skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think that this is surprising at all.

Stock buybacks are undertaken as the return the company can get on the cash returned is lower than they think shareholders want.

Subsidies exist to get the company to invest in a project where the return would otherwise be inadequate for shareholders.

I suppose you could force a company to invest in a project that was perceived to have inadequate returns but that seems a little unfair?
It does. This is a pervasive problem on this site. Also the SV centric mindset, elitism, etc.

It's absolutely nauseating, and I'm constantly disgusted that the admins, as well as users like you, stifle criticism of these sentiments.
The new puritans.
Even if the files are actually a backup it's not a good idea if it also gets your email/etc accounts nuked. Megacorps with many online properties are landmine fields because you can get banned from a dozen services for a BS 'violation' on just one of them.
There was a similar theme in Kim Stanley Robinson's book Red Mars - a lot of the initial crew of colonists actually wanted to preserve the planet in its pristine state.

I thought this was completely crazy. There are no ecosystems to protect, no endangered species, no green living things. Moving development from Earth into space should count as an overwhelming win for the environment.
No physician or scientist who studies cancer will agree with this advice. "Biohackers" and other frauds posting online do not count as "experts." You can't "starve out" cancer. Reducing carb intake will not help. No "immune boosters" will help. My uncle died from treatable cancer because he followed earnest but terribly wrong advice like this.

Cancer is not one disease. It's not a problem with too many carbs or not enough stretching. To simplify and mislead people like this trivializes a serious and potentially fatal condition.
That sounds like a reasonable response tbh
Sites like commondreams (and their conservative counterparts) should just be blacklisted from being posted here.

Seriously, it's hyper-partisan ideological brain damage material solely meant to foster clicks and outrage.
Even if they are just a backup, all these companies scan your data for offensive material and report it to the authorities if their algorithm deems it fit. There have been plenty of cases of parents being investigated by the police just for taking photos of their kids on their phone.
>it's the same though process that leads to the destruction of budda statues by the talibans

I disagree with this. The thought process is "return stolen items" not "destroy stolen items."

Harvard doesn't believe it owns the human remains because they were taken without consent (stolen) and wants to return them to the next of kin. This happened recently enough that there's a good chance there's close-ish relatives still living.

If the remains were donated willingly for bookbinding it would not be a problem.

So what's happening is Harvard is removing part of the book that it believes it doesn't rightfully own (and aren't even original to it!) and are trying returning that part to its rightful owner. They are rebinding the book, not destroying it.

>After careful study, stakeholder engagement, and consideration, Harvard Library and the Harvard Museum Collections Returns Committee concluded that the human remains used in the book’s binding no longer belong in the Harvard Library collections, due to the ethically fraught nature of the book’s origins and subsequent history. The Library is now in the process of conducting additional provenance and biographical research into the book, Bouland, and the anonymous female patient, as well as consulting with appropriate authorities at the University and in France to determine a final respectful disposition of these human remains.
Running a single-node Postgres server isn't very complicated, so my first thought would be what benefits SQLite bring in terms of setup and maintainability that makes it so much more attractive than Postgres. SQLite is great for a lot of use cases, but using it as your primary database in production just feels like contrarianism to me, or some kind of psychological idea to use "pure" solutions.

Another one of my rule of thumbs is that unless there is massive evidence to the contrary, you should simply use what "most people use" for each specific use case. In my world, when it comes to web applications, that is Postgres.
Cops Running Possible DNA Faces Thru Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas
> I've since backed everything up to my computer and filed an appeal

> After processing the appeal, a popup said my account was frozen pending review

Sounds like Docs only prevented her from sharing her work. Until she filled for an appeal and her account was frozen, which is perhaps even stranger than suspending the account in the first place.
There's also been some work on more general Lie-group equivariant transformer models.

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/hutchinson21a/hutchinson21...
outside sun shield like German houses have is the way to go. Any curtains inside does not work very well
> unshare it and copy to another platform, e.g. directly on discord, for sharing

Ahh you think Discord has better policies?

You might want to rethink that.
And you may be right and you may be wrong. But you'll probably be happier if you go elsewhere.
What does it do right? It has a bad type system, has bad scoping rules (defer does it at the end of the function, really?!), bad conventions (capitalization as visibility, really? Also, unused variable disallows compilation is just absolutely idiotic, there is no sane reason for doing that. Introduce a debug mode and a prod mode, and do so in the latter only if you really want to)
Wow, I'm so glad I use $OTHER_SERVICE. This will definitely never happen to me.
The number of times people trot out 20% to excuse a very long and detailed history of overt and explicit Israeli cruelty to the Palestinians makes me think Israel only allowed these people to be citizens to blunt any criticism.

