skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: the article seems like a subtle ad for the booming industry of private credit.

The author is the co-founder of Oaktree Capital, which has been raising capital for one of the largest private credit funds ever[0]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-10/oaktree-t...

"Moving on to the real world, I note that following a sea change in interest rates, non-investment grade public and private debt now offer prospective returns that are competitive to those historically seen on equities. I believe investors should consider shifting capital to this area if they are (a) attracted by returns of 7 to 10 per cent or so, (b) desirous of limiting uncertainty and volatility, and (c) willing to forgo upside potential beyond today’s yields to do so. For me, that should include a lot of investors, even if not everyone."
What are some of the unreasonable requests you've observed (or made)?

Have you seen burnout arise solely from "too many hours worked", or has it tended to be coupled with other factors (like lack of control / agency, goalposts that keep moving such that they never get achieved, coworker disagreements, toxic office politics).
Exactly. Without models being truly open source, (training data, training procedures, alignment etc.), there is no way for auditors to assess, for example, whether a model was trained on data exhibiting certain forms of selection bias (anything from training data or alignment being overly biased towards Western culture, controversial political or moral viewpoints, particular religions, gender stereotypes, even racism) which might lead to dangerous outcomes later on, whether by contamination of derived models or during inference.
Well the second paragraph of the article lays out what the author thinks the "good reasons" are.

I don't even know if I agree or disagree with those as "good reasons". But also, we obviously don't all agree on them. Like, at all.
Perishable gold lol
See also: "AI Washing".

Externally done to give a kick to sales efforts.

And internally done in an attempt to get someone with AI resources to build blatantly non-AI functions by sticking then onto something with no or very little genuine AI angle.
>If desalination was cost effective it would be being done today at scale

An official from Irish Water (national water management agency) was being interviewed a while ago explaining that even if desalination was cost effective it has to be cut with fresh water at a ratio of 2:1 (I may be misremembering the exact ratio) because fully desalinated water leeches metal from the pipes.
If you know all of your clients, then you don't even need DNS. But, you don't know all of your clients. Nor do you always know your upstream DNS provider.

Design for failure. Don't fabricate failure.
This is thanks to USB On-The-Go support, really handy feature - can also use it to get a serial connection: https://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/linux/OTG
From TFA:

There is no doubt that shaking a child can cause injuries, including those that comprise the shaken baby syndrome triad. Newer research, however, has shown that shaking is not the only way to cause those injuries: They can also result from an accidental “short fall” (e.g., falling off a bed) as well as from other medical causes (e.g., pneumonia, improper medication)—all of which were true of Roberson’s daughter. In fact, a 2024 study found that the injuries historically used to diagnose shaking are actually more likely to result from accidents than from shaking.
Circular Runways (2017)
Might-makes-right morality... and to prove how right I am, I will show you my might by beating on some victim.

The mistake is to analyze this kind of discourse from a position of looking for justice or other classical liberal concepts. Authoritarian right or left start from an entirely different positioning, similar to that of a schoolyard bully: if you cry injustice, you're already weak. Winning is most important above all, not being right. And if the winner is doing something "wrong", then what is wrong is redefined.

Epstein is evil because he was weak and got caught, so his accusers&victims are right... but if allegations are made against Trump for the same things, those making the allegations are liars, because Trump is strong. There's literally no way to make an accusation against him without being, yourself, cast as a villain.

Even Christianity itself is redefined, its core moral precepts rewritten from "turn the other cheek" and "blessed are the meek", to prosperity gospel and "God's favoured nation"
Of course it means added chemicals. You cannot be this pedantic and still have a normal conversation. Well...you can but it's very annoying.
At first, I thought this was satire, but then the joke never landed. The author cites "Modern Physics, 8th ed." but then ignores everything in the book. This posting is fantasy in the same vein as "we can have personal jetpacks for everyone by 1995."

