spotify in college.

It was really a shame when what.cd went down, that was arguably the most complete archive of recorded music anywhere.
And between PDF and EPUB, I always choose the EPUB variant, because in my laptop it definitely looks better, with the text the right size and sane pagination.

I don't jump to page 2112, I use the table of contents to jump to section 3.1.2, which is as fast if not faster.
This isn't an accurate accounting of history.

Zionists were living in the area long before British Mandatory Palestine or the Balfour Declaration - they bought land and legitimately immigrated there while it was under control of the Ottoman Empire. The UN chose to partition the region in 1947 due to ongoing violence on both sides - and the British actually voted against it I believe. The Arab states then chose to go to war against the newly formed Israel - not the other way around, as your comment implies.
Hopefully it will continually improve given that at least one person is paid to work on it full time. It's come a long long way over the past few years.
5-year survival rate of throat cancer is 82%, 5-year survival rate of cervical cancer is 92%, and incidence of HPV-related throat cancers among men is higher than cervical cancer on it's own and rising (probably due to changes in sexual behavior) [0]. While total incidence of HPV related cancers is higher in women than in men and that's bad enough, there is not a lot of difference. It's a problem on its own.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/hpv/parents/cancer.html
"...at a macro level, the outcome 'companies legally delete all written communications as soon as feasible' seems baffling."

That leads us to directly to "2028 – A Dystopian Story" By Jack Ganssle:

http://www.ganssle.com/articles/2028adystopianstory.htm

That explains why no records are to be kept, and this is the real law:

Known as ’The Rule of 26’, which is sometimes given as a reason NOT to keep engineering notebooks etc. By Federal Rule 26 you are guilty if you did not volunteer the records before they are requested. Including any backups.

From Cornel Law:

LII Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

Rule 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

(a) Required Disclosures.

(1) Initial Disclosure.

(A) In General. Except as exempted by Rule 26(a)(1)(B) or as otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, a party must, without awaiting a discovery request, provide to the other parties:

(i) the name and, if known, the address and telephone number of each individual likely to have discoverable information—along with the subjects of that information—that the disclosing party may use to support its claims or defenses, unless the use would be solely for impeachment;

(ii) a copy—or a description by category and location—of all documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things that the disclosing party has in its possession, custody, or control and may use to support its claims or defenses, unless the use would be solely for impeachment; …

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_26
Gaza is kind of/maybe/sometimes/by some considered part ofisrael.
I took your using the word literally to mean you were saying that the physical characteristics changed, which is apparently not what you were saying.

I think this is a difference in language expectations, because when and where I grew up, some Protestants thought that Catholics believed either that the physical characteristics of the Eucharist changed during the blessing or consumption of the Eucharist, which your link seems to demonstrate to me that you are not agreeing with.
Contrary to popular belief, there are other states in our nation with people whose business has nothing to do with California or it's residents.
Regarding MQTT in general - is my reading of the spec correct in that there are actually no message ordering guarantees across different topics ? This would imply that the common HA pattern of a single device publishing/receiving commands/status on multiple semantically-named topics (eg /dev001/onoff + /dev001/color) is actually a subtly incorrect use of the protocol? And the way to maintain ordering with the protocol is to have only a single topic for commands and a single topic for status updates? Because this is what I've concluded, but I'd love to be wrong!
>design some file-organizing system that involves giving research images a sensible name. And then when it comes to checking your paper before you publish it, you need to trace back all the images to the raw data and check them against the metadata. For example, if you have a photo labelled as ‘Day three’, does that correspond to the date the photo was taken or that the experiment happened on?

Blockchain, but with human-readable metadata? Sure sounds like it is do-able.
Dijkstra came up with "guard". Well, "guarded command" as a formal part of the logic of correct programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarded_Command_Language

> The guard is a proposition, which must be true before the statement is executed. At the start of that statement's execution, one may assume the guard to be true. Also, if the guard is false, the statement will not be executed. The use of guarded commands makes it easier to prove the program meets the specification. The statement is often another guarded command.
That’s correct, now that the full Driving Mode is ready and being rolled out they’re killing all the dangerous stopgap measures they previously created.

Edit: I think their strategy here confused people because most people seem to think that the goal is a zoomed touchscreen, whereas the actual goal was voice only with a nav screen if you’re navigating.
It could be. Bard is clearly not the best model Google has and the only reason not to serve the better models is inference cost.
> That's really cool actually!

