skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how popular "sever less" would be if it were called "depending on the kindness of strangers"
The segmentation aspect is interesting, but the problem I have with H is that it is circular, i.e. 0 and 1 represent virtually the same hue, and my intuition is that this lends itself poorly to a NN. The luminosity argument is valid, but that is not unique to HSL, hence my intuition that YCbCr (or related) would outperform.
It's "just" a basaltic eruption characteristic of shield volcanoes, and Hawaii is probably the best-known example of shield volcanic eruptions. Kilauea has been essentially continuously erupting for most of its observed history, and has not to my knowledge ever produced a pyroclastic flow (although there have been some steam explosions resulting from magma overflowing the water table before the water table boils off).
A "broad outline" of future history is not impossible to formulate. Science fiction has shown us this much. Some times more accurately than others.

So what is a broad outline but a reasoned blend of factual understanding, probabilities, and writerly intuition ?
> in reality it's both Pakistan and India

Pakistan’s top brass is anti-India. They’re also somewhat rational. If Pakistan’s nukes are launched, it’s because the zealots took control. At that point, I’m betting on Israel or even one of the Arab monarchies (if not Islamabad itself) [1].

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Sh...
Oh definitely, and and it will always be a game of cat and mouse.

That feature on your Dad's phone sounds like a decent step in the right direction.
Yeah that was an interesting weasel word. It raised a lot of questions.
I can offer a reading list. Hope this helps.

1. The Mom test - Rob Fitzpatrick

2. Never eat alone - Keith Ferrazzi

3. The Tim Ferriss podcast - Episode #717 with Noah Kagan

4. Crossing the chasm - Geoffrey Moore

5. Competing Against Luck - Clayton M. Christensen
I liked using iTunes for library management even before I got an iPod, I kinda liked the “hub” UI design rather than the miniplayer + library window (and even + playlist window) the others had.

Even if— sorry, when— my library got corrupted, and when different sections started taking 1-2 seconds to load, I still liked using it.
Activate the noprocrast option in your HN account settings and see where you land next ;)
With some shallow understanding on how those models work, this looks much more like usual hallucination likely due to sparse data around "Tabitha" and "Cherry" which makes a single training data much more representative. If you try some common names like "Emily" or "Sarah", it will just do the job.

If you're trying to make the case that it's cheating because it is already in the training set, then you probably should come up with different questions. This is machine learning 101.
This is awesome, I'm incredibly happy to see more alternatives on the Javascript Runtime Space!

In a nutshell: LLRT aims to have incredibly fast startup times compared to Node, Bun or Deno (which is critical in Lambda environments).

LLRT is built using Rust, Tokio and QuickJS under the hood.
Here's their compatibility with Node.js APIs [1]

We (at Wasmer), have been working on a very similar approach: WinterJS, which is using SpiderMonkey instead (but also built on top of Rust and Tokio) [2]. HN announcement was just three months ago [3]

Really excited to see how the ecosystem is evolving!

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/llrt?tab=readme-ov-file#compatibi...

[2] https://github.com/wasmerio/winterjs

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047872
Well, sticking with it until you find something new is a positive since it shows you're willing to put in the work, BUT do not do so at the expense of your health. It's okay to quit early if you can afford to and can't afford not to. Don't look loyal if it's killing your life.

As for "spin," something like learning what you dislike in a position or company, or how your current position has reinforced your passion for the position you're applying to - things with intent between the lines are fine. Avoid saying anything like "I needed the money" or "that place sucks so bad."

Above all, learn from this (of course). Was anything weird during the interview and hiring process that you can see in retrospect was suspicious or misleading? If they had said one extra sentence in the job description, would it have tipped you off that the role was a bad fit? Is it really the job or is it the people that are a bad fit?
Perhaps a relevant question: Are you describing a business need, a (supposedly) good way to implemented it, or how are you combining the two here?

> OK, hmmm, how do we get more global coverage?

Like I said, combine all the Wikipedia editions using Wikidata.

> oh, of course, France would be fr.wiki and Germany would be de.wiki

And of course, what language is e.g. Belgium (in your model)?

> And then you have some ideas about how to do that, ideas which are not strictly "wikipedia"

In this strict case, how do you remove duplicates (between the different language editions)?
Ask HN: How Far in the Future Before This Product Exists?
For the longest time I've imagined a book with paper pages that displays digital print of anything in its storage.

The ultimate device will have configurable pages for touch and feel; color; backlighting; and the ability be torn; folded; paperclipped; all self healing upon command. All pages so "configured" will belong to a particular book/article in storage and thus change depending upon what is being read (as will the number of pages in the book).

