skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I buy most of my music from Bandcamp in FLAC format. I'd be sad to see it go.

I've been digitising my music collection since the early 2000s in FLAC – which was pretty expensive on disk space relative to the size of hard drives back then. It's been fun but also somewhat worrying to hear my daughter ask why I don't have every song in the universe, but also why my music plays without internet connection or dedicated app. I feel her generation won't own anything anymore, and I still have to make up my mind whether that's a good or a bad thing. Without getting political, I fear art, music, software and other intangible goods might end up acquired, centralised and in the hands of lawyers at increasingly larger monopolistic corporations, and for some reason, a lot of grassroots artist initiatives seem to falter and end up going nowhere.

I will support Bandcamp, Faircamp or any place where I can get the music I like in CD quality without DRM. I want to support artists and I hope at least some of these more independent music outlets stay alive to cater to us who care about both artists and fans not to end up as vassals to a profit-extraction rental system for third parties.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the meeting where this idea was proposed. Was the initial laughter severe? Was it muted? Was it not laughter but actual "hmm" while thinking about it being a good idea? Like how many follow up pitches did it take?

I've been a part of meetings with pitches on how to solve something where I've been shot down and weeks spent on other ideas only for them to fail ultimately coming to my original suggestion to work. It is very satisfying. I'm guessing the person(s) that came up with this might have had a similar experience.
> but at least I know it's just a cookie thing now

Nope, I also have cross-site cookies blocked and no issues with the ticker
The meat:

“The seemingly random ineligiblity is believed to be due to the affected nominees being considered politically undesirable in China, especially since two of the affected nominees, R.F. Kuang and Xiran Jay Zhao, are American and Canadian Chinese respectively. However, nothing I have read by R.F. Kuang suggests that she would be overly likely to criticise the Chinese government.

…

However, if there was political influence on the Hugo ballot (and note that this is a big ‘if’ at this moment) and if Dave McCarty or Ben Yalow allowed this to happen, then fuck them and fuck Chengdu! I don’t blame any of the Chinese organisers for going along with possible political pressure, because they have to live in China and face genuine risks. But McCarty, Yalow or any other western SMOFs involved should have sounded the alarm or at the very least resigned. The Chinese government has no power over them. So shame on them, if they went along with this. Also shame on them, if they thought that burying the data would mean people wouldn’t notice the problem.

Note that this is all just theory and conjecture at this point. We don’t know for sure what happened. And this is why we need answers and an explanation and we need it now. The people who were randomly declared ineligible needs answers and the finalists who made the ballot or won also need answers, because this is tainting their nominations and wins as well, if they don’t know if they really made the ballot or won organically.”

Hugo (technically, the WSFS) held its Worldcon in Chengdu, China. There is speculation and preliminary evidence the 2023 awards were rigged.
If he doesn't want to actually learn AI/ML itself, there's an endless number of adjacent jobs related to all the hype:

* web dev - today the majority of the jobs are very heavily ts/js, react, next.js, vercel, etc.

* data engineering - AI/ML is very hungry for clean, organized, and accessible data. so we're talking sql, data warehousing, spark, beam, kafka

* infra/devops - nearly every tech company needs these people: docker, kubernetes, terraform, ci/cd, gitops, metrics and monitoring tools like prometheus and grafana
https://archive.ph/ERvNG
Replying to below because of reply limit. Also, totally not a lawyer, take with that note.

Actual text: Emphasis the "be allowed" portion. From: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174

(a) In general - In the case of a taxpayer’s specified research or experimental expenditures for any taxable year—

(1) except as provided in paragraph (2), no deduction shall be allowed for such expenditures, and

(2) the taxpayer shall—

(A) charge such expenditures to capital account, and

(B) *be allowed* an amortization deduction of such expenditures ratably over the 5-year period (15-year period in the case of any specified research or experimental expenditures which are attributable to foreign research (within the meaning of section 41(d)(4)(F))) beginning with the midpoint of the taxable year in which such expenditures are paid or incurred.

Imply, the taxpayer "may" take a 20% amortized distribution. Similar to MtG cards that say "a player may look through their library" or similar. You don't have to (my reading).
I had the opportunity to visit Valparaiso when I was in Chile. Such a cool, beautiful, colorful, and vibrant (street art is amazing) port town.
I think it's hilarious that when westerners provide data based arguments that China is failing, China supporters will say you don't understand China and you need to live there, and they've heard China's impending fail many times. And then when a Chinese person that lives in China provides arguments that China is failing, China supporters will say well they're biased.
What are some Software Development methods for reducing errors:

1. AUTOMATED TESTS; test assertions

To write spreadsheet tests:

A. Write your own test assertion library for their macro language; write assertEqual() in VBscript and Apps Script.

B. Use another language with a test library and a test runner; e.g. Python and the `assert` keyword, unittest.TestCase().assertEqual() or pytest.

