skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I believe it is primary in which case "symbolic representation" is 'an aid' to gaining a concrete sense of what is 'somehow' 'understood'.

There is nothing magic about perception to distinguish it meaningfully from symbolic representation; in point of fact, that which you experience is in and of itself a symbolic representation of the world around you. You do not sense the frequencies outside the physical transduction capabilities of the human ear, or the wavelengths similarly beyond the capability to transduce of the human eye, or feel distinct contact beyond the density of haptic transduction of somatic nerves. Nevertheless, those phenomena are still there, and despite their insensible nature, have an effect on you. Your entire perception is a map, which one would be well advised to not mistake for the territory. To dismiss symbolic representation as something that only occurs on communication after perception is to "lose sight" of the fact that all the data your mind integrates into a perception is itself, symbolic.

Communication, and symbolic representation is all there is, and it happens long before we even get to the partnof reality where I'm trying to select words to converse about it with you.
Ceremonial armors aren't made for fun. Should our descendents of the year 3000 look at the British bearskin (the tall furry hat of the Royal Guard) and think "of course, this was standard combat attire".
> I think Nebula.tv is promising, and a bunch of creators I like upload their videos on it. I do have a Nebula account but rarely end up using it, since most videos get uploaded to YouTube as well, and when I open Nebula, I find myself having already watched all the interesting videos on YouTube.

I've just gotten in the habit of opening up Nebula first and only then switching to YouTube when there's nothing new there. Even if you do this only once every few days it's usually enough, because a lot of creators upload to Nebula a week before they do YouTube.
Prove it. Deliver value from the venture capital and reap the profits.

These companies tend to try survive on public money and grants while not delivering anything.

Then when the last deadline finally passes the project is cancelled like what happened with NuScale.
If they were in a storage unit, the thief may not have stuck around long enough to notice. And it sounds like this happened pretty soon after theft, so they wouldn’t have started to beep.
Thank you for posting this, it looks very interesting.
Soo.. there should be a standardized web API for page content. And suddenly... gopher (with embedded media/widgets).
That one is doomed to failure from a customer perspective IMO - not because people want, or therapists do, anything that you’re saying though.

But often because the real reason why people are in therapy is to get someone else’s perspective on what they’re experiencing.

And fundamentally, that is destined to fail when it’s not an actual human involved.
I liked duckduckgo a couple years ago before it started insisting on showing results in the language associated to my IP address. Since then I've liked brave a lot better.
This is contrary to every article I've seen on the subject.

Are you perhaps thinking of when IRS said they couldn't afford to go after wealth tax evaders because they were underfunded?
> A decade of research and mathematical models to determine that an ancient civilization wasn’t just making useless armor for fun?

To be fair, making armor for fun is a decent industry/hobby in modern times, for stuff like LARPing, movie props, etc. Who's to say that the armor wasn't an example of something similar in ancient times? Taking the time to actually put it to the test, in its original context, is a good effort to prove or disprove that.
It's fairly easy... if you also speak French, Italian, Latin, and probably Ancient Greek. I don't and I know I missed a lot. I remember a lot of bilingual French/English wordplay through worked. He was multilingual and the puns/kennings are also.
> Even if each of the victims reported them to the police, the value of the items from each theft wouldn't add up to much in the grand scheme of things.

I don't think you know how expensive commercial power tools and accessories are..
They cited 15k items with a range of 3-5 million. At 3 million that's $200 an item. Hardly peanuts.

The article also says the tools likely came from a variety of sources
I'm not GP, but perhaps something like the following would be a reason (investigation might be a more accurate term than post-mortem in that case).

>In October 2020, Vista's CEO Robert F. Smith and investor Robert T. Brockman were named in a tax evasion case.[33][34] That month, Smith signed a non-prosecution agreement with the IRS, agreeing to pay $139 million and testify against Brockman.[33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vista_Equity_Partners#Tax_evas...
> Taxes are used to run society, from it's roads, fire department, education, social services, and much more

The "much more" is much, much, much more than anyone thinks. The federal budget is tremendous. People cannot conceive of trillions, yet the federal government alone spent over six of it a year, three years in a row.

Virtually nobody has a problem with tax funds being used to build roads and bridges, fire departments, and whatnot. It's everything else that's contentious. Public schools are visibly wasteful, with the number of students and teachers overall remaining largely constant, but the number of administrators having increased many-fold in the past decades; at this point it's a jobs scheme for adults, not an education scheme for children. Nonprofits received hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to support illegal immigration. Et cetera.

