skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose raises the question, is the spending of mega bucks on advertising (regardless of effectiveness) a net benefit for society?

As commenters have already raised, we'd have no Google, Facebook, Twitter (sorry 'X') or many other entities and the products they create without the money spent on advertising. Is this all just happening because people are too scared to look under the curtain and find that it's all just a sham?

We had advertising long before the internet came along, and from my personal memory most of the most aggressive advertising was for things that were either useless (magic snake oil remedies) or actually dangerous (tobacco products), not to mention all the "as seen on TV" junk that was "promoted" on morning television.

Is what we have now is more intrusive? It used to be that you could duck to the toilet during the adds on TV or flip the page in the newspaper or magazine, but now they are taking our cpu cycles, making web pages unreadable and that is not to mention the more intrusive ways of really getting in our heads.

I'd argue that we've always had (even if just the shop keeper recommending a product) and always will have advertising. There have always been products that are not needed or wanted by the majority, and advertising is the way that the producer of that product gets their product sold. I would be nice if there were not so much dodgy practice involved.
Yeah they should get together and create a standard protocol for managing, transferring, and paying subscriptions.

Imagine if you could manage subs through your bank, but also transfer the sub to a different bank as needed.

Could even have protocols for payees to verify payer sub status. Maybe there could be two "ends" to a sub; payer and payee end. Like a money wormhole.
I'm saying they should face such extreme penalties it's not worth it anymore and have it policed so those people aren't on the roads in the first place to get in a collision. Right now you're pretty much not going to have anything happen driving without insurance unless you get into an accident that you can't escape from. If it was highly likely for someone to face judgement every time they went out you'd probably have significantly fewer uninsured drivers out there.
That's not what they're actually doing though. It's what two senators up for re-election this year claim they could do.
"Putting animated SVG in a font [1] is a horrible hack"

Agreed, that is even more horrible. And probably just for performance reason alone should never ever get close to a real world product. Still, quite neat.
This reminds me that for some reason I am logged into my gaming machine's windows store with my GitHub account thanks to the bizarre way that microsoft do auth.
I read the story because of the AI part. Over the last two weeks I've been working for the first time with GPT and Perplexity and am a mixture of fascinated, exuberant and ready to drink a gallon of whiskey from frustration.

I'm particularly intrigued by the creative things that can be accomplished with mutual diligence between user and AI. As a bit of a moron, I can now easily accomplish what otherwise would be too daunting. It's great..., when it works. What a smart person can accomplish under such conditions is frightening, in bith good and ungood ways. I'm hoping to go the API route soon and move toward a more free-thinking version geared as a research assistant.

Anyway, I'd say that's some pretty clever teamwork. Well done and thanks for sharing. Just get some better slippery sauce and if you're gonna squirt it on all beneath the heavens, go with Ballistol (I misspelled it in my other comment) - the fairies will thank ye.
I wonder when a one of these patients are in that state, they could be in a dream like state that seem real.
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It's a form of lazy censorship.
I think the social friction from getting all of this right/wrong really damages inquisitive minds.

The visceral negative response you get from, "Wait, I don't think that's right, it's more complicated than that", helps prevent speaking up the next time, unless you have an inherently disagreeable personality (which I cherish working with). I see it all the time with kids. They'll see some fundamental truth that takes a sideways perspective to see, and be told they're wrong, hacking off an interesting way of perceiving the world. It's unfortunate, but it's also something most adults are bad at, including myself.

And, I very often microwave my spoons, forks, even metal bowls, without them heating up at all. But I also have a basic understanding of resonance, absorption, insulation, apertures, and the wavelengths involved. I don't do it at work, because it's not worth the effort responding to "you're going to break the microwave", even if you show them that the food is hot and the fork is cool.

That said, I wouldn't melt metal in an expensive microwave. The metal has poor absorption relative to the magnetron antenna itself, so both will heat. I wouldn't be surprised if the antenna is also glowing a bit (at least early on)!
I know someone who is working on a general LLM to bring back dead languages. They have had great success using old biblical manuscripts and the LLM picks up on the syntax and grammar.
There is a youtube video id on the remote :)

I personally love the minimalism.
Could the instruction following is like the muscle reflex, but on for brain where you are not responding to complex questions accurate it very simple ones
It’s because they want to be able to collect and monetize that data by themselves
emailing patches is fairly easy.

