skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skimming the article - I see zero mention of quality of the news they're trying to sell me.

Back in the early 90's, I paid about $2k/year (inflation adjusted) for news and science/tech coverage. But Scientific American was already heading downhill, Byte Magazine died in 1998, I was slowly catching on to The Economist being far more consistent in its tone and 'tude than in actual expertise or mature perspective, NPR fully jumped the shark after 9/11, what remained of my local paper was fully gutted by the firm that bought it up in 2009, ...
The number of projects increased a lot since that started getting big press, though. It kicked off a much bigger craze than before.
> An open contact form on the internet is like leaving your front door wide open in a busy city. Sure, some people might wander in because they couldn't find your house number, but you'll also get lost tourists asking for directions, door-to-door salespeople hawking their wares, and the occasional raccoon looking for a snack. No amount of information on your facade will prevent the guy who thinks your living room is a public restroom from stumbling in.

Agreed. I guess the point is that that is obvious to anyone who has ever run a website, and therefore facile.

It neatly skips over or ignores the fact that you don't have to have any crap come through the door at all: just put multiple signup buttons that require payment.

Coming at this another way: salespeople should be smiling and celebrating when crap comes through the door because without negotiated "enterprise" plans, the companies would probably make less money and have less need for salespeople.

Instead of crap, maybe it's salesperson gold?
I don’t think that’s what they mean. I just read it as all the political parties that have been in power or in office.
>"Misc income (bribes) $123,456" might not be the best solution.

You joke, but funny enough that is indeed the official stance from the IRS: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525#en_US_2023_publink1000...

"Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, such as
money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your
income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z, or on Schedule C
(Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity."
> It's litterally a customer saying "I want to subscribe and pay more than the self-service price tag", no?

No, you can get idiots who are trying to sell you crap, random confused job seekers (who may or may not also be spammers), etc.
I don't think this holds water, especially when the default behaviour is to just treat them like any other business. You could make this absolutely dead simple by exempting donations from tax but taxing all other forms of income and removing all deductions.
Terrible example.
don't buy them!
See also Clang bounds safety, an implementation of a very similar concept:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html
>I only see Article 7 and 8 re Consent - as long as the consent is freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous - it should meet the requirement.

Just a theory:

Could a "****COOKIE CONSENT POPUP*****" be one of the ways to give said consent?

Btw: I have seen websites showing you a message that they configured everything to your liking after sending them a "Do Not Track" HTTP-header.

So the option is clearly there...
It’s not only Fox News, one of my favorite YouTubers who just drives around the country filming things, no political content whatsoever, recently took a trip to Oakland and couldn’t help but comment on how disgusting the city has become and how crime has skyrocketed. He even took a trip to the infamous In N Out Burger and Taco Bell which have closed their indoor dining due to crime.
How would if have helped? You either design a DFA by hand or use a compiled from a regular language
Open Source LibreChat Offers More Than Just Extra LLMs
Not working in linearized space is a common error in pretty much any new OSS graphics project done by people who's background is not in computer graphics, I came across in the last decade.

I think in the old days you got CG know how from a few books or you went to comp.graphics.algrithms where more experienced people would gladly explain stuff to you.

Today people watch YT videos and read blog posts produced by people who also lack these basics.

It's like an error that get accumulated. But no dithering will help diffusing it. ;)
If you're still running the affected kernel, what are the possible consequences?

Also, this has been public for months:

- February 17, 2024: I posted the hash of TURPENTINE.c to X on Feb 17, 2024.

- May 13, 2024: macOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79) shipped with xnu-10063.121.3, the first public release containing a fix.
> There is very obviously a marketing phenomenon happening now where “AI” is being added to the name of every product.

This isn't really a new phenomenon, though. The only thing new about it is that the marketing buzzword of the day is "AI". For a little while prior it was "machine learning". History is littered with examples of marketers and salespeople latching onto whatever is popular and trendy, and using it to sell, regardless if their product actually has anything to do with it.
I liked him playing Wilhelm Reich (with a dash of Einstein) in Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting'. A masterpiece of nonverbal performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw

Edit: btw, that youtube page has great comments from people who worked on the video.

Edit 2: this is a surprisingly good article about it: https://people.com/how-donald-sutherland-ended-up-in-kate-bu...

Edit 3: and apparently he did it for free - https://twitter.com/DeusExCinema/status/1803855249741934709
Which has nothing to do with the point of my thread. Don’t back pedal on your point.
Regretfully, there's basically nothing you can do to keep crap from entering the funnel. Gating information does -- on the margin -- probably let some unknowing low-quality leads into the funnel.

But low lead quality persists no matter what you do. It's just reality that lots and lots of people will request demos with zero buying intent. Sometimes people are just bored? Sometimes people are scamming? Sometimes people confuse you with a company that has a similar name (e.g. CSC [1] vs. CSC [2]). You'd be shocked how much traffic a SaaS company can get after some random government agency halfway across the world with a vaguely similar name appears in the local news.