Cool on paper but SD cards have abysmal write endurance, as any Raspberry Pi user will attest to.

Unless you trust the entire software stack to keep writes to a minimum I wouldn't trust the SD card to last.
Hmm, I don't think this is related but I've personally witnessed (and even recorded) other people making MY moves in chess.com games and also I've been served up a game in progress and I've been able to make moves when I shouldn't have been able to.

There are plenty of threads about this too if you Google it. No idea if chess.com have fixed this in the last few months, but they didn't want to listen when I tried to report it.

All these games were when I was not logged into the site. It's never happened to me whilst logged in, but I don't play chess that often as it's no good for my blood pressure!
> Compare to Android, which involves unlocking the bootloader, flashing recovery, booting into recovery, flashing an OS image, and possibly patching the image to get root.

During the holiday break I installed Lineage OS on my father's 10-year-old Motorola Moto G. Turns out in order to unlock the bootloader you have to fill an online form and get a code that unlocks it via email.

Additionally initially no custom recovery would install due to an outdated bootloader. I managed to patch it using a script some lone developer wrote for personal use.
Ask HN: Laid off twice in 2023. Is it worth looking for a job in this market?
I have 6 years experience as a full-stack dev, went to a good school, feeling discouraged. I got laid off from my job after 5 years in March 2023, got a new job in August, and got laid off again in December.
So what is the bar for being a “great mobile Linux device” if it doesn’t include “reliably making phone calls”?
People are indifferent specifically in the cases that it can be clawed back. They keep their valuables in a safe etc. But they're much more willing to give their credit card to shady websites than their bank routing info, specifically because it's easier to claw it back if there is fraud.

But it isn't the criminal who pays for that. They get your credit card number via their shady website, then use it on a legitimate one, take possession of the goods and leave the legitimate merchant to take the chargeback when the user sees the fraudulent transaction on their credit card statement weeks later.

The users also persist in using credit cards, instead of demanding a system with better security, e.g. one in which the card contains a chip that can connect to a PC or phone and requires the card to be physically present for the first remote transaction with a given merchant (you sign their key as authorized to charge you going forward), so you couldn't just breach one merchant, get all their customers' credit card info and use them fraudulently at any other merchant.
I'm still on an older Nokia, it is 'just something that works'. It's limited enough that it isn't an distraction and it works very well as a phone.
> The fix for this is easy: pull people over.

Or, as is currently being tested in many European countries, cameras above the road that automatically detect drivers on their phones.

But I am not optimistic about that taking off in the US, where even speed cameras are a rarity (although I do not really know why).
Conversational search engine with Bing and Lepton.ai
Sadly I had a similar experience. Actually had the Pro too, which was even more of a pain, IIRC because of having to press a reset button to boot with a pin, it was really bad. The OG Pinephone eventually would freeze every time I ran apk update on Postmarketos, I think the internal mmc went bad after a year.
Totally different. Android Auto is a passthru. Sort of like a docking station. Not having a separate OS/set of apps/data is the point. It's your device, not the horrible old thing in the car you grudgingly live with.
Speeding and aggressive driving is definitely a problem.
I don't fully agree but what I will say is that I perceive mocking to be not that easy or good in Rust, so it is surprising to me to see it cited positively.
Yeah, Apple pretty much gave everyone the middle finger. Unfortunately, this rant adds little to nothing to the discussion. :/
WASI Co-chair here: WASI is for the Web as well as beyond. The jco project (https://github.com/BytecodeAlliance/jco) provides an implementation of the Component Model and WASI Preview 2 for JavaScript systems. Right now, node.js support is complete, but support for Web embeddings is in progress and coming soon.
True. I'm using an old desktop (2009) as a little home server. The only gripe I had was the worn out GPU fan on the old radeon card. Picked up a fanless Nvidia quadro for $6.99 on ebay. Problem solved.
No, you're fundamentally changing the game, not when people resign.

If stalemate is a win, almost any king and pawn vs king position is a win, which means almost every rook or bishop ending up a pawn is a win, which means it's incredibly easy to trade into a winning endgame from the middle game. Now the middle game is less interesting, because taking any kind of risk is never worth it.

Which in turn makes only the most boring openings viable.

Now every game is boring.

