skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool. I was there starting 2003, in White City. With the generally dysfunctional air conditioning. Not so cool :-(

Which motivated me to work outside on the benches of the rather lovely walkway leading up to the building. Which in turn motivated me to write a pretty self-contained system. No Oracle databases for you! Was very beneficial for all :-)

The Ceefax team was in the next room, between us and the White City Bar.
Graphics improvements in WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit 2.46
I prefer automated restrictions. I learned a lot about computers while circumventing automated restrictions.

Just don't make 'em too effective. They gotta win sometimes or they'll stop trying.
ChatGPT itself
I was in the newspaper field a year or two before desktop publishing took off, then a few years into that evolution. Rooms full of people and Linotype/Compugraphic equipment were replaced by one Mac and a printer.

I shot film cameras for years, and we had a darkroom, darkroom staff, and a film/proofsheet/print workflow. One digital camera later and that was all gone.

Before me publications were produced with hot lead.

Get off my lawn.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/insider/1966-2016-the-las...
The only actual problem casino gambling, lotteries, and sports betting has been intended to solve is to generate revenue for state and local governments. Limiting bets to $5 would ensure failure for that purpose. Gambling addiction, crime, cheating, game fixing, etc are unfortunate side effects, but not real problems, in the eyes of lawmakers.
Is it possible that things have been this bad, and Milei’s policy changes have slowed down the economic decline enough that the poverty line is more accurate?

I’m not an economist, just an engineer. My intuition is that when a system is in freefall, any recovery will cause some metrics to look really bad for a while.

Like when a plane is in a dive, your first steps are to idle the engine, push forward to unload the wings. Then you level the wings and pull up. Is this article saying “Not only are we in a dive, the engine power is going down!”?
What kind of education is that
Being pedantic is rarely helpful, especially when the drive to correct people means you rush and neglect to be correct, as you did each time.

There’s nothing magic about configuration files. Any time you are making changes which could impact a system’s ability to restart, you want to test them when you’re ready to fix a problem rather than waiting for the next security patch, power outage, etc. It’s more likely to make mistakes when editing config files by hand but it’s not the only way, and since it’s so very easy to check the argument against doing so is very weak - being confident you haven’t made a mistake is worth the second it takes.

“Good practice” is an argument, but it’s at a different level. Any field has lessons drawn from collective experience, and while those are never perfect and change over time they are a convenient shorthand for things which usually aren’t worth spelling out in detail every time. We say it’s good practice to have backups because most people only need the reminder, not a three page discussion.
Have you calibrated the speakers with their TruePlay thing on recently? If that has gone wrong it may be the cause.

It seems very strange that the relative volumes would be so different on AirPods and via Sonos otherwise.

Your side note is totally true. Since the “new” app it has gone to hell. Has now joined the queue of things in need of replacements in this house.
Open game. Random clicky. Ah!
do you see any benefits to using AI to check your book for typos, grammatical issues, or even just general “feedback” prior to publishing?

Seems like there are uses for AI other than “please write it all for me”, no?
You have negative karma because you are promoting a scam to solve a scam.
And thus we have the Earth. Where all looks like a broken MMO in every direction. Everybody refuses to participate, because it's 100% griefers, yet nobody can leave.

Business: Can you get a law written to command the economy to give you money or never suffer punishments? Intel fabs (https://reason.com/2024/03/20/federal-handout-to-intel-will-...), Tesla dealers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes), Uber taxis (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak...), ect... Are you wealthy enough there's nothing "normals" can really do? EBay intimidation scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal).

Economic Academia: Harvard Prof. Gino (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/11/harvard-busines...)

Materials Academica: Doping + Graphene = feces papers (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsnano.9b00184) "Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?" (Bonus joke! Crap is actually a better dopant material.)

Gaming: Roblox double cut on sales (that people mostly just argue about how enormous it is, because the math's purposely confusing) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247034)

Politics: Was Santos ever actually punished?

Military: The saga of the Navy, Pacific Fleet, and Fat Leonard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal) "exploited the intelligence for illicit profit, brazenly ordering his moles to redirect aircraft carriers, ships and subs to ports he controlled in Southeast Asia so he could more easily bilk the Navy for fuel, tugboats, barges, food, water and sewage removal."

Work: "Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation" (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...)

There's others, that's just already so many...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/27/24255900/cnn-paywall-digi...
From ballet to medicine, a love of stories has driven this bioethicist
Hard to focus on the cutting edge, pushing the frontiers of space and technology with an ever-dwindling budget…
Is there any paper/handouts/video that explains Paxos in depth, especially its implementations and intuitions? Paxos Made Simple gave intuitive explanations, but I feel it still misses a lot of intricate details if I were to build Praxos for production use.
Discussion (114 points, 15 days ago, 71 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41520465
I have some company notes from early 2024 which cannot be accurate but could help,

TPU v5e [1]: not available for purchase, only through GCP, storage=5B, LLM-Model=7B, efficiency=393TFLOP.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/v5e
None, of course.

