skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that exploitative nightmare already exists elsewhere

Expanding it seems like the wrong approach?

> If a consenting adult wants to sell a kidney or lung, why shouldn't they be allowed to?

Because it leads to horrific results. Desperate poor people get peanuts and life-long health problems. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/28/desperate-afghans-r...
Where in the data does it indicate that it's possible to "break the cycle"?
I am skeptical. Lots of fake demos out there. Can we rule out that it turns out it’s actually remotely controlled by some dude in india, just like the amazon’s « Just walk out »?
> A good programmer can be good in any language

Well, I’ll rewrite it in Brainfuck then.
As somebody who pulled down an open source project I find this trope of FOSS losing its way for greed utterly disingenuous.

People need to put food on the table, period. I’ve had people take my work and make more money from it than I have, with no attribution or credit.

Then I pulled it down and got a lot of people asking why it’s no longer free, when I tell them I can sell them a license they don’t even reply.

I care more about my family than your FOSS ideals. End of story.
The author deals too much in absolutes. Anyway, [single most gratuitous absolute]
How would it defeat the purpose?
It reminds me of the Segway: Lots of hype, "meh" reaction for the reality…

…but 20 years later, our cities were changed by the widespread arrival of cheap two-wheeled battery powered personal transport devices with almost the same footprint and handle post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorized_scooter#E-scooters

And now I think about it, I recon a Segway would solve several of the problems that e-scooters have.

If we've not all been turned into paperclips and/or got chips in our brains and/or global thermonuclear war, I can believe the tech improves to enable the hype.
One thing that jumps out is that being held back in school is one of the "adverse experiences" that will cause poor performance later. But of course being held back in school is what happens when your school performance is poor, so this seems backward. All of these things just seem to be proxies for "your parents are rich".
If AWS and other cloud providers gave if only 0.1% of the profit they generate out of these open source projects back to the developers we probably wouldn't have this problem. Unfortunately they don't and it's only fair that eventually those developers take it in their own hands. It's not a great situation but it's certainly understandable.
Vector databases aren't for key value retrieval, they're for similarity search. What's that got to do with onnx?
thanks, added it above and here.

https://www.synthego.com/blog/rnai-vs-crispr-guide#:~:text=C....
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I will be the first to criticize the Canadian government and how they handled the COVID vaccine. They assured people would question it and doubt it. I won’t get into all the details as to why that is old news now but I truly think how they handled it was a failure on massive scale bordering incompetence and negligence. I did get vaccinated myself with the mandatory shots required for my job but have since not gotten any booster shots. I totally understand the side of the antivaxers but also think many of them are based on false information and propaganda some people are pushing and I have a hard time not judging those particular antivaxers.
Cloudflare workers are lead by the creator of sandstorm, and use CapnProto internally which has a really neat capabilities based RPC mechanism as well.
Pay up or roll your own. Nobody owes you free labor.
Drakona, sitting next to me: "Dcrazy? I remember a dcrazy!"

There's still an active online community around Descent and Overload (Mike/Matt's spiritual successor.) If you look up Overload on Discord you'll find that server, and the #descent channel will have links to the various other Descent servers.
I am sure they will save a few robots as museum pieces. As it happened with Rodney Brooks' Cog robot [1].

The sad part about these endings is that although the actual artifacts may be preserved, the know-how which went into their creation is at best partially documented. There is seldom a detailed post-mortem analysis that examines what went right and what could have been done better.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4vj_S46jY
I agree with your implicit statement that this is a problem. It’s also important to note that “lay judges” only exist in eight states, and, AFAIK, where they exist, their authority is almost if not entirely limited to misdemeanor cases.

Still problematic, in my opinion.
>ask them to give more dividends?

One of the biggest reasons for layoffs is investor pressure to increase shareholder value.

You basically already have to be rich(maybe not HN rich) for dividends to have any real difference in your life. You have to be fantastically rich for your dividend ownership to have any influence on the company.
For a contrary view, this comment on Marginal Revolution is worth considering (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/04/un...)

> My spouse works for a doctor who specializes in kidney transplants. This post has numerous errors and misleading statements; so many that it probably should be taken down.

> Firstly, there is a very good reason why some recovered organs are not transplanted. It’s because they arent healthy kidneys. Either due to the health of the donor or a long cold ischemic time, these kidneys would not function properly in a recipient. The center my spouse works for is nationally recognized as being aggressive; making use of kidneys that other doctors reject, but there are plenty of kidneys that they will mot use and no center will.

> Secondly, organs are GPS tracked.

> Next, UNOS requires each center to remove someone from the wait list within 24 hours of finding out about the death. My spouses center checks in with patients once every 3 months, so, at most, there can be a 3 month delay between death and list maintenance. In practice, the family or dialysis center will notify the doctors office much earlier than that. I highly doubt the 17 percent of matches are against deceased patients stat because it has never happened in all the years my spouse has been working there

> Also prior living donors are given priority
12-20 g. Some of the more intense ejection seats in fighter jets are 25+ g.

