skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's possible, but I'm not convinced it's as simple as that. Machines able to understand the information means more machine generated information that is similar but with small differences which may or may not be useful and may carry small inconsistencies. I find most solutions that rely on computers can often be negated easily enough if the incentives are perverse enough.

I think the idea of translating something through a few languages back to the source language again, and the inconsistencies and weirdness of that will be prevalent, just to a lesser degree (that's not a problem of machine translation, it's just a problem of translation which was used to comedic effect as it was exacerbated by automatic machine translation problems). Good translation requires an immense amount of context, which I don't think will be taken into account in most cases as it's expensive, yet translation of material will be a large market going forward IMO, and any automated defeat of it (which will be the only option at the volume I think we'll see) will just be an arms race.
Doubt Boeing or its spook going to use a bioweapon to off a whistleblower. Too complex, too many parties involved, too much of a trail, too high consequences if caught (i.e. terrorism), too high survival % vs. the panoply of less exotic options. It’s a Wile E. Coyote-level plot.
Appreciate the feedback, thanks for the constructive criticism.
A lot of those resellers do not disclose that the drive isn't new, even labeling the item as new.

GoHardDrive is notorious for selling "new" drives with years of power on time. Neither Newegg nor Amazon seem to do anything about those sellers
I recently created a GPT-4 system prompt[0] to help me deal with larger problems, and just tried it out on this. Its response is actually slightly useful.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161810

[1] https://pastebin.com/hE9yQqcC
It's subtle, as a non native english speaker I read it as a "zoom" too.
This appears to be a different study about parrots making video calls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664219

Same researchers though, or at least appears to be.
Can you boil it down to 1 or 2 unsavory facts about Biden (to pick one) that we "should" be seeing on his page, but aren't, due to the incessant State Dept / corporate media troll-editing that you maintain obviously exists?
> The project is 2024 lines of C

got to appreciate the effort to make the irony possible : )
I don’t know what you’re referring with regards to Sweden. While we have rent control there’s plenty of private landlords. Each city will usually have an official queue for rentals. But private landlords are not obligated to use it. Larger private landlords often hade their own queue. Smaller ones do whatever they feel like.
Unfortunately that’s not what’s happening here. The police still have access to this information and tooling. They just have a different license agreement and access point that allows Microsoft to extract more tax dollars.
Brain imaging study reveals connections critical to human consciousness
You can find the various posts with the search thing. A bunch of them got merged which is what usually happens with a pile of dupes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40239031
The Times, at least a few years back, had a quite frequent habit of using phrases such as "sources say" or "according to sources" or "people familiar with the matter." It wasn't always like that.

Some of that is fine as people sometimes would like to remain anonymous and have the trust of the publication, journalist, and readers. Sure, many touchy stories are important and people can give quotes on background. But that can't become a consistent habit without, at some point, providing better attribution when a string of stories bear some relation.

I've cut back on the Times for the most part due to my issues with "sources say," but maybe they've improved.
which part was the 'twist' ?
how to ping ines@?
The mathematical red herring principle
Forgot to add our web site www.numbersstation.app which has more info about it.
Reminds me of a research paper that used ai to accurately pin point where picture was taken, I had hoped this was it. But it’s better than nothing.
or JavaFX https://openjfx.io/
Is this just PR stuff? Obviously enterprise tech companies (Google/MS) are going to be working with States. These State have to enforce the social contract so you are going to have blood on your hands.

I don't really have skin in the game, I'm at the whim of these parties.
My own opinion on the WEI fiasco is that Google had done a terrible job communicating to the outside world about it. I feel much better if Apple were to be in charge of it as well as anything remotely similar. That is, have Apple completely roll it out, achieve the initial mindshare and acceptance, and then let Google merely copy whatever Apple does with minor changes.
proceeds to eat humans

I get the point but it's an extremely nuanced point to the point it might be a poor generalisation even with the content of the article considered.
I included it it because in a lot of central American towns those are your only two seafood options. And yes, if its competition is long John silvers, then red lobster might as well be Zuma
Humans have bad memories and get tired.
Not an absolute statement, just that it resembles a tree more closely as you branch off slicking on hyperlinks.
Ongoing discussion [0](78 points, 10 hours ago, 46 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233990
You're spot on. I haven't been to any sort of Red Lobster owned property in years. The last time I went to Olive garden it was completely transparent how the microwaved Sysco food is the norm now. I sat there thinking how AI could have just bought the same thing from the frozen aisle at half the price and not had to deal with sitting in a dirty Olive garden.
Go through Lisper's history, he is quite literally never incorrect, even when he has no evidence or outright dodges all questions.

His performance in a philosophy thread a while back was extraordinary, explaining the truth and true value of various philosophy and philosophers, despite not having read it.

