skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language is the result of an utter frustration and sheer anger with the whole business model. Why can't we have nice things anymore? It worked so well, but it seems like they can't squeeze enough out of us customers, and it has to be more and more every year.

I went from pirate to paid because it was all there and I wanted to be able to give to the authors and artists without having to put discs on my shelf. Now I somehow not only don't care anymore, I feel like I just want to do the opposite thing. I'm on bandcamp now for music, but I just don't care about movies/TV shows. Honestly, at this point I feel insulted by this model. I'd be ashamed to admit that I pay for x-services to watch my TV shows.

> It's just hard to imagine complaining about it in the context of using something in trial mode, for free, and the change being song lyrics aren't accessible.

Don't those "free" users still have to endure advertisements? It isn't free then. It is stealing their attention as a price now they're just getting less for the "same" (is it the same? didn't the amount of ads rise?) price.
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Is there some way to use CDs / DVDs / Blu-Rays as an incremental backup target? It'd be nice to take something like Restic, aim it at some hot backup HDD, then when enough deltas have been written to that volume have it burn a disk. It would be great if the entire experience is "if the drive is open, take the disk out, label it (according to some scheme), shelve it, and drop a new blank disk in".
> I don't understand why these huge restaurant companies have such a hard time with the "make good food" part of their business model. It clearly can't be that hard if so many small businesses are able to do do it better.

They would need to have people in the restaurant, tasting the food, observing the business, etc, and empowered to make decisions based upon the evidence. These companies are the opposite of that, and take away that power from the people actually conducting the operation. Even if they could get great cooks, waiters, hosts, managers, etc, to work at these restaurants, the value that they bring would be stifled.
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Hey, if it's tl;dr, my bad. As an introvert, it's no shock I struggle to make small talk or widen my circle. The cultural scene around me just isn't my jam (not a hipster btw, though not a Swiftie either).

The people I meet are nice enough, but nothing deep comes from our chats—not what you'd hope for in a dream social world. What's weird is that so many people feel even lonelier. That's why I started this startup.

Despite today's massive connectivity, what drove me to launch this startup was the realization of how biased, inflexible, and deficient current social tools are.

It boils down to two things: either becoming another like/upvote in a user limbo, being treated more like an audience than active participants, or having to don the influencer cap—which isn't me at all. So, I created Turf. It's still new, but I'm all for gathering as much feedback as I can. We want to give people the great social connections and engagements they should be having all these, all aligned to their favorite things/topics. So if this resonates, pls check us out at: www.turfyeah.com.
This is because Google is double dealing, they are selling both side of the transaction, on the search side they have side bar ads and in search result ads, but on the destination, they also sell the ad impressions.

So they are using their monopoly power to make money on both search and the display on the destination. So they have a huge incentive to push sites with lots of pages, more opps to get ad clicks on those big site than the small ones.
I went digging around for numbers in these wikipedia articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Jews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Jews#Population

These articles agree that Jews of European ancestry comprise around 44.2% vs 44.9% of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) ancestry. The study that gave these numbers admitted on having methodological limitations, so it may be undercounting MENA ancestry.

Another interesting statistic is the paternal ancestral origin of Israeli Jews, with 37% having Israeli paternal origin, 34.6% European, American or Oceanic, and only 27.9% having Asian or African. So at least for the last couple of generations, a plurality of immigrants of of European descent.

I’m sorry, but I’m not finding the well over 50% statistic.

What is also interesting to me is the lack of official statistics from the Israeli government about this ethnic brake down, especially since they make distinctions between Jews and Arabs, which kind of implies—at least to my ears—Arab Jews should not exist. To my ears Israeli culture fancies it self as European (being a member of UEFA, partaking in Eurovision, etc.).

It really looks to me like Israel has made an effort and succeeded in stripping Middle Eastern Jews of their identity[1]. A major tell sign is how Jews of Middle Eastern and North African ancestry speak Hebrew, not Arabic, despite the latter both being a minority language spoken in Israel, and despite the latter being the language of their ancestors. Colonizers often do stunts like these when absorbing the colonized population into their own culture.

1: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/9/20/invention-of-th...
Totally agree! That's unfortunately not what's being regulated here...
Agreeing with person I responded to, showing surprise that a product would decide to put parental controls behind paywall
You generally can't force a party to enter into a contract with another party that they don't want to.
I went back to the Twitter thread to understand your perspective better - agree that the title could be worded differently. I think the immense amount of contention on that thread was from you making a statement on what should be the responsibility of such reviewers - i.e. that they have some responsibility to protect entrepreneurship.

