skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Back when I thought it might be a fun side hustle to make cool youtube videos (long ago put to bed), I thought about making videos of Ruxpin singing death metal and stuff.
It's been years since it seemed like it was worthwhile to make Youtube videos...

But should it? There used to be a time when people put this stuff on the internet for fun, not as a side huste or to "monetize" it... Maybe there's not so much money in this idea, but you can make people laugh for a few seconds.
I cant brain the physics of both design details. Could you explain?
Google makes like 30 billion dollar PROFIT per year, and they pay firefox 0.5 billion per year.

Now it seems to me that 0.5 billion is the "cost of not technically being a monopoly" when they are indeed a monopoly, and it's a net win if they're pulling say 10 billion synergistic monopolistic profit from not being broken up into baby googles as a monopoly trust buster case.

I would say this is capitalism in a pure form, the kind the communists rail against, the kind where a monopoly crushes out all the benefits to the people, government corruption, etc. True "for the people" style capitalism would mean two browsers truly competing, ideally more than two (duopolies are monopolies by another name and poison our society broadly). One browser as part of an american zaibatsu, with the zaibatsu punting a little money to save face and claim competition exists - by propping up the competition financially - is absolutely a disgusting thing. To say "oh no, the thing they're propping up will no longer be propped up" is also disgusting and capitalistically twisted.
> a genuine rags to riches story

His accomplishments stand quite well on their own without needing to mythologize. He was born into a family that was already quite wealthy, it's what he did with that wealth that mattered.
Are we sure they were highly paid? Maybe that was part of the problem.
question is, was that user error, or a system error. I've had that happen to me, and I don't believe it was operator error, which implies there's a bug in arc that happens every once in a while where a http POST goes to the wrong place.
Their response wasn't great in my opinion, they dodged some of the questions like:

> Why doesn’t Bluesky block known keywords and terms like “child pornography” or “cp”?

> Does Bluesky have different strategies for dealing with text posts discussing child sexual abuse or grooming and images of child exploitation?
But you understand this part, right?

Sanctions and loss of Western support would be virtually guaranteed.

Talk about biting the hand that feeds.

Seriously, this whole nuclear idea you're onto, while no doubt well-intentioned, is infinitely untenable for a whole bunch of plainly obvious reasons.
I have studied science and engineering in school and college and know what constitutes a scientific theory. Part of it is that it has to make empirically falsifiable predictions. This was taught in a 101 level biology course im taking online now as well, it's not rocket science. That's all it takes to decipher this as quackery. There are many concepts that rhyme with "computational irreducibility" some of which I mentioned before, as I said this kind of thing is obvious after taking a few undergrad level courses. Further this idea makes no new predictions or insights. You're focused on qualifications but whats true is true and whats false is false regardless of who says it. If you read over his Wikipedia [1] page, you will see similar sentiments said by more "qualified" people:

"The book was met with skepticism and criticism that Wolfram took credit for the work of others and made conclusions without evidence to support them."

"Physicists are generally unimpressed with Wolfram's claim, and state that Wolfram's results are non-quantitative and arbitrary"

If you really truly believe that a person cannot know a thing without a qualification or that anyone with a "qualification" must know more, i think you should really reconsider that view. What exactly are Wolfram's qualifications in the field of science, and how are they looked upon by others in that field? How many cases of unqualified outsiders to fields making huge contributions that the rest missed? What are the financial incentives around Masters programs in universities, the difficulty of courses in an average M.S program compared to the undergrad, and what does that say about the supposedly higher qualification? How many cases of scientific fraud uncovered recently by eminent, respected people? "Nullius in verba" is the heart of science and deferral to authority can sometimes be opposed to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram
I must admit I'm not a very medically literate person - someone please break this down - is this good news or bad news? Were we expecting more people or lesser people to develop blood cancer?
KGB also doesn't exist anymore because it was renamed FSB.
It is a fine line to walk. However, I think one easy not filtering solution might be to sell a cryptographic solution on the open market for a price high enough that it would be infeasible to fake that. Think of it like X's premium feature but with no credit card involved. Imagine going to Target or Best Buy, smacking down a hundred dollar bill, and getting your "trusted human level $100" token. You could then use the thing to register an anonymous account anywhere you like, and the price(s) of your token(s) could even be public (in case someone did decide to pay a high price for tons of fake bot accounts, you could potentially detect it). You would have to still prevent the thing from being linked to your real identity, but that should be doable. It would also be possible for these accounts to vouch for each other. So, you know, you get some web-of-trust type of fuzzy feeling about various accounts.

