skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just seems like the applied field of ML/AI - especially with products based on LLMs - the barriers of entry are low to non-existent.

Whipping up some MVP product/functionality and interface where the LLMs do all the heavy lifting is a weekend project.

The only gatekeeper seems to be the cost of eventual pre-training, and the LLM queries / API calls themselves.
Only on Github. Not on the Tukaani mirror.
That box on your TV would have been a Nielsen box which sat on your TV and was connected to your landline. It didn’t collect anything automatically: every time you turned the TV on you were contractually obligated to press a button every 20 minutes to have the box call Nielsen and log a datapoint.

Those boxes have been phased out in favour of “Personal People Meters”[0], which are basically a pager with a SIM card that you wear which has a microphone listening 24/7 for TV broadcasts. You must keep it on you, listening at all times.

Nielsen will pay you $250/year (less than a dollar a day) for the data you provide.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_People_Meter
AFAIK at least in case of Google, they used to closely guard that data, if only for business advantage.

As in, you could only benefit from it if you used Google product, you couldn't get brokerage/raw data.

No idea about Microsoft, but I don't know if they have their own ad arm like Google.
if you need to test your own malware that you're developing, do you really want to just run it and disrupt your own system?

It's not uncommon to put in a check that allows the malware to run but be a noop.
Is wood density correlated with how long a building will last?

In my experience, degradation of wood-framed buildings comes down to one thing: water ingress. And that is independent of how "dense" the studs are. Old growth timber will rot just as quickly as new timber if water gets in, and I suspect new-growth wood will last just as long as old-growth if water is kept out.
https://archive.is/OecTb

please if you are going to post a paywalled article, at least take the time to post an archived link
Wisdom from Three Stoics for Leaders
I wish YouTube had a premium feature called the focus mode where we can just watch our subscriptions with no hassle.
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I guess I’m Wikipedia’s product then.
My observation is that the married students had a real fire burning under them to get done and out. They had a real tangible motivation.

Disclosure: Married to another PhD student.

Also, somebody to drive you to the hospital when your experiment explodes. Fortunately, she wasn't seriously injured.
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People don’t get to choose where the jobs are, especially in places like the Bay Area. There are no affordable suburbs here - you’d have to commute for over 1.5h one way to find anything cheap. I don’t get to choose where my job is (post COVID it’s slightly different but companies are putting the RTO screws on) and if I want to get decent healthcare and raise a family there’s really no other choice.

If you bought a place in the 90s, you pretty much lucked into your house tripling in value. They don’t acknowledge that they pretty much stumbled into wealth, it’s not like you bought the property by seeing the future. They say “build somewhere else” but where do you build? People will keep coming, jobs aren’t going anywhere, there’s no good mass transit and I can’t choose when I was born. So what am I supposed to do?

And finally, housing shouldn’t be your ticket to wealth - it’s a place to live and raise a family. The asset value going up is the cherry on top, but shouldn’t be the focus.
Manufacturing is re-onshoring, in particular the entire "hardware tech stack" of manufacturing needs to be painfully onshored. Painful as in trillions of dollars of factories and skillsets.

Mexico by demographic numbers is actually better skilled and educated and capable and productive than existing workers in the "far east" (statistics being numbers that should be looked at with skepticism of course).

Canada will inevitably have a role as well, even if it isn't smart. If it IS smart it will take huge numbers of skilled "far east" immigrants with tech skills and knowledge to support this transition and gain a foothold. Canada can culturally take immigrants more easily than Mexico, they demonstrated it with the Hong Kong exodus.

Mexico will see vast amount of industrial plant construction and "blue collar" work. So will the US and Canada, but those economies are poised to assume the hardware design / fabrication / automation / robotics. You know, if they are smart. Actually, the entire "ring" of the Gulf of Mexico should become a hotbed of materials production, transport, trade, and production, so likely Central America and northern South America can hop on this.
This is a nice policy but unless you start immediately backdating it

(which would be far more disruptive than a standard sized wealth tax of some kind and would in effect be a one time enormous wealth tax)

since the effects would take a very long time to kick in, how can we be sure that the rules won’t sinply get eliminated 100 years from now once a few ultra powerful billionaires in even more full control of the system decide “actually no let’s not do it”

So yes this is a nice equilibrium state but I don’t see the vision of this as necessarily helpful for moving to a better state.

What are the policies that can be implemented in the next 10 years to address this problem?
> For Matrix, there definitely is. Some of the third-party clients are just plain better than Element.

Which client do you use the majority of the time?
From the article :

Theoretically, you could build a structure that would never fail, but you'd have to put infinite money into it. For a critical bridge of this type, we would consider an acceptable chance for failure to be 1 in 10,000 years.