The important thing is that the feel will be indistinguishable from hard cover (or soft cover) books we know and love today.

I have no doubt such a device is coming (some day). I'm just curious what HN thinks how long the wait will be.
These types of threads are why I love HN. Will check this out today.
Yeah I don't know either. WhatsApp is universal in the UK but businesses still use SMS or email.
Am I crazy, or is there no label for the Y-axis on those graphs? Do we know how much Thunderbird has actually grown?
It would have gone the way of the Palm Pre guaranteed. They just don't have the cash compared to Apple/Google
I didn't get that vibe from reading the post at all. On the contrary, I perceive it as a celebration of the person who had invested so much of their (unfortunately ultimately limited) time to their common cause.
The comments were moved from multiple upvoted stories including this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300679
Are there other browsers that have successfully built a niche? And how does one use that to bring in enough money to sustain a reasonable sized organization?
To me it neither seems easy, nor any guarantee of success.
Seems like what any reasonably sized corporation would do with an entirely new product, based on entirely new and very unreliable tech.
OPML Is Underrated
depending, on the degree of assimilation the amputee has for the prosthetic, there are opportunities, such as augmentation. one may have a number of shells, or skins, and serve to generate power or mounting for wearable tech.
Being a devil's advocate, why would you hire someone when they are already doing the work for free?
This isn't some "pro-trump" thing. It is the idea that people think they were anywhere close to a regime change. It would be funny if it wasn't so contemptible.

As for the so called leaders in the building that day, I have zero respect for anyone who has to cower from their own citizens. Any leader worth his salt would have stood on a soap box and addressed the crowd. But the western world no longer has leaders. It has teleprompt readers, and lobbyist controlled puppets.
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> you'd have civil unrest or worse on your hands regardless any information flows.

In a normal state sure. In a semi-failed state which no sane person would consider a democracy? Probably not so much..
I don't want to be even peripherally associated with people who think these are socially legitimate tools.
That’s perfectly fine for me. I can map the key items myself, the hard part is I don’t want to devote a solid 120+ hours manually creating the CSVs for 150 receipts.

Is it possible you can discuss more what you did?
Well, one of those two countries has a no-first-use nuclear doctrine, so I imagine there's a probability conditional there.
Also not all laws apply to everyone, specially to organisations that have their own governance structure.
Money is always the problem. In the carrier world, the party accepting ("terminating") the call gets paid by the party originating it. This is why there are VoIP services that will give you a free inbound-only number and why others only charge for outbound calls.

If you're a carrier, it pays to terminate all calls -- spam or not -- by delivering them to your actual customer. You get paid by the originating carrier, and in a lot of cases you also get to charge your customer per-minute fees (or use up their prepaid minutes).
Isn't this the "App Store" that they are gate keeping for this kinds of threats?
I suspect this will be challenged and the Supreme Court will overturn it on First Amendment grounds.

Why? Because creating hate and fear through variouis forms of media is a key part of politics. For example, local media (newspapers, radio and TV) are very big on ppushing crime hysteria narratives, despite crime being near all time lows.

There's too much vested interest in unlimited robocalls to let this ruling stand.

The one exception to all this is if you use an AI-generated voice to impersonate someone to say something they never said but this is already illegal on the grounds of defamation. The same applies to any deepfakes.

The real problem is that the phone network as it exists now needs to die. Add to that the decades-long effort to pack the court and overturn campaign finance laws (ie Citizens United v. FEC).

So I suspect this move will go nowhere. This will probably be even easier to challenge when SCOTUS overturns Chevron, as most expect them to do, essentially gutting executive agency power.
Changed the setting! Thanks for pointing that out
Christopher Priest was working on a biography of Ballard when he died this week.
I would say that the biggest missing features is not being able to mix normal and delta tables.

This would allow easier reporting within a very active db without too much bother.
While American Football won't end anytime soon -- depending on your definition of soon. It's worth noting that youth participation rates are falling dramatically, and there are big regional differences. It will take a while, but football will eventually end up as a niche regional sport. Unless a drug like this or some revolutionary piece of safety equipment came along. Then I could see the sport staying on top long term.
I also have grown more attuned to the fact that humans are just another animal, but in practice this has put me more at ease with eating meat as we are omnivorous predators in the food chain.

I am much more aligned, however, with sustainable harvesting (hunting) than industrial farming these days. There is nothing natural about the modern slaughterhouse.
I think most of what people call "Agile" (big A) is a cargo-cult where they try to imitate and prioritize the very things the original manifesto[0] devalues -- especially processes and tools and following a plan.

All that while devaluing or ignoring the power of individuals and interactions and responding to change.

