skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me you're equivocating the issue.

There is no "atheist movement", nor is it something about "the left" (like you mentioned earlier). There are, of course, rightwing atheists.

Atheist do not self-organize as "a movement". Yes, there is the "Brights" thing and other such nonsense with little to no traction. And it's just a marginal group of people who think they are better, anyway.

Atheism is not a religion or movement "opposed" to traditional mainstream religions like Christianity, Islam, etc.

It is, quite simply, the lack of belief in the existence of a god and usually anything supernatural. There is no "fiction" to it, no mythologies that go with it. There's no innate belief with "the movement of atheism" that being an atheist makes you a good person, for example; or that being religious makes you a bad person.

The condemnation of the crimes committed in the name of organized religion do not require one to be an atheist -- plenty of religious people condemn the Inquisition. Likewise, it's perfectly common to be atheist and acknowledge the crimes committed by non-religious against religious people.

There's no mythology and no movement to go with it. There are as many kinds of atheists as there are people who do not believe in a god. And no, it's not "the same" with religious people, because unlike religious people atheists do not recognize a source of "atheist" authority -- there's no scripture, no Pope, no Rabbi, no Imam, no person or object of unquestionable authority.

In order to be an atheist, you just have to not believe in gods. There's no "atheist" path to living a good life, no guideline, no set of rules.

There's no movement.
I don't think it's economies of scale.

Top money in US is paid by tech companies (FAANGs and similar) who have virtual monopolies on their markets, and thus are printing money. They overpay for programmers to make sure they're not outcompeted on tech and retain their monopoly status.

Second crucial factor is the VC ecosystem unlike anything else in the world. VC-fueled startups (even late-stage ones, like Uber) will also often pay way above market for programmers, because they believe programming talent is the way for the startup to dominate the competition and become a money-printing monopoly.

Europe and rest of the world does not have anything like that. There's no serious software industry (aka "tech") there, neither large and estabilished nor VC-fueled. Programmers are seen as a commodity and not a source of competitive advantage. And, even if there are exceptions, they're not common enough to start bidding wars for top talent which in the US elevated the salaries of top ICs to $300k-$400k.
Today's Teenagers: Anxious About Their Futures and Disillusioned by Politicians
.20/.26 with LADWP: https://www.solar.com/learn/understanding-ladwp-electric-rat...

They also have a 2.5 cent discount for EVs evenings, nights, and weekends.
I just wanted to share a piece I recently wrote on Dev.to about some of the work we've been doing at Dittofeed. Dittofeed is an open-source alternative to platforms like customer.io, Klaviyo, and Braze.

If you're interested in how to segment users by processing semi-structured event logs at scale, keep reading!

Article: https://dev.to/dittofeed-max/how-we-stopped-our-clickhouse-d...
Dittofeed's primary repo: https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

This article includes code samples, as well as a link to a git repo you can use to run tests and follow along. These code samples demonstrate a simplified user segmentation setup in ClickHouse.

Accompanying repo for the article: https://github.com/dittofeed/clickhouse-segments-tutorial

User segmentation is key to understanding your business or application’s users’ behaviors. For example, you might want to keep track of which users have gotten stuck in an onboarding flow or which users haven’t logged in within the last 30 days.

Here's a quick rundown of what I covered:

Diving into ClickHouse: Why we (and you) should use ClickHouse for your analytical workloads, and user segmentation in particular.

On User Segmentation: What are user segments, and how do we calculate them. We cover some basic pseudocode.

Tackling Idempotency: To avoid duplicate data messing up our calculations, we've made sure our setup is idempotent.

Scaling with Micro-Batching: Simulate stream processing by incrementally aggregating user events in small batches. This is really the core of the article!

"Event Time" vs. "Processing Time": When did an event happen and what are the different ways we can measure time? How do we accommodate different measures of time in our application?

I'd really love it if you could take a moment to check out the article and maybe even drop a star on the Dittofeed GitHub repo. Your support and feedback would mean a lot!