And the “current rate” is competitively defined. So if AI can make software developers twice as productive, then the acceptable minimum “current rate” will become 2x faster than it is today.
Good. Two years is a proper sentence, even if they are only likely to serve half of it per the article. These kinds of moral outrage stunts do very little to further their cause, make A lot of people angry, and have the real chance of damaging property and harming people. The latter by which I'm thinking of blocking traffic, which includes emergency vehicles.
If the customer is using an identity provider like Microsoft Entra, is there any reason not to just use OIDC instead of SAML?
Now it will be a "for-profit", so not interest for the public interest or don't care for any possible hurt to the human life if that allows more "profit" to flow in...
You can always disable screen time permission and uninstall it. Also apps must get a special permission for using this API from Apple, if that’s any consolation.
Some discussion (7 points, 4 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41625488
You could code this on to an old 8 bit microcomputer ("micro" as in "not mainframe"!). I would have loved playing this in 1988!
At what point is snide, petulant, childish, vengeful or blackmail ever a good way to do business?

Reading this, the last thing I'd want to do is ever be in business with this person.

The WP Engine side seems much more reasonable to me. There are approaches where he could present the "low contributions" grievance, and even take some action on it, without seeming awful, but this isn't it. Even this "gesture," which could have been almost magnanimous, comes off as still awful because of the childish screed.
The decrease in the number of Swiss banks prior to the UBS-Credit Suisse merger was largely a product of Swiss bank consolidation in the 1990s, not the US shutting them down. UBS and Swiss Bank Corporation were the first and third largest Swiss banks when they merged in 1998. Credit Suisse was the second largest Swiss Bank when they acquired Switzerland's then fourth largest bank, Volksbank in 1993 and they had also acquired Switzerlands oldest bank, Bank Leu just a few years before that.
i regularly (at least once a week) spot a typo or grammatical issue in a major news story. I see it in the NYTimes on occasion. I see it in local news ALL THE TIME. I swear an LLM would write better than have the idiots that are cranking out articles.

I agree with you that having elite writing skills will be useful for a long time. But the bar for proof reading seems to be quite low on average in the industry. I think you overestimate the writings skills of your average journalist.
But that's not true. I know several guys who make a living at it. The casinos don't care because they make their vig on the action. The only losers are the folks on the other side of the bets.

It is true that the casinos will find a way to ban people who find an advantage in traditional games like blackjack (think card counting), but that's different. In sports gambling, the profit is extracted with the vig/spread.
I wouldn't use SF as a baseline for anything. It's way outside the norm for any metric you could pick. That's $30k/student. Try Oshkosh, WI or something. $13k/student.
> “That feature add” referred to auto-closure, I’d imagine.

Yes, of course; what do you think the alternative was? There are no refrigerators that don't have that feature.
I don't think it's true that eventually we are catching this fraud :( This keeps happening because so much is out there, it doesn't follow that all or even most of it is being caught. Even a tiny fraction of a fraction of a percent being caught would yield a constant stream of such stories. I have a collection of articles on my blog dating back years that cover various fraudulent papers in different fields, and even whole fields in which the bulk of all papers are based on fraud (e.g. the literature dealing with misinformation bots on Twitter). None of them have ever been retracted or even had any of the problems be acknowledged outside of the blogosphere.

It's really hard to understand the scale of the problem until you wade through it yourself. Fraud is absolutely endemic in science. Dig in and you can easily uncover bogus papers, and none of them will ever be acknowledged or retracted. In particular there's a nasty attitude problem in which reports of fraud from outside the academic institutions will frequently be written off as "right wing" and thus inherently illegitimate. This can happen regardless of the nature of the criticism or whether it's in any way political. Literally, things like bug reports or reports of numbers that don't add up can be discarded this way. Thus they implement an unwritten rule that only academics are allowed to report fraud by academics, and of course, they are strongly incentivized not to do so. So Lowe is correct. It's really a mess.
> The “source” is not sufficient to “recompile” the product (i.e., recreate the weights). Therefore, while the source you got is open, you didn’t get all the source to the thing that was supposedly “open source”.

What's missing?
Altman is not a good economist.
I don’t get it. Sounds like all the things the state would offer anyways - education and healthcare for poor people…
No. If you can use OIDC, you should do so; in fact, if you can't use OIDC, you should consider rearchitecting so that you can. SAML is that bad.
> FWIW, I opened "CNN underscored money" and at the top of the page it says: "Content is created by CNN Underscored’s team of editors who work independently from the CNN Newsroom.

