skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is (at long last) rapidly changing: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/nyregion/nyc-trash-contai...

DSNY is pushing hard on getting all trash containerized. Food-related businesses were required to start last summer, all commercial trash's requirement hit just a couple of weeks ago, and residential is rolling out.
His claim is that sin and cos in calculus are often introduced independently of geometry, as math for engineers is non rigorous, and the connection to triangles is a magical coincidence.

See also "Early vs Late Transcendentals" in calculus pedagogy.
There we go again, a western "civilised" citizen calling a sentence barbaric because it was passed by a nation they don't like. It's called justice dude.

You seem to belittle 'corruption' but it's actually root of a lot of evil.
Here's some background on what Proton Bridge does and why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643124.

The recommended way to send signed emails is to let Bridge do it for you; you can enable this with a setting in Proton Mail called "Sign external messages".

Our goal is to make it easy to send and receive signed and encrypted emails. That's what Proton Mail is for. If you want to set up PGP signing and/or encryption yourself, a different service may be more suitable.
You're yelling at the sky. All these HNers don't even know about To Lam's whole Saltbae scandal and how he still remains on top, let alone all the other grafts and political insider shit that happens.
This is awesome! Thanks a lot for this :)
Relatedly, Transit app is doing real-time analysis of rat sightings in the subway: https://transitapp.com/rats
This would be considered a Slow Loris attack, and I'm actually curious how scrapers would handle it.

I'm sure the big players like Google would deal with it gracefully.
I switched to an e-ink monitor earlier this year, never turning back.

I still have to use my laptop screen for video calls and anything involving color graphics/animation. But the vast majority of my work is text (chat/browser/editor) which renders well on e-ink. Being able to work with natural light has reduced my screen time to less than an hour a day - and my nervous system thanks me. Best investment I ever made.
Last I checked, Signal doesn't support email...
Metronet fiber is unlimited, no cap.

https://support.metronet.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043044794-...

Frontier, Astound (acquired WOW), CenturyLink and Quantum Fiber, AT&T Fiber as well.

https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/best-internet-providers-w...

Also, humorously, Starlink and T-Mobile Home 5G.

https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1469-65206-75

https://tmo.report/2024/01/t-mobile-has-quietly-added-a-data... (deprioritized after >1TB, but not capped or charged extra)

Comcast/Xfinity seems like Big Snowflake Energy in this regard.
The LLMs are inside your SQL
just like how a public company have share holders, an institution like Harvard have donors. They have to listen or else their source would dry up.
That is exactly what I am saying, nobody does it that often, so automatising is not even an option usually as things move so fast a playbook would have to be debugged and modified every time you use it.
The effect is more on food manufacturers than on home kitchens. A few cents per item can have a significant effect on their profit margin.
corruption or death penalty is barbaric?
This is cool but I don't have a lot of land, so I'm not sure where I'd be able to use this to take advantage of it's capabilities.
AKA... Everyone must submit this info, and we reserve the right to ignore it to get the outcomes we want.
FFS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39999030
"Preorder", "AI powered". This is not reassuring that this product will actually exist at any time in the future.

Remember the self filling water bottle.
Discussion of OJ Simpson Murder Trial Is On-Line as Well as on the Air (1995)
Handling Hindu Lunisidereal Calendars
I know it isn't the point you are trying to make, but I can't think of a better way to re-enforce OP's point of "mediocrity will be even more available" than a mid-00s style, pop country song about eating hamburgers. "Toby Keith but with less to say" might be the gold standard of mediocrity.
The rotating angle suggests immediately the domain and definition of Sin(x), Cos(x) using simple projections. And, huuuuge bonus, that's a right triangle.

I just think lesson zero in the above article should have been these projections, and a simple "From this all angles can be defined as right triangles in your preferred coordinate system", and you're off to the races in any old direction.

