skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when you start putting half naked chicks on the cover instead of putting women that are real athletes... you've jumped the shark.

the world if filled with amazing female athletes. you can do a mix of 50/50 for covers and put real people doing real sports.

what did we get as cover of SI ? a freakin kardashian.
> We know they did big layoffs

Did we ever get clarification if that was blanket layoffs including their tech talent or they were mostly targeted cutting of secondary stuff like the journalistic wings?

Which, I mean it sucks for the writers that were there, but the journalism wasn't part of Bandcamp I was using, and I assume that's the case for most others. If the tech side is still generally intact? I would assume it would stay hunky dory.

Anyhow, Epic runs an e-store and generally treats its employees well and so I was fine with them taking it - there was synergy there.

Songtradr seems to be mostly about hoarding music rights, and is buying up music e-stores left and right, and did a large downsizing first thing after they bought Bandcamp. I think pessimism there made sense.
The question is what drives consistency.

80s 90s and early 2000s it was the OS. All apps running under a specific OS would look similar to each other. Behave same way. File menus looked same. Preferences was in same location.

But somewhere in 2000s this reversed and OS was no longer driver of consistency.

App developers stopped following OS UI guidelines and decided that it's not important for OS to be cohesive. The goal was that app, no matter where it is running, should have consistent look and behavior.

And now we are in application centric world where application dictates UI and there is no OS level consistency.

Additionally Microsoft and Apple did not help the situation by themselves breaking the OS UI paradigms with media players, or in MS case MS Office.
> It's only useful in situations where it's legal

If I live in one country where it is legal and I travel to another country, where it is illegal. Do you actually think that will stop me from being able to use it?

Due to market forces, it is often easier, and a lot more powerful, for me to use it in the banned country. Once I'm in that other country, I'm also anonymous again.
A wire splice that will not pull apart, suitable for both dry and soldered applications. Every hacker should know this.
Agreed. I think the attitude to Zuck is just a different form of old fashion bullying of nerds and it should probably be discouraged.

Complain about big tech business practices, complain when a business leader does something horrible but if you complain about a nerd being 'nerdy' i don't see it as much different to the stereotypical bullying of nerds that should be discouraged at every turn.
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Are you mixing it up with Stormgate? ZeroSpace doesn't have much if any ex-Blizzard on the team, do they?
they'll figure out how to best trigger the detection of each move, and how much flexing of the toes, bending in the back and overall effort is just enough for the machine, and it's going to change the look and feel of the sport.

I remember watching Olympic diving years ago and the commentator was making a big deal out of the fact that the divers were spreading their knees apart (apparently a flaw) but that the judges weren't picking it up because their viewing angle on the dives didn't allow them to see it. So the divers were taking advantage of a literal blindspot in the human judging to make their dives easier to perform.

So really, changing to AI judging is just going to change what the competitors optimize for in an arbitrary way. It's not going to fundamentally change things.
Well, kind of.. aren’t dollar bills mainly cotton?

Also under democrat presidents the average gdp growth as percentage looking at 1933-2020 is about double that of republicans ;)
If "down here" is Australia, then it might interest you to note that 1 in 30 Australian residents are international students, and none of those people expect a liberal scholarship. The entire industry is built on giving foreign students what they paid for, and scholarship be damned.
I generally think history articles are promo material for books or tourist destinations.
HPE: Russian hackers breached its security team's email accounts
You can't inflation-proof purchasing power against price rises, and trying to ration out a truly fixed money supply against a growing economy creates other problems. But Turkey really has just chosen a disastrous path through Erdogan and his poor economic understanding.

(not unusual, of course, we got a tiny blip of this in the UK during the brief reign of Liz Truss, but the electorate are willing to punish that and do not prioritize culture war over economic stability. Yet.)
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> think communists, anarchists, people promoting black rights, women's rights, etc)

These groups still have absolutely no power.
Bug or unintended side-effect: there seems to be some leakage as the slider also slightly controls the smile of the ones around Mark.
While not disagreeing with your basic point, I think there's been a slow churn of "who's on top". I'm thinking of the pressure to no-platform Germaine Greer a few years back - in that case, she represented the academic establishment.
Indeed anything online tends to be fairly easy to pirate or bypass paywalls for. Whereas for Private Eye there is not really an easy way to get it without paying. You could go read it in a library I guess but that's kind of a pain.
It was just IE 5.0.0.. there was an offer interface and the new dom interface. IE5 initially only supported the new one.

I honestly wouldn't even worry about it today. I don't even recall what the method was. Both probably still work in current browsers. The bigger manipulation and the older interface.
Not many young people in Western Democracies risk their life to immigrate to china.
Right, reduce headcount, adjust balance sheets, extract profits with fewer people.
OK, so if it is coherence -- then what's the generalized method to make a given EM wavelength or frequency band (light specifically, all EM wavelengths generally) coherent?