This is the power of The Science, nothing is more powerful, and nothing can be more powerful.
The BASF in Germany burned 1 month of cerosine for Frankfurt airport because there were no flights while lockdown. Why didn’t they store it? Because storing is more expensive than burning it. Maybe the same happens to clothes.
There's multiple reasons why people visit a restaurant and with different needs.

I think the rise of fast casual is coincident with the rise in people visiting a restaurant when it isn't a treat. When someone is looking to just grab a quick bowl, they don't care as much about atmosphere or service, their priority is something quick, easy, and good value.

But then when these same people go out to dinner when it is a special occasion, they're looking for something measurably better quality and better experience than the fast casual they had three times for lunch that week.

It's the mediocre sit-down places that are caught in the middle. In the 90s these types of places were good enough to be considered a friday night treat. Because people weren't eating out during the middle of the week as much.
[not OP] On Naxos, in the summer the DOMUS Festival has traditional (not ancient, but traditional) Greek music: https://www.facebook.com/p/DOMUS-Festival-100066336529833/

The performances are great, the venue (a courtyard of the Venetian castle) is cool, and the host is warm and welcoming — we had a really good experience.

Also, in Athens, outside the Roman Forum site, the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments is really great, sometimes has performances, and the restaurants on that street are frequented by bouzouki players as well.
As I wrote it is not really a leafblower. The jet is much more concentrated.

> I have never managed to move a small light object in a 'S' shape

Me neither. But I have moved around objects with a water jet (when messing around with a garden hose). Never had an air jet fast and powerful enough to do the trick so that's the closest analogy I have. It's not that hard? Never tried an S shape but the basic theory with the water hose is that you aim at a point you want to move the object away from. So if you want to move something towards A you aim the hose the point opposite of A. And then you feel out how close you need to move the aim point to the object to start it moving at the right pace but far enough to keep it controlled. The controller in the videos seem to do the same.
Exactly. Mastercard, Visa & Discover were perfectly happy to process PornHub payments for years - until enough external political pressure was applied. Religious special interest lobbying groups like like Focus on the Family and NCOSE (formerly known as Morality in Media) were celebrating when they stopped, as were Republican politicians like Josh Hawley (https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1337111830976753672).
The extreme favoring of large and commercial sites isn't a new thing. It's one of the reasons why Google search results became so unhelpful to me years ago.
Macron doesn't rule out troops for Ukraine if Russia breaks front lines
Why is this an either or question? If you don't want to get sick, take Vitamin D AND wear a mask.
I'd assume so. Also consider that if a drive fails under warranty, and you're already dealing with a bunch of failing drives on a regular basis, the marginal cost to get a warranty replacement is close to zero.
I agree, I plan to keep an eye on what they are doing. Reading this article is triggering an impulse in me to begin some research on some tangent ideas. While the probability of following that urge is relatively low, the idea is going into my list.
How far are we from just saving the genetic code digitally and then synthesizing the seeds by arranging a sequence of amino acids to instantiate viable nucleotides? Is this still science fiction?
Have you published your code to GH, by any chance?
I suppose one would have to take OP's word. A 3 year old account doesn't seem to be the kind (hopefully) engaging in false rumors. And after all this I definitely wouldn't expect her to go forward lest her family gets harmed.

Sidenote, but coming from a country where it's "known" that speaking up against corruption can likely end up killing you, it's funny to see people being skeptical about it. It's maybe similar to racism/sexism - yes, don't believe anything without proof - but if someone claims it's happened and give details, it's certainly quite plausible.
Airbnb launches ICONS, experiences from movies, museums, music artists and more
> Saying that processed foods are more expensive than fresh is an outright lie [5][6][7].

This is faux-intellectual. Your sources never even back up your claims.

Low-quality googling and nice formatting won't change reality.

Go check out the website Efficiency Is Everything, that website actually compares foods objectively.
As someone that is also a Netbeans fan, using Ant/Maven files as the project file, automatically mapping default actions to the IDE standard build workflows.

Having the profiler in the box, GUI designer, support for C and C++ development with mixed language debugging[0], two way editing between beans and the Web templating files, and just like with Eclipse, brain muscle of using both of them since 2005.

[0] - Something that Eclipse also does, and JetBrains will sell you a CLion license instead of supporting it on InteliJ.
Thanks, now I get what you mean. I’ve always called that a kubernetes distribution.

Plain kubernetes is as useless as a plain Linux kernel without a userland around it, and normally you don’t want to build a kubernetes or Linux distribution from scratch.
Show HN: OCR Search – We made scanned US Gov lease documents searchable
Hi HN,
We launched OCR search as a part of our documents search engine. To demonstrate OCR capability, we scanned lease documents available from the General Services Administration (GSA) and performed OCR on all lease documents available for Washington state. Documents are then indexed and loaded into our search engine.

