skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like you have been burned repeatedly by non-benvolent capitalists, and there is not much room for love which I completely understand. As well as your legitimate gripes, and I appreciate the details you have given.

I do know exactly how you feel and have had to remind myself of this at times, potential relationships like this are naturally so lopsided that you are probably being cast aside like most anyone else, with no negative feelings from the capitalists aimed at you in particular.

So keep your chin up, it's no reflection in any deficiencies you may have.

Sorry for such a low-content comment to begin with, but nobody else had said anything so all I could do at the time was off-the-cuff and hope your submission would not drop off unrecognized.

With no-one else to upvote other than the submission itself, looks like worthwhile submissions tend to sink faster than they should.
Deno has had full node compatibility for a while hasn't it? It's very mature in my experience
The use of 1729 would be known to people who know about Ramanujan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
CloudNative-PG in the Homelab with Longhorn
Who has tried running Postgres in Kubernetes? What is your take on managed services like RDS vs running self-hosted databases in K8s?
https://archive.ph/N5CFG
"Old man yells at cloud about how the young'ns don't appreciate RSS."

I mean that somewhat sarcastically; but there does come a point where the demands are unreasonable, the technology is dead. There are probably more people browsing with JavaScript disabled than using RSS feeds. There are probably more people browsing on Windows XP than using RSS feeds. Do I yell at you because your personal blog doesn't support IE6 anymore?
> What if they just moved the last contract you had to sign to something that you clicked on the technicians phone after they set everything up?

That doesn't side step this - if you sign up in person they have to provide a telephone or online option to cancel that is just as easy as it was to sign up.

Now you'll need to return the hardware if you're using Comcast's hardware. Nothing changes there.
> I often think about how unreasonably great the regulations around “Unsubscribe” links in emails are.

While I generally agree with your opinion, the case is that bad actors are using the unsubscribe link to identify real email addresses. The vast majority of people do not match what I imagine might be the average HN tech-savvy audience.

They get an email they don't want and click on "Unsubscribe" to get rid of it. What they don't know is that they have been added to a database of "live" emails to be sold and reused for all sorts of purposes from that point forward.

In other words, as is the case for many laws, they keep honest people honest. You do not control criminals with laws until the result of the law is that they end-up in prison (or whatever the appropriate punishment might be).

I ran an experiment during the last presidential election (US). I used two separate throw-away emails to subscribe to updates from both the Republican and Democratic parties. I used these emails directly on the main organization pages. I also setup filters to sort all incoming emails into two separate folders.

A year later I deleted both email accounts and the tens of thousands of messages on both folders. It was an interesting game of whack-a-mole. Clicking on "unsubscribe" had no real effect. Both parties passed this email to, it seemed, everyone except for the local school janitor. It was nothing less than insane. There was no effective way to make it stop. I unsubscribed from both main organizations. That did nothing at all.

My conclusion was that, while "Unsubscribe" sounds good and looks useful, it only works with non-criminal organizations (sorry, I consider political parties to be at the threshold of being criminal organizations). It's like a lock on a door, or, to use a more provocative example, a gun. The laws surrounding these things only get respect from honest law-abiding people. A criminal will gladly take a crowbar to your door-lock and break into your home, or use a gun to do the same or worse.

Going back to unsolicited emails (and by extension SMS), not sure how we fix this in real terms. It's a really difficult problem.
Then some bored postgrad adds grasshopper gears & wheels to a lab cockroach. One mutation to force evolution everywhere.

Little chitin matchbox racecaroaches everywhere ..
This exactly where my distinction about "what the passkey actually is" is important: if it's only a password, then I assume I can do the recovery. Whereas if it's 2FA, I assume I can't.
Same. If a site doesn't want me there, fine. There's no website that's so crucial to my life that I will go through those kinds of contortions to access it.
Perhaps this is a naming issue. If it wasn’t called something as general as “feminism”, despite having such a specific culture and beliefs, then maybe more people would align with it. As it stands, a lot of women don’t relate to the feminist style and culture so they reject it despite having very strong pro-woman qualities
Obviously, you are correct. Gravity bends space, it doesn't bend vectors in space.
That might be part of it, though I think the more pressing boat anchor around Automattic's neck is the money pit that Tumblr is, for what seems like very little return.
the fatigue is not simply from using zoom, its about the privacy, and profiling violations, along with mandated usage, when its not practical to the task.
> the MPC series have audibly special sequencers, and "swing" in their own, peculiar way.