Most rollcoasters are under 4g and they max out around 6g.
I tried switching back to Firefox to take advantage of their multi account containers, but there were a couple of UX things that kept me from sticking with it:

- still no way to remap Ctrl+T to open a new tab in the current container context

- lack of native tab grouping, meaning that it works with plugins like OneTab

- vertical tabs that play nicely (meaning integrates nicely so that the UX feels good) with some sort of separation feature, for example, tab groups, workspaces, profiles, etc. Leaving this up to extensions seems to lead to a suboptimal experience here.

Very willing to try suggestions as I’ve spent days testing every other browser to compare (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Arc, Floorp, Orion, etc) with Safari being my current default. Surprisingly, Edge has the nicest vertical tab implementation so far.
> TikTok ban: Vinod Khosla calls on Senate to pass bill

Of course TikTok are amateurs that's why they don't deserve to be in that market. Palantir, on the other hand, only processes personal information from half of Europe. /s
Show HN: Clouddrift (Python lib) – 170 years of Cyclone Track Data
Hey HN! I've recently taken on the role of lead developer for the clouddrift Python library, and I'd like to share a new dataset integration we've recently added. The purpose of the clouddrift library is to ease the process of working with ragged array data structures, particularly the ones encountered with Lagrangian datasets in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate sciences.

For those who might not be familiar, Lagrangian datasets track the movement of sensing platforms or particles (or in the case below, atmospheric phenomena like cyclones) through space and time, providing a detailed path of their journey. This is in contrast to Eulerian datasets, which focus on changes in a fixed location.

The new dataset we've incorporated is the HURDAT2 dataset [0] , offering access to cyclone track data from 1852 to 2022 for both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean basins. This dataset is provided as an xarray [1] Dataset utilizing CF (Climate and Forecast) conventions [2] for data variables that are organized as a Ragged Arrays [3].

To get started with `clouddrift` and the HURDAT2 dataset, check out our example Jupyter notebooks [4].

If you'd like to receive regular updates on each release or just want to get an idea of features we've been working on checkout our latest [5].

I'd love to hear from HN. How do you see clouddrift working with ragged array datasets of any kind you may be working with? Are there any challenges created by working with ragged arrays and/or Lagrangian datasets you have faced which clouddrift may not be accounting for? Any and all feedback is welcome as we look to make this tool as useful as possible for the scientific community!

[0] https://github.com/Cloud-Drift/clouddrift/blob/main/clouddri...

[1] https://docs.xarray.dev/en/stable/

[2] https://cfconventions.org/

[3] https://clouddrift.org/

[4] https://github.com/Cloud-Drift/hurdat2-get-started

[5] https://mailchi.mp/3d21f0d9d6b6/clouddrift-release-v0330-115...
Redis will be used for genAI as it's always used: answer queries faster. Users are not interesting in waiting, answers need to be immediate. Plus reducing load on whatever you got behind Redis is a nice bonus.
I'm totally with you on this. I remember seeing this concept video from Mozilla in the mid '00s, IIRC it's pretty much this vision, and more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMA5W8b1zY.

I'm actually a bit shocked that almost 20 years later and the browser interface is pretty much still the same.
(And then gitea was forked into forgejo, which is used by codeberg, iiuc)
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The speed of Earth relative to the sun is about double the speed of Voyager relative to Earth, so Voyager gets closer in spring.
The difference with factories is that every movement is programmed by someone in quite intricate detail. Factory robots aren't "smart" in any sense.
I'm not sure who you know that makes $40k and has a foot on a "hedonistic treadmill"
I used to work in film, although not in the accountancy/deal-making aspect. Film tax breaks are direct discounts on money spent. If you make a film in Georgia, for example, you get a transferable tax credit (20-30%) on money spent in the state. It's a short term deal (productions usually only last a few months), and is immediate in effect. There's no "spend a billion of public money and maybe we'll hire some people" shenanigans like the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin.
The "screenshots" are ridiculous, but it does works very well. Haven't died of dysentery yet.
> I can definitely see hundreds of millions of these devices being worn by people (and dogs and whatnot) in the next decade

Good lord, so many people I'd have to avoid being around. I really hate this future we're building.
Hey cratermoon, Oso CTO here.

I'm probably too close to it, so I'm not following: "a great many of the problems they are solving exist because of RBAC"

Oso supports authorization using any combination of RBAC/ReBAC/ABAC you want.

If anything, I would say that sticking with RBAC is the "easy way" to do it, but you push the complexity of managing it onto your end users (the ones who need to administer it). Whereas building authorization that uses attributes like you describe requires more implementation work, but can make the experience easier for users.