C. Test the spreadsheet GUI with something like AutoHotKey.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896192 :

> The Scientific Method is testing, so testing (tests, assertions, fixtures) should be core to any scientific workflow system.

> awesome-jupyter#testing: https://github.com/markusschanta/awesome-jupyter#testing

> ml-tooling/best-of-jupyter lists papermill/papermill under "Interactive Widgets/Visualization" https://github.com/ml-tooling/best-of-jupyter#interactive-wi...
The Karnataka BJP is gearing up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. There is speculation about how many seats the party can win in the state, which is currently ruled by the Congress. A survey by the Janmat poll pre-election survey released, which has boosted the BJP's electoral enthusiasm.
The Congress, which won 135 seats in the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections, is aiming to win more seats in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. The BJP-JD(S) alliance is also expected to help the saffron party.
Karnataka has 28 Lok Sabha constituencies. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka have raised curiosity. The reason for this is that the Congress is in power in the state and has formed an alliance with the JD(S).
According to the Janmat pre-election survey, the BJP, the main opposition party in Karnataka, is expected to win 18-20 seats. The survey predicts that this will make the party with the most seats in the state. On the other hand, the Congress is expected to win 7-9 seats. The JD(S), which is in alliance with the BJP, has been included with the BJP. The survey has not separately stated how many seats the JD(S) is expected to win.
In 2019, the Congress won only one seat (Bengaluru Rural) in Karnataka. The JD(S) won one seat (Hassan). The Congress-JD(S) alliance had faced the last election. This time, the BJP-JD(S) alliance has been formed.
In comparision to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has fewer seats this time. In the last election, the BJP won 25 seats in the state. In addition, BJP-supported independent candidate Sumalata Ambareesh who won from Mandya district. In the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections, the BJP lost power after winning 66 seats. After the election, the BJP changed its state president. Former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa's son, Shikaripura MLA B.Y. Vijayendra, was appointed as BJP president. Vijayendra expressed confidence that the BJP will win 20+ seats in the Lok Sabha elections. It is expected that the party will win more seats as it will also have the support of the JD(S). According to a Lok Poll pre-election survey conducted in Karnataka, the Congress is expected to win 12-14 seats, the BJP 10-12 seats, and the JD(S) 1-2 seats. Congress high command leaders have set a target of winning more than 20 seats in the state as the Congress is in power in the state. Even though the BJP-JD(S) alliance has been formed, it is still not final how many seats will be allocated to the JD(S). There is information that the Mandya and Hassan constituencies will be given up. Mandya MP Sumanlata has already announced her support to the BJP. So, it is interesting who will get the Mandya constituency.
Federal law's ability to enjoin local police activity is limited.

And in any case: the law is a blunt instrument. It's (usually) better as a slowly changing representation of conventions and social consensus instead of something that we make sweeping changes in (whether legislatively or judicially).
Even more context via the Mastodon thread:

A Comparison of Hugo Nomination Distribution Statistics

https://alpennia.com/blog/comparison-hugo-nomination-distrib...

Edit:

Even more context from the above link:

https://mrphilipslibrary.wordpress.com/2024/01/21/hugo-nomin...

which has a meta-follow-up at:

https://mrphilipslibrary.wordpress.com/2024/01/23/the-mess-d...
> Both BMW and Mercedes have EV platforms, have you done your homework?

Of course I know they "have" platforms, but look at the price of the actual cars. They're at least a generation behind Tesla on platform cost.

Legacy automakers' dirty little secret is that their cheap EVs aren't profitable, and their profitable EVs aren't cheap. They failed to invest in lowering EV build costs.

I find non-Tesla/non-China automakers (including Europe) very in denial about how far behind they are.
All gene therapy is only applicable to very specific types of disorders.
I believe that my bathroom and everything in it is full of germs; I also believe that my body has been perfectly able to deal with those germs for the last 40 years, as I don't really get sick besides the yearly-or-so cold or flu.

Taking my toothbrush out of the bathroom for the fist time at this point in my life because of "the germs" would be paranoid behaviour, in my opinion. It's not that there aren't germs, it's that they've always been there and I'm still here and healthy.
I think that could be a pretty interesting walk itself though!
No, because a game utilizes the GPU 100% most of the time, while the simple GUI of this editor doesn't require as much calculations (fewer triangles, etc.). So your GPU can downclock and stay cool and quiet.
And in calculating that tradeoff I would expect them to weight passenger safety very, very highly, unless they want to go out of business (and possibly be liable for corporate manslaughter and go to jail?)
This _is_ broken up into individual patches, with documentation and intent discussed (briefly) in each patch. It's not a big blob of undocumented and opaque container logic being dumped in one giant patch.
With all due respect, these are your opinions about your experience. You may think you are ahead of the curve, but what objective measure are you using?