And at that point why not do a cost benefit analysis of a tunnel?
tragedy of the commons.

If someone else can pay to maintain it, but you get the benefits, then it's the obvious strategy to use.

And also, there's zero evidence that proprietary software won't have these backdoors. In fact, you can't even check them for it!
Your point is likely entirely valid, but the example you used is the wrong one.
Reminds me of a video[0] that describes Diffie-Hellman key exchange in terms of mixing color values (as globs of oil paint).

I guess in this game you're guessing the mix of primary colors, so maybe it doesn't hold the same property of difficulty in deriving the constituents?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do
OpenAEDMap – Map of Defibrillators Based on OpenStreetMap
React: About highly customizable components – P1 – The Ironside
Ain’t that the truth.

I tried moving to Lemmy, but turns out that the only people there are other techies who are mostly interested in techie topics (and I already have HN for that).

If you want a broader perspective or you want to discuss non-techie topics, Reddit is still the place to be, for better or worse.
So different ways of calling the same thing and different UIs. But it's just given names vs. family names and a set of rules. I like Bulgarian ones most.
Think of it like politics: politicians are public figures who, by virtue of becoming a public figure, give up many of their rights to privacy. Why? Because they have power, and the public has a right to know who exercises that power.

For security-hardened distributions, I can easily imagine a security control where contributor identity must be public and publicly verifiable, and to reject code which cannot be reliably attributed. Don't like it? Contribute to software with less impact instead.
It's funny. I just finished writing a lesson where I teach about different color formats. In it, I explained how difficult it was to choose a color with rgb values, because that's not how humans think about color. This game is a great example of that.

HSL is much more intuitive. As soon as you have an idea of the hue scale, it's very easy to define a color with saturation and lightness levels.
Did you know, the brain is hard-wired to be suckered by self-help books? One trick that I personally find very liberating and enlightening is to make a big pile of such material and burn it. It gives me a sense of warmth and inner joy.
> But Andrew, Docker is already a thing…

Docker is a lot better on Linux, everywhere else you must also spin a VM of sorts. It makes a difference if you’re running multiple instances since you only pay for the virtualized kernel once.
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Extortion was one of the biggest impediments to economic growth, eliminating it should help the economy, no? And he is building schools, hospitals, etc too
I'm not sure about your experience, but companies which have strong code review practices also have strong controls on the third party code. In terms of review granularity, it makes more sense to be critical of maintenance/readability for code you actually own and maintain. Third party code has a lower bar and should, although I also believe it needs to be reviewed
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clear-skies/jkiagen...
Biochar is a lot like this. It's believed to have created the incredible soils of the Amazon basin. Basically, wood gets burned to charcoal rather than ash, and the carbon is then buried – creating rich organic soil.

One thing worth mentioning though is that people often forget that the trees themselves are not the only aspect of CO2 when it comes to forestry. So-called "natural forests" are apparently much more effective at sequestering carbon, due to the dense web of life contained within them – much more so than the monoculture forests that tend to get planted these days.
Not quite, Wikipedia is a paid product. If you don’t pay someone else is covering the cost for you.
They did not mention whether it damages human skin. If it rips viruses apart how do skin cells fare? The way that researcher is gingerly holding the material with forceps without touching it does not inspire confidence.

Furthermore i know the high level development of the integrated circuit industry inspires other industries to try to make things from silicon wafers, one should keep in mind that silicon wafers are still quite expensive and probably too expensive for human scale objects. The reason they work for chips is that the silicon part of chips (without the plastic and copper packaging) tends to be very small.

These researchers should take a cue from the oled display industry and try to make their spikes in annealed amorphous silicon. That may be affordable enough to make stuff from.
Double spacebar gives you period in some contexts on Mac.
It did make us smarter, up until we opened the floodgates. Before then, it was a deliberate effort to connect.
Please tell me which communities you mod, and if it's not anything 18+ I can help you with moderation and use it to guide the development of the moderation dashboard I started working on.
I have a similar issue with some YouTube channels that despite liking their content I cannot subscribe to their channel because they publish dozens of shorts every week. So I just have a memory list of channels I visit every so often to see if they published anything. The shorts practically broke the subscription system for me.
This is a surprisingly weak theory for an ex trader with an Econ degree from LSE.

Rich people tend to store less of their wealth in physical property than the middle classes. This is much, much worse news for the inheritors of a small family house (or indeed someone that buys a short lease because it's all they can afford) than the Musk/Bezos dynasties. Unless you're setting term limits for share ownership, and that comes with complications of its own...
They are all active players, but no where close to the top dog.
I don’t think you are. You have a very utilitarian set of ideas, where optimization towards some unspecified goal of commercial success is the objective, and everything else is deemed ‘lack of strategy’, or ‘poor’.
Completely agree about HSL being the 'thinking' color space. As an exfersise, I get my students to define the difference in the colors they are wearing using HSL.

