skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL FTC has a blog. The writing style is not at all what I would expect from an official government channel:

> When uttered by a pirate, “Avast!” is a nautical term for “Listen up and cut it out.” And when the FTC says “Avast!” to software company Avast, it means the same thing. UK-based Avast Limited told consumers that using its software would protect their privacy by preventing the tracking and collection of their browser information. But according to the FTC, from 2014 to 2020, guess who was tracking consumers’ browser information and then selling it to more than 100 other companies through an affiliate called Jumpshot? Ironically enough, Avast Limited. We’re not sure how much the $16.5 million financial remedy is in doubloons, but we hope the terms of the proposed settlement will remind other companies to relegate conduct like that to Davy Jones’ Locker.

(not saying it's bad, just surprising!)
a) While it is indeed a beautiful and very handy project, this isn't free —— it's freemium.
I hope this doesn't derail the conversation much, but I found it interesting that you seem to be using 5 digit years, a convention I've never seen before. What drives this choice?
Does it still require a login? If so thanks but no thanks.
There was 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, XL and now 3.0.

Not that weird.
Vsauce is the saddest one for me. It used to be really interesting long form(at least back then it was "long form", now several hours long videos are fairly common in that space) educational content, now it's just spamming shorts in order to sell their subscription boxes full of toys.
I wonder how much power the wifi antenna on the cubesat is pumping out.
How cooking might have influenced brain development, from tedx:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_XH1CBzGw
Vladstudio is the project of digital artist Vlad Gerasimov
So our local school board is closing schools for the day - but check out how they communicated it:

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On Monday, April 8, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over southern Ontario. The City of Hamilton is expected to experience a deep partial solar eclipse, with the timing of this event presenting a concern for school dismissal. The solar eclipse will begin at approximately 2 p.m. and end around 4:30 p.m.

A total solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and earth, completely blocking the face of the sun. The sky will darken as if it were dawn or dusk. These events can pose potential risks and severe damage to eyesight if proper precautions are not taken. Viewing the sun directly during an eclipse can permanently damage the retina's light-sensitive cells.

In addition to the physical risks associated with directly viewing the solar eclipse, a period of increased darkness will occur. The peak period of darkness (referred to as the mid-eclipse) will occur at approximately 3:20 p.m. This aspect of the eclipse can present safety concerns for students, staff and families during dismissal time.

Hamilton Public Health Services (HPHS) understands that there are significant risks associated with the unprotected viewing of the solar eclipse and is supportive of HWDSB’s desire to mitigate potential risks. Shifting the P.A. Day is a proactive measure to support the safety and well-being of students, staff and families.

HPHS is working with HWDSB to provide information for families and staff regarding safety considerations. These resources will be shared closer to the P.A. Day on Monday, April 8.

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I sent them a letter in response:

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I fully support changing the PA Day so that children have a once-in-a-generation, highly educational opportunity to view this incredible celestial event. Describing it as risky and dangerous is just plain weird! There are plenty of dangerous natural phenomena (e.g. the lake that we happen to be situated next to, in which many people drown each year), but rather than frighten people, we educate them on how to safely enjoy them. This is an incredible opportunity to teach kids about solar cycles, space, etc., and something we should all be excited about.

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I didn't a response. I'm still completely baffled by this!
Be sure to plan for enormous traffic jams after the eclipse ends. Even extremely rural back/side roads will be bumper to bumper.
Ah my mistake, didn't read your final line properly.
Then that doesn't make any sense to me.
Thanks for the feedback!

- We'll take look to address this.

- We actually did slightly speed up the video. We will re-upload the video with the original speed. Thanks for calling this out!
Before long we're going to need a new word for physical 'safety' - when dealing with heavy machinery, chemicals, high voltages, etc.
CrossOver 24 with Wine 9 in record time
ctrl+r not working. Pass.
I literally caught myself thinking about a cyberattack merely because its sort of exciting (albeit terrible). And then realizing despite its prominence in my mind, it’s probably not the most likely cause (although certainly plausible still). And furthermore, that my mind gravitates to that without any real information suggesting it over other explanations. More about fearing for the worst instead of what you want I think.
There are 100% at least some ways of learning that ill prepare us for the world we're eventually going to be thrown into

I mean, we're talking "learning". Even negative reinforcement and beatings are a way that was a "learning style" at one point, that ppl defended as "worked for me". "Every way of learning is fine" is not a sensible way to enter the conversation about education
What Is the ClickHouse Operator for Kubernetes?
> Aligning digital teachers with our broken education system that thinks “answers” are the important part of education is a terrible terrible idea.

Your position is inherently incorrect and a conflation of what you think is being done.