This is not how I was taught it, and I'm retrospectively upset.
Aider is one of my favorite AI agents, especially because it can work with existing codebases. We've seen a lot of good results from folks who used it with Wasp (https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp) - a full-stack web framework I'm working on.

A "marketingy" demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXunbNBpgZg&ab_channel=Wasp
I’ve asked this before.
I’ve noticed if my speed is slow, and I test it a few times, (I usually use the Netflix-owned site,) my speed rapidly improves. Do ISP’s throttle service, DETECT your visit to speed testing sites, and THEN speed things up?
My aversion to smart phones has always been two-fold:

1. I don't like being interrupted. Land lines drove me crazy when the phone would ring unexpectedly (and it was often telemarketers). So in the early days of people starting to buy cell phones, my view of them was that I would be carrying around this thing that would constantly make noise and interrupt me wherever I went. So I default hated mobile phones in general for the longest time.

2. Once I finally bought a cell phone, and I was observing how much people were using them in general, I felt like it was a device that I didn't really control. On the desktop I use Linux and have since the late 90s. I'm a "power user" who likes to customize everything, use as much FOSS software as I can, I loathe bloatware and don't like sending my data to remote servers. So I really only used a smart phone to text my family and occasionally use a web browser if I was out in public and needed to look something up.

As for #1, I realized that smart phones in general have a killer feature that landlines never did: you can set your default ring tone to silence and then give people you actually care about a custom ring tone.

And for #2, I eventually bought a Google Pixel and installed GrapheneOS. Now I feel less hatred of the device. I still don't use a smart phone as much as most people do, but I feel like it's mine and I'm in control of it. There's no bloatware or spyware, I install the FOSS apps that I want to use and I customize the thing to my liking. It feels like running Linux on my desktops ... I'm the user & the master of the machine. It exists to serve me, not the other way around.

If I didn't use my phone as an mp3 player, reach for a web browser occasionally or temporarily install proprietary apps when I'm on vacation (Uber, My Disney Experience etc.) I'd probably get a dumb phone myself.
Not being sarcastic. Every other place I've been uses containers (wheeled bins, cans, dumpsters) to prevent rats and to make collection cheaper.

What is the purpose of piles?
I've benchmarked against google cloud ocr, but the results are on Twitter, not the repo yet - https://twitter.com/VikParuchuri/status/1765440195124691339 . The reason I didn't benchmark against doctr is language support.
Two things: 1) This library will continue predicting words too for every word that exists in the model, it just makes less sense as you keep going. That's also true of any LLM. 2) An LLM is not synonymous with "chat bot".
The Influencer Illusion
If you had two pubs next to each other, one selling the best beer in the world for $1 a pint and the other giving away free low quality beer, the one giving away free beer would have an enormous line and the other a few people inside. You just can't argue with free when it comes to most people. People will drive for hours to get a free hot dog. People have got it in their head that things on the computer screen have to be free and you can't easily take that out of their heads.
at the end it says that you can check the validity by signing in to icloud, there an alert banner is shown
Is there a clear definition of 'typical' when it comes to the speeds/latency - e.g., should I expect this on a p95 level at my residence for the contract?

I ask because I'm paying for a service advertising itself as 500mbps down/10 mbps up/latency 14ms, but I have never in my 3 years of paying for it seen that level of performance.
Running a `networkquality` test right now on ethernet reveals about 159 down/2.0 up/latency 50ms, which is closer to what I've come to expect on any given run

On top of that, if the confines of 'typical' are broken on the side of the provider, would this just be an fcc complaint? More than happy to track this over the course of a month and provide data to back up my findings
>Do we need a (curated?) unadulterated stockpile of human content to avoid the enshittification of everything?

Either that, or a human level AI.
And if I remember correctly, Mr Lipvig got the death penalty as well.

He was just given the, um, "choice", of taking the leap into the death penalty, or becoming the virtual prisoner of an extremely powerful "guardian angel". Who was in actuality more of a ruthless probation officer.

