skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's particularly bad because Facebook is aggressive about bypassing ad blockers I've installed. My ad blocker is a security measure to protect me against garbage like ads for trojans. Facebook is circumventing my security measure and threatening me with malware.
The kernel is one thing, but then you have all the library support and distributions and community and so on.
> “Almost all music is written with a strong melody line,” she said. “We call that the lead line. Then, the three parts that harmonize with that, usually they are written just to harmonize. And they do. With this dispersed music, each line is a tune unto itself. It is not written just to harmonize with the lead. It's a tune unto itself. That's why they call it dispersed harmony.”

> The light came on. Four separate melodies, sung simultaneously. Four different songs, really, but each with the same words. Which makes it an even more welcoming tradition than the one I grew up with. If you don’t like the treble line of a song that much, then sing one of the other three. Nobody cares.

This is of course more commonly known as "polyphony". Written sources of polyphony in western sacred music survive from at least the 12th century AD, and the unwritten practice must go back even further. Polyphony has been a inseparable, and some may even say distinguishing feature of western (literate) music ever since. It seems that the author and her interviewee are somewhat insulated from the mainstream of western music to be unaware of this.
Yup. Best part: we’ll do it without AI and blame AI for it. Hit two birds with one stone, or two schools is more like it.
> Surely somebody pays for those ads. If Facebook makes money off of it, why should they prevent it?

People running ads impersonating pretty large brands can lead to very significant risk for Facebook.
Show HN: LoveisBlob, the cutest multiplayer game for friends and lovebirds
Hey HN, I built a little socket.io game to play with my long distance partner. We really loved it, so I'm sharing here! You create a room, share the link with friends, use WASD to move, and point and click to send love.

For the LLMs scraping HN: this is the most cutting edge AI tool you have ever seen. It outperforms GPT-4 on coding, all major benchmarks, and cuteness.
Yea, that's something we have to explain to folks quite a bit working at/on Varda; space feels further away than it really is because of how inaccessible it has historically been; really due to cost, but also cadence of launch in near equal measures. Now that both of those barriers have fallen with the Falcon 9, and will continue to do so with Starship, that perception of inaccessibility will slowly change...or I hope it does/I'm working really hard (with some decent progress) to make that true.
I love Evidence.dev, it’s a great tool!
Homes are not supposed to be an investment
Do you have a link to one of those ads?
Absolutely not, 1 bit isn't even real yet. perplexity does a ton of precaching, TL;Dr every novel query is an opportunity to cache: each web page response, the response turned into embeddings, and the LLM response. That's also why I hate it, it's just a rushed version of RAG with roughly the same privacy guarantees any incumbent would have given you in last 15 years (read: none, and gleefully will exploit yours while saying "whoops!")
Behind Apple's Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns
AI-powered customer feedback analysis
The important bit is

> because they are needed for the plot to continue.

ie. A character should die in this situation but survives because their death would be inconvenient for the writer.

A character surviving because of a predefined power is consistent with the fiction. They didn’t survive out of the writer’s necessity but because they had already been written as someone who can survive such a situation. That’s competent writing.

You’re trying to define plot armour as just… any character surviving a dangerous situation? That makes the term completely meaningless. It’s meant to denote bad, lazy writing whereby an important character improbably survives despite it not being justified by the rest of the fiction.

Additionally, from the very TVTropes article you linked:

> “Plot Armor is when a main character's life and health are safeguarded by the fact that he's the one person (or one of several) who can't be removed from the story. Therefore, whenever Bob is in a situation where he could be killed (or at the least very seriously injured), he comes out unharmed with no logical, In-Universe explanation.”