The conflict isn't about who hates who. It's about how to deal with millions of stateless people living in an occupied, blockaded, besieged territory where they can't control how much of any kind of import or export they do with the outside world because their integration into their occupiers legal system would upend its ethno-nationalism.
xgboost will still work better for most problems people encounter in industry (which usually involve tabular data).
The NPP is about removing the Visa/MC networks from the equation. It would also remove the EMV requirements, if I'm identified by my mobile phone number + biometrics linked to a bank account, which can have it's own credit line associated with it, why does the bank need to support Visa/MC?

The new payment platforms with instant settlement effectively remove the branding and merchant agreements that Visa/MC offer.

Person A can transfer money to Merchant M immediately, no intermediaries except the two banks/account provider and the payment platform usually run by the central bank.
Scrolling through the screen shots linked on Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/sloan_spencer_author/p/C48JN_TrvxO... )

> I find out at midnight tomorrow if I lose my docs all together. I've transferred them to word and backed up onto my hard drive.

Further along ...

> ... As of today, I'm unable to share my docs with my alpha and Beta readers. After reading the policies the only rule my docs "violate" is that they contain ̶s̶e̶x̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ explicit content. I've since backed everything up to my computer and filled an appeal. ...

Further along ...

> As of right now, I don't know. I cannot access any of mine to check at the moment. Thankfully an alpha reader of mine saw it happening and I downloaded everything to my laptop before I submitted an appeal. After processing the appeal, a pop up said my account was frozen pending review. My assumption is after the review I'll either get everything back or lose it, but I don't know for sure.
> Even Andrew Huberman, one of the most popular health science podcasters, has dabbled into anti-EMF quackery. On one podcast he claimed that his Bluetooth headphones produced notable "heat effects", implying that the electromagnetic energy was enough to produce palpable heat in his body.

If this is true it take a lot away from his work in my point of view.
> An area where failure is not an option and could put at risk automation processes, critical infrastructure, livelihoods, if not lives themselves.

Which is exactly 5G's sales pitch, which is designed for low latency and high reliability aimed at critical applications like factory automation, remote surgery, self-driving cars, etc. And there is currently a push for 5G private networks.

So it remains to be seen if this gets any traction.
I think you can get the 4GB Orin Nano for $200 from some sellers, but yeah they used to be cheaper.
I use it with an 1x scaling factor, so 3840x1600.
My nextcloud instance killed itself during an update. I wrote a blog post about it and people regularly write to thank me, so it wasn't an isolated instance. Syncthing is much simpler, and practically bulletproof. It really just works.
It is not open

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As we're seeing now, it's an even bigger problem when a country produces an advanced military gadget for $1 and the other country can't match it in terms of production for even $50.
If someone can mine the entire moon away I say let them. What a fantastical technical achievement that would be
> Because of its popularity I would say Thinking, Fast and Slow might be the most overrated book I can think of.

The Art of War is the most overrated book, imo.
"If the enemy is more powerful than you, don't attack them!"

So profound. -_-
The alternative is to see later studies like [1], which finds that several popular heart interventions don't actually improve all-cause mortality in the population of "severe but stable" heart disease patients.

If stents and coronary bypasses don't increase life expectancy (or quality of life!) for that population, then a lot of people from that population took the risks of major surgery for no benefit.

[1] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/11/invasive-hear...
Promotion should not be into a different job.
> Firstly, for a planet to evolve sapient life it must be inhabitable for, at minimum, millions of years if not billions, therefore if this orbital instability was going to wipe out the trisolarans it would've done it already.

This is not a fact to begin with, and in the book their civilization was repeatedly wiped out.

> Secondly, the trisolarans are hyper-advanced. They turn individual protons into sapient robots and play with antimatter, therefore they can make a damn air conditioner. Manufacturing habitats to isolate them from the effects of their orbit would be easier than almost every single other thing they do in the entire series, including transporting their whole species across interstellar distances. Some of the things they do would be harder than keeping their planet in a stable orbit by force.

This is not the failure mode they’re concerned with.

You also seem to drastically overestimate their capabilities.
For this I would only consider something client-side encrypted a proper back-up when using the cloud.
A lot of stuff gets filmed and then cut, so it might just be that. You might be on a director's cut DVD somewhere! (Though way less likely for old stuff, where the removed material may no longer even exist.)
There is nothing wrong in being prepared for things to go wrong.

