skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take your point, but it really depends on which threshold of rich we're talking about. Someone with say... 5M net worth is rich by most people's standards, but depending on where they live and their situation, they may or may not have the staff to take care of every administrative aspect of their life. 50M, sure... you've basically won life at that point, and you can outsource everything.
See, for all the talk of how the GDPR will lead to fines of "4% global turnover" it's been an abysmal failure in this regard.

My understanding is that you're not supposed to be subject to automated decision making (assuming the GDPR applies here).

Yet, what we see is a constant stream of robotic decisions. Although a human did "review" it there is no evidence of substantive human processing, probably just a 60 second "Yup. The computer was right".

Imagine if this was for something more serious, like ETIAS, and the human decision maker just looked at the computers decision, and because they are disgruntled with their salary, within 60 seconds they decide that what the computer decided must be correct. No thought or actual work went into making the human decision.

Technically, I suppose this wasn't automated decision making but without much human thought (which in this case how do we prove or disprove?) it may as well have been.

Something we do need to fix as AI and computers make more and more controlling deicisons and ensuring a human is required to perform a "substantive" review.

I am, however, interested in what that actually means. Do we need a human to produce a report? Do we need to see a liveness test showing the appeal form that they are reviewing and how long they spent looking at all the information?

For now, the human is there for "compliance" but is essentially just clicking a button called "agree with computer".

I would like to see statistics showing how long these "reviews" take, and how many uphold/reverse the robots decision.
I recommend Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash ... tl;dr: guys with katanas and kids on skateboards with really cool tires and grappling hooks ^^
> Missing lots of days means that there will be lots of cards where it's just not clear if you're going to recall them or not. ...I'm not sure how one could do better than that.

It's not clear to Anki because its model ("due" or "not due") and algorithm ("study the card that's been due the longest") are too simplistic. I know it can be done better because I built a system that does better with the same data by having a better model ("expected difficulty") with a better algorithm ("study the card which will have the highest long-term impact on difficulty").
I think their point is pocket as opposed to against wrist the whole time.
what was this "no good" reason you were banned for?
The issue is that "sqrt(arbitrary quartic)" is already more specialized than "elliptic integral". So we can't just talk about elliptic integrals in general, we need proof that this specialization doesn't give rise to closed forms.
Maybe because by "wider range" many people understand whatever the trendy stations will feed them - from rap to dad rock, r&b or pop, so they behave as a captive audience? My Spotify must have a reason for always trying to feed me Coldplay although I swear I never (actively) listened to anything from them.
Global stock markets rocked by potential US crackdown on chipmakers
From what I read it's actually the opposite. Studies seem to show that while our attention makes us feel in charge and at the helm, the decisions and the thoughts that arise happen way before our ability to influence them consciously. It appears that our consciousness is mostly a rationalization layer after the fact.

That's why there is a problem explaining consciousness in the first place. The more we dig the more elusive it is
As GP said, more Apple than Apple.
Nonsense that a 1080p limit is acceptable for (and accepted by) paying customers.
If the matter rarely being a problem is the bar to meet, then Japan and Seattle have both met that bar. Seattle is less prepared but the quakes of note are also more rare, so both meet the "rarely causes problems" standard.

It wouldn't make sense for every place to prepare as much as Japan for things that are less likely there than in Japan. Does Japan have as many tornado shelters as Kansas? Probably not.
Nice. I still have my VT520. It's a great option because it can take standard PS/2 keyboards and doesn't suffer from the degrading display glue. But it does have a really boring design, looks like any boring old PC VGA monitor. The 220 and 320 were much cooler.
smh, wheres the responsive react frontend and the database and nodejs backend? /s :P
Wow. This is so much better than what I created as my first website in 1997 when I was 19 years old.

I am deeply impressed.
VPN shadow port attack [pdf]
Well that depends completely on how ingenious you can become in setting up passive income sources and what resources you already have. Most people can do it and of course if you are married you need the support of your spouse. It just won't work if they have a very materialistic lifestyle and like fancy stuff for example. If you have kids, it's tricky but again not impossible. I've known some people that do it with kids so it can be done.

But assuming that is true, what skills do you have? Can you relocate? What do you consider essential? Feel free to email me if you want with your situation if you want.

My opinion is this: it is easier than you think but it requires some very unusual thinking and taking leaps of faith, and yes, it involves a little bit of what society might consider "risky" but less risky than people think. It requires a bit of discomfort but mostly of the mental kind. My belief though is that IF you are smart enough with your life, you can certainly escape.
This looks like a solid first step. I am also teaching my 8yo a bit of coding, starting with HTML but he complains about a lot of typing, he is slow in typing so it becomes painful for him.

