skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad thing is that you and the comment you are responding to are pretty much both right.

I kinda can't believe I'm saying something positive about Greg Abbott, but in early and mid-2020, his Covid policies were quite sensible. He locked down for a short while but understood that long term lockdowns weren't a viable solution and opened back up pretty quickly. He then instituted a statewate mask mandate, but he said that the rules would at least be based on some scientifically rational thinking - that the mandates would be in response to infection levels and the capacity at hospitals. This, to me anyway, seemed a lot more rational than some coastal liberal bastions that were closing beaches, etc.

But Abbott got absolutely pilloried by the far right GOP for his mandates, so then he tacked hard to the right and passed laws prohibiting any kind of restrictions by local authorities. It was a clear and undeniable capitulation to the far right, and I think that experience probably kinda spooked him. Since then he has only doubled down on policies favorable to the MAGA crowd, etc.
Because he provided no evidence, merely hearsay.
Schrödinger's autopilot. It's fully self-driving when you're paying for it, but it's all your fault when it crashes.
I was your opposite number at AWS for many years. Like you say, it was one of the best jobs I've ever had, but over there it was a career dead end. I wasn't laid off, but I had to leave it to have any hope of growing myself.

I feel for ya, zem; if you ever turn up at a PyCon in person, lemme buy you a drink.
> need to be reminded why it’s important to care.

In the 'good old days' a person could work their way up in a company from the sales floor into a leadership role. The company would encourage this to create a pipeline of experienced managers with first-hand knowledge of customer needs.

That era is long dead. Companies don't care about their customers, they care about maximizing shareholder value above all else. That means doing things like slashing staff to the point where 2 people have to run the entire store. How are they supposed to provide good customer service in a situation like that?
You use it like a conceptual dictionary. Say you’re reading a paper or trying to implement some technology that uses a mathematical concept you aren’t familiar with (e.g. a submanifold). You’d look up “submanifold” and see that it is “ subset of a manifold that is itself a manifold, but has smaller dimension.” Okay, that seems to fit the intuition of a “sub”-something. But I don’t know what a “manifold” is. So I’d look that up.

“A manifold is a topological space that is locally Euclidean (i.e., around every point, there is a neighborhood that is topologically the same as the open unit ball in R^n)”

At this point, either you know what all of those words mean or you don’t. If you do, great! You’re done. If not, you either keep digging deeper into the various terms or you start seriously considering reading one or more of the curated reference books listed at the end of each entry.

Over time you develop the “mathematical maturity” that you don’t need to do a deep dive into the books and can mostly just use the reference.
I think that’s true when you go to a major airport, but not every location is like this in my experience.
Thanks, that's a plausible explanation. I would be mildly surprised if Google was using a third-party payment provider for Google Domains, but I don't think I have any way to verify or refute this :-)

(I suppose Google could remain the payment processor while handing the operations themselves off to Squarespace, as well.)
A few years ago I made a temperature/humidity/barometric pressure sensor.

https://www.tindie.com/products/arantius/wi_ther-wireless-th...
https://arantius.com/wi-ther/

As per the manual, it's ESPHome compatible if you prefer that, but I'm semi proud of the built in functionality.
Also of interest https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident
Freenet FMS; more specifically: Web of Trust.

IMO it's how all moderation should go: you subscribe to some default moderators' lists initially and then mutate those subscriptions and their trust levels. Mod actions are simply adding visibility options to content and not actually removing anything.
You mean everyone that runs a Crossplane cluster? Already happening
In Farrenfore you just get on the train. It’s a toss up on whether anybody will check your ticket on your journey to Dublin.
Then you quietly change the rule, and get years of success until it's widely gamed again.

The point is, there's experimentation that could be done and there's absolutely solutions that could be found.

Early Google did tons of experimentation with the search algorithm to maintain the integrity of the results. There was definitely an active game of cat and mouse back then that Google actually cared about staying on top of.