Being provided the answer might be a decent method to learning X concept. But the answer is ALWAYS downwind of the techniques, which you are actually being taught every step of the way, in every single teaching system. If you learned+mastered the technique or concept, getting to the answer is just proving it with those things, and mostly mechanical while you write down the steps.

How would you solve a problem that no one has ever touched before, and that no one knows the answer to? Where are you going to be provided the answer?
You don't even have to guess, BLS exposes this data to the public, search for "software developer": https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
Kinda Nice
The fact they have so many upvotes on blatant bigotry... and people say this forums moderation (or tech) doesn't have an issue of leftist radicalism.

What happened to treat others like you'd like to be treated?
They raised 110M in October. How much are they burning and how? Training each model allegedly costs hundreds of k.
They have a Life option, that was unexpected (to me). I will consider it when it’s time to help a family member buy a computer…

would be nice to be able to to install a Linux and yet have a maintained way to run Windows programs.
> (inset upcoming decap replacement)

What's wrong with DecapCMS?
> can AI more efficiently and productively distribute capital to promising enterprises than human beings can?

Sure, but why would the billionaires who own the warehouse full of GPUs permit that to happen? There's a ton of better ways capital could be distributed, and the barriers to implementing them seem to be primarily extant rich people, not the lack of super-awesome ai venture capitalists.
'go run cmd/COMMAND' is what I like best. I normally don’t bother descending further than the root of a project in the shell because all my other interactions are in Emacs rather than a terminal (I rarely use the shell in Emacs because the shell is so much less powerful for most stuff). Maybe that’s weird. I think folks who live in vi spend a lot more time bouncing around directories in the shell.
We've banned this account for posting lots of unsubstantive and flamebait comments and ignoring our requests to stop.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Back up in Cartersville, north of ATL @ 13:12. Oddly enough my text messages say they went through at 12:43 but my response to someone's message when once my phone had everything roll in at once is timestamped 13:12
For those interested in the concept, there's a rotating house (aka Round House) in Wilton, Connecticut. I remember visiting it when it was for sale, it was pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gXBqH46aww&ab_channel=Realt...

https://roundhousewilton.com/
With the larger platforms, the more you use the platform the more specific the feed or recommendations become. What you describe sounds indeed like the surface level feed that a new or logged out account would get. Ignore all feeds and search for specific things, such as collision detection. Then you will come across genuinely good channels which you can subscribe to. The feed will then no longer show those crappy superficial popular topics.
However the YouTube Shorts has an insanely addictive nature, I regret every second spent in that feature. To contrast, the rest of youtube contains so much useful educational content. I really learned a lot thanks to these videos. In the last two years I stopped watching regular videos and started watching Shorts, which I find truly regrettable.
tldr

> While building a feature, we performed a database migration command locally, but it incorrectly pointed to the production environment instead, which dropped all tables in production.
> There's some technicality of "with enough gearing anything can move anything" but at some point the losses involved overcome the power provided.

I don't see why they would. You can keep your gearing losses low as long as the first stage requires medium force.

If we oversimplify, if each stage loses ten percent of the incoming power while applying an 8:1 gear ratio, then you gain 7x more force every stage.

The situation where power disappears is when you add so many extra stages that the first stage requires almost no force and has to spin super fast to input work. So don't do that. Design the system so that the input is in the correct speed range for your power source.
It's a common thing I'm noticing about videos from technical people on their products. They're so intimately familiar with the product (obviously because they made it) that they just fly through everything because they just assume that the viewer already understands the product. We don't.
Shame on you for teaching people to pollute the Internet with material nobody is looking for and which ruins discovery for legit material.

I advise you to retire to a life of quiet penitence.
So I asked SD to generate a modernist monument. It was abstract concrete shapes with a set of stairs leading to nowhere. Then I asked it to generate a postmodern monument and it was also abstract concrete shapes but some were painted red and the stairs were removed.

I did feel it got it exactly right.
> Our favorite "testimonials" from the AI

Is this ethical? What purpose could this serve besides tricking inattentive readers into thinking these are real?
This is very cool! I recently started managing my Astro site content with Notion as a CMS, thanks to `notion-to-md` [1] and `@notionhq/client` [2] but media management is a hassle.

I had been planning to re-host Notion media files to Cloudflare R2 and rewrite content, but it might just be simpler to use Pages CMS due to built-in R2 support.

But also, I like using Notion apps on the go. Hmm.

