skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The world?

Yes, the world. Cherrypicking indicators like "respondents in Francophone Africa" doesn't change the simple fact that the majority of the world disapproves what Russia is doing and the attitude towards Russia took a sharp turn towards negative in 2022: https://news.gallup.com/poll/474596/russia-suffers-global-re... As a general rule, the support for Russia is tied to how shitty a place is. The more successful a country has been at developing a good place to live in, the less they support Russia. Why is that so?

If you want to dig into UN voting records, then look at key votes related to Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembl... The resolution "reiterates its demand that the Russian Federation immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, and calls for a cessation of hostilities." 141 countries in favor, 7 against: Belarus, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Syria.

But - you didn't answer the question that was asked.
This plus the native modal element, <dialog>, really reduces the need even further for javascript on basic websites. I'm really looking forward to the day when bootstrap-level functionality is implementable via html/css only.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...
https://alternativeto.net/ fills that role for me, it has crowd-sourced reviews, searchable facets, and of course recommendations.

Not limited to open source products, but maybe that's a good thing so you can find alternatives.
This story took place in the 70s.

The value arbitrage corporations get from their workers today makes shareholders embezzling from workers just the way of the world now.

He wasn't just charming -- he was nihilistically prescient. He knew where the world was going, and that other businessman at the end, he wouldn't survive in today's environment.
Amazing! I also had exactly the same experience that led me to research this a few years ago, realizing that:

- GPS works even in airplane mode (while on a literal airplane)
- It works without cell service, or wifi, or anything
- The United States of America controls the GPS constellation, and they can (and have!) turned off GPS off certain regions at will when necessary (which has prompted other countries to launch their own GNSS constellations)
- GPS satellites don't send down a location, they only send down time

I think it's a really fun exercise to do this with data you receive on your phone. Your phone has a direct link to satellite.

(side note: I recently learned the basic principles of star navigation, and while it is a completely different mechanism, it also relies very much on keeping accurate time, which I thought was a fun symmetry!)
ha, we used to call that the "P.O.S. theft deterrent system"
I made a simple flashcards tool that helps you learn new words quickly
T5 was released in 2019.
"If you've used a command for the past 10[0] years, and it's always worked, and you go to use it again, and you're using it in a similar way to how you always have, do you read the man page?"

Yes, that's the first thing I do.
CeLLM – LLM Integration for Google Sheets
That's cool, is it something tourists could buy?
I'm not sure how much value making something "not fugly" really matters. Design should be based on functionality, not anti-fugliness. In my experience, design considerations should come after building a successful growth "feedback loop." (Or whatever you want to call it.) At that point, you may decide making your website look "polished" isn't even necessary.

IMDB was certainly quite ugly for a long time. See:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100712165326/http://www.imdb.c...

Other examples of extremely successful, low design sites:

https://archiveofourown.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/
It is attitudes like this that give him more power than he should have.

Everyone thought it was a joke in 2016 too.
Note that GPS receiver capable (i.e. not artificially limited) of providing navigation data while moving 600 m/s or higher used to be considered munition by ITAR. The amount of legalese at updated ruling [1] is well beyond what I can make sense of, to the point I don't even know if it still applies.

While we're at SDRs, ITAR is also responsible for takedown of passive radar GNU Radio module made by Kraken RF team.

[1] https://www.space.commerce.gov/itar-controls-on-gps-gnss-rec...
Someone publicly praising an incredibly powerful person who is well known to be vain and petty is not good proof of anything.
I had a slightly better experience. For the thrill of it, I spent hours preparing for a couple of test papers making a number of little cheat sheets in tiny handwriting. At the end of the exercise I found I didn't need the cheat sheets - the stuff had gone right into memory and I did quite well in the tests.
Always keep your pink flimsies in reach in case the corporate ____ ever hits the fan.
Is running things in batch mode also cheaper? I don't see it, but it would be a nice way for OpenAI to smooth out their demand
> Calling yourself "the allies" doesn't make you long term allies.

The original claim was literally "China has never been a western ally". GP pointed out a counter example during WWII. Your response seems to be against a strawman argument...
My nearly new 48GB A6000 is basically an ancient artifact relative to the exploding size of MoE requirements.
Seriously though, -if- he's performing up to expected standards at each of this three jobs, and there is no conflict of interest between these companies, why is it a problem? The only real problem seems to be that he didn't disclose it--not that there was anything inherently immoral about taking more than one job.

When someone holds down three low-paid service jobs, we congratulate them for working their ass off. But when someone on salary does the same thing, employers cry foul.
I sanction that even thought it's all moot now.
S€PA E-com Checkout Solution using QR
Your Own Wave.

