skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Facebook not just block messages from Nigeria to rando North American towns at this point? Shouldn't the network analysis required to detect this sort of crime ring be a slam-dunk at this point? I don't get how this is still even possible.
Past the smell test.

> 2 x more Airbus A320neo were build/in service than the Boeing version
No. If you could travel at the speed of light you would take no time to reach Voyager 1.

Actually, you could get anywhere in the reachable Universe.

For example, it takes only 29 years to from Earth to Andromeda galaxy assuming constant 1g acceleration for half of the trip and then constant 1g deceleration for the other half.
He is the most prominent tech reviewer in the business today.
Unfortunately not true. Babies who experience trauma may never be able to tell you about it, but they will remember it the same way they remember that their parents are safe people: it shows up in their emotions, their nervous system, their reactions to stimuli that seem innocuous.

In other words “there appears to be a reorganization of cognitive and memory functions such that narrative memory for events prior to age three or four are difficult to access later in life. These two points have led to the pervasive, inaccurate and destructive view that infants do not recall traumatic experience…”

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/child_law...
An orbit to ground space elevator would indeed be challenging, but the cable doesn't have to go all the way to the ground to be useful. Shorter tethers have many applications, and those can be made out of non-exotic materials (e.g. Kevlar).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tether

There are still challenges, of course.
Your whole self isn't all of your behaviors. It doesn't mean proselytize your religion at work. It doesn't mean engage in sexual activity at work. It doesn't mean spend 1/3 of your time at work asleep.

A person can be authentic without being inappropriate.
The people inside should maybe, I don't know, not be working at a company aiding and abetting apartheid and expecting to not be disturbed? Seems like putting up with a few disturbances is a small price to pay given the high compensation you'll get for working at google. These people will be quickly escorted outside the building by police and fired anyways.
Yes, absolutely. Adding an ID check to a ticket check and often a bag check and sometimes metal-detector wand check seems pretty minimal to me. Or have people scan their IDs themselves when they scan their tickets; pretty much every driver's license and state ID in the US has a barcode thing on the back. Of course have enough staff at the gates to deal with the exceptions or when things don't work right.

Regardless, this already happens: I went to a concert at Chase Center last year, and they were checking everyone's IDs, not even just a random sampling of them. When I went to EDC in Vegas last year, they were checking IDs at the shuttle stops on the strip. I believe they were only doing that for age verification, but if the ID is already out, that can easily turn into identity verification.
My bank app does that stuff automatically. They have identified and classified pretty much all merchants so the app can breakdown spending and tell you exactly how much you spend on essentials, restaurants, alcohol, etc.

You get the same info as your spreadsheet, but without any work.
> That's my point exactly! It's not that all Americans are particularly lazy, uncreative, risk-averse

And I said the opposite? the problem is not with all Americans, just the ones perpetually complaining that all of their misfortunes were caused by being born here vs some ideal place (which they can't never really point to in a map) where they were going to magically have an easier life.

> Voluntary migrants (that includes expats) are a self-selected, self-motivated bunch. OP is did not contrasting themself to the appropriate percentile of Americans.

I'm not Indian or Chinese (I'm a black latino), came here with not even a bachelors degree, and honestly, with no particular skill that someone from here could not obtain in a relatively short amount of time; I was still able to insert myself into the tech scene and find my place there. I'm still working on improving myself day to day, so I guess maybe you have a point on the motivation aspect, but that is an intrinsic quality, and I don't like how this analysis somehow attributes the lack of motivation on other people to <me>, and suggest that if I don't feel gullible and pay more taxes (which is the subtext of this piece) I somehow failed "Alex".
> But something can be more than one thing at once.

Perhaps it is scam and revenge porn at the same time! And $300 scam is the smaller part! There are many precedents, but with girls!

This tone policing "men can never be a victim of a sexual crime" is getting old.
This girl was unlucky, she got hit a few times when she was young. By mum, by "friends", bullied in kindergarden and bullied and bossed in school and when it looked like it would all be okay, the parents divorced. She felt like she's not good enough for this world, but eventually she found out she had been depressed for 25 year and blessed/cursed with adhd. When she fixed her diet, it all turned around and she got her first stable income at 37 and went up the ladder a bit. She happy? No. Happiness is for others. Today it's enough to not suffer too much.
Not your mother's mall (2003)
The slow poison is alot less alarming than the sharp knive.
Why is that an obvious question?
> The state of California alone has spent $24,000,000,000 on homelessness

should very probably read "paid $24 B over 5 years to third parties on programs claiming to 'fix' homelessness"

This would include urban architectures and installions that seek to deter homelessness making sidewalks unsuitable for tents, benches unusable for sleeping, removing access to water and public toilets, etc.

