skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really care if their business model is sustainable. If they go under so be it, someone else will offer it. Whether it's some hobby bob or whatever. I thought the internet was a lot better when it wasn't run by mega corporations anyway.

The thing with ads is: it's not free money. We pay for it. All of us. It's part of the price when we buy goods and services.

If advertising wasn't possible, items would be cheaper and we would have more money to pay for content directly. Cutting out the whole advertising industry out of the content payment loop would save so much money.

And yeah people would still buy stuff they need because they need it. And stuff they didn't need? Well good then that they're not buying it. Saving natural resources and money.
Then don’t consume it. You have full control over that. We all do. What we don’t have is the right to assert a condescending “moral” stance that ignores the economic realities that producers must grapple with.
simply https://citizenlab.ca/2020/06/dark-basin-uncovering-a-massiv... works too
For every good story, told well, filmed well, edited well.. theres 1000s that fail to tick one/some/all of those boxes.

AI is more likely to contribute to the 1000s.

There is unlimited content online, that doesn't mean theres 100 movies worth watching in any given year. Maybe not even 10.
Hey, nice work. I think dedicating time and effort to documentation pays off in years to come.

Also -- from your original plug about your product I would have ignored it, but after reading through some of the docs, I actually see some use cases for this in a couple of upcoming projects!
I use a chargie device which is a hardware level charge limiter
Actual article: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/romanias-elec...

Related:

Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42339819

Russia and China rigged Romanian Elections using 10M fake TikTok accounts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42334325
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42339819
I used to really like James and Mike Mondays. Then Mike posted a dick pic on the subreddit and for whatever reason that wasn’t a fireable offense. Kind of killed the vibes for me. That was even before everything started really changing. Now it’s like the avgn is reanimated from the grave for each episode. I haven’t really watched in years.
> While the court today decides that the Act's divestment mandate survives a First Amendment challenge, that is not
without regard for the significant interests at stake on all sides. Some 170 million Americans use TikTok to create and view all sorts of free expression and engage with one another and the world. And yet, in part precisely because of the platform's expansive reach, Congress and multiple Presidents determined that divesting it from the PRC's control is essential to protect
our national security.

To give effect to those competing interests, Congress chose divestment as a means of paring away the PRC's control-and
thus containing the security threat—while maintaining the app and its algorithm for American users. But if no qualifying divestment occurs—including because of the PRC's or ByteDance's unwillingness-many Americans may lose access to an outlet for expression, a source of community,
and even a means of income.

Congress judged it necessary to assume that risk given the grave national-security threats it perceived. And because the record reflects that Congress's decision was considered, consistent with longstanding regulatory practice, and devoid of an institutional aim to suppress particular messages or ideas,
we are not in a position to set it aside.
I'm thinking if the metric system was invented today, distance would be based on a light second somehow.
This is for running inside qemu, the OP says "Install Docker Natively", I don't think it's silly, not really the same thing
Keep reading the article on Plessy. It quite clearly goes on about how Plessy was handpicked for the second test case and had the cooperation of the railroad.

As for Parks, it's a recollection from some reading long ago. I can't cite it as it's been at least twenty years, but it's not out of the nature of the civil rights movement to have picked people who had unassailable character for test cases. Wikipedia is a valuable resource, but it's also not the place you go for a full story.

From https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/rosa-parks

> Mrs. Parks was not the first person to be prosecuted for violating the segregation laws on the city buses in Montgomery. She was, however, a woman of unchallenged character who was held in high esteem by all those who knew her. At the time of her arrest, Mrs. Parks was active in the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving as secretary to E.D. Nixon, president of the Montgomery chapter.

... which to me certainly suggests that she was not random.

As does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gray_(attorney)

> Shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in December 1955, many black community leaders were discussing whether they would file a federal lawsuit to try to challenge the City of Montgomery and Alabama about the bus segregation laws.

> About two months after the bus boycott began, civil rights activists reconsidered the case of Claudette Colvin. She was a 15-year-old who had been the first person arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine months prior to Rosa Parks's actions. Fred Gray, E. D. Nixon, president of the NAACP and secretary of the new Montgomery Improvement Association: and Clifford Durr (a white lawyer who, with his wife, Virginia Foster Durr was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement) searched for the ideal case law to challenge the constitutional legitimacy of the Montgomery and Alabama bus segregation laws.

