skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The oldest known civilization on earth

I'm not claiming Australian Aboriginals are "magic" but holy shit did they do a great job of looking after ecosystems compared to any modern civilization?

I personally think there was some magic about their way of doing things. The oldest known civilization on Earth which some how didn't destroy the climate, pollute the ocean, poison fish stocks with mercury, kick start mass extinction events and litter the world with microplastics.

I've been to remote parts of Australia where they still have traditional land management practices going on. It's a wonderful thing to see. The forest was so beautiful and pristine looking, it was as if the whole landscape looked like a beautiful garden. It was more inspirational than any city I've seen.

As someone with young kids, I was thinking to myself how absurd our situation is. I wanted to feed my kid some tuna and then I realized that it's not healthy for them to eat it. Can you believe how freaking bad this is? We've poisoned the ocean so badly, kids shouldn't eat from it. It's like the whole of our civilization needs an honest performance review but we're not going to get one because we're also our own manager.
So I am a ML researcher. Note that part of my comment is specifying how difficult it actually is to ensure lack of spoilage. The second paper I link is actually a pretty good proof of this. Though I'll say that I wish they had been a bit more explicit about how a random pruning significantly improves results. Because that is quite the result in of itself, given that the datasets they look at are already filtered. Dedupe is fucking hard. So I'm not looking for a handwavy "trust me" I'm looking for the explicit vetting processes applied to these specific datasets. It's incredibly important to know the limits of your tools and that includes datasets (as well as metrics).
For me „generic business advice” is like Taylor Swift explaining how to sing.

It is not going to make you sing like her.

So I’d go for advice to actual voice coach.
>just send a link to somebody and they're already on-boarded

Yes, after you give Discord Inc. your phone number.
"Anonymized" data is already almost complete misnomer. Advanced pattern matching capabilities of SOTA neutral nets will pulverize what is left; GPT-4-base reportedly identifies who it is speaking with within a few paragraphs of conversation, if the user has written enough public internet comments. Associating writing style and mannerisms with a username.

Anything less than true mathematically proven differential privacy will enable trivial tracking/doxxing tools that need with only a few noisy data points.
I think it's a little more nuanced than that. I would be fine paying per-article on a lot of news sites, if the cost was on the order of single-digit cents.

I consume most of my news via aggregators like HN, so I have no loyalty to any particular news site. I'm not going to pay $30/mo for a subscription when I read maybe 5-10 articles on a site per month, at most. And I'm certainly not going to pay for subscriptions to, say, the 15-20 different news sites that show up with that frequency on aggregators, with headlines I'm likely to click on.

Put another way, let's say I read 10 articles per day, so about 300 per month. Those articles are spread across a lot of different sites, let's say probably 100 of them, ranging from single article from random blogs, up to 7 articles from a larger publication like WaPo or WSJ.

At even 10 cents per article, on average, that's $30/mo, total. I'm comfortable with that. In contrast, with the current "system", if I had to subscribe to even 15 of those medium to large publications, at, say, $15/mo, that's $225/mo, which I'm absolutely not comfortable with. At that point -- assuming there were no ways to bypass paywalls -- I'd simply just do without, and find other free sources covering the same stories.

But still, I don't think micropayments will work, even if the friction is pretty low. There is a surprisingly huge psychological gulf between free and even one cent. Once you ask someone for money, they are going to agonize (even if just a little bit) over whether or not the article they're about to read is actually worth it.
I think it happened when the Borat movie came out.
Two Texas companies were behind the AI Joe Biden robocalls
Have one for work laptop. Does everything I need.

Wouldn't spend my personal money on it though.
You're out of your mind.

I talk about shoes, you talk about your attitude.
I would suspect that it IS multiple boxes and with z/VM using single system image. This is the first time I've ever heard of mainframe "in a rack". In the past they come in their own cabinet, but if you open the cabinet door you won't see one "box".
It's exceptionally disappointing, because there is no reason why you couldn't have a vehicle of type X (whatever type you believe is good and holy or whatever) that is a plug-in hybrid with a certain size battery.

But you could make it so it has different size batteries installable, either by end-user or dealer.

You sell the car with a 30 mile battery, and a year or two later it pops up a note that says "for only $Z you could upgrade your battery to one that would have meant you only filled up on gas once last year".

Range anxiety? Nonexistent.

Upsell? Present.

Improved mileage and emissions? Golden.
A good bicycle can be easily as expensive as the AVP. Imagine the experience to ride a bike, would be marketed to us the same way we are told about seeing a 3d AVP experience. Riding a bike through the landscape is 1000 times the sensory experience.

One can choose to go into a consumption mode with an AVP or be active and move oneself outside through a real 3d space, the landscape we live in. What is better for the health? Mental and physical.

