skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of people who have to maintain more than one account is minuscule, and most of the time they ought to reflect over why they are part of communities with such mutual animosity that they can't find one home that accepts both/all.

I run my own, and have seen no trace of this being "presumed evil" you speak of.
The Brazilian courts are not gagging or silencing these individuals. They are merely revoking their privilege to access what amounts to broadcast. Access to broadcasting platforms has always been heavily regulated everywhere, and losing access after repeated spread of inflammatory falsehoods is not by any stretch of imagination "shutting someone up".
What sort of stuff is the judge censoring? I’ve just heard of this and the article is behind a paywall
this is overly pessimistic -- for example 'Horizon 2020' in the EU had half failures perhaps.. but a couple of the projects are really strong and now growing.. so, no.
For web server stuff, I still think Clojure is extremely solid. But I’ve come to really prefer Racket for general purpose programming.

I really like the package manager, I like that there’s an IDE with a visual step debugger (seriously, why do almost no lisp people value this?), that it’s multi paradigm, and that the language continues to improve and evolve.

Clojure just has so many finicky or annoying things about it. The design of deps.edn/clojure CLI and the lack of user friendly tooling is forever frustrating. Laziness and its implications being invisibly core to the language is annoying as well.
Reconstructing game footage from a Game Boy's memory bus – The GB Interceptor [video]
I've never had much luck with the suckers. Which one do you use?
Stanford medicine in a nutshell. Stanford medical has spread like a cancer around me, and all the clinics that were acquired immediately became awful.
This is exactly the point.
A deep dive into the world of abstraction behind a modern Hello World program
A silver lining of being mentally ill is that you don't suffer from the diseases that normal people do. Doctors know whatever the complaint it's due to the mental illness.
Smart people can’t afford to take risks when the english speaking tech industry only exists in cities where a 1 bedroom condo costs $700k. This is a big waste of money
For most businesses, AI works basically the same as any other kind of automation:

1) increasing output for the same labor costs

2) reducing labor costs by replacing humans with machines or smaller numbers of humans that operate the machines

The interesting difference is that AI can automate a wide range of "creative" and "knowledge worker" jobs that formerly resisted automation, so many tech workers (and others) may have their jobs automated out of existence, much as cloud computing automated the work of human system and network administrators.
Last time I was looking around Tesla and others let you give the tax credit to them as well for an equal (or sometimes better) price reduction.
But your comment implies there are also maybe too many people anyway?
So rather less food and then eventually less people?

Those are your ideas, I never even meant to imply them.
Then put up two fire alarms, one unmodified and one where you replace the speaker with an Arduino that does whatever you want with the signal. They only cost $10 a piece. Or I guess buy one with wifi or zigbee connectivity, but then you don't have a project anymore.
> Unfortunately not. It's a machine I have at home, with some port of my public IP redirected to it, as I often need it when not at home.

Wow, that must have really sucked. It's one thing to have a rented office downtown (a VPS or similar) be backdoored, but to find a burglar broke into your home while it was under construction (or renovation in case it was a distro upgrade) and added a secret passage to it from the outside? What else did the burglar mess with while you weren't looking?

> Oddly enough, my threat model did not include getting attacked with something as sophisticated as this, so I thought that was fine (only pubkey, no root).

Most people's threat model is "everything except sshd is risky; openssh is from these cool paranoid people at OpenBSD and, as long as nobody can password guess, it's safe from non-authenticated attackers". That is, often sshd is the only open port (which helps explain why the attacker fixated on it).
Yeah so I don't think women "belong in kitchens shooting out babies". That is a total misunderstanding of the point.

EDIT: Personally I don't give a shit. If a woman wants to be an astronaut or a mathematician or a ruthless psychopath CEO then go for it. I would encourage it. However if all women dedicated all of their energy to a career and have no babies then we become extinct. This is simple mathematics. Just because I point out a simple obvious mathematical fact doesn't mean that I am God and I created the universe this way. It was already this way long before I showed up and will continue to be this way long after I am gone from this world. Don't shoot the messenger.
> The comments came after X’s global government affairs team posted that it “has been forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil”.
>

> “We do not know the reasons these blocking orders have been issued [and] We are prohibited from saying which court or judge issued the order, or on what grounds.”
>

> The profiles are probably linked to far-right movements, which have found fertile ground on X and other social media platforms, including Telegram.
Musk suggested the court orders came from Alexandre De Moraes, a Supreme Court justice who has been a vocal advocate of cracking down on anti-democratic content online, particularly following riots on January 8 last year when thousands of far-right demonstrators stormed government buildings in Brasília.
"Repressive" seems pretty accurate. That it had non-repressive attributes (what repressive regime doesn't?) doesn't mean it wasn't repressive.
https://eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-2023-work-programme_en
1. Lack of stimulating activities (e.g. socializing, sport, culture, community events, etc.) leading to over-consumption of food to fill the void