But as a decades entrenched monopoly, Google lost all incentives to tinker with anything anymore. The "operational" folks took over and any change to the search algorithm is now a multi-year endeavor involving thousands of stakeholders.
I mostly agree with you.
Its the "fabric" and tools that matter.
In so far as this thread matters,
I meant to say that VMware has a lot of great tools surrounding
ESXi (which at least used to be the core of running VMs, may have changed)

In my opinion Proxmox does not have tooling like that.

So if I had written my comment better it would be what tooling
and fabric these giants use and to what extent they share the tools
and upgrades back to open source projects.
New "T+1" Settlement Cycle – What Investors Need to Know
That's fascinating, I wonder what it is.
I also rely heavily on search. When editing code, I am frequently looking to modify a string of characters somewhere in the middle of a line. Navigating firstly to the correct line and then also the correct position within that line is probably going to require several keystrokes anyway so why not just use search to go there directly?
>The real complaint is that Google did not consider the original site to be "ad supplier worthy".

No, that was not the complaint. The complaint is that Google demanded changes that made the site worse for users. These changes are clearly meant to optimise ad revenue.

Google is in a position of power that allows them to make these demands. More competition between ad networks would reduce the power of each individual ad network and give publishers more negotiating power.

>As you say, there are other advertising players - but if none of them see value (in the original site) then maybe that's telling us something?

As I understand it, no other ad networks have even seen the site. Amazon and Facebook are clearly unsuitable. Microsoft may have been worth a shot. For this type of site I think Google has a nearly complete monopoly.
Diesel generators are great if you need a few hours of backup (assuming the generator actually starts when you call on it).

But if you need enough backup capacity to survive something a multi-state, multi-day blackout [1] that probably gets expensive.

You wouldn't need that for a premium erotic call processor, but a 911 call exchange might, for the portion of their workload they can't pass off to another exchange.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
This isn't the 1950s where a TV was a signifier of the strength of the American economy. TVs are dirt cheap now, whereas rent, food, education, healthcare, all of which are more important for survival, have all skyrocketed.
Ask HN: Windows HTML+CSS+JS App IDE
Is there a self-contained, properly documented Windows IDE for the development of self-contained Windows EXEs written in HTML, CSS and JS?

Manky lashups requiring multiple installs, extensions, cryptic configs, extreme optimism for online Help lifetime etc. need not apply given this is for educational use and I'd prefer to avoid educating learners into tolerance of such modern innovations!

Thanks!
> That's part of the campaign to discredit what others see and to encourage anyone who sees something to keep quiet.

Here's the ugly crackpot conspiracy loons angle rearing it's head.
The lack of freedom to be able to quit is an interesting to highlight.

I’m not sure if it’s being said that working to provide for one’s family is a big compromise.

Health coverage is def something to consider, but I’m not sure if it’s in any way new in the last 10-20-30 y. It’s definitely a retention tool as well.
All of the evidence is classified. If he would've brought out imagery or any evidence to the public, he would've been put in jail.

And it's not "hearsay" He brought 40 people with first hand knowledge to the ICIG. People who worked in the reverse engineering programs - who touched the craft.

Unlike Snowden who just released a bunch of classified information to the public, Grusch went through the proper whistleblower channels and submitted the evidence to the ICIG.

Look at my edit regarding the Senate Majority leader.
I think it should be partial Tesla responsibility. If you are L2/5 then it’s 40% teslas 60% driver
Such contactless readers are the norm in the Netherlands. There are no ticket gates; it is still an honesty system, but one is expected to tap on before you board the train. They are sensibly located near the station entrance, so you also don't need to make a detour to find them.
26 Kelvin!
"When mice march with elephants it's in the mices best interest to be cautious"

I've done a lot of a lot of email administration over the years, servers with 100,000s of accounts, and you walk a very fine line in being able to communicate with the rest of the world. Your IPs must exist in certain blocks (or at least not be in banned blocks). You must block outgoing spam messages at a much higher rate and quality than google/hotmail do. Get yourself blacklisted for any reason and expect to disappear from the internet, meanwhile no one is going to block the largest services.
Same. The boarding process is the most annoying part, whatever the method, and the sooner it's over and done, the sooner I can settle in.
I've had a similar idea. The basic premise is that each company's stock trades once a day, at most, in a Dutch auction. On the sell side, you inform the market that you'll be placing stock in a company on sale, and it sells at a known time, before which you can withdraw intent to sell.