Such things would not count at all as "support" for the homeless.

Regardless it seems remarkably ineffective and one has to wonder, as with military spending, how much goes to end use and how much is $$$ profit! for the contracters.

What would $24 B of affordable public housing look like, employing the homeless as labour?
Has nothing to do with history and reputation. Has everything to do with solving problems and solving them better.

If Apple gave this demo, they would have received the same backlash.
$700 device which requires a $25 monthly subscription to use, let's not forget.
People that used to work at Apple have to pay themselves a lot of money
Freedom to profit from war in privacy.
doesn't matter how "in-depth" it is, it's still the daily wire and not trustworthy
The Pope protects child abusers. His opinion usually means the opposite is better.
Videos of the arrests:

https://www.twitch.tv/notech4apartheid/clip/BloodyExquisiteP...

https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1780432300548804637
Zork Nemesis one of my favorite games from the 90's was heavily inspired by Myst it was one of the first games I played where I felt immersed in the game world.
I don't think your portrayal captures the reality of this well. Again, generalizing about numbers when it's such a hot political issue is difficult, and it's super-easy to cherry-pick, but take three NHS trusts in the South East, which for non-Brits is the rich part of the country -- I've chosen these three because I'm somewhat familiar with the hospitals themselves, and they're all big enough to have multiple specialties. I suspect if anything they understate rather than overstate the problem.

0: https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/seast/royal-surrey/

1: https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/seast/oxford/

2: https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/seast/buckinghamshire/

For each specialty, there's a waiting time, which is the time between you seeing your local doctor and then seeing a specialist, and then there's a waiting time given from when the specialist refers you for a treatment -- they need to be added together. Cardiology is 17+21 weeks, 10+12 weeks, and 25+28 weeks, urology is 12+18 weeks, 18+23 weeks, and 25+20 weeks. Orthopedics (for your osteoarthritis example) is at 17+24 weeks, 22+46 weeks, and 20+25 weeks.

> not indicative of waiting for urgent emergency life threatening

Hospitals in the US can't turn you away if you show up presenting urgent, emergency, life-threatening symptoms either, and I suspect those are not the types of medical care that people in the US are generally putting off for cost reasons (although I'm sure there are a few cases where they are).
There are lots of ways to protest, and plenty of them don’t involve impeding others or trespassing on private property to make their point. We have parks and government centers and sidewalks they can do it in. Your right to protest does not supersede the rights of others.

And these are (were) employees and it’s quite likely Google already has established mechanisms for hearing employee grievances. Google’s not going to allow a small but vocal and disruptive group to override those existing mechanisms, nor would any serious business.
I have no idea what happened but I always love it when people get cross over improper behaviour such as grey hat work or “sitting protests” at the worlds largest corp … on a website called hackernews
Ikr? I'm more inclined to agree with this ellipsized note in the fine article:

> Actually, the deference Brownlee gave the vision and the potential of future upgrades was arguably generous

But of course, pointing that out would be a red herring, because I don't believe the original tweet was made in good faith in the first place. Vassallo sounds like the sort who would be satisfied only if nobody is allowed to criticize something he likes (and ideally if at some point you click through and pay money for his… Influencer newsletter? Idfk).
My kids school is terrible and they get about 22k per student per year in a rich area. The system is failing because it's designed to fail.
I'm surprised Google hasn't used technologies like this to turn Google street view data into the ultimate open world game. Combined with something like Sora to "fill in the gaps", I can imagine a fully open world VR procedural digital clone of earth.
As can be seen here, they did punish these protesters. And the House has just passed a resolution saying that the slogan "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is antisemitic. Many states, such as Texas, require written commitments from all state employees that they will not engage in the BDS movement or other forms of protest against Israel.

How are these not a punishment for deviance from the desired positon?

Edit: punish, not publish.
I have strong memories of significant-to-me events that happened when I was 1-2 (moving houses, falling out of bed as an infant, getting scratched by the family cat, and the birth of my sister, just to name a few).
You have the wrong read of what I said. To summarize the situation:

MKBHD: This is "The Worst Product I Have Ever Reviewed…For Now".

Vassallo: It is "distasteful, almost unethical" to criticize a product like that.

Me: No, the way Vassallo challenged MKBHD's character is "distasteful, almost unethical".
The only bipartisanship today seems to be the substitution of curiosity for tribalism
I've been saying this should be a thing for decades. Not sure why I never heard of this.
We’re discussing about a group of google employees. Not about the issue they were protesting.
Communist countries absolutely used “vocal minorities” as a way to control people. The vocal minority might be organized crime, the Red Guard, or anonymous denunciation.