It's actually a remarkable amount of work to take a list of N "high-intent" inbound leads, filter out the garbage, and get your ICPs on the phone.

[1] https://www.cscglobal.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Sciences_Corporation
>NPR fully jumped the shark after 9/11

How did it jump the shark after 9/11? I've never listened to or read NPR so I have no idea how its changed.
If you're going to ban TikTok for health reasons, you just need to ban social media.

There's no way to argue that Facebook and Instagram are healthy.

The notion that China is going to run pysops via TikTok also falls flat, Facebook has already been responsible for human right violations in multiple countries. Why don't we fix our own propaganda factories first .

The only thing that I think would be okay would be a warning label on these apps, and this should go for all social media.

"Please be advised the views expressed by users on these apps may not be authentic, and are subject to influence by various parties which may not have your best interest at heart."

But at the end of the day, if you want to read or consume propaganda or misinformation you should have a right to.

Otherwise we're going down a slippery slope, so first it's because TikTok is a Chinese owned company. What's next, are we going to shut down an app because C level employees have close relationships with officials in governments we don't like ?

If you have a Russian uncle you can't be the CTO of Facebook?
It took us until the 20th century to discover radiation, despite it having extremely direct and powerful interactions. Gravity is a shitty, weak interaction that we largely don't have a full understanding of, so why is it so unlikely we haven't properly discovered matter that only interacts weakly with gravity? How the hell else would we "discover" it?
I mean… no offense man but it sounds like your problem wasn’t porn, your problem was you.
Does anyone familiar with molecular recycling know current state of the art, tradeoffs, etc.? Curious to see how that's coming along, especially given the seeming failure of mechanical recycling.
This runs into a simple logical problem. The powers that be would love nothing more than to be able to do exactly what you're describing. And they have effectively endless resources at their disposal alongside dysfunctional intelligence agencies, a completely dysfunctional and obsequious media, and social media sites that have no doubt all signed up for PRISM and its likely even more insidious successors. Yet society is absolutely, in no way whatsoever, becoming more compliant.
We (disclosure: founder) do something similar at Trelent[1] but with an emphasis on security. Paid accounts can use OpenAI & Anthropic models, free ones just OpenAI. We have 3.5 sonnet live already. If you want to try it out lmk! Also totally respect building your own open-source :)

[1]: https://trelent.com
It happens... It's happened with S3, other AWS, Azure, GCP, and a number of other systems over the years. Seems to happen a couple times a year between them all.

That said, on self-hosting I've had outages that were self-inflicted more often than with cloud pipelines and CI/CD flows to production... in the end, it's probably a wash or favors cloud all the same. Even if it's more generally felt from cloud providers all at once.
Seems easy to intuitively prove that 5 colors is impossible.

In order to need 5 colors, you'd need to construct a graph with 5 nodes where each of the nodes connects to all other nodes, but without any edges crossing: https://imgur.com/U52SFSi

You can just tell after playing around with the graph that it's impossible to move the nodes around on a 2d plane without an edge crossing; you need a 3rd dimension.
From my non-American perspective, any organization that exists to provide material benefits to its owners / members / employees / other affiliates is a for-profit organization. A non-profit should pursue public interests, and only its core activities should be tax exempt. If a non-profit operates a business, that business should pay taxes normally.
> AGs aren't dictators. They have no direct power to levy penalties.

They can make life fairly miserable for you, though. (I'm sure there's various consumer protection laws they can leverage in these sorts of cases that vary from state to state.)

If the people they represent continue to feel unheard, you get things like the GDPR. "Everything we're doing is legal!" as a response to shitty behavior is a good way to get new law written.
Yes, this makes more sense, you have tests close to the code it test. Even integration tests should be somewhere in that hierarchy.

At the time I was even thinking that tests should be part of the same file where the component or feature is implemented. There were ways to make this work, but it required a lot of configuration at the time.
There is a book on DSP (theory) by Steven W. Smith which you can read online: http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
Not only did I not know these inventions didn't come from U Waterloo, I also did not know most of these inventions existed!

If you're going to tout your inventions, it's probably better to list things people have heard of.