On the buy side, you can place and withdraw bids at any time, and when the auction starts, those bids are part of the auction. This works as a price signal to draw sellers in, or convince them to withdraw.

The price paid for all the stock is pooled, and each seller gets a share proportional to what they sold.

This would eliminate HFT (good), and should allow for price discovery and other useful market forces to do their work. It would chill out the market and dispose of the heady cocaine-fueled paper-chasing casino aspect of it. The market would converge on a daily agreement about the stock price of that company, without all the random walks and HFT coin shaving, which is not economically productive behavior.
It's a sophisticated bike shed. Much more of the population has a working knowledge of go than about the linux kernel's Usermode Driver API

...So what color is their gopher?
For bioacoustics there are significant problems with domain shift, label shift, label imbalance, and sample bias in training data. You need models to generalize to new data with very different noise profiles than the available training data, and handle significant intraclass variation.

The gold standard for input features is a PCEN melspectrogram, largely because it gives useful generalizable features, through compression, normalization, and approximate log scaling of frequency features. Learned frontends tend to overfit training distributions badly - someone finally wrote this up recently, but I'm struggling to find the paper on my phone...
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Worked at a place with a natural gas genny as the second source. You don't have to feed it, it just keeps working.
I Tried a Disney Secret Project
This is my experience as well. If someone could mention how to examine the console to improve a site after an algo change, I would absolutely love to hear it .
Yes, that's true. But it is "on-by-default" for 95% of desktop Linux machines, with no special action needed.
'Fallout but in Excel' Lets You Visit the Wasteland While Your Boss Thinks You'r
Oh, I'm being serious. But the point about 'UFO' is different to the point about mischaracterizing people: which you seem to be doing. That seems to be an abusive thing, definitely.
Care to weigh in about what you reckon happened? Surely the company didn't suddenly lose its need of the Python ecosystem?
mise borrows the plugins from asdf, which also makes it non-cross platform. Interesting discussion on this topic on their GitHub: https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/66

Solutions considered include adopting the vfox plugin system or transpiling all asdf plugins to ShellJs.

Now I know that vfox exists.
The larger follower count comes FROM this project. I've seen a lot of people being really excited for this style and hoping their own tech stack comes next.

It's just something cute to celebrate tech.
Steve Jobs and NeXT: Navigating Computer Markets for Product-Market Fit (1991) [video]
I would recommend checking Google to see if you can find any job openings. Please remember that it is a niche industry, so there may not be many companies currently hiring. But honestly, if you are looking to make a full-time living, consider choosing another niche as web scraping jobs require you to consistently stay on top of your game. Most full-time jobs involve scraping data from big tech companies, and you are on your own to find solutions in bypassing anti-bot measures.
Is Scott Alexander qualified in this subject?
Put your hand out of a window at speed and you can really feel it.
This is one of the downsides of systemd from a community perspective--it's not that it doesn't work; it largely has, and has consistently, for most people and most distros who've adopted it pretty much since the jump! But the bonkers level of partisan poo-flinging by folks who will not simply go off to Devuan or whatever has inculcated an automatic assumption that a system built by some of the most talented folks working in the Linux space simply has to be broken whenever they have a problem.

By being ambitious, systemd brought it on itself, but it's frustrating because the conversations don't go anywhere and don't matter.
That's the nice thing about 40" 4K.