I’m always prepared for my car breaking down on every trip I make, no matter how short. It’s not that I don’t have faith in my car and driving, it’s that I don’t trust every other variable in the equation.
The currently linked site is just a forum post, which links to Instagram, which is a screenshot of a discord chat. Instagram has the screenshots at least: https://www.instagram.com/sloan_spencer_author/p/C48JN_TrvxO...

It does look like the author just lost access to docs they shared with others, not their entire account. Author is currently appealing.

We have seen this kind of thing in the past. Drive has to be careful, as people will use private drive links and doc links (could have embedded images) to share explicit material that may be illegal. From my understanding, Google will start running some kind of automation against things when they are shared with other people if they might contain things that could be illegal. I have no idea what the heuristics are, or how often they get it wrong. But they are kind of between a rock and a hard place.

Googler, opinions are my own.
> Local hard drive + a cloud provider

This has been my general strategy for personal data. I have also been trying to figure out if there was a reasonable way to get long-term very-cold storage (e.g. backups of family pictures). Something that would last decades just sitting in a fire-box somewhere (reasonable temps, no moisture). Been considering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC, but interested to know if anyone has other ideas...
Imagine a lunar HOA telling people they need to put their rovers in a garage.
Probably because the moon doesn't have property lines and nation-state borders (For now). Vacant lots down here on earth are usually privately owned or by local or national governments.
Author here. I'm sorry to hear that. I've heard similar struggles from other experienced folks, and I get the impression that companies have been less eager to hire for upper-level positions such as staff or architect, relative to plain senior roles.

I've added a note near the top of my post clarifying that the "early-career" of the title is only because I'm speaking from my own experience.
At middle management levels that approach may be the way it works, because of the incentives.

But once you start presenting to board rooms and people who have zero skin in the game of office politics, but 100% skin in the game of the firm’s profits (and more broadly firm profits at large), you absolutely will not succeed unless you are delivering value through competence
I happen to agree with you. I was writing not my opinion, but my experiences with the actual EMTALA law, or more accurately and importantly my healthcare administrators' perception of said law. I cannot change either of these things.
Why would they want to be involved in a highly competitive and low margin business like consumer credit?
It is not. macOS/iOS had it for a long time with AppKit, UIKit. But the progression is usually this: you start with Interface Builder and storyboards or .xibs, then you see the problem with that and gradually move to code-only UI and then start looking at SwiftUI with it's declarative UI like a guy in that meme.
GUI for layout just does not cut it, especially when your app runs in very different environments - it can be macOS, it can be a phone or just a smartwatch/widget.
Never forget: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
I hire people a lot, and it’s a green flag. People who try their own thing understand what it takes to build a company, and tend to have an elevated ability to make things happen.

If it doesn’t work out, you may lose out on some jobs… but those are the jobs you don’t want. It’ll open up doors closer to what gets you excited — any company that does similar things to what you’re doing will jump at the chance to hire you.

(There’s one exception, and that’s scammy or unethical companies. For example, if you started selling sales leads, I might be meh… but there’s a lot of companies out there who do that and would love to hire you)
All that effort/bullshit, ruined by a few scribbles: https://clipartcraft.com/images/pepsi-logo-fat-man.png
The first sentence is a good question, the last sentence is unnecessary snark.

I think there are two main things at play: buildings used to be built differently, and yes, people prefer not to suffer these days.

Old Australian buildings (e.g. "Queenslanders") were often built on poles to let the air circulate underneath, they'd have the roof extend far over windows to stop sunlight (and heat) getting in. Those are not the most enjoyable places to live in, these days people prefer a bit of sunlight during the day, and a constant draft is not pleasant in winter.

And yes, I imagine people just didn't sleep all that well and spent heatwaves sitting around in the coldest spot in the house waiting for it to be over. These days people want to sleep well throughout the year and want to be productive even during heatwaves.
I am saying the opposite, if they have less data the value of AI's will plummet and hopefully their use will plummet.

That is a good thing.
I think you could employ the same tactics that advanced fuzzers do with these tarpits: then mutate the responses randomly, to try get "new" responses from the attackers, instead of new coverage in the code as in the fuzzer. Unless they are using static scripts, which would be boring.

I have understood that most attacks are super-simple sort of, so probably not much to learn there. But an interesting project!
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From the linked "best logos of all time" article:

"The best logos are those that have truly stood the test of time. As well as being distinct and memorable, often with hidden meanings and messages ..."

