skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I see a story with a large scary number with zero context, I assume it's agenda-driven bullshit designed to deceive.

For example, in NYC there were 386 homicides last year, more than one per day! What a hazardous hellhole!

But the in population context (per 100,000) shows that NYC is one of the safest US cities big or small.

And in historical context (compared with the prior year or with decades ago), and you'll see it's not only very safe, it's safer than it used to be.
Has anyone else had their Reddit account Kafka'd? How did you solve the issue?
I recently got a message that my Reddit account was banned, with the following message:

>Your account has been permanently banned for breaking the rules.

>This account has been permanently banned due to multiple, repeated violations of Reddit's Content Policy on your other account(s). For more information about what rules you broke and how to appeal, check your account inboxes.

>If you feel like this account was banned in error, visit our Help Center to learn more how to file an appeal.

Neither of my accounts had done this, and neither of my accounts received "information about what rules you broke and how to appeal"

When I filed an appeal stating the above: that I only have two accounts, neither has repeatedly violated the content policy, and I appear to have been lumped in with another user who uses the same wifi I do.

(I don't have a big data plan -- I usually use the wifi at coffee shops etc rather than pay for data)

I chalked it up to an algorithmic error, and figured if I just do as I was before... post in a wholesome and engaging way, and avoid logging in over Tor or VPN, it wouldn't happen again.

Today I got the same message on a brand new account: I'm banned, check my "other" account for information on how to appeal.

This is extremely troubling -- Reddit is a resource for legal, medical, and technical advice. Not being able to spin up a throwaway and ask a programming question, get insight on a dispute at work, or otherwise engage in civil society has a huge chilling effect.

Has anyone else on HN dealt with something like this?

I understand HN has a very different culture -- the admins prefer one nym forever, but on Reddit it's fairly accepted to use a nym.

IMHO it echoes the founding fathers, who published anonymously.

I may sometimes express controversial opinions, but I'm not a troll in the sense of doxing, threatening, or otherwise crossing the lines that would cause someone to nuke my accounts from orbit when they're created.

I know Reddit is a private site and can theoretically do whatever they want, but given their colored history[1] I'm surprised that someone like myself who isn't trading CSAM, expressing hatred towards women, or doing other extreme things would suddenly be targeted in this manner.

I spoke with a friend who's a journalist who said it might be an algorithm gone awry but if true... where do I go from there?

I feel like the main character in "The Trial"[2]

>The Trial (German: Der Process)[A] is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20121012213707/http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial#Development
About that...

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-pr...

Just saw this article on my news feed.
There are already phones focusing on repairability.
As absurd as your comment may seem, I honestly would genuinely prefer this over the current approach. As you said, it's currently pretty much a guessing game as to what left-leaning opinions you need to pretend to support in order to not get cancelled or ostracized. It's so stupid... if Google truly just cares about the bottom line, why play this idiotic game where you need to get all huffy and puffy about individual workers opinions? Why not just dispense with the whole façade of pretending to care about left-wing causes? Like at this point the fervent supporters of left-wing ideology HAVE to sense the "how do you do fellow kids" energy coming off of these major corporations.
That’s because the news is bullshit. It’s apparently not a ban for all music, it’s a recommendation for _Chechen_ music from their ministry of culture.
Yeah, that's another major benefit; I can get different toolchain versions or even cross-compile to different architectures via "alr toolchain --select"
just play your 45s at 33 1/3
Very first bullet

> AI can now generate code faster, and often better, than humans.

The author doesn't know what they're talking about. Feel free to skip this one.
>Demotic then mixed with the greek alphabet by the Coptic community into the Coptic script!

At that point, it already was a looong time since the greek alphabet evolved - via a few other cultures in between - from hieroglyphs, so it went back to egypt the long way around
150 for a mini-ITX case is very reasonable. I don't this is the own you think it is.
It's still more of an idea/crude experiment than a project right now. There are some neat videos of DIYers with similar projects though - small homemade metal air batteries and materials experimentation. Aluminum air seems to attract the most attention. There is also a lot of available research.
You make a great case for why your car should have Google Maps built in. That wouldn’t require you to hook your phone to the car.

Having to hook the phone to the car is s giant leap backward. We’ve got Gmail: email from any device. We don’t say: My phone has all my email, I hook it up anytime I want to read mail, if the battery is dead or I forgot my phone, I’m screwed. No, we use Gmail from a tablet, phone, PC, etc.

But for some reason people believe it’s an awesome advance that we can hook the phone to a car, as if it’s impossible to build Google Maps into a $30000 car.
For missiles?

The government already decides that for you.

You can only (and only somewhat) decide to not sell things the government says you can to people the government says you can.

Aside from that? Jail.
> You're changing the subject now. The article wasn't about measuring health in general, it was about weight control.

