skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google has become useless

Yet you found it through ..... Google

(I get your drift, but it's got a little "What have the Romans ever done for us" vibe. )
This doesn't appear to fit with other quantities like say, electric charge, or lepton number, or whatever. Like, there's more to matter than "how much is there here".
Citations:

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/03/ftc-says-...

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/betterhelp-mental-health-a...
There is similar reinventing trends movement also in the backend universe.

For example, there is a fashion [1] to include hashes in the names of static assets served. But that's what ETag header is invented for, in the RFC since a decade and implemented in all browsers.

[1] (I deliberately call it a fashion, not a standard; would rather say that RFC 7232 is a standard in this particular case)
I find this varies from person to person. I have nothing to back this up, but I have a hunch it is a genetic thing, like how cilantro tastes like soap to some but not to others.

I can identify the taste of Coke Zero (or anything with artificial sweeteners) vs coke 100% of the time. They barely even taste similar to me. My wife can’t taste a difference at all.
Personal experience.

Fanuc robots are straight forward to service, they make the parts very available to do it yourself if you want. We order them here and there no problem.

But they are beasts and it can take an entire day just to replace a part. Then you have to reassemble it in the right order. None of it is made difficult on purpose. It has tight tolerances, and fancy shit like harmonic drives for zero backlash and more.
Do you count financial reward under recognition? Lot of places are generous with non-financial recognition but stingy with the monetary recognition.
Emissary Is Whatever You Want It to Be – We Distribute
they need to get you to use the mobile app for better ad targeting
The US justice system and regulatory agencies treat corporations with kid gloves. They often get many strongly worded letters and many chances to correct their bad behavior before regulatory action happens, and then when it does happen, it's slow and the corporation usually continues to operate, and then when penalty comes, it's some ridiculously small fraction of the gains that came from the bad behavior, which the corporation usually appeals and gets reduced or thrown out.

There are almost never company-killing fines. There are almost never consent decrees with stipulations that change the company's behavior. There are almost never instances of piercing the corporate veil and going after executives or shareholders. It's a total joke.
> I attended Launch School and found the founder and the program to be of high quality and integrity and the success of the capstone graduates speaks for itself.
When the DOJ kicks their ass in court (unless Trump wins and replaces DOJ/FTC leadership with incompetent clowns again)
No, Cyc has not been forgotten; Eurisko has been!
Engineering the Gate-All-Around Transistor [video]
There's plenty of signs if you take a look. E.g. most subreddits concerning an interest with products being made will have recommended products and such. Is this an organic, community made list of tools that is regularly vetted? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. You can imagine how valuable it would be for your company if you convinced the niche forum in your space that you are the "buy it for life" option or some default no wrong move choice.

Sometimes there will also be discussion posts "hey anyone know a good x for z?" written by a shill account where other shill accounts come in with product recommendations, supported by upvotes from other bots over any other evidence.

Kind of an interesting thread on the subject in the marketing subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/vf5wmv/do_brands...

Basically people are saying yes, marketing on reddit is very effective, especially if you aren't obvious and using /u/mybrandname but /u/randomuser123.

This user is talking about starting a B2B company for this sort of subtle organic reddit posting, after having apparently a lot of success and thinking they can handle more clients than they currently do:

https://old.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/1c05w7c/thoughts...
> don’t ask why you need to remember four words instead of just horizontal/vertical, it’s still better than before

Because those things can do a whole lot more than just that?
That syndicated data format may or may not be up-to-date.
There needs to be a way to track who is reading and storing my information.

Maybe I need to spin up my own IdP and track every time an authorized Sp reads my data.
Another huge problem is the extreme left wing political bias almost everything has on the front page. I'm a centrist but the violently left views of everything on the front page is really offputting and I used to love reddit.
Also saw:

The boss makes a dollar, I make a cent, need a side hustle just to pay the rent.
So you do understand that traditional CEOs have PR people that filter the public from their true thoughts. Did you also know that those PR people work closely with legacy media by giving extra access in exchange for favorable articles?