Now that I think of it, maybe this can be done with TLS certs, although I don't know any CA that can take anonymous payment.
Works a treat :)
The article mentions equivalent ranking from cosine similarity and Euclidean distance. The derivation is very simple. For vectors A and B, the squared Euclidean distance is:

(A-B).(A-B) = A.A-2A.B+B.B

A and B only interact through a dot product, just like cosine similarity. If A and B are normalized, A.A=B.B=1.

For Pearson Correlation, we would just need to center and scale A and B as a pre-processing step.
On the other hand, cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy would be expected to kill a significant fraction of those 67 and rob the rest of their cognitive capacity within a few years.

There are times where tolerating treatment-related mortality is the best alternative available.
Dexie Cloud, A sync service for Dexie.js (IndexDB wrapper)
> Is it a chroot issue?

Yes. In my particular case I was setting up a server for some non-technical users to share files with me via FileZilla. So I use ChrootDirectory %h to restrict users to their home directory. Even if it wouldn't be a security issue to omit this, my users would be confused by seeing the whole /usr, /bin, /var etc. directory hierarchy show up in FileZilla. And even if they could learn their way around it, I don't want them to see the whole directory hierarchy. I just want them to see their own files.

Granted, this could be solved by symlinks if SFTP provided a way other than chroot to change the user-perceived home directory. But the fact that mount --bind works across filesystem namespace changes makes it more robust and useful in my book.
I won't argue that AT&T's breakup wasn't a good thing and the right move, but unfortunately a lot of that breakup has been undone: today telephony is controlled by a small oligopoly in the US. Better than a single monopoly, I suppose, but still not great.

The Baby Bells started their re-merge back in the 90s. In 2000, when Verizon was formed, it was a combination of Bell Atlantic (New Jersey Bell + Bell Company of PA + Diamond State + C&P), NYNEX, and GTE. (I watched this all in real-time, as my father worked for Ma Bell -> New Jersey Bell -> Verizon for more or less his entire adult life.) I'm sure similar things happened in the rest of the country with other Baby Bells, though I don't know the history very well.
The logs from the end of the documentary are available here: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizards/2013/05/13-0...

For whatever reason the documentary presented those logs as coming from another site which never has had logs for that channel prior to 2015. I have no clue why but it probably made it much harder for for many people to find.
> I think this will basically turn into provably-correct data structures.

That's kind of what I'm thinking. The basic idea is to prove that .upgrade().unwrap() and .borrow() never panic. This isn't all that much harder than what the borrow checker does. If you have the rule that the return value from those functions must stay within the scope where they are created, then what has to be proven is that no two such scopes for the same RefCell overlap. Sometimes this will be easy; sometimes it will be hard. A reasonable first cut would be to check that no such scopes overlap for a specific type, anywhere. That's rather conservative. If you can prove that, you don't need the checking. So it's an optimization.
It's very simple, I live in Russia and they want to discriminate in such a way so that I leave them. But now I don't have any free money for the transfer, so I'm selling all the domains.
The Semantic Reader Project
Where on HIBP can I see the email of the submitter?
The fun thing about this war-mongering doom and gloom sentiment is that neither of you are right, yet.

That said, 2 developed nations are at war, and a NATO nation is being substantially threatened.
Hi. First of all, congratulations! This is nice to hear.

I ran a consulting company that did bespoke ML products then built a product that supported us doing that (MLOps) to ship faster, then turned it into a product company with that product (it offered real-time collaborative notebooks, training, tracking, packaging, deploying, and monitoring models on all major cloud providers and on customer data sources).

I've written a Tweet that could be helpful: https://x.com/jugurthahadjar/status/1310668293305499653

It depends on the "maturity" of your clients. Some have technical capabilities and they'll be just fine with your model: they can deploy and monitor and use it within their systems. They may or may not have monitoring and you'll probably have to deal with drift as time goes by.

Others will want to interact with some interface (REST API or something).

Some will want an entire application specifically for a role/department: front-end, user management, etc.

And some will just want to use it and you deal with everything. Have you thought of making a product for that niche, so it's not just the model and the pipeline, but a whole application that solves this niche's problem?
We didn't expect the rate of oncogenesis from off-target gene insertion. It's bad news.

At the same time, this is a treatment for a terrible, terrible disease; so far the consequences seem smaller than what cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy would deal out on its own.

So it's bad news about something which is probably still a good therapy (but we sure would like a better one).
Another problem around data caps is that even if you have/pay extra for "unlimited" data, there's still a point where your ISP will fire you as a customer (or threaten to do so) for using too much data - I've heard of it around 8-10 TB on Comcast for example. Unlike with mobile plans there's no soft cap in the contract, they just decide when you've breached the ToS/AUP and can cut you off at their sole discretion.
Bottom line: Turnout reflects the odds that an individual vote will impact the outcome.