Someone else's decades of experience could lead to opinions that are the polar opposite of yours and be equally valid. You may have had "wrong" experiences and just got lucky that things worked out ok in the end - who is to know?

My advice would be, if you are interviewing, show humility - don't show ego.
If we are going to talk about evolution then why not ask ourselves why women keep ovulating till the age of 55?
Are you really comparing communists with nazis?
Conversely what are your feelings about Hygiene Hypothesis?
Bert Hubert was previously on HN. It would be nice if he could comment on the current legislation and whether his resignation made a difference.
They're not big enough to pay a developer to write and maintaining a software system.

From what I've heard, they were able to use ChatGPT to write applescript shortcuts to automate a lot of the tedious repetitive tasks, without knowing how to code.

Basic things like "Open file in photoshop" then "mark file as in-progress in google sheet", etc...

So basically the value add was being able to write applescript shortcuts without knowing how to code just by going back and forth with ChatGPT.

(This is a boring example but something us developers might take for granted re: use cases for non-developers)
I think it's common knowledge by now that the Hugo awards go to whatever is most politically expedient.

IOW, there's no surprises here.
You can also optionally don't care and get the paycheck.

Are you getting paid for this type of decision leading to your frustration ?

Are you applying to correct role ?
I wasn't trying to produce a viral video. I was mostly just pissed off that he insisted that the bike lanes weren't on the inside of THAT road, which they are.

FWIW, he got doxxed after it went viral. He turned out to be a judge from south Boston.
> Don't forget, you can only upload original tunes to bandcamp (no covers).

What? Here’s a black metal cover of Hit me Baby (One more time): https://spider-god.bandcamp.com/track/baby

There are tons of covers on BC, never heard of that restriction.
Sadly, yes. But I'm pretty sure Boeing's survival is due to its defense contracts.
It should come as no surprise that there were many, which is one of the reasons where Windows Mobile failed. All the other manufacturers had been burned badly by Microsoft's inability to deliver anything reliable on mobile (and eventually saw themselves directly in competition because of the Nokia purchase) and Android starting being a cheaper, more focused option.

Fundamentally, Windows CE was flawed beyond repair, and it should have been obvious from the very first iPaq and sibling devices. I used my Palm devices every day. I rarely turned on my iPaq (available third party software was also a problem; there was lots for Palm and comparatively nothing for WinCE).
... and now you know that closing the lid doesn't matter, but using disinfectants does.
I've worked on a similar problem and we have pretty much the same issues as you. An idea that makes things better is having an intermediate representation that exposes the key tables of your dwh and gets compiled to SQL. This allows you to have somewhat better security (even if the model outputs garbage it can't do too much damage because nothing except exactly what you want is even representable), and somewhat better explainability (you can't guarantee the model will get it right, but you can see what SQL gets executed rather than "magic 8-ball says no").

But as you say custom types and encoded domain knowledge is extremely tough and as a result it's very tough to "transfer" the system to different databases.
Apple to allow EU customers to download apps without using App Store
https://youtu.be/1hZylJp-pHo?
It's signalling. If college was about teaching skills someone who completed 3/4 years would get 3/4th the income boost. Someone who finished all their classes except their last final exam would get the full benefits. But that's not how it works. Sheepskin effect means it's the stamp of approval that matters and not the education or training provided.
Evaluating the Medical Knowledge of Open Language Models
Wow, WebMonkey....that brings back memories.
Did they change it back? Reading the guidelines themselves...

2.5.16 Widgets, extensions, and notifications should be related to the content and functionality of your app.

2.5.18 Display advertising should be limited to your main app binary, and should not be included in extensions, App Clips, widgets, notifications, keyboards, watchOS apps, etc.
For what it’s worth, I did not know that, and I find it disappointing. Is there evidence that previous nomination processes were rigged in a way similar to what is suggested here?
Aren't revocations a pretty important part of certificates, considering the whole point of this is security? I don't understand the rationale for skipping.
> The bag bans don't really have a clear objective

I’ve never seen one where this statement is accurate. The most common purpose is reducing litter and most of the ones I’ve seen are specifically focused on keeping bags out of rivers and oceans, and they’re quite effective at that goal. Our local rivers went from being clogged with discarded bags to seeing very few of them within a few months.

I also think you’re overselling the challenge here. Most people I know keep a couple of bags in their car/bike/backpack, which isn’t really harder than remembering an umbrella or coat.
> They

Wasn't the cybertruck mostly an Elon project?
> This is a recreation of a 13th-century Aleppine recipe for a drink made with pomegranate seeds, fresh mint leaves, sugar and a dash of rose water. For that real medieval experience you might wish to consider fumigating the goblet from which you drink with that most aromatic of spices, _ambergis_! It is best drunk chilled with some crushed ice — a delightful mocktail to suit all occasions! [1]

Yeah, I'll get my sperm whale guy right on that... Can I use agarwood instead?

