skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article didn't seem to mention one of the darker possible drivers of that spike in people "starting businesses", which was to commit PPP loan fraud.
it's a full time job to find them
> The more I encounter other powerful government bureaucracies (like building codes, local government, zoning, legislation), the more I suspect they work the same way.

It depends. Knowing some government organizations in Germany this is quite spot on especially when "CEO" level positions are set by political policies based on regular elections and not based on normal carrer-based government servants. However there are exceptions but they tend to be rarer the bigger an organization becomes.

> Somebody at the time it was formalized decided "this is how it should work" on the basis of the best information available at the time, and then once it's formalized, it's virtually impossible to change.

This is indeed also accurate but depends on precedent and the number of relevant dependent entites. If you have precendet of changing a set of rules (somewhat) regularly then dependants can get used to adapting it, e.g., tarifs, tax code and parts of building code.

This however gets a lot harder when more people depend on it because you will then have to make sure (information of/about) your rule changes get propagated appropriately, e.g., updates to driving safety legislation that affect everyone with a car.
Well, there's this, but I guess much of the US press didn't cover that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/havana-syndrom...
They said the scenario in which that would be useful was IF: "It's your day to day project and you expect to be working in it for a long time". The implication being that if neither of those hold then skip to the next section.

I don't think anyone is assuming anything here. I've contracted for most of my career and this didn't seem like an outlandish statement.

Also, if you're working in a project for a month, odds are you could set up an IDE in the first few hours. Not sure how any of this rises to the level of being
"bold".
The difference between darwin and macos environments really stands out with postgres stuff. Try installing WAL2json on macos postgres and you will feel my pain.
I was raised similarly to your cousins. We had fairly strictly limited times when we could watch TV, or especially, play computer games. As I got older, and started having more freedom, I would frequently use that freedom to play excessive amounts of games for an unhealthy amount of time, to the point where other important things like schoolwork sometimes suffered. The restrictions made it very difficult for me to develop self-control where tv and video games are concerned.

There are some caveats there. The restrictions on screens as a child meant that I was forced to find other ways to entertain myself, both via using my imagination and via spending time in the outdoors, which both formed some excellent childhood memories for myself and laid a foundation for some of my favorite characteristics about myself as an adult.

At any rate, I'm fortunate that I was/am able to be functional despite having the above-mentioned self-control issues; I now have a graduate degree and a great career. I'm now in my 30s and have parenthood coming (looming!) in a few months. We have not yet fully decided what our screen time rules will be.
I sent this to two friends and we got 163, 164 and 165. We are all maniacs in the +90% percentile I suppose xD.
I've been in a lot of different work situations over my career, including occasionally working part-time. Most of my part-time situations have tended to be very small, well-defined projects, or situations where I may be able to provide some unique and valuable skill that makes up for the reduced coding throughput.

I think a part-time coding job would be fantastic, but such jobs don't seem to be abundant or stable. It's my experience that very few people need just a little software engineering. If someone needs software engineering at all, they usually need a lot of it. Also, the structure and management of most teams don't seem to be compatible with part-time work. Many companies aren't sure how to deal with someone who can't attend all the meetings.

That said, if you managed to do this for a decade, you likely have more experience with how to pull this off than the rest of us here. I'm not sure what may have changed since mid-2021, other than the general tech slump.
Bonus if it's called "achromatone"
If identification of dutch citizens are a part of the product for services rendered by Clearview AI, they should be punished severely for this. Same goes with any country, or person, who doesn't want to be a part of their scheme.
And it’s hilariously difficult to cancel. Didn’t they name their adversarial cancellation flow “The Odyssey”?
I guess we should consider heated seats dangerously carcinogenic then. They put out far more power than a cellphone. Same with heating bags and homes without air conditioning.
>> We abstract away all the security risks and vulnerabilities of building your own solution.

Maybe... but don't I trade that for your risks and vulnerabilities? And you're a small startup so it's tough for you to play the obvious "expert-specialist" card at this point. I think you need a strong value prop at this stage.
That's reductive. Consider this scenario: somebody gets depressed and is out of work for several years. They burn through their savings and trash their credit rating. During this time, deferred maintenance ruins their car and their health. Eventually they realize they're on a short path to death so they start grasping for whatever chance they have. But now they can't work because they lack reliable transportation and have untreated health issues. If they can get enough cash to buy their way out of those problems, they have a relatively straightforward, albeit difficult, path to recovery. If they can't, they're trapped in a death spiral and will very likely sink back into their now terminal depression.

