skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So companies in the future will not be able to subscribe to another companies algorithms? How is this a lot different?

A lot different... keep reading more.

> Tons of companies use credit bureaus to get the sameCredit data for pricing loans to people

Except credit bureaus (1) are a regulated entity. You can't just use credit data freely, and you can't use any data to write loans. Loans can only be priced using approved credit data from a credit bureau.

(2) Credit bureaus don't price loans. Full stop. Credit bureaus provide risk analysis, it is up to the underwriter to price that based on the provided risk. They provide a score and details on lines of credit. They don't tell you how to price your credit product, nor if you should provide such a service.

> Tons of companies use prices when setting contracts

Yes.

> in a ton of products (metals, food, stocks, and on and on)

Not all of those are "products", some of them are "securities", but yea. Notably, everything you mentioned is a clear commodity.

> those prices are aggregated and curated and that information is sold to all the other companies

More or less.

> thus setting prices

Sorta... thus influencing prices but not directly setting them.

> Stop companies from being able to access this pricing

Companies won't be stopped from accessing pricing data about the market.

> consumers will face more costs as each company has to gather/curate it's own pricing.

The act of gathering and curating data to make pricing decisions is the exact role of a business. Each business. Except basically under the American image of what communism is, I guess. But every business is responsible for their pricing.

> There are so many companies whose sole purpose is to set pricing so other companies do not have to do it in house that picking out this one seems ludicrous.

I'm not sure I agree with any of this statement. Few companies dictate pricing to other companies. Everything about this sentence screams collusion.

> I fail to see how this is much different except that it's politically popular.

Everything about everything is political. The laws are political. The justice system is political. The issues the government fights are political. What would politicians do but politics?

> Rental property owners are not forced to use it, and even have the traditional market forces not to use it: undercut the algo prices and get more business.

And yet it's quite popular in certain markets, and has demonstrated raising prices. The problem with this assumption is the housing market isn't a great efficient commodity market. Moving has extremely friction cost, supply isn't elastic, and a supplier can't easily make more housing units to trade margin for volume. Some housing markets are extremely tight and expensive.

This case is basically text book collusion, wrapped up in a politically relevant bow. As other commenters described, this company requires you to collude by forcing you to use their pricing.
Amazon is a cesspool of fake reviews and fake products and sellers giving buying gift cards to leave 5 star reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeUNC7z5MM0
This has nothing to do with free speech.

Telegram has access to the largest incriminating material on the Russian government, its related terrorists, arms sellers, etc. These traces cannot be erased in one moment, and it is almost impossible for the messenger to find an alternative.

The question here is, will Durov himself want to go back to Mordor? At one time, he [allegedly] refused to work with the FSB and somehow [miraculously] escaped from the Russian Federation. Later, Moscow wrested VKontakte from Durov, turning it into a social network censored by the special services. The businessman allegedly did not hand over the access keys to Telegram, but the special services of many countries have doubts about this. In any case, the "indifferent citizens" of the Russian Federation, who yesterday assessed Durov's activities "absolutely outside the legal field" and called him a traitor, are now breaking into a shit to show him their support.

Instruction has already arrived from the Kremlin : high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense, security forces, officials from the presidential administration, large businessmen to delete their correspondence from Telegram.

This explains why Moscow works so hard for its "enemy": what is Durov holding in his hands so that he does not have to see the world, if the owner of Telegram does hand over the confidentiality keys?

To be honest, Pavlo Durov is the biggest trophy of the Western intelligence services since Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA employee who revealed more than one terabyte of secret data about the mass electronic surveillance programs of the US government.

By the way, Durov's agreement with the investigation is unlikely to be officially announced. If the businessman agrees to everything, then for us his release will look like a victory for the lawyers. And if not, then he will sit for a while until he changes his mind: at the same time, there will be time for meditation.
I'm sorry, it was not my intent. I believe, that people develop from naivety to cynicism and then to a balanced position when they use different heuristics to choose the starting point to analyze a situation: sometimes believing in good intentions sometimes presuming egoism.

I don't want to justify any of that, there are no sense in justifying, either people are cynics, or they are naive, or they moved beyond this simple dichotomy, and it is their choice, they choose what works the best for them.
1) ethbr1 brought up many other good examples

2) ethanol is less than 50% of corn production, which is in itself about 25% of the crops in the US.

3)
> If I was going to fight my own argument I would probably try the heavy government investment into silicon valley for military purposes. It clearly worked out pretty well. At the same time, the government didn't bail out Shockley after all the talent left to Fairchild.

This is a bad faith comparison.

Intel isn't asking for money because its top talent left to start an even more successful US based semiconductor manufacturer.
Instead, the whole US semiconductor industry has been slowly off-shored after decades of US capital and talent doing the math and realizing that SW pays a lot better.
Intel is simply the last holdout due to its vertical integration providing higher margins which allowed it to afford the higher US wages, until recently.