It wasn’t a coincidence that communist countries had massive police forces and widespread crime. They are both parts of the same function.
And then there were webrings, which allowed one to walk all over many different loosely related websites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
> Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing someone else’s nascent project reeks of carelessness.

> First, do no harm.

Brownlee's not a doctor. …He's not Spiderman, either, for the record, or at least that we know of.

And "Humane, Inc." isn't his patient, or even a person.
Why is everybody in every photo still wearing masks in 2024? Are there seriously still places where this is considered normal?
Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1
Yeah it's insane that anyone from Jan 6 was arrested and jailed for protest /s.
The actual acts performed in the protest may very well be the goal for some of the protesters. The stated goals are in that case only rationalizations.
it reduces the risk of doxxing.
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You would be right if they were fired, but they were arrested by the state. Not so free to protest.
Never understood people who work for an employer with whom they don't agree.
Have you found a single review that wasn't negative on the device? Every one I can find is strongly negative.
Yet these clowns happily pay their taxes that end up supporting isreal. What a joke or performative empathy.

Good news is there should be some reqs opening up soon in Google Cloud for people looking for work.
Yes free to own things that other people cannot appropriate..
The success of EVs is massively underreported
It is a very different world than the world of 1949.
Hope this is the right place to post
We recently added support for local document chat in RecurseChat (https://recurse.chat), including chatting with PDFs and markdown. You can see a demo here: https://twitter.com/chxy/status/1777234458372116865

RAG happens all locally (local embedding model and local vector db).

The app is secured by Mac App Sandbox, meaning it only have access to your selected file in the system dialog or drag and dropped files. If you use a local LLM, everything works offline.
Aside from the tweet controversy, I think the article has a point.

It is true that AI is providing even more leverage than the other tech layers before it. Probably the same for VR, if it gets adoption. However, the question is :

Will this leverage be concentrated to the point that a few will have control and everyone else will happily comply and execute ?

Or is it the other way around, allowing everyone more freedom and power to create and grow independent wealth, companies or ideas ?

I would love to think the latter but the experience since the dawn of the technology is more the former.

How could we ensure that we are on the path toward 7 billion companies more than the one toward even a fewer number of big companies that control the last layer of tech ?
You might have a misunderstanding of the term "hacker".
I'm not tone policing anything, bub. As Carrie Goldberg says, "NONCONSENSUAL PORNOGRAPHY IS SEXUAL ABUSE". [1] So I agree with that part.

But NCP is used in all sorts of ways. One of those ways, this particular way here, is as part of a scam. And I think it's important to keep that in mind because to be effective fighting crime, you have to understand it. Anti-scam education is also an important component of online safety training. So when you say, "Why is it called 'scam' and 'fraud'?" as if that were somehow incorrect, I'm going to explain why it's correct.

[1] https://www.cagoldberglaw.com/states-with-revenge-porn-laws/
Maybe they thought hr won't recognize them and they can go back to work like nothing happened.
This sounds like a cool use case for my observatory control box. Do you ever have issues with latency pushing the bounds of the USB spec wrt latency? Can I use this with my camera?
The German is just wrong, due to the lack of proper capitalization. This is an error in German and makes it very difficult to read and is unacceptable for a learning site. Pls fix :)
Yes, against Hollywood. Before then you could only see a Fox movie at a Fox theater
It isn't nice to block the doorway

It isn't nice to go to jail

There are nicer ways to do it

But the nice ways always fail

- Malvina Reynolds, "It Isn't Nice"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lWkV2QpgQo
I might find it reasonable if sums involved were life changing. So a kidney would start at something that will pay invested for rest of the donators life. Let's say 10 million. So rich who can afford them can get one. And donators don't have to work anymore.
The same contract the exists between CIA and aws for it's top secret regions. I always ponder why people protest against something that happens thousands of miles from their homes, while the same activity occurs in their own country.
> I don't think your portrayal captures the reality of this well.

"My" portrayal is a summary of the information in the links that you provided.
Thanks for linking the interview! I listened to it and found it insightful.
That is not what the person said, you are unfairly mischaracterizing the reply because you obviously did not understand it. I agree with the poster that it is great that person succeeded but I think the Op is rather crass to spend a hundred words describing how they succeed with literally no explanation. Which safety nets? What did he/she do to overcome? Feels more like BS without some details about the important parts.
Nope. The point is that one story doesn't compensate the result of an experience over 1000 stories.
So, just the partial self, then?
I should've been clearer. When Apple announces a new laptop or phone, you already know about macOS or iOS and their capabilities, so you can focus on other details. For example, I wouldn't find it surprising if a new Apple Watch announcement focused a bit on the bands and look of the device, since the capabilities of the device itself are fairly well known at this point. When announcing a new product that people don't recognize, you don't start the presentation by focusing on peripheral details (e.g. device color) before explaining the core functionality.

