skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bout time! I keep thinking that it's Rivian's moment to move in and capitalize on the "luxury EV company not owned by a sociopath" market.
Maps are models. All models are wrong. Some are useful.
Sir John Laws, nominative determinism in action.
What riles me is when the Bank rings me and demands that I identify myself so they know it's me they are talking to.

What's your full name?

What's your date of birth?

Etc.

The Bank lady on the other end of the phone one day was most put out when I asked those same questions so that she should identify herself to me also.

I would hang up and verify the phone number and then call them back if it checks out, or more usually I ring the Bank using my own version of the Bank's phone number and ask to speak to 'Charlene' or whoever it was.
The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes
Eliminate some of the height restrictions? Most of NYC isn't particularly tall outside of a couple areas.
It is hard to understand the point you're trying to make here. Israeli Jewish people of Iraqi origin are MENA people, not "colonial Europeans". I don't know that trying to sort out whether Hebrew is European or not is an especially productive enterprise.
Humans instinctively know to eat earth and clay when you have certain vitamin or mineral deficiencies, or parasite infections, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophagia#Humans

Of course, these days you're probably better off swallowing a supplement. But where's the fun in that?
Why does it matter if it is an android app? Why would they redesign the wheel?

Criticism should be reserved for poor execution and hype over substance.
Isn’t that kind of what they’d have developed COVID for?
Some good observations. I certainly think that being small is a big part of it.
Also under-rated feature of 2010-era search was Matt Cutts, author of the article. He was an outlier at Google in that he did real community engagement as well as anti-spam, which is a huge contrast to today’s Google and how the internet has reacted to present-day SEO.

While the Matt Cuts era search tech is interesting, it’s crucial to keep in mind that the dataset was very different then too as a result of Matt Cutts’ own attitude towards spam and SEO.

Back in 2010 LDA was big and Google had used probabilistic networks e.g. Rephil / large noisy-OR networks as models

https://uh.edu/nsm/computer-science/events/seminars/2016/110...

Would the same things work today given how SEO spam and Google ads work? The same models are probably useful but it’s the noise and the long tail of the data that makes the problem hard.
You should get a sheepdog dog to herd your sheep-dog.
Heck, I bet that Venn diagram has quite a lot of overlap indeed.
An personal AI assistant makes phone calls for you
Which is in some way worse. Not only would the TOS allow YouTube to ban Rossman, it would allow them to ban every person who uses GrayJay. Obviously they're not going to do that because of the collateral damage.
Aside from the relatively recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union (starting from the 90s) Jews of all backgrounds speak primarily Hebrew.

It sounds like you’ve never ...

You must not be reading the post above yours.

Because very clearly, the commenter wasn't saying that the Mizrahi don't currently speak Hebrew (some 60-70 years post-migration). Rather they were referring to loss of identity, de-facto forced assimilation and other unhappy circumstances they faced as a consequence of that migration.

You may not like where they're going with the "colonial" interpretation, and other ideological implications they're drawing on top of this (e.g. the erasure of Judeo-Arabic identity).

But that's no reason to start putting words into their mouth, and making them out to say something that they're plainly not.
There was a repo that falsely claimed to have released the language action model code, when it became apparent that the "leaked" code did not actually prove any of the points made in the README the author deleted the repo. You can read Retr0id's analysis here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240424095544/https://github.co...

EDIT: I have just realized that you were replying to Retr0id.
"MLM" is a sanitized name for "Pyramid Scheme" where the only way for a member to make profit is to bring in new people who pay up into the organization. Franchises aren't pyramid schemes.

I don't know why you'd be skeptical, franchising has been very successful for the last century (McDonalds, 7-Eleven, Ace Hardware, etc) and gives steady returns to investors. And the reason why the food business always has opportunity is because people always need to eat, and are willing to spend disposable income on food. When consumer spending goes up so does the restaurant biz, and that's not going to change. And franchises are just one efficient way to create an international restaurant business. It was actually pretty surprising when Starbucks came along and didn't franchise.