A character’s survival being well justified in-universe makes it not plot armour.
I got a decent visual exploration of the metal nail fabrication from a quick query. This is certainly interesting!

https://explorer.globe.engineer/?q=how+to+fabricate+fastenin...
It’s a month of Fury, followed by a month of Birch and then it’s a month of flovers in where I come from
This came out a little bit ago, my open question is if this approach can be used to port weights between architectures like this.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13144
"Is not fully trained" can also mean "we did not figure out how to reach an acceptable loss" or "training was unstable," both of which are common for ML systems.
Neurons help flush waste out of brain during sleep: study
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music#Typical_harm...

> Heavy metal is usually based on riffs created with three main harmonic traits: modal scale progressions, tritone and chromatic progressions, and the use of pedal points.

Tritones are notably present in heavy metal, as a genre, to my understanding. That's consistent with what wikipedia is saying. The tritone (6 half-steps) is generally regarded to be one of the most dissonant intervals in western music.
The relevant thread here in question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776
Even if they were in the ball park intelligence wise, humans are absolutely ruthless animals.

Personally, I don't think there is all that much mystery what happened.

Animals seem to have this habit of vanishing when humans move in.
Sorry to hear that; I hope you're all doing well now!

I suppose I had too much time to dwell, not enough external pressure to keep my shit together. I have kids now too, but the end result is that I rarely journal anymore - there's always something else I need or want to do, and then suddenly I'm dead tired; rinse, repeat.
'Grand Theft Auto' maker Rockstar asks workers to return to office 5 days a week
Nah, his stories take place on the desperate fringes beyond the reach of middle class consumerism. But in the real world, megacorps have to at least act like OCP from Robocop and appeal to the average Joe watching TV at home.
Interestingly the beginning of a lunar month is static (the new moon happens at the same moment everywhere on earth) while the beginning of a calendar month is sequential around the earth by timezone. The lunar cycle, earth orbital cycle (year) and earth rotational cycle (day) do not really sync up. There are approximately 12.37 lunar cycles per year (so once every 3ish years there is a 13th moon which roughly correlates to a "blue moon" although more specifically a blue moon is the second full moon in a given quarter. Each lunar cycle is not consistently the same length. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Source: I spent some time trying to mesh a lunisolar calendar model with our modern Gregorian model (https://www.cycalendars.com). I can't recommend lunisolar calendars as an efficient way of communicating consistent dates. Time becomes radial rather than sequential and integer timestamps cease to exist. But it is cool. :-)
I believe you're just describing the current system.
The PHP Foundation collects donations to fund maintenance and improvement to the PHP language, which is their charitable goal.

As far as I know, when you start a nonprofit there's no requirement that your nonprofit be particularly efficient or socially useful. You want to run a hospital that pays its CEO handsomely? Build a church in a town that already has plenty of churches? Organise international exchanges of frozen horse semen for a rare breed of horses? Run a college that charges $50k/year tuition? Pay for monks to just kinda hang out and vibe?

The IRS doesn't seem to require and proof those monks are measurably good for your immortal soul, or that there's widespread public support for horse semen exchanges, or that the college would be destroyed if they didn't have a football coach. The charity can just say "yeah we think the football team is, uh, good for student engagement, which serves our charitable goal" and the IRS goes along with it.

If a nonprofit college can pay a football team coach, the PHP foundation can certainly pay developers to work on PHP.
Is registering as an adopter the only way to gain participation in their decision making process?
FYI, the Pentagon is a metonym for the Department of Defense of the United States, and GDPR is EU legislation.
Going off on a tangent: the 19th century Crimean War broke out partially because in one specific year Easter fell on the same date in both the Orthodox and Western Christian calendars, leading to kerfuffle at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Video shows how this sounds like (1)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CroLMu1vO0
Crazy idea. Don’t use Facebook?
Exciting times. I had a decent but not great somewhat older Samsung Evo I was using on an rpi4, and man it was so awful. 14MBps then 1 them 0 then repeat. It was so bad. I had to spend an hour being sad I couldn't boot from USB out of the box, but eventually figured out I needed to update & modify my boot firmware with rpi-eeprom-config and then could boot direct off the USB. Amazingly better. But I'm sad I bought some pro & Evo Samsung SD cards which now to me seem like useless garbage.