Catch you all soon!
That DMARC link talks about "From: rewriting" with a similar example using "via". I suppose this addresses the "spoofing" part of my question, thanks! I would still like to know more about this practice in transactional emails.
Agreed - they’re effectively banning most commonly used websites and then carving out exceptions.
Yes, check out the repo. There's a docker container that builds it. The reference app is in Quart, but it could possibly be reworked to a CLI. You may also want to check out https://mitta.ai for bulk processing things.
The -1 here is hiding the fact that -1 is really just 0xffffffff due to two's complement (architecture dependant of course)

And printing it as %d is technically a misuse of printf, since %d means print as a signed integer. If you did %u (print as unsigned integer) instead you'd see the value is really 4,294,967,295 (again, platform dependant)
For all his kooky theories, he was spot on with MGS2.
Privacy is not a cameras or no-cameras dependent binary.

You still need to use their apps to control the robots, and the apps send the commands to the robot only through their proprietary clouds instead of directly. You can't tell me with a straight face that means privacy.
Shallow soda lakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth
One professor of mine solved the PowerPoint issue by sharing his slides as well as the slide notes that he took time to prepare. He really didn't expect us to take notes, even though we did.
Can you get me excited? I spent 20 seconds browsing the homepage and walked away with "so the idea is vertical integration for on-premise server purchases? On custom OS? Why? Why would people pay a premium?"

But immediately got myself to "what does a server OS do anyway, doesn't it just launch VMs? You don't need Linux, just the ability to launch Linux VMs"

Tell me more? :)
The comment said "transcribe the floor plan", and this distinction is relevant because there are multiple options for robot vacuum cleaners without cameras.
The parent was talking about a weekly task, not daily. For me that would fit the description of "occasional". And a trailer the size of a pick-up truck bed would be quite easy to fit through a drive thru made for giant pickups and SUVs. Parking (especially reverse) is something you have to pick up, for sure, but once you do it is actually not that challenging and on many parking lots you can actually just pull through a double parking space without reversing at all.

I agree, I wouldn't do it for everyday jobs (for that I'd probably use a large Van or something like it) but in my experience, having a decent trailer gives you tons of flexibility for very little money.
Indeed. Just leave it.

Document it, photograph it, leave it.

There's no reason to lift it, to "restore it", etc.

It's a wreck. Leave it alone.

Go find a "modern" Electra, and make that as "close to Earharts" plane for your display. But there's no reason to drag this thing up.

If this plane were shot down, it would be considered a war grave and left untouched. No reason to not treat this the same.

Rejoice if she has, indeed, been found. Peace for the families, finally.
Normally I’d be fine to agree to disagree, but you only have to look at the last 100 years of consumer habits to see exactly what I’m talking about. This isn’t something that’s nuanced. It’s clear as plain as day.
A recent example that comes to mind is I wanted to refresh my Italian by watching my favorite TV show in an Italian dub. Even though I can converse in Italian, and quite the show by heart, I couldn’t really follow the program.

Loading it up into Phrasing tells me that the most important words to the episode were: conservitorship, inheritance, deep submerge vehicle, treason, philanthropies, ransom, nerve gas, and anaphylactic shock.

If I’m going to spend any time on flashcards or SRS, these are the cards I want to learn. Once I know these words, not only could I follow half the episode even if I didn’t speak Italian, but the other 99% of the language in the episode has something to “latch onto” while I’m passively watching it.

I fully expect 95% of my progress in Italian to come from watching the tv show. But I expect to be able to significantly improve the speed of that progress with Phrasing.
Yes, they do have First Amendment rights, just not to the same degree as adults. This is the same as other rights — they can't buy guns, vote, etc. either. The point is that it's definitely not a slam dunk case as claimed. I'd love to hear a constitutional lawyer weigh in, if there are any here. I used to be a lawyer, but this was never my specialty.
As a lay person, this was beautifully written, and I feel like I understand the issues to a degree better than I have before from casual reading.