> Gray later did research for the lawsuit and consulted with NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys Robert L. Carter and Thurgood Marshall (who would late become United States Solicitor General and the first African-American United States Supreme Court Justice). Gray later approached Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, Mary Louise Smith (activist), and Jeanetta Reese, all women who had been discriminated against by the drivers enforcing segregation policy in the Montgomery bus system. They all agreed to become plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit (except Jeanetta Reese due to intimidation by the members of the white community), thus bypassing the Alabama court system.

Heck, even the Wiki article on Parks notes that she worked for a pro-civil-rights white couple where the husband was a lawyer, that they had sponsored her in going to training on activism, and that that lawyer and the president of the local NAACP were the ones who bailed her out of jail on the night of her arrest.
Does this suggest that there's actually a finite limit on the number of questions?

When SO mods in the Linux/Unix stackexchange started closing questions as dupes, the questions that survived became highly focused, and I believe arrived slower. Narrow focus makes the answers less generally relevant. A culture of arrogant moderation also crept in, probably due to fatigue from dealing with dupes, and the close reading it takes to discern those dupes.
Thanks for the response! You pretty much just described exactly how it works in the organization I work for, as an outside contractor.

But PIM has a max duration of 8 hours and does not require additional authentication like yubikey, it doesn't even require that I authenticate again with my regular MFA login.

In practice everyone just writes what amounts to nothing as their reason. We literally write our team name.

It's also badly set up so all kinds of bullshit like viewing application logs requires PIM and nobody really knows how it works so we just request all the roles instead of considering which one we need because it's all just a big box of magic that few people actually understand. And we do so pretty much every day because we always need to do something in Azure.

So with the way we use it it still seems pointless to me, even with your explanations. Maybe we get some small benefits from it but for the most part it seems like security posturing to me.
Managers and product people are doing the work themselves, they are just doing different work.
Without it, all textual data would need its own charset header, and you couldn’t freely copy & paste between pieces of text with different charsets without creating mangled garbage. This was the situation before Unicode (except that charsets were often only implicit, so you had to guess which it is).
In practical terms, CCS and J1772 are the same standard, in the sense that 2 prong and 3 prong US power plugs are the same standard, since receiving plugs support both.

I do still see CHAdeMO at a lot of EA and EVgo stations (I usually charge at home, so my charging station experience is mostly limited to road trips)
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42339819
The purpose of this attack was to normalize vigilante murder (and, as you say, the target was well chosen to achieve that). The division and societal breakdown come later when vigilante actions become more common.
Mind Bomb – How Russia wages an international war on truth
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Wouldn’t this be an example of anchoring?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect
Are you calling the entire field of economics a pseudoscience?
Study: RTO mandates are making it harder for companies to hire
According to Wikipedia the rate of deaths to summit attempts is more like 1%. They cite the Himalayan Database as their source for that figure; I'm not sure how accurate that is.

I'm assuming by "summit attempt" they mean something like ascending above the high camp, so that wouldn't include people who abandon the climb lower down the mountain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_on_eight-thousa...
I guess the math seems easy when you ignore most of the variables...
My understanding of it is that in eukaryotes the genome is folded up like the pages of a book and that one function of non-coding DNA is control of the opening up of these "pages" which in turn plays a major role. You are not just looking at RNAs being expressed but also sections of DNA that those RNAs bind to, pieces that bind to each other to keep pages shut, probably things like the hinges and springs in a pop-up book.

Genetic engineering always had the problem that you just don't want to express a gene that makes a protein but you want to express that gene a lot. For instance the first version of Golden Rice produced detectable but not nutritionally significant amounts of Vitamin A. It took them quite a few more years to get Golden Rice 2 which produces enough to matter.

It's been known a long time that a lot of genes associated with diseases are non-coding, but looking at what my RSS reader shows me it seems that very rapid progress is being made right now on understanding these hidden regulatory networks.
The problem is that we don't just want to know what events happened, but also the order of events.

Between the posters in this group, we've got some ideals we'd like to meet

a) messages should be displayed as soon as possible when they arrive (this one isn't written much, but I think it's generally agreed)

b) messages should be displayed in a globally consistent order

c) message order should not change after display / newly arrived messages must be at the bottom/top

Unfortunately, we can't meet all these ideals unless instant messaging becomes actually instant instead of just pretty fast messaging subject to the speed of light and other sundry delays.

You can get all the properties if you serialize messages through some single queue somewhere, but of course that means additional delay and a spof.

You can most likely get b and c if you compromise a, and just don't display messages for long enough that you probably have everything and can order it according to the gloablly consistent ordering algorithm.