In most races, there is little doubt (more than 80% odds) as to who will win. And this extends all the way down to the local level. And voters, candidates and political parties all know this.
Arguably black-bar material. Outside view, it seems like he served a tenure atop a group comparable to Disney, in breadth, scale, and market share across many industries in India, as a magnate. Notably, in the period of massive telecom rollout in India.

Largest wholly owned and most advanced subsea fibre network, carrying around 30% of the world’s internet routes

- Brave.com's Llama, sourced from Tata sites

Note "30% of the world’s internet routes" is BGP burden to other operators, but by the same token, a sign of widely distributed control of networks.

As an investor, "first Indian to buy a stake in Xiaomi" among dozens of startup investments. "Some senior executives from Xiaomi were quoted saying that they would seek Ratan Tata’s advice on how to expand globally."

As a philanthropist, perhaps larger still in relevance to seeding, supporting, & growing the hacker community, his philanthropy on US college campuses in tech, biotech & genetics, and scholarships, serve to support more bright, hungry, creative individuals to learn in the US.
Books. (Until they're vanished by publishers. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-d... )
It's always a bit disheartening when I see someone from the engineering, product, or marketing sides of the business not understand the most basic of principles that salespeople learn at the beginning of their careers... people mostly make decisions based on needs, and if you don't ask and understand their needs you won't make the sale. Also, the more painful the problem that drives a need the more likely you will make the sale.

I had the benefit of learning this before I ever went to University by working sales jobs while in High School, and boy has it made my life easier not only as a programmer but also in nearly any collaboration with co-workers.

Don't recite features and benefits, that's just lazily hoping the person you're trying to convince will do your job for you. Take the time to ask enough questions to know and understand their needs. If the thing you're pitching can at least fit, and preferably help solve, some of those needs then you have a good chance of getting them to buy in. If, on the other hand, it doesn't address a need they have then you're going to struggle to convince them... and perhaps that may also be a clue that your solution may not actually be the best way to go.
Side note, did not realize the director of mad max made a movie about this with Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon in the 90s!
You have a chance to speak eloquently or clearly against his life, his work, or his impacts. I'm curious to hear a contribution to conversation, but I find it easiest to guess a dislike the idea of very wealthy individuals.
Monopoly law is based on whether or not consumers are harmed. Consumers want free and cheap and quality, Google gives that thanks to economy of scale. Break up Google and consumers will pay more for the same services. until another company steps up and does the same thing Google does. this could be Baidu or Yandex. Yandex has their own version of drive, maps, Gmail, search etc etc.
Correct. "Huge" in the case of antitrust matters is big enough to act anti-competitively. It's much more broad than you think, and it sees a lion share of litigation done by the Feds.

For example, there's currently an ongoing anti trust case against "Al’s Asphalt Paving Company"

https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-v-als-asphalt-paving-com...
> The US already can't compete at all with China in electronic hardware and manufacturing.

This isn't because the US broke up their chip monopolies, though. This is because chip companies believed they could save money by shipping their expertise overseas and building things there instead. And they were right. They only had to put the US's economic future in jeopardy to do it.
I LOVE everything about this! What a fun idea and a fresh look at a stand out album!

I should also take a moment to recognize how great the site design is as well.
When the 80/20 Rule Fails: The Downside of Being Effective
I have to say this is a really good summary from my perspective too. Different exposure and projects, but the experience in terms of ergonomics and other developer experience was much the same.

I never felt truly proficient. I recall years ago interviewing for a role and straight up telling the interviewer I wasn’t very good with Elixir. That’s just how it made me feel. In retrospect I was fine, I built some interesting stuff. I probably could have promoted myself for that. But the language kind of left me feeling like I wasn’t getting it.

Even so, great fun to learn and apart from those aspects, I enjoyed building with it a lot.
Another takeaway, particularly for the HN crowd is that gene therapy both works and still has some major kinks to iron out
This is me five or so years back. It was very calming and therapeutic for me. Same goes for the pen versus pencil thing. There is that charm of living with your mistakes and finding something new out of those mistakes.

I don't actually draw though, more like doodle and make something substantial (for me) out of it. It can be anything - an object, letters, shapes, anything which can dance in some harmony.
Unless you happen to live in a swing area, the results for most other races conform to well known and even pre-determined trends.

There are very few such areas. Voters, candidates and the political parties know this.
Being a “social species” does not mean you are social with every other social species, just that you follow a social system within your species.
I think they are acting in an ugly way. But the internet remembers everything. Let's see if anyone wants to use their services when they are discriminating.
The less I tell the better it works.
Whether the email is considered private or not is completely orthogonal to whether you are allowed / should tie an action to your email. And then again completely orthogonal whether you can/should make that connection public.