I would guess that the AVP is a temporary device to get 'us' into a future with different hardware for spacial computing. Something for the developers and early adopters -> the actual mass market(s) then will look differently.

The current trend in tech is that the stuff&servives we use is becoming more and more a mental burden to us: information overload, distraction, noise, manipulation, control, ... the future that has been warned about is now here and a lot of people can't handle it.

The AVP is the 3d version of it. It has potential, but there are a lot of warning signs on its effects on society. People get more and more disconnected from the reality. We'll already see lots of people staring at screens, instead of interacting with their immediate surroundings. This will get worse...
Not sure the differences, but my understanding of Windows was that it wasn't until Windows XP that they added a "Window Manager" think of like Gnome or KDE on Linux. Before then, the UI was all a wrap on top of a command line application, or so that's how I was told it was. I assume the blue screen is as minimal as it is since it usually is some hardware halt, and its much easier to render without worry about any GPU restrictions and the sort. Although the modern ones are impressive with their QR codes.
Relax bro, you're just looking at it upside-down.

The ads let you know what services are not worth your time, or only worth consuming with sufficient adblocking.

They're really doing you a great service by advertising that you're the product.

Also, hope is not lost for ad-free capitalism. For the first time ever I'm actually paying for subscription services that don't have ads (yet). Mostly to do with search and AI.
> It can be less malleable than the older model and harder to work with to achieve a given desired result.

That has been my experience as well. It's frustrating because SDXL can be exquisite, but SD 1.5 is more "fun" to work with and more creative. I can throw random ideas into a mish-mash of a prompt and SD 1.5 will output an array of interesting things while SDXL will just seem to fall back to something "reasonable", ignoring anything "weird" in the prompt. SDXL also seems to have a lot more position bias in the prompt. SD 1.5 had a bit of that, paying more attention to words earlier in the prompt, but SDXL takes that to a new level.

But SDXL can draw hands consistently, so ... it's a tough choice.
Mastercard/Visa are not only credit cards - they're used for debit card transactions as well.
> But when you measure the TCO, is it really?

I'm in the ML space and every small company I try to avoid EKS. Then I hate my life. Sagemaker, for example, is a giant abstracted away mess with random holes (ie: these types of jobs don't work on this GPU type, etc.) compared to just running things on EKS. The same goes to trying to deploy a more complex third party application. I could just deploy their Helm chart or I could spend a lot of time deploying it somehow in our environment.
What would you consider a "valid" marketing strategy? It's a project some dude on the internet provided as open source. Try it out and use it if it helps you solve your problem. It's not that complicated.
From my understanding, both Boeing and Spirit have been employing very shoddy practices, but at that point in the production line it's Boeing who is responsible for QA
The spit take for me was doing process documentation, screen by screen.

I would explain to them to stop after each screen or keystroke, so I could document it.

Despite being smart people and understanding the ask, almost every SME I worked with failed at some point, blazing through multiple screens without even realizing it.

That's some strong muscle memory there!
I don't understand. You're saying that the purpose of cockpit voice recorders is not to improve aviation safety via allowing a thorough investigation of accidents? If there is any other purpose, I don't know what it would be.
Maybe increased CO2 on Tuesday afternoons will tip off that the wife is cheating?

It's not even far fetched, smart watches reporting physical actively at unexpected hours have revealed infidelity in the past.
Hrm, acquired in 2008. I thought it was earlier. For an alleged $25m per crunchvase, if they are to be trusted (probably not).
This sounds like sophistry. Not all renewables have fully renewable components! Ok, fine. But wind power isn't digging up and burning megatons of carbon and releasing it indiscriminately into the atmosphere, is it?

The OP sounds like an attempt to blur the issues by handwaving. Since 'renewables' are not truly consequence-free we should stop talking about them! Especially since we have coal enough for a hundred years! Isn't that renewable too?!

This rhetorical device, since things are not completely unambiguous, we should stop distinguishing them entirely! We can pretend they are the same! Wind is the same as coal! Solar hurts ... something(?) so it's not really renewable!
> Mitigation of many software defects is simple, but some aren't; hopefully you know which changes are expensive to fix if wrong, so you can more thoroughly vet those.

This assumes you're fortunate enough to have a defect at the outer edge of the system. Most times, these problems are created in the initial rush of pushing something out and then tax every effort that depends on them, forever, and ever.
A shame they couldn't just run without a partner. Any recommendations for music news and reviews?
Well you know you shouldn't put lithium batteries in the trash, worse still indoors in a hotel. DEF CON didn't have a contact for e-waste recycling?
It's a preliminary report, they deliberately avoid including conclusions that might be reversed later but would do harm by inclusion at this stage.
It's open source you can verify it yourself.
OK, but syntax by itself is not saying much. Ruby's ractors can look similar but the underlying implementation is subpar.