Best explained by Roger Linn himself:

> My implementation of swing has always been very simple: I merely delay the second 16th note within each 8th note. In other words, I delay all the even-numbered 16th notes within the beat (2, 4, 6, 8, etc.)

https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/interview/roger-linn...
Enterprise Ready Conf
There was a massive 8% JPL layoff earlier in the year with a vauge 'uncertain upcoming budget' justification, perhaps affected a lot of plans. I don't have any inside info though.
Where do you put your sitemap (or its equivalent)? Looking at the site, I don't notice one in the metadata but I do see a "site index" on the www subdomain, though possibly that's intended for humans not bots? I think the usual recommendation is to have a sitemap per subdomain and not mix them, but clearly they're meant for bots not humans...
Premature Abstractions
Prometheus Vendor Death Match
Oh cool, thank you for the example notebook
This makes no sense. A thing's roots don't change, either it did start there or it didn't.
> Matchbox was even an effective Cold War propaganda weapon ;)

Some Soviet exposure to Matchbox might well have been intentional by the West, given that we now know there was energetic and creative propaganda, including the CIA propping up an entire art movement:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...

Today, spies can just robo-post on their adversaries' social media apps, to neutralize a dozen years of formative education.
I guess these days basically anything in ML prior to LLMs would be considered small. LLMs are rather unusual because of how large they are.

NNs can be used as a general function approximators so any function which can be approximated is a candidate for using a NN in it's place. I have a very complex trig function that produces a high dimensional smooth manifold which I know will only be used within a narrow range of inputs and I can sacrifice some accuracy for speed. My inner loops have inner loops which have inner loops with inner loops. So when you're 4+ inner loops deep the speed becomes essential. I can sweep the entire input domain to make sure the error always stays within limits.

If you're doing things such as counting instructions, intrinics, inline assembly, bit-twiddling, fast math, polynomial approximations, LUTs, fixed point math, etc. you could probably add NNs to your toolkit.

Stockfish uses a 'small' 82K parameter neural net of 3 dense integer only layers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27734517). I think Stockfish performance would be a really good candidate for testing NPUs as there is a time / accuracy tradeoff.
Those comments really are getting old. Each HN post with rust in the title seem to have that snarky comment that get a bunch of upvotes.

I get that some people are annoyed, but can we stay on topic. As technologist we should strive to written better software, rust is a good tool for low-level components, that's it.
Once again: Hezbollah occupies Lebanon. It is not a resistance movement. A majority of Lebanese (which is not majority Shia) loathes it. It's primary military engagements over the last decade --- even after including the casualties it incurred by opening a front with Israel over the last year --- have been in Syria, where it has been gleefully (and I use that word advisedly; look up the details, they've been making videos --- Madaya; Homs; Idlib) murdering children and civilians. You give the game away a bit when you equate Hezbollah with Hamas. They are radically different organizations. Both are terrible, but they are terrible in their own distinct ways.

I understand why people have a problem with Israel. It makes a lot of sense. But you cannot simply assume any declared military enemy of Israel is a resistance organization. We went through this with Ansar Allah in Yemen, which is literally a racialist fascist dictatorship representing single-digit percentages of the population, also managed by the IRGC QF, and also killing civilians by the tens of thousands.
I mean, the challenge of putting a telescope that far out is a pretty big one.
The New Worlds Imager proposal is a lot simpler to implement and maintain and could be made more powerful by incrementally adding new satellites to the array. Although their proposal doc says "to truly study the surfaces in detail, the way missions like LandSat have of the Earth would take very large apertures, on the order of a square
kilometer. This is unlikely to be become affordable in the foreseeable future" - still building an enormous synthetic aperature with a huge fleet of telescopes vs building a telescope that far out? I dunno... SpaceX is dropping the cost to launch a lot..

And based on their proposal docs, just a few telescopes would be able to image at 100km resolution. Bonus, it'd be able to image a lot more targets since it wouldn't need the sun to be in the right place.
https://newworlds.colorado.edu/info/
http://newworlds.colorado.edu/info/documents/gsfc_February%2... https://newworlds.colorado.edu/info/documents/FinalReportNew...
LLMs aren't profitable. There's no significant threat of a product getting discontinued because it didn't jump high enough over the AI shark.
I suspect it's the Paperwhite in its new 7 inch form.
THIS!

I had hope at one point to set up a Kindle with large fonts on a treadmill, but that was just totally hopeless. I tried again with a music stand next to the treadmill, but it was too far away, badly angled, and touching the device to flip pages could still turn it off.

And it's not just the accidental power-off, it's also the accidental power-on. I slip the Kindle into a tight pocket in my backpack, and it sometimes turns on by itself. Further, inserting it into the pocket can sometimes reproduce the swipe motion, so it can be on and active (and sometimes randomly page-flipping) inside my backpack.
As a "gold miner", I used to have a samplesfrommars subscription. And never really used the samples.
but why does chronic giardiasis present as or produce gluten sensitivity?
Deno has had node compatibility for longer than Bun has been announced

It's always been controversial in the deno compatibility since they originally promised to take a principled stance NOT to support node in order to move the scene forward. But they quickly realized that they were in a market and they needed to compete and backtracked on that almost immediately
NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews
got it, thanks. That certainly sounds more productive than whatever I'm doing on Duolingo.
> Perfect is the enemy of good in this case. Let’s help all these regular people not get scammed

Absolutely! But on the other hand, let’s not stop at good either if there is a path to something that works for everybody. I do think there is one here!