There is a lot of money to be made in air travel. If commercial flights were cost-effective, they would be operating today at scale. It isn't a regulatory issue; it's strictly economics. If someone could demonstrate the technology the author describes, indefinite amounts of money would flow to them. It hasn't happened. It's not happening anywhere in the world.

Finally, the author talks about building massive fleets of airplanes as though it is a trivial thing. A significant portion of global fuel consumption goes to aviation today. The author conveniently sidesteps the issue of producing enough fuel and managing the environmental impact just to keep these planes in the air. Why was this even posted to Hacker News?
You're playing semantic games. If it doesn't satisfy the triangle inequality it's a quasi-nonorm. When you say "norm", people understand it to imply the triangle inequality. That doesn't mean that spaces without a proper norm are useless.

Also your link links to a disambiguation page.
Cloudflare results with worker as a reverse proxy can be much better.
You can still criticize Netanyahou and the Israeli government without being jailed in concentration camps or assassinated, which is a luxury that political opponents of Hitler didn't have…
"mini-format language" in the documentation generally refers to the common system of type-specifying letters, width/precision specifiers, etc.

Anyway, f-strings can be faster since they're "pre-compiled", especially for simple cases:

$ python -m timeit --setup 'foo="bar"' -- 'f"Is the {foo}tender here?"'
5000000 loops, best of 5: 61.1 nsec per loop
$ python -m timeit '"Is the %(foo)stender here?" % {"foo":"bar"}'
1000000 loops, best of 5: 246 nsec per loop
$ python -m timeit '"Is the {foo}tender here?".format(foo="bar")'
1000000 loops, best of 5: 345 nsec per loop

Similarly with positional rather than named substitutions:

$ python -m timeit 'f"""Is the {"bar"}tender here?"""'
5000000 loops, best of 5: 60.4 nsec per loop
$ python -m timeit '"Is the %stender here?" % "bar"'
2000000 loops, best of 5: 124 nsec per loop
$ python -m timeit '"Is the {}tender here?".format("bar")'
2000000 loops, best of 5: 181 nsec per loop
As long as you don't twist and shout
Do you think, if open source never existed, if there were only free software and non-free software, we wouldn't be arguing about whether AI corporations can truly call their free models free?
> If the expectation is that, Indian courts and the Indian public should continue to bend over then that is not going to happen.

That's a pretty aggressive stance on this that is not warranted. Wikipedia is pursuing its mission of providing an uncensored source of information created by an open community for the public. Posing the situation as aggressively as you have makes it seem as if you are the one trying to make someone or something "bend over" (or whatever gross turn of phrase you'd like to use).
Anyone can copy Wikimedia content. That is explicitly allowed and not ripping anyone off.
Shaking your baby is harmful. “Shaken Baby Syndrome” was a mistaken thinking that certain kinds of brain damage had only one possible cause.
I wonder if there was an "unauthorised" vigil for Ukranians on ms premises would the employee be fired too.
> Banks have like 10% or even less…

That’s completely untrue, and Tether isn’t a bank.
Chrome and Firefox use the OS dns server by default, which in most OS' have caching as well.
I genuinely don’t see much difference in behavior between the two parties
I have worked at multiple companies that vilified open source anything, while building their entire businesses on Linux, Java, Debian, and thousands of other "OSI Approved" software.

It's because, in my experience, the majority of businesses want to take but do not want to feel any obligation to give back or support.
Monopsony and TSMC – By Austin Lyons – Chipstrat
> It's an acceptable solution if you have nothing else.

I'd argue it isn't acceptable at all in this day and age and that there are other solutions one should pick today long before you get to the "nothing else" choice.
At the same time Facebook is doing some of the best efforts for open-AI, so it's a bit hard to blame them. They are not perfect but they still spent and shared the most important artifact that was created out of dozens of millions of USD spent (or even more), though not the dataset, but it is really a major advance forward.
And from my personal Mastodon experience, "unsorted feed of all posts" also tends to collapse towards ragebait when reposts / retweets / boosts exist.