The real reason not to use github anyway though is that it's terrible (the basic "github model" for doing code review was basically made up on the back of a napkin IMO)
I think Apple has too much money. We need some DOJ investigation for monopolistic behavior like yesterday.
M1 Finance also has this capability, does it not? Lyn Alden maintains her newsletter portfolios using M1. (I'm Canadian and to my knowledge, no established company does this well for Canadian accounts.)
Much worse. If you can make the radio controlled servo to throw the chain during sprints this could cause a specific rider to crash.
Index funds seem to be the consensus in books like that, which would include tech stocks I'd imagine.
Nice! As a perfect example of what he's saying, you've been downvoted for stating something that is absolutely true, outside of certain circumstances, driven by the downvotes not having an understanding of those circumstances.
I lived under such a tyrant and what people don't realize it's just how peaceful it is. Sure, economically the whole country was shit and you were not allowed to say the tyrant was a tyrant, but everything else was butter smooth. Now I feel it's too much noise but also actual randomness (now we hire, now we fire) and it's hard to have any real stability.
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I’m both, at times I don’t want to choose, at times I want full control. I didn’t have TV for years (was pushing a decade), but ~2months ago I got myself an analog antenna that has local channels and it’s been a blast: I caught some olympic games, watched Euro cup, couple of movies (I caught “Decision to leave” from my watchlist——tremendous movie), I saw some Anthony Bourdain shows and now I know who the guy is and i enjoyed the show, saw a documentary on war in my country, watched some live streams of city council meetings… Also, I wanted to say this somewhere in this thread I’m not trying to sell tv to you, you caught a stray bullet, but also I’m sharing that I watched it with a different curiosity after so long of not having it, and did have a great time just with those 17 channels of uncurated content, which was the main motivation——to have uncurated content
Waymo should be punished at least as harsh as a single driver honking away every night.
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In Chriopractic term, a brain adjustment
Exactly. All models are wrong, some are useful. And a simpler model is easier to teach and remember.
That is an excellent illustration to Goodhart's law. We're going to have this avesome status page, but since if we update it the clients would notice the system is down, we're going to put a lot of barriers to putting the actual status on that page.

Also probably a class action suit lurking somewhere in there eventually.
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I think it goes without saying that you would still want to be using keys instead of passwords for the actual authentication. Port knocking should always be an additional layer, not a replacement layer.
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It's a distinction without a difference. Most people don't have the hardware to run locally.
I was seeing the same with my Pixel Buds. I've started to give them a little extra nudge when I put them back in the case and that has seemed to eliminated the issue for me.
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What are these tools? That sounds super useful for the most annoying YouTube flaws I run into
Crispy snack under the rug is a new one for me but I like it
Jumping off a plane is highly unreasonable from my point of view. No one should be jumping off a plane for fun because the risk is too high. This is my POV against yours. Who's POV is correct? One way to resolve this is to use Exact wording to establish this "line between the two" you are talking about.

But of course therein lies the problem. You can use this "wording" to uncover loopholes. To get rid of the loopholes you can allow "reasoning" to override these loopholes. But then it becomes your POV against mine. Of course my POV is right and you're obviously wrong. Would that be the more correct way to handle things?

No.
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I'm handling dense, sparse, and colbert vectors generated by BGE-M3 model on CPU, pretty sure that counts as "AI"
Guns overheat when a large volume of ammunition is discharged in a short amount of time. *edit for grammar
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It’s both a username and a password
How would you spoof multiple valid packets in a TCP-based protocol requiring a sequence of interactions when you can't receive any of the ACKs (because they'll be sent to not-your-IP)?
I do the opposite and rename the current branch `thing-im-doing-borked` then fix it and reuse the old name with `git checkout -B thing-im-doing`.
Hey, that's mine! I'm glad you guys enjoyed it, I had a month off work and made this.

Tangentially, going on holiday for a month I realized that the amount of creativity per week I have is constant. When I have an interesting job, I satisfy my creative urges there. When I have a boring job, I build silly things in my spare time.

Now I resent my job for being interesting, and thus stealing my silly things and turning them into more useful, but decidedly less silly, things.
Perhaps I worded that poorly. I was trying to express that there exist various psychological mechanisms specifically involved with isolating existentially destabilizing mental events from the conscious cognitive process to maintain it's integrity and ability to function, and what one of their names were. I tacked on the end the list of remedies applied traditionally when such mechanisms for whatever reason end up going awry. Those cases are undeniably a form of mental illness.

This instance of a poster's existential pondering is not mental illness. It's a valid question. The answer was yes. See repression, then research other cognitive distortions. It's part of building up a healthy meta-cognition.
I'm not in a grant field, but this comment reminded me of this video from attoparsec about public art grants from a few years ago that really resonated. My mom spent the last ~15 years of her career in a field that involved grant writing for public health projects, and many of the strategies were similar.