Also, in tournament play, finishing your game early just means you have to wait longer until the next round, even in a round robin event. Because chess tournaments pretty much never start a round until the previous round is completely over. Not since adjournments stopped being a thing.
You’re probably using the old Bard model. You can try the new one, bard-jan-24-gemini-pro, by clicking the Direct Chat tab on https://chat.lmsys.org.
They can handle them, plenty lycans in Hungary proper.
No, a notepad.
China's Bitcoin boom poses a threat to Xi
I think the naming originates from the similar term "feature engineering" which had been in use for about as long as machine learning in general. The approaches to feature engineering are also a bit of a mix of science and art -- in some cases statistical and probability theory are used to arrive at an appropriate feature mix, in other cases it's very much throwing everything at the wall to measure stickiness.

Prompt engineering is definitely a bit more art than engineering, but it's not far off conceptually from what feature engineering is.
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Are you aware of any laws in Israel that discriminate against non-Jews?

Note: Gaza and West Bank are not Israel.
Do you think Israel would fire on those ships?
Doesn't Unreal charge a "core technology fee"?
How does funding this work work? Is it donation? Are there bug bounty programs for research out there? (I quitely wonder if this would not add a lot of credibility to research institutions again. I just wonder if we as state funded institution would be allowed to pay this)
I don't know what to make of the fact that 2005 Nokia or Blackberry feature phones had orders of magnitude better software and performance than the PinePhone.

Mine is still sitting in a drawer. I take it out twice a year to update it and see if the lock screen (a static image with a text field) still lags and misses inputs
Why don't they run an ethylene/propylene glycol solution loop (with refrigerant to-water heat exchanger integral to the compressor unit) like industrial chillers? There's a tiny loss in efficiency due to the extra heat exchanger and higher pumping losses, but you get less leakage, less refrigerant, your lines are unpressurized, etc. A lot more of the installation process could probably also be done with low-skill labor.

I imagine it would also be easier to retrofit such a system into houses with existing in-floor radiant heating and/or baseboard radiators.
How do you do the card setup if you were to play at home? Seems hard to, in practice, randomly shuffle the 4 suits, then pull cards, then shuffle together without exposing information about the target suit. Interestingly I couldn't find a video of people playing.
When the proposed solutions are trading emission rights and the growth must continue because "the economy" it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Is it a problem or is it not? Even if we can't get China to do anything shouldn't we do everything we can anyway?

We're loving the northern lights being more frequent and visible further south, and increased sun activity is the cause. But that is never part of the discussion regarding climate change.

I'm not very invested in the issue, I'm a hermit either way. But it does feel more like a cash grab than the civilization ending event some make it out to be.

Nothing grows forever and the planet isn't going to multiply anytime soon. The sooner we get that the better, climate change or not. That's the discussion I'd like to see.
Tinnitus is a collection of different symptoms, you can have various forms of it, for instance where you hear a continuous ringing in the background, where certain frequencies get dampened or amplified and so on. It's quite an interesting phenomenon. 14Khz at 53 is very nice!
Well, we could conclude with this logic that all countries are politically motivated. After all, the countries that condemned the Russia's invasion of Ukraine were also the countries that abstained from supporting the South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.

Moreover, it should not be forgotten that there is a much bigger number of civilians deaths in Gaza than Ukraine. In one month the number of deaths surpassed civilian casualties in Ukraine war. There is a more serious problem there than in Ukraine.
>Someone with smaller service won't be able to create as much variability in load as someone with a much more beefy hookup.

I think we are in dangerous waters when we are are basing public policy on "ability" to have impact opposed to "actual impact. I think it is a genuinely interesting question if and how much this variability contributes to the grid capacity requirements.

You can basically think of individual variability as noise on an analog signal.
Does single user variability average out, and if so, on what scale?

How does this variability compare to other amplitude changes, like aggregate or seasonal daily use patterns?

I think it is entirely possible that this noise could be negligible at most scales, but obviously dont have the data.

However, someone with the actual data could easily do an ANOVA evaluation, and see what the actual numbers are.
Well, not knowing about this in the 90s was reasonable. Not knowing about it today is a failure somewhere in our education system/society/whatever.
> resulted in a lot more military deaths

Yeah, they lost a lot of infantry forces and it's probably the reason there were less civilian deaths.
WASM is a language. By itself, it's not very useful because you're limited to what language constructs provide - not much.

There are extensions to the core spec for embedding wasm. For example, there is "WebAssembly JavaScript Interface" for working with wasm inside JavaScript, which is what used by browsers today.

Spec we use in browser today is really just about how to interact with JS, so JS must provide everything that isn't in core: want to make an http request, then you need to call JavaScript (i.e. Fetch API) and so on.

