skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems relatively simple to me. Only the owner is allowed to make these decisions, more or less. Employers can only do it to devices they own and provide. Phone vendors cannot do it, and cannot make any services contingent on doing it. A family member in this situation is reasonably acting on the owner's behalf.

And while we're at it, let's not allow apps to refuse to run because of rooting.
yes. all the world, except white Americans. who are the only group still bewitched by blue SMS icons and facetime.

Whatsapp is what allow Zuckerberg to be so bold with the other zombie properties.
What we definitely haven't been lacking in the past ten years at least is high emphasis on the importance of prosecuting sexual harassment and violence, especially in countries such as the UK. I think this excludes an underestimation of the importance of these crimes.

And since the amount of resources dedicated to solving each case is proportional to its gravity, the fact that almost 90% of these crimes are unsolved probably means that most of them are minor and/ or lacking principal suspects, witnesses or evidence.
Huh. Had not thought about that. It's important.

China has a chance to take over social media outside China, but the censorship is getting in the way. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

This parallels another big issue in China - external usage of the yuan. China still has capital outflow controls and exchange limitations. So few outside China want to hold yuan if they don't have a use for it inside China. Yet China's leadership wants to make it the world currency, replacing the dollar. That requires more convertibility, and exposes China's internal economy to external market forces. That's been an internal debate for a decade.
„AI” talking to an „AI”. What a time to be alive.
> If Greenland votes to join the U.S., they will get a reservation and the U.S. will get the minerals. Ask the Inuit in Alaska.

You mean the Inuit who benefit from federally set up native corporations? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Native_corporation>

Greenland's per capita disposable income is less than one third that of Alaska's.
he is talking about the great firewall but the rules remain the same, nothing changed

he says people is leaving meta in anger, some are, I don't see a significant massive migration

honestly I think he is talking from his user experience and trying to extrapole it way beyond its real extent
Measured in mile-tonnes, ~40% of US cargo travels by rail. Meanwhile, only ~20% of EU cargo travels by rail.

The US prioritizes freight on its rail network, the EU prioritizes passenger service.
Maybe just get separate speakers and streamer like WiiM. You wont regret it if the streamer dies you will still have speakers and just replace the streamer.
In my living room I have a pair of loudspeakers, an 18 watt stereo tube amp that I service myself, an analog rotary mixer, a pair of turntables, and an IKEA Kallax full of records.

10 years ago my friends called me a hipster for doing this instead of cloud-based music, but not so much any more. When I hear these horror stories of enshitified HiFi platforms it makes me feel like I made the right investment decision.
AI gen hogwash

Head to your local public library and pick any book pre 2020
Simple wikipedia seems like a good source to explain this

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger

> However, in the late 20th century, the word was seen as a hurtful racial slur in English. It was called hate speech. "Nigger" was seen as very offensive to say or hear which caused many to not use the word at all. They instead called the word "The N-Word". It is said with a "hard R", because the word ends in 'er' instead of 'a', as in the word "nigga".
Yes! I like to use the term "fair speech" for this concept. Free speech is that you are free from government retribution. But fair speech means that you also have equal opportunity to speak as others. As you said, if person A can say one million things while you are only able to say one thing, you are effectively denied speech.
They Let Me Bring a Camera into a Top Classified US Supercomputer El Capitan
Enough to normalize "white men are evil" statements, otherwise such people would get reprimanded and shunned by the other people on the left for being racists and sexists but as is they are still welcomed with open arms.
Respectfully, it's not. Serious businesses take EQ seriously.
GitHub Git Operations Are Down
GitHub git operations are down. Any git operation returns a 500 error response.
This is not relevant to what is being discussed. I clearly mean top tier consumer GPU.

3080/3090 - Same die

2080 ti/Titan RTX - Same die

1080 ti/Titan Xp - Same die

980 ti/Titan X - Same die

780/Titan - Same die

670/680 - Same die

570/580 - Same die

470/480 - Same die
Why the 40 GB of ram?
Skip the article and just read the study (barely) linked in the second paragraph. I Ctrl+F'd for "dero" and was surprised/disappointed it wasn't mentioned by name.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19485506114156...

(Sorry, don't have a nonpaywall link handy, but it's out there)
> You seem to have some trouble following along if this is your ridiculous take on what has been discussed. Some words went from being benign to being cancelled as language evolved. Saying someone somewhere was offended at some point in the past to dismiss this absolute reality is just noisy No True Scotsman nonsense.