Did your daughter face this problem?
> The building indicated is not, nor has it ever been a diesel plant.
Ask HN: How would you seed a website template marketplace?
Hey everyone,

I run a website builder platform called Versoly. It is bootstrapped & profitable. The biggest limiting factor is free/paid templates.

I have tried to hire freelancers to create templates but it hasn’t worked out due complexities in creating templates. Designers create great looking Figma files but are very difficult to create templates out of that work well with component libraries.

Also tried dming existing template creators but most of them are risk-averse and stick to “proven” and oversaturated marketplaces.

I’m about to take some risk and do a $10,000 giveaway to build some hype around the template marketplace.

If anyone has ideas/experience with seeding marketplaces would be very helpful. Happy to do things that don’t scale as well.
> I will add my two cents for people who believe that this might be related only to the SWE and tangent industries: It's really not. I have many friends (in Europe) who are trying to get through to different jobs in unrelated industries ranging from finance to fashion, or just trying to get promoted vertically (or horizontally), failing rather miserably.

The weird thing (to me) is, though, that employers in EU countries and their lobby organizations still cry about lack of skilled workers, as if nothing has changed. Politicians are thinking about making work immigration more attractive. Is that not a complete disconnect from reality?
Have fun - https://www.hungerforwords.com/
Astronauts are stuck on the ISS after more problems with Starliner
If only OP lived in the EU, this might all have been avoided.
This actually speaks volumes about the progress AI hs made in recent years. Its capabilities have become so intangible that people begin to attack standardised testing - just like they do for humans. Because we all know that a human who does good on a test might still suck at the real job and vice-versa. If we get to the point where you we need to do personal interviews with new models to see if they could be used for a certain job, a lot of people will get the denial rug pulled out from under them pretty hard.
If you're confused by a widespread practice, consider that it doesn't have the purpose you assume it has. In the case of tech interviews, it's plausible they're selecting for willingness to be abused by managers.
The problem there is with dogs, and has nothing to do with calories. Dogs (and many other animals) are simply not able to tolerate chocolate like humans can. Conversely, humans can't tolerate eating rancid meat and cat poop, but dogs can eat those things easily and not get sick. Lots of substances are poisonous to certain species, and non-poisonous to other species.

Also, the reason chocolate is unhealthy isn't because of the cacao plant, it's because of all the added sugar used to make it taste good, since raw cacao (or cocoa, which you get after cooking it) is horribly bitter.
I wish all websites looked like this again. Great job!
Yeah sounds more like he's trying to dig his own moat.
My bank has this built into its own app.
1. Set up LLM to give financial advice on which stocks to trade.
2. Secretly read the results and use the information to make your own trades
3. Profit!
Let's give AI-powered scammers some credit too https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/20/amazon-restric...
>Companies seem to forget they are also part of, you know, the economy and people need compensation to, you know, not die, right? If you aren’t acting as an economic engine for helping the most people thrive, what is your purpose as a company?

Maximizing shareholder value, of course.
> A secondary goal of the “behavioral interview” is personality homogenization where companies want to enforce not hiring anybody “too different” from their current mean personality engram. Yet, the tech industry is historically full of weird divergent people doing great things for their own reasons (though, due to just basic population growth over the past 20 years, there are tens of millions more “normie computer people” now offsetting all the smaller pool of original “weird computer people”). When you start enforcing personality bubbles outside of what somebody can do, you’re just doing some sort of weird economic eugenics thing (make programming weird again!).

I think that's only half the truth. Tech in the "good old days" heavily selected for a particular personality engram, and it still does today, but that engram has shifted.

There was a time when, as I'm told, turning up in a suit to a facebook interview was a big negative, and wearing exactly the right kind of gray t-shirt was a bonus. They were very much filtering for culture, but back then they were filtering for "nerd culture". Nowadays, they're filtering for a different culture - call it "normie computer people" if you like. The amount to which personality bubbles are being enforced hasn't varied, just the bubble has shifted.

If it's true that the weird computer people are better programmers / engineers / system architects than the normies, there should be an opportunity to beat the market on average here.
there are two types self-proclaimed C++ wizards:

- that who accepts that the language has infinite complexity and it takes a lifetime to master it, which makes it ill-suited for most real-world tasks, because there are domain-specific tools which have the same performance and are easier to use

- that who accepts the language has infinite complexity and thus it can serve any purpose, so there's no point in working with anything else, just keep improving the C++ subskills relevant to the task at hand

some folks of the second kind have a hard time with empathising that mastering C++ is not in fact the only way to build better software.
She made it on a macbook using textedit and the finder, but day to day, she tends to use a tablet.
My absolutely non-scientific gut feeling is that if billionaires were not as influential and carried as much weight as they do in media, that we would be able to assess them as mentally disturbed in no way different to Plyushkin's disorder or some strain of sociopathic behaviour.