My point isn't that you should agree with Elon's tweets, but just to ask if you know why it is that you are familiar with his thoughts but not the thoughts of CEOs of companies that you give money too.
When you’re in SF, you can go to the Pier and there’s a little coffee shop near the entrance near the aquarium-Biscoff Coffee Corner—where they will serve you one with every coffee drink you buy, unprompted.

In truth the coffee there ain’t great, and the prep is a bit hit or miss, but the folks behind the counter are nice, and you can buy all of the cookies and cookie butter you could want; but it’s probably best not to overdo it. I think they even have a cookie butter latte but never tried it since that sounds too sweet.
There's no reasonable argument in favor of deceptive marketing. This idea that we should tolerate bullshit from people trying to make money needs to go away.

If the outcomes are good for the students, there won't be an issue with making them be straightforward about it.
I can buy a Raspberry Pi with 8B. Apple can do better especially considering their high margin markups.
Bear with me as I get to flying aircraft carriers...

Bending the rules here, but the line between aircraft and cruise missile and drone feels like it's flexing & bending to me. Cruise missiles like the JASSM-158C look a lot like an autonomous unmanned aircraft to me. DARPA has been continually working on this thing for a decade now, and their recent Integration Test Event 12 involved flying four of the already remarkably intelligent missile in formation to target. Not that they'll tell us exactly what went down here, but I rather expect that under-bids the magnitude of the mission and perhaps the inter-coordination of these missiles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-158C_LRASM https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2024-04-3-lockheed-martin-co...

Ok, so, I've somewhat convinced myself that missiles are now basically their own aircraft at this point. If you can consider that, then we do have flying carrier aircraft: the Rapid Dragon system palletizes the missiles, & has them dropped out of C-17 or C-130 aircraft.
Not quite up to par with the proposed Boeing 747 Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft (CMCA), but still pretty real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Dragon_(missile_system)

More contemporarily, I can definitely imagine, say, an attack helicopter that can deploy it's own small swarm of autonomous drones.
Idk, it might have more visibility and less aggravation for the average man.

Visibility is in the news and social platforms, not cars seeing your sign
Reposting an old comment[1] which may be of interest to Oolite players:

> Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"

> An hour long video essay about the classic game Elite, the BBC Micro, and how Elite was able to deliver an open-world 3D experience in the 1980s. The creator is "Alexander the ok."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38479182
That’s true, and it’s still more reliable for useful information than the top results on Google.
Congrats on the launch! Your oembed endpoint is pretty fast!

Would love to hear some technical details about your product.
Good to see some justice
At some point we've got to ask why human-centric tools are being "dumbed down"
They can know I was at Costco too. I’m fine with that.
For my workplace it was a choice of downloading duo on the phone or getting sms codes. In the past year they cut out the sms codes, now you get a temporary code from the duo app you need to enter into the login portal vs just a push to duo.
OpenSSF Warns of Open Source Social Engineering Threats
I’ll tell you I was at Costco for free.
> Cheaper countries however tend to be chaotic

Media get paid well to push you think this way
Wasi-zigc: Run zigc.wasm in a browser/Node.js
I’ve never encountered an encyclopedia arranged like that. All that I’ve seen were strictly alphabetical with China next to Chipmunk
10 Years of Chrome DevTools (2018)
> don’t ask why you need to remember four words instead of just horizontal/vertical, it’s still better than before

The reason is "display: flex" can be a column or row. The "align-items" property describes alignment along the axis, so vertical for column and horizontal for row. The "justify-content" property is the other direction.
"The condition is rare, affects only genetic males, and has a broad spectrum."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5α-Reductase_2_deficiency
While the market valuation isn’t what it used to be, let’s not be too quick to brush off the fact that Reddit has a market cap of 6 billion dollars.

