skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they got it so fucked up that the average user has no idea where their files are. It is absolutely unbelievable how user hostile it is. Typical software designed for the goals of the creator. The world of computing has truly descended into hell for the average non-technical person.
This reminds me of military line jumps. Every so often the line doesn't deploy right and the jumper is just flapping in the wind hitting the side of the plane banging around.

The old protocol was just to cut the line and let them deploy as normal but now they have a whole device to try to pull them back in. I've heard sometimes the damage is much worse cause you spend more time in the air and hitting the plane. Saw a video of it once where the device took forever to deploy and you just heard a constant banging from the back. Sounded horrible.

I guess this system was started because someone has their line cut and was already unconscious and didn't survive the landing or was seriously injured.
They could kill 10% of their customers and still have a 90% good rating.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

Welcome to the future.
Yes, but if it requires more data than the screen's worth of pixels, you can just send the pixels. Pretty sure this is the "cap" that was described.
Whatever model you run is most probably wrong because jumbo loans are not priced double and actually are priced pretty close to the conforming loans.
Track and Graph – open-source Android app for tracking personal data
It's the age old debate: Do people change?

I think that most people do not.

Teenagers get calmer when they get older, so I can accept ignoring minor misdeeds that can be attributed to not thinking, but not anything more serious.

You seem to think that people do change, and maybe some do, but I think that's a rarity. Anyway that's the crux of your message: Do people change or not?
I do this same thing for IMDb and Letterboxd, and it’s fun, I get to find others with similar tastes in movies and TV shows, and I appreciate reviews of content I like and dislike vicariously without having to feel badly about not having seen the content myself.
Google docs has no dark patterns. All sunshine and roses.
While I generally agree with you I'll try to be a Devils Advocate - albeit probably poorly.

Responding to your question, I'd say the problem is scale.

Once trained, these cognitive automation machines can spray text/images in the style of XYZ. Having artifacts in the output doesn't make that scenario better.

A person's very essence of their output is diluted. Naturally such people will be afraid for their worth to society and how they are rewarded.

The only ones having this power - to spider the internet, train computers and apply them to large numbers of interactions with people - are large corporations and nation states.

That is a significant power to have, and not everyone is sure who should have it and are afraid what could be done with it.

There will be much debate. I think the debate won't really influence the outcome much.

Edit: spent the time to try to write a shorter comment. Done now. I think.
I would be much more OK with what he did (at some point the stolen identity IS his identity), but not when there's a living person who also has that identity!!
Yes, people want to have a say in what is done with their data, whether it is public or not. The urge increases the less overlap is between people's goals and the use of their data. If you use public data against the will of the majority, pressure increases. I think this can be framed under the following: While it is possible to do many things with data, some things just shouldn't be done. There's a middle ground in the continuum where things are ambiguous. Neural nets can do many things, which is why many feel that they should not be allowed to be trained on any public data. I think I disagree. We should focus on the use cases, not the training step.
Please note that this is a specifically American. In most other countries, a judge simply issue an order for the banks most of the time electronically and the funds are automatically collected in a electronic manner.
I don't hate it but it didn't solve or improve anything.
....At that point, the privacy to do what? If it's just to avoid taxes or commit financial crimes I don't think that flies.
Prostate cancer survivor here, AMA.

Tips:

* I recommend everyone with a prostate get their PSA tested by age 45, or earlier if it runs in the family. It's a simple blood test but sometimes you have to ask for it.

* Early detection is key. A biopsy can assess how aggressive it is (the Gleason score). They can even genetically profile the tumor to further gauge risk (the Decipher score).

* Most cases are slow growing and may never escape the prostate. These are usually treated by simply monitoring them with more PSA testing, imaging and the occasional biopsy. Years ago these cases uses to be over-treated but now they have high quality data showing the safety of monitoring.

* If it hasn't left the prostate (stage 1 or 2) and they think you need treatment there are a few options. In lesser cases you can do focal therapy which is like zapping a small tumor. But it tends to be a multi-focal disease, so often you'll end up getting "definitive treatment": removing the prostate surgically or saturating it with radiation.

* Surgery typically uses a cool-ass remote-controlled robot called "the DaVinci" that operates through a set of small incisions.

* Radiation is done either via external beam -- you just lie there and get zapped -- or by inserting radioactive seeds directly into the prostate (brachytherapy).

* The main side effect of surgery is erectile dysfunction, because the nerves that control that run right along the prostate and nerves do not like getting manipulated. Recovery can take up to two years and you don't always get all your function back. I think that stat is something like 1/3rd get back to baseline, 1/3rd get there but with the help of meds (Viagra), and 1/3rd suffer permanent decline / need other interventions. There is also some incontinence but that typically resolves within weeks/months.