Am I understanding you correctly?
He wanted VA to spend $2B to move the Wizards 8 miles.
The post is a little conflicted? It starts by saying he likes redis becasue it was a great fit for his personal vector db he wrote on top of it but then goes on to say he's worried about the future of the company for focusing on ai support, which is what he was already doing with it? I'm not sure I really get the concern about trying to support ai needs though. Atleast it's relevant compared to making changes to a stable kv store for the sake of change.

Are these redis forks just vocal terminally online internet people fighting, like most people don't resell redis and don't care, don't comment or get involved?
Worst in some ways, best in others.
As a New Yorker, these "subsidies for jobs" programs never work. Yet we keep doing them. The last time I ran the numbers, NYS was paying Tesla/Panasonic 110k per year per job, yet the jobs only paid 45k.
>but if you defend yourself in a fight everyone gets suspended because of zero tolerance... it is obscene.

Zero tolerance, in it's current meaning, is stupid. But the original concept was great: if anything happens, then you respond to it. "Respond to it" including things like sitting down and talking about it, without necessarily issuing any punishments whatsoever.
https://archive.is/E3PIq
I feel like I start to lose focus when I have more than a few tabs open. When I see people with dozens of tabs open I get a little panicky. I want to focus on the task at hand and if I want to recall an old site I'll use bookmarks and history for that, not bloat my active session state.
There is no incentive for users of tf to move, consumers are not impacted by the licensing changes.

Opentofu hasn't shipped a 1.7 stable with removed blocks yet, whilst terraform is already on 1.8 with provider functions
Money buys happiness, up to a point. It's like a pretty linear increase in happiness to some spot somewhere above median income (I forget, something like 1.5x median income). After that, it has very little impact on happiness, if at all.

Supposedly, based on some studies.
You're projecting. Nowhere in the story is any mention of lying, or denying that he had multiple jobs.
Redis actually has very few external dependencies compared to most modern FOSS:

IIRC, it only need libc and OpenSSL (the latter only if you build TLS) on your system, and provide their forked copies of Jemalloc, LUA, fpconv, HiRedis, Linenoise and Hdr_Histogram.
Sorry, I may have misread this - are you saying that it's "advertising" that my newsletter has a pop-up asking you to subscribe?
I remember when we had the libav fork. Turns out 10 bickering idiots pronouncing the freedom revolution were ultimately not half as productive as one Michael Niedermayer.
In the short term, how about not upgrading? Stick with the current stable version as long as makes sense.
It depends on your needs. I haven’t used that stack, but I maintain projects that have to use autotools, cmake and about a dozen different compilers together to build, 3 of them Fortran compilers. Bazel is easy if you have exactly one blessed toolchain, or very few, but if you need to build in any appreciable number of environments with different toolchains it’s an absolute nightmare. Perhaps this could be fixed, but it was literally years to get support for a compiler installed anywhere other than /usr/bin. It was just never meant to work with variable environments.
300K is a one-time fee, but that high paying job will probably pay state taxes for years to come. Not to mention the extra taxes collected on that person renting, shopping, driving, etc. Amazon HQ2 might get other companies to make a HQ there too. There are benefits, but Amazon can't be held accountable for deals like these.
Still not seeing that claim, I'm still reading though, but so far it seems to actually claim the opposite. Some of the failings of MRNAI is that it's temporary.
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I think both genders' standards have drastically increased, at least since the last time I was dating decades ago. And both genders are now more willing to take the BATNA and not compromise. Society is helping by being more accepting of single people making their own way. It's not an easy life though, for either gender, but we are probably mostly better off.
That's great, however my current employer said on day one that they expect my timesheet to be 100% billable hours and the categories within our tracking software are designed specifically to a limited set of other categories (that could be defined as "bare minimum responsibilities that a professional has that could be considered non-billable".)

The point of this is to make you believe that non-billable downtime is a punishable offense. And a sort of brainwashing that if you are experiencing downtime, there must be something horribly wrong and you are failing to ask for more work, not communicating with your manager, etc.

So to summarize, in my field, being "exempt" does nothing more than to add additional stress since employers are allowed to frame the implicit, expected nature of "exempt" work as a horrible evil fault of the employee. And, if my feelings are correct, trying to apply time to my timesheet as "non-billable" is a fireable offense.

Hopefully I'm making the case to you that "at-will" employment cannot co-exist with "exempt" employment. By agreeing to work "at-will", employees undermine their status as "exempt."

Or, on the flipside, it teaches all the labor force to become good liars.
Most everyone I know, of all incomes, are on some form of hedonistic treadmill.