If you compromise b, you can definitely do a and c. Messages go to the end when received. Easy peasy. You can't leave placeholders for messages that will be sorted earlier but haven't arrived yet, because you generally won't know they exist until they arrive; although there are some cases where you could know. If a user receives message X and sends message Y, but due to delays and what not, you receive Y before X ... Y could indicate the presence of X, and a reciever who gets Y first could reserve a place for X... but that doesn't work for simultaneous messages.

If you compromise c, you can do a and b, messages are inserted into the ordered list on arrival based on the consensus ordering algorithm. Easy enough.

Of course, there's not widespread agreement on b and c. So half of the thread is people saying b is clearly non-negotiable, another half is saying c is clearly non-negotiable, and the other half is saying why can't we just have everything we want.
They're technically correct in the same sense that there are more than 2 mobile operating systems.
https://archive.ph/s1gAL
I mean you're getting the mRNA in your body one way or the other. One choice is to inhale someone else's cough droplets, then the self-replicating nano-machines inside the sputum drops take over the cells in your lungs, explode them and spread out of control until your immune system catches up and kills even more of your cells by just absolutely nuking everything around them. That's "natural immunity". You could also get a shot with a precisely controlled dose of one non-functional part of the virus that your immune system can then learn to recognize and destroy quickly. That's a vaccine. I know which I prefer.
Come now, lets not resort to strawman arguments. The injustice and inequality in our current system is clearly dramatically more than "you don't get your way".
One would think by this stage of Science, when it comes to naturally occurring phenomena, there is only “yet to be understood” things and never “junk”.
If you work with large input contex all the time, it will quickly add up.
Bill Posters is innocent!
> I might switch off the adblocker

There's a high likelihood that your adblocker won't be able to block those anyway.

But no, you probably won't switch it off. That's because you can only know the ad quality after you've been exposed to them, and after your computer has run their code, and after you've faced the risk of them maintaining the universal, persistent eavesdrop on your life.
No, it's not, but that's without any noticeable decay. A tree that's been felled in that environment and left above ground will rot very quickly.
We can test the safety of these things the same way we test the safety of other drugs.
Something to Remember Us By
OpenAI's enterprise access is probably mostly happening through Azure. Azure has AI Services with access to OpenAI.
Linux Preps for Kunpeng ARM Server SoC with High Bandwidth Memory
TLDR: The ban is set to take effect on January 19, 2025. It can be postponed once for a duration of 90 days by a presidential act. This appeals court upheld the law.
For reference, to those who want to learn more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
Don't you mean 6-bit? 7-bit ASCII supports lower case characters. Or maybe there are other 7-bit character sets that don't have lower case characters and it was one of those?
> Stop gaslighting. We saw it.

Yeah, you saw Fox News. The people living here continue to be amused at the caricature. During the worst of the 'riots' we were all just living our lives as normal, because that all happened in like two blocks right next to the courthouse. And that was as bad as it ever got.

Portland is very boring, very safe [0]. And for better or worse, not nearly as weird as it aspires. It has been getting steadily less weird, sadly.

[0] From antifa, at least. Rough homeless camps are not an ideal place to hang out if you don't have to
Yes it is, but we've already heated the planet a bit. What we're trying to do now is prevent heating the planet a lot, which will come with much greater consequences (mass migration to escape heat and rising seas, droughts, famines, "natural" disasters, etc.).
Related:

Russia and China rigged Romanian Elections using 10M fake TikTok accounts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42334325
Where is the fun in asking an LLM to finish something you started for fun?
Controversial stance, but... almost any big company, as long as you don't care too much about promotions or the social hierarchy of your coworkers.

Get a $150k job as a senior software engineer, show up to meetings, do good-enough work and be polite and friendly to your coworkers and you'll basically be fine.

At performance review time you'll get the low-performer raise of 3% instead of the high-performer raise of 4%, but your hourly wage comes out ahead. Maybe you'll be a little more likely to get laid off in lean times, but those are sufficiently arbitrary that you could work nights and weekends and still get laid off.

Plenty of people have lived happy, well-rounded lives putting their energy into their families, hobbies and self-fulfillment while coasting through their career as a lower-than-average-performer in a series of 1-4 year stints at different companies.
Thanks, just found it
Most enterprise use cases also have strong authz requirements.