You are effectively saying 'what's the big deal if they admit it'. The big deal is that that's not what they're admitting. CNN Underscored is a separate team within CNN, running an in-house content farm, and that's what they're admitting to. CNN Underscored Money is an entirely separate company, running a third-party content farm, which they are going to lengths to hide the separation from CNN Underscored.

Google's TOS permits you to run terrible content farms. It even permits you to rehost third-party terrible content farms with zero oversight. But it does not allow you to claim this content as your own and hide its third-party origin, if you rehost it with zero oversight.
The Guardian stole the sensational headline but then buried the context. Here's the full context from the original Reuters article[1]:

> Argentina's poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data released on Thursday showed, the first hard evidence of the painful impact of libertarian President Javier Milei's tough austerity measures.

> That marked a steep jump from 41.7% at the end of last year and more than double the 26% just seven years ago, underscoring the severe cost to regular Argentines of repeated economic crises that have hammered the South American nation.

So the new austerity measures nominally increased the poverty rate by 10%, but the previous rate was already far too high and only getting higher. It remains to be seen whether Argentina can be put back on solid fiscal footing where wealth can grow, and grow equitably. But we know two things for sure: Argentina was already a wreck, and stopping runaway inflation is incredibly difficult. Argentina's inflation is/was incomparably worse to anything the US has experienced, now or historically, but if the US manages to have stemmed it's relatively mild inflation without triggering some kind of downturn (we'll know in the next few quarters) most economists will consider that somewhat surprising.

And Argentina's Gini index was already above 0.40, so it was hardly an exemplar of wealth equality. It's index is about the same as Chile, which had (until Milei) a much more conservative government and even slightly higher per capita GDP, not to mention a significantly lower poverty rate.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mileis-austerity-seen...
Effective Altruism is a cult
Is there a useful way to separate the effects that wages not keeping up with inflation has on workforce retention has from the effects that customer/student/patient violence towards staff has on workforce retention?

My gut instinct tells me that the latter would be a much bigger driver of resignations but I'm not involved in these industries so maybe the former matters more to them.
Great work making the train-wreck worse, Matt. This whole situation is cringeworthy and makes me 100% dedicated to never trusting Matt or Wordpress with any important project, ever again.
It is ridiculous because steam linux exists and runs on case sensitive filesystems with no problem. why does only mac get the error? It does not make any sense.
yeah the whole fixation on "superintellegence" really feels like the a modern telling of Tower of Babel. Except this time we won't end up with a lot of different languages or whatever.

at this point, the lofty goals are a distraction from celebrating the utility of what we have, incremental upgrades, and reduced resource usage.
I think it would, when you use a thing you attach memories to it. Makes people sentimental.
I think you are desperately trying to fit something black and white rather than thinking critically that there is a spectrum of research, some of which is similar to others which can easily have procedures for insuring and others that are more complex that require more diligence from the insurance company. Just like nearly every single thing an insurance company does.

Yes there is novel research that has never been done before? So what? That doesn't change if you can get insurance or not. Thats a failed argument from the beginning.

Anyways you don't seem to be having a discussion in earnest and instead you seem to be intentionally disregarding large pieces of the above arguments and trying to shoehorn in your idea that if there is unique research being done that it means that it is impossible to tell the risk of anything. Kinda silly.
If I understand correctly, this is the SVN repository for all public WordPress.org plugins:

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/

If so, I'd imagine creating a mirror of the registry would start there.
>and it goes off during an important early morning meeting and cannot be silenced as you aren't home

Couldn't you just forcefully turn the phone off? https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iph8903c3ee6/ios
This is a very weird page, as it seems to suggest that SAML is the only way to do single sign-on integration with IdPs like Okta. But modern systems all do OIDC, which is what you should do. You need a much better reason to support SAML than "the CISO wants it so they can use Okta", because the CISO can (and should) just use OIDC.
Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
Honest question: what is the appropriate level of investment? According to the national center for education statistics [0] Spending per pupil went up 13% from 2010 to 2021 after accounting for inflation, so that's a real increase of 13%, not a nominal increase. And 80% of those dollars are going to staff.

I'll admit that I'm anything but an expert, but a real increase in spending of 13% across a decade does not sound like years of underinvestment. I'm happy to be educated on this topic, but from an outsider perspective, it just doesn't seem like the issue.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmb
A nuke or a weapon of any kind except knives have one use, which is to harm people, they're built explicitly for that purpose, which is to harm others, so regulating their ownership and use is not a good analogy.