If you think RGB is hard to conceptualize, try Lab.
Do you have abit of time? It should be quick...
Check if your IP is accidentally marked as a VPN IP at the big IP location providers (e.g. https://ipinfo.io/).
The danger of reading everything online
Well, I've been using (surfing?) the web since the late 90s and sure, some things have become more commercial, there are new walled-gardens, some ads are annoying, cookie banners annoying but really you can do everything you could do back then an 100x more.

Would I want to go back to the so-called golden, idealized age of the web in the late 90s/early 2000s? No.

So, what I'm saying is that it hasn't deteriorated. The only thing that's happening is that HN is an echo chamber.
Oh gosh, I have all of this going on right now. My CTO read about microservices and now everything has to be in a microservice.

Nothing wrong with that, but for a small development team there is a lot to make that work (infrastructure as code is another requirement), especially when the project timeline is tight energy when building as a monolith.
Inheritance causes discrepancies in economic contributions and wealth. You can work 50 hours a week, cleaning and maintaining, but the wealth you will build is peanuts compared to a typical top 10% inheritance.

This will demotivate people from providing services to society. Why "work your ass off" if you'll never, ever be able to obtain a nice property that inheritees get while doing nothing?
>Statements of oughts are values not truths.

I think values (in this context) are truths! It's an idea that seems strange at first, and I think that if you asked people on the street, they would probably say indeed that ought-statements aren't objectively true, just matters of opinion or something like that. But I think this is wrong.

But to be sure, what I've been saying is that the claim that "We ought to reproduce as our primary purpose" is true is incorrect. If you don't think ought a statements are truths, then there's actually no disagreement here, you don't think it's true either.

But I think ought-statements can be true. "Spinach is yucky" is a kind of statement that isn't a truth and isn't really true or false---it's just a matter of opinion. But I think that this is fundamentally different from, for example, "The earth revolves around the sun". The latter case is independent of what people believe or what kind of feelings they have about the roundness of the earth---not so for the first case. Now consider " We ought not hold slaves." Is this statement more like "Spinach is yucky" or "The earth revolves around the sun"? There was a time where most people would have disagreed with "We ought not hold slaves". They would have even said it's traditional, it's economically necessary, etc. But all that has no bearing on this statement. Slavery is wrong and has always been wrong - even when it was traditional, when most people held slaves, etc. Because morals aren't just claims about what's traditional or conducive to reproduction. Just like "the earth revolves around the sun", tradition and evolution and psychology don't affect the truth of this statement---it is simply true.
A relevant term is "help vampire". The original post describes how to spot them, and suggestions for addressing it.

https://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/
The big, important crawlers have known IPs don't they? Isn't that how news sites, quora and friends selectively apply their pay wall and still get indexed?
Likely a different field, but

> 1. They had competent PhD advisors

I'd say fit is very important. Some advisors will provide students with feedback, give them direction, and wait for the students to come back with output. Other advisors will micromanage students, give them tight deadlines, get upset if they don't strictly follow everything they say and every deadline, and generally give the student no freedom to do anything on their own.

The thing to keep in mind is that grad students usually work well in one of those environments, but few students will thrive in both.

> as a married student I had to balance my research and teaching responsibilities with the needs of my spouse. It added a level of mental and emotional stress my single colleagues didn’t have to deal with.

This can go in several directions. Your experience is obviously the most common. In some cases the spouse is counting on the grad student to finish and get a high-paying job. They take care of everything like paying bills, shopping, cooking, etc. I've also seen cases where the spouse sacrificed so the grad student could finish (so they could have a higher income and start a family) and it put so much pressure on the grad student that they were breaking down.
Ehhh… 1/3rd of Singapore land is still freehold. There is a ton family wealth tied up in plots worth $100M+.

And not to mention the government’s encouragement of property flipping. They sell public housing below market cost, then intentionally prop up open market values by limiting new public housing. There are a few places where people bought at $400k and after the 5 year lock flipped it for $1M.

99 year lease does free up property for future use, but nobody holds until lease expiration, they sell to extract the wealth, then someone buys the remaining lease at basic the NPV of the current rental rates.

And in addition, Singapore is a fantastic place to transfer wealth generated overseas. Family offices are encouraged to move there, and the rule of law protects that wealth vigorously.

And the capital gains tax is 0%. You can bring in vast sums of wealth and generate 100% tax free earnings through investment.