The message was clear, we should not be blind to the harm that indifference to corruption metes out on the larger society.
Detroit Angry over $400k 'Hollywood' Style Freeway Sign After AI Generated Image
It should be possible to call a GPL library in a separate process (surya can batch process from the CLI) and avoid GPL - ocrmypdf does this with ghostscript.
According to prosecutors, over a period of three years from February 2019, she ordered her driver to withdraw 108 trillion Vietnamese dong, more than $4bn (£2.3bn) in cash from the bank, and store it in her basement. The verdict requires her to return $27bn, a sum prosecutors said may never be recovered.

she stole around 2% of Vietnam's GDP annually.

You just can’t move this kind of money without the government noticing. She most likely fell out of favour for some other reason with the ruling party.

moreover, Viet Nam is a communist country. It may seem difficult for western capitalists to reconcile since "victimless" and "non-violent" are the litmus for most prosecutions but sentencing the bourgeoise to the death penalty for embezzlement is absolutely in keeping with the party line and doctrine. in 2008 the PRC had a tainted milk scandal, during which time it tried, sentenced, and executed two high level corporate executives for the fraud.
Demand for software developers to persist, despite 2023 woes
How to cheat at Super Mario Maker and get away with it for years
> We did rural electrification and telephone decades ago.

We used to do things like that, sure. Unfortunately, Government "Works" projects aren't like they were in the 30s-50s. Outside of rebuilding a few crappy bridges, almost nothing useful is being created.

At this point, don’t think we can trust the government with more money regardless of what they promise to do with it.

The vast majority of new Federal Gov jobs are build-nothing, do-nothing, buerocratic paper pushing roles that create nothing of lasting or even temporary value. The net effect of the massive Federal budget increases over the past ~4 years has been a sharp decrease in our overall workforce efficiency which has been the main driver of inflation.
When the weather is colder in NYC, there are fewer rat sightings. But don't be fooled -- it's not because there are magically fewer rats, but instead likely due to several confounding factors such as being darker more often while people are rat-watching, colder weather driving rats to stay indoors more often, and more rain/snow/slush making the furry rodents harder to spot.
Honestly, I think these are the varieties of crimes where capital punishment should apply - while a violent offender might be one day rehabilitated, someone who feels it’s ok to loot billions at the expense of their fellow man deserves to suffer schaphism.

The harm is infinitely greater - and we seemingly live in a world where this behaviour is more often than not rewarded with high office and plaudits.
There is the wonderful figure on light bulb packaging in the EU which attempts to express how much energy the light bulb will use in a year (defined at 1000hours of usage)...

It's given as XXX kWh/1000h ... which if you're at all familiar with units can be simplified to just... XXX Watts.

Plus ca change...
That's the ChatGPT style. It is extremely stereotypical when it comes to writing lyrics or poetry: 4 lines, rhyming, with metronome regularity. Both Suno & Udio seem to use ChatGPT for lyrics, and it's a terrible choice, which should be ripped out in favor of Claude or anything else. (Basically, any LLM which can pass the "write a non-rhyming poem" test prompt would be a better choice.)
Prodverbs: Pithy Insights from Running Production Services at Google
In UK, quite a bit of art donated to smaller museums in the XIX century is now missing. Chances of curators and local workers helping themselves to these collections through the decades, are very high. Same for modern art in Italian public buildings, some even from big names like Guttuso.
I'm pretty sure Harvard's endowment will thrive even if the donors go to zero. Harvard is more interested in prestige and public perception. That is their currency.
I thought SCIP got promoted into https://lsif.dev/ but chasing the https://github.com/sourcegraph/lsif-java link resolves to https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip-java so maybe I had the evolution relationship backward. Anyway, I'm thankful at least that code is still Apache 2

https://github.com/topics/lsif may interest this audience, too, since the scip topic tag seems to clash with something else

Also, I learned last night that GitLab embraces LSIF, too https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/stages.html#aut...
I have always considered testing the least worst option. Rich kids might get some advantage, but they will get those advantage and more in any system. Pure lottery combined with auction might be the fairest solution. The rich paying for the rest...
Statements like this ignore the victims:

- 3% of vietnam's GDP

- Roughly the equivalent of an entire city losing their livelihood to one person

- The trauma and ruin people around the victims will feel

- Orphaned children, suicides, intragenerational trauma that will last for many rebirths.