I’m not sure you’re going to convince many stakeholders that completely uprooting the golden-goose of free moderation for the site is a worthwhile venture.
The original very much so, actually.
And in the end, the terrible people won. Because you stopped caring seeming about anything, you're likely living a worse more jaded life, and your next company isn't getting a good employee.

Learning an important lesson isn't about flushing your aspirations down the toilet. That's just cementing your destiny as someone who will never achieve moderate success. If that's your goal, shrugs?
Now or never: harnessing growth opportunities in retail
You don’t unlock to the home screen, at least on IOS 17. You unlock to the last app you had open. And while not exactly what you were advocating for, you can add Apple Notes to control center which you can unlock to.

There are also shortcuts you can automate and use your voice to open apps from the lock screen.
blue collar workers have always been populist, and isolated from leftists. Read up on Marxist ideas about the necessity of a revolutionary "vanguard", by which they don't mean workers, they mean activists, agitators, professional revolutionaries, who work to create the conditions for revolution. Blue collar workers are too busy working and supporting their families.
I guess "allows" in the same way HP "allows" you to only use their ink. Fantastic, and only (at least) $6k for the privilege of using my hardware as I see fit
There are hardware tokens. But, yes, not everyone supports them.
What I’m saying is that it wasn’t immediately obvious when the first dictionaries were created that this was the best way to do it.
I would hope if you are working at the DOD on cutting edge stuff you are treated better than pizza after little league games tier crap pizza, but I guess I was wrong, downvoted in spades even. I know DC has decent food. Maybe this pappa johns has security clearance....
> In 1980, Reagan famously announced his support for "states' rights" and excoriated "welfare queens," both of which of course were dog whistles to Southern segregationists

I’m going to start with this point first because it’s the problem with the whole line of thinking. Democrats use the notion of “dog whistling” to brand Republican policies racist based on the premise that republicans are racist. But their support for that latter assertion is that republicans support supposedly racist policies. The reasoning is completely circular (and unfalsifiable).

Republicans opposed the creation of the welfare state in the 1930s when pro-segregation democrats introduced welfare programs. They likewise opposed the expansion of federal government at the expense of the states by vicious racists like Woodrow Wilson. So what are we to infer from Republicans’ continued support of the same policies before and after democrats abandoned their support for segregation?

To circle back to your first point, why would LBJ fear losing the south? Why would southern racist democrats switch to the party that had supported the civil rights act even more strongly? That’s like Muslims switching to the GOP because they’re mad at Biden for his support of Israel.
I obviously don't know enough about your particular situation to be an informed judge, but... it really sounds like the management team is operating in a reactive mode, rather than a proactive one, and as a result, they don't understand what's really going on inside the company. It doesn't bode well for their understanding of what's going on outside the company either. This kind of disconnect is often costly, sometimes fatal.
Yeah.... no. Why audio-nerd forums were ever so infantile as to brand themselves with "muff" and "slutz" isn't much of a big mystery, but we haven't lost anything of value by seeing those 'cute' names off. I'd like to chat about synthesizers with fellow nerds without feeling rightfully embarrassed about the name in the header.
Allow each reader to have his own moderation. Basically, I want to be able to enforce 3 rules:
1. There are people I want to read always.
2. There are people I want to read never.
3. I want some random sample from all other people, in proportion from 1:1 to 1:1000, depending on my current mood.

The server should keep my list and serve me text according to it.
Also it should allow readers to exchange such lists. If I trust some guy - he could serve as my personal moderator, but a mild one compared to the current regime - my list #1 will never be interfered with.
Cheap?
You know, we hear this thing about Israel being a "long-standing ally" all the time, but what exactly does US get out of this alliance except for a massive yearly bill of military aid, and recurring feuds with basically everyone else in that region?
Landlord detected, opinion rejected.
I used CRTs for maybe 20 years. Once I acquired an LCD, that was the end of CRTs for me. I didn't like the weight, the size, the heat, the warmup time, the power consumption, the whine from the flyback transformer, the resolution, or the fuzzy fonts.