But to buy your way out of these problems will probably cost a lot more than the experiments the article cites. Like 10x more at least. Try it with 20k instead of 2k and I bet the outcomes will be much better.

And of course, for some people that money will hurt more than it helps. It will only help if the recipient is in the right mental space to make a serious go at turning their life around. Otherwise you'll just be enabling their self destruction. I don't have the answers for how such a program could be successfully run.
from the sources i found, this is definitely the case in germany. good to know that other countries are following this.

though it would be nice if businesses were required to always offer jobs as a part-time option
That's exactly the kind of info I'm interested in, thanks for the link.
https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-0...
That's basically what it is, but for some reason it took some time for the folks at Jp Morgan to figure it out. Probably because the person involved died years ago? I dunno....
It is more than a tangential annoyance in my opinion. It blocks the article until you hide it.

I'm very much in favor of ad space in free publications but this looks like milking the visitors.
Is the guy's response really that far off?

When you think about it, the candidate isn't even that wrong. Back then, at university, a certain professor would explain the oral exam to the candidate at the beginning. He would explain that he would incrementally increase the difficulty and skip from area to area. The goal would be to find the limits of the student's knowledge, the student would walk away feeling terrible, and he, the professor, didn't enjoy the experience.

That's how it ought to be, but here? OK, candidate doesn't know ICMP well, next topic, no need to waste time and dig in.

Here's another unfavourable thought: some people with abusive childhoods react very badly to dominance displays, and here is Rachel engaging in just that. One wonders what had happened before.
This wasn’t risqué at all 30-ish years ago.
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The Subaru Outback is quite popular and is basically a station wagon. But for regulatory purposes including CAFE it is classified as a "light truck", the same as any other SUV or crossover.

A lot of this is regulatory arbitrage. The whole concept behind CAFE was idiotic from the start and recent tweaks to the rules haven't fixed the fundamental problem. If we want people to burn less fuel then just tax the fuel instead of distorting the free market by putting weird mandates on manufacturers.

The station wagons available in the 1970s had some actual "utility" in that you could use one to carry a family of 5 plus dog and cargo, and tow a boat trailer down a rough dirt road to a lake. Now newer station wagon models have sacrificed that utility in a misguided pursuit of fuel efficiency and styling so they have become useless to a lot of American consumers.
Show HN: sol – A de-minifier and formatter for shell one-liners
I've built a tool called sol (like "soul") that helps you inspect and format complex shell one-liners.

Features:

- Choose which transformations you want (break on pipe, args, redirect, whatever)

- "Peeks" into stringified commands (think xargs, parallel) and formats those, too

- Auto-breaks at a given width (e.g., 80 characters)

- Shows you non-standard aliases, functions, files, etc. that you might not have in your shell environment

- Breaks up long jq lines with jqfmt because—let's be honest—they're getting out of hand

As a security researcher and tool developer, I often encounter (or create) long pipelined Bash commands. While quick and powerful, they can be a nightmare to read or debug. I created sol to make it easier to understand and share these commands with others.
This is very cool! How do you guys compare to the incumbents like Webflow and Framer?
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How you end up hiring a mathematician while looking for a programmer.
The non-ionizing range of UV still poses a cancer risk.
Me too... Apple Silicon era MBA, with Samsung 4K display with corresponding U28D590 driver...
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> Clearview AI does not have a place of business in the Netherlands or the EU, it does not have any customers in the Netherlands or the EU, and does not undertake any activities that would otherwise mean it is subject to the GDPR

That’s cute. I wonder where all the faces are coming from.
> people currently buying unnecessarily large vehicles wouldn't have a lot of overlap

Maybe I'm naive, but I think most people buying large vehicles aren't selfish, they're ill-informed and susceptible to social pressure and advertising.

The only reason I say this is because most people have big cars in the US now. But they're also objectively worse for most commuters. It doesn't add up.
It happens in primates, blue light causes problems. So yeah very much relevant. Stop cherrypicking.
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The spec describes the behavior of converting to and from 32-bit signed for the purposes of the bitwise operators. https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-toint32
One really notices that old untouched forests are pretty much impassable on foot.

There are no footpaths, the undergrowth is both dense but also strong - we aren't talking stuff you can push aside.
Oh, I totally agree and understand that point. I was just trying to clarify the power misunderstanding.

But yes, 700ishMHz and up is still plenty used in modern 4/5G deployments.
> You can see this in an elementary school GT classroom.