Made a simple integration using their api, quite handy. See it on https://www.util.cam ; don't buy the product tho cause i don't got supply lol.

Though was really easy to setup and have made a github project for integrating it into e-com. What's nice is the bank-to-bank transfer, tested paying using Revolut, should work as long as the client's bank supports qr scanning for payment/transfer.

Implementation is free, they just take fixed fees. Bargain.

Thinking this might be a nice gateway to micro-ecommerce, if your curious : https://github.com/diegocaumont/yowpay_checkout_ecom
You can poll storage periodically though, you don't need to keep a constant metrics stream of where it's at. Also you can set up each machine to alert when it's own storage fills up.

Also, as your storage hits 97%+, you'll probably start seeing effects in your business metrics, and then you can look into it.
I was using it for translation with somewhat wobbly results. Would love to see a translation fine tune.
I think it's a great idea if it's done right. I miss freshmeat.net :-)

A database of open source software would help when looking for suitable products, personally I tend to scout for open source options before looking into closed options.

If it contained easily searchable/filterable information on license, "activity" (i.e how alive the project is), hosting/deployment options, development language, operating system, it would be great.

Also if it has info on how it accepts contributions, it'd be nice.

Probably you could scrape I formation from GitHub, gitlab and similar sites and you could also let projects supply information for you in a "oss-info.yaml/json" in the root dir of the project.
Casual embezzling on all levels of society was extremely common in communist Czechoslovakia (and probably other Eastern Bloc countries). For example construction workers might steal material from their job site to build their own house (often during work hours as well). There was even a popular adage normalizing this behaviour: "One who doesn't steal steals from his own family".
AI and the Evolution of Developer Experience [video]
I love it when people contribute to my projects by opening an issue, discussing their idea, then contributing a clean PR with bundled documentation and tests.

Actively soliciting contributions isn't necessarily the way to get that.

Look at what happens with Hacktoberfest: there are hundreds of thousands of newer developers out there who want to earn their stripes by contributing to an open source project. The amount of work this creates for the projects themselves is enormous.
How Are US Tax Dollars Being Spent? Hint: The Pentagon Is Cashing In
I can only give you a datapoint but unfortunately no advice

1. I never discovered any movie on IMDB. I go to IMDB to find trivia, cast or some other fact about a movie that I somehow already knew of.

2. My interest in an open source project will not be influenced by its popularity or any other metrics but purely by what it means to me. I submitted my first PR to an open source project not because it is popular but because it lacked something I needed.

P.S. Thanks to all the nice people who generously contribute to OSS and offer their work for free. Hats off and respect.
I remember using OWA (Outlook Web Access) before that.. but you are right this is the one that stands out..... soon after this Digg was created and the onslaught of all the web 2.0 sites like delicious, flickr etc etc
So, how is this better than Anki?
The number of ships the US builds and other general quantities of war materiel is public knowledge. Beyond government accountability, US policy is designed around deterrence, where you want your potential adversaries to see just how big a stick you're carrying so as to prevent them attacking you in the first place. With modern satellites, it would be impossible to hide any large scale production even if we tried to keep it secret. The US certainly does have some classified military procurement, but these items are too small to have any critical details revealed by a crude analysis of steel consumption.
I still mourn Freshmeat.net
Research for Sale: How Chinese Money Flows to American Universities
Ah, yes. Needs support for Teleport too. Will add :D
I dont know whats more laughable. The idea that Zucky can be honest, or that Congress will pursue - even blatant (see Clapper) - perjury charges.
Sounds like a good use case. Do you have any benchmarks or numbers which you could share regarding the performance of database? (especially disk writes and reads)
I'll go out on a limb here and posit that a key underlying problem might be the society you live in. Societies make (or: impose) choices.
I couldn't get an archive link but here is a gift article link without paywall:
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinese-money-american-unive...
HCU: Is Google Prioritizing Profit over Content Quality?
Several small publishers were severely hit after the latest Google SEO "Helpful Content Update." Google now prioritizes Reddit, Medium, Quora, and Pinterest sites over smaller sites. Pushing businesses to spend on ads for discoverability
What a tragic waste of talent it would be if people were forced to give up their career after a single embarrassing snafu. All because of the "court of public opinion"

If Musk had quit after his first mistake, America may have never regained its space launch capability, OpenAI may never have existed, paraplegics may not be controlling computers with their minds, and electric cars might have been a pipe dream.

I'm exhausted by all these witch hunts and public campaigns against individuals (which are often motivated by political difference as opposed to behaviour).