It’s a pretty sweet place to be rich.
The article even mentions them having to use code names for the film while securing the place to film.
Definitely a shortcut to open it, with focus on the search field and escape to close it. Ideally above or below the board so it doesn't block the screen.
Absolutely, it's very convenient when working on a whiteboard :)
Ooh, thank you! I want to build a four-wheeled contraption to ride around town like a weirdo.
Ugh. That's especially annoying because they're trying to be hip with slang and use a metaphor that requires cultural knowledge that you can't really assume everyone has.
I've made absolutely stupid 'contributions' to open source projects in the past, not out of malice but pure ignorance.

If someone had slapped me down for being an idiot I'd have most definitely found something else to spend my free time on.

Today, I'm not super great at coding but can hunt down segfaults like a truffle pig and submit bug reports (with code) that demonstrates the exact issue if it's something I can't figure out on my own.
I can access both including old subdomain while on VPN.
What exactly do you mean by ‘opened the floodgates’?

It seems like the thing that changed the dynamic was the ad supported model. Everything else flows from there.
> see what it does

it does whatever the decrypted/signed payload tells the backdoor to execute - it's sent along with the key.

The backdoor is just that - a backdoor to let in that payload (which will have come from the attacker in the future when they're ready to use this backdoor).
>this convoluted mess of bash is a smell isn’t it

At a glance, I don't think so. At least, not the fact that the bash looks like a convoluted mess. Sometimes that's how a tight bash script looks (whether it SHOULD be tight or not is a different argument).

For me, the thing that looks suspicious is the repeated tr calls. If I see that, I assume someone is trying to be clever, where 'clever' here is a pejorative. If I were a maintainer and someone checked that in, I'd ask them to walk me through what it was doing, because there's almost always a better solution to avoid chaining things like that.

The real problem here is that there wasn't another maintainer to look at this code being brought in. A critical piece of the stack relied on a single person who, in this case, was malicious.
The "users are mean" story is something that we can all do something about, and, honestly, I prefer stories with morals that most of us can actually put into practice.
How else would giphy make money?

If its free and has no other visible way to make money you are the product.
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Real life is full of compromises. If your grandma is on WhatsApp, and you want to talk to her, it might be a good idea to install WhatsApp.

(However, if you have time on your hand and principles, you can use WhatsApp on a burner phone, I guess?)
>Let's just QUIT using Reddit. Enough is enough. If we tolerate corrupt behavior, we support corrupt behavior.

Might as well quit using Internet.
You have to keep in mind the alternative. Salvadorans before Bukele lived under a violent and oppressive regime (the gangs); so even if Bukele becomes a tyrant, it won't be any worse than what they had before. At best people are massively better off, at worst they are no worse off, so it's an easy bet to make.
Good advice.

In my observation, especially as you get out of your 20s, single guys are… kinda phone it in for various reasons. Even moderate effort makes a dude a rockstar.
When I looked at privacy policies, I rarely found the "We value your privacy" line in privacy policies that seem to treat your personal data with care.
I didn't know about this project and had for a while been thinking of writing something like it. Now maybe I know better. Oh well, thanks for all the fish.
That's only because the banks and government leverage the "middle class" into borrowing a decade's salary to invest in the housing pyramid.
If you want to make it cheap to cut down, yeah. If you just want a forest that lives there without cutting it down then it isn't hard.

Forests doesn't need humans.
I somehow remembered that with : splice is more „evil“ because it changes the original. I know, it makes no sense ..
The shell is generated, not written. There are mountains of generated shell configuration code out there due to the prevalence of autoconf, which relies on these M4 (a macro preprocessor) scripts to generate thousands of lines of unreadable shell script (which has to be portable).

This is how a non negligible number of your tools are built.
> All wealth (which is definitionally excess productive power) ultimately accrues to land value, so this is the only point of intervention you need.

that was generally accurate prior to the mid 1800s. I don’t see at all how this would be particularly (or at all) effective on its own these days.
Parsee.ai – a framework to easily extract complex structured data with LLMs
Yes, another LLM framework. This one is specialized on extracting structured data from various document types (mainly PDFs, images and HTML files).

Comes with a new (separate) PDF extraction library that is focused on the extraction of numeric tables (tables with numbers, so especially for the financial domain): https://github.com/parsee-ai/parsee-pdf-reader

Helps to easily set up a dataset to evaluate the performance of various LLMs on data extraction tasks, e.g. extracting revenue figures from financial reports: https://github.com/parsee-ai/parsee-datasets/tree/main/datas...
K8sgpt-AI/k8sgpt: Giving Kubernetes Superpowers to everyone
Copper and copper alloys are great antiviral and antimicrobial. Why not work out the minimum deposition required to create that mechanic?