If the US had started the CHIPS act 10 years ago when there were other US companies anywhere close to the leading edge (i.e. GlobalFoundry) then it wouldn't effectively be an Intel bailout, but that's not Intel's fault.
What other way is there around avoiding polar vs axial vectors looking the same but behaving differently?

Or normal vs tangent vectors transforming differently?
Thanks! That’s pretty cool and practical

I could have thought of selling some assets, I didn’t think of selling even the name of the non profit and just renaming the old one

It is funny that the original one now has cash that it doesnt spend after years of high churn, I’ll check out its non profit tax filings
Interesting -- I looked up automated folding tables [1] but even those don't have automatic positioning.

I'm curious: how do they fold with high throughput? I can't imagine shirts are folded manually at industrial scale.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYVf-1ka36w
> messaging apps are always CMD + 0 for me

How is this related to tiling managers if you can do exactly the same thing without them in your generic shortcut utility?

There is also a downside of this certainty: you always need to keep in mind the two recent apps you're working with (for some uncommon apps you wouldn't even have a predefined CMD+0) and then your CMD+0 wouldn't help if you have multiple messenger windows and need to switch between two
How the anti-cheat is anti-cheating so far
Wow, thanks. This is fascinating and it's also a useful outline or storyline for how these sorts of B2B projects come about. Particularly the part about how their current provider couldn't or just didn't want to provide or develop new services or perhaps just didn't see the customer base developing. Driving a wedge between big enterprise solutions and "move fast and break things" guerilla solutions.

[EDIT: Just wanted to add that I'll definitely be circling back to read the rest as you finish it and the lessons learned.]
Update: Trinet does provide this service. Thanks so much for letting me know about it.
Thanks, I'll check the archive out!

>Just as I objected to the terms "reverse racism" and "reverse sexism": political persecution doesn't have a direction

Hahaha, I expected this argument. I mention "reverse" because McCarthyism was only aimed at the left-wing. I struggled to find a term that would sufficiently cover the "if you're not with us, you're against us" mentality.
Right, because non creatives can't have nice things, and there was never a thing called conceptual art.
Or, perhaps the lender(s).
There's two ways to look at it.

If the wind is out of your sails, and you've learned the "interesting" parts of the problem, then you may choose to move on to the next problem with "interesting" parts.

However, the other side of the coin is that you don't know what it takes to ship something until you ship it. And there's just a ton of detail that happens when shipping. It's one thing to build a table, it's another to level it, sand it, finish it, and wax it.

As they say 90% of the time of a project is developing it, the other 90% is getting it ready for production.

That final part is an important feather to have in your cap.

That doesn't mean this is the project for it, it could be another project. But just know that there's a gap between being "done", and "shipping".
Yes, cattle not pets, and portability.
> It must be hard trying to manufacture outrage when they’re obligated to provide the truth somewhere in the article

It’s also hard to manufacture outrage when the truth itself is pretty shitty. It basically manufactures itself at that point.

Unless you think the land swap aspect makes what they said (a) not true, and (b) not bad? If so, you are mistaken.
I figured this happens in small towns with racist cops, but then I got in my first car accident and the cop seemed perfectly normal, but then my insurance gave me a copy of his report and everything was fabricated out of thin air.

Every single sentence was a complete lie, pinning all the blame on me, saying I admitted I was wrong, saying I didn't yield, just complete nonsense. In reality a car changed lanes into me trying to make an exit. My insurance adjuster empathetically told me it happens all the time. They want a clean and tidy story, so they bullshit and hallucinate to throw one party under the bus. No wonder they'd love LLMs.

I can't imagine any scenario where a court wouldn't throw out the entire testimony tho.
Looking at your competitors' or suppliers' prices to set your prices is not illegal.

Looking at the same inputs that your competitors' are using in order to set your prices is not illegal.

Purchasing metrics based on those inputs and using those to set your prices is probably not illegal, depending on what goes into those metrics.

Coordinating with your competitors to set your prices is illegal.

The line between that is not necessarily a super bright line, but some cases are extremely obvious.

One key test: if you undercut your competitors' prices, will you get punished for defecting, other than your competitors potentially lowering their prices in response? If so, you or your competitors or both are probably doing something illegal.
> With SGX, users can just verify that the code you're running does not, in fact, send all their data to the NSA behind their backs

This is a big claim which needs extraordinary proof if we're going to rely on that assumption for security. Remember, we're talking about an organization that did things like sneak in backdoors in encryption standards or infiltrate Google's internal network to passively extract user data en masse. We should just assume the NSA has gotten the keys from Intel a long time ago, voluntarily or not.