Maybe cars are sane analogy. You need to pass all kinds of testing and regulation to be allowed to drive a car or build and operate your own car, but only on public roads. You can in fact buy any kind of car you want or build one and operate it as you wish on your own property without any license. Even though cars can be used as dangerous and deadly weapons (terrorists use them on crowds all the time).

Yes, a line exists, that line is when you are engaging in privileged activity like driving, flying on a commercial plane or train, entering school property and such.

Maybe it might be productive if you used specific scenarios where you think allowing gambling would cause harm to others in and of itself, not as a side-effect (your nuke example is a direct effect).
There's a problem that if you care, as an average person, it's hard to do much with it. Every few years you can vote left or right, which unless you happen to live in a marginal constituency or swing state, has no effect.
They would have been punished more lightly if they’d come forward within 72 hours; as it is it appears to have taken two months.
Why would they need a license agreement with wordpress.ORG? the trademarks are owned by the foundation as far as we know.
That's very different. In America at least, if you purchase a physical object, you own it. You can do whatever you want with it. It's called the first sale doctrine.
I feel like MTM jeans are pretty rare, and $200-300 isn’t actually that much for nice denim.

I don’t think price is the main problem though. Most people could probably spend that if they wanted, they just don’t care about clothes enough to do so, which is completely fair.

Unfortunately it seems like people balk at even spending $100 on a piece of clothing.

Also, Old Navy is a Gap brand. I would consider it fast fashion. Nudie and Naked & Famous are a couple of denim brands I would consider good.
HN has low Erdos numbers!
LCDs work on polarization... you typically have an unpolarized source, run it through a polarized filter which is where your 50% loss comes from, then the LCD changes or doesn't the polarization, and you run it through a filter again. If you stacked a second LCD, you shouldn't see a second 50% loss, the light is already polarized by the first LCD.
This is the complete opposite of my lived experience. I've yet to talk to a neighbor and have it result in a more annoying experience, and my kids are great at talking things through with us without ignoring us. Not every experience is perfect, but then nothing in life is perfect all the time, so that's par for the course.

Awful people are indeed awful, but most people aren't awful. In fact, they're reasonable.
I believe the phrase is "trust but verify."
There’s also the use of typedef to help make function declarations.

Such as:

typedef void fptr_t(int);
fptr_t foo;

That would effectively declare a function with the prototype: `void foo(int)'. This pattern is used quite a bit in BSD kernels.
I'm having trouble even conceptualizing "free-riding" [0] as in speech.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
That seems like pretty much a license to have practices as poor as you want. For a company of that size, a fine that size would just not be material at all.
Parso is a Python parser that supports error recovery and round-trip parsing
The fundamentals of physics can change.
No one is claiming two wrongs don't make a right.

I'm certainly not saying these activists should have no punishment (and they know that they're risking prosecution when they undertake their actions).

But we should also be keenly aware that the emitters that causing a giant and growing crisis which has already killed a bunch of people and will kill many more in the future are not facing any punishment, and this should be at least as significant a story as 2 people getting 2 years for throwing soup.
He makes my list, but the list is long.
Google CEO Says Antitrust Trials Could Drag on for Years
nothing prevents you from asking an LLM to explain a snippet of code. And then ask it to explain deeper. And then finally doing some quick googling to validate the answers seem correct.

Blindly accepting code used to happen all the time, people copy pasted from stack overflow.
I agree completely. I've looked at designing a system around the Pi Zero, but it's so much work for someone with the time and skills that I (don't) have. And the Pi Zero doesn't seem to have the kind of I/O capability that I'm looking for.
I find it strange you took such a measured stance on my comment yet gave the OP a pass, despite it being far more "berating" than mine.

As for a race to the bottom, it's as simple as embracing and unleashing AI despite its lack of quality or ability to produce a product worth anything. But since it's a force multiplier and cheaper (for the user at least, all these AI companies are operating at a loss, see Goldman and JP Morgan's report on the matter), therefore it is "good" and we need to pick ourselves up by our bootstraps; which in this context, I'm not entirely sure what that means.
I'm not upset with them, at all. I chose to get on an airplane to go see them. Then wasted a weekend sitting around next to each other staring at the tv and not really being present. That was on me. I wanted to be with my old friends, and could have left and done my own thing at any time.

It was a good learning experience for myself. My state does not have online gambling and I hope it stays that way.
The ‘some’ in that article is doing a lot of heavy lifting: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/meta-slapped-with-1...

It was hundreds of millions of passwords.
Show HN: Ultra-realistic AI images at $9 for 500 images
This really teaches Raft well. Is there a good example of this but for Paxos?
You can be a resident of the US and be on vacation for a couple weeks
This is not a good look, Matt.