> I don’t understand what changes _you_ would like to see.

Largely three things:

- Bring back device-local keys with attestation. (Less of a spec issue than an implementation one.) Unexportable hardware keys had value for various contexts like payments, where “delegation” to a third party provider has a specific legal/regulatory meaning and might be a dealbreaker; passkeys kind of made enforcing that impossible (and so they don’t get used by many banks, for example).

- Add an option to “entangle” multiple hardware authenticators securely, such as a pair of Yubikeys sharing a root secret and supporting only non-resident credentials. I could put one in my safe, friend’s house etc. and enroll it into new services without constantly needing access to it. (This one also seems doable without spec chances, but would presumably be much safer with them.)

This one would solve the biggest availability obstacle I’ve seen people mention here and experienced myself to using hardware authenticators, driving people (including myself!) to cloud-syncing software authenticators instead.

- Cement key exportability and an open private key storage format in the standard much more than it currently is. Put it behind a lot of glass (or users will get scammed out of their private keys), but do let me break that glass if I decide to.
Ben Thompson tried to make this case in various places when Amazon was sued by the FTC. Roughly “businesses should be able to make a case for why you should still be a subscriber”.

I disagree. Fuck subscriptions, they’re predatory.
That is true, I guess some weird multi billionaire might have a honeymoon there. We should see some other media as well, like movies perhaps, and of course p*rn
I contend this wasn’t an issue prior to Cloudflare making that an option. Sure, some IDS would block some users and geo blocks have been around forever. But, Cloudflare is so prolific and makes it so easy to block things inadvertently, that I don’t think they get a pass and blame the downstream user.

It’s particularly frustrating that they give their own WARP service a pass. I’ve run into many sites that will block VPN traffic, including iCloud Privacy Relay, but WARP traffic goes through just fine.
There's this "legend" that, I assume, has some truth to it, that only about 1% of Reddit users post, and only about 10% comment. The other 90% lurk.

On the internet as a whole, I do mostly lurk, but I have my own website where I try to post meaningful, useful content. To me, that's enough to have paid my dues. If you never, ever post anything. Yeah, paying is fair, but so long as you contribute back, you've paid, IMHO.

This gets tricky only because the web isn't small anymore. Youtube, for hosting, should probably get a cut, yeah. But the majority? no. The ability to monetize something someone else made and wants to distribute for free? Also no. They, IMHO, abused their way to near monopoly on video distribution, so they shouldn't have that right.

Similarly, I won't pay for content when I'm creating my own and distributing it for free (Actually, to some cost to me) and without ads.

Saying "Well, then only consume other's free content" is a fair rebuttal, but there's a larger social/societal problem that incentives making paid content or using platforms like YouTube which will monetize content made by anyone even if the creator never sees a Penny: The dominance of those platforms has stifled innovation to the point of depriving them of a real choice. (Again, opinion. Don't sue me Google <3)

By using adblock, I'm willfully, intentionally hurting that perverse incentive system.

It's a similar vibe to the idea that piracy may be moral, if it disenticives overbearing DRM. I pay for things when the DRM is non-existant or non-invasive. I've chosen not to when it is. I've let companines know on their forums before that I'd love to buy their product, if only they didn't use iLok, or Denuvo, etc. I usually don't pirate though, I just find an alternative, even if I think they have the better product and would otherwise be willing to pay.
Just for fun, I asked Claude for a dissenting opinion > # Dissenting Opinion on FTC's Click-to-Cancel Rule

While the FTC's intention to protect consumers is commendable, this new "click-to-cancel" rule may have unintended consequences that could harm both businesses and consumers. Here are some key points of dissent:

1. *Overreach of Regulatory Authority*: The FTC's broad application of this rule to "almost all negative option programs in any media" may exceed its statutory authority. This sweeping approach could face legal challenges.

2. *Increased Costs for Businesses*: Implementing new cancellation systems and processes could be costly, especially for small businesses. These costs may ultimately be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.

3. *Potential for Increased Fraud*: Making cancellation too easy might inadvertently increase the risk of unauthorized cancellations by bad actors, leading to service disruptions for legitimate subscribers.

4. *Loss of Customer Retention Opportunities*: By prohibiting businesses from discussing plan modifications or reasons to keep existing agreements during cancellation, the rule may deprive consumers of potentially beneficial alternatives or information.

5. *Inconsistency with Other Industries*: The rule may create an uneven playing field, as some industries (like telecommunications or utilities) often have different cancellation processes due to the nature of their services.