That is, in Physics, how would one take an EM wavelength/set of wavelengths/frequency/set of frequencies (or even more broadly speaking, "energy") -- and make it coherent?
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1053028

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Plenty of neurotypical people can't handle certain situations. IMHO, neurodivergency can be the same, it's just that the situations that they can't handle can happen to be situations that are expected by society, so they're automatically disordered. Plenty of neurodivergent people have found a way to function in society, they just can't all do it the exact same way as neurotypicals.

Of course you're not wrong that it's likely to come with disorder anyway, since for example the autism spectrum has all sorts of possible symptoms, like being unable to learn how to speak fluently, or at all. It's hard to argue that not being a disorder, just in terms of it being an unnecessary impairment and not just a difference in specialization.
Damm, that’s scary. How do they go fröm DNA to a whole human face though?
Though it's interesting that the lady in the background seems to have her smile in anti-phase.
> Moving to Rust would ...

... do absolutely nothing to fix denial of service attacks.
Turks who managed to secure dollars are also doing pretty well.
https://archive.is/c6pt7
Why waste your mental energy on this? Searches cost like 1.5c once you go over the limit. It's not worth thinking about.

Also you can enable browsing history and use bookmarks to autofill stuff without having to use a search engine.
But, where does the color red come from? The actual first person experience of seeing red. Not eyes seeing a specific wavelength, but your mind seeing red.
Also, development headcount begets support headcount. For every 10 new engineers you hire, you will need to also hire a manager for them. For every 20-30 engineers, you'll probably need a PM to steer the product and a PjM to handle all the additional communication/process overhead. For every 2-3 managers, you'll need an admin who manages their schedule and meetings. As the team grows, you'll need more people purely working on infrastructure, internal tools, build&release, security, legal, maybe doc writers, and so on, and they all need managers too. Suddenly you have 10K people.

Whenever we see these big layoffs, someone inevitably comes out of the woodwork to naively ask, "Why does Company X need 1,000 people?? I could do what they do with 8 engineers!" This is why.
Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of democracy. Democracy has brought prosperity to a larger percentage of the population than any other form of government known to man. The systematic dismantling of that is also a dismantling of democracy and freedom. Unfortunately though, history shows the rise and fall of civilizations over time and I do fear that, with the hollowing out of democracy, we are headed towards another set of dark ages.
I'm writing from Australia. But I could be writing from the UK too.
The video has funny animations but it's right. Unless you can critique it based on it's merits?
That's like blaming the grunts flipping burgers for McDonald's terrible food.

Policymakers, owners, publishers, and even editors are to blame for the enshittification of our Fourth Estate.

For a primer: 1/2 of the "Fit To Print" documentary details how corporate raider Neuharth started the "infotainment" doom loop with USA Today in 1982. (The other 1/2 shows the hero's journey of one person still doing investigative journalism, at great personal expense and sacrifice.)

TLDR: Neuharth guaranteed Wall St 15% returns, achieved by gutting newsrooms and labor. This forced the competition to follow suit, to appease their own investors.

There are many other villains. Reagan Admin ended the Fairness Doctrine. Clinton Admin encouraged consolidation, thereby destroying local media. Etc, etc.

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/fit-to-print

https://tubitv.com/movies/682467/fit-to-print

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2721376/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Neuharth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Today
Meanwhile any site with a functional search mechanism would be offering more than what Bandcamp offers.
A deacon I know is making it his goal to walk down every street in his city. It takes a surprisingly long time to meet this goal, even in a small town.
I got great xp with Namecheap, DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Bunny.net. Reachable and fast responses.

Okay level: contabo.

Slow response: scaleway.

Dorks: hetzner.
Do you think that it's possible to implement a good path building algorithm without support for revocation? For example, without revocation checking you may select a chain with a revoked certificate in it, only to discover that later. Then what? :) On the other hand, if you check the revocation status as part of the process, you can pivot to another certificate.
The fact that it's all pointing up!
This is more of an argument those who fund the federal government backstop are one of the customers imo.
> this doesn't even modulate inflation

Of course it does. To argue that making the real rate less negative doesn’t affect inflation is to imply Turkey could cut its rates to -100% nominal and not suffer any consequences.
CVE-2024-20666: BitLocker Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
> Yet you observe them and don't put down their pretense to your flawed senses.

I do actually. I think this internal sense of subjective awareness is just as if not more flawed than our other senses, and it has yielded all sorts of false conclusions because people consider it more reliable. I liken it to the illusion of multitasking on single CPU computers. I think Graziano is on the right track:

A conceptual framework for consciousness, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116933119
I don't see it as a positive. There are a zillion established players, including LG and Tesla's own major partner, Panasonic, in the BESS market and going head-to-head with them just results in commodification. Moving capacity into zero-margin lines of business is not a growth story.
Hmm, checked in a browser with no cookie restrictions and indeed it is. All JS is enabled either way but I only allow first-party domain cookies (ticker used to be fine like this but at least I know it's just a cookie thing now).
>> And now we can feel bad for growing our own tomatoes.