Very important to people like me, because I really struggle with advanced math. I dropped an EE degree because while I could do the math, it was incredibly hard and in no way intuitive to me.
I think that being free to use, and expect your audience to get, basic references like this is just part of being in an educated society.
Hottest Job in Corporate America? The Executive in Charge of A.I
Places like Avivo Village[0][1] which put single-room homes into unused commercial/industrial spaces and offer them up to unhoused people without most of the strings attached to traditional shelters: families are allowed, pets are allowed, people without ID are allowed, addicts are allowed.

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https://github.com/praeclarum/1brc
I remember playing it in like 2010 and it had z-levels.
That's the crazy thing about this ruling. It looks like the company is likely to enter a similar death spiral, similar to what happened to Neato Robotics. A stale product line with a trimmed down staff to maximize profitability based on their name and reputation while their products are steadily supplanted by stronger competitors.

Maybe someone else will buy them to extract the last few $$s before turning out the lights. sigh
Meta's choice of license doesn't indicate that Yann is clueless about open-source principles. I don't know about Meta specifically, but in most companies choosing the license for open source projects involves working with a lot of different stakeholders. He very easily could have pushed for Apache or MIT and some other interest group within Meta vetoed it.
Not everything needs to be linux. Besides, if monocultures are supposed to be harmful, why is linux being thrown to everything nowadays? Very dangerous to have a single point of failure in (critical) applications.
You just need to use distilled/deionized water in ultrasonic humidifiers. You should not be using tap water as that creates hazardous particles, and you'll pretty soon notice dust over everything. They should come with more clear warnings regarding this issue as its severe and not everyone knows. Additionally the systems could have a simple conductivity sensor to stop running if the conductivity (ie. the TDS is too high).
That's valid, but then requires asking who.

If the company is on the verge of closing, clearly there is something wrong with the business model. So for it to actually save jobs they have to first have the 1.7 billion that Amazon was going to pay and then have enough capital and a business reason that makes the acquisition make sense.

There are not many companies like that out there, particularly for a company like iRobot. There was synergy between iRobot and Amazon.

I am not advocating for a monopoly, but clearly another company wasn't stepping up to take amazon's place.
Why does everything have to grow all the time? Isn't there some version of 'we are making enough money and our customers are happy' that can exist? Is it possible to be fine with having enough to live decently, or do we we have to classify everything that doesn't grow constantly a failure?
The moat is all but guaranteed to be the scale of the GPUs required to operate these for a lot of users as they get ever larger, specifically the extreme cost that is going along with that.

Anybody have $10 billion sitting around to deploy that gigantic open source set-up for millions of users? There's your moat and only a relatively few companies will be able to do it.

One of Google's moats is, has been, and will always be the scale required to just get into the search game and the tens of billions of dollars you need to compete in search effectively (and that's before you get to competing with their brand). Microsoft has spent over a hundred billion dollars trying to compete with Google, and there's little evidence anybody else has done better anywhere (Western Europe hasn't done anything in search, there's Baidu out of China, and Yandex out of Russia).

VRAM isn't moving nearly as fast as the models are progressing in size. And it's never going to. The cost will get ever greater to operate these at scale.

Unless someone sees a huge paradigm change for cheaper, consumer accessible GPUs in the near future (Intel? AMD? China?). As it is, Nvidia owns the market and they're part of the moat cost problem.
An hour-long tour of JLPCB's factory process
Metal guitar skills linked to intrasexual competition, but not mating success
There's a deepseek coder around 30-35b and it has almost identical performance to the 7b on benchmarks.
This system does in fact work very well for aviation in the USA. But I think we can't just blindly apply it to everything everywhere, assuming it will work the same. We should be able to consider what cultural factors allow it to work and what might cause it to fail. Among those reasons:

* It expects everybody in the organization to be earnest rule-followers doing the best they can to achieve the goals of their organization. The uncaring, reckless, rebellious, etc people have been screened out of the organization long before it gets to that point.

