skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The root of that issue is that they can't work. Not legally. For all the complaints anti-immigration people make about immigrants not working, they seem to do everything they can to make it impossible to work here legally, regardless of whether you came here by foot or boat or a sponsorship.

Protectionist policies breed stagnation. Being wholesale anti-immigration in the name of protecting "our jobs" is a cover-up for preferring the comfort of not having to compete with the more skilled, more wanting, and more willing and ambitious.
> maybe a dropdown with checklists?

That's builtin with <select multiple> but it's only usable on mobile.
Try OpenAI's spinning up: https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/
I know... That material isn't for beginners.
Um, it’s actually my hardware. Apple would be remiss to forget this.
Mortgage Wintrust/NationStar/Mr Cooper admits 14.7M affected by data breach
This is an update to my other submission but I recently found out that Mr. Cooper is the originator for Wintrust Mortgage and many others.

I do not know if 14.7M is correct or it is merely the first number they release.

It cannot be found online and I only found it by reviewing my credit report.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101272

Nationstar Mortgages, LLC, is the consumer-facing mortgage lender and servicer that operates under the service mark "Mr. Cooper". In August 2017, Nationstar Mortgages, LLC, announced it was changing its name to Mr. Cooper after releasing its worst financial report to date. The company stated that the name change was meant to "personalize the mortgage experience". In 2020, Mr. Cooper originated over 146,000 mortgages with a total value of over $36 billion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Cooper
Plotting XGBoost Models with Elixir
I recently added support for plotting XGBoost models using Vega (https://vega.github.io/vega/) into the XGBoost Elixir API (https://github.com/acalejos/exgboost).

Since EXGBoost supports loading trained models across different APIs, you can even train using the Python API and then plot using this Elixir API if you prefer.
You can now get Hacker News data in real time from the Hacker News API powered by Firebase: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

This is great (real time!), but also kind of a pain (38+ millions individual http requests to get the whole thing).

Thankfully there's no authentication or apparent rate limiting. I fumbled my way through downloading the whole thing with curl. I screwed up a few times so made over 70 million requests in total.

Toy analysis of the data I downloaded here: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/isna/viz/HackerNewsDa...
When I pay my waste management company to haul away my trash, I do so with the expectation that they'll dispose of it in an environmentally conscious way (as environmentally conscious as dumping it into a big hole in the ground can be). If they can't afford to do methane capture based on what they are charging, then they should charge more.

By not including externalized costs like environmental harm, cheap trash, just like cheap gas, leads consumers to use more of the product than if the environmental costs were factored in.
I had and loved the BIP but the glue failed and the screen popped off. Pretty cool little device. What kinds of hacks are doable?
What's I found most disappointing, often, in his discourses and positions is his blatant jingoism on all things non-american, this lack of culture and american-centered pov is really sad I find.
The Frankish nobility would have been a minority in a land which was majority Romance speaking (Gaulish having unfortunately died out out by then). And at a certain point they were very interested in emulating and continuing the lineage of the western Roman empire, explicitly taking up late Roman styles and practices. Adopting Latin and Gallo-Romance speech would be just part of this.

Happened with the Goths in Spain as well.

It's interesting to compare to Anglo-Saxon England where this did not happen and the native Brittonic speech as well as late Romano-British Latin was wiped out.
> criminals on foot robbing the cars.

You live in a paranoid universe. The vast majority of people will want to help strangers, and they will outnumber opportunistic criminals by far.
Office 365 gives you all of that. It is a subscription but if you really use spreadsheets for everything like I do, it is worth it. Also, Excel is insanely more powerful than Sheets.
For now.

The insistence that some future researcher may not care is myopic.
It’s good that people are emboldened to work less hours, so that those of us working normal hours don’t feel the need or pressure to work nights and weekends
> Then you'd have to be supported by a harness.

Single-person omnidirectional treadmills for VR already exist, and as far as I know all of them use just such a harness: https://www.virtuix.com/
This book seems to focus on large language models, for which RLHF is sometimes a useful addition.

To learn more about RL, most people would advise the Sutton and Barto book, available at:
http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html
When Did Time Start? A Brief History of Time
also, fairly unrelated to what you mentioned...
I hate the junior engineers "its so easy to ask a more experienced engineer a _quick_ question" comments..

If you're asking me a 'quick' question - google it dammit. Interrupting more senior engineers should be reserved for more 'difficult' problems - specialized domain knowledge you can't find anywhere else, etc.