The NSA doesn't respect the rules. Nor do they think about the wider consequences of their actions. They're a reckless and irresponsible organization with an enormous budget. If they want something from Intel, they will have it.
^ my exact history too.

I've had a couple dual boot windows and I couldn't even figure out how to code on it effectively. (web dev js stuff)

To this day I don't understand if I am meant to have git bash, command prompt or powershell, or all of them or what.

Mac's are reliable, but I personally find them clunky for standard development.

Ubuntu is my safe place, the UX/DX makes the most sense to me.
A good summary, although The Crimson is not happy with the results of the deal:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/23/climaco-harvard...
Can you take a look at this open source background removal project?

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1dwkwrx/i_...

It's based on python and neural network modeling, and I was wondering if it's possible to run it via webgpu? Or run it based on wasm? No offense, just because it looks awesome.
As more and more people use co-pilot or even cursor, there is likely to be a mad increase in productivity.

But also note, there is likely to be a situation like the early days of internet where people write lots of code, but also bug ridden and unreadable code.

It will take a few years for things to return to routine.
Well, my question is about where it lies within the gray area between fully online and fully offline, so that wouldn't work.

Edit: Good call! It's fully offline - I disabled the network in Chrome and it worked. Says it's 176MB. I think it must be downloading part of the model, all at once, but that's just a guess.

The 176MB is in storage which makes me think that my browser will hold onto it for a while. That's quite a lot. My browser really should provide a disk clearing tool that's more like OmniDiskSweeper than Clear History. If for instance it showed just the ones over 20MB, and my profile was using 1GB, at most it would be 50, a manageable amount to go through and clear the ones I don't need.
Now they have the opportunity to buy it back from the for-profit in bankruptcy proceedings
> This information is visible to other employers that buy in to the scheme, and obviously favors the employer in salary negotiations with a candidate.

Meanwhile, it is an employee-rights win that the employer can't ask for your prior salary. Which of course they now already know.

We need strong laws that protect people from companies using data. Similar to credit-data usage for loans, companies should be limited to information on an application and in an interview when it comes to making employment decisions. They shouldn't be allowed to use social-media or past employment salary, or similar. At least not without explicit legal requirements and laws governing usage.
A full vimrc would allow blatant cheating, such as preprogramming commands to do exactly the movements you need for a given case.

It sounds like allowing toggles for a few key options would probably satisfy most people while keeping the spirit of the exercise.
That gave me a hearty chuckle, thanks.
FTA > This happened even though KnowBe4 conducted background checks, verified references, and conducted four video interviews before hiring an individual. However, the company later discovered that the person had used a stolen identity to bypass these checks and AI tools to create a fake profile picture and mimic the face during video conference calls.

Wow! It’s truly sad that qualified people are struggling to get through interviews and hoops to get hired, but North Korean hackers are landing jobs.
Damn, who wrote this amazing piece of software
The testing part of math education in Russia is anything but excellent in my own experience. You have to do EVERYTHING from memory. So it tests your memory first, your actual understanding second. I've always had serious problems with this stupid memorization part.

And it's not just math. Most of the education is reading the book and then reciting the book at an exam. Nothing else. No original thinking required. Just dumb information retrieval. It's humiliating, really.

But maybe the actual teaching is better than in other countries. I don't know. It's the testing that traumatized me.
How many of those non-vacancies are corporate held air-bnbs where they can make more money for providing almost no service? Hint: it's not a handful. Landlords strategicly take units off the market in ways like airbnb to convince cities that their rents (and profits) are just.
That is essentially why HIPAA exists. And the negative and limiting effects of HIPAA on clinical trials is well acknowledged and is considered as an acceptable cost of HIPAA.
User styling can fix some websites at a high cost of fiddling with the layout

But we do need some a shift away from this awful low density design paradigm
I tried your site using the image: https://bannerify.co/tools/remove-bg I crashed the page after 10 or so seconds and Chrome prompted me: Crashpad_NotConnectedToHandler, it doesn't work!
When you sit down at the dinner table, do you have your own fork or share one with the guests?

Exact same logic applies.
2U's due diligence might have missed that they weren't getting Walter Lewin's popular material, he's not bankrupt, still going strong!!

https://www.youtube.com/@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259/vide...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWnfJ0-xXRE&list=PLyQSN7X0ro...
Again, this is what you said:

> Airbus is by no means perfect of course, but it is still miles ahead of the best the Americans or the Chinese have to offer in a very complex large scale industry

So now you don’t claim Airbus is “miles ahead” of the best that US and China can offer, moving the goal post from that very generic statement to just comparing A32X with B737MAX?

So why not comparing 787 vs. A350, or C130 vs. A400, or Sikorsky vs Airbus helicopters? They’re comparable products that Airbus offer vs the competition. Did you know that 787 has got 1,900 sales and 1.300 deliveries, whereas A350 has 1,300 sales and 650 deliveries in the same time frame?