* It expects that the whole organization has cultural unity. Nobody is trying to hoard status, power, influence, etc for one subset of the organization at the expense of another.

* It expects that the organization as a whole is not, and does not perceive itself to be, under attack from hostile outside forces. Organizations can effectively fear being blamed and destroyed just as well as individuals can.
Famous people have fewer rights against parody than do non-famous people. I'm not in favor of making it illegal, per se, but depending on the limits of the law might be in favor or requiring licensing (i.e. legal permission) to do so for all but parody (which would necessarily take some effort to be obvious as parody).

This article has a good discussion on the lookalike topic of which I'm excerpting some: https://www.publicethics.org/post/the-ethics-of-deepfake-por...

: Suppose I have an indistinguishable look-alike named ‘Danny’ in the pornography business. Danny’s videos are not deepfakes and do not depict me, but people who watch Danny’s videos mistakenly think they depict me. Consequently, the videos affect me in the ways just mentioned.

: I suspect that the most fundamental morally relevant difference between distributing deepfake pornography of me and distributing Danny’s pornography is that the deepfake pornography depicts me while Danny’s pornography, despite appearances, does not.

: Now, if you use that picture to make a deepfake, then that deepfake depicts me, because it’s based on an image that depicts me.

: Just as it would be wrong for someone to nonconsensually distribute a stick figure illustration of me having sex to students in my classroom, so it’s wrong for someone to nonconsensually distribute deepfake pornography of me on the internet.
Reportedly ad-libbed when he accidentally got up from his wheelchair.
Often the same thing
For simple interactive usage aliases go a long way, and with tab completion it gets really fast to write. For example, Invoke-WebRequest is iwr, Select-Object I think is just select. Some others are ForEach-Object which is %, and Where-Object can be ? Or where. Also, since PowerShell is case insensitive, you don't really need to use all those capitals - the worst you'll get is a warning from your editor, if it has PowerShell integration (around 99% sure about this)
I remember when I was 10 years old at a computer camp during the summer at a local college. They had me set up my first email account with hotmail. They all asked us to lie about our age. I think even then they had restrictions that you had to be 13 years old.

But - that was over 25 years ago. The internet was a much different place.
Another Xoogler here: any idea what they mean by it's not Linux at the bottom for other providers? Like, surely it's _some_ common OS? Either my binaries wouldn't run or AWS is reimplementing Linux so they can, which seems odd.

Or are they just saying that the VM my binary runs on might be some predictable Linux version, but the underlying thing launching the VM could be anything?
What if the social network is created by kids?

I guess I need to write to my representatives.

It's funny that the Republicans tout they are the party of "freedom", yet restrict the liberties.

Why not let parents decide how they want to raise their kids?
Show HN: SDK/Python Client for Automatic1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI
Introducing auto1111sdk, a python package that encapsulates all the main features of the Automatic1111 Stable Diffusion WebUI.

`pip install auto1111sdk`

https://github.com/saketh12/Auto1111SDK

Why we built this, what you can do with it right now, and where we plan to go below:

Why we built this:

As a developer using stable diffusion, you’ve probably used HuggingFace’s diffusers library. However, it just doesn’t make sense to use diffusers when the “gold standard” tool for stable diffusion is Automatic1111’s Stable Diffusion Web UI.

We detail some limitations of diffusers here:
https://flush-ai.gitbook.io/automatic-1111-sdk/auto-1111-sdk...

What you can do with it right now:

- Text-to-Image, Image-to-Image, Inpainting, and Outpainting pipelines.
- Upscaling pipelines for ESRGAN and Real-ESRGAN
- Download & run safetensor model files from Civitai

Where we plan to go:

We’re an open source project, and we intend to remain this way. Our next step is to add support for Stable Diffusion XL, Lora’s, and Dreambooth finetuning. We welcome all contributors!