Video: https://youtu.be/cK4K8aj7X1s?si=xAQH54SfC8yUE_ll
Thank you for working on this movie :)
Depends how you define the job. A different interpretation is that the job of a medical professional is to improve the health of their patients as much as they can. Normally this is done by frequently having someone/something more specialized ensure perfect care for the task at hand, but on this night that might take too long, so the best way to improve the health of the patients was to abandon protocol and do the best they can as fast as they can.
I don't think you're incorrect. But, that said, acetic acid is a precursor for butyrate which feeds the lower gut. Gut health is now held (from much better studies although I think it may still be a work-in-progress) to tie pretty directly to mental health, there's something going on across the blood-brain barrier which functionally makes your gut "part" of the brain's state.

So, in summary, it's bad science in a good space. Better science is needed. For once, those damn hippies going on about apple cider vinegar may have been on to something although personally I go for aged balsamic on Mushrooms: Vitamin D, they taste amazing and umami.
We should just have full data-autonomy enshrined in law. This starts that path.
You should read some fraudster diaries. Having the SSN as authentication, means you can con the utilities employee into handing over all of your other personal information. Date of birth, current and past adresses, spouse or roommates, parents if they are with the same utility company. They can then turn around and use that information to apply for a credit card. Now all they need is to wait by your mailbox or pay the postal worker $100 to not deliver the card and letter.

That info is, in fact, already easily obtained trough leaks, but I just wanted to give your "utilities" case some clarity. Now the fraudster can apply for a creditcard in your name, and before the month has passed you are on the hook for $3000 in cc charges/debt which cost the fraudster a mere 12 minute phone call and 10 minutes skimming trough the leaked records from this HN post to find your SSN.
How is the extensions store approval process? Is it bureaucratic like the play and app store?
Healthcare capacity is not going to get saturated from a virus that spreads by close contact. This is not a respiratory virus.

Even in its limited state in the areas of Africa we're talking about, I doubt that health care was "saturated". The more fundamental problem is that you have a lot of people who are ill or malnourished to begin with.
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Landlords can access their property with 24 hour notice everywhere I has lived in the US.
Its the discovery aspect I miss, even cable had channels you could look at shows of a type - scyfi or Arena etc. Even free to air had reliable shows pre picked for you that you could rely on being decent. Now there's a fire hose of shows on Netflix, some good, some bad finding something to watch is now a task.
No one archived that video? Dangit it was his best interview
Linear A is the undeciphered script with the largest repertoire, about 8000 characters in total, and the largest single fragment is like 300 characters long. It's like trying to understand English given random clippings of signs and maybe a whole sentence from a book that in total amount to 5 or 6 pages of text. And we have a head-start--we make the educated guess of Linear A's phonetic values by comparing to Linear B, which was derived from it. The situation for the other undeciphered scripts is even worse.

It's hard to see how LLMs can help here because the problem with understanding these scripts is we just lack enough data to make any conclusions. And LLMs are famously reliant on being very data-hungry.
27,000 in 2008. It's 2024 and BGP is now more like 80,000 ASNs and climbing, albiet more slowly (mainly stubs I believe).

The size of the DFZ exceeds 900,000 now.

Not wanting to over-state it, most BGP is junk. Most of the net would be fine with default, most of the net actually has acquired default, and most net traffic flows over at most 1 BGP peering to a CDN, or even less: the CDN now lie inside the ISP so it doesn't even exit the ASN's iBGP state.

Given promiscuous use of CGNs we could re-number to a far smaller routing surface. About 1/3 of the 900,000 which is by coincidence the size of the IPv6 table.

Routing ain't what it used to be.
while writing documentation in Markdown, I almost always have the preview open in split-screen in vscode, not because I need it, but mostly to make sure that the other people reading my work have a good experience.
> Why else do all electrical devices with a metal case or a metal structure have these metal bits connected to ground, if not so that most shorts will lead to the circuit being closed towards ground?

That predates GFCI, it's to ensure that in the event of a short the metal case/structure will always remain safe to touch by a (presumably grounded) person. Tripping GFCI is just a bonus.
> However, eg. PowerPoint doesn't support OpenType (as far as I know).

Ironically, it is Microsoft which developed CPAL/COLR (at least intially), and this is the least atrocious format across colored suggestions. The other options are SVG-in-OpenType (Adobe/Mozilla; https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/ot-svg-color-fonts.html), PNG-in-OpenType/SBIX (Apple; https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/...), and CustomBitmap-in-OpenType/CBDT (Google; https://fonts.google.com/noto/use).