The pepsi universe and energy fields stuff is obviously wack, but most people are blissfully unaware of the depth of meaning, connotations, references, messaging, etc, in many logos, emblems, and even design 'dna', all around them.
Don't quote me on this, but Bluray is apparently supposed to be long-term stable. I haven't explored the claim.
Can't you use @ to bind any part of the match you want to use?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch18-03-pattern-syntax.html#-...
>I guess it might also be a Google Drive/Docs specific suspension,

Do they do that? I've only ever heard of people being entirely locked out of their Google account, not specific services.
Something related I’ve been wondering about is the change in language catalyzed by social media companies and their morality / fear of advertisers.

You see it especially in TikTok videos. When people aren’t straight up censoring themselves with bleeps, dead audio, or cuts, they use euphemisms instead: kill -> unalive, rape -> grape, sex -> seggs.

Even more concerning is that what is considered in need of censoring is expanding. I saw a video where the creator censored “white” when referring to Caucasians.
People are self-interested. Electron only offers the maker of the tool value but not the end user. The end user finds AI extremely valuable and the costs are on the maker.
Ironically, I think the users are partly to blame for that. They were definitely complaining about some of the stuff that was on discord and discord then stepped up their enforcement of everything.
Looks nice, great !!
I think we can have the reminder without the binding actually hanging there?

I don't know if was violent, it's not what I was trying to imply. In my mind it resonates with "this was a person and someone decided to use them for decoration". Knowing this happened is enough to take the appropriate action, there is no harm in documenting all this, of course.
As long as your repos are up to date, they are already backed up. Did you mean that or something more explicit?
It depends on how you want to store it. You could store it encrypted. Any true backup worthy of the title should, in my opinion, be encrypted. Otherwise it's just a copy.
I’ve always argued that we need regulation that prevents large companies from just yeeting your data.

At most they should be able to put it in RO mode to let you take it out.
americans-try-not-to-be-puritanical-and-impose-their-bigotted-moral-standards-on the-rest-of-the-world-by-the-means-of-their-techno-feudalist-corporation's challange: impossible.
That take has a "victim blaming" vibe going on. Those texts were not lost, they were deleted. Yes, backups are a good idea, but we shouldn't just accept that kind of behaviour.
No. Dennis Cooper lost work this way years ago. They need to be aware of this and let some of their followers help them.
Maybe the way there is no regulations, gonna look like dumping grounds everywhere except the developed areas
The new one makes them look like an oil company from the 70s.
I personally don't much care what we develop on the moon. It's a rock.

I'm more concerned with Mars. Mars potentially had life, once. There's even a vague chance that it might still, somehow. Evidence for either would be extremely precarious. Unlike the Moon, every bit of waste vented into the atmosphere is going to be carried around the entire planet by the wind, tainting everything.

If it were up to me, I'd declare a moratorium on humans being on Mars. Not permanent, but, say, 100 years. Enough time for us to send lots of robots to explore the planet without mixing our biology up in it.

Build up whatever automated support is needed for that. It's industrial and ugly, and surely dumping out its own non-biological pollution, but that doesn't risk breeding the way the way our microorganisms do. And everywhere we go, we spread microorganisms, lots of them. (In theory they'd be contained, but accidents happen.)

I'd settle for 50 years. Or even 20 years past the point where we'd be capable of the kind of rockets required to build an industrial infrastructure. Just gather a crapload of data from the planet as pristinely as we can, just because we're never going to get another opportunity. Use that time to build whatever you want on the Moon.

Of course it's not up to me. There will surely be astronauts on Mars well before I think it's a good idea. It will certainly be exciting and produce a lot of great data fast. I'll just cross my fingers that they can get it while it's still there to get, before every test turns up "We found DNA on Mars... oops, it's us again."
I'll back my local up to a USB or a drive at a specific working version.
How topical. My wife and I were having a freak out this morning about how vulnerable we are to having our lives choked out at Google's whims. They have no customer service, and delegate more and more to "AI" to manage these things.

This has all been giving me anxiety since the time I had my Facebook account partially locked for over a month because I shared a picture of my son at the beach with no shirt on and their "AI" couldn't tell the difference between him and a girl because he has long hair and somehow concluded I was sharing explicit imagery. When I appealed, they extended my lock.

I worked @ Google for 10 years and still wouldn't trust them even though I could possibly find someone on the inside to ring some bells for me (questionable).

I backed up all my photos recently and am trying to figure out what to do about email.
As someone who has done this, I'll highly recommend evaluating your circumstances that you have this concern.

Startups need lots of focus, hard-work, runway and luck. Strongly evaluate your appetite to take a shot at it.

I'd recommend a shot but budget atleast 2-5 yrs of staying power.