I'm not changing the subject now. Rather, I changed the subject 4 hours ago, in my original post, a comment on the submitted article, which said: In general, weight is not really a great measure. You can lose weight by losing muscle. I "measure" my own body by looking at it in a mirror. [Note that measure was in quotes, implying imprecision.]

> A good measure of weight is different from a good measure of health. I'm not interested in discussing the latter.

Then you shouldn't have replied to me in the first place, because I had already clearly rejected measuring weight.

In any case, scales can lie too. I was actually stunned recently to discover that there was a full 20 pound discrepancy between the scale in my building's exercise room and the scale in my doctor's office. It's fine, though, because I was always a little surprised by how little I weighed according to the exercise room's scale. I just didn't imagine that it could be so far off. I only step on the dumb thing because it's right by the door evilly tempting people to use it.
One does not just "circumvent" Ramzan Kadyrov
That's also incredibly dumb, but at least they attempted to criminalize the actual activity they found objectionable. That's at least a rational way to write the law.

This BPM law is a complete joke, though, through and through. It won't actually accomplish what they (supposedly) want, and will just cause trouble for people.

And to be completely fair, my own country is/was dumb too: in the 1920s many places in the US tried to ban jazz music, and I believe they used tempo as part of the regulations. I don't know if there were ever any laws around it, but rock'n'roll also experienced backlash from establishment types.
"I walked on the moon. Did a pushup. Ate an egg on it. What else can you do with it?"
Atkinson Hyperlegible – Font for partially visually impaired
that the really good computer thinking people aren't really really good at people thinking is surprising to you?
"What officer?? No way, this isn't gabber! It's simply an electronic composition at a nice, legal, 80 BPM where the bass and rhythm sections are in 4/8 to achieve a thrilling allegro feel."
That's a good question. Since, IIRC, men in professional positions tend to score higher on perceived competence, it'd be actually even more damning if they didn't control for that properly.
Do these people really think writing code is the hard part? It’s knowing what to write, and AI may be a multiplier there, but that knowledge isn’t obtained from asking AI the right questions.
Because genocide definitionally requires intent.

> Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part..

Wikipedia
The halting problem--a tough endeavor

"Will the loop complete or run forever?"

Many fixes were attempted

(Lambda's 15 minute limit doesn't get exempted)

You'll quickly find there is no winning

As the LOADING ball keeps spinning

To date there remains a single hack:

Rip the cable out the back

You'll have an answer clarified:

"The loop is done; the power died."
Hundred percent. Language is nothing more than a "conveyance vehicle" to encode the physical phenomenon around us and our experiences of it. Unless you're a believer in some kind of parallel to the largely outmoded Waldorf hypothesis, nature is nature regardless of who is experiencing it.

To declare something "untranslatable" is essentially to imply that a non-native speaker is incapable of understanding it no matter how much they study the language. It deals in "touchy feely unquantifiable nonsense".

Noticed that everyone in here who proclaims that some things are untranslatable have yet to provide actual concrete examples of them (SRC LANG, TGT LANG, SRC SENTENCE)

The fact that you can have legal documents translated from one language to another is all the proof you need that if you're a good enough translator, all languages are interchangeable. You might need a whole lot more words or a whole lot less words depending on the source and target language though.
Yea but that's the joke is they plan.

Toyota should also plan to expand their manufacturing capacity to pickup GMs lost sales to anyone under the age of 60.

Lol
Ask HN: What are you using for load testing?
Usually, I would let organic users be my load test. However, I am working on a project that has an anticipated load on a new-to-my-team stack, so I'm looking into ways to load test.

I've seen tools like k6 (https://k6.io/), Artillery (https://www.artillery.io), and JMeter (https://jmeter.apache.org/).

I've been using Artillery, but it's hard to visualize the results.

What do you use?
There are only a couple transactions this year for that kind of price. None of them have interior photos, I'd assume run down. But yeah, it's a lot cheaper than I expected given that houses on the peninsula are 3-4x this price.
The big problem with many embedded hobby electronics, is the proliferation and supply of counterfeits, sometimes even making their way through official supply lines.
No, I’m not conflating them. I do appreciate why they are written with geographical clauses, but I have always found it odd (and probably unenforceable).

I’m just saying that non-competes like this should be regulated under Federal authority because they explicitly cover geographic areas that include multiple states. That’s in addition to the impacts on “interstate commerce” proper (which as you said is basically all commerce).

Said another way: I find the argument that non-competes should be allowed or disallowed under the authority of only state laws to be lacking. If a contract in state A dictates what you can do in state B, it’s an interstate issue and Federal law could (should?) be involved.
That's CAS latency. To calculate the latency of a timing you divide the timing itself by the clock frequency of your sticks. For example, DDR4-4000 CL14 is running at 2000MHz = 2GHz, so the CAS latency is 14/2 = 7ns.