My gold standard for 100% scaling is 2560x1440 27".

You get the same PPI with 40" 4K, so it should also be good at 100%.

I've been waiting for a 40" 4K OLED with 120hz or better to show up for a reasonable price. Just haven't seen it yet.
> It's knowing which lines shouldn't be 0!

Whether or not you do your taxes by hand, you should probably have a good idea of your income sources.
Not sure what it says about me or google but my original 2004 gmail until recently had about 300,000 unread emails.

Granted most of the 300k emails were in tabs like social, forums, updates, promotion.

After a bit of spring purging the inbox is down to more managable 91,078 unread emails.

Then again, I've seen the first sentence for these emails so I expect I am not missing out on much.
Thanks was wondering this! The clouds sure coalesce into more of an orb than I was expecting
People like to do business with people they like, and the Juniors of today are the future CFO, CEO and CTO's. Also IT people have a very, very long memory, and aiming to become the next Oracle is not an advisable strategy.

Being the optimizer of local minima, is bad business strategy, and smart shareholders should plug for a better optimizer.
Early stage companies seem to have a huge benefit from the ad-hoc communication and ease of communication the office provides.

More mature and larger companies can cut huge expenses by getting rid of their offices and then outpace any of their competitors not doing that.
In the first 10 search results, I now get a mix of results for either of the two technologies when searching with Google.
Ending up in prison because you broke the law is not a social outcome we should be seeking to minimize.
> solely for the act of traveling great distances that are required to reach a distant star, they would need to have discovered physics paradigms far beyond our understanding today.

No, they wouldn't. Modest progress in engineering and cultural adaptation, would produce generation ships large enough to sustain a human colony capable of traversing the galaxy on the scale of thousands of years. On the other hand, we could launch a ChatGPT-enabled* probe to arrive at Proxima Centauri in about a century with today's technology.

If you think objectively about it, "physics paradigms far beyond our understanding today" do not necessarily exist. Or if they do, they will not necessarily contribute significantly to our ability to traverse interstellar distances. While it is hubris to assume that we know everything; it is foolhardy to assume that there is gold at the end of the rainbow.

* note that ChatGPT is rather pathetic compared to intelligent life; but it's what we can ship today
Maybe larger companies are calling back remote workers but many small-medium companies still offer remote for a variety of reasons (competition, savings, etc). I just accepted an offer at a 500ish person company working fully remote.
> It's not very different from daisy chaining normal extension cords - safe if you know what you're doing

It’s not safe, and it’s expressly forbidden by the NEC, see 11.1.5 below:

> 11.1.5 Extension Cords

> 11.1.5.1

> Extension cords shall be plugged directly into an approved receptacle, power tap, or multiplug adapter and shall, except for approved multiplug extension cords, serve only one portable appliance.

Daisy chaining extension cords is unsafe and not recommended. Only use extension cords that you’ve inspected and are properly rated for the environment (don’t use indoor cords outside, don’t use an outdoor extension cord outdoors unless it’s GFCI protected) and power usage of the device you are powering.

Any time electricity has to flow through a splice or mechanical connection, the possibility of a loose connection causing an arc and subsequent fire exists.

It’s unlikely to happen to you specifically, but it does happen and avoiding electrical fires is a good thing if it can be avoided.

Daisy chaining power strips is also forbidden by the NEC:

> 11.1.4.2

> The relocatable power taps shall be directly connected to a permanently installed receptacle.
> For example, on one occasion, airport staff did not have transport ready for her inside the terminal as they were expecting a baby who could be carried.

As per the article, airport staff did expect to carry a baby.
Wish some of this pathological humility could find its way into climate science.
A mix-up over bioengineered tomato seeds sparked fears about spread of GMO crops
Actually it may have been I mixed up RS-485 and RS-422 the project I got this notion from was research in the mid 90's.