6. *Consumer Responsibility*: The rule may unfairly shift the burden of subscription management entirely onto businesses, potentially reducing consumer responsibility and awareness.

7. *Innovation Stifling*: Strict regulations on subscription models could discourage innovation in service offerings and pricing structures that might benefit consumers.

8. *Compliance Challenges*: The 180-day implementation period may not be sufficient for all businesses to comply, especially given the broad scope of the rule.

While consumer protection is crucial, a more balanced approach that considers the needs of both consumers and businesses might be more effective. The FTC should consider a more nuanced rule that addresses specific abusive practices rather than imposing broad restrictions on all negative option programs.
Medicine and science have a long ways to go to really grasp the diversity of individuals... most arguments about medicine I see online seem to include at least one side implicitly assuming that all humans must respond to the same things in the same way. Reddit is probably especially bad for that, sorry to hear it happened to you when you were looking for help.

People are diverse enough that literally everyone is going to have some what in which they are different, and respond in an extremely rare way to some medication or treatment. Hopefully they simply never end up needing and receiving the ones where that would happen.

In general, there are infinite possible rare events: rare events are extremely common, it is only specific rare events that are uncommon. People confuse this and assume that rare events are impossible.

For example, I have an awful adverse reaction to even very low doses of the supplement creatine- widely considered probably one of the safest and lowest risk supplements in existence. People will say straight to my face that the adverse reaction I had isn't possible, because research shows it is safe. Pointing out that the research was not specifically done on me does not seem to carry any weight.

I wonder if those people would literally choose to die from a medication they were obviously reacting badly to, because of a disbelief in the possibility of it occurring, even when it is occurring? I'd bet they take it seriously if it happens to them, but not to other people.
How the Graph is initialized and used?
My cats are weird and loved their cones after they got neutered. One would stick his head back in the cone after I took it off.
As a fan I’m driven to say Dua’s been credited with “Most Improved Artist” having taken to heart the infamous criticism of her BRIT Awards performance of “New Rules”: “I love her lack of energy, go girl give us nothing!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHtnxluMXMw

(Not a post I’d ever expected to make on HNs)
We all pretend it doesn't exist so as to not draw unnecessary attention and I'd appreciate it if you'd play along.
Yeah, this is one of those things that seems trivial until you try to do it, and then it's impossible.
Back when the sun was setting on IE6, sites deployed banners that basically meant "We don't test on this, there's a good chance it's broken, but we don't know the specifics because we don't test with it"
Trump says Tim Cook called him to complain about the European Union
I think palantir sets up their software on your infra and allows you the controls. So I don’t think it’s sharing - as in meta or instagram.
Wow, this hits home. I covered a lot of the same ground with my therapist this morning.

Leaning on caffeine or amphetamines to force action works, but thats not the same as desiring action. I'm motivated by fear and anxiety, and I want to change to being motivated by desire.
Black cats are the best. She is one of two sisters (oldest cats at 9 at this point). 17 pounds of chunk loving. Annoying as all get out, but will literally roll around on the arm of the couch and “accidentally” drop into my lap.

My wife and I go between two locations, today will be the first time 4 of the cats meet the murder noodle.
A potential taste of things to come, justice for sale at the highest levels in exchange for favors.
And surely they should accommodate controlling the ENV of that build process as well?

Perhaps by doing things like setting NPM_TOKEN for the correct account?

Just like you would with CI?

... except they claim that's too hard.
It also significantly improves people's lives. Entire online games are reduced to no man's lands due to cheaters. I remember buying a number of battlefield games a couple years ago and a number of them were unplayable due to cheaters speedhacking and aimboting. I remember thinking "this is easy to detect on the server side, why arent they doing anything".
It also usually indicates that prices are based on who you are instead of what you're buying.
Congratulations! I'm happy to see the PostgreSQL license.
It's popups. It's emails. It's constant nudges towards changes in workflows. Most importantly, it's accelerated the slurping of data and aggressive terms of service by an order of magnitude. Sure, in theory everyone wanted your data before, but now everyone wants all your data all the time. They want to upload it to their servers. They want to train products on it. And they want to ban you from using their product if you don't agree.
8 years is a long time in life and in business.
Perplexity Launched Internal Knowledge Search
Quake 3 LLM: bots fragging each other and talking [video]
What are some of the lesser known "better/cheaper ways of catching more bugs"?
Why would manual validation be so slow? Is there a ton of async stuff going on in there? Anyway you can just speed up manual validation , and should it fail give a response that asks for user patience?
“ Open Source Initiative chief accuses tech group of ‘polluting’ the term by using it to describe its Llama models”

I agree that the use of open source might be incorrect, but it’s more because the definition of open source up to this point was more for the software, the data, the art.

For these models that consume all the data available can we use the same term?
What criteria needs to be defined that you evaluate a released model on? (Model and weight, or more and include the data too????)