But it's just a singular timing that's not even used all that often, so it's not that relevant to performance anyway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgb8N23tsfA
A big problem with that is that there's Chechen music -- like, actual Chechen folk music, not Chechen-composed music that (o noes!) succumbed to Western influences -- that's outside the range.

Even if this is just a "recommendation" and not an outright ban, this is still incredibly dumb.
The alternative is using tool enabled LLMs. GPT4 can drive Bing and filter results better than I can, and it hallucinates less than I do when pile driving through spam.

If you haven't read up on modern prompting strategies and still feel LLMs are stochastic parrots, you should read the foundational prompting papers (chain of thought, react, reflexion, toolformer, etc) and update your views about llms. They're very close to being the kind of autonomous search agents that the characters in classic cyberpunk novels would unleash on the real world to compile results.

It's actually made me excited about information retrieval again, for the first time in a decade. And the cool part is that autonomous search agents might become free and open source before the corporations manage to enshittify the experience.

Very fun times ahead!
Very true. This is the approach I've been taking. My project isn't human-interactive and I'm fine with it taking a couple hours for each run to finish.

The downside is that it makes development and testing super slow without the speedup you get from having local GPU power.
Historically, Hyundai/Genesis charged $300/yr for BlueLink connected care. Think my 2023 Ioniq 5 is one of the last (EV) models with that yearly charge, and that year's Ioniq 6 and subsequent models get it free.

Unfortunately, I don't think they're planning on offering it free to my model or earlier, and I don't know if the same deal exists for ICE cars.
O this!

English is like a runtime typed language, and Japanese sounds like a statically typed language.
Yes, this is a huge win for labor from a very pro-labor administration.
indeed. “ratfucker sam” is someone employed by billionaire Logan Roy in the hbo show succession:

> Tom (to Greg): “You're asking about the moral character of a guy named Rat-Fucker Sam? He's a fucking piece of fucking shit!”

He’s a suit with a laptop sitting in Logan’s private jet.
They're still free to change parties.
Phone navigation apps are surprisingly bad in Japan (Google ones in particular). Not unusable, but the in-car GPS is more competitive than in other markets IMHO.

Also with an aging population a phone screen is just too small for many.

BTW, to parent's point VW has been trying different approaches with a top mounted GPS/infotainment unit that can be omitted on cheaper trims.
But the headquarters are mostly CA
And of course, the crucial legal definition of a rave as a place where the music consists of "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats."
Yeah, I believe so! But the post talks about using your iPhone to do things like turn on climate control remotely. I'm incredibly dubious of the idea that Apple would build an Android app with the full feature set that they'd ship for iPhones. And I'm never going to accept a $$$$$ purchase locking me into any particular ecosystem.
Profoundly disagree. Perhaps in rhetorical or philosophical contexts it may be relevant. But concerning questions of what constitutes acceptable workplace conduct, it is way off the page (and in my view, completely out of line).
I had this happen. It was the final nail in Reddit’s coffin for me. I never made another account and didn’t use the site at all for 6-12 months after that. Now, I might occasionally end up there from a web search, or look at the front page to see if there was anything big (there isn’t), but I never made another account and never will.

The site is going downhill, let them dig their own grave.
Are you suggesting that Google fire all the engineers who work on Cloud? That would... be a very interesting business decision, likely closing any door for them working with enterprise in the future.

Here's a few more realistic changes that Alphabet could make:
- shut down X
- shut down Verily
- sell calico or shut it down if no buyers
- sell Fiber or shut it down if no buyers
- shut down Intrinsic, Wing, and all the other X spinoffs
- make Cloud be its own Alphabet company with Kurian as an actual CEO

That would show Wall Street that GOogle is really serious about not wasting money on crazy ideas. That would boost the price (along with reducing costs) giving them some runway. I think it would be a shame if Waymo was shut down but it has a long, long way to being highly profitable.

It looks like Alphabet wants to sell Verily or spin it out of the Alphabet family entirely (after decoupling Verily's infrastructure from Google's) but nobody wants to buy it.
ida pro has a Mac release
I use JMeter via Taurus, it displays visualization in the terminal.

My notes on how to use it - https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/taurus-writing-jmeter-load-t...
That’s a ridiculous statement - he was responding to substantive points raised by the article. I’m a huge Apple fan, but let’s be fair here and not flame others.
I don't think I agree with your starting premise that watching cable television is anything like using social media, even at its least edifying.
The real endgame here isn't to just enumerate and then patent those sequences, right?
I dig this idea. I have the sneaking suspicion that GitHub Gists aren’t a first-class citizen of the overall GitHub product. I tried navigating to mine the other day and found myself ejecting to a search engine to find them. And then wondering if they are something I can trust to be around in the future.