2. Car-centric culture leading to lack of walking

3. Food that has been nutritionally stripped either via processing, engineering, lack of supply, financial incentive, or other causes leading to food that is not filling unless consumed in excess

4. Stress and cultural artifacts

Golly gee.
> US keeps cranking out these self organized powerhouses

highly addictive and privacy invading powerhouses.. investors like that?
Basejumping is so much easier if you don't have to fold a parachute beforehand.
They do when the alternative is living with parents until marriage
Byte Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 – Computers – The World's Greatest Toy (1975)
They willfully sign up to my ban list if they join my instance, same as users on Reddit willfully sign up to the the rules and the moderators when they join a subreddit.

Nobody has argued for the power to keep you from enjoying the public. But my instances are not public space, neither are subreddits.

If you want to run an uncensored space for your city, you can. If you want an uncensored place for conservatives, you can have that too. And so on. The reality is that no such places stay functioning if they are uncensored, and so the question tends to be if they are open enough that you don't notice.

I'll note we're having this discussion on one of the more heavily moderated forums available.
Why? It would export German "efficiency" into other states.
Always wanted to contribute to open source and expand my knowledge about programming and connect with people, however, I've always had way to much paid work that I was never able to contribute to OS; been working full-time and part-time projects in parallel for last couple of years, majority of my carrier to be more precise.
It doesn't need to be that fast, but the process in some (or maybe even many?) EU countries is rather ridiculous, as described here.

Anyone should be able to start a business, reasonably easily and cheaply – I feel it's a matter of basic freedom and liberty: you should be able to do what you bloody well want with your life, including starting a business. Basic protections to prevent the most egregious of abuse is fine, but mostly it's just about registration and paperwork.

Having to pay tens of thousands of euros for limited liability so you don't risk getting completely assraped if your business fails is how you keep the poor plebs in their place. All of this is classic "one set of rules for the poor, another set of rules for the rich" type of stuff.
If this reply [0] to a comment of yours is true, then you’re allowed to „temporarily“ leave Germany for 7-12 years before being affected by this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39790138
Indeed, my mistake and agree. Here, I wanted to refer to the fact that the transfer of ownership could likely be done even without involving a notary or a human in a properly digitalized system.
A trick one of my electronics instructors taught me many years ago is to put the wick on the solder joint to be removed, set the iron onto the top of the wick then pull up on the wick and wrap it around the tip of the iron. Heating the wick higher up from the joint causes the solder to flow up into the wick higher.

Once you do it a couple times it becomes second nature. Also, use flux.
White House Announces Open Science Recognition Challenge Winners
I'm not certain the secondary peaks would matter very much though? It seems to me that maybe the most useful model would be not a wavelet transform but some form of DCT?

At any rate, the point is that the frequency domain matters a lot, since our brain essentially receives sound data converted to the frequency domain in the first place...
Proud to see Jupyter in the list
This is what I really worry about in programming contexts. The norm is already for a distressing proportion of engineers to barely (if even that) understand code they’re working on, even when they’re the only author.

In that situation it’s extremely easy to just blindly trust an “expert” third party, particularly one where you can’t ask it questions about how and why.
https://www.infosys.com/careers/hackwithinfy/2024/images/sam... might be easier to read
This has been effectively solved by the time of my comment. The verification was done now and the prize is claimed.
I would say not necessarily cuts, but at least tax reforms to de-risk equity compensation. Canada doesn't have an 83b election equivalent, and it's easy to end up losing a lot of money through taxes on illiquid stock options that end up amounting to more than the stock options are eventually worth. An alternative, for example, would be to allow paying taxes on stock options "in-kind": have the option to give the government a share of the stock options themselves, rather than paying that percentage in dollars on a valuation that you can't actually sell them for.
Kodi for use on a Raspberry Pi is best deployed in the form of LibreELEC. This has HDMI-CEC support and GUI configuration built-in.
Peter Gregory is pleased
Likely paying some tall dollars to deal with cheap first line support. Probably a "direct to human" fee available soon.
> Doctors would also have more time for real questions if they told fat people to exercise and quit eating so many pop-tarts instead of giving them shots with a host of risky side-effects that then have to be managed.

There is no scientific evidence, whatsoever, that diet and exercise is an effective way of losing a clinically significant (>5%) amount of weight and keeping it off for a long period if time (5y). Go ahead and try and find even one study that shows this is the case.

When you diet and exercise, your basal metabolic rate slows down as much as 20-30%, permanently, and your hunger increases. Your BMR is where the vast majority of your energy expenditure goes, no matter how much you work out. In fact there's reason to think that more exercise will actually slow your BMR. Body weight set point is principally genetic and epigenetic, as evidenced from twins studies.