I mean.. you're the one who said it was unworkable? Be more exact in your language? What language is acceptable in a given society is a function of ideology and power. There has never never been this halycon period of free speech. Just speech amenable to whatever your ideology is.

> How much of leadership of China is white? India? Japan? Vietnam? Nigeria? Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Do they have governments that represent modern audiences?

It's actually hilarious, because all of the countries you're mentioning were previously colonized. They literally all engaged in armed revolution to overthrow white overlords.

> To fix this they put in a dictum that all promotions beyond a certain level could be anything but white male outside of a great exception policy. This was, again, not conspiracy but an open DEI policy. Now, that's great that they're righting their own wrongs, so to speak, but for the thousands of white males in this company it instantly put a giant concrete ceiling over them. I was already on my way out so to me it was hilarious, but this sort of "now we right those wrongs!" rightly cause enormous grievances.

You shouldn't be posting about this on HN. Just sue them! It's the perfect time. Post about the suit on HN if you need to. That policy is broadly illegal. But I don't think you will, because it didn't happen.

> Ah yes, the old "if only they were more "woke" they would totally have won the election against a literal rapist felon charity-stealing smooth-brain.

Again, you're shoehorning wokeness into a conversation where it doesn't exist. You've stared into the Palantir for too long lol. The Democrats didn't need to be woke, they just needed to run as a competent party! They didn't do that in service of wokeness, they did it in service of a hyper-conservative status quo and importantly, against the interests of minorities. Kamala Harris then campaigned on deporting immigrants and having the strongest military in the world. She had corrupt police on stage at the DNC and kicked Palestinian activists out. She was a prosecutor for gods sake, she's not woke. So why do you continue to insist that her performance was about wokeness?
> For those still maintaining personal blogs: How do you find readers? Where do you share your content? And most importantly - why do you keep writing?

(1) Random search traffic.

(2) An RSS feed.

(3) Because I enjoy writing.

If you're looking for a way to turn text into money (a.k.a. "build your developer brand"), there are probably programs to do that, human beings talking about how to write such programs, other humans talking about how to write programs to simulate those humans, ... you get the picture.
This is somehow even worse than paper straws.
The ACTS System: A simple solution for more railway freight [video]
This can be addressed with some variant of

random.seed(hash(user_id))

I think the bigger problem is handling the fact that not all users click through the same number of times.
Its in the Spanish word for black, it is taboo enough that people generally don't write it.
Looking for a good pair of over ear headphones
Title says most of it. I want a good pair of over ear headphones. My budget is around 300 dollars. I need transparency to talk to my girlfriend when she's in the room with me. I wanted to use these for work as well. So a mic and usb dongle are needed.

Was looking at Sennheiser but seems like the quality has gone downhill since they were bought out back in 2021 and went woke. I have good experiences with audio technica as well. I'm not an audiophile so I don't really know everything there is to know. I just want a good sounding pair of headphones/headset thats not too expensive. Again, my budget IS $300 but cheaper is always better. I may also use this headset for my personal computer from time to time.

Thanks in advance.
Oh, I didn't know that ride share companies allow the drivers to specify their rate!

Oh, right. They don't.
Also WiiM software just works better than Sonos so why go Sonos?
wojack-meme levels of insight
It could have been the other way around, though. Engineers could have been faced with calls asking for a higher degree of integration and dependence on cloud servers for profit reasons (carefully sold as better UX), then developed it because that's what they're paid to do.
It's like watching a transmission from an alien civilization: zero point of reference, zero shared language … and at the end, I'm left puzzling about what I even saw.
That sounds a bit over the top

I have two Play 5's that I have had for a decade and they're still currently set up working completely fine on an Apple device. That's a speaker that was released 16 years ago and still works through the Sonos app, still allows me to play Spotify, still works natively with the Playbar to watch movies and TV.

That sounds pretty good to me. If people want to throw out their hardware and buy new that's fine, but they haven't needed to throw out their Play 5's.

If I was still using an Apple iPhone from 2009 you can bet it would be a terrible experience
Popular irc servers still haven’t adopted ircv3, effectively holding all of irc back from making progress.
For some reason no one wants the obvious solution, a global price/tax on carbon. So what you get is some countries spend billions on solar while others crank up almost untaxed fossil fuel use.

Even in one country like the UK were I live we have stupid expensive electricity combined with basically no tax on heating gas/oil.