From a game theory stand point a billionaire won. Carve your name in history, you can choose to influence politics for the good, pour money into hard research problems in Healthcare, Environment, Energy. Go Genghis Khan and have a thousand children. They could do literally anything and yet choose to continue to increase value for shareholders and themselves, it seems illogical.
Great work! Back in the day (when I was about 9 years old) I did something similar but for my poetry and dinosaur related interests, and that kicked off my still ongoing multi-decade journey in web development.

Ah the good old days :')
I read "NVIDIA transitions fully Torvalds..."
Not the same but there's a netlabel called 20kbps[0]. Most of their albums are mp3s around 10-20 MB in total.

[0]: https://20kbps.net/index2.htm
> I never understood why people don't do any research before getting into metal detecting.

Because people do it for fun, not to do archeological research

> And on top of that most laypeople don't even properly record the location of the find

what detectorists find is 99.9% of the time just crap, and the 99.9% of the 0.1% remaining is just stuff that is not interesting for archeology or history. Interesting finds are extremely rare

> The latter is the same reason shady companies don't record where they disposed of chemicals in the woods,

Yes, polluting a place and finding a badly damaged roman coin on a field used for centuries is exactely the same

> but somehow it's okay for you? Because you have convinced yourself you are "preserving history" by removing a bronze axehead from a location that has preserved it for over 2000 years?

They don't preserve history, but neither do historians and archaeologists in the cases mentioned, because they don't and won't carry out any research in these places anyway. It's obviously different when detectorist work on archeological places but it's forbidden almost everywhere

If they were smarter, archeologists should push for more sensible rules, and for collaboration with detectorist associations instead of blind repression.
In that case just turn the camera off.

In fact that's what i usually do at work. Saves bandwidth and I don't really care.

Internally we usually meet without cams but when we meet with Microsoft (a supplier) they always have them on to promote this feature of teams and most people reciprocate. I never do though.

Sometimes I turn on their new cartoon avatar video just to annoy them:)
Intend – Be in purposeful flow 10 minutes from now
Files are an abstraction that was very useful in the last several decades, but that just isn't as relevant in the current world. Those videos and documents you mentioned are likely managed via object storage in a distributed database, itself possibly using block storage directly, with no actual "file" in an old-school filesystem anywhere in sight.

I still personally cling to files personally, but I have no real reason to believe that they are a fundamental abstraction that is more true than cloud lambdas.
I think it is a disconnect from reality, but only I you’re looking at it as a clueless politician or as a worker.

As an employer, this is exactly what you want: desperate people who will jump through all your hoops because this is correlated with being docile, not wanting much money, being afraid of losing your job, working long hours without complaining about it or asking for more comp, etc.

There isn’t a skilled worker shortage. There is a shortage of skilled workers willing to endure all this BS, not getting paid enough for it, and asking for more of it.

Company owners know this. Politicians just want the donations to their parties. And screw you and me, we’re just little interchangeable cogs in their money making machines.
She really nailed page load speed and to a large degree UX (links are clearly links, navigation just works).

Many large companies have wasted lots of money on performance and UX while still being worse than this!
try searching with https://teclis.com/ ...

Just type in some word like "cat" and click on the links. They are kinda all like that.
Yes, there are.

FWIW, I grew up on Richard Scarry books and got de Tocqueville in school. For the vibe of the former in general, and the overlapping patchworks of multiple voluntary associations of the latter in particular, things are defo better here than my (caveat: twentieth-century) memories of the Old Country.
I love this domain name so much. <3 Great job to your daughter.
Holy fuck that's incredibly interesting! The dog knows it's own name, composes multi word sentences... that's consciousness and volition on par with humans.
Using VMs to Run Containers and Uninstalling Docker from the Main OS
...and the websockets!?
haha, good one! although I'm German and it was free for me when I did it. I just had the best therapist. $150 a session is insane!
Point of order! The core of the RISC-V ISA was already designed by the time ARMv8-A was announced on 27 October 2011. I don't think anyone anticipated it -- certainly I remember it being a complete surprise to me.

Here is the RISC-V design as at 13 May 2011:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2011-62....

Compare that to the design eventually ratified in 2019 and you'll find some changes in details, but not in concept.

- instructions encodings changed to e.g. put rd on the right next to the opcode and the MSBs of literals on the left.

- J and JAL are now combined

- JALR had three versions (in func3) to distinguish call / return / others. This is now done as a convention which registers are used in rd and rs1. (It matters only for a return address prediction stack, an advanced feature)

- RDNPC (get address of next instruction) later turned into AUIPC (which includes adding an offset to the PC)

- on the other hand, it already has the very RISC-V feature of loads using rd and rs1 while stores use rs1 and rs2 (and the offset split up differently). Most other ISAs (including all Arm ISAs) use the same register fields for loads and stores and the offset in the same place, resulting in either loads using rs2 as the destination or stores using rd as a source!