So many things in the federal budget appeal to a fringe minority of advocates, yet the money hose continues to flow. This is not the way that a federal government with clearly delineated limits should work. Something is wrong.
It’s been a while since I’ve been a Snowflake customer, but I do recall that Snowflake has a mode where the customer owns their own encryption key for their data. Snowflake employees (even admins with the highest access) have no access to the customer’s data unless the customer grants explicit access. It’d take a pretty serious breach on their compute notes to exfiltrate data.

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/security-encryption...
I see a ton of this on Quora. Not just for Facebook, but for a lot of online banks and others. They have hundreds of accounts doing it.

Quora doesn't even pretend to police this kind of thing. Automated moderation might remove it, only after it has been reported. There's far, far too much of it for users to report all of it.

Nobody pays attention to it on Quora, but it's clear that it's out there to poison AI and search engines.
Yep, dropbox was a great company until it wasn't.

I made their first "unofficial" android client and they "allowed" it for a year or so up until they wanted to sue the pants off me. (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27036593)
I think you're missing a big factor here: both candidates have a track record as president. We haven't had that in a long time, often it's only the incumbent with a record, which we usually associate as in their favor. Part of that record, for both of them, isn't due to anything they did, but the times they ran things are associated with them. And of course part of it they're each responsible for.

Despite all the rhetoric, Trump has a pretty good track record to the average american. Wars ending, dollar a gallon gas. In contrast, Biden doesn't look too good. Wars starting, groceries going up weekly. We can say what is who's fault and what is out of their control and whatever, that is just noise to all but decided voters. I think that this case will sway some away, sway some for that don't like what they see as political weaponization of the justice system, and all in all it stays in Trumps favor.
FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Native Read-Only Root File System
So your solution to “I don’t like flying [specific airline]” would be “how about a big pile of aluminum and some jet fuel”?
The only thing irreplaceable for me is Youtube. Even if it's gotten worse as a platform over time, I still consume it more than any other type of video media and there are no good alternatives for much of the content that I enjoy watching.
“ it probably reflects a division in how the voting populace feels about the subject of such laws.”

I don’t think that’s correct. There is way too much propaganda coming from the parties to think that voters have made up their minds based on the facts. It’s actually quite hard to get the facts because the media is mostly reporting politics like they report a football match.
See, this is what confuses me to know end. Not once, ever, have I thought of asking an online forum for a phone number. Maybe I'm paranoid enough after all??? Also, I'm old, so I actually visit companies webpages. We've been through enough "don't fall for phishing" enough now, right? You don't trust links, phone numbers, whatever from anything that is not the official places for that information.
Yes (since February), although according to the article the infection happened in October 2023 during Slootman's tenure.
> This program did come from Congress. It was apart of the inflation reduction act.

The inflation reduction act directed the IRS to perform a study on Direct eFile. Implementing an actual pilot and then expanding to a permanent tool was based solely on executive authority, so either congress or the president could choose to scrap the program in the future.

> Inflation Reduction Act §10301(1)(B) TASK FORCE TO DESIGN AN IRS-RUN FREE ‘‘DIRECT EFILE’’ TAX RETURN SYSTEM.—For necessary expenses of
the Internal Revenue Service to deliver to Congress, within
nine months following the date of the enactment of this
Act, a report on (I) the cost (including options for differen-
tial coverage based on taxpayer adjusted gross income and
return complexity) of developing and running a free direct
efile tax return system, including costs to build and admin-
ister each release, with a focus on multi-lingual and mobile-
friendly features and safeguards for taxpayer data; (II)
taxpayer opinions, expectations, and level of trust, based
on surveys, for such a free direct efile system; and (III)
the opinions of an independent third-party on the overall
feasibility, approach, schedule, cost, organizational design,
and Internal Revenue Service capacity to deliver such a
direct efile tax return system, $15,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2023: Provided, That these
amounts shall be in addition to amounts otherwise avail-
able for such purposes
Meta's AI is summarizing some Facebook comment sections
I have very much migrated my email away from my own domain to Gmail. I used to run a website but I have now retired (it and myself) but I retain the domain. My question was how long can I keep my domain viable as I get older, my health deteriorates, maybe my mind too. Having a Gmail account actually feels safer. My domain mail is redirected to Gmail and labelled so I can see what I am still getting.
Even AI has bias from its training data sets, as we've seen from the NUMEROUS controversies of racism and sexism from AI (like ChatGPT) over the last 2 years.

The universe, and its circumstances, has itself a bias towards occurrences we believe to be unfair. Old news.
Presumably something like the mitznefet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitznefet_(Israeli_military)

https://www.twz.com/israeli-troops-chefs-hat-helmet-covers-e...
You’re having a very, very basic failure of logic.

The set of all coworkers who work the same day as me is disjoint to the set of all employees who work on days when I do not work. Because anyone who works on Monday by definition of a one day work week does not work on Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. if I see them at work today they will not be at work tomorrow.