I remember a project that I used either 422 or 485 as jumping off point for MIDI because I thought at the time that MIDI grew from the spec.
Yeah, I know. But in the U.S. that seems somehow culturally verboten.
This gets mentioned here everytime an article about LoRA is posted. Sometimes acronyms means multiple things, they're not in the same field so the risk of confusion beyond short headlines is negligible.

It's a bit like if someone reading a bicycling article and getting annoyed that FTP means Functional Threshold Power instead of File Transfer Protocol, or reading about machine learning and getting confused that MLP doesn't mean My Little Pony.
Tbh I don't find their comparison to asdf particularly compelling. While the asdf shims have downsides, besides that I think I prefer the more principled and tightly scoped approach that asdf has.

> mise makes heavy use of aliases so you don't need to remember if it's mise plugin add node or mise plugin install node. If I can guess what you meant, then I'll try to get mise to respond in the right way.

I prefer that there is one, correct, way of doing things and my tools not trying to guess what I want. If there are two different commands they should do two different things and it should be clear what the difference is. Keeping track of different aliases is just additional mental overhead to me.

I acknowledge that all this is very much a preferential thing, so I guess if this works for author then more power to them.

https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html
Ask HN: A plush toy with local Llama3? Need to outsource kid's "why" questions
I thought of building it myself after seeing the 10 tokens/second that Llama 3 can achieve on an iPhone. However, I'd rather just buy one, lol. I need the Llama 3 to run locally so we can take it anywhere. Any plush toy would do, but a bear or dog is preferred. I just need to outsource my kid's endless "why" questions.
This is 30+ years ago, they had a halon system. They had calculated the volume of the rooms, including the contents so as to not kill people while supressing fire. So making a hole in a wall, or adding/subtracting anything was a huge production.
IsBooleanTooLongAndComplex
This page is SEO crap. A thin article with little technical content peppered with links to the company's own products.
Seems like Larry Page and Sergey Brin should return to Stanford to do a postdoc. Irony intended.
Take a look at this playlist [0] by MathTheBeautiful. It says it's about PDEs, but it starts with ODEs.

I think most differential equations courses are too focused on symbolic solving techniques.
To me, understanding a (physical) system is mainly understanding the differential equation (system) itself, not it's solution. MathTheBeautiful really excels at this approach.

Solutions are of course important as well, but i think that's what computers are for.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlXfTHzgMRUK56vbQgzCV...
Serving users via a static site and JSON file
Yeah well you can rephrase my statement to say that the theory underlying quantum computers still hasn’t been validated experimentally, so it’s still open whether it models reality sufficiently well to allow us to run the algorithms it predicts on physical machines.
Did he mean that like:

- "I know I saw something that violated my laws of physics, but my knowledge of physics prevented me from believing it (was a physical object/ was real/ was actually behaving in the physics-violating way I saw)." or

- "From my knowledge of physics it was clear that aliens could not get here, so whatever I saw could not have been their craft."

or something else?
> The cynicism stems from people telling others that practical quantum computers will change the world for at least a decade.

Practical quantum computers will change the world (break RSA 2048). The question is "when". The people who have a timeline of ~10 years instead of decades contribute to what we in our community call "Quantum hype" and it's very much frowned upon by most of the members in the community.

> combines Quantum computing with the current hot thing

The founder of this lab has an illustrious career in machine learning and is now researching how quantum computers can help with that.
Given the negative propagandist media coverage without any possibility of access to direct information to form one's own impression about how things really are, this not really a surprise.

The masses have always been massaged by mass media to conform to the political will of any given country's owners who live under the delusion of being owners of the whole world.

Doesn't even matter which side one is looking from of the whole situation.
It is kind of like Fight Club. There are 2-3 good communities that I lurk in. The people won't walk you through your scraping problems, but if you ask the questions to the right person politely, they often help.

Many residential proxy and scraping experts are pretty active on LinkedIn. But they do not talk about scraping data, just news around web scraping.