The LCD beats it in every metric. Even in price - I can get an LCD monitor for $10 from the thrift store.

P.S. I can't hear the whine anymore in a CRT. Gettin' old.
Some peoples tolerance for what they call pizza always surprises me
Hacker News never is, and never was a place for academic arguments.
just put yt-dlp on your path and you can do this without sharing your data with some weird SEO garbager

it's so lamentable that putting a binary on your path is too technical for most people these days as the user experience is so so much better than any other option, anytime I want to share a short form video i can Ctrl + L -> Ctrl + C to get the link, Ctrl + R to summon a command prompt, type `ytdl` Shift + Insert to paste the url and then I can drag the resultant file into whatever sharing tool I want to use, guaranteeing it's never going to be taken offline and whoever I'm sharing with doesn't need to have an account or solve a captcha or something else dumb
Hire a US lawyer.
found the JS one..

https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast...
I didn't get any horror movie vibes. I just thought "wow, that's neat!" and went back to watch it again.
This is the school to coordinated with /r/learnprogramming to advertise and trick people in to registering, and when called on their bad practices, worked with the sub to ban users.

The sub continued to deny a connection to the school, but I still don’t believe it.
Well, that's it!

Looks like we have to scrub the whole project!
Hey, you can ask for anything you want. Whether you get it or not is another question.
Collect call with a "I'm on my way home" as the caller. Dad would decline.
Surely you're not saying you're fine with your location data leading to wrongful imprisonment, which is what sometimes happens if companies hoard this data?

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/southwest-valley/2...
> This seems to suppose a world where, had LCDs been common, people wouldn't have used low-resolution bitmaps. But... there were not a lot of alternative technologies available

It's less about "They would not have used low res bitmaps for displaying graphics" and more about "The artists would likely have arranged the pixels in the bitmaps in different ways"

There are some really interesting articles out there about how the artists for old NES and SNES games designed the sprites to look better with scanlines, and without scanlines (like when playing on modern emulators) everything kind of looks worse than it did when it was rendered on CRTs
I'm not a landlord, I rent an apartment :)
> or rather the byproducts of the digestion of sugar by bacteria in your mouth)

...for now. There may be a "vaccine" for dental caries if this recently HN'd article is to be believed and isn't sponsored content:

https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-rise-and-impending-fall-of-th...

Though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine suggests it may not be that simple.
> Not enough people know that a hundred years ago there were genuine airship aircraft carriers flying around, launching biplanes and then having them land back on the airship while it was still flying!

Featured in Indiana Jones the Last crusade, game and movie: https://youtu.be/s0vNsH81YeA?t=119
Finding the Balance Between Productivity and Grind Culture [audio]
The historical hacker culture was not exactly friendly towards large corporations and "suits" in general.
This is confusing. This exists already, no?
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Missile Gap by Charles Stross

Yuri Gagarin captains a huge, nuclear-powered Ekranoplan on behalf of the Soviets

Set on a sort of alternate Earth in a sort of alternate 1986, The Ekranoplan is so huge it has a runway long enough for Mig fighters on top.

When he is given the mission by the Russian Premier, he is told to "boldly go where no soviet man has gone before."
Yes it is. And it is supported by all modern browsers (https://caniuse.com/declarative-shadow-dom), for older browsers you can add a tiny polyfill. Keep in mind that you need to link CSS stylesheet inside Declarative Shadow DOM or use CSS ::part() from outside of it.
This is so weird - I just finished watching "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" on Max, then opened HN, and flying aircraft carriers is #1. How does HN know what I'm watching on Max??
The negative value is the worst. I was working on a project with someone. I'd check in periodically. After a couple weeks, he fesses up and tells me he hasn't been able to get very far, but things are "mostly done", I "just" need to test it for him and integrate it with the rest of the system. By mostly done, he meant the code had no tests and was never even run manually. In fact, the code would not even execute due to syntax errors.