But just because the model is efficient doesn't mean you can't screw it up, like Quiznos. That's just short term thinking run amok.
I don't think they were definitive or detailed enough to draw that conclusion.

The article insinuates it, but uses weasel words like "essentially" and claims they simply don't know if it was an open auction.

Articles generally hype things up, and claim anything they can get away with. Therefore, if they won't make a clear statement, why would I ever assume more than they will.
> Sub 180 what?

It's standard incel nonsense -- describing "short" people.
> Sure it's effective if you're looking at the reduction rate of existing number alone.

That's exactly correct bart, it reduced smoking by over two thirds and kept it that way.

> still doesn't stop 11% of people from doing so.

Like seatbelts, vaccines, and all other health and safety procedures that also don't have a 100% total absolute success rate .. nor never claimed to.

Who wants to wrap people in bubble wrap and lock them away from the world? Are you advocating for that?
While I agree its mostly escapist for tech workers who dream of building a farm, as someone who didn't just dream but am actively following it, I very much enjoy the hard work.

Maybe because I grew up on a farm and this is returning, but also because I do expect about 4 billion people to die in the coming climate decline? collapse? and would like to leave better more resilient bones (buildings, good soil, lumber trees, good game, maybe some tools, landrace seeds etc), the skeleton of a more sustainable life to those who come after.
Yup, got an cold email from them. Marked it as spam and never heard from them again...
My understanding was that LLM's don't actually know or understand math, physics etc but language.

It's only with the introduction of things like Wolfram Alpha into ChatGPT for example that they can actually perform math with accuracy, because it's being passed off.
You don’t usually hear the notion that Iran has a winning strategy. Rather than downvoting, I’m going to say that your comment lacks credibility.
Hedge Funds != Private Equity. They are two very different businesses. For starters, hedge funds don't run other companies.
> just do borderless windowed and pretend true fullscreen doesn't exist.

Hah, good to know I am not the only one.
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Most people are so bombarded with ads on the web that they scarcely think it weird that their OS does the same, anyone who cares about this has been able to do something about it a long time ago, I have never seen an ad on my windows 10 installation.
Super-simplified explanation: Three things matter for carrying capacity.

1) How many calories does a human need to survive?

2) How many calories can we squeeze out of an acre of arable land?

3) How many acres of arable land are there?

The first one is pretty much immutable.

The third one is maybe somewhat mutable, but to a very limited extent. We can squabble how much, but let's assume it's fairly immutable. Large changes would need energy amounts that are currently prohibitive.

That leaves calories per acre. And that's where ag-industrial methods had an impact that's absolutely bonkers[1].

As the graph shows, this is not a fixed number - that's why Malthus' predictions ultimately didn't come to pass - but you need ag-industry to squeeze out those numbers. (Without mechanized agriculture, massive production of artificial fertilizer, and Borlaug's dwarf wheat, Earth would have run into massive hunger by the end of the 80s - look for "Green Revolution" for lots of info on that)

And small scale subsistence farming (which is what most folks think of when the say "I want to grow food") cannot utilize all of those techniques.

That's also where the "4 billion" number comes from - we know how many calories/acre non-industrial farming generated, and it was at best enough calories for ~4 billion people. Optimistically.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/USDA-per-acre-crop-produ...
Sometimes that’s what you want though. This is good for “digital clay modeling.”
That's true, regarding the fringe neo-Kahanist "Greater Israel" coalition Netanyahu assembled. But as you know, it's also true of Hamas; that's the "some" you're referring to. Issue polling is tricky, but it's likely that a majority of Israelis oppose the positions of Netayahu's coalition.