I use Gists as a way to stash lists publicly. I’m curious what use cases for Gists exist beyond the obvious “here’s a snippet” (which is valuable in and of itself!).
Complete List of Unusual Sports
I'm not saying they aren't capable of committing war crimes or genocide or whatever other terms you want to use. Clearly Israel is eminently capable of simply flattening Gaza (and Judaea/Samaria if they wanted) and they are restrained enough to not do so.

I'm saying I don't think they are by any objective measure and the constant fixation with accusing Israel of war crimes and genocide, combined with the disgusting amount of antisemitism I've seen after 10/7 has led me to the conclusion that accusing them of imagined crimes is deeply rooted in antisemitism.
No, Tesla sells internet connectivity for $10/month.
The one car that I sold because it died on me was due to transmission failure. I’m also at 8, and do not expect either of my current cars to ever have a transmission failure.
As a current Rustup maintainer with a bit of Ada background I gotta say: nice work!

I do feel Ada as a language is way ahead of its time, but when I was learning it (a while before the first Alire release) I was also puzzled by dev environment setup. I guess the Rust experience has shown the importance of a friendly onboarding experience, so I’m very glad to see Ada is going this direction as well with Alire and now Getada :)
Simple probes can catch sleeper agents
1) A combination of Trello and the Apple Reminders app.

2) Any time I share an article with friends and want to emphasize a snippet.

3) I usually just Google whatever source I need at the moment.

4) Brain.

5) Too many ideas come up and I don’t end up writing them all down.
Have you got a source for that interpretation? The announcement this article references does not support it.
Thank you for sharing your curiosity with the world
You mean... like, an aircraft?
Ah yes, when using your package manager is too cumbersome...
I've heard this talking point before, and it's really silly to frame it as shenanigans somehow because of the timing, rather than elected officials enacting popular policies that the voters want.

That's literally their job.
Dual Energy CT Scanners at Airports [video]
Back to Bach, I say.

Outlaw the flat 5th and flat 7th, too /s

None of that American "Jazz Music" allowed here.
ML is somewhere between the new SOAP and the new cryptocurrency.
Yeah, so that just means that you can use your personal ChargePoint card to use the station. I once went through 5 different "public" charge point locations that weren't publically accessible at all.

I'm currently living in an apartment complex that has "public" charging stations, and most of them are on reserved parking spaces.
Quite the opposite, I suspect one of the reasons FAANGs are successful is the lack of non-compete in CA.

Folks can easily hop around, ask for higher wages and take their skills to a new company that directly competes with the old.

There's a heavy competition among the tech companies both for talent and for their businesses
> Correct. AI (or other technology) are tools. They can be used for good, they can be used for evil, it is should not be within the purview of a company to make such moral judgements.

So basically when IBM was selling business machines that were being used in the concentration camps to the Nazi government it was ok. And when other US companies were selling all kinds of things including technology to the Nazis, which were used in the war, including for killing actual American soldiers.

And if the Nazis won and were able to implement all they wanted at a global scale, these companies wouldn't be responsible for aiding the Nazi war effort and its eventual triumph.

> people to mask-off with antisemitism trying

Children are being murdered on live video. That's crazy talk at this point. If murdering children is semitism, then you are on the wrong side. If it isn't, then you are just talking nonsense because what they are doing is unjustifiable.

The murder wont go away and the discussion wont stop if you scream 'anti-semitism'. Stop murdering children first.
Have you shared your checklist anywhere?
Arguing that something is inherent to human nature (which power is) is a very reasonable counterargument to someone blaming capitalism. Even if they didn't use the word "specific"! It's not a moot point.
Thank goodness, someone with a decent distro
Can’t they just build parallel railways?
Lay people are totally used to this type of precision.

It's like you did a typo in your cookie recipe and instead of 100 grams of sugar instead put 1000 kilos. It's only a few extra zeros after all. A tiny change in the text.
aren't oracles, just attempts to escape the halting problem?

assume you have an O which doesn't halt

now feed P which DOES halt into O

oh look it catches it!

misses the boat
Or Guix
Kagi is that alternative I suppose, at least for those who use search enough to pay for it. HN has a lot of testimonials on how good Kagi is.
I think what the parent post is referring to is that clarifying human intention rather axiomatically involves a human at some stage in the process.
> The latest layoffs are them cleaning house and scaring their workers into compliance, not the death throes of a company in trouble

Really? I have the impression Google’s other tools (I have lots of uses of Docs and Meet ) are degrading in quality quite quickly

That is a subjective judgement, but it seems Google no longer cares
That's not a lack of cultural background, that's merely a lack of knowledge around who Benedict Arnold was, and apparently somebody doing you a disservice by explaining that it's a synonym for bad.

If somebody had first explained to you that Benedict Arnold was a well known traitor during the revolutionary war you'd have nearly the same context as your average American.

It's hardly what I would call untranslatable. I'm sure you could find some poor sod who the public education system failed so terribly that Benedict Arnold is as equally opaque in America.