If you're interrupting me for stuff you could find by browsing the repos, or googling - I'm gonna be annoyed. If its something more technical/nuanced and it takes me 10+ minutes to resolve, I'm going to be impressed.

Again, I realize you made no claims about this, but the conversation always seems to pop up in these WFH articles
You look at developer behavior on the larger internet and you realize the value Apple provides their customers precisely by “screwing” over developers. Tracking, bait and switch trial offers, impossible cancellations etc etc
China tried to influence the 2022 midterms, U.S. intelligence report says
The amount of artists who aren’t on Labels and will still get paid under Spotify’s new rules is surprisingly small. It appears to be possibly be under 30%. So I do find it disingenuous to pretend like these artists are making a living off of Spotify royalties.

Here is example of how much labels music are in the big playlists several years ago. I can’t find anything from last year though. But we do know that payments are about to get a lot worse for smaller artists.

https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2022/05/major-labels-control...
There isn't any milder climate. Both summers and winters can be 10C and rain and wind
You are missing the forest behind the trees, I'm afraid of. The reason behind the increase of US fossil fuel production is geopolitical to suppress Russian profits and its ability to finance its genocidal war. Russia can't lower much of its production cost. Major part of the Russian state budget is based on profits from the fossil fuel sales - no profits, no war.

If US didn't increase its production then Russia could sell at higher price and many countries would be forced to buy it as there would be no alternative. This would allow it to continue the war longer and possibly attack more countries.

Unfortunately the formula of the problem is complex with many variables. There are no easy solutions.

The best strategy we have right now is to convince China to reduce its fossil fuel usage so everyone else could scale down.
You know while I would mostly agree with you, Excel is still amazing. There is nothing like it in the market. Google Sheets look like a child's toy in comparison.
Yes, I was definitely expecting cuneiform and base 60 literals.
Hey Charles, yes, I will do that. In fact as more and more feedback rolled in I realized that I should really lead the whole thing with a safety section, I will do some rewriting tonight.
I hope my choice of west seattle because of the hill works out in the worst case scenario.
Excel was and is still the gold standard for everything that "doesn't quite require a database" and can be made by a regular corporate user in 5 minutes or less.

It did crappify somewhat in recent years, but still eons and mountains ahead of anything the competition put out.
This is true even if there aren't heavy policies in place; in fact, it's worse, because you have to figure out or guess how decisions get made, and by whom, and there's no day to day consistency. You end up working on projects that get cancelled for no reason you can tell, you have to pitch ideas without knowing what the metrics they'll be judged on. It's arguably more demoralizing.
It could be dismissed as a crazy conspiracy theory pretty easily until Snowden, imo.
Why not use the designated private IP ranges? There are more than enough addresses there, unless it's some crazy application with millions of instances each needing an IP. But then use IPv6?
I hear you, but if one maker makes you pay the real price of including the externalities, most consumers will by the equally good but much cheaper alternative.

In fact, at equal price, they will choose the most convenient form factor with beautiful and practical packaging.

We are not innocent in all this.
Where's their datacenters and generation there? If they're in space, they've probably seeding these probes themselves for a long time. If they're on Earth, where would they hide these? Needless to say, any human government will go a great length to do whatever pleases them for peanuts of the knowledge that they have. The issue here is being that humans are catching up and eventually it will all be revealed.
Great. Guess my manager is just trying to get one over on me. Let me stay home and see how it goes.
It's in there already, even if not as the first sentence, but your plan is a good one.
The Ryzen is a lot cheaper, but most likely also a fair bit slower.
You'd be looking at a 200$ CPU, 200$ Motherboard + 200$ of ddr5 ram. Throw in a case, nvme drive and power supply and you're still below $1k and those numbers are quite generous estimates, you could do it a lot cheaper by going AM4 with DDR4 ram.
They are referring to SIM locks. ATT locks the sim to the phone so it can't be transferred if you got a subsidised phone from them.

All depends on if someone set this flag when creating your SIM and if you took their discount when buying their service.
Yes:

Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-...
It's not really that simple -- there are lots of ways to spend less money while generating more pollution. I could spend less money by piling up my trash in my back yard instead of paying a waste management company to haul it away. But that's not going to reduce the amount of pollution I've caused, and will likely increase it.
See the other comment on old tech videos by disney.
Off topic, but does anyone understand what's going on with the 'new' version which is entitled "Microsoft Teams (Work and School)", such that the app name on MacOS (in the menu bar!) is that?

I assume it's to disambiguate it from the 'classic' version, but seems like an odd name to use?