All of them are now OpenType standards, for better or worse.
There's a lot of existing legislation around the world about discounting as well.

In many countries to be able to discount you need to have sold an item at full price for a certain amount of time, and you can't discount for more than another amount of time (i.e. to prevent perpetual discounting).

In some countries you can't sell the same item at different prices for different customers. You can issue different discount codes to different customers, but those would likely need to be widely applicable so that it's not just different pricing in disguise.

Having worked in an ecommerce company, I'm excited by the prospect of better automated pricing tools and tools that can do things like target sell-through by a particular date. However as a consumer and keen advocate for consumer rights, I'm concerned about a future where every last penny is eeked out of consumers by automated systems designed to identify ways they can be exploited with pricing.
United CEO's Grim Forecast–Low-Cost Carriers on Brink, Spirit Airlines Doomed?
> "Kirby laid out Delta, United, and Alaska as equally profitable – he adjusts the numbers to get there – American as break-even and then everyone else as money-losing even without recession...

> "And he says Spirit Airlines could be going out of business:

> [T]he low-cost carriers are just a disaster. These are going-out-of-business numbers for a number of these airlines. You look at Spirit Airlines for example at -30%. That’s a number that is hard to put in context. But if you thought about that at United, if we had a -30% margin, it would mean we actually lose $4.5 billion in a single quarter."
Right, and this is probably the important bit, sometimes a poor lubricant is worse than no lubricant, and its really important to understand when something like WD-40 should be used and when it absolutely should not.

Let me explain. I ride motorbikes. You don't want to be using WD-40 on the chain as it will strip it of any existing lubricant and dry it out, which as you can imagine, is bad. However, it's actually really useful for cleaning parts of the bike that have been covered in gunk and grease.

I have to admire their marketing, as like you mentioned, I grew up in a house where WD40 was used for absolutely anything sticking or squeeking, and so for the longest time also used it to fix those things, and beyond.
The spacemiT K1/M1 SoC is the best that you can get now. The CPUs implement RVA22+V, which is the newest spec available in hardware.

There is:

- Banana Pi BPi-F3[0][1], a SBC.

- Milk-V Jupiter[2][3], a mini-ITX board.

- DC Roma II [4][5], a laptop.

Performance-wise, each core in this SoC is between that of Rpi 3b+ and Rpi 4, and there's 8 of them.

By 2025Q1, Milk-V Oasis[6] is expected, with 16x SiFive P670 (Zen1-tier IPC) and 8x X280.

Late 2025, it should be possible to buy something with P870 (the next gen).

RISC-V is catching up with the top performers very quickly.

0. https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-F3/BananaPi_BPI-F3

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGryhBnkV0

2. https://milkv.io/jupiter

3. https://youtu.be/YxtFctEsHy0

4. https://deepcomputing.io/product/dc-roma-risc-v-laptop-ii/

5. https://youtu.be/3mhd98AGNXQ

6. https://community.milkv.io/t/introducing-the-milk-v-oasis-wi...
I've had the GFCI switch in the main fusebox in a couple of modern-ish apartments. That seems a perfectly sensible place for it, it's where you'd go to check whether the room breaker had tripped anyway.
Naturally, I meant using LaTeX running on top of a TeX typesetting engine which can use OpenType/Unicode.
Do you only offload aes-gcm or do the NICs handle chacha20-poly1305 too?
> I’d like them to fix the problem rather than playing whack-a-mole with banning data sources

We should fix the problem and ban the data-sources. Whack-a-mole makes it sound like we're talking about a ban on one company, but what clearly needs to be done is a categorical ban on super sketchy business practices, and that seems simple enough. Data-brokers, if they are going to exist at all, need to accept the burden of proof to establish that every single row involves consent, and they need to acquire new consent for every single resale of the information. If that makes the whole industry unprofitable, too fucking bad. And if this looks bad for business, it gets even worse: good luck getting consent for reselling what is mine without offering me a cut.

Since the above kind of common sense looks crazy these days, let's throw in something even more radical. For anyone looking to fund UBI, ^ here's a start. The trouble with the often-mentioned idea of "tax the data" as a solution for privacy concerns is that these taxes are just redistributing wealth from corporations to governments, while all of profit is made with our information. Who wants the monetized details of their personal life to pay for the next unjust war, or even the roads in some place they don't live. If we are so valuable, put some of that money back in our hands, and if the price doesn't sound fair to us, then let us opt out of the sale.
Bikes are easier to maintain, less cable routing throughout the bike and the wireless component allows you to wirelessly adjust the gearing on your mobile phone.