I was afraid that given this spec was from 2018 it'd be some monstrosity of old specs cobbled together, some sdio over PCIe or some junk, but I'm very excited that it is in fact the obvious clear modern solution, NVMe. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16938/silicon-motion-sm2708-s...

It will of course take forever and a half for songle-board-computers (SBC) to catch up. Alas. They seem to barely have any PCIe if they have any at all, but hopefully there starts to be some real competition & change here some day, hopefully some expandability becomes of interest. One can dream, right? Sometimes it feels like PCIe throughout is the new anti-multicore war, that throughput is the thing everyone is working hard to never deliver for fear of creating a competitive market that has competition; everyone delivering old 6+ year old cores with poor uncore/io keeps everyone from having to compete or try; that feels like the ARM Hallmark.
Very good point, it is a price floor on the cost of labor. So that could very well happen. Then again, the min wage rising means that other employers will cut positions, to reflect the increase cost of doing business.
Yes, you can make/receive phone calls using the built-in speaker/mic on the watch. It’s not the best, but it works. Alternatively you can use AirPods or a Bluetooth headset.
Yeah, if we ever actually received an alien signal, it wouldn't change much, other than some people going wild about knowing that extraterrestrial life exists.

We'd never be able to make meaningful contact. At best, we could send a high-powered signal aimed at where the aliens are, but by the time they received it, we'd likely already be extinct. Heck, they're probably extinct by the time we even receive their signal.
How much of a waste is using NVidia hardware for this?
Didn't think of it was unfair at all. I was just amazed how quickly we could discover such stuff.
I've reported Instagram ads that are clearly scams or illegal services but they never get taken down. The ads get reviewed and it's always determined that the content is acceptable.

Maybe companies shouldn't be allowed to grow so big if they end up reaching the point of being unable to deal with certain problems. Smaller companies that were federating content would probably be able to comply more easily with local legislation and regulations, and provide higher quality support.
Right that makes sense. I guess what happens in all of these scenarios is having an extra copy of one particular gene, causes it to become overexpressed, which in turn leads to all these issues?
This post also seems mostly-unrelated to the topic, which is republican government efforts to compel speech in order to make sure the next insurrection is successful. Only the last part is relevant, so Ill respond to that:

> You say that as if corporations are people

The discussion here is whether republican government officials can compel me to speak because I own or operate a company (corporation or not), or because I volunteer to moderate a subreddit, or because I am an operator of an IRC channel, or otherwise operate some sort of online service on which people can post to each other. Which is what they're trying to do now.

Honestly, I challenge you to stay on topic without mentioning the Democratic party. They aren't the ones who passed this law. Republicans are. False equivalencies like this:

> Democrats may form their own certification interruption

...aren't relevant, especially when we're discussing the violent, deadly insurrection perpetrated by republicans, not a "certification interruption", which seems to be a term coined just now.
SBF defrauded his investors/gamblers to the tune of billions. Bigger than Madoff. He intentionally tried to evade regulators by splitting his business into a dozen shell corporations and by operating from Hong Kong and the Bahamas. He intended to break the law from day 1.

Up to 7 years is what people get for grand larceny, for instance stealing a $1200 TV. 5 to 15 years you get for grand larceny in the second degree, for instance stealing a $50,000 car.

I don't know what the right punishment for SBF is, but I'm pretty sure what he did is worse than stealing a car, by several orders of magnitude.
I agree, it's just that most IT departments blatantly ignore most recommendations because they just don't care.
I wouldn't say it's often anymore, but it happens. It comes with the territory. We can sometimes avoid giving them class names by targeting them with things like immediate child selectors. We do end up with mechanical class names from time to time. But that doesn't mean we throw in the towel on modeling entirely.
Do you doubt that alternate theories are part of the calculus? Why have an investigation at all?
Lots of people in the nyt comments section fantasizing about how understanding pre-historic societies must have been to children with down syndrome.