(It's probably true that a majority of Gazans at this point oppose the Hamas program; it's very difficult to know, because both Israel and Hamas have done their best to make sure that the opinions of ordinary Gazans are suppressed).
I mean, these sock puppets can't ALL be wrong.
Nope; at this point copper is cheaper up to ~3m and optical is for longer links.
Indeed, despite its apparent illegality, China seems to be fairly well-supported and well-mapped by OpenStreetMap, at least in major cities. And is entirely mapped in normal WGS-84 without the obfuscation problem.

In any case, according to Wikipedia, open-source code is available to convert between WGS-84 and the obfuscated GJC-02 coordinates.

Since technology seems to have caught up with it, is there any advantage (military or otherwise) for China to persist with obfuscation? Much like the US gave up on GPS "selective availability" years ago, there would seem now days to be more economic advantage to ditching obfuscation than there is security advantage of keeping it. Is not as if the missiles of China's enemies are going to get confused by China's obfuscated coordinates.

Is it just because of inertia that GJC-02 still exists?
I've had half a dozen dogs, and every single one of them ate grass every chance they could get- in large quantities. I also don't think it has anything to do with having an upset stomach. Dogs seem to really enjoy grass, and make it a regular part of their diet... I know they likely can't extract any calories from it, but it may have other benefits.
Or 4,000 stores selling 3 un/labeled types.

Grapes, apples, and a few others get labels but I see a lot of generic items. Do you know the exact kind of carrots you’re buying in those little bags? Are your pumpkins just labeled pumpkins? How about blueberries etc etc.
They are the two predominate areas of the laws of use of force and armed conflict.

>Strong defensive plays by the US in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere…

Do you know the difference between what you referenced above and the Nuremberg Trials from the standpoint of International Law?
Sounds like you are just saying it needs more marketing. Small timers are all over social media but big timers can buy segments on news and daytime television and pretend it’s a story when it’s really an ad.

Now that it’s “legal” I wonder if that was what was holding it back before.
Israeli Jewish people of Iraqi origin are MENA people, not "colonial Europeans."

I'd recommend you also start reading more carefully, please.

This (the idea that "MENA are European") is very clearly not what runarberg is saying. Nor are they even remotely suggesting that "Hebrew is European".
That is an excellent point. Maybe the math has to be using the average length of time the whistleblowers have been 'out' as it were. That could plausibly end up being several years, which pushes the 1:32 number a lot closer to 'certain' and the 2:32 number way up into entirely plausible.
Yes, it’s just market protectionism. There’s no military advantage to doing this.
I'm guessing 180 is 180cm, as 183cm is 6ft which fit's in to the whole "don't swipe if under 6ft" meme. Which, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is a popularised (no idea if it's actualy popular) line on dating app profiles where you swipe to indicate interest in talking. Which somewhat demystifies the rest.
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Monospace font

Please don’t use monospaced fonts for long-form text.

It’s extremely different to read because your eye struggles to see the “shape” of each word, when everything is equally spaced apart.
Per year. If the whistleblowers have been known for several years, then it's not just the current year that counts.
macOS virtualization on iPad Pro would be a powerful enterprise computer (2021)
Well, if there's no reason to redesign the wheel then maybe they should stop claiming that the "rabbit r1 is not an Android app" themselves. I would venture to guess the reason why this is emphasized, other than that, is that multiple reviewers made the point that it really should've just been an app.
Companies are separate legal entities from the people who work there.

YT can't make demands of a company just because one of the company's employees happens to have a YT channel. It's true if some random gaming youtuber has a job at IBM, and it's also true if you're a public figure like Louis Rossman.

IBM can say they have no business relationship with YT, even if one of IBM's employees runs a youtube channel. And Grayjay can say they have no business relationship with YT, even if Louis Rossman has a channel.