[1] https://github.com/souvikinator/notion-to-md

[2] https://github.com/makenotion/notion-sdk-js
You monster. Have an upvote.
I have to many two factor authentications that for some reason only use Google or Microsoft apps. Also there's bankid but I guess that still can use a key fob for the time being. Otherwise I would be happy to get rid of my phone.
Many had hopes for the TechShop / Hackerspace paradigm to help with this, but it appears it didn't end up too viable as a business and Hackerspaces were problematic in their own ways.
Obviously you’re a self loathing executive.
This has been my experience. It depends on your role and on the org you're with (and often the size of the org).

I've worked exclusively for startups my entire career and, for me, it's easier to hide my ADHD symptoms in the chaos of a startup. Further, there's tons of novelty in startups and many opportunities to learn something that was previous outside your wheel house.

Of course, there are downsides to startups (e.g. career stability) so it's not for everyone.
Although my first thought was also the climate emissions, we have to be careful with these numbers, as 1kWh of electricity in Sweden is very different from 1kWh of electricity in Poland.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

Poland is about 30x dirtier than Sweden. World numbers vary all over the place.

Similarly for beef - are the cattle raised under conventional agriculture (with maximum emissions) or regenerative agriculture (with minimum emissions)?

By my rough count, an example round-trip flight for this trip is about 2600 miles (~4200km) with an approximate climate cost of about 1100kg per person. This accounts for the fact that airline emissions do roughly 3x the damage as expected (compared to ground transportation) as contrails form cirrus clouds which "are too thin to reflect much sunlight, but ice crystals inside them can trap heat. Unlike low-level clouds that have a net cooling effect, these contrail-formed clouds warm the climate... A 2011 study suggests that the net effect of these contrail clouds contributes more to atmospheric warming than all the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by planes since the dawn of aviation."

https://www.science.org/content/article/aviation-s-dirty-sec...

We have ways to make electricity and food carbon-cheap, and potentially even carbon-negative, but the same is not currently true for flying. I think we should move to passenger ships for transoceanic trips and electrified trains for overland travel.
Lots of people are complaining. It's why Moxie wrote those many articles. It's why there's so many comments bringing up Matrix and others. People were even doing this before Matrix was E2EE! So yeah I'm tired of hearing it so calling people's complaints out. If you don't like it, fix it. It's HN and people are devs here.
Paper work no, but last week she was being told two different things from two different doctors. None of them talked to each other/between each other and she had to physically drive from one office to another to get her own medical records.
I want to point out that you can do a similar thing on reddit too. There's a setting for disabling recommended posts on the home tab. Combine that with unsubscribing to all subreddits (maybe except /r/nosurf) and you get a detoxified home tab.

I tried to do something similar with twitter (now known as X), but it doesn't seem to work.
Sure I’m bootstrapping a small toy now. But to suggest that every single business idea worth building right now can be bootstrapped - I don’t see it.
Intel is a competitor, but not in the same niche. Intel isn't sharing their foundry designs or 18A information with TSMC when they get chips made. AMD will never outsource to Intel...they would be basically giving the keys to the kingdom by doing so. TSMC doesn't have competitors at the chip design level...thats what makes them a perfect foundry.
Because history has shown that the money is in selling the picks and shovels, not operating the mine. (At least for now. There very well may come a point later on when operating the mine makes more sense, but not until it's clear where the most profitable spot will be)
It feels like I haven't logged onto it in ages... Chrome pushed an update that made me have to log in and do TFA each time I opened the browser, and that was a nail in the coffin.

The best content on YouTube is berried behind a wall of Mr Beast and Pewdie Pie style fluffery that I can't find any real value in most of the time. They dictate what is favorable, and that ruins the entire experience for me. The search has been flooded with SEO title spam, which makes finding specific content damn near impossible and/or very tedious.

I don't think you can be addicted to a hammer if it's a highly functional tool in getting work done. I don't think you can get addicted to a television if it's a tool used for relaxation or entertainment. I think we need to stop considering that apps become addictive, and really speak on if they manage to deliver on their promises and functional purposes.... Just my opinion.

Most apps become extremely annoying after years of being highly functional, and that represents corporate corruption more so than having an addictive product. It's not addicting if it does not fulfill a valid purpose when it begins to charge money for ad laced content or repeatedly waste people's time, apps cease to be useful after that point.
How to set up a mobile-friendly gateway to any SIP provider
1. Most of the writers and directors on those movies were white men.
2. The notion that every time someone who isn’t a white man is hired to do something it’s an example of DEI is profoundly evil and stupid.
The average user probably isn't reinstalling their OS anyways. They don't even really have to rely on this method anymore because I was born in 2008 and grew up with Windows. It actually kind of blew my mind when I realized all *nixes were case sensitive and that they didn't have the dir and cd commands by default, all I knew was how Windows did things and I'm still pretty used to it, as much as I wish I could trust it more but I've tried to lock down my main version (LTSC IoT 2021) as much as possible from MS data collection.
Please don't post like this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The public only see the 'safe' lobotomized versions of each, though.