Instead of having an explicit algorithm to do the work of surfacing ragebait posts, that work is done by the users themselves.

What is notable, though, is that things don't necessarily have to be that way, in my experience, the Polish Mastodon community does far less of this than the English one.
Incredibly shocking how quickly Americans adapted to their government enabling the systematic deaths of thousands. Surely this will leave a lasting impact on those of us who cannot ignore it
There are energy companies like Quidnet that are commercializing geopressure storage, where water is pumped underground at pressure, then recovered and the energy extracted. This would be an ideal system to combine with solar and RO.

https://www.quidnetenergy.com/
There is a middle era between a cable in a datacenter and a misclick in a cloud. Currently, on-prem is still 1 misclick away from accidental exposure (unless it's been untouched for 20+ years).

Be it with a legacy DMZ setup or a bit more segmented with a ADC/Proxy policy that is slightly too wide. You can make those exact same mistakes with a stack of PaloAlto/Cisco/F5/IIS.

Unless you're running an entire OpenStack setup with SDN layers and policies (hit: most on-prem setups don't), there is a crapton of re-use when it comes to systems, and a classic webserver that used to be just for public stuff will just as much have some private applications added 'temporarily' (read: forever) and a crappy WAF / Proxy rule that is supposed to deny public access but gets bypassed with a simple URLEncode.

Doing the lower layers requires knowledge and dedication, of which the first is getting harder to find (not easier) and the second is getting squeezed out of most processes since it isn't something that gets quantified as value.

So no, it doesn't balance out, and no, the cloud doesn't do a magical new layer of things that on-prem couldn't do, even if on-prem usually fails to deliver on an abstraction layer (while the cloud does have it). A cloud does make it much more visible, cost-wise and impact-wise, because you can't hide in a cloud. What goes into a cloud API also comes out of the cloud API, there is no network scanning and hoping you find all hosts and appliances, everything that exists can be queried, and also gets billed with plenty of detail. On-prem has none of that, and the last 30 years of inventory/asset management attempts has proven that it's still something most on-prem setups don't do at all, or do a really crappy job at.
the simple fact that they require capital for success dispels the idea that all value is created from labor.

If all value comes exclusively from labor, then you wouldn't need anything else!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41936300
Remington Rand – By Bradford Morgan White
To be fair, any products that rely on "AI" in naming or advertising is "washed" in some way -- AI is simply a marketing term, not a technical one. Especially considering that it covers so many different (albeit related) things -- LLMs, image generation, computer vision, machine learning etc -- that it became completely void of any useful meaning.
Nice. Is there a user-friendly way to open a webpage that is running on the RPi? (I.e. without bothering the user with IP-addresses and such)
Note this is an opinion piece and Shaken Baby Syndrome has not been discredited or debunked as the author keeps claiming.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00247-018-4149-1

> Abusive head trauma (AHT) is the leading cause of fatal head injuries in children younger than 2 years.

> There is no controversy concerning the medical validity of the existence of AHT, with multiple components including subdural hematoma, intracranial and spinal changes, complex retinal hemorrhages, and rib and other fractures that are inconsistent with the provided mechanism of trauma
I think that problem is greatly exaggerated by those with certain motivations.
Could Life at Trappist-1 Survive the Star's Superflares? – Universe Today
That’s not correct. Taylor Company, who supply the notorious C602 ice cream machine to more than 13,000 McDonalds franchises, is owned by Middleby Corporation of Elgin, Illinois since 2018. Previously it was part of United Technologies’ climate & controls (Carrier) unit. [1]

Not all McDonalds use the Taylor machines. Some use machines from other manufacturers such as Carpigiani [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Company

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpigiani
Yeah. I had been wanting what Nix does for years, but didn't know what Nix was until 2020? I always had this desire to create a shell script that would allow me to install a clean version of my system, but always got stuck at the part where you try to reverse your current OS state (config and packages) into a shell script. It's just too easy to do "apt-get install..." and
then forget about your original intent of having a thing that produces your OS state. NixOS (and its relatives) is way more annoying about getting you to declare your config to get the OS state, which is perfect for a person like me. Being able to rollback packages (no, not individual files or groups of files, but discrete packages) is nice too.