I had to spend another week and a half reworking things. I got it to work well enough, but it would've gone smoother if he hadn't been involved at all. The result was crap.
ChatGPT is just a tool. If ChatGPT was used to craft the response to make it more polite or make the reply more professional then the intentions were sincere and the use was appropriate. If it was used to produce a quick and generic response then that would be less appropriate.
Beginning of the end for ASML.

When you can't sell to the world's biggest market, you have no elbow-room when sales elsewhere fall.

I give ASML 5 to 10 years max.
I wonder if the top FAQ question should be “how can this be free?”
>>The unifying theme (from my perspective anyway) is to try, earnestly, to take steps towards a kind of real-world everyday utopia. Reached pragmatically, by any means necessary.<<

I had no idea Utopian was a synonym for Authoritarian.
Neither of those links demonstrate mishandling of location data collected via cell phone. They’re just regular misuse of data that would be possible even if nobody involved was carrying a phone.
I'm not a lawyer and I've heard of more ridiculous laws than that, so quite possibly, but even if that's the case, I wouldn't think it would cover billing x and collecting 0.1x when you realize someone can't pay x.

And even if I'm wrong about that, when lacking insurance I didn't encounter a medical provider, including big ones with big compliance offices, who wouldn't do it. But others' mileage may vary.
Indiana Jones launches a plane from a Zeppelin in The Last Crusade.

It never occurred to me to question whether that was historically accurate (it looks very straightforward in the movie).
Less than it used to be, though. There’s several 600+ nit panels that are plenty usable in even sunny rooms.

These aren’t going to be cheap, though. Most LCD monitors with good brightness are midrange and up.
Also, isn't Helium non-renewable (at least on Earth) and becoming quite scarce?
> - why a "color-of-the-skin" would be linked to IQ when a "color-of-the-eye" would not?

To try to steel-man the argument: there is no reason to think, at a long-term global level, there would be any correlation between genes for any particular physical appearance traits and genes for intelligence

However, at the level of a specific nation, during a specific period in its history: that nation may be composed of a small number of major descent groups. It is plausible that group A may have higher frequency of "high IQ genes" than group B, and groups A and B may also differ in their frequency of physical appearance traits genes. And, some of those physical traits may have a marked difference in distribution between A and B, and others a less marked difference. So, in that limited context, a positive correlation between heritable IQ and some-but-not-other physical appearance traits might emerge; however, as we broaden the context, both spatially and temporally, we'd expect that correlation to weaken and then dissipate.

Note I only said "It is plausible that", I'm not saying this is actually true in any particular case. I'm just saying that even if your conclusion is correct, this line of argument you are using to make it is somewhat of a straw-man.

> why some people are so interested in IQ and color-of-the-skin but are not interested as soon as the genetic factor is something less "visible to the eye"?

Because "race/ethnicity" (descent group) and "color-of-the-skin" are not the same thing. Two people from distant parts of the world can have a similar shade of skin but have much more remote shared ancestry. A person will often be genetically much closer to a person from the same country with a markedly different skin shade than they are to someone with a similar skin shade on the other side of the globe. In certain spatiotemporally limited contexts (some countries during some periods of their history), color-of-skin can be a somewhat of a proxy for descent group, to the point that one becomes a metonym for the other, in broader contexts that breaks down.

Also, the claim that descent groups have different distributions of high intelligence genes doesn't necessarily have anything to do with skin colour. For example, it is sometimes claimed (I make no comment on whether it is true) that Askhenazi Jews in Central/Eastern Europe had higher IQ genes than their non-Jewish neighbours did: there was no significant difference in skin colour between the two groups.
That seems fundamentally flawed to me. Closed providers can copy techniques from open models but not vice versa.

To me that reads as closed will always be a step ahead not an existential risk to OpenAI.