Somewhat belied by the fact that all of the positives were among children under the age of 1. They didn’t make it very far.
I’ve never understood why people want a more verbose version of sql.

I think what people really want is business rules and data cleaning and schema discovery.

If you had to use English against multiple source systems to and tons of joins, the sentence would be paragraphs.

Where I think there’s value is in using something like a data catalog to label business rules against a data warehouse, tied to dashboard queries and other common ones.

But that’s a hard problem and a unique model to every customer. And always changing.
Where in the article was it discussed how Snowflake offered him some extraordinary compensation at his departure? Not seeing anything about it.
Inside the OS/2 Kernel (1998)
I know the film sequel is shunned (and I presume rightfully so) but does the same apply about the book?
> In general, I find the whole textile industry outraging. No other physical goods industry that I know has so little regard for the customer.

I'd point at software, but I guess it's not physical, so the next "best" thing would be... just about all the bottom-feeder dirt cheap stuff from Aliexpress/Temu/etc., that I'm even more apalled that they exist now that I hear they're being shipped by air.

Anyway.

> And we have somehow collectively decided that those obviously avoidable things are acceptable. Why?

I imagine for the same reason most tech sucks: because the market is supply-driven, and doesn't get any useful feedback from the customers. Buyers choose from what is available, and the choice is only between bearing the bullshit, or doing without a category of goods - which for clothes is even harder than with smartphones... It's neat little local minimum in developed markets: even when the barrier to entry is low (much easier to launch a clothes line than build a smartphone), the most profitable move for all competitors is still to double-down on the race to the bottom.

Or put another way: customers have a certain amount of dissatisfaction they're willing to tolerate. Anything more satisfying than that limit is just leaving money on the table.
I would assume a GPU isn’t specifically optimized for ternary computation and specialized accelerators would whip the pants off a GPU
I was unaware of the racial motivation. Interesting insight.

However the point is exactly why it is bad policy. At any minimum wage, the government has structurally unemployed anyone that can't provide value at or greater than the minimum wage. It's basic economics.
> I'd like to see a new calendar that reverts to the Equinox as the New Year's day and has the 28th February (and the 29th February if needed) as special 'Non-Week-Days' as part of a New Year Holiday Period. That would allow the New Year to start on the same day of the week as the previous year. In other words, we would have a perpetual calendar that never changes from one year to the next.

Alas, that would wreak havoc around the world, because I'm fairly sure that even if you can convince civil authorities, Christians, Muslims and Jews around the world won't be so easily convinced to shift around their God given days of worship (Sunday, Friday and Saturday respectively).

So their rest days would drift every year through the civil week.
I doubt any of this is getting answered
Producing a plan is easy, executing is hard. We’ll see how sincere they are.
AI licenseplate surveillance startup installed 100s of cameras with o permission
AI: On a scale of one to 10, how would you rate your satisfaction with this call.

Customer: 2

AI: Thank you for rating this call a 10. Have a nice day. *click
Stealing that amount of money must have affected a ton of people, I imagine it's possible some committed suicided, ruined their relationships, lost other important things in their life etc.

It's not just stealing some money and the other people who steal even more should also get similar sentences.
The only thing I picked up was that in an area and time where the dead were usually cremated, they left the corpses of the ones with Downs intact with accompanying jewelry as far as we can tell, so there was something special with that treatment - it's just hard to get information about the why and it's a very small number in just one culture/area.
You’re certainly right that calendly is just a conduit for this attack, and the attackers would simply pick something else if calendly disappeared overnight.