> it's so easy to modify/remove/overwrite something

For some reason, out of the corner of my eye, I thought you were describing this as a feature of Nix because I missed the "mess up your install" part. It's easy to modify/remove/overwrite a package in Nix in a non-destructive way though. Of the few packages that have been broken for me, I feel empowered to pull them down and modify them to add needed functionality. And as I've gotten more confident, doing overlays or whatever they're called instead.
Amu Darya (Oxus) River
> UAC in practice

UAC is not a security boundary by design.

> It’s important to be aware that UAC elevations are conveniences and not security boundaries …

- Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Corporation [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080101143433/http://www.micros...
Carbonic acid has a pH of around 4 in sodas. Stomach acid is 3. Both are enough to discourage bacterial growth.

It doesn't prevent _all_ bacteria, as I said. But it prevents most of pathogenic bacteria.
Most businesses are started to earn money. Using free stuff while not giving anything away seems perfectly in line with those goals.
Pretty interesting. The Turtlebot 4 educational robot also uses this approach to power/ethernet interface the Pi 4 and the microROS controllers that run on the roomba. Before seeing that a while back I would've never imagined it possible.
In my view politics is largely a sideshow compared to technological advancement as it is mostly about how to divide up the pie as opposed to growing it. While people can communicate various political ideas more freely, it actually doesn't matter than much unless the political situation gets bad enough that it leads to a dark age. Therefore technologies that merely make it easier to communicate political ideas are less impactful than technologies that directly improve life (e.g. most people would not trade their fridge for a Twitter account). Of course, I am glad that both exist.
WordPress on Hiatus
> Why would any reasonable project try to circumvent such sanctions

Well, first they should be convinced that the sanction makes sense. It does not matter if it is the "law", an "order" or anything similar: you are responsible of what you do - including what you comply to.

Maybe it does make sense, maybe it does not: from the outside, with limited information about the original decree, it seems perplexing. Surely it raises questions.

For what your post is concerned, the war and the contributions to the Kernel do not have solid links between them - the jump from "there is a war" and "some contractors are inhibited contribution to the Linux kernel" is all to be justified. (The law is not a justification: the law requires justification.)
Some previous submissions, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The only reason they go to those new domains is because of the blacklist.

If you remove the blacklist, they’d just stop doing that and it would be even easier for them.
I would go out on a limb and postulate that most people prefer lots of meaningless content. At least if the popularity of Tiktok is anything to go buy.
Is there anything behind this stance or just pure simple misanthropy?
US Corporations pay around 5% of total US tax rev. Check how much Individuals contribute.
Yes it's single-player, I play offline. I agree, different people like different difficulties, and as long as you aren't ruining anyone else's game, do what you enjoy, but some of my friends are just appalled that I want to enjoy a game without "putting in the hard work".

If I wanted a job, I'd get one.
Obviously there's a method called LoadBooks. The implementation of LoadBooks is what I'm talking about.
Show HN: Ezcrypt – A file encryption tool (simple, strong, public domain)
And 50% of the times, the background fails to load and I have to double check. At first I thought it may be my specfic hardware combo but no.
OK, fair enough, thanks for the clarification.
Not a great title, this is a $1M security bounty, posted a couple of times (without discussion) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952853
Simple supply and demand. If there were enough capable SWE lined up to apply, they could - just like burger flippers.