I'm honestly puzzled why it's like that. Why do others not think a carbon price is a good idea and instead say let ban plastic straws while having zero tax on carbon for heating - that'll fix it? I don't get it.
There's a bunch of stuff built around the old Logitech media server system, with open source implementations running on esp32 and raspberry pi, as well as a slew of other devices
nice. this, unfortunately, is the future.

1) protecting in any way against meta doing an appl and bundling this feature on WhatsApp?

2) which api are you using? paying by message? paying meta compute? or hacking with a business account?
Are you saying that it may do something like improve click-the-button conversion but lead to less sales overall?
I personally blog for the same reason some people play the guitar: I don't care whether what I produce is good or not, or whether people like the articles I write or not.

It's just a hobby.

Even my girlfriend doesn't read my posts if I'm to be honest. But the act of writing soothes me, and as a non-native English speaker I feel it's been a great way to improve on my written English.

Also, writing your own static site generator is a pretty fun (and easy) thing to do.

Shameless plug as well: https://blanchardjulien.com/
Static site generator: https://github.com/julien-blanchard/Loulou
And virtually without penalty for any of them beyond a meagre fine. Probably less than he has spent having people pilot video games for him.

No social penalties. No investment penalties.
It's hard to take him seriously when he claims X doesn't censor, despite their very blatant and open censorship. Hacker news has not gotten anti-pg, it's more that pg has become more vocally political and is now facing the consequences of that.

Case in point, anyone else posting a screed like this would instantly be flagged and removed.
He doesn’t have an argument. He’s simply stating his opinion on something he’s never experienced. It’s a bit like someone saying “The California wildfires aren’t that bad” but they live in Sweden.
Interesting post - certainly I can see myself wanting to tinker with Epsilon greedy - but the comments at the bottom are pretty off the chain, and many not in a good way. No auth commenting is certainly a brave decision in 2024.
Can't pull anything from my repos which is not great.
Would it work or would it just make things worse?
Who Tested MyRocks?
Wow! I never gave it much thought that a train could get stuck in Donner pass. I grew up in the area and the snow can really come down. Warning, if you wait until snow is sticking in Reno then you might not make it through.

I've had several near escapes through the pass. Following the semi's in their treads saved me in a little 2WD car.
I didn’t. I specifically put stalking and harassment in a separate group because I believe their inclusion with the other serious crimes makes the stats look so dismal. I did try to find the breakdown of which types of crimes remained unsolved and couldn’t find anything.

From your link harassment can be the following
phone calls
letters
emails
visits

All of those seem highly subjective and are specifically relevant to my comment because they can be numerous and are very hard to track down thus leading to low solve rates.
The reading list is old about one year, for instance in 2025, one may use KTO for math, RLOO for CoT, DPO for function calling and optimization.

In 2025 one should only focus should be distillation & optimization.

In 2025 CoT is not new, the corrected CoT is the key and all you need.
> If we were to spend 30 minutes, we would definitely find something reasonable.

That's quite an assumption.
So I've been using the EnerGel 0.7 or 0.5 mm pens. I generally like them, but it bleeds a bit more than I'd like. Is there a pen with a similar feel and precision, but with ink that dries a bit faster?
>Someone needs to point out Puerto Rico as an example of how they'll be treated.

Puerto Rico and USVI are the wealthiest places in the Caribbean.

>Also, Guam and other US territories.

The US pacific island territories are, again, the wealthiest places in the Pacific other than Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand.

>All that, AND no healthcare. And taxes.

Greenland doesn't pay for its "free" healthcare; Denmark does, with a $600 million annual grant that is half the island's budget. $600 million is the size of the annual budget of El Paso. In other words, expect the US to persuade Greenlanders toward annexation by doubling or tripling that amount.
exactly, taking this chance requires allowing free market rules to apply.

china is the only country on earth managing 1.5 billion people efficiently (not perfect, not fair, but more efficient than anything seen in history)

and they won't take chances to allow free market to reign. even with iron fist, it's been hard to keep the lid on unrest, laying-flat philosophy, unemployment on young people and real estate bubbles. and remember they print their currency twice as fast than the US, either applying inflation to their whole population or representing new value created in the country, I don't know.
so is there any actual evidence that foreign home ownership is causing meaningful housing price inflation in Spain? or is this just uninformed pandering like it is in the US
I think we've had the luxury of training ourselves to only identify the best looking produce as safe/tasty. I doubt it's ingrained in our nature, which is to say, if you're raised in a situation where you can't be as selective, I suspect you'll see a lot more produce as perfectly fine.