But yes, the focus should always be primarily on solving problems better than the competition and communicating this clearly to potential buyers.
This is the moment Thomas Kurian showed his true colors, silently hiding behind his security henchman when confronted with peaceful protesters, when he could have ignored them and simply not gone into the office for now. Silence is equivalent to actively stating he sides with Israel and "The Company", Google, who pays him tens of millions of dollars per year in compensation. That's a helluva incentive for someone with Atherton-level property taxes to pay.

Oracle is lucky TK took off for Google after he lost the cloud boss battle to Don Johnson in 2019. Also fortunate that Safra Katz (current Oracle CEO, previously vocal supporter of Israel) is smart enough to keep a low profile for the time being.
Historically civil rights protest movement have been disruptive. Protesting a genocide arguably be even more disruptive.

- Stonewall Riots (1969)

- Soweto Uprising (1976)

- Tiananmen Square protests (1989)

- Women's Suffrage Movement

- Anti-Apartheid Protests in South Africa

US politician are hostages, opposing Israel on the political stage puts your life at risk.
If you believe that, it’s worth broadening your horizons and looking beyond big Hollywood productions.
The thing I always underestimate, in regards to bad / anti-consumer behaviour, is the size of the customer base (and sometimes in combination with the bell curve / normal distribution of intelligence, but maybe not in this case).

The scope of humanity that use Amazon is gigantic, and the percentage of us pedantic, technically knowledgeable folks who'd give up some convenience, time, or even the purchase of an item, as part of a "righteous crusade" is vanishingly small.

Amazon may even increase their sales as consumer X purchases a replacement "thing 2" because "thing 1" was dead on arrival, and money these days ain't worth the hassle of returning or getting a refund on "thing 1".
"blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that"

He's "not" saying that, and then he goes and says that.

He's point being that Republicans are most concerned with economic things, but because he things a better economic policy hurts blacks, therefor Republican are racist?

Or, maybe, they just want a better economic policy, and they don't view everything through the lens of race? (i.e. color blind) While Democrats in contrast do view every decision through that lens.

> somehow they're still talking about "those people" all the time.

And "they" being Democrats or Republicans? Because I see Democrats talking about race far more than Republicans.

Your last sentence tells me you view everything through the lens of race, but not everyone does that.
It doesn’t matter. The law is what it is. Breaking the law to get your way isn’t the right way to get things done. Otherwise we’d all be justified in doing it whenever we don’t like something and there would be no point in laws anymore.

In a democracy, you can participate in our system and vote to have it changed, though. And that’s the effective way to address these issues.
> A builder implementation using OCI instead of custom sandboxing code.

A complete non-starter, never in a thousand years am I gonna use something that requires a Docker installation for building derivations.
I would argue that the Humane Pin has done more damage to AI industry than The reviewer has done to it.

People are going to point to this product as proof of the AI bubble even though anyone with a brain could see that this would fail from the start.
I’m not entirely sure that’s true, and I’m not sure it makes sense to extrapolate all dynamic languages from Python.

Huge amounts of effort are expended on Linux distros ensuring that all the packages work together. Much of and maybe most of those packages are written in static languages.

Many Python packages don’t have issues with things constantly breaking. I find NumPy, SciPy, the Scikits, and more to be rather stable. I can only think of making trivial fixes in the last few years. I have lots of exotic code using things like Numba that’s been long lived. I’m guessing Flask and Django are pretty stable at this point, but I don’t work on that side of things.

Packages undergoing a lot of construction still are less nice. I think that might be the nature of all new things, though. The example at the beginning of this article, TensorFlow, is still a relatively new sort of package and is seeing tons of new development still.

Packaging in Python in 2024 still sucks, which is a uniquely Python issue. Python’s slowness necessitating wrapping lots of platform specific binaries doesn’t help. Seemingly even major Python projects like TensorFlow have really only just started making an attempt to version their dependencies. In one of the issues in the article, the issue was TF pinning things way too specifically in the main project. One of the satellite projects had the opposite issue, not even setting min bounds. The Wild West of unpinned deps make it hard for upstream authors to even know they are breaking things.

Many people know Python packaging sucks, but I don’t think they know how bad it really is. The slowness is also special to Python. Other languages like Julia and Clojure seem to be much better with these difficulties, and I think in large part this is due to early investments preventing the problems from festering.

Rust vs C++ is a good comparison I think. Cargo is better than anything C++ has by far. In C++, it’s common to completely avoid dependencies altogether because the best you’ve had historically is the OS-specific package manager. The issue isn’t static vs dynamic. The issue is early investment in packaging and community uptake.