We can perform regular and zonal OCR on documents as well. This demo does not use zonal OCR. We can perform OCR on thousands of documents within one hour. The system is scalable. All it needs it more workers for OCR and indexing data.

Checkout demo and fully functional search engine at:
https://ocr-search.joyspace.ai.

We have created a video to explain in more detail. Check out this YouTube video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EG9TPysBpU

We see a high accuracy for OCR.You can search for any word, numbers, obscure characters, and also search table data within documents.

While this demo is for scanned documents, we support HTML, PDF (regular and scanned), RTF, DOC, DOCX, CSV, EXCEL, JSON and other standard documents for search.

You can get access to our APIs if you are interested in building search experience into your application. We have highly available APIs for Search Engine.

You can visit https://www.joyspace.ai to get access to our search engine.

We manage indexing and search pipelines for you.

Happy to answer any questions around OCR and Search.
Will Cambridge support free speech? - Peter Singer on expelled Dr Cofnas
If Red Lobster can't pay their rents then the market is saying they should be dead. Presumably the owners of the properties wouldn't ask for those rents if that wasn't what the market would bear. Of course some properties sit idle for a while; there's going to be an optimal rate of that that isn't zero.
Which specific ones do you like so far?
Underwater robot pioneers new energy-efficient buoyancy control
from the #cat-v irc channel, this is a loose reference to Three Body Problem when the trisolarans sent a message to earth saying DO NOT REPLY.
Clearly this just a marketing tool to push the Saas template but it's a good idea for a bit of cheap engagement. Well done.

I bet this already exists but I don't want to verify that.

>> PooPeer — Poop Comparison Community
A mobile app that allows users to compare their bowel movements with others, providing insights into digestive health and identifying potential issues
All that OCaml paid off.

I wonder how far the SEC will allow one or a handful of entities to dominate with command of pools of resources, low latency systems, and library of strats such they can gamify the overpowering of markets in ways others cannot. Are there HFT frequency or volume limits?
Show HN:Create and Share beautiful screenshots for free
That value proposition is typically that the experience be enjoyable. What makes it that varies, hence a variety of restaurants to choose from. If I am inconvenienced and have to chase down wait staff then that nudges the experience to the 'non-enjoyable'. If I run out of something to drink while I am eating, that nudges the experience. If we are sitting and having after dinner drinks/coffee and talking, and are surrounded by dirty plates, that nudges. If we just boated to a restaurant after a day on the water enthusiastic comes to play (we want a happy fun experience). If it's a business dinner, enthusiastic could be a detriment.

Glad to be of assistance my friend.
> long term astronauts and people who are bed ridden

And those people lose a lot of bone mass, muscle mass, and need physical therapy to get back to normal function in 1G. Two months of bed rest will absolutely ruin you. There's a good reason astronauts need to be fit to begin with!

6 months in space causes bone loss equivalent of 20 years of aging. Return to Earth, do physical therapy for 1 year, and you're still "10 years older" as far as bone loss goes. (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/space-bone-loss-density-...).

Generally, as far as I know, bone growth is triggered by impacts (think running etc), and is hard to stimulate with just muscle exercises.
It goes until 11 where I live, and apparently the norm is 10:30 or 11: https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/faq/what-time-does-mcdona...
Why would the team being fired be more reason to use it?
That's because caring and liquidity/fungibility are at opposing poles. People sell cattle but not their pet cows. Something like that.
Vs what are the chances any 40 year olds can die from the same causes in the same geographic area?
They mention the ad blocker eventually asking for money or some other issue with it. Honestly though...you shouldn't have to do that just for the Internet to be usable.
I guess most projects want more presence for their apps but this is a great solution compared to shipping an entire browser with electron.
Can you list some of them as I'm interested.
If I ever get rich, I would totally open a ghost pizza restaurant.

Margins are good. Spoilage is a non-issue.

Orders are pickup or delivery.

I can bring 10 pizzas to every party.
I mean, you fire all the people who know how to do the job and it’s gonna take years to get that skill set back. He could reverse it tomorrow and the damage is done. Utterly remarkable.
FreePascal/Lazarus or Tcl/Tk.

If more time is available, then a core of <favorite language> plus a view part in the native platform language and API.
you should really use this visibility to get a thumbs up / down near each result and use that as a validation set :D
Not on average and per person it’s highly dependent on the policy, a persons driving history, and their car etc. Minimum-liability coverage averages $627/year, average policy runs 2008$ /year.

In terms of individual drivers, an antique show car driven very limited miles per year the policy’s costs have little to do with the driver’s accident history. Meanwhile someone with multiple DUI’s is paying for the risks associated with their behavior.
Similar - the average IQ of prison inmates is lower than the general population. Which can be taken to imply that we only catch the dumb ones.
Didn't take the class, but always felt like his book was too theoretical. I enjoyed "real world cryptography" and supplemented it with Dan's book.
The Russians want you to know they did it; just with plausible deniability.