GT?
Americans, as one of my European friends related, live in a beautiful country but don’t really appreciate how beautiful it really is.

Btw, I will check your PNW and raise you the Green Mountains in VT and White Mountains in NH during the fall.
Any number between 36 and 64 should be as good!
Because that's what the word best means. Your definition of who's best includes a healthy dose of "pleasurable to work with" and "will disagree when appropriate", but others may make different decisions wrt all possible metrics.
This is very true. I know lots of people that spend months reading new tutorials about a topic (like seo, creating a business, etc) and never actually spend the time to try it out.

I used to be guilty of it too.
Isn't the reason for busybox multi-call binary mostly just ELF being bloated? So the answer for resource constrained systems would be to have more efficient executable format. I don't see why multi-call binary + bunch of symlinks would be intrisically much more size-efficient than something purpose-built.
Off the top of my head - a large vehicle license, which comes with increased taxes or fees or something. Businesses that require those vehicles can pay it. And maybe we can even have waivers or something for small businesses, or non-profits, or households with 4+ kids.
Ah, they are not available in US at least.
Very cool! As a further variation on this idea, I'm imagining training a reinforcement learning agent on atari games / super mario, but with an additional music-based reward/input, to try to get a "musical" looking playthrough... (Not sure how good it would look / whether it would be worth it though...)
I highly agree. Everyone should stop using Amazon immediately. That was your takeaway right? If you hate the way a company takes away your ability to say no (removing your ability to say no dehumanizes you) you should sever your ties with them so they cannot profit from their bad behavior.

I hate to recommend it but Walmart offers free fast shipping.
How and why does this make it a different matter? Photographs capture a moment in time. This moment occurred at a beach. It wasn’t sexual then, and it’s not sexual now.

If someone manipulated the image to be explicit or presented it in an obviously sexual context, that might be a different story, but even then, the original image itself was never inherently sexual.

I’d reframe this to point out the image is very natural, i.e. what could be more natural than experiencing nature in one’s natural state?

Seeing this as something sexual is a choice, and an unnecessary one at that.
These days, Windows Calculator takes up more memory than mIRC.

Tell me why a simple calculator app needs more memory than a complete multi-server implementation of the IRC protocol (including SSL/TLS), not to mention a full scripting engine.
Just like airline boarding groups, the fast lines are supposed to make you feel 2nd class to encourage you to buy fast passes.

Selling solutions to problems you create is the essence of gamification
If Google tracks me at work, it just saves "work" as the location. How do I know? Well, my workplace has since moved, but timelines before the move now show me go to the old location, then suddenly teleport me to the new one.
Since they don't operate directly in the EU, there is not much else they can do aside from collaborating with other countries DPAs to ban any EU company from integrating with them (per the article currently only companies in the Netherlands are banned).

Even the fine itself is a bit problematic because it looks like unenforceable as they don't operate in the EU thus not subject to EU law.

However if it were to be discovered that the user images where not only retrieved by scrapping publicly available information, but involved data brokerage or other forms of personal information selling all those involved throughout that chain could be fined.
Is this trait sealed, or not sealed – that is the question
The About pages notes that this was built with Claude Sonnet 3.5. Nice to see these real-world LLM uses where people who aren't front-end developers can share cool things.
>We have huge amounts of available land, and 90% of that inputs to home construction are locally available. There is a huge labor pool, ready and willing and able to fuel new home construction, and a huge pool of available buyer

While true, we need housing were real work is. No one wants to buy a house in an area with only "McJOBS".
your comment,
btw,
is a single sentence.

what now?
The US and UK governments already claim international jurisdiction in some cases - I hope the EU starts doing to protect their citizens against this sort of thing.
Fundamentally, reality is a continuum of variation, and the categories and ontologies we define are just models that are useful for reconcile reality to our own cognitive capacities, rather than anything objectively true of the external world.
Playstation blog post here (domain is shadowbanned apparently): https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/03/an-important-update-...
OP have you considered doing a version for this to test contemporary Greek native speakers, vs others ("control" group),

for differentiation of blues?

I remember reading that modern Greek has two color-names for sky- and dark- blue (not sure what the prototypes are for each nor if they have hue components, maybe the "sky" blue is green-shifted?)... always been fascinated by the discussion of "weak Sapir-Whorf" around this and would be quite interested to see if there are any differences in discrimination...