Simple economics goes pretty far explaining these simple mysteries.
A sales tax and a tariff are two very different things.

https://differencify.com/tax-vs-tariff/
I wonder if the title should be amended to clarify this- I feel as though one would assume from the title that this is imagery from humans.
Who holds the deposit, and what is to stop them from having someone report your domain as a spammer so they can keep your money?
You should be happy that market makers like Citadel Securities exist. Payment for order flow is why commission free trading can exist. Citadel Securities, Virtu, Hudson River Trading, Jump Trading etc compete in a negative sum game which reduces the bid ask spread on various assets (i.e. make them cheaper to trade for everyone).

Also lol that a hedge fund with about 1% of total hedge fund assets controls prices. What do you think the other hedge funds and trading firms are doing?
Not really IMO. The mapping from the important instructions to the microcode underneath is pretty direct from what I've read at least.
Both Dick Cheney and Bill Gates endorse the Democrats, who (by their actions) endorse the current events.
Apparently, no you can’t. But one can.
Other than reports from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which represents the American semiconductor industry and published the above report, there are also the reports with past data and forecasts from World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS): https://www.wsts.org/76/PRESS-ARCHIVE

These are not as frequent or detailed as the SIA reports, but they are another source for comparison.

You can also check import/export/re-export statistics by industry and country using the International Trade Centre's Trade Map tool: https://www.trademap.org/Index.aspx

This does not include goods that are produced and used domestically.
try using your right hand ʕ·͡ᴥ·ʔ
Authoritarianism is good, journalists have shown they do not deserve free reign.
In the modern world there is no 100% ownership (unseizable bearer assets), as there is no 100% debt (enslavement in case of default).
There's a middle ground where apps are sandboxed but you're still in full control... But of course OS vendors will not allow that, so we're just daydreaming here.
Pantographs are mostly useful in 2 dimensions and any robot only needing two dimensions can just use rails which will be more accurate
Restaurants. Grocers. Cheese shops. Businesses with tight margins that might be willing to consider something that "fell off a truck."

You'd have to be pretty bad at reselling to resort to selling it out of the back of a car.
Try taking delivery of any gold bought on Comex and you'll get to know the difference.
Dataviz Is Hierarchical
I am disappointed by both parties but see clear differences in ideology and more importantly, respect for the law, due process, and civil rights.

In particular, the full title of this article is, "Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat at Behest of Republican Politicians Threatens Institutional Autonomy"
Sorry, I was unclear. The contradiction was that if you could take chunks like that it would be moving in the other frame, but Lorentz invariance says that flat spacetime has the same structure in different frames, and so wouldn’t be moving.

Fluids aren’t Lorentz invariant.
Everything we eat is “chemicals” that is broken down chemically to be turned into energy (edit: and structural purposes).

Sure in like-minded folks, chemicals may be understood to mean artificial sweeteners, pesticides, GMOs, HFCS, etc. but it’s unclear which they’re objecting to or even what agricultural sub-industry they’re criticizing.

Heck even high amounts of sodium in the American diet is criticized, but strip it out entirely and you’ve got a different set of problems now.

Most likely each change was done for a reason that improved either the cost-effectiveness or the appeal of food, or solved issues relating to storage, availability, changing ecologically factors, vulnerability to plant disease, malnutrition, etc.

It’s just not constructive to say something that’s so generic that it evaluates to “food could have healthier ingredients” or even “food could have more natural ingredients”. It’s just handwaving a bunch of supply chain issues as if people are just choosing to be arseholes.

It’s like taking potshots at tech for centralizing personal information into databases that keep getting compromised for identity theft. Yeah, there are issues with that paradigm, but that’s not to say that solving the issue is as simple as decentralizing all information storage - that introduces another set of issues (eg are end users really going to have sufficient cybersecurity chops to not lose their data themselves instead of a third-party).

It’s easy to complain about the solution when you aren’t familiar with the constraints that keep it from being perfect.
Why would knowing your clients change whether or not you want to use DNS? Even when you control all of the clients you'll almost always want to keep using DNS.

A large number of services successfully achieve their failure tolerances via these kinds of DNS methods. That doesn't mean all services would or that it's always the best answer, it just means it's a path you can consider when designing for the needs of a system.