Seriously, other than the changes mentioned above, this document looks just like the final RV32G/RV64G spec from ratification in 2019. (I didn't check the floating point instructions in detail).

As for SIMD -- RISC-V was designed as the control processor for an advanced length agnostic vector processor. F*ck fixed length SIMD.
There's a lack of skilled workers *willing to jump through their hoops*. For at third-world country immigrant, jumping through hoops is a first-world problem.
Depends. I disagree with HDCP in theory on ideological grounds. In practice, my main movie device is below 720p (projector), so it will take another decade before it affects me in any way.
> someone's inner train of thought comparing and contrasting two choices at length has nothing to do with which choice they actually make.

Even that is illusory most of the time. It takes deliberate effort and method to limit bias and personal preference.
And also because we're not really going to get very sick from it.

The biggest downside experienced is by the poultry industry which is squarely to blame for this anyway with their high density farming. So screw them.
Wants become needs over time.

Our ancestors did not take it for granted to have a toilet. In fact, there are still people alive today who grew up with no family toilet, who later got one. Just as there are people who had to hand wash their clothes and their dishes, but now have a machine to do it.

I grew up without internet, and I didn't miss it.

Now, I will be miserable if you take away any of those things.
Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers
This is great, it looks nice, works exactly as one would expect it to (very links, no clickbait), cats (the internet was made for cats after all) and loads instantly.
Yes but only to about 100 aircraft at a time, favouring stronger (and therefore closer) signals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_measuring_equipment#S...

If you're 100nm away, chances are there are more than 100 aircraft nearer to the DME than you from at least one of the two required DMEs. Especially if GPS has failed and many aircraft are trying to use backup DME-DME. Unless you're in a very sparse area.
The answer, my friend. Lies on the other side of the rainbow. It's in he chafed lips of a unicorn. And the swollen ball-sack of a Leprechaun.
Kubernetes Pod Autoscaling in practice
I am curious to hear people's/companies' experiences using Kubernetes Pod Autoscaling (primarily thinking of Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, but also interested to hear if/how people use Vertical Pod Autoscaling).

When I Google around, I find lots of blog posts of the form "here is how to set up k8s autoscaling based on CPU utilization/custom metrics..." but I don't find much of the form "here is my/my company's experience actually deploying k8s autoscaling in the real world..."

What metrics do you use to autoscale? How do you select/set the autoscaling parameters for your real-world deployments? Are you happy with the experience? Are there any pathological cases/issues you frequently run into?
> you should be able to train a discriminator to distinguish between them using some other metric

Not when the better metrics are likely alien/incompatible to the discriminator's core algorithm!

Then it's rather inconvenient news, because it means you have to develop something separate and novel.

As the other poster already mentioned, if we can't even get them to reliably count how many objects are being referred to, how do you expect them to also handle logical syllogisms?
More over, trees have chemical signalling mechanisms amongst related species in response to environmental stimuli. So a tree broadcasts to surrounding members of its species what's going on.
<img src="catcute.jpg" width="500px" height="400px" ></img>

Width and height must be specified without units (although looks like browsers accept it, probably by ignoring the unit). IMG tags are self-closing, so you can omit </img>

<img src="wool.jpg" width="500px" height="400px" ></img>

The dog picture has wrong aspect ratio. The dog is squeezed! It should be 620 × 349 or, if 500 width or 400 height is needed, there's a good mathematical task to calculate the size of the other side.

<br/>

No need for / in HTML.

unicorn.html
unicorncopy.html

Page for cats is named unicorn.html! and for computers it's unicorncopy!!!

PS I don't like that CloudFlare Pages strips .html. Too magical.
To be honest I was also thinking about minecraft creative mode. I find it boring. My kids find it boring. Maybe some youtuber do not. Maybe some people do not.
They can both be big if the government isn't doing its job.

But you need a certain amount of government if you want a healthy regulation system with enforcement.
It seems that in practice, co-optation reduces effective size.
Sure, call them byte streams or blobs, that's fine too. I'm not disagreeing, but the point I wanted to make was that recently, people seem to have gotten the idea that their objects are semi-magical things locked into some app or some cloud service. Which is fine by the SaaS providers, or course. But it doesn't really foster understanding of the world around you.

Like kids thinking corn comes from the corn factory.
Add more features to your ML model with a Snowflake Schema Data Model
I'd like to hear more about your story - did you write it down somewhere? What were these risky takes and what did you do?

I know these things aren't playbooks you can just run along, but I find these stories uplifting :)
Kyrgyzstan Trip 2024
It's also because we can't really do much more. Covid is everywhere now. We just have to live with it and any measures were take will only delay exposure while coming at big inconvenience and cost. There's just no point anymore. After wasting years of useful lifetime in covid lockdowns, who wants to deal with more for negligible benefits?