Does C# have actual green threads or actors? Proper work-stealing schedulers, low-latency guarantees etc.?

If so, that would be cool, Erlang's BEAM VM desperately needs competition.

But I doubt it. From what I am seeing regularly on HN, people prefer to degrade or belittle / minimize the value of the BEAM VM than to admit that the runtime of their favorite language is still not good enough. Cognitive dissonance is getting in the way it seems. Shame.
Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible?
Metabase might be the most confusingly designed piece of software I have ever encountered, but it is hard to beat free...
How to last longer in the cold plunge
> Standing reminder that any device smart enough to run a real web browser shouldn't use one of these and doesn't need one.

Why not? Or why not use both?

> The primary use case for these is for blocking ads on devices that don't allow running a real browser and yet still shows ads, such as "smart home" devices, TVs, etc.

What about non-browser apps on mobile devices or even desktops? Lots of apps have invasive ads and are unlikely to offer an extension api to block them with.
Any Aliens on Super-Earths Would Have a Tough Time Flying to Space
> and you simply want them to be deluded

I'm pretty sure that's not what I said.
By making cron jobs to forge timestamps during a race ?
This is an excellent book by a science writer with a long reputation. You’ve completely got the wrong end of the stick.
There are a few mostly positive comments here about NextDNS but I'll start a new comment since I'm thinking about switching away from NextDNS. Why? I'm on a Mac / Safari now and would like to enable their "Hide IP address from trackers" feature but if I do, then I start seeing advertisements on websites that would normally be blocked by NextDNS. So I have to uncheck this option and can't use Apple's feature. Overall, I guess the two can't be used together, per an issue reported on the NextDNS Help site:

https://help.nextdns.io/t/q6yq4xy/nextdns-stops-working-prop...

Does anyone by chance know if this is a known issue with AdGuard or even Pi-hole?
> Statistics from the police is the least accurate way to measure minor crimes, those stats mostly tracks how active the police is and not how much crime there is.

Bullshit. You're applying census logic to crime statistics to sow FUD. The census doesn't count people who hide from the government. That does not mean we cannot trust census data, just that it isn't flawless.

It's a count of crimes reported by citizens. You can drill down further to see which ones stuck through to arrests and convictions. This is the closest to actual data we're ever going to come in measuring a concept like "crime."

The problem is that the stats tell a wildly different story than what progressives want to hear, so they move to discredit the police and their data with academic vagaries like "overpolicing." Let's examine that.

Police supposedly overpatrol black communities. Besides Wayne Williams and the DC snipers, can you name any black serial killers?

Something like 35% of all serial killings in America are committed by black males (4-5 victims each, and this does not include gang shootings!). The implication is that if police "overpoliced" white areas in the same way, there would be a similar rise in body count from white perpetrators. White communities should be knee-deep in their dead by this logic, yet I don't see anybody complaining about all the corpses in the streets. The act of policing does not "generate" murder victims. Black men just kill a lot of people and it's an uncomfortable truth.

Domestic violence is the other big lie we swallow. Men stopped beating their wives, so women invented new reasons to claim victimhood. Now just yelling at them is reframed as assault in the social sphere, and we're presented no end of excuses for why "rape" can't be reported to the police. It's not spousal rape anymore, it's more-vague "consent violation." Adhering to agreements that are subject to arbitrary change is impossible and unenforceable, but if you run afoul of it, they run to social media telling "their" truth (which is notably distinct from "the" truth). Nobody asks your side or gives you a fair hearing. They immediately isolate you from friends and family and sever your means of financial support. This is literally vigilante domestic violence against men, committed by the "victims," in plain sight, with public support. Believing women (or anybody else) without evidence is the flag of a fool. Police report or it didn't happen.

Here's the truth: the argument of overpolicing was applicable only to property crime, but through sophistry the left reframes it to look like it applies to all crime, the stats are faulty and all cops are bastards. Every bit of this is exaggeration for political effect.

It would not surprise me in the least if Denmark or Sweden did in fact have the highest rates of property theft. You have pickpockets, high density, and are welcoming of refugees and gypsies. I trust the stats. I don't trust you.
Coming from C#/Typescript i don't get why people find rust so difficult, i mean its got its rought edges that take some getting used to but the few times i've used it it didn't seem all too difficult, and a shit ton easier than looking at C/C++
Hugo is getting a lot of love in here (with good reason). If you do end up trying Hugo and feel it's like 90% what you want but never quite perfect, do check out Zola (https://www.getzola.org/). It feels the most like Hugo of anything I've tried but I found the docs and the template system better.
What's the reason for using RGB rather than, say, HSV? RGB seems like it would be fairly discontinuous. Or, do I have that backwards?
I get your point but also this is what whistleblower laws are for. A lot of times it’s in the company’s best interest to comply… until 50%+ of the population opts out
My personal rule is simple, but may not work for anyone who isn't me: when I find myself fantasizing/considering leaving on a regular basis, it's time for me to find another position elsewhere.