People wanted to run WASM outside the browser because it's a neat abstraction - compile one of the many languages to WASM and run it "anywhere" (yay java).

Since outside the browser, we can't lean on JS for providing access to the outside world, plus that bridge has an overhead, so no bueno. WASI extends core spec with interface to outside system:

- files i/o

- network i/o

- etc

In addition, WASI has a built-in capability framework (a la Capsicum in FreeBSD which it drew inspiration from).

So WASI is a interface to a host system with security and isolation in mind.
Why is this Apple telling to EU drop dead?
Fake George Carlin comedy special purportedly made with AI prompts lawsuit
It's not mutually exclusive. But people work at different times, and need focus, and won't all keep up with a scrolling chat thread. Having a simple 15 minute call when everyone's there solves all that.
> I think you missed the point. They put it on tape and claim it will last 1000 years.

I didn't miss that point, because they never made that claim. At least in the linked video. If they had, it'd be bullshit.
Unfortunately, the bandwidth on the RTL-based dongles is quite limited. This means that you'll only see some kHz of spectrum around your LO frequency.
> die-cut air vents

They're called speed holes, because they make the mouse go faster.
What are the quirks of static linking you need to work around (in general, not for glibc)?
> its fairly simple for me to empathize with the Israeli public who are angry at the death of their fellow citizens and want Hamas to be punished

Definitely. Conversely, it should also be fairly simple to empathize with the Palestinian public in the (just picking one fairly recent example) Operation Cast Iron aftermath.
That's one thing that horns are for. Granted I hate using it, and other people hate it too, but I've gotten pretty good at a friendly beep-beep instead of a lean on honk.
I believe what they're saying is there is pressure to tax unhealthy foods. a.k.a. regulatory risk.
thank you for the polite response and the prompt edit
No clue, but it wouldn't surprised me if they identified inputs and training that weren't actually helping. Just as human beings aren't necessarily more helpful by having more varied input, the same seems to apply to LLMs.

The interesting thing is it still has a 128k context length. This is awesome because GPT became way more useful to me once it reached this level of context.
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Enjoy your bankruptcy and/or jail time when they decide you lost it on purpose.
This is super cool. I've often wondered why google scholar didn't use pagerank over the citations... and now you've done it! Props!
You should be keeping track of those library dependencies anyway if you want to know what you have to recompile when, say, zlib or openssl has a security problem.
>I'm surprised they have this much in 'assets' tied to 'not sexy + boring' things like "not the best foods/drinks for you"

Buffett drinks five cokes a day and has said 25% of his body is coke. I haven't read his biography yet but I've heard that his family has never seen him drink water.

Boring has low capital expenditures. You don't need to keep pouring money in to maintain the product. They're also sticky, stable goods that people will keep buying no matter what. They're also able to grow stably year over year.
Shit, I missed the "only" in the comment.
I was with you until chinese contested amphibious landing in occupied gaza. China’s big picture strategy is to grow while not being drained by small conflicts the way the US is. This would be totally against that strategy.
at this point it reads like the kind of thing you'd hear when you're being told what will happen if you exit a protection racket

we'll be ok, just let us use our computers
Yeah, unlike in Ukraine, Gaza’s hospitals are firing back.
Data is taken from other papers, it cannot be centralized.
1) Boots
2) Doesn't immediately crash.

My Pinephone seems to still have an issue with crashing randomly all the time.
Did we ever learn?
Got a link to the person?
That strategy has indeed worked for Israel in the past, and it will work now.
I can't tell if you think that's a bad thing. I see it often, but yah this is a whole tutorial in the README.
I wouldn't assume it's you... companies are terrible at planning and management. Keep plugging away - you will find a fit.
Epic/Unreal doesn't also own 50% of the PC hardware market making tens of billions at high margins where only Unreal made Games are allowed and other game engines are banned.
Unity was not going to allow its users to use the old terms. Apple developers have the choice to stick with the current system.
It is hard for me to imagine any browser makers switching to a non-Webkit-based implementation if they can only do it in the EU. They would need to support the Webkit-based code as well for other regions, which seems like a lot of work.

Am I wrong?
China doesn’t like things that cause revolts. Because rebellions can be infectious.
Man I haven't thought of this in years. What does it do for me that `aws s3` doesn't these days?
Yes, and as we all know, WebKit is the most secure, least exploited browser rendering Engine /s