You can't really maintain authz while fine tuning (unless you do a separate fine-tune for each permission set.) So RAG is the way to go, there.
Bad news for Verizon users: Samsung Messages is ditching RCS in January 2025
A print book would be a fine way to address the problem. While this book won’t be able to show video, it could still do a lot with text and screenshots. And then, videos could be moved into the companion app.
Day 2: Create a Custom Middleware for Logging Requests in Node.js
It's called a "black start" and it's difficult at the best of times when everything is in a known state and generally good repair.
Are they going to cancel the parlamentary elections, which were held one week after the Presidential election?
You can use the emdash by writing dash twice -- it works in a surprising number of editors and rendering engines
This strikes me as dual use technology. What's to keep the next insurgency, or the next invaded sovereign state from implementing an overwhelming swarm of bomb carrying cyborg cockroaches?
Traditionally, one of the salient features of ARM systems was that it didn't have fans. Here we are now.
Build Note Taking Agent from Scratch
And now it's \Users, presumably because after 20 years, Microsoft gave up?
Yeah the V2s are also slow enough most people wouldn't want to use them anyway. They are already drastically outnumbered too.
Those are not the same people.
>there are 4 to 6 others waiting to take their customers with lower premiums

Why do people believe this?

Healthcare isn't widgets and factories in an ECON-101 class.

The chances of anything short of an extremely large and well-funded consortium of investment bankers and private equity firms starting a new MCO is exactly and precisely 0.0%.

And those groups have the same incentives to maximize the payouts to all parties involved that the incumbents do.

Of course, they would never do that because increased competition would threaten their already-extensive investments in the sector.

The problem isn't regulation, or regulatory capture, or any other buzzword a podcast full of morons bandies about.

The problem is that you need at least $10 billion just to open the doors.
After merging and before you exit ---

A "driverless" car doesn't get to choose only the easy parts.

Have you ever driven on the freeway?

I have and I have come really close to dying on multiple occasions and probably would have without experience, good instincts and defensive driving skills.

Imagine one car clipping another at freeway speeds and knocking it's bumper off and it comes flying over into your lane.

Imagine a car hitting a patch of ice on an overpass and spinning out of control creating a multi car pile up right in front of you.

This and more has happened to me on the freeway and I lived to tell about it. Drive long enough and you'll experience something like this too. How would Blue Cruise handle these situations?

Things like this happen on a daily basis in most large cities. You can't jam millions of people together without it happening. Incompetent drivers (or software) only make for worse results.
My organization Fight for the Future was targeted by the same hacking-for-hire operation while working on net neutrality protections.

It was really interesting because at the time the conclusion of our security consultants was that the attack was just random commercially-motivated prospecting. Then the Citizen Lab Dark Basin report came out years later and it was clear they were after our internal comms, so they could milk a decade of emails for anything that looked bad when taken out of context. Yikes.

After the attack we put a 3 month retention limit on most emails and messages. I recommend this to anyone doing sensitive work! You miss the old emails sometimes but it's worth it.

I think it's possible we'll learn more soon about who hired our hackers, which is exciting! It was almost certainly a major American ISP, or the lobbying umbrella group they created. It's my optimistic read that blowback from this case has already eroded the practice of dirty tricks like these. More lobbyists and companies getting caught would strengthen the effect.

Since I left Fight for the Future I've been working on a Signal alternative that feels more like Slack, for teams facing similar threats. Hopefully something comes of that too!
Jim and I were on my company's board (Jive) and he absolutely has a technical background.
Ask HN: Browser based screen sharing/cobrowsing?
I am looking for a way for User 1 to share their browser (our app) view with User 2.

There are a handful of solutions out there like cobrowse.io, samesurf.com, etc but they are all marketed as CX tools and priced per seat.

We're interested in using this for CX but our use case extends past that where we actually want users to be able to share with other users. This makes the per-seat pricing untenable for us.

We're open to paying for a SaaS, self-hosting something, or even doing some custom development. All we need is a Read Only live view of one browser to another.

Anybody have any ideas?
I've been playing around with some low-level GPU stuff lately and trying to port some of my CPU-bound matrix multiplication. The challenge has been that in the space I work in (quantum) the matrices are of complex numbers, and for a certain size of problem floats don't cut it and you need doubles. Nearly everything I find for GPUs is targeted at matrices of real floats.

Any pointers to examples? I'd be fine sticking with floats as a first step, but would love to see some (reasonably optimized) low-level GPU code for working with matrices of complex numbers (preferably for Metal or WGPU, which is what I'm using).