[1] https://eatlikeasultan.com/medieval-syrian-pomegranate-drink...
> Politicians repeat the same words over and over again.

I think they have to do this. Just recall any politician that has been caught flip flopping on an issue. It makes the appear weak and fickle.
This is probably stupid but... would scrapscript[1] be a good base for a DSL aimed at replacing SQL?

[1]: https://scrapscript.org/

edit: added link
Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act
Apple loves to do the bare minimum to meet the regulations. I'm sure they hated having to do this.

But, this is still better than not doing it at all.
Speak for yourself, I've always loved Python's list comprehension syntax, it makes ALL the sense. For ME.

It's a question of ergonomics, just like my favorite chair is not going to be your favorite chair for whatever reason, programming language constructs that bug you doesn't mean it'll bug anyone else.

Your foreach() example bugs the hell out of me, for example. But I'm not campaigning to have it erased from existence, I just don't use languages that model their syntax like that.
> A user interface should be optimized for the tool in question, not optimized to look exactly like the interface for all other tools.

When you learn how to drive a car, you can expect the same standard across all cars. You don't relearn how to drive when you get into a new car. There's common UI and UX paradigms across all software and no one should have to learn your bespoke implementation. And I believe these sets should be part of the OS.

When you look at Spotify or Slack UI, there's nothing there that is better than their more native looking alternatives. I have utilities to populate a command panel with menu items, but it's essentially useless on these apps because everything is buried inside the app itself.
I absolutely loved those ads with the hamsters. Truly great advertising.
I remember seeing this pitch on Dragon's Den about sealing toilets when they flush and the founder being laughed out of the room: https://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/pitches/common-sense-toilet-se...
It must have been a pretty terrifying needle.
It's more than fine, in many cases. We need the right bacteria in our guts to digest our food properly and they have to get in there somehow. Also our immune systems need exposure to a diversity of natural bacteria and other organisms in order to develop and function properly. Lack of exposure to natural biota is strongly suspected to be a major cause of the rapidly growing epidemic of allergies in modern life. (This is the Hygiene Hypothesis referenced upthread.)

Not saying you should stick your toothbrush in the toilet, but unusually strict hygiene measures are unlikely to be net beneficial for you. My reading of the research is that greater exposure to bacteria is very healthy and desirable as much as possible without actually getting sick.
Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone
Aerosolized measles can remain suspended in the air for a significant time. There would be nothing that you could do avoid it in this scenario.

I've read elsewhere today that anything under 95% vaccination will result in outbreaks; the r-naught is 12-18 if google is correct.
"The minutes of the December meeting suggest that there has not been an elaborate discussion of the cutting cycle yet"

Economists "expect" a rate cut in June, but this is not to be confused with the FOMC actually declaring intent for a rate cut.
Of course. We haven't even finished January yet.
That's a funny one too me, because they do some very good journalism that spans many many years on many people up to no good. Frequently, they're the only ones doing anything more investigative than rewriting press releases and newswires and they must have an absolutely enormous library of material on public figures to be able to connect the dots that they do.

But when they report on something, it's gone from the public view in a few weeks as the only place you could find it would be your own archive, assuming it goes back that far (and you wish to dedicate the space in your house), or a major library of which there are only a handful in the country that would maintain an indefinite archive.

Something more impactful than a report on another suspiciously "bungled" contract by a councillor would be to be able to see the other articles they've done on that person over the decades. Even if there was, say, a year-long delay in putting them in the archive, there's a difference between "Eyes passim" (doubly irritating as there's also no thematic index and hundreds of back issues you'd need to look in) and seeing the older reports in front of you.
They have the best unreleased model, for a few years already.
FTC Queries AI Deals by Amazon, OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic
People do not usually pause after every single word. Segmenting based on pauses gets you sentence fragments.
>However, what happens when those "ugly positions" are algorithmically amplified and spread far and wide through social media to people who are not prepared to question them critically, and instead appeal to their basest desires and inner fears? Is that still free speech or is it now brain power-washing... or even a brain water-cannon?

Are you going to set up a committee of "specialists" who decide what speech is okay for wider distribution and what speech is perfectly in its rights to be freely said, so long as its passed by non-digital means? Considering how much garbage came wrapped as firm truth even from mainstream sources of information during the pandemic, I'd like to laugh at the idea of anyone being able to concretely say they can judge "correct" speech from "ugly" speech well.

Your entire text above tacitly implies that a large majority are nearly brainless sheep who need to somehow be protected from supposed harmful ideas by their betters, by some sort of betters. Perhaps such as yourself?