You are being manipulated. Resist this manipulation.
I don't care, at least on Azure there are real people to talk to, when support is needed. :)
Having a smile by your mouth and not by the rest of your face especially the eyes, will make the face more creepy and signaling those psychotic serial killer vibes.
Show HN: Built an AI agent that works directly from email
few weeks ago we realized how inefficient it is to sit down in front of a chat UI for an agent to execute tasks.

when it came to complex tasks that require web search, web crawl, chains of prompts, etc we hypothesised async will be better.

so we built a multi agent system that works directly from email. it's model independent and we're using both oss and closed source models in the backend.

we've been getting some good pick up, but would love to get more users to try and give us feedback on how to improve it!

project is live. you just need to email: herbie@broadn.io and the agent will pick up the task and start working on it with you.
correct url:
https://oikos.vercel.app
What ever happened to Purevolume anyway? Killed by Myspace?
What if innovation requires a bit more then a big number of people who've studied at a university? What if it requires a culture that allows for it?
Better than APTXYZ, but it’s still impossible to remember more than three of these.
Post-Work Socialism Is a Tempting Illusion
What most people do not consider is that in countries with a lot of capital controls, black/OTC markets are the way most citizens interact. Just head to any gold dealer for all your currency conversion.

You might think, wow, that is crazy, I'm not going to take a bunch of cash to a gold dealer to do that. But the reality is that this is how local citizens do things all day long. It is normal there.
Students are applying for and voluntarily taking those loans and spending the money (and their time) electively attending universities.

Is it as perfectly market competitive as buying retail gasoline? No. Does it contain significant elements of consumer choice? Yes.
I wonder how much of this is related to the possible decline of mainstream sports? How many young 10 something year olds in this country really follow Baseball or Basketball? They seem to be more into gaming, among other things
Maybe it’s a naive question, but here we go: Following HF for a while in the industry, despite all the UI/UX, what’s the business use case to use them instead a “s3” to distribute the models or some kind of torrent for a non-centralised model distribution?

After the whole debacle around the GPT4chan[1] and the whole gating mechanism for models, it’s hard for me to think how some entity can trust that they are not going to shutdown or do gating due to some ToS shenanigans. In other words: if you’re this man in the middle between models and clients, it’s not better to treat yourself as a “dumb pipe”?

N.B.: I think the company has a great culture seeing from the outside and I assume that I can be misinformed about their business model.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT4-Chan
I was expecting some sort of ultra high definition film - 4k, to the power of 4! But it actually refers to an incredibly small video size (8kilobytes)
I'll be eager to try Zed when it gets LSP support for sure
I Watched Season 1 of Veep and Found 29 Examples of Bad Thinking; GPT-4 Found 38
Variance generally goes both ways. If the true average is 2-2,5 months you should take that as average expected value, not 4 months. Following your logic it’s equally valid to claim 0 months lol
And we just had Starfield come out to demonstrate how little all that matters.
Talking about out-of-the-box configs (which are important because a lot of users run default or near-default), the argument that Linux DEs that ship with distros have a heavy bias towards the Win9X desktop paradigm holds up pretty well. The only odd ones out are GNOME which is iPadOS-like and Pantheon which is like iPadOS with an OS X 10.9 theme applied.

There aren’t any DEs that for example mimic macOS (modern or classic) and the few that do something different (e.g. GNUSTEP, CDE, etc) don’t ship with distros. As far as I know there haven’t been any recent DEs that were designed from scratch based on research from new user trials and usability studies (which is unfortunate; most of data in this realm dates back 20 years or more and could probably benefit from addition of new data from a modern context).
In that sense, Facebooks way feels better.
It depends on the task. I put my seatbelt on when I get in the car without even thinking about it, and also wash my hands after using the bathroom in the same way.

Tasks with a higher barrier to entry, or that we don’t fully value, often don’t go on fully autopilot. I’ve shown up for work every weekday for 20 years. It isn’t a habit, it’s an obligation.

With all the running David Goggins has done, one could say it should be a habit, he never misses a day of training, but he still talks about how some days he just looks at his shoes for an hour and doesn’t want to do it. It’s not automatic, he has to keep deciding to show up.

During the pandemic a lot of people stopped taking a shower and getting dressed first thing in the morning, something they had probably done their whole life. It wasn’t automatic, it was something they did every morning for social reasons. When the social reason was lost, so did the action.