Let's focus on people's achievements rather than their differences.
Silence Is Not Securities Fraud
Agree with the article enough that I did something about it which I call "Poor Fred's SIEM". The heart of it is a DNS proxy for Redis (https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns). However it's not targeted at environments where everything is in a "bubble" such that there are no ingress / egress costs. (Lookin' at you, Cloud.) Furthermore "control plane" is an important concept, and it's well understood in the industrial control world as the Purdue Model.

From a systems standpoint do you need to have all resources stored centrally in order to do centralized reporting? No, of course not. Admittedly it's handy if bandwidth and storage are free. The alternative is distributed storage, with or without summarization at the edge (and aggregating from distributed storage for reporting).

Having it distributed does raise access issues: access needs to be controlled, and management of access needs to be managed. Philosophically the Cloud solutions sell centralized management, but federation is a perfectly viable option. The choice is largely dictated by organizational structure not technology.

There is also a difference between diagnostic and evaluative indicators. Trying to evaluate from diagnostics causes fatigue because humans aren't built that way; evaluatives can and should be built from diagnostics. Diagnostics can't be built from evaluatives.

The logging/telemetry stack that I propose is:

1) Ephemeral logging at the limits of whatever observability you can build. E.g.: systemd journal with a small backing store, similar to a ring buffer.

2) Your compliance framework may require shipping some classes of events off of the local host, but I don't think any of them require shipping it to the cloud.

3) Build evaluatives locally in Redis.

4) Use DNS to query those evaluatives from elsewhere for ad hoc as well as historical purposes. This could be a centralized location or it could be true federation where each site accesses all other site's evaluatives.

I wouldn't put Redis on the internet, but I don't worry too much about DNS; and there are well-understood ways of securing DNS from tampering, unauthorized access, and even observation. By the way, DNS will handle hundreds or thousands of queries per second you just have to build for it.
You store numbers, all positive and up to 5k (Let's say it's all your income). So you'll get recommended ushort. Now you'll win the lottery (pun intended).

A tool could only recommend that the stored data would fit another datatype. But only business can tell you whether thats true.

I only see disadvantages or micro-optimizations.
>> It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia which actively lampshades all of the themes being censored now has so many episodes missing from streaming services it’s almost one per season. And they’re some of the best episodes!

I thought this was untrue so I checked. On UK Netflix there are at least 5 missing episodes and there's no indication they're missing. They're unavailable to purchase on iTunes too (although unlike Netflix, it numbers the episodes correctly so it's clear there are missing episodes). Appalling. I didn't think I would ever return to physical media for video content but...this is making me seriously consider it.

Edit: As an example of why this stuff shouldn't be censored, I'll explain my recent experience with NYPD Blue. The full thing (uncensored, I think) is available on Disney+. In the first few seasons, I was horrified at the racism. But, it served as an illustration of something that was shown on primetime TV in a specific time period. Personally I wouldn't have thought this type of content would have been broadcast in the early 90's and it was a good reminder of how far we've come. It's the same when watching old British comedies. There are lots of jokes that serve as a good reminder that things have changed for the better, even if it doesn't always feel like that. We shouldn't be erasing history.
Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model
I'll bite. How do lasers help actuators? (But yeah, most of that only takes a little imagination.)
How it compares against neon.tech?
You realize we freely publish a lot of that right? The US has a gigantic military, and showing that off is an important form of deterrence.

Like, most of those tanks are just sitting out in the desert, in full view of global satellites.

YOU can collect that information for like a thousand bucks, by buying satellite imagery. People are doing that right now.
There's a table of MT-Bench scores. I presume we'll have to wait for the preprint before we know anything else.
It needs a fitting. IIRC they took a gel impression.
All good questions! We are discussing them regularly.

We take an adversarial approach to the protocol and constantly try to come up with ways it might be gamed. We want to design it in a way that achieves something like this: https://xkcd.com/810/

Some points regarding your questions:

The protocol will be fully open source so nobody can gain an advantage through information asymmetry.

We choose the best replies by measuring how much a reply "changes minds" (difference in voting behavior on a post given users have also voted on that reply). We adjust for biases using a technique called bridging-based ranking [1, 2]. The algorithm chooses the reply that had the highest impact on voting behavior after adjusting for biases.

We do realize that truth is a loaded term, so to elicit "truthful" posts and replies, we incentivize honesty with a technique called the Bayesian Truth Serum [3]. This will be linked with a reputation system that determines a user's impact.

If you spin up a bunch of bots, they will have low reputation in the beginning and therefore little impact. If you coordinate people (or bots) to vote manipulatively, their impact will be minimized by the bias correction because their votes are correlated. Our hope is that it would take considerable effort to build reputation on many accounts (by being honest and helpful over an extended period of time) and maintaining an attack over the lifecycle of a discussion would be infeasible because it works against the incentive structure and can at any point be exposed.