This is in addition to lucb1e's comment about the API terms specifically. Even if YT's lawyers are confusing the individual Louis Rossman with the company he's associated with, they still seem confused about which set of terms he agreed to.
oh yeah, Urbit; I'm quite aware of the project and can recognize that to some I might just be explaining it in an intentionally confusing manner, perhaps. I do think the original intent of Urbit was to naturally select nerds, basically (I mean Curtis Yarvin talking about the old UseNet made it really seem like it), and no, that was not the intent here. It literally is just hard to figure out how to communicate the core concepts of Cognition and why we wanted it to be that way.
I didn't realize that you being mad was a sign of enjoyment. Perhaps somebody should look into this curious apparent overlap of pleasure and pain!
> Pet parrots given the choice to video-call each other or watch pre-recorded videos of other birds will flock to the opportunity for live chats, new research shows.

Completely opposite than humans.
> We have a project XP machine that has been plugged into the internet for nearly a year now with no third party firewall etc. Nothing has happened despite all the proclamations it'd be an infested box within seconds of touching the internet.

Is it behind a router? Most routers have stateful firewalls doing a lot of work to keep random connections from passing to the NAT'd devices behind them. All the "infected in under 5 minutes" stories I've seen were machines connected directly to the internet.

Also, are you monitoring inbound/outbound traffic for that machine? It seems like you should at least be seeing attempts to compromise your machine (even if they're not working). Is it using IPv4? If you've got a setup that stops port scans, vulnerability scanners, and internet worms you should share!
And looking at a $110 billion share buy-back.

Any company that can't think of any effective ways of using $110 billion to increase their own business is not worth risking your money in. Get it out now! While you can!
You're responding to a comment that opens up "it is hard to understand what point you're making". You can tell me what the point he's making is, if you're confident in it.

In turn, I'll be more careful about using quotation marks. That's an HN tic that I sometimes forget.

While I have both of your attention --- you all get that this is the same group of like 4-6 people talking to themselves, over and over, right? On HN, a 2-day-old threat is necrotic. As I've said elsewhere, I only really have two angles on this issue: (1) that Israelis aren't European and Gazans aren't Hamas, and (2) that none of this is ever going to get settled on HN.
The Most Decorated Battleship in U.S. History Gets an Overdue Face-Lift
I love them too
Is this an astroturf? the entire article seems SEOd too
> The US is special due to the unique absence of a safety net, compared to all other developed countries. Not only will you have almost no income (unemployment benefits are a joke), [...]

My adopted home of Singapore is a lot more developed than the US, and we don't even have unemployment benefits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we... tells me that in 2019 the US spent 18.7% of GDP on social welfare. That's behind the UK at 20.6%, and ahead of the Netherlands at 16.7% of GDP.

I don't know what the US is spending those 18.7% of GDP on, but I find it strange to believe that there would be no safety net at all given the huge level of spending. (Also keep in mind that GDP per capita is higher in the US than in the UK or the Netherlands. France tops Wikipedia's list with 31.2% of GDP spent on social welfare. Given French GDP per capita of ~40k USD that adds up to ~12k USD per person per year. For the US we get ~76k USD * 18.7% = ~14k USD. That's more than the French spent.)

Yet again, I suspect you think the US is more special than it actually is.

(Though the US might be unique in having the highest absolute social welfare spending per capita. Not sure. I guess some of the petro states of the Middle East or perhaps Luxembourg might give God's Own Country a run for her money there?)
How was working with posix threads? I've only dug into SBCL's various thread tools
"lest" perhaps?

At least you don't have to retype the whole sentence. ;)
The Rise of Jesse LYU and the Rabbit R1
I don't think this is true- every dog I've had eats grass frequently and it doesn't usually cause them to throw up. Also- dogs can throw up on demand at any time, they don't need anything like grass to help them. This is because it is the natural way that female dogs bring home food for puppies, they vomit up the food to share it with them.

I'm pretty sure dogs sometimes vomit on purpose with the explicit goal of sharing food with humans, and/or just to eat it again for fun out of boredom. When my dog is bored he will often start preparing to vomit, and if I tell him 'no', he will stop.
Perhaps struck a string?
It's trivial to modify your IQ. Keep bonking your head hard or drinking too much or sleeping too little, and your IQ is sure to go down.