Experience has taught me that my gut is almost always right with this sort of thing.
> no doubt that it would have been better if the world didn't exist

That's incredibly boring though.
It's hard to believe that toothbrushes run Java. There's just not enough space in them for that. Plus 3 million is a huge number.
If 90% of businesses fail then just put armor on the ones with bullet holes.
Our New Cities Can Be Born in the Ashes of the Old
It’s an open discussion not settled in any direction.
Well, we are on HN. We have to make allowances.
Calibre is a bit of a UI mess but it does what it needs to do and well once you figure out the UI.
I don’t think there is a functional difference beyond a certain point. No matter how expensive a car is, it ultimately is still just a car. Porches still can’t fly.

I definitely do get the power they feel though. My most memorable moment of middle school was when a classmate threatened to kick my family out of our house as the apartment was owned by his parents. I would think rich people more often socialize with other rich people in which they don’t wield that power.
SOR - system of record
SAT - ?
CMES - ?
> DNA/Alleles do in fact encode the "blueprints for life".

Not really. They are more like incomplete recipes that depend on external factors to fill in the missing information.

However, this has been known for decades and is not a new discovery. So I agree that this article is not describing any kind of breakthrough.
I kind of miss IRC, but it was probably for a different ‘me’. I ran my own network, with lots of people on it, when I was like…13! Nobody should’ve let me do that. But it was what had me cut my teeth on FreeBSD and Linux. I wrote my own weird UnrealIRCd configuration generator with Perl. IRC bots! Again, with Perl. For all IRC’s downsides vs modern IM services, it sure was easy to start with socket programming and get a bot together quickly. “Scrolling” ASCII images! mIRC colour codes! PP4L! I remember getting help with installing Gentoo on Freenode #gentoo (or was it ##gentoo?), also as a 14 year old. I’d at times love to say that all that knowledge has exited me, but for better or worse some of it remains.
I wanted to find a counterexample, but for some strange reason they're all gone?
Not to detract from the article, but: Wow the meaning of the term "data scientist" has changed since the days of "sexiest job". From the article description:

- Rachel has a master’s degree in cell biology and now works in a research hospital doing cell assays.

- She learned a bit of R in an undergrad biostatistics course and has been through the Carpentries lesson on the Unix shell.

- Rachel is thinking about becoming a data scientist and would like to understand how data is stored and managed.

Data Scientists, back in the day, were largely people with both a fairly strong quantitative background and a strong software engineering background. The kind of people who could build a demo LSTM in an afternoon. Usually there was a bit of a trade-off between the quant/software aspects (really mathly people might be worse coders, really strong coders might need to freshen up on a few areas of mathematics), but generally they were fairly strong in each area.

In many orgs it's been reduced to "over paid data analysts" but I wouldn't even hire "Rachel" for a role like that.
Is there a neat netbox > dhcp allow & dns/reverse loop config I can setup? How do you even do that in ipv6 and netbox IPAM?
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They're basically incomplete recipes (see my other post upthread). But that's not a new discovery.
Almost every software engineering book:

Halting on an error is often best, as is raising the error after catching it, unless you're certain it should be subdued or aware, expect the issue, and have limited risk.

Every dev project:

Hold up, couldn't this raise an exception? That's bad!
You also need an IBM storage array
You are, his explanations are clear and logical. Yours are touching mysticism.

Plausible deniability works, in the real world, today. There's nothing contrived about it.
Totally agree. 32 inch display, 3 desktops mapped to Meta+left arrow, meta+up arrow, meta+right arrow. I don't even have to think about it to get to the desktop that is the up arrow.

I do have a 24 inch monitor that sits vertically to the side of this monitor but I haven't turned it on in at least a year. Even having to move my eyes is a waste of time. Screen space is simply not an issue for me.

Hope these people enjoy their videos because you aren't getting a whole lot more. It is like when I bought the sega saturn for like $800 adjusted for inflation as a kid. It was so cool for one New Years eve party and that was about it.
They still have a couple of decent writers. But CN’s business model is buy publications with lots of eyeballs and increase the revenue per eyeball while decreasing the total number of eyeballs per publication but firm-wide across all properties eyeballs are on an upward trajectory. It’ll last as long as it does then there will be nothing but crap. Like SciFi turning into the wrestling channel at scale.
I don't think it's as simple as this naive approach suggests, but it's a good preliminary analysis. It's a good lesson that while being absolutely correct might be quite difficult, diving in and having a go might get you further than you think.