As much as we'd like to believe, most entrepreneurship is not in the form of AI pins and apps and gadgets, it's people starting small businesses and handling some existing facet of commerce. If MKBHD started making videos titled "The worst mom and pop store I've ever reviewed" then there might be a more compelling debate about ethical behavior by reviewers. In this case, it is a heavily funded product experiment by wealthy venture capitalists, so people are a lot less sympathetic when they hear "give them a chance, v2 will be better".

Also, this is by no means a new phenomenon - here's a TechCrunch review of the iPhone from 2007 titled "We Predict the iPhone Will Bomb": https://techcrunch.com/2007/06/07/the-futurist-we-predict-th...
It's a "might have to" - not very likely - in exchange for going house hunting every year just before lease renewal. That's a lot of work every year. But sure, it's a choice.
I'm pretty sure that the NIH does do studies into efficacy of plants. This was after a ten second Kagi search: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3059459/. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847409/

I don't know if that counts as "publicly funded medicine", but it's certainly a publicly funded group that studies medicine.
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As I understand it DeepSpeech is no longer actively maintained by Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/issues/3693

For Text To Speech, I've found Piper TTS useful (for situations where "quality"=="realistic"/"natual"): https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

For Speech to Text (which AIUI DeepSpeech provided), I've had some success with Vosk: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
It's not just the West Coast, midwest suburb here and our home's previous owners only had it for a decade but we had a 60% property tax increase after buying.
yeah there are only three stories coming up from the site search and none picks up things like citus etc

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=postgres+clustering

only one is semanthically correct, the other pick up the wrong version of clustering (i.e. k-means instead of multi master writes)

but yeah if one doesn't test the hard cases, how does one know it preserves semantics :D
I forget the service now, and I'm reluctant to advertise anyway, but it's fairly common for third parties to glue the APIs together. Deezer directly partnered with one of these services, but I found them independently beforehand
I don't know of any OSS low code dbs with access controls, but baserow's paid plans do https://baserow.io/
Corporations can make any judgement call about who can or should use their product.

Though it does seem rare in the US for companies to prevent others from using their product based on ethical or moral reasons, but more should.
You are of course right that food is not a luxury, that was supposed to be slightly tongue in cheek.

One can still choose to disobey the local government and be homeless. I'm not saying it's an easy choice, nor am I saying it's easy to be homeless. I'm just saying it's a choice.
The fact that science and religion can have similar flaws or components is shallow. Churches in the US and universities in the US both use English. That does not make them the same.

What makes science is a self-consistent framework and tree of knowledge that successfully model the universe and for which proof and experiments can repeatedly redone giving the (approximate) same results.

All religions fail on one or more of these criteria.
I find music via other means, I go to tons of concerts, etc.

Spotify was just first. But I think there's a lot of momentum here, most people don't like changing their habits after all.
Certainly if you crack this nut you'll be a popular lad :)

It's always worth asking the questions, but I haven't seen an answer yet that satisfies.
I entered that I was good at nothing and it gave me a list of infeasible ideas anyway. Why?
Actuarial tables are for all people. So it also of course includes deaths from cancer, obesity related diseases, alcoholism/drug abuse, etc. The odds of a healthy 45 year old just randomly dying from a mysterious infection are going to be orders of magnitude lower than 0.41%.
Oh you're right, I completely forgot their involvement in defense projects. Maybe something involving the level at which Boeing along wiah the US gov spied on Airbus to win contracts as well.
Caveat: This will also send a notification to the target that they logged into a new device on all their devices and the mobile app will show a prominent banner that someone else has access to their chats.
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No it wasn't. Be more specific.
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Some people really believe that Microsoft has changed. /s
I'm referring to the endless amounts of S3 buckets that ended up inadvertently exposing sensitive data publicly due to how complicated and confusing the various access control methods were / are. And also, Amazon very eventually doing something about, probably a decade after it was needed. [1][2][3]

[1]: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2023/04/06/the-data-o...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18468753

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34585670
Electrical engineers and mathematicians can get along after all, they just needed some love.

The quest to bring empathy to quaternions still remains an elusive problem to be solved in a future paper should funding continue.
In fairness, it's probably impossible to unambiguously determine what the intended/desired interpretation is (though intuitively it seems like k-means should be lower likelihood)!
Of course they did. They have to pay separate licensing for the use of DAS – which is developed by M$ and resold from NYPD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Awareness_System
One of those people died of a gunshot wound, so whether it was self-inflicted or not, their age and health and any related statistics have nothing to do with the death.
> I went from pirate to paid because it was all there and I wanted to be able to give to the authors and artists without having to put discs on my shelf.