What's hard is not _modifying_ your IQ, but increasing it.
Testing the Quantumness of Gravity Without Entanglement
I think when a CEO, in their official capacity, says something relating to their employees, it is more than just "expressing an opinion." He is speaking for the company.

The claim was that he was “interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed.”

I'm not a lawyer, but the "coerce" language, in particular, seems like it could be relevant. If a CEO makes statements about how unions are bad, it can have a chilling effect on employees' efforts to unionize.

Regardless, a judge, with more facts available than we have, and more knowledge of the relevant law than we have, made this ruling.

Update

I think this is the one, if you want to read it: https://www.scribd.com/document/728670161/NLRB-Administrativ...

Excerpt:

As explained below, I find that Jassy’s predictions that unionization
would change the employee-employer relationship were lawful under Tri-Cast
and progeny. As to Jassy’s predictions that employees would be less
empowered, would find it harder to get things done quickly, and would
be better off without a union, those statements violated Section 8(a)(1)
because they went beyond merely commenting onthe employee-employer
relationship and did not comply with the standards for protected speech
established by NLRB v. Gissell PackingCo ., 395 U.S. 575, 618 (1969)
Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?
I was on the team too, with less impact than the names you mentioned. The team filed a number of patents that describe parts of how it worked. You can query a patent search engine with terms like [baker synonyms]. Looking now I think Steve was on most of the patents and you can also gather adjacent coauthor names from there.

[I am not a fan of patents, but to the extent they have any positives they in principle serve to share knowledge about how inventions work. Also I am not a lawyer but I think patents last 20 years from filing date and these were filed ~20 years ago maybe?]
Compare it to dialysis, where you can't drink when you're thirsty and can't eat a banana and generally have food restrictions, and where you have to go 3x for 4h a week to a hospital. Compare it with cancer and doing the possible against. Compare it to really lost hands caused by sepsis.
Compare it to people becoming blind or being blind / suffering hear loss....

No matter if you're a programmer or not, you have to find your way. Each of the samples, and a lot a lot more, are there, (like RSI too?), for the rest of one's life.

So how much of such people do you know? How much of them are posting on a site what they are suffering? I don't know one in my aroundings. I too, do not post anything blog wise. I don't feel pity for my self and I don't want to be pitied by others is my reason. And that's what I say. If one wants to help people in same condition with tips on handling, which is completely feasible, then the text would sound differently.

No matter what condition one have, one must cope with it.
https://archive.is/TtMNk
If social media was ever regulated, it would have to (and should be, IMO) done from the angle of the financial regulation. If social media is compared to a marketplace, then the marketplace can be regulated to ensure financial health of the system.

What it shouldn't be regulated for is the content itself. I don't like congresspeople of any party wanting to regulate something because they see less of the news they like on one platform, regardless of if it's factual merit. These are voluntary entertainment sites. If you want to see a platform that carries your news, then instead you free to talk with your wallet, to petition the company and get other users on board, and totally free to start your own platform (or, as seems to be the trend nowadays, free to buy someone else's if you can't make one yourself)
It's been discussed. The balance has so far fallen on the side of anti smoking policy.

Australia is a democracy with many small parties and several quasi independant larger party (three main large parties) members, there's been scope for almost anyone to campaign to repeal anti-smoking policy by either running directly or by lobbying their local of federal rep.

People have campaigned for hunting, for cannabis, for many things .. so far no one, to my knowledge, has campaigned to repeal the anti smoking policies.
I don't understand what this device does better than — say — any 5 year old smartphone.
Ban catnip too.
Only the last sentence of your first paragraph is true: it’s legal to photograph the police and public spaces _but_ doing so may involve you needing to deal with lawless cops and that can be extremely risky depending on who you are and what mood they’re in. Dealing with that culture should be one of our top priorities.
Impossible! Wow! This is absolutely mind blowing.