> It also has to build airplanes of quality, price and on time that can fly economically for its customers.

Did I say it doesn’t? Still, customers don’t have a choice. Boeing has been doing badly, yet the backlog of 737MAX is still more than 4.700 units and growing. No meaningful cancellation despite its problems.
Keep in mind that WordPress is over 20 years old at this point - the problem it was built to solve just isn't the same anymore.

Most of the use cases nowadays are covered by even easier products (social media, Medium, Linktree, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflowly, ...)

So you'd consider WordPress for anything that requires something more advanced like login, storing user data, complex state, fully custom design, ... (or out of habit/experience of course). That seems to be within the possibilities for low-code/no-code tools - they aren't quite there yet in my opinion, but in a couple years they might be.
You don't seem to be looking for advice on whether the idea is viable or not, but I guess I do wonder where it would be relevant. I tend to intentionally characterize a place by all of their menu items; if the fries suck for a reason that doesn't seem to be a one-off, I'm perfectly fine just never ordering there again, and that's also what I look to reviews for. I don't personally look for others' nuanced opinions as much in terms of flavor on a per item basis because I don't think people are critical enough of what they pay for, but I do look for things that are more objectively disagreeable, like consistently poor service, high price to quantity and quality ratio; things that form broadly disagreeable trends or give me sense of what type of place it is, and those are all things people are sufficiently if not too critical of. I do however look for photos of specific items, because I think it's actually somewhat useful to judge food by their book covers, so maybe that's the kind of thing I'd find helpful, but I'd have a hard time thinking of why I'd pay for it, maybe ad supported.

For example, I went to a brunch place recently to meet some friends, and I was skeptical it'd be any good for some reason, maybe I just feel like brunch is a scam for people who don't care. I looked at the reviews, and pretty much confirmed my suspicion based less on the specifics of any particular item, but on the way food was generally presented and priced. So I went anyway and paid too much for not that much mediocre food, and tempered my expectations accordingly. Any comments on the food could have just been "my food was ___", it wouldn't have mattered what I got, it was all arbitrary food meant to capitalize on location and people drinking (what do the photos show me? Is all food paired with a drink? Maybe people aren't there for the food).

All that said, everyone's a bit different, I'd maybe poll people on Reddit, it's uniquely positioned for people to comment on specific subject matter that's important to them. See what the vibe is.
It's been more than ten years since I used Bitmessage but wasn't message flooding what caused its downfall?
Firstly, a blog is an opinion piece, so that you went in expecting 'objective journalism' is quixotic. Secondly, even if it weren't opinion, journalism does not aspire to objectivity to begin with.
Stem cells tightly regulate dead cell clearance to maintain tissue fitness
There are some half-baked things about Mac OS, for sure. I hate when I get a Facetime / call alert and it grabs my focus. There is no way to fix this. Why can I use arrow keys with Expose / App Windows, but not Mission Control (all windows) ?
> It will not be possible to authorize Finale on any new devices, or reauthorize Finale

Well that seems like a dick move.

> MakeMusic has partnered with Steinberg to offer an exclusive discount on Dorico Pro.

So can we assume MakeMusic is getting a kickback for every sale of Dorico? If that's the case, of course they're going to stop you from reinstalling Finale.
Why not just have Apple & Google remove the app? Problem solved!
I don't really like how any of the MOOCs run, and I think my issue is that they are not run like universities, they are run like job training centers. They all have the Same courses and the same degrees. Other than a few actual schools like Georgia Tech with OMSCS which actually seems to be trying to innovate to give degrees online at a fraction of the on-campus cost, they also don't seem to be trying to actually give degrees.

A successful MOOC in my mind isn't one that will have some credits for an online certification for programming or nursing that can transfer to a Real school. A successful MOOC is one where I can take a course on Ulysses or Semantics or Mathematics or Plato or whatever just like I could in a real undergrad, but without the same financial and time constraints. I want to be able to spend $5000 taking classes that I find interesting, and accidentally have an English degree Or spend $5000 and really focus and get my degree in X.
Just open source it. You could spin this as a positive instead.
I used Finale for years before switching to Sibelius about 13 years ago. I found Sibelius much easier to use, but I'm surprised that there aren't enough unmovable legacy Finale users to warrant continual maintenance of the product.
> However, this works both ways, because it can also be used by customers to make sure that corporations are actually running the code they're claiming to be running, and that's pretty useful.

This still requires trusting Intel.
Lol, checking out the readme. Dunking on stuff isn't what makes you an opinionated framework.
Indeed, the domain is literally alltext.nyc, and not alltexts.nyx (as mistakenly annotated here fsr.)
Crows are carnivorous scavenger birds that are actually eaten by quite a lot of people, at least here in the Northeastern US.