* Radiation also causes ED, as well as urinary bother and potentially some other issues. But these typically kick in later, possibly years later. There are also some short term side effects while undergoing treatment. It's a good option for older patients for sure but "younger" patients (<60 y.o.) have to consider the effects of radiation on healthy tissue decades out. You may also have to undergo a 6-18 month course of hormone therapy which I'll discuss next.

* If it escapes the prostate (stage 3 or 4) then there is an awesome new scan called a PSMA PET that can locate where it is with radiomarkers. They might do focal treatment on hot spots, but the main course of treatment is hormone therapy.

* Hormone therapy is essentially chemical castration. It removes all the testosterone from your body, and this weakens prostate cancer cells. By all accounts it is not fun: kills libido, saps energy levels. But it's also not as rough as chemotherapy, so we're "lucky" prostate cells work that way. There has been a lot of development here; often when you hear there's a new prostate cancer drug it's for hormone therapy.

* We all die but you don't want to die from prostate cancer. It's typically drawn out and painful. I watched my dad go through it, and it's why I got tested early. Fortunately it is very treatable if caught early.
CUNY suffered tremendously in the 1970s when it dropped its standards to meet racial-equality agendas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/09/o...

Its reputation still isn’t what it was in the 1960s, though it’s not garbage tier like it was in the 1980s.

Better to make trade schools more accessible and on par, rather than ruining college.
First party of course. MS has gold plated support agreements especially for public sector customers, where you can get a real person on the phone, not at the mercy of some automated Google bullshit.

Is it expensive? Yes. But if you're running an entire city as opposed to a small dentist's office, it's likely worth the money.
> a fully automated news platform powered entirely by generative AI

My first reaction to this was "fuck no", I don't need more news, nor more generative AI content. However, I do think there is potential for de-sensationalising mainstream news. What I would like to see on a platform like this is some ability to customize the filters and output. For example, I would love the ability to filter out certain overly-sensationalized topics, like "Trump" or "covid" or "Gaza", filter out news about "x politician says y controversial thing", or customize which news sources are used as input to remove ones that don't meet my standards for journalistic integrity.

Also, while the interface is clean and well-designed, the homepage is visually indistinguishable from a news content-farm, which automatically makes me skeptical of the quality of the content. I need more visual cues that I am the one in control of what I am seeing here, and that there are no subtle, hidden biases being snuck in. While it might work for an initial release, after awhile the "just trust us, this is what's important, and no advertisers, politicians, or tech companies are controlling the algorithm" isn't enough. Give me UI controls that keep me in control. Give me a list view and easy access to filters and sorting.
Here's two cents: open source projects allow for alternative discoveries and approaches in a typical workflow. Some open source projects require a higher learning curve but can drastically improve workflow once learned.
Yes they are called wall outlets. There’s even more of them now than there ever were blacksmiths.
In firefox debugger, right click the main chunk and add a script override for it, open it locally, set speedFactor to 10000, save, and reload the page. That should cure your need for speed.
How many people mentioned in the Panama Papers actually live in Panama?
A Japanese hikikomori released a game after 6 years of development [video]
Only if we could have HTMX or Turbo that doesn't rely on JS. And then for 95%+ of website, most JS code are used for tracking and ads.
Kenbak-1
I think that in reality, most people do a very light pre-wash of many dishes, before loading them into the dishwasher. I know I do. I'd be happier if I could just stick the plates in the sink, and come back an hour later to find the dishes, pots, pans and utensils drying in a rack.
While you're at it, schedule a colonoscopy too. Early detection saves lives.
2016 was the last suicide bombing by Hamas. Keep in mind those didn't stop because Hamas changed. They stopped because Israel built walls around the West Bank and Gaza, many other security measures, and joint effort between the PA and Israel to stop these. While suicide bombing attacks were thwarted there have been many attacks against civilians through the years (something around 13 attacks in 2023 preceding Oct 7th) using assault rifles or vehicles e.g.
It will be interesting to see how long that remains true.

Management of resources is the enemy of profit for both sides in the market. Businesses lose out on money by spending time that they would be using on their core competency for managing software licenses, versions, data backups, servers, etc. And of course cloud providers lose out on you giving them more money than their cloud services cost them to deliver.

Azure now makes up the largest percentage of Microsoft's revenues. Obviously the business model scales very well. It likely scales better than Office does. Eventually the less-profitable thing starts taking up internal development resources that could be going to more profitable divisions, and that gets someone mad.
I suppose the disparity is as a result in the difference of aggrieved party. Steal from a bank, off with your head. Steal from a person. Meh.
> Okay, I saw Pikkety's Capital on a different friend's bookshelf.

He has some good things to say, but he wrote more than he had to to say them. That book is too big.
Sand has the added benefit over graphite of being nonflammable.
> It's also obviously not a pure human voice recording as the pitch transitions sound heavily auto-tuned or electrified ...