(Of course I knew of Maple, and I think I've heard of Watcom, although I may be getting confused with another company.)
If you use HX-Request header to overload routes with both normal browser and htmx requests, remember to add `Vary: HX-Request` as well, otherwise the browser may use cached htmx requests when you reload the page.
DNT header exists. Websites collectively have decided they don't care, they'd rather annoy users. That + the design of the average cookie banner should tell you all you need to know how likely a technical solution is in the face of businesses explicitly not wanting you to have a comfortable time declining. (Some blame on the member states, they'd IMHO show less tolerance for this kind of thing)
Tension and Collision were made by Applied Acoustics as far as I know, these are their „originals“ (although in terms of value you probably get more with Ableton)

https://www.applied-acoustics.com/chromaphone-3/
https://www.applied-acoustics.com/string-studio-vs-3/
Anthropic's CEO says why he quit his job at OpenAI
https://xkcd.com/1172/

Are we sure this whole discussion can't be reduced to just links to xkcd strips?
Which the US can do. Being "in the US" means that they take in dollars from US sources. To take dollars from US sources, they will have to work with US institutions, which will all banned from working with them.

Sure, they could accept money from people in US through Bitcoin, but I don't think they business would be exactly viable if that's their payment model.
I guess something else to note is that a lot of people will perceive people on the street with mental health issues or experiencing homelessness as "crime"

During the pandemic less working people were out on the streets making the proportion of homeless people higher, so as people start going back to work there is a change in the proportion and some people (incorrectly) equate that to an increase in crime
And they specifically love her because she is extremely contrarian. HN has a massive problem with contrarian bias.
A solution to people who want to talk to someone before they buy is to add multiple layers of buttons that make them buy first?

The salespeople should be celebrating every incoming contact because having contacts at all means you get sales?

These are narrowly true, I assume first isn't something you're seriously advocating for, and second is a form of "starving kids in africa"/"i used to walkup hill to school both ways" fallacy.

FWIW, I don't get the impression anyone is arguing for "how do we ensure every contact we invest in is viable?" or "We need to figure out how to ensure salespeople never have negative emotions about an incoming contact's quality".
Make sure to also add up attempted murders, assaults with deadly weapon and things like that.

If you don't, every time medicine improves, it will look like people are less murderous. In reality the victims might just have access to better hospitals.
The cluster analysis they used means that we could train a CNN or transformer model to classify and it would be straightforward. I mean you can classify based on the clusters already.

A transformer model would be interesting because you can map voxels to tokens and then look for patterns there. The embeddings alone would be interesting.
Then there are generative AI approaches that can be integrated in as well.

There's a few free ideas for anyone interested. Neat stuff!
I don't want to pay for basic news. It's a commodity. If there was a source for deeper analysis that I liked I'd consider paying for it. I used to do that but those sources all went crazy around 2016 and haven't recovered.
Politicians themselves tend to use Signal too...
I think it's how I learned of him, when my dad bought me a 486 with CD-ROM, and some games on CDs in the 90's. That game even had footage of the 1991 coup attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUuiNcJKY4s
Sorry for the off-topic, but reading this text I thought about myself.

I find myself at a critical point where I wonder what I should do next. I'm over 40 years old and have accumulated years of experience. Sometimes I feel like Neo when he controls the Matrix. Maybe I've been in the same role for too long, but it doesn't matter what project I'm assigned: I implement it with little difficulty (beyond the time cost, exhaustion, etc.).

On the other hand, despite the confidence they've always had in me, the place where I work is starting to feel hostile. Being an introverted person, I try to figure out if this is something that depends on me (and if I can redirect it) rather than looking for answers where I should. Being introverted, it seems unwise to start something that depends on my social skills. Conversely, every day it seems like new obstacles appear, as if going to a job that I liked 90% now feels like a problem.

I have to say, I work in a flat-structure company where the boss is a megalomaniac who wants to control everything. A good part of the new things we do are his impulsive ideas. The office is filled with figurines (dinosaurs, busts from 80s movies, ...) and motivational quotes. He gives talks about how well he does things and how great it is to work there, but he doesn't improve salaries or do anything to provide training, a better work environment, etc. He also plays dirty tricks on employees, like unexpectedly complicating pre-arranged vacations or trying to delay them without a real reason

While writing this, I realized that the 10% that made me not like the company has always been because of him. And if I don't like it, it's because of him.

The only thing that keeps me tied to this place (besides the money, since I don't live in the opulence of certain regions where software is very well paid) is the entrepreneurial spirit of having done so much in the product.

PS: If someone saw our product, the things we have done with just 4 people (on average), they would be amazed. And, with all humility, a large part of that has been driven by me, which ties me and kills me.
Zoltan Herczeg, the jit maintainer is capable enough, and he is doing most of the work anyway.
> ones that didn't manage to leave after the collapse of the Soviet Union

> openly racist towards ethnic Tajiks

Makes me wonder, maybe something happened between ethnic Tajiks and ethnic Russians between Soviet Union collapse and the present.
Correct.

The attacker in the 2015 OPM hack acquired biometric data on every federal government employee. Cross referencing against biometrics collected at ports-of-entry unmasked covert US operations, undermined US interested and put the lives of Americans abroad at risk. This information is valuable to every adversary equipped to use it.