It turns out that who you hire, how they interact, and how productive you allow them to be have far more power to create value than applying certain "Agile" processes and tools.

[0] https://agilemanifesto.org/
This really depends on the details.

If, say, one member of a mosque is under surveillance for good reasons and then you extend that to everyone attending the mosque for no particular reason other than "well, maybe we'll catch something, doesn't to try": that's probably not a good thing.

On the other hand, if the imam is preaching violent rhetoric, multiple members are under surveillance for good reasons, and there's good reasons to believe that the violence is an important part of the mosque community in the first place (rather than a relatively small detail): then that's perhaps not such a bad thing. You don't "accidentally" associate with that kind of thing.

Or: you probably don't need detailed reasons to put someone in Don Corleone's employ under surveillance.
When they don't need to work to survive, which is never in our system.
No they tried to bully us to buy music by not letting us import things like album covers etc. I used Media Monkey mostly
I think generally people consider a movie to be a hit if it 1. is profitable (they immediately talk about a sequel) and 2. if it does better than expected.

The second part is the problem - if Pixar releases a movie that is good, more than recoups costs, and otherwise is a fine addition to Dreamworks lineup, it could still be considered a complete flop by most everyone.

E.g., "The Good Dinosaur" which (apparently) eventually made enough that it was "worthwhile" - didn't break any records and didn't really make money, so it's a flop (Onward even more so).

It's complicated even more by a movie being able to be a flop, cult classic, and widely loved at the same time.
Pretty much this.

Plus there are a few “news” websites that bother translating Dutch news articles into English for expats and the like.

You see this happen less with French or German news, those are typically picked up by bigger US outlets and get drowned out by the plethora of news from the US and global news that is deemed more relevant to the US market.
I haven't answered a single phone call from a number I don't recognize for years now. As far as I know, I haven't missed anything important.
Do you have data to substantiate this? I was happy RAGging with it but colleagues swear by GPT4's wisdom, saying things like Gemini forgets the middle of contexts, hallucinates the meaning of acronyms, and so on...
>It took many years for Spectre and Meltdown to be discovered, and that was for CPUs affordable for individuals.

Both of these were anticipated in security papers dating back to the 1980s. It wasn't practical to use those types of exploits on 10mhz VAXen.
Google still has too much internal fragmentation and power groups to offer a single google-subscriber package.

I'd say it is one of the most compelling reasons to kick Sundar out and get in someone who can unify google into one consistent and interoperable ecosystem.
I've observed that too and it raises some interesting psychological
thoughts.

A linguistic distinction may help if we say that incentives are not
quite the same thing as motives.

Motives can be intrinsic, coming only from one actor. "I am motivated
to learn the piano". (See Pink, "Drive" etc)

Incentives are a relation between two actors, one (leader/manager) who
sets the incentives to shape the behaviour of another. The
'incentivised person' is acted upon and is the target of the
incentives.

That means the leader has to have a working model of both the
environment (and other parametric factors) and of the group or
individual they want to incentivise.

If you challenge that internal working model you're not just playing
with logic and reason about parameters, you're challenging someone's
perception - and that's much closer to the ego.

There was a good article posted earlier by Christine VanDeVelde Luskin
on intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in the Bing preschool. Kids
always know when you're playing games at "incentivising" them. They
know it's a "bribe", which lessens your integrity, and they act up in
response.

In my opinion the manipulator has a bit of a binary choice. Either be
absolutely up-front and tell people "I am doing X as an incentive for
you to behave as Y, and I expect accordant behaviour", or, be so
clever as totally hide your manipulation. The former requires the
overt exercise of power, or at least risks the vulnerability of total
honesty.

I think nost perverse incentives come from people treading the middle
ground, being deceptive, thinking they are being clever nudging
others. But those others see right through the game.
Based on actual experience driving and living in SF, I just assume any cyclist involved in an accident was ignoring the traffic laws and found out why they exist the hard way.
Google is going to own AI like intel owns graphics cards - i.e. Not really, except at the absolute bottom of the barrel where its baked in advantage lets it offer an unbeatable price/performance proposition for people who only care about "value" and with limited real performance requirements. Google's baked in AIs will be free, and bad. Everyone else is going to let people "plug in" models via standardized APIs, because one size fits all models are just a bad idea, so that's the way google is going to have to go eventually as well, because it's what power users are going to demand.
> Japan surrendered because the US had total air superiority and bluffed about their supply of nukes.

This is at best disputed, and alternative explanations have a great deal more supporting evidence.
I mostly stopped using Facebook: I slowed down a few years ago, and generally stopped in early 2021. Now I probably open it every few months.