The cake is a lie, but the music is real

It’s all fake when the truth is revealed

> (think Cher's "Believe")

Or think GLaDOS. Pretty sure that's not a coincidence.
Thanks for the memory jog. There is fiber optic running along the line from Marysville to Beatrice so that may have been a consideration for railbanking the line.
Agree foldables are a good way to do product discovery!

Yeah small M&A is great for advancing/derisking R&D for a given part or tech. They also embed / work closely with manufacturing partners. Nevertheless they're also doing a lot on their own R&D work; a bunch of Vision Pro stuff is homegrown and there's always new potential techs we never see that show up in patent applications showing their R&D is moving along at a healthy clip, e.g. this radar based tracking system from two days ago [1].

I think folks like Google and Meta talk a lot more about their R&D where Apple is very tight lipped, since part of Apple's magic is the part of R&D that's figuring out how to take janky half-working parts, polish them relentlessly, and combine the right ones together into something that makes sense as a product.

[1] https://www.patentlyapple.com/2024/04/apple-wins-patent-for-...
Yes:

The cake is a lie, but the music is real

It’s all fake when the truth is revealed

The autotune electronic voice seems likely styled on GLaDOS.
As a counter point feels dirty to abuse photographers not catching NC for you to profit.
> Selective pressure does not operate after the reproductive phase of life.

Even if we don't know the exact mechanism, it seems like we have evolved a longer lifespan in a safe environment than any other ape, while our lifespan in the wild was probably comparable to many apes.

Whether this long lifespan after reproductive age was selected for directly (e.g. grandmother hypothesis or patriarchal effect), or whether it happened because of some other evolutionary accident, it seems to be real.

Lowe points out here that there's a rebalancing of blood composition that happens later in life that would likely have been beneficial in the past, which is (very weak) evidence for a selective pressure that increased post-reproductive lifespans.
USA is uniquely dysfunctional in only being able to (mostly) identify people by referring to an address. You could very well have public ownership records without revealing addresses.
This is why you have integration engineers.
But the bridge had _no_ apparent protections even for those 3000 TEU ships. Port of Baltimore spent considerable (federal) funds dredging the harbor to make way for Panamax. A bog standard ring of rocks or concrete or steel piles could have dissipated enough energy to have a very different outcome.

I’m just asking, should not the obligation for reasonable protection of the bridge be on the government or port authority?
Would now be a good time to say https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/
There are still things that feel murky from reading the CISA report.

For example, it notes that Microsoft do not know for certain how the attacker got in in the first place, but they and the government suspect (see 1.2.4 of the CISA report) it was a compromise of a laptop owned by an employee of Affirmed Networks, who Microsoft bought in 2021.

Are they saying, then, that the attacker was in their network for two years? Or that the attacker was someone able to leap from this laptop to Microsoft's identity systems (which would be very odd, since Affirmed were not in that business, so there would have been no reason for such a laptop to be anywhere close to Azure's insides).

One bright spot in the report, deserving of kudos, is that the folks at the State Department understood their monitoring tools and used them very well to uncover the anomaly that led to the discovery of this compromise.
He built the house in 2002 and added the basketball court in 2006, per the article.
> Animals also live significantly longer in zoos.

Humans and many apes probably had similar lifespans in the wild, but humans have this huge post-reproductive lifespan in safe environments that other apes don't.
If you use SharedArrayBuffers in worker threads, use Atomics.wait to block, and then terminate the worker which would've called Atomics.notify – yes, if no timeout is used on the notify.

But I don't know of any other way this would happen.
Western culture, and increasingly Asian culture as well. Anyhow, the stereotype of a man not being able to function without his mother or wife constantly wiping his ass is also just not practical.

Every person, at some point is going to have to spend some time living by themselves and thus has to know just as much as a woman how to run a home. It's too late to start to learn that after your mother/wife passes/gets sick/is pregnant or after you have to temporarily relocate for better work opportunities but can't bring them along. As you said in another post, home management is not so easy as to be able to 'just' pick it up. That's why everyone needs to be able to do it and should be gradually learning as they reach adulthood, as what we call home management are literally just the basic skills needed for independent living.

I'm currently having to deal with roommates who think basic aspects of homemaking are below them, result is going to use the bathroom to find that the last person blocked it and didn't think to try to unblock it, leaving their shit floating in there, snotty tissues everywhere, water sitting in the sink because they clogged the drain filter and didn't care to empty it out, fires in the stove from boiled over pots, cooked food sitting outside for days, garbage on the counters, stuff they dropped on the floor laying there all night, garbage cans overflowing because they can't be bothered to take it out and so on.
That seems to be a "fat pointer" scheme, like the one GCC used to have. (Is it still in GCC?)
Unfortunately training is insanely expensive. StabilityAI is struggling with staying alive. And Anthropic wants to spend $100 BILLION building a supercomputer just for training.