The scandal of Tiktok is that rather than breaching OPM, a foreign entity has simply requested this information directly from future federal employees. Beyond mere facial biometrics, tiktok knows the childhood street address of ~every future spy -- and everyone near and dear to them. Tiktok can generate a psychological profile on ~every future diplomat and international businessman. And the biometrics they can access includes things like sleeping habits, gait, vocal chord structure, vocabulary, and accent -- much more than the OPM hackers got.
End-to-End Encryption (E2E) Is Dead. Killed by New Tech [video]
> Read the article this thread is about.

It is one brand new paper. I am skeptical. Rotation curves are perfectly flat out to whatever arbitrary distance that they happen to be able to measure? I am very skeptical.

> "particle DM can't fully explain the Bullet Cluster either."

According to one scientist, who happens to be the same scientist claiming that particle DM cannot explain rotation curves. I will not check every claim, but the bullet cluster collision speed "problem" is readily explained in the reference in the wikipedia article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7438

The broader point is that every time MOND has claimed to refute dark matter so far, the refutation has been refuted, so I will wait to see the outcome of this new claim.
Saying "Islam being kept in check" in this way sounds an implication that religion (or perhaps just this one) ought to be suppressed. This sort of attitude and policy coming from it is like gasoline for religious extremism, and the fact that Tajikistan exports extremists should be enough evidence for that
My entire life police haven't done shit. I'm in my mid 30s from the midwest
Thank God.

I still don't know how we made it through cold war w/o these organization...
Or a hobbyist
I still have that Ditherpunk article bookmarked! I leaned on its insights heavily when I was building the dither (reduce palette) filter[1] for my canvas library.

"Return of the Obra Dinn" looks fantastic. I keep meaning to purchase/play that game but the intention keeps slipping down my ToDo list while I'm distracted.

[1] Demo on CodePen (will ask to use your device's camera) - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/OJOaOZz
i’m pretty partial to the idea that this is not somewhere government needs to be involved
JWST is an infrared telescope though, which doesn't really replace the Hubble. It is suited for the interesting science of our times though. An upgraded optical space telescope would probably be less groundbreaking but still very valuable to science.
That is why I mentioned "general violent crime"
Wake seeking long range semi-autonomous torpedoes are a major threat and are already deployed.

Currently they have about a 100km range.

The subs can fire from far away, move and fire again from different angles.

A ship could have dozens coming from all directions.
I think Github pages (published sites) are using Cloudflare.

edit: My mistake, I seem to have misremembered an article on using GH Pages with Cloudflare (circa 2016).
you will love yaml since its a similar improvement in token use over json
Anyone can make a fake notary stamp. Or become a notary themselves. This is super common in fraud cases. Notaries are basically a worthless anachronism and shouldn't be relied upon for anything important.

And even if identity is validated, what does that mean? Like there are probably a thousand Meta accounts for "Robert Jones". If someone has a valid government issued ID in that name should he then be able to "recover" any account with the same (or similar) name?
Creating a User-Friendly Web Crawler with Python, Scrapy, Gooey and PyInstaller
It was never about CSAM. It's about power. From https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/19/24181214/eu-chat-control-...:

> Each service required to install this “vetted” monitoring technology must also ask permission to scan your messages. If you don’t agree, you won’t be able to share images or URLs.

> As if this doesn’t seem wild enough, the proposed legislation appears to endorse and reject end-to-end encryption at the same time.

I absolutely will not run someone's server-side malware to look at the contents of all the messages my people transmit.

I have zero tolerance for CSAM. I can report, have reported, and will continue to report instances of it that I stumble across as part of my job moderating the server I host. Damned if I'm running EU's "vetted" software though. There's also approximately nil chance of American authorities attempting to force American entities to run EU software on their US-hosted servers. My doctor's office has an encrypted chat where I can ask my doctor questions. You think anyone's going to make them filter those HIPAA-covered messages through the EU?
In some courts "Schöffen" are part of the judges. Schöffen are citizens that volunteer as "amateur judges". As far as I know in some trials they even outnumber the professional judge and their vote has the same weight. They could "bend the law" as far as I know, but it's not how it's supposed to be. Those verdicts, if appealed, would probably not hold in higher courts.

There are pardons by the German president, but I'd guess they don't happen on that scale.
There's no requirement to report stats to the FBI and several municipalities and local sheriff's have stopped. The stats the FBI have are not a very accurate picture of reality.
I've always found what happens in the third dimension weird.

A 0-dimensional space needs up to: 1 color.

A 1-dimensional space needs up to: 2 colors.

A 2-dimensional space needs up to: 4 colors.

A 3-dimensional space needs up to: ∞ colors.

I can easily picture why a 3D space has no limit to the number of colors (personally I always imagine color blocks hanging in space connected to every other color block by bendable wires), but I don't quite understand why the pattern is that way.