But, I'm still looking at news frequently when I'm on the toilet, or if I'm trying to fill a few minutes. I do it instead of reaching for a magazine. I use Google's feed. It's... addictive... But at the same time, it's not endless. At a certain point the "news" is just the "olds," and if I'm reading the "news" for that long, it's time to switch to Kindle or find something educational.
The Vision Pro works in the passenger seat if you turn on travel mode, ideally prior to starting to move. It would probably allow for you to use it in the driver’s seat as well, but I’m not quite insane enough to check.

Windows in this mode stick to the relative position of your head, but they stay fixed relative to the orientation. The pass through is pretty good, even at night, low latency and good enough clarity for seeing cars and stuff.
I dunno if it’s that weird. It can help if you want to be more social of course.
Artificial and Biological Intelligence: Humans, Animals, and Machines
I don't think there's much evidence to suggest that robocalls produce material swings in elections at all, let alone 1%, a number commonly attributed to all campaign GOTV efforts put together.
In another year or two, the M1 will be 3 generations behind. At that point Apple might well just eat a small BOM cost difference. As processes shrink the previous nodes get cheaper.
There is not a recession.
But we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty...
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Virt-Manager does allow you to edit the xml config file by hand from within the interface. So, yes you can use ipv6; but no, it's not a convenient point and click gui interaction.

I'd be curious to hear the specific reasoning behind it.
I was briefly excited to hear they had separated media synchronization from the atrocity of iTunes. I just experimented with the "Apple Devices App" for PC. Unfortunately, the experience has been poor, which is what I should have anticipated given Apple's track record for PC software.

First, the linked documentation provides no information about where to get the Apple Devices App. It turns out, it's only available from the Microsoft App Store. Fair enough, but odd that the documentation never says that. Second concern: yikes, this synchronization app is 188 Mb in size. But whatever, I have tons of storage on my PC, so let's proceed.

The final and biggest issue: the app simply never recognizes my phone. The phone is unlocked and has trusted the computer. It shows up in Windows Explorer as a storage device (significantly hobbled by Apple's needless file system obfuscation, but that's not new). The Apple Devices App never stops saying "Connect a device to proceed."

All told, a typical Apple software experience.

If Android weren't so awful, I'd be much happier. The way Android devices appear as just a standard storage device with a normal file system is so much easier to deal with.
I gave up on iTunes on PC and Apple Music in general a very long time ago (iPhone 3 era).

iTunes is just a mess. It's the software equivalent of a badly executed all-in-one printer, scanner and fax. Has it improved? No clue. I haven't bothered with it other than for backups.

My complaint about Apple Music is very simple: For some incomprehensible reason they make playing an entire album or albums, in order, as recorded, impossible. Take works such as Brandenburg concerto and a bunch of classical work or most of Pink Floyd's albums. In Windows Media Player I can listen to this work as intended, in the order the album was recorded. I can easily create a playlist of albums and play them back as recorded. With Apple Music, last I looked, this was still impossible.

I own a large library of CD's. I transferred all of them to Windows Media and clan play recorded works as intended without having to handle the physical media. Again, last I looked, this is impossible with Apple Music. The couple of attempts I made over the years were nothing less than disastrous exercises in futility.

Not sure what ideological or business basis Apple uses to effectively destroy an artist's creation and refuse to deliver it as intended. It is clear that selling single songs might be one of these motivating factors. OK, I get it. And this might even make sense for much of the large body of popular music. However, there are works of art that are not one hit wonders and, in my opinion, deserve the respect, consideration and option to experience them as intended.
I loved iTunes back then, it was the easiest way to clean up metadata and navigate music.

I only switched away from iTunes when I switched to subscription-based streaming.
Well for one, they released an app separate from Music entirely focused on listening and enjoying and discovering classical music.
what about "runas" :-) or this is considered psuedo-sudo?
sir, ive been trying to reach you about your ...
When I visited the FCC many years ago, one fo the reasons they give for allowing anonymous calls is the the protection of domestic violence victims. Eg they may need to call their abuser to talk about child support payments. They shouldn't need to reveal too much information away, particularly if it could be used to find their address (eg a phone number)
However, in many real systems the aggregate behavior follows the asymptotic trend of the central limit theorem even though the underlying distributions may not fit the strict requirements.
My guess is that it will be possible within the next decade, but not economical until the further future.

A flexible e-ink display with decent color isn't too far-fetched, but anything with more than 5 pages could end up costing a small fortune. Since a lot of the tech in such a device is redundant, most people would probably choose to buy single-page e-readers instead.

> and the ability be torn; folded; paperclipped; all self healing upon command.

This is science-fiction material science that's probably 25-50 years out.