This is just some of our current thinking, if you can think of attack scenarios or weaknesses in our thinking, we'd be interested in your thoughts!

[1] https://jonathanwarden.com/understanding-community-notes/

[2] https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.h...

[3] https://nel.mit.edu/bayesian-truth-serum/
How it compares against supabase?
I know this is well intentioned but we don't allow bots (nor generated comments generally) on Hacker News. HN is for curious conversation between humans.
This makes a bit of intuitive sense to me. Personally, I can't imagine a job so good that it would be worth having to live in the SV/SF area. The downsides to having to be there are pretty extreme.
It's amazing. You can argue how much input he's had into Tesla and SpaceX over the years, but it's clear that both companies did amazing things.

Then he starts his drunken/high/unwise posts and memes, both libelous ("pedo guy"), and financial ("Taking Tesla private") etc, he came out angry about people protecting themselves from covid, and of course his circle, just like people on social media, shifted, and egged him on more and more. His descent spiraled and eventually the lawyers and accountants couldn't get him out of it when it came to Twitter. It's destroyed his finances, lost his reputation, sucked his time, and he entered the spiral of conspiracy and hatred.

We've all read about people who have committed career suicide on twitter, or at least caused themselves major problems (Justine Sacco comes to mind, but James Gunn too), but Musk is a category on his own. I look forward to a detailed biography.
I think how Steam handles game rankings is a good example of this. They separate out "All Reviews" from "Recent Reviews". Helps identify current reception of a game which may have had a buggy release.
Testing Practical Common Lisp Code on Medley Interlisp
Nuclear energy was phased down because of emotional / ideological decisions (by all parties!) and it will not come back because it can't compete economically with renewables nowadays. It's as simple as that.
So like freshmeat.net back in the day?
you're never going to believe this, but the other side feels the same way
Rights that are rooted in social tradition and practice are mostly about protecting that social tradition and practice. An example of such traditional customary right that was pervasive in human societies, and is still pervasive in some of them, would be the right of husbands to rape their wives.

But, of course, that is still a fundamentally religious position; in this case, the implicit axiom is that the current social tradition and custom is something valuable - for theistic conservatives, because it is divinely ordained, or at least has its origins in something that was, and for non-theistic ones, because it has value in and of itself. In that sense, they are not different from theistic or non-theistic liberals. There's still nothing particularly objective about it, as evidenced by the fact that different societies have wildly different traditions and customs.

As a non-theistic liberal, I prefer to start with the axiom that human suffering is bad in general, and that every person has absolute and inviolable ownership of their own mind and body, then derive the natural rights (bodily autonomy, right to self-defense etc) from there. That is, of course, also a religious position, since nature itself doesn't care one bit about suffering, so my assertion that it is bad is a matter of faith, not of reason.
> Log retention is also directly tied to how fast and easily can you detect and recover from issues.

I disagree. Every issue I've ever debugged, I did a tail -f on the logs. I can't recall ever searching the old logs.

Even if it takes a few days for an issue to brew, usually the logs right now will show the issue. Or if they don't, then you can turn on the logs and have them in a few days time. It's so rare that it's almost never worth keeping the logs around just for that one case where an old log might lead to resolution, and rarely does one have time during an active incident to look at old logs anyway.
Within 5 years, there will probably be an AI video generator that has been trained on pornography and can compete quality-wise with human made porn.

Within 10 years, you will have interactive AI generated VR porn where you can walk around the scene and interact with the performers.

Within 15 years, you can plug your brain into the porn matrix where you can taste, touch and smell your interactive porn.

Within 20 years, you will be a human battery for the machines.
If it were PCIe it would be a screaming deal, but it's sata. That would take a hot minute to fill at a max 500 megs/sec.
Off by 100% Bias
There are plenty of studies showing a diminishing return in happiness / general satisfaction after a certain income threshold. You can look themselves up yourself.
Could it be a USA thing?
My hunch is that JSON using a custom compression dictionary with zlib (see zdict argument to https://docs.python.org/3/library/zlib.html#zlib.compressobj) or zstandard would get you most of the benefit while still letting you interact with existing JSON tools. I've not put the work in to prove that to myself though!
Anyone remembers freshmeat.net?
Users have been flagging most Tesla-related posts (not to mention Musk-related posts), no doubt because they nearly always turn into the same tedious and repetitive drama.

I've turned off the flags on this one since the discussion seems more substantive than usual, although it's not clear how significant the story is.