That's why I think these private companies will have the best AIs for many decades.
It's going to get charged to 80% only. That takes half an hour if they install DC fast chargers. That's how long a walk around inspection for damage and cleaning of the car inside/out takes.

That costs money of course. Let's pretend we're NOT on hackernews where we all love to talk technicalities.

This isn't about tech or practicalities. This is a decision about money. It's not worth installing all the infrastructure, it's not worth getting repairs slowly done out-of-house, it's not worth taking on depreciation of epic proportions, it's not worth having to educate customers and employees on how to use new cars and new processes.

It is just not cost effective for them.
> University of Iowa Police Detective Ian Mallory.. tested the father’s DNA against Woods’ DNA. The test proved Woods was the man’s son.

Such an obvious thing to do.

Why it had to reach to University police for this to be initiated, why LA police did not do this at the start? Why the judge who sent the real Woods to mental hospital asked this to be done before giving that 'judgement'?
Yes, the absolute number of deaths is significant. There is a debate within the medical community over whether the slower growing type should be relabeled as not-cancer / pre-cancer, etc., as surveillance is the more typical treatment plan these days. This in turn will increase the death rate percentage of the remaining (fast growing) cases.

Also worth mentioning that it's not just about surviving it, there's also quality of life. The earlier you catch it the better the outcome.
> But by reducing risk, it also reduces accountability which allows people to take advantage of people in other, often illegal or unlawful ways, without any meaningful consequences when they get caught.

Is the above also an argument against insurance? If not, why not?
Regulatory entrepreneurship is also a thing. See: paypal, airbnb, uber...
The issue is that people constantly focus on and optimize for the happy path, but don't stop and think about what would happen if an adversary deliberately and repeatedly triggered the worst case scenario. So many denial-of-service attacks (slowloris, query parameter hash collisions, etc.) come into fruition because bounded resource usage is an afterthought.
I don't think you fully understood what i was saying.

If a regular user had rows like this

Adam Smith 27 WA

JonathanBoyd 23 NC

They are likely going to have tougher time adding a new row as compared to if it was comma delimited. You underestimate the simplicity of end users and how tabs and spaces can confuse them. This is why they prefer Excel, with boxes, because they cannot keep up with formatting and such. Tabs are spaces to many people. Commas are clearer.
To be fair, advertisement-economics already created that problem, but the degradation of communication in pursuit of lucre was done by human employees.

The technology changes just allow those companies to be more ruthlessly inane about it.

Some companies measure and human attention as an exploitable asset, yet individuals have a hard time controlling who takes it from them and how much... Is that a market failure? Or just a physiological one?
Localtest.me
Thought this was a really neat tool so decided to share it with hackernews.

I've been working on a project that creates tenants on subdomains and maintaining a 50 line long lists of hosts to test in /etc/hosts, this was a game changer for me.
> In 1994 — six years after he started using Woods’ name — Keirans got married. He had a child, whose last name is Woods.

I wonder what goes around in the mind of the SO to accept that he couldn’t have shown anything from his past live.
We had to read it in high school. Bet it's not in the curriculum any more...
That is a good point.

If there were fewer people forced into work, maybe that would cut down the number of pointless/meaningless jobs.

Maybe it is better that only half of a couple are forced into corporate soul crushing jobs. It is subjective. Some women look at child raising / housewife duties as bondage and slavery. Natural selection rewards those who prioritize family. In any case we need generous maternity leave and options for part time employment.
I think it’s more accurate to say that CUNY suffered immensely under the budget cuts it underwent in the 1970s, cuts that were never fully rolled back. It’s impossible to extricate the CUNY system’s open admission challenges from the fact that it hasn’t been allowed to grow as an institution for close to half a century at this point.
My current and past employers are all-in with Microsoft because (like it or not) managing large corporate fleets is easier. Our Linux and Mac machines are treated as exceptions.

This has nothing to do with user experience, it's all about risk management. If we need some software on our Mac, we need to sign a waiver accepting responsibility for any security issues. With the corporate issued windows laptops the IT department is responsible for risks.
He probably couldn’t get a real job with his true identity.
I don't think that makes the answer to the question clearer at all. The slight differences in encoding are interesting but they don't answer the big question:

They made a significant signalling change once, with 6. How did they manage to take the baud rate from 5 to 8 to 16 to 32 GHz?
OK, what you said has nothing to do with what you quoted.

Mayhaps find another windwill to fight?
This is so very rare that I doubt it would move that statistic.
It’s absolutely beneficial when training because the forward pass and back propagation is still only on the neurons that were activated.

The Mistral guys specifically mention that training speed (due to not needing as much compute) was one of the reasons Mixtral was released so soon after Mistal 7b.
This is a feature few people need.