This circles back and begs the question: you need to stop giving to artists, because free users can't see lyrics, because Spotify is trying to nudge more people to go paid & give to artists?

Rest is a bit too much for my bird brain, morning coffee is wearing off, 3 PM EST :( (ex. I can't add anything to the idea free is paid because ads, so removing lyrics for free users with ads means its making the paid service worse, so it justifies dropping the previous ethical stance of paying to get artists money, in favor of pirating)
replace skiing with your favorite outdoors activity and the conclusion still stands: you will have more fun in your 30s than in your 50s.

I am in my 40s and I was thinking about finally getting a fast car. And I noticed that now I am wearing glasses, my reflexes are slower and my hands tremble a bit. So I did not buy the car.

I am thinking that peak physical performance is late 20s / early 30s. That was probably the best time to buy a fast car for me.

About the CFO turned skateboarder at 50s: she would have had a lot more fun in her 20s / 30s. If nothing else, you recover faster when younger from the inevitable skateboarding falls / bruises...
I'm afraid I disagree. To me, integration tests are most important any time your type checker can't do the work for you.

Databases are one key example. Can you put your data in, and then get it back out again? You can maintain unit tests to be sure that the "in" part works and the "out" part works, but if those two tests get out of sync you'll never know. And now you're maintaining two separate mocks, rather than just using the real thing on both ends.

Similarly, you have to integration test when your data passes over the wire. Why mock the client to test the server, and mock the server to test the client, when you can just spin up both and test them together?

I prefer to write unit tests opportunistically. If I need to throw together a separate environment, especially in a test-driven-development sort of way, I write a unit test. And having written it, it remains.

But if I'm aiming for 100% code coverage I'd rather let my integration tests do that. Because integration tests test pathways that unit tests just can't, and so "100%" doesn't mean anything if the testing environment is wrong.
And I can get 4-5% by just holding cash in a high yield savings account right now. The point of the 4% rule is that is has remained true over large scales of time in which a lot changes. Compare that to your CTO example, and that 9.5% yield hasn't exactly been consistent.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/cto/dividend-h...
The fact that we have to go as far back as CD players for a decent example illustrates my point - the "CD player" content distribution model is long dead, effectively nobody sells CD players or devices like CD players, effectively nobody distributes digital content on CDs or things like CDs (like, CD sales are even below vinyl sales) - almost every currently existing product receives content through a channel where updates could trivially be sent as well.

And if we're talking about how new products should be designed, then the "almost" goes away and they 100% wouldn't receive new content through anything like CDs, the issue transforms from an irrelevant niche (like CDs nowadays) to a nonexistent one.
"Are most drives retired without failing?"

Yes, certainly.

One can watch both SMART indicators as well as certain ZFS stats and catch a problem drive before it actually fails.

I like to remove drives from zpools early because there is a common intermediate state they can fall into where they have not failed out but dramatically impact ZFS performance as they timeout/retry certain operations thousands and thousands of times.
Yeah but that's like saying what propels a car forward is a green stoplight, it's just a correlation you can observe that could have nothing to do with it - might not even be indirectly causal.

When you think deeply about the Hard Problem, it's really The Impossible Problem because there's no way to solve it within our subject:object and "self" paradigms. Yet the problem persists.

Take something like the memory of the first time I tied my shoes - maybe you can find the exact neuronal correlations to that experience I have when I think of that, but they won't be that memory, nor do they even give up the ingredients to engineer that in some alternate setting. The memory itself seems like a completely different phenomenon that the neurons (themselves, concepts in consciousness) can never explain on their own.
The last thing the iPad needs is a spec bump
Unfortunately this is standard for TUM's database group. Their previous database, HyPer was similarly cutting-edge, but was closed source under a proprietary license. Last I heard it got sold to Tableau.
Barnes & Noble, maybe?

They were taken private a few years back, and after a long slow period they're expanding again.
disabling agent forwarding is the important bit.

But if you do want to break up your keys more, make sure you specify IdentityFile and Identities Only in the per host definitions in your ssh config.

By default assuming you use an ssh agent (no forwarding) with multiple keys and a default ssh config, the behavior is to just try to auth with every key in order.

So if you're worried about the ssh server identifying you, you're still exposing yourself. I don't think this is much of a concern but worth noting.