Maybe we'd make some progress on this particular topic if we stopped throwing out tired tropes and blaming people. The only scientifically proven methods of achieving significant, long-term sustained weight loss for most people are GLP-1/GIPs or bariatric surgery (but even there, only a gastric sleeve or roux-en-y work, lap bands do not).

Here's a 29-study meta-analysis which walks you through what I said in more detail [1] and of course the famous Biggest Loser study where everyone on that show regained all the weight in the six years following. The more they lost on the show the more they gained back. [2]

Let's not even get started on the use of insulin to treat type 2.

It's pretty wild how backwards our approach to metabolic health is from a clinical perspective. Your response here is a perfect example.

Now look at Tirzepatide. 90% success vs. 5% success. [3]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764193/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989512/

[3] https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2206038/suppl_f...
I document German bureaucracy for a living,[0] and everything is like that. Every life event - immigrating, getting a job, getting married, having a child, buying a car - is mired in slow, paper-based bureaucracy. It is a constant, significant impediment to life in the country.

Just last week, I was telling people that the best way to get married in Germany is to get married in Denmark.

I cannot overstate how terrible German bureaucracy is, and how defeating it is to deal with it. A lot of people give up and leave the country over it.

[0] https://allaboutberlin.com
I answered later in the thread: "Unfortunately, so far that deferral will most likely come with the requirement for a security, typically cash. That is the prevailing view of tax specialists right now, but will depend on each individual's experience with their local tax authorities."

Sadly, you cannot just leave and think it would be automatically deferred. You must apply for the deferral before you leave and the local tax authorities can ask for a security in cash for the entire amount owed. It is absolutely kafkaesque.

As with many German corporate tax matters, if you think you are affected by this, you should really speak with a tax advisor who has strong experience working with people in your particular situation. You cannot just read the rules and figure it out.
Yes, this is what I meant. There is no single photon (or any other single object) moving across the surface of the moon. No individual thing is moving faster than the speed of light in this scenario.
It’s great to see reports of the excellent work Daniel Slutsky and others are doing to make data science more straightforward for everyone.

I'm grateful that I get to benefit from these community efforts.
It would be amazing to see futuristic infrastructure built, and I greatly admire risk-taking, but this project seemed laughable when I first saw it.

The concept doesn’t seem to be connected to anything in the real world. It feels like Hollywood SFX artists did a rendering, and the project was greenlit. I don’t see a connection to the geography, culture, climate, maybe that’s why it seems so wrong.
That's a false dilemma. We can do both. Some people are addressing roadblocks (or attempting to; politics are hard), and some people are working on AI-assisted support.

I'm as skeptical of GenAI as they come, but let's not pretend that the people working on GenAI customer support are the same people who should be working with the AMA to address the artificial constraints in medical education.
If you put an ascii art comment block of a gorilla in a code base and told me to “find the race condition”, I would probably skip over the gorilla.

At the end of the day the metric of success for these doctors is to find cancer, not impossible images of gorillas.

The study is kinda “funny”, but it doesn’t really mean anything. Even the article itself does not claim that this is some kind of failure
Then what? Run 50-200 feet of wire back to an Arduino? Or buy an Arduino and provision it for every smoke detector in the house? How do you power them? Another wall wart?

If audio fingerprinting can identify Miley Cyrus in background noise in a crowded bar, certainly it can identify the symmetrical piercing monotone of an alarm.
That's really optimistic.
> And why not?

Because the biggest voting block in many democracies is the pensioners, so this being possible is a good way to lose elections.

> Do you not see how this kind of system is deliberately engineered to produce pushback under just such a pretense by, effectively, diluting and spreading responsibility wide enough across society? OTOH if we stop taking the "ohnoes, it will hurt all those middle class investors" argument seriously, it would actually encourage people to invest ethically instead of just blindly giving their money to whichever random sociopath offers the highest return.

Everything I have seen in my life leads me to think that people are pretty blind to risks when you dangle the possibility of a large return in front of them. Ponzi schemes, Brexit, lotteries, wars, unrestricted AI — at every scale, people will enthusiastically go for all of them in the name of some hoped-for benefit and call you names if you point out the risks they're taking.
Issue is that the admin is the one who decides what you can see. I remember a few months ago some meme/map or the network divided in "normie" and "weird" sides of the network. The impression I got is that the normie side instance admins apparently cooperate on blocking instances.

What if I want to be on both? Well you need two accounts.
What I fear about investments like this is that you end up with companies that become really good at optimizing for getting grants without actually creating anything of value. Thinking specifically of Element AI.
It is in a sense their fault for prescribing something (diet and exercise) we have known is utterly ineffective for over a hundred years. Likely because until now there weren't non-surgical alternatives, and caloric restriction and exercise do have other non-weight-loss benefits.
Unless you live in Flint...
A local shop wanted my help - a customer had old documents on a Mac floppy. It had been years and years since I had my sights on a Mac with a floppy drive.