The best I can do is if there are split shifts on the same day, where someone shows up to work a few hours before I leave. But if for instance the problem is that a requirement for my work won’t show up until tomorrow, now I have to communicate with them.

There are three options I see. The most likely is that my communication is one-shot through a computer system, where I can try to tell someone who works tomorrow what needs to be done, in which case the task will have a bimodal completion time of either 2 days or 8 days with very little in between. Second option is I can tell the late shift person who will have to play telephone with two or three more split shifts to make it around to tomorrow morning.

And the last option is that I’m communicating to my fellow coworkers on my days off. Which means I’m working multiple days a week. Which only counts as one day a week to managers who are touched in the head.

In summary, there are many, many things one can do with a >1.5 day work week that simply stop once you reach 1.0.
What increase? The numbers are very constant.
The IRS is taking an agile / minimal viable product approach. So for now it only supports very basic W2 only tax filers. My guess is that K-1 is low on their priority list for now.
+1 for Nebula [0]. It's a great streaming service, and while the author primarily watches YouTube, and goes to Nebula occasionally, I do the opposite.

I use it as my primary source for news (TLDR Daily), and watch content from creators such as RealLifeLore and Half As Interesting, among many others.

Because of that, I rarely open YouTube, and even then I use SmartTube [1] on my Chromecast which gives a great experience.

[0] https://nebula.tv

[1] https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
bandcamp does that by overwhelming your connection. Love them tough but it forces me to download the free stuff instead of streaming it
I guess I am both agreeing and disagreeing. The exact same problem is true for words in a book. Are the words in a lexicon true, false, or do they not have a truth value?
Also the question of how to handle clinical trials when the treatment is by design n=1. This world is getting less murky but as far as I know isn't yet 100% straightforward.
Are there any good guides on compiling the Linux kernel from source and testing it on a VM? Many resources seem to assume that you want to install it next to your existing kernel, but I'd prefer not to risk my filesystem or hardware if something goes wrong.
I mostly see the reverse.
From the outside just the instant name change alone really reeks of embrace-extinguish imo, even if technically licensing of the core engine is unaffected. Benthos is a broad enough product to have an auxiliary ecosystem around it, with plugins, GUI editors, monitoring etc etc and we’ve seen a LOT of “technically open-core but rendered useless without paid features” type of products in recent years, from those types of companies. I would be extremely unsurprised if they creep in more hostile changes in the future to soften the blow too. I hope I’m wrong.
raspberry pi with serial and localtalk. done.
Embed the holds with a led and ir sensor a la swift concert [0] and you’ve got the whole package.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492515
Sadly none of my 'creators' are on nebula; But one thing worth trying if you do want to avoid going to youtube -- just have some cronjobs running yt-dlp every few hours on each channel you're interested in on YouTube, served up with a little auto index httpd via Tailscale -- makes for a pretty nice experience.

(Seems to be limited to 1080p, but I don't really care about the quality of those videos tbh).
> The key issue may not be the frequency of appeals but the quality of the communication.

The key issue for me is the quantity of appeals. The quality of them doesn't enter into it. As a matter of principle, I donate at least 10% of my gross income to organizations that I believe in. When I started doing it several decades ago, I was inundated with appeals from, I think, every charitable organization in the nation. It was a complete nightmare.

That's why I added a rule about who I give to: if an organization asks me for money or shares my contact information with anybody else, they're off my list of organizations I'm willing to donate to. Without this rule, it would not be sustainable to donate to any organization at all.
From the article:

> People suspected the Dendra armor was ceremonial

That's not true. I don't think that there was ever anything approaching a consensus that the Mycenean Greek armor in question, the Dendra Panopoly, was entirely ceremonial. In fact, I've never even seen that view expressed. Many people believed that it would prove practical enough for infantry fighting. The old counter-argument -- which even then was speculative -- was that the armor was intended for charioteers. See:

https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/encased-bronze...

What's more, people have been making and sparring in reproduction pieces for years:

https://mindhost.tumblr.com/post/141243954157/dendra-panoply...

And especially:

https://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/armour1.htm

> "Some high fidelity reconstructions have demonstrate how this panoply, despite the huge aspect, was enough flexible and comfortable to be used also during fights on foot and not, as sometimes argued, exclusively by warriors fighting from the chariots."
Upon reading the headline, my guess for how to copy a file off would involve a Parallel-port ZIP drive on the old computer, then using a USB ZIP drive on the modern computer. Or a USB disk enclosure that uses IDE. Now I'll go read the article...

Oh, it's about a Mac...
"They probably determined (or were instructed) that if they believed he had the affair and they believed that he didn't want the public (or the IRS) to know about it then that's enough to require a guilty verdict."