Slightly more important: you're wasting time during the initial connection to fail authentication a few times. This can matter more with higher latency

Even more important: sshd has a configurable number of times a client is allowed to fail authentication in a session attempt. If you have too many other keys in your agent you will just fail to auth before it tries the key that is actually valid for that host.
I uploaded a nondescript scenery photo with no non-natural cues from the Dominican Republic, it got the general area right within 50km.
Pretty sure it doesn't. I have a family YouTube music plan. If I want ad-free YouTube that's an extra payment for YouTube premium.
> The biggest annoying magic I found with respect to Box (and other std containers like Rc) is that they’re the only ones capable of storing fat dyn pointers. You can’t construct a hybrid_rc::Rc<dyn Trait> like you can with Box/Rc.

It's perfectly possible to make a container capable of storing trait objects: just define the type parameter as <T: ?Sized>. The main issue is that unlike Box/Rc, the compiler won't give you an automatic coercion from MyRc<Type> to MyRc<dyn Trait>, so you have to write a method to explicitly perform that cast. It just isn't common for many existing third-party containers to support !Sized objects, since it takes tedious unsafe code to manipulate them in memory.
It looks like you generated an LLM summary of every page you indexed. What model did you use for that, and how much did it cost?
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This seems like a good thing. I would not trust US police to hold themselves to literally any standard of ethics as far as automation of this sort is concerned. I can easily see departments ignoring the outputs that dont fit into their agenda while running running with the outputs they do like.

I would like to see more companies restricting what contracts theyll take based on ethics.
This is why years ago I bought the domain www.omeowgle.com that I never got something working for at the time. I was going to setup a video call system for my family to call my cat (and maybe eventually some friends cats too). Now I'm just hosting some social media for my cat on the fediverse there. https://www.omeowgle.com/@buzz
AI algorithms encode domain knowledge in their weights that isn't present in simple interpolation functions. This can lead to better perceptual quality.
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It's interesting that in your example, your specific situation would still have tax rates subsidized by your neighbors while the people you consider the out-group (corporations, landlords) get minimal or no benefit from it. I'm also not convinced corporations are getting any outsized benefit, business buy and sell real estate all the time.

The fix doesn't seem complicated. Assess a home's value. Tax it. If you're concerned about it disproportionately impacting low or fixed income folks, move as much of that tax as you can to income and commuter taxes.
> will be easy to measure in principle with an AI in the near future

I'd like to push back on this quite a bit. We don't have AI that shows decent reasoning capabilities. You can hope that this will be resolved, but I'd wager that this will just become more convoluted. A thing that acts like a human, even at an indistinguishable level need not also be human nor have the same capabilities of of a human[0]. This question WILL get harder to answer in the future, I'm certain of that, but we do need to be careful.

Getting to the main point, metrics are fucking hard. The curse of dimensionality isn't just that there are lots of numbers, it is that your nearest neighbor becomes ambiguous. It is that the difference between the furthest point (neighbor) and the closest point (nearest neighbor) decreases. It is that orthogonality becomes a more vague concept. That means may not be representative of a distribution. This is stuff that is incredibly complex and convolutes the nature of these measurements. For AI to be better than us, it would have to actually reason, because right now we __decide__ not to reason instead __decide__ to take the easy way out and act as if metrics are the same as they are in 2D (ignoring all advice from the mathematicians...).

It is not necessarily about the type of data when the issue we're facing is at an abstraction of any type of data. Categorically they share a lot of features. The current mindset in ML is "you don't need math" when the current wall we face is highly dependent on understanding these complex mathematics.

I think it is incredibly naive to just rely on AI solving our problems. How do we make AI to solve problems when we __won't__ even address the basic nature of problems themselves?

[0] As an example, think about an animatronic duck. It could be very lifelike and probably even fool a duck. In fact, we've seen pretty low quality ones fool animals, including just ones that are static and don't make sounds. Now imagine one that can fly and quack. But is it a duck? Can we do this without the robot being sentient? Certainly! Will it also fool humans? Almost surely! (No, I'm not suggesting birds aren't real. Just to clarify)
What does that mean in normal english? I'm not a native speaker, and my question about the other thread was genuine.
Not necessarily. It's not like an image sensor where you throw it out if theres a single dead pixel. To increase yield of CPUs, they design them to have parallel redundancy and deactivate cores or memory chunks and sell it as a lower tier model. These AI chips are way more parallel than a CPU. They had decades of statistics of wafer flaw distributions before they began the design process, so they would design in just enough redundancy to get the desired yield for the process. I wouldn't be surprised if each processor has hundreds of things disabled (ALUs,memory units, whatever theyre using), and thousands to spare.
US banks don't do business with the porn industry pretty famously.
> Australia made billion-dollar bet building first 'useful' quantum computer

And then comes a nerd with a Commodore64 and has a laugh at you. /s