I'd +1 on how bad Teams is in general: a few weeks ago I got a popup in it saying "We've made teams even better!", and I thought "I bet you haven't".

Does anyone know if MS use it themselves?
I mean, they make the OS, they can force it to give teams top priority over all your other lagging shit lol.
Apple exists to serve customers not developers, theyve made that clear. If you want a force installed unremovable app deployment work with the android folks - plenty of ways to ship stuff there in nasty ways
I highly recommend the book Practical Doomsday: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

It was originally a long-form blog post by Michal Zalewski and he turned into a book with even more content.
> if you make a transaction with someone, that person now knows your account and can easily find out your bitcoin balance

What’s an "account" in the context of Bitcoin?
Are there any privacy friendly smartwatches around?
I agree, assuming it's aliens is a huge stretch. I can only say that aerial vehicles hundreds of meters across are silently traversing the sky. I hesitate to say it's manmade or otherwise. I'd have to see it to believe it.

And while I'll concede that there are bizarre phenomenon of weather and lighting that can occur (google "crown flash"), the "Y" ship I saw was 5 full moons in width and absolutely, assuredly there.

On a side note, these objects also have the ability to "come out of" and "return to" the night sky. It's as if a spotlight were pointed at one area of the sky, and the craft unintentionally crossed the path. They come from nothing, and they return to nothing, within about 15 seconds. It's hard to explain.

Anyways, nothing personal if we don't agree on the matter. I know HN is based on hard evidence and logic, I can't provide either. But it's good to keep an open mind and keep looking for answers.
I know that. You're missing the second part there.

I have been asked by customers about the reliability of our software platform if major german cities have been hit with either nuclear, natural or military disaster. It's that level of silly you sometimes have to deal with.

Eventually I got fed up enough and told those kinda people that I'm volunteering in disaster prevention services and their systems wouldn't be my problem at that point.
There's no need to "destroy" the entire foreign policy establishment. We just need to force them to operate without the secrecy and privileges they presently enjoy and exploit so they can be subject to the democratic process.

Surely this is better than to suffer more wars like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

EDIT (apparently my responses are being throttled): In response to wolverine876's question below, "How would secrecy be managed?"

We don't need any secrecy or statecraft. We're so large and established that we can do everything out in the open. Russia and China know where our missiles, bases, ships and submarines are, and we know where their are. The only people in the dark about everything are the citizens in both countries.

A similar argument was made against Linux when open-source was new. It turns out you don't need any closed source code at all to run a successful project.
FWIW, plenty of apps already have built-in payment (Uber, etc.) Just not apps that offer software services.
> What surprises me: Python slower than R and ruby. js faster than c++.

Nowadays Ruby includes a JIT compiler.
See: Paradise, CA. Maui. HI..

Yeah, stay where you are . More support there,
I am sure you don't mean it this way, but this suggests a false equivalency.

If a cyclist does not wear a helmet and gets killed by a driver running a red light, it is still 100% the driver's fault.

A kill is still a kill even if the victim didn't wear a bulletproof vest.
I've worked in the Teams org at Microsoft in a past life. The tl;dr is that Teams was actually not a core offering for Microsoft and barely anyone outside Microsoft even knew about it before COVID. It was just never designed for the sheer scale, reliability, and feature velocity requirements that were thrust upon it after COVID began.
Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation
It's one reason why parts of California are so attractive to a lot of people. By their lights, no place else in the US (or Canada) has an acceptable climate year-round.
Researchers unravel complex 3D structure of thick filaments in human heart
Agreed. Teams on the web for my company continually has issues with random reloads. I traced it down thinking the problems has to do with an authentication server not sending CORS headers when requested, because each time the problem happened, there was a faulty request. I'd expect there is even some monitoring on it, but no, it continues to happen. The Windows application seems to get the most love anyway. I have to fumble around this, running for most stuff the Windows application in a Virtual desktop, but since the IT disallows sharing screens, have to switch to that terrible web version to share, hoping it will not crash in the middle of calls (which it would constantly do)

Also, the "new Teams" is missing functionality. It lost the auto-transcribe feature. Go figure.

Totally amateur hour work. I tried once to get my teammates to use Slack, but it's hard to adjust. Slack ain't perfect, but it just works in so many ways that Teams barely hangs on with.
The fact that we have always managed to get our way out of civilization destroying problems in the past does not mean that we will always manage to get our way out of civilization destroying problems forever.