I wonder how far ahead the internal versions are?
House of Theseus
Social media has been the only open venue for young people for a while now, where the door to success is not closed and welded shut by old folks. Sure, all those likes and followers will not give them any monetary benefit to speak of, but neither does working or having a career.

If it was conceivable to raise in the ranks and get good compensation and respect by hard and diligent work, young people would be very interested. But that's not been the case for a long time. Young people will always flock to where they can succeed on their own merits, wether that was being a soldier, sailing in the merchant fleet, digging for gold, acting, business, technology, etc.
Tokens (be they tokens or bytes) basically atoms of input to a LM. So you'd have to figure out how to express the relationship between tokens and bytes to the LM. I guess you could do an incremental thing e.g.

- make vocab ~40k tokens + 256 tokens (for each possible byte),

- start training with 100% tokens,

- then after some portion of train budget has elapsed, randomly replace some tokens with corresponding byte-tokens,

- then ramp the fraction of replacements up so you're training on 100% byte tokens for the last xx% of training, without ever exceeding an 8k (or whatever) sequence length

- then apply the trick from TFA to get xk -> 8xk/64xk bytes of context?

but I'd guess the interesting part of a byte-transformer is multimodality, and we'd need more than a few tricks to get from ^^ to there.
Does code weavers actually work any better than wine?
You never even commented that it can be expensive just said it's a terrible idea because it's "lose-lose" and a "traffic problem".

Anyway, I refuted ALL of your points and even supplied angles for keeping costs down while driving value to defined audiences.

I personally scraped and ML'd all AirBnB listings and calendar data every day for over a year to build a product. It didn't cost that much in time and $. Got a shit ton of value out of it. Someone even built a nice business doing exactly what I was doing.

If you look on the other thread for the OP, someone had done 100m products for $550/mo. You also must not understand that shopify and woocommerce have structured data available because you are talking about people being needed to keep product data up to date. They aren't scraping the frontend.

Personally I'm a riches in niches guy and a more defined audience and product set would be the way to go off of what they've started.

The ocean doesn't need to be boiled to provide value to consumers and to merchants here.
Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
> Every country has it's tradeoffs. Some have high tax and a good social net, some the opposite. Each of those have their advantages.

And that completely glosses over there are demonstrably worse countries. North Korea, Eritrea, Russia, Uganda - for examples.

And there's also significantly better countries too. The Nordic countries come to mind.

And for the USA, try driving through rural America, Appalachia, any Native American reservation country.. hell, even inner cities. A few live it big, and the rest barely survive. It used to be better. Not now.

> But for 40% income tax, you would expect a hell of a lot more than what you're describing.

Exactly. I want democratic socialism. And the corporations have that here. The individuals? We get unabashed caveat emptor capitalism.

> Ironically the government could dramatically improve matters by interfering in your private life less, probably saving you money in the process as well.

Go away, libertarian. I am not one of you.

This is the shit you get when you let let libertarians run "government": https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/colorado-...
I worked with my uncles law firm and know that the process for getting medical records is a huge pain. Back then I never understood why there couldn't be some better system for getting medical records between authorized parties.

Growing up, my family friend who is a trauma surgeon always told me she hated all the paperwork she had to do.
I hate to be negative, I do, but Shaun Overton is a fool. He's wasting an enormous amount of money, energy, and time to achieve approximately nothing when he could do so much more if he expended those resources on a non-idiotic project. It's his time and money to waste, but it hurts to see it when he could really do a lot of good with it instead. His heart's in the right place.
You are not aligned at all with my comment.

I said CISOs are uniformly incompetent at cybersecurity. No matter how many resources they are provided they are uniformly incapable of delivering security acceptable to the business customers, shareholders, and stakeholders.

There are exactly zero universes in which it is acceptable for a bank to be thoroughly compromised for 1 M$. If they wrote the truth in their advertising and investor documents there would be calls for blood. It is the job of the security organization to make sure the CEO is not aware of the truth so that the CEO can continue safely making statements palatable to the stakeholders.

This is not a problem that can be solved by the current actors through increased resources, effort, or focus. They have demonstrated they are incapable of achieving minimally acceptable outcomes across the entire range in every field. There are no gold standards to point to, no paragons to emulate, just piles of crap littering the wasteland. Meaningful security will not be attained until we throw away all of the commercial IT garbage and build things on the various high robustness systems designed and verified to protect against professional and state actors.
> but I understand them as quite dysfunctional, and not something that should be catered to

I'd be happier to accept this if you'd explain why it's dysfunctional.