In the meantime, check out our docs and join our discord.
Standing Crowd Density
Gay committed plagiarism but didn't "steal" her ideas or fabricate quotes to support them. She absolutely should've resigned and is unfit to lead an academic institution but falsifying cancer research data is on a whole other level than lifting quotes.
Seems law wasn't involved there, yet.
Meta is becoming the good guy. Its actually a smart move. Some extra reputation points wont hurt Meta.
Thanks for adding that last one - it's really important to remember. (It's even a movie trope.)
I joined the new startup of my sister's boyfriend. He previously founded and was CTO of one of the top 50 biggest tech companies.

I now never speak to him or my sister anymore. Only fights and blocked social media accounts and have given up ever seeing my sister again.

So at least for family: Don't do it. It's not that big of a problem to never see a specific friend again but they have driven me out of my mom's side of the family, I can never see my sister again.

Not worth it.
The NFL is at least merciful to fans of local market teams. If you live close enough to where your favorite team is based, you can watch most games for free, over the air, or with a basic TV subscription. It's unfortunate for the NBA or MLB fans that they need to figure out what local cable channel has the rights to their team.

The real pain is if you're a fan of an out of market NFL team, in which case...

- Cable with ESPN for MNF (if your local team is playing, this should be free on ABC)
- Prime for TNF (iirc the local market gets this on fox??)
- NFL Sunday ticket

I think the only exceptions this year were the two games exclusive to peacock, and the London games. I don't know if they show the London game for free to the local market.
I learned from a young age how to drive with a trailer, and I have experience with 30ft fifth-wheels.
I like Apple hardware, more so because the developers has put out great apps on them. But yes, it's mildly infuriating when considering how closed the ecosystem with no reason other than control. I have a 2011 mac mini I used as a server and Linux Mint works beautifully on it. But no proper support for Linux on M1. And HomePods not having line in. At least Apple has a Right Way (tm) for using their devices. There are worse limitations on other's device (Kindle not supporting epubs, smart TVs being smart first instead of being a TV,...)
HN seems to have become a lot more mainstream, in comparison to the old cyberlibertarian "privacy and piracy" days.
> The theory, which Romeo relied on partly to guide his search, suggests that when Earhart crossed over the international dateline during her 20-hour flight, her navigation system became inaccurate and misdirected her by about 60 miles, potentially leading to a tragic end.

How would this happen? It's not like her plane would have contained a misprogrammed computer.
https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/protections/pr...

Private State Tokens enable trust in a user's authenticity to be conveyed from one context to another, to help sites combat fraud and distinguish bots from real humans—without passive tracking.

An issuer website can issue tokens to the web browser of a user who shows that they're trustworthy, for example through continued account usage, by completing a transaction, or by getting an acceptable reCAPTCHA score.
A redeemer website can confirm that a user is not fake by checking if they have tokens from an issuer the redeemer trusts, and then redeeming tokens as necessary.
Private State Tokens are encrypted, so it isn't possible to identify an individual or connect trusted and untrusted instances to discover user identity.
Is the feed algorithm the only problem that is harming children? Not the concept of a social network in general, the entire point of whose is to publicise lives and keep its users stuck onto their screens for as much time as possible?

The entire fault of social networks is that it is hampering children's development by keeping them online. Trying to improve those services by making the algorithms better will worsen the situation. You want to make children lose the appeal of social media, not increase it!
>> I would say that the same low voter turnout that made sad puppies possible was being abused to prop up obscure books based on the identity of the author rather the quality of the story

> Of the winners, I've only read The Three Body Problem, which I liked for a number of reasons.

I may be misunderstanding you, but if you didn't read the books, how did you judge the quality of the stories? Did you perhaps read the nominations, if so, please let me know any that you feel was not deserving and the possibly got nominated based on author's identity.
en.wikipedia does say:

> Other raw materials can include feldspar, ball clay, glass, bone ash, steatite, quartz, petuntse and alabaster.

So I'd guess that "Porcelain Stone" isn't anything specific, but could possibly (not even necessarily) be a silicate.