I figured I could help anyway. First, I checked that the floppies weren't in DOS/Windows format. A long shot, but for a short while it was not unheard of to use DOS floppies as the lingua franca between Macs and PCs.

Nah, that wasn't it. It was a real Mac floppy. No PC could read it.

A Greaseweazle to the rescue! Created a floppy image. But how to read it? Turns out there's a Mac emulator on the web you can just drop a floppy image into, complete with MS Word 5 for Mac to read the document, export it to RTF and Bob's your uncle!
Well, just the things that do not exist naturally in that location then.
It used to be the case that some CSS was hardware accelerated in one browser and not in another. I haven't checked in a long time but that would explain the perf difference.
software quality hasnt gotten worse lately
Your point above was not topical and only served to derail the conversation or gaslight the people who you mislead with it.
umm.. when is the election in Canada?
The premise that they need to borrow $2.4B and spend it on something is incorrect.
This exactly. A sizeable slice of talent at US tech companies are Canadian expats who realized that ironically, the only way they'd ever be able to afford to live in Canada someday would be to move to the States for their career.
That's because they block accounts on demand, and I bet the Brazilian Supreme Court has never heard about HN before.
> at some point circa 2010, it looked like Clojure could revive Lisp-Stat with Incanter

I think there was hope that would happen, but Incanter simply didn't have the functionality or documentation needed to become a player in that space in 2010. It was a doomed effort because of the (intentional) difficulty of native interoperability on the JVM. They'd have had to rewrite tens of millions of lines of code to realize their goals.
Instead of AI reducing my working hours and my chores so I can spend time on fun things like art and music, AI is making creating art and music obsolete so I can spend more time on my job and chores. What a time to be alive.
Perhaps I'm up too late, but I can't think what else is there to cooperation besides two or more agents doing things in alignment with some goal? (Regardless of who or what sets that goal).

Also I don't know what you mean by "conceptualization".
minsky, 'society of mind', everything old is new again
Free money is the dream or not working is dream?
That's the crux of the problem.

1. You have a country that is, broadly speaking, industrially oriented towards selling raw goods (wood, metals) to other countries, from whom you buy back finished products. It might not technically be mercantilism, but the dynamic is the same, and, like mercantilism, it's a mug's game. It's also increasingly unpopular with your population, which is increasingly aligned with environmentalists, because of this whole world-endy forest-firey junket that's on trend. (Fun aside: look up 'TMX'. They will never get that built.)

2. So: you want to move to a more modern economy that doesn't make you a vassal state to 'allies' (who are also your customers, who are also your employers, who also run the general store from which you buy your shovels,) and does not inflame the ire of your increasingly restive voters, who have just spent a summer inhaling the fumorous remains of several hundred thousand trees. (And not the fun kind.) So, why not just laissez the faire and let the economy sort it out?

3. (Answering 2) Because, it turns out, that unguided markets entrench existing patterns. Left to their own devices, I'm sure Canada's engineering firms would come up with _even better ways_ of ripping oil from tar sands, but, again, by 1. and 2., you really don't want to do that these days, and besides, what are you going to do when demand for dilbit goes down? There are these 'solar' panels, now, you see, and ---

And so,

4. You meddle with the shape and direction of the market. You know this will cause ineffiencies, and you know that some quotient of well-connected asshats will get rich from this by doing essentially nothing. But it's still more appealing than sticking with 1 and 2.

5. If you can do this in a way that hooks into existing trends (and AI is, for most normal people, still a Big New Thing,) you may also win a leapfrog opportunity over your neighbours, pulling a TSMC-but-AI out of thin air. (Perhaps the aurora borealis.) That's a lotto ticket worth scratching. Just ask Taiwan.

That's why the government funds things up here. Because they wouldn't happen at all, otherwise, and that outcome is less optimal than having them happen inefficiently. The waste along the way is a necessary evil. No pump is 100% efficient, but if gets water from the well, who cares?

In a hundred years, we don't want to be still selling maple syrup to the ever-warring states of Trumpida and Greater Oregonifornia. We want to be selling the shovels. (A nation can dream, can't it?)

And this fund, which is less than a 40th of what was spent on a nonexistent and unworkable oil pipeline, helps get us closer to that.
Any idea which model has the best performance across languages? I'm checking out model performance on the Huggingface leaderboard and the top models for English aren't even in the top 20 for Polish, French and Chinese
“Trudeau made the announcement in Montreal as part of a pre-budget tour.

He said the federal government will begin consulting with industry soon on a new AI Compute Access Fund and an accompanying strategy to expand the sector in Canada.”

So he didn’t actually announce a real investment. He announced an intent to have a budget item and to vaguely consult with…someone.

Given the absolutely dire electoral prospects of the federal Liberals come the next election, this is basically meaningless.