They brought back the time-tested art of defenestration.
Depending on the use case either Avalonia or Electron.
I highlighted Jane Street's recruiting outreaches specifically, when talking with an R&D unit at a big financial institution. (I also mentioned the tactic of fringe-tech-that-some-heavy-hitters-love. OCaml, Lisp, Rust, Erlang, etc.)

When I first heard of Jane Street, it sounded like Yaron Minsky was going around to MIT and such, high-touch, trying to hire just a few people. And later, things like this blog: https://blog.janestreet.com/author/yminsky/

The only negative thing I recall hearing is Jane Street alumni responsible for the infamous FTX and Alameda Research. I don't know whether the individuals were already fully into hopped-up sociopathic/narcissistic thinking in college, or whether their internship and employment experience contributed.
This is a great insight. People make a great business - and life is too short to surround yourself with people who you need to drag along with you.
But you clearly care about the staff's enthusiasm to serve you?
There is free service called Certstream [0]. It does not provide notifications, you need to ingest the stream, look for the patterns of interest to you and handle notifications by yourself. But it's fairly easy and the service is commonly used by security teams.

[0] https://certstream.calidog.io/
Google Play also has a spam prevention fee. It’s a one-time fee of $25. After one year of no bans, how likely are you to be a spam account?
Tangentially related - the low-poly retro horror game Cave Crawler (2023) touches on this concept (minerals growing on bodies). It's currently $1.99 USD and I thoroughly enjoyed a playthrough.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2282480/Cave_Crawler
Is it good because it's in his portfolio, or is it in his portfolio because it's good?
I'm not sure the courts would consider it a workaround, it's a legit way to host your own model.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how...
It's a boring meme to say Electron sucks. I don't think it's perfect but it is really easy to use and still worth considering.
I believe it is in the best interest of VCs to allow free self-hosting because this is what will encourage developers to first experiment with the software for their personal projects. If developers find that they're happy with it, these same developers will later happily encourage some of their commercial clients and employers to use the paid service.
I wonder what actually triggers this? I've never encountered anything like it on my Android phone.
> First, otherwise healthy people don't just die from stress. Stress can sometimes exacerbate underlying health issues and lead to a long, downward spiral in health that can result in death, but it does not happen in a matter of just weeks or a couple months. It also does not happen in people without underlying health issues.

First, there's a difference between being "otherwise healthy" and appearing to be "otherwise healthy". People who seem otherwise healthy but under a tremendous amount of stress are absolutely more likely to die from a sudden heart attack or stroke. People who seem otherwise healthy but under a tremendous amount of stress are absolutely more likely to commit suicide. People who seem otherwise healthy but under a tremendous amount of stress are absolutely more likely to be in a car accident...

> Second, while a mortality rate of 0.001/yr is reasonable for middle-aged men, that assumes we know nothing about them or their deaths—that isn't the case here. John Barnett's death was a suicide. According to the CDC, there were 14,668 suicides in the 45–64 age group in 2021. The 2020 census shows that there are 85 million people in the US in that same age group. The suicide mortality rate comes out to 0.00017, which is about an order of magnitude lower than your estimate. Josh Dean was otherwise healthy from what's being reported. Given his age and state of health, his 1-year mortality rate is also likely substantially lower than your estimate

I don't agree that John Barnett's death was as likely to occur as anyone else in that age group. He was almost certainly experiencing stress above the level of the top percentile of the 45-64 population. The mean likelihood of suicide mortality isn't representative of his risk condition.

But you're right, if you narrow it down to the specifics of the deaths, you can absolutely reduce the probability to ridiculously low percentages. Like throw in the day of the week that they died, the hour of the day, the use of a gun, the specific gun used, etc. Does that really reduce the chances that they died though?
Are you going to live that long?
There’s London too, totally dystopian.
How would they lead you astray? I wouldn't consider a drive failure in a home NAS to indicate that - even their most statistically reliable drives still require redundancy/backup - if you haven't experienced a drive failure yet, that's just chance.
It depends on what is meant by in-memory database. The most useful kind IMO is the one which actually saves everything to disk, but is not designed like a traditional RDMS in that it assumes everything, including indices, can be saved in memory. Therefore, you don't need a complicated buffer pool system and you don't need to touch disk at all after startup to service read queries. The most simple approach to such a database is just to MMAP a file.

This kind of workload is probably the most common in all of software development for the past couple of decades given how plentiful RAM is as well as most applications having some need for storing persistent data.
Tell HN: eBay account permanently suspended for no apparent reason
I purchased something via eBay a while ago, so I created an account. I haven't used it since, and with no warning today I got an email saying my account was permanently suspended.

I've tried all the avenues they suggest for finding out more, and there is absolutely nothing.

Is this normal? Is there anything I can do?

Was it suspended because I haven't used it?