However I wonder if there isn't a lag when technological development has expanded to such a point where old ways of working can automated or optimized so that a good number of the workplace can be replaced. At that point businesses rid of a large number of workers, but the new ways of working that will be opened up by automation have not yet opened up . I suppose that if there is a lag in such a situation there must be a term for it and observations of it historically.
Grusch doesn't know anything, he only repeats what he's been told, and what he's been told comes from the same group of Skinwalker Ranch/UFO grifters that have been blowing smoke up the backsides of Schumer and other credulous dupes for years. There is no reason to believe aliens are real in this scenario, or that whatever goes on in private briefings involves "real evidence" of such, as opposed to just passing on more nonsense that happens to be classified (like a lot of the already debunked UAP videos.)

Just because someone says something under oath, doesn't mean it's true. Just because someone says something in a SCIF, doesn't mean it's true. Just because a video seems to show a weird light or an orb or a triangle and the government says it hasn't been tampered with, doesn't mean the government is admitting that it shows proof of actual extraterrestrial craft.

The scenario presented in TFA is the simplest explanation that makes the most sense, even more so than it all being a distraction or intentional psyop to fool the Chinese or Russians. Maybe at the core of everything, there is some exotic foreign drone activity the Navy wants people to feel free to report, but the stigma of "UFOs" has gotten in the way. I can see some of this being part of a campaign by the military to make the phenomenon credible for the sake of national security, but not because actual aliens are involved.
This place has been elitist-Reddit for like six years now.
Huh, I didn't know people wanted that level of disaster planning.
Figure out what physics says about the physical footprint of say 10 million small hominids who want to remain alive but live life entirely in virtual reality pods. I think you’ll conclude that from first principles you can say very well hidden, have a sustained existence as long as you fix the population, if you solve the engineering problems of situating your hardware in a void in the ground. Particularly if you know a priori you only need to do it for a few millennia.
Teams truly is terrible. The example I always give:

There is absolutely 0 feedback to show a speaker when their mic is actively transmitting. When anyone else in a call speaks, a ring around their avatar lights up to show you who is speaking. When you speak? Nada. Technically, you can open the settings menu and there is a mic level bar there... but it's not in the standard view.

As far as I've seen, Teams is the only chat app that can't get this right. Not only does it increase the rate of people trying to talk while still on mute, it gives you no way of knowing if sounds in your environment are transmitting to the meeting and disrupting everyone else.
Could there be motion gestures for Sway on mobile?

- pinephone-sway-poc:
https://github.com/Dejvino/pinephone-sway-poc#components

(Edit)

rpm-ostree now supports using OCI container images as host images; so upgrading the OS is easy and more error-proof because you can rollback to the previous (kernel + /etc overlay + root partition + packages) by selecting a different boot menu entry.

"Using OSTree Native Containers as Node Base Images" (2023)
https://www.opensourcerers.org/2023/06/16/using-ostree-nativ...
> As for the first part, yeah we could have amazing teachers and amazing researchers and amazing administrators rolled into the same person but, bear with me, it might be viable to have different people do many of those roles.

I agree: researchers should not be hired to teaching positions because they are good researchers. Teachers should be hired based on their ability to teach.

I don't mind the idea of teaching yourself; I think education should actually have LESS lecturing because I don't think it's an effective means of knowledge transfer. My problem, though, is that you PAY to be there for the lectures (sometimes specific, world renowned lecturers) and then they can't even be bothered to show up for work. Then they just throw around some bullshit about how it's the student's responsibility to do the work and teach themselves. I would buy this if the student wasn't paying so much. It straight up does not cost that much money to provide a library and resources to a student to teach themself things: local communities do this on a shoestring budget all the time. Colleges cost so much in part because of the salaries of people who don't give a fuck about their jobs and somehow consider it a VIRTUE to not show up for work. College professors are some of the most entitled, lazy pricks I've ever met
Thankfully bitcoin is less susceptible to the FED printing press and more to the whims of what someone like Musk is doing on the social media platform he just bought. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Your argument makes no sense.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00401....
I'd love to see whether and by how much this event correlated with a significant increase in worker productivity.
lol no, but also ssshhhhhhhh
Yatú Espinosa: USB Club
> I do so with the expectation that they'll dispose of it in an environmentally conscious way (as environmentally conscious as dumping it into a big hole in the ground can be)

Where does this expectation stem from? We all know they dump it in the ground as you mention but has there ever been a push for regulation to demand methane capture? I’ve never heard of such a push so I can’t imagine why anyone would expect them to have been doing it.
Not really: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154082