The classic cognitive/perceptual psyche data to gather would be time-to-discriminate, with the prediction being that Greek speakers make faster judgement because they have higher/faster discrimination, than others.

Not sure how you'd pose the question to non-Greek speakers tho :)
Just because it's one of my pet peeves, this is not what Dunning Kruger says. What it says is that people who are poorly skilled in a task will overestimate their skill and those highly skilled will underestimate, but not that the poorly skilled estimate themselves to be better than the highly skilled.

From the wikipedia article you link:

> Among laypeople, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as the claim that people with low intelligence are more confident in their knowledge and skills than people with high intelligence.
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Invariance w floating point arithmetic seems like a fool's errand. If the numbers one is working with are roughly on the same order of magnitude than I would consider integer / fixed point instead. You get the same results in this case (as long as you are careful).
Any chance you'll be opening new UX positions in the future?
Not a lame question at all. For modeling, are you referring to protein products, or something different? If so, the answer is yes for known proteins; it includes a workflow to download structure coordinates from PDB based on an amino-acid sequence query. You can currently click a button to download these coordinates, and another to open a browser with the PDB sequence viewer open to it.

It would be possible, as you said, to add functionality to open a script using Python/Blender or similar to view these, or even integrate 3D graphics directly in the program. Drawing color-coded molecules would be straightforward, but cartoon drawings etc would take more work. Modelling unknown/custom proteins would presumably require something like AlphaFold integration.

The solutions mixer currently is just for molarity calculations. Like, you are making a buffer that contains 300mM of this, 100mM of that. It will tell you how many grams or mL to add of each reagent. That's a great idea re more practical workflows like presenting in stem cells! Should add more to that effect.
“Generative AI empowers not the artist, not the writer, but the tech industry,” Star Wars: Aftermath author Chuck Wendig said in response to NaNoWriMo’s stance. “It steals content to remake content, graverobbing existing material to staple together its Frankensteinian idea of art and story.”

Like the way you stole Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to construct your analogy here?

Come off it guys... the NaNoWriMo org already said they aren't endorsing the use of AI to write your entire submission for you. They're just saying they aren't going to categorically condemn AI across the board. Seems like a perfectly reasonable position to me. Especially given that pretty much everything - human generated OR AI generated - builds on "that which came before".
What does no screens mean? Like - ideally - not a single second in front of any screen under any circumstances? What if you are working from home and your baby watches you work on your computer? Does it only include intentional screen time and exclude things like your baby watching you work? Can the baby look at pictures you took on your phone? Does it mean zero regular screen time but once in a while being around when you watch a documentary or a game is fine? Does it mean being alone in front of the screen?
I'm actually leaning towards a postulate that Schrodinger Waves are the core of the dynamic we call qualia (which is quite different from EM field itself), but at some point it has to interact with EMF in order to be able to effect motor neurons and cause actions.
JRPGs especially! Wizardry as a series remained popular in Japan well after its popularity faded in the west. You can see games taking the general first-person dungeon crawling style straight from Wizardry in some late-90s JRPGs like the King's Field series. I think the Wizardry series itself is still going in Japan, as well.
I remember a video around that time talking about the automated turret systems they apparently had deployed. Who knows how seriously the plans were taken, but they supposedly had enough advanced warning to have CBRN defense units on site.
“Just repair it,” she hissed. “Please?”

“What, make a bodge job?” said the dwarf, his pipe clattering to the floor.

“Yes.”

“Patch it up, you mean? Betray my training by doing half a job?”

“Yes,” said Granny. Her pupils were two little black holes.

“Oh,” said the dwarf. “Right, then.”

-- Discworld
That's kind of paradoxical. If a dumb CEO hires dumber people than them, that's smart. Umm, no wait.
It took me too long to realise that I can skip this whole conversation by pressing the - button. FYI fellows.

But once I did, there are no other comments left to read.
How China extended its repression into an American city
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They aren't executables.
Is there a list anywhere of these types of checks you do which are critical to approving a saas vendor?
This type of scam is so lazy and obvious I'm surprised it's not been reported before. Anyone with your name and approximate location, provided your name isn't something insanely common like John Johnson, can yield your address within a few minutes. Seems like just a variation of the "I have your IP address" scams prevalent in IRC a long ass time ago, even the tone of the letter sounds the exact same.
> Windows does not allow you to do that, AFAIK.

It does though, using the lpCommandLine parameter to CreateProcess as I said.

CreateProcess("main.exe", "foobar", ...)

argv[0] is "foobar"