Even if your email is public information and even if what is uploaded is public information that doesn't imply that the email address behind the account that uploaded that information should be public.
Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets – Hugging Face
The podcast discusses the importance of data quality in AI, emphasizing the role of synthetic datasets for training AI models. The hosts, David Berenstein and Ben Burtenshaw, explain how synthetic data can address data scarcity and privacy issues while improving model performance in underrepresented scenarios. They stress the need for collaboration between AI engineers and domain experts to enhance the relevance and accuracy of AI outputs. The podcast introduces Argilla and the Distilabel tools, which facilitate detailed data annotation, supporting AI workflows for tasks such as text classification. It also highlights the significance of iterative development processes in AI, starting with small datasets and refining models over time based on performance feedback. Challenges in fine-tuning large AI models are discussed, pointing out resource-intensive demands and expertise requirements. The speakers advocate for smaller models for specific use cases, citing cost-effectiveness and manageability. User-friendly interfaces within AI development frameworks, such as UI and SDK, are also discussed as ways to democratize AI tools, making them accessible to non-technical users. Additionally, the integration of semantic search capabilities is touched upon, enhancing data retrieval and usability.
A while ago we did a site for a nonprofit focused on domestic violence.

We preloaded Kohl’s (a department store sort of retailer in America) and fiddled with the safety exit button to make sure Kohl’s came up really quickly. If we would have worked on the site longer, I would have a done a rotation of a couple of different stereotypical shopping websites. (Kohl’s was picked by the organisations’s executive director who, unfortunately, had plenty of first hand experience with domestic violence.)
Wouldn't it be something like:

"Treasury officials found that the data wasn’t erroneous, though they are legally forbidden to discuss tax filings."

The problem with the original text was that the rule that the officials had was said BEFORE the main point about what they found - which is why the "officials" were brought up in the first place.

This one states the important part of what they found, and then gave the addendum that they have a rule that adds a conditional to the nature of sharing the finding.

English is weird, by the way.
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I kind of like this variety of headline for it's ability to stimulate discussion but it's also nonsense. CGI can be any type of code responding to an individual web request, represented as a set of parameters. It has basically nothing to do with wasm which is meant to be a universal code representation for a universal virtual machine. Have I missed something?
What's "legitimate piracy"? As a reminder, the scheme was designed to work exactly like typical lending libraries. Publishers were unable to show any harm, and the only evidence available proved they actually benefited from better sales thanks to the Internet Archive. Authors were clearly benefited.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/05/second-circuit-says-libr...

But I agree, no need to put them on a pedestal. Nobody is perfect.
I'll admit I'm torn on Google,
they got their own skeletons in the garden but at the same time Google have failed so many times with their attempts to gain a foothold in a lot of different markets.

And others they have either competed with other big tech such as Microsoft or Apple, or just is a player in the race.

Compared to say Amazon, Apple, meta or heaven forbid Microsoft that is.

I do think though if they get broken up then I'm fine with Google getting nuked and we all collectively wag the finger against the employees.
Sibling comments have the answer. The math is that petrol powertrain is only 16% efficient, so coal power plant+long distance transmission+electric drivetrain still leads to less emissions.

https://thedriven.io/2024/01/31/electric-vehicles-use-half-t...
> All of the sudden, they're this amazing benefit for society.

No, they're an amazing benefit to your business. I'm sure your candles are great, but society doesn't need them (your candles, specifically) to survive. People would continue to find candles without your advertisements. Maybe candles that aren't as nice as yours, but people will get by just fine, and wouldn't know (or care) what they were missing.

> Advertisements can be good (when the business is good and genuinely wants you to know about good new product)

Advertising is emotional manipulation. Why do I need to know about good products, even genuinely good ones? If I have an actual, articulated need for something, I can go out and look for it. But if I'm not actually looking for something, but someone advertises to me and convinces me to buy their thing, likely I would have gotten along just fine without it.

> An optimist would say there are more good than bad. I suppose you wouldn't consider yourself an optimist.

False dichotomy. Whether there are more good companies that honestly try to hawk their wares, or more bad companies that try to trick people into buying their garbage, is irrelevant. Advertising is a blight on society.

The thing that really makes my stomach churn, though, is that if I ran a company, I'd absolutely advertise. It's the prisoner's dilemma. Because advertising exists and others will use it, I can't opt out of using it myself. I feel super gross about this fact.
I would be pleasantly surprised if they manage to do that. The current type checkers of Python, as useful as they are, hit the limit pretty fast, because of its extremely dynamic nature and the type system struggling to type check valid expressions. The number of times I've seen common pandas and numpy code not type check