It's the same cavalier attitude I see towards victims of SBF on this forum. "Its their fault", "they were asking for it".

You have compassion for the perpetrator but not the victims who are dead and are going to end up dead.

I only pray that you will not experience the pain of being manipulated and scammed. It's truly awful because I experienced it.

I know some religions/SF bay cults try to justify it but at the end of the day its the lapse in responsibility and compassion, the same disregard for others but your own.
Adobe Is Buying Videos for Cheap to Train Its Sora Competitor
Some people here do pay bribes. I do not. Neither do most people around my age that I know.

I immigrated here 12 years ago. I have a company license, a driving license, proper residency, and so on.

I got every last piece of it by filling out forms, and waiting a normal amount of time. I speak Vietnamese like a small child and have no Vietnamese heritage.

Perhaps some people will report something different, and perhaps they are also correct. However, this is my story.
When were you in Calc 101?

Before or after 2009?

https://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2009volume9/FG200925.pdf
I, personally, grew up in a small, (lower-ish) middle-class mid-western town with below-average (I think!) schools. I did not get good grades (I just didn't care that much). But I got really good test scores. So I got into a pretty decent (state) school with a legit engineering program.

One could argue that my lack of grades is a good reason for me to not get into a good school. But without the tests, I definitely wouldn't have. I shutter to think how my career/life would be different had I not gotten into a decent school.

So, at least for me, I have a real affection for these kinds of tests. And, as far as I know, I think the US is like the only place that doesn't use tests as the primary decider for higher education.

It seems like the move away from testing was "not based on science". Though it was sometimes couched that way. I'm glad to see sanity (and science) prevail. But it all seems very fragile to me right now.
Yes it seems nuts

I had a skim of the Lit SSR docs and they didn't really spell it out either

My best guess at something that might make sense is if the idea is to pre-render something usable, but static, with SSR and then once that is delivered to the client it is able to upgrade itself back into an interactive client-side web component ?

No idea if that's what these are trying to do though
Does it seem obvious? Do you communicate with normal every day people? Because a lot of people have bought VC hype that AI is here to replace every job and they live in fear of the progression of AI.
A free and open-source Civilization you can play in a browser
Anyolite – Embedded mruby/Ruby for Crystal
Unions insert a potential for improvement because they come with critically different motivation.

Workplaces suffer from compulsions by MBAs, who prioritize shareholders and exec bonuses above the welfare of employees/consumers/company. A union has an ability to raise the priority of employees in this equation - and ease MBA pressures to exploit consumers and degrade the company.

But because unions are groups of people, they are subject to the same corrupting principle that afflicts every group of people.

Nobody, anywhere wants to clean their own house.

A union can be a force for good, as long as it's leaders+members continue to fix the internals that need fixing.
The market does not, in fact, have to operate on pointless complexity and fake difficulty.
> How can we know something like this is real?

From apple's website:

"To verify that an Apple threat notification is genuine, sign in to appleid.apple.com. If Apple sent you a threat notification, it will be clearly visible at the top of the page after you sign in."

https://support.apple.com/en-lamr/102174
> I think American public servants are lazy, overpaid, and unskilled, yes.

Sweeping generalizations much?
The article initially points out that in mathematics, there are often equivalent definitions, that each have their own benefits and drawbacks. I think the author could have just written "I have found an alternative approach" instead of "I have found a better approach".

As others have noted here, the geometric argument only works "intuitively" for acute angles and the functions have to be explicitly extended. Still, I hadn't seen this proof of the angle addition formula yet, and I found it neat.