I think it’s the lazy hearted person who often falls into the trap of, “the research says if I do this for 21 days I’ll do it forever,” and then they wonder why they stop. I’ve fallen in to this trap more times than I can count. I do something for months, it feels like it’s a habit, I take that for granted and try to move my focus elsewhere, and that habit drops off. There is no finish line, just less resistance.

I think the most trained habits are the small subtasks that our brain batches into one thing, like calling a function, but the function still needs to be triggered or called.
I can't wrap my head around that people defend one of the richest man alive while just hand-waving away his awful behavior and consequences of his actions.

I can acknowledge that his companies have done some interesting things. But he and his companies also have contributed to suffering and evil. One might see this as simple arithmetic and say that on balance, he has done good. But this is simple arithmetic. You can't just make the suffering you have caused go away by building cool technology that might benefit some other people.

How we can let such concentration of power and wealth go by is beyond me. If you think this story has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
> Have you ever shoved a <blink> into a <marquee> tag?

If you did, it would blink on Netscape, and it would be a marquee in IE, but not both (in the 90s!). Netscape had blink and IE had marquee and did not support the other[1][2], at least in the 90s.

[1] blink: "some, such as Internet Explorer, never supported the element at all" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

[2] marquee: "the first time I tried Netscape 7, in 2002. Netscape 7 and its close descendent (sic) are, as far as I can tell, the only web browsers to support both <blink> and <marquee>." https://danq.me/2020/11/11/blink-and-marquee/
> as the population becomes more and more secular

Source? (Not contesting. Just curious.)
When Ridley Scott's Napoleon came out, I picked up Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts. Turns out Napoleon kept a copy of Ossian on him at all times during his war campaigns. Going deeper into the rabbit hole, I bought a copy of Ossian.

My pet theory is that he cribbed a lot of inspiration from Ossian for his famous harangues to his army before pivotal moments in battle.

"Farewell, thou bravest of men! Thou conqueror in the field! But the field shall see thee no more; nor the dark wood be lightened with the splendor of thy steel. Thou hast left no son. But the song shall preserve thy name. Future times shall hear of thee; they shall hear of the fallen Morar."

As Will Ferrell said, it gets the people going.
Doesn't seem that difficulty to get $50/yr when Xbox Live itself is around that price. Add in selling games... Add in microtransactions... And I'd wager it's close to $200/yr they get from every single Xbox owner.
> M2 increased 65% YoY, maybe the should cut public spending to reduce their deficit and stop the money printer instead...

It's always interesting that people talk about money supply/printing as the cause of inflation, but don't go one step further as to the cause of the 'money printing' as well.

* https://www.pragcap.com/hyperinflation-its-more-than-just-a-...

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1799102

* https://www.pragcap.com/understanding-hyperinflation/

Japan has had a constantly expanding M2, and yet its inflation rate has not only been low, but negative on more than one occasion:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=PA7P
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From vertexai inside gcp, there's a whole bunch of models that aren't just Google's (ex: yolo, llama) available in their model "garden"[1] that can be doployed relatively easily in gcp. It sounds like what's available in the model garden will be extended with what hugging face has to offer?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/start/explore-models
Thanks! Those look exactly what I need! I struggle to keep my hands warm below -3C.
Would be interesting to see this antenna modelled in MMANA-GAL
The Chinese savings rate is a bit of a mirage, since there are a couple of things happening

* Chinese banks are swallowing many Chinese citizens' deposits in the bank, without recourse and explanation. There are protests of course, and of course those are squashed. There's even a story of a public listed company's assets in the bank being swallowed without recourse, and the company had to shut down

* The banking system aren't able to lend the deposits out, because the Chinese government has asked them to take over real estate companies and local government debts. Also, there is very little consumer spending, and the state enterprises don't like competitions, so very little investment is given to private enterprises these days

* Increasing bankruptcies. 8.5M in 2023, up from 5M in 2020. https://www.asiafinancial.com/record-number-of-chinese-black...
Coming from both a place of kindness and a place of selfishness:

1. Please keep at it. We need more people with experience staying in software. I don’t know your financial situation, but software is huge and something will land!

2. Based on this comment, I highly recommend likely not ever starting a company. It’s fucking hard, and it’s not glamorous. And even though it’s hard times in the macro, it’s actually way harder for many compounding reasons that are not obvious until you do it.

Again, coming from a place of love.
But the roll thrusters are not pointing up, are they?
Story-wise SC2 was a sequel to the SC1 books rather than the SC1 game. I don't know if they thought that everyone who cared about the story would have read the books and preferred that version of the story or if they just forgot that they were different (or didn't care), but it was pretty weird.
The even more significant bit is that governments can track users this way without standard warrants: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/06/push-no...

It's unclear what data the government tracks, but it's annoying that Apple allows such a trivial security hole when they keep bragging about "privacy".