Because it was, based on the criteria and definition of the charge, as another member has kindly linked you. Full stop.
If you're using the DDG Web site, and a bookmark, can you force the language in the bookmark?

Example: https://duckduckgo.com/?kl=us-en&kad=en_US
I really want to switch to NixOS at one point. I’ve had a try about a month ago but having not read much documentation beforehand, it took too much time for me to get everything the way I wanted. Fedora with Hyprland has been working just fine for me so maybe I’ll hold off until things become easier.
Not really? I said they likely have a different agreement with Target. What I was saying is from my experience trying to buy pallets from Target. I linked to one of the requirement documents in another comment.
If it was an old DOS/Windows laptop, you could just use INTERLNK via COM or parallel port. I have to post that, it's just such a nostalgic memory copying files like that.

So if somebody needs to do it: Dosbox + USB-RS232 adapter and the right cable. INTERLNK/SRV was included with DOS 6.0 and later, so it's rather easy to find.
>But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

It DOES happen with car mechanics. Leonard Green LP owns Caliber Collision, Carlyle Group owns Service King, and Icahn Enterprises owns AAMCO, Pep Boys, and Precision Tune Auto Care.

While I don't have a specific example in my head about restaurants and grocery stores, I have to think that there are steps in the value chain that are absolutely owned and influenced by PE. Logistics? Real Estate?

Real Estate is a great example: most commercial real estate is held inside PE portfolios via Real Estate Investment Trusts, and lease rents are an extremely non-trivial portion of business costs for EVERYBODY, espcially grocery stores and restaurants.

But I agree about the many social and regulatory complexities regarding health care specifically. Often that complexity is what makes industries like health care such a lucrative investment for PE as it can be easier to hide incentive structures.
> The purpose of our government is to collaborate and compromise to find solutions that are good for the country.

> Consider two children tasked with collaborating on a problem. One of them walks up and says "One-hundred percent of my focus is on stopping you."

The purpose of our government is clearly lined out in the Constitution. A lot of people happen to think that the federal government has stepped way outside of the bounds prescribed therein[0], and that this causing harm to the country. If you take that view, then being 100% obstructionist at the federal level is in fact acting for the good of the country.

[0]: To be clear, this has been going on for nearly a century. It's not a recent thing, nor is it specific to the parties or presidents involved at any given time.
I don't know if it's my own career development, but it felt like the quality of Pluralsight has also taken a nosedive.

I had a bit of career break during the pandemic, so went from being a fairly regular consumer of pluralsight in 2018/9 to only coming back to it fairly recently.

Whereas previously it felt like I could find interesting guides at my level, when I tried to look for similar things now, nothing felt quite right.

Worst still, some of my previous favourite series were no longer available. It seemed really short sighted to destroy so much value.

Even if videos were produced on "old" (i.e. .Net framework) technology, they should be marked as such, not removed from the platform.

They could have been a massive hub of long tail content, instead it feels like they're trapped re-recording and refreshing the same content.

Perhaps it's also just market forces, I think 5 years ago there was a lot more .Net content and perhaps .Net is just a lot less in vogue now.

One of the recent videos on .net benchmarking had serious flaws. I realised half-way through I had seen an article on hacker news about it, but hadn't realised it was the same course. ( https://sergeyteplyakov.github.io/Blog/benchmarking/2023/11/... with hn discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38137879 )
Man the techno-utopianism is awfully strong for some people when it comes to LLMs. There are a wide range of opinions about these models on HN, many positive and many point out the very real flaws the current models have. If you find this mix of takes so offensive you might want to reconsider your own opinions a bit. These models are interesting, but they aren't magically perfect.

Most people outside of tech don't understands how these models work at even the highest level of them being text predictors or their output being highly dependent on the training data. Many people don't even realize the enormous amount of energy and data consumption required to train these models.

Seriously, try asking a random relative how an LLM works at a basic level. You're likely to get a blank stare at even the term "LLM".
You're so set on a line of thinking you're not really considering anything outside of your viewpoint.

If the average person, after being told so by the officer, stays 25 feet away, then that gives the officer a nice safety buffer to operate in. Anyone not following that rule now sticks out like a sore thumb.

If there are multiple people crowding the officer, leaning over them as they are kneeling on the ground, it's really hard for the officer to remain safe in case one of them decides to attack.
Seems like doing actual work and thinking for yourself is too often substituted by using shortcuts.

Wondering what’s worse being micromanager who doesn’t know the term or being hands off manager because of being afraid to micromanage or using it as excuse for not getting hands dirty.
Actually: "Data backups that were stored in Google Cloud Storage in the same region were not impacted by the deletion"