From a point of view of formalisation, a power series based approach (either directly or via the complex exp function) as traditionally used is probably better, because going into analysis (especially complex analysis), you're going to need power series anyway. Geometry meanwhile is intuitive to us but you'd have to encode a bunch of Euclidean axioms and theorems beforehand, which you might not otherwise use. Also, for better or worse, many mathematicians aren't really taught axiomatic geometry (I wasn't at least).
With Wittgenstein I think we see that "hallucinations" are a part of language in general, albeit one I could see being particularly vexing if you're trying to build a perfectly controllable chatbot.
Chillblast tried soliciting Trustpilot reviews using a PC giveaway, and that’s kinda shady.
There are some very bad ideas very deep in education. Always encouraging to see some reversal.
The bags of garbage are a historical relic. The city allowed trash in bags during as an emergency measure during the 1968 garbage collectors' strike: the metal trash bins were overflowing and garbage on the street in bags was better than garbage on the street raw. The strike ended, decades passed, but the rules were never updated until the last couple years when the city has finally began strongly incentivizing, and in some cases mandating, bins.
What you're talking about is a very specific area of patent law: Patents on manufacturing processes. The assumption is that without the patent the knowledge necessary to reproduce the products made with the method would be extremely difficult or impossible. This is nonsense in this day and age.

Modern engineers of varying sorts can reverse engineer basically any process and underpaid employees who know the secrets can be easily poached. Therefore, the entire concept of patents existing for the sake of disclosure falls flat on its face.
This entry from Wikipedia was impactful:

"Lan's embezzlement of $12.5 billion equals about three percent of Vietnam's total GDP for 2022."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_M%E1%BB%B9_La....

King Lear comes to mind:

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;

They kill us for their sport.
I'm kind of surprised by this. I understand there's basically two views: Content creators say "Hey, this is my stuff, you don't have permission to use it, you need to pay me" and there's Silicon Valley: "I'm allowed to look at your images, feeding your images into my machine is the same thing". Legally, the first view seems probably correct, but from a "history of silicon valley" view, breaking the rules in order to gain a competitive advantage in the market has always been the better strategy.

It'd be like if Uber launched by applying for NY taxi medallions. So this seems like a crazy risk:reward ratio here. Adobe is going to end up with a massive bill, a weak model and the hope that the guys who steal everything will face consequences. We've never seen Silicon Valley face consequences like that in the past so i don't see why you would bet it's going to happen this time.
> Basically you are ok for death penalty strictly for other people? Seems quite convenient :D

Come on. Your objection is meaningless distraction, because it's so general it's an objection to any kind of punishment of anyone proposed by anyone who isn't themselves guilty.
*contender
NYC has both, because I generally consider compost a type of garbage and that is definitely stored in bins and hauled to the sidewalk, at least for the buildings that have opted into the composting program.
That's not what happened though. The catalyst for getting rid of it was logistic issues related to COVID.
Not directly, but if it can save a university from having to use their endowment or other funds for something they would probably already do anyway, is there fundamentally a difference?
Just glad they “flop”’d back to values and principles.
> In a functioning country

The country functions just fine. For them.
You’re welcome. But I must tell you, at work I asked how my answers are, keep me honest. So a coworker looked at this thread and was just like, “dude just get to the point, no one wants to read all that.” And then explained that in huge detail.

That’s just how I talk. With all the writing I’ve had to do lately - documentation, blog, announcements - it’s been a constant struggle forcing myself to say fewer words, keep it short, keep the eyeballs, come onnnnnnn, edit edit edit!!! And that’s good… it’s how it should be. It’s just totally unnatural to me personally… hehe.

FINALLY there’s a chance to simply talk about it to some humans, so I uh… maybe went a little wild with the verbosity.
Does anyone else read “formation flying” and instantly think “Kessler syndrome”
You can see this in the large outlier on Feb 12 2017, which coincided with a storm that delayed trash pickup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_12%E2%80%9314,_2017_N...

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-snowstorm-cleanup/