Sometimes it is one beer and cigarette to the next, sometimes it's one sailboat and handbag to the next.
There actually was a cabinet called "Space Wars" that was a coin-op implementation of Spacewar.

https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/space-wars
Your list should be: GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, GLONASS, and Wifi. Probably cellular too.
Responsibility doesn't imply fault. For example we all have a collective responsibility to protect and improve our environment, even though none of us created it and none of us caused any of its problems.
In the last year I've started using that knot that those robots used, the "Ian Knot", to tie my shoes, and I'm loving it. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
Sambucus would love this conditions

But the main problem with some nitrogenated substances in soil is the suspicion that they trigger colon cancer
Deserve? They are asking $700 up front and then $24/mo just to keep it working. MKBHD job is not to do PR for tech companies, it’s to tell his viewers if they should spend their hard earned cash in a product.

Humane shipped dog shit and got dog shit reviews. Big deal.
I don't know if there have been any real studies about this, but I certainly hear about a ton of people with a million open tabs and very few who productively use bookmarks in any significant way.

My theory is that bookmarks are a failed concept, putting something out of sight but not in a useful system, so it's guaranteed to be forgotten. If I really need to save an important link, it goes in a notebook which is far more flexible.
Pretty sure they missed a 0. They were meant to bring 25,000 jobs (which itself was scaled back from the 50,000 they had initially promised). Of course the problem with all such deals is that the timeline is always "flexible" (15+ years in this case), and even if the jobs are filled they will go away overnight if the company deems it better for their bottom line. Amazon has already cut 30,000+ corporate jobs in the last year and a half, and in his latest shareholder letter Jassy committed to continued "cost-cutting" across the company (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/11/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-says-c...).
There's a pretty good, evidence backed system of childhood suffering, its an adverse childhood experience score. And yep its all about personal experiences.
Seems like a current source, microcontroller, and audio player.

Reverse engineering time!
Oddly enough, the EU isn’t racing to bust down the door of these “gatekeepers” and require third-party interoperability with this socially-critical service.

Pretty much just an apple thing as far as I can see.
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I point dnsmasq on my home router at Cloudflare DNS and then add two exceptions:

server=/att.com/68.94.156.11
server=/att.net/68.94.156.11

(These used to be needed for their account portal to work properly but I don't know if that's still true.)

I also used to point my streaming devices at AT&T's DNS servers in order for CDNs to properly serve from the closest location, but that no longer seems necessary, so I guess the CDNs have gotten smarter (anycast maybe?) since Cloudflare doesn't send EDNS Client Subnet information in its queries.
Visualization was confusing and I don't think the narrative matches the data being shown. Differences between groups were way less dramatic in the visuals than the narration suggests. The differences could just be statistical noise for all we know.
I know of multiple teams where 50% of the team were nominally HQ2/Virginia employees and 50% were distributed around the country last spring.

Folks on these teams speculated that the Return To Hub push was specifically thought of to meet HQ2 incentives.

None of the distributed employees ended up in Virginia. They all found local teams internally or left Amazon. When high performer leaves a team it’s common for others to leave since it breaks the ice. Lots of these teams then lost local talent to companies with less strict in-office requirements.

Markets are gonna communicate information whether you like it or not.
>the belief that the default narrative is implicitly negative toward blacks

Well, I disagree with that.

I just said NPR specifically focuses too much on identity politics, and I think Desantis is implementing anti-LGBT, anti-education, anti-freedom and anti-democracy legislation.

I dont support the dichotomy that one must either desire an abundance of identity-based journalism or be blind to the issues minorities face. I think many of the problems this country faces, which may disproportionately affect minorities, can be covered without it being race-based. Poverty, healthcare, education, environment, climate change, foreign policy affect all.
Social sciences is not value-free. In reality the most important indicator of "at-risk" is previous involvement with social services and mental health professionals. Usually because these experiences tend to be so bad that the kids involved start to hide problems, or even attack anyone involved with social services. And THEN they get into a negative spiral. It is not the first time they get into a negative spiral, except now their experiences with mental help are so incredibly negative they fight to remain in the negative spiral, sometimes to the point of physical violence.

Likewise, these professionals hide that almost all experiences kids have with social services are negative for the kids. Now I suppose you could say the above is an example of that, but really, it goes further. Kids seek help with homework, and only get berated by someone that couldn't do the homework themselves ...

Studies keep pointing out that social services is exactly the wrong approach. What makes teachers, and social professionals good is excellent subject knowledge, combined with basic psychology. NOT the other way around. And in practice every mental help professional I've ever seen thinks they know what to do, and when pushed fail to produce even basic psychological facts, or outright deny them. I like to think you can explain this that when push comes to shove our minds are trying to solve problems in the real world.

The majority of mental problems are someone failing to solve real world problems, and repeatedly failing to influence the outcome. A little bit of psychology is needed to get them to try again ... and a LOT of knowledge of the real world is need to make sure the outcome is different.