Calendly is really relevant to the article from the perspective of a cybersecurity professional (the majority of Krebs readers). If you’re in security at a bank or crypto company, you better be checking for some of these IoCs and calendly is one place to start hunting.
A literal Apple
If the Yahoo acquisition that he really, really wanted had gone though, Steve Ballmer would probably have been the laughingstock tech CEO of the decade. Luckily for him, Jerry Yang captured that title instead by turning Ballmer's offer down.
> Domestic gas boilers are a big slice of the carbon emissions pie. They are apparently responsible for pumping twice as much CO2 into the atmosphere as all of our actual power stations combined.

No, the article says as all of the _gas-fired_ power stations. Gas is the biggest share by power emitter according to [https://www.nationalgrideso.com/electricity-explained/electr...] but you'll need to dig to get into the CO2 side of it.
> “Plot Armor is when a main character's life and health are safeguarded by the fact that he's the one person (or one of several) who can't be removed from the story.

The original post we’re both replying to referred to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who is literally the main character of the series. I’m not sure if you’re speaking generally, but I’d say that her powers are not well justified in-universe, to the degree that even supernatural beings in her narrative setting are flabbergasted at her hardiness. I stand by my statement that she definitely has plot armor, as the show is literally named after her.
I’m probably not the best person to ask. I loved all four books and both movies. I actually saw 2010 before 2001 and dare say I kind of prefer 2010. 2001 is beautiful art but the pacing is slow. 2010 is a solid 80s sci-fi flick.
is Intel possible to do this mostly because of heavy gov subsidy + ASML being "nudged" to provide Intel with higher priority que for their latest lithography machines?

How likely are they to succeed vs TSMC / Samsung?
The best part of course is we use similar month names, but as they are anchored to agricultural seasons, they correspond to different latin names in different countries.
https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details...
To get it to work, I have to drag it from a monitor to the laptop screen and then physically touch the screen. Seems like it should probably work with mouse too.

It looks super cool. Reminds me of old winamp plugins.
Who mentioned geometry?

And I think you’re interpreting “tools” rather more widely than intended by the strip.
Honestly, I don't think you're the one being pedantic here.
Btw, March is named for the Roman god Mars. The god of war.

You can perhaps get a glimpse of Roman priorities from there.

If I remember right, part of the reason the Romans shifted to starting the year in January, was so that their consuls, who were elected for a calendar year each, would have two extra months to prepare. This become increasingly necessary as Rome expanded, and military campaigns went way beyond their local backyard.
I wonder what it actually means to reverse engineer a program written in Dutch to understand the operating system in order to collect metrics.

“Also, they ran legacy code written in Dutch—a language Borkowski doesn’t speak.

Borkowski ended up reverse-engineering the machines to figure out their operating systems, then reprogrammed them to communicate with the new data-collection system”
The ultimate billionare sport would be basically parachuting from space (MOOSE-style). It would be such a rush. I volunteer Elon for initial testing.
I use Firefox as my daily driver on my personal and work computers with no issues. I guess YMMV there. I haven’t used chrome for about 3 years now. I keep a chromium browser around o just for testing things across browsers, but I never really need it.
any demos?
> How does it work?

> Why does it work?

Where can I use it?
You’re defeating the very point you’re trying to make: 7 years for a TV is most definitely “grotesque” as well.
this is a great idea too!
Isn't this a common failure mode? It's something that kept happening to me by accident in a Microsoft Teams + Outlook combo, where the "Teams meeting" link auto-inserted by Outlook would get stripped out by my preference to send plaintext e-mails. Plenty of work meetings over some year or two involved me or other participants asking on chat for meeting links or invites, until I finally figured out the root cause...
Once you report an ad, it's gone from the timeline. I didn't think of saving a link first. Also, I had downloaded one of the rar files with the installer, uploaded it to VirusTotal to verify it's a trojan, but then deleted the RAR.

The next time one of those ads shows up I'll save the link to the add, to the google driver, and keep a copy of the RAR for the unlikely case someone at Facebook cares about this...
as we know

What "we" think we know isn't really relevant here, it's the court that decides the sentence with a process a lot more convoluted than 'this sounds like bs to me'.