We definitely don't (generally) turn our noses up at various forms of rotten milk or the liquids of fruits rotten enough to be alcoholic.
My mom was a teacher around that time, the school instructed her to stay on guard against kids who were watching the show
The fact that, many months after this app update, I still don't have play controls in the notification shade is appalling. God forbid I need to pause my music or need to skip a track.

Someone had to make a decision as to when the updated app would ship. They did not make a wise choice.
Your gut reaction is something salespeople play off of. I've been in the sales position before, handling the people in charge of making the purchasing decision, selling them bells and whistles they absolutely didn't need, but giving them the emotional satisfaction of a "successful" transaction, leaving with a sense of victory, that translated into a strong relationship and many years of repeat sales, with incremental upselling over time.

Good sales, ethical sales, aren't parasitic. A vast majority of sales in todays markets, especially in enterprise markets, are parasitic. The salespeople are interchangeable. The ones that make the most money are the ones most willing to be parasitic. The sales script is targeted and tailored to the intended audience, which in most large companies, is several degrees of separation from the eventual user of the product. You don't need to know what the end user needs. You need to know what the person in charge of buying wants, and that's ultimately emotional validation, hope, a sense of "innovating", a feeling of victory in pricing negotiations, being respected and treated well, and so forth. You can run them through the wringer with sales engineers and migrations after the contract is signed, and even if the end user and the product engineers recognize that your product is the wrong tool for the job, that won't matter if the buying manager is emotionally satisfied with the transaction. People will bend over backwards to justify what they know is "right."

A salesperson CEO will make more money, but will make the world a shittier place, because they're the cotton candy of management. They'll burn credibility and reputation in exchange for profit, kick the can down the road for someone else to clean up the mess later.

Sure, in a healthy, respectable, ethical, functional company, you'd be right, and the CEO would also be the best salesperson for the product, because they'd know it, and the customers, inside and out, and be able to explain and demonstrate exactly what was necessary and why, and justify all the costs and benefits.

This is a world that has Goodharted the measure of success - profit - and empowered people in the execution of shitty behavior. The market rewards higher profits and punishes "failures," often completely out of sync with quality and merit.

We don't live in a good world - companies that behave like you describe would be wonderful. We live in a thoroughly enshittified world, and a whole lot of people "earning" a whole lot of money are in between you and any meaningful change.

From Apple and Microsoft on down, companies want endless, infinitely increasing returns year over year, and they will do anything that isn't explicitly illegal to get it. They'll also do illegal things if the cost of getting caught is less than the profit earned. Alignment with end user needs, benefit to the consumer - these are far down the list of things meaningful to the systems and people making decisions on how money is spent. The job of a salesperson is to understand that system, and exploit it for the benefit of their company.
Maybe the engineer was debating a LLM on the merits of pineapple on pizza and didn't clear the context history before requesting a code change.
Richard Feynman and the Pleasure Principle
I love how Trump put Crypto and AI in the same department under a VC vulture Czar. At least he understood that they are meant to be in the same department.
Seeing as how the left lost all three branches of government in the last election, isn't it now "politically correct" to be non "woke"?
Aesop's Fables Recommender
I feel like if I'm a parent I'd want to find quality stories to read to my children instead of AI-generated stuff. But it's kind of hard to find them via google (you'd pick up the animals not the moral), or rely on ChatGPT cuz they'll hallunciate the text of the fable. So it feels like there's a need for some manually annotated database (e.g. scrapped from Gutenberg).

I'd like to see something like this for New Yorker short stories as well. Like finding stories based on a mix of themes / locations / plot / setting etc
Two talks:

- FOSDEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxbb_7q8iRo

- Best practice at Alibaba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcrGLzHvqBQ
I noticed that one time. Looked at the process list, and what was running was a program that enabled streaming. But since I wasn't streaming anything, I wondered what it was doing reading the disk drive.

So I uninstalled it.

Not having any programs that are not good citizens.
Okay, now take a slightly imbalanced stance: What is most software engineering?
Differentiable Programming from Scratch
> Actually, would it be that bad, to ban * and ? in filenames?

That's possible, if you design your filesystem from scratch.

But if you take your filesystem as given for now (with its ability to represent all kinds of interesting characters), and just want to design globbing you have to solve this problem. Otherwise you have a tool that can only handle some files. That's what Gnu Make does, btw. Try handling any file or output with whitespace in the name in Make, if you want some frustration.

Yes, null-termination works for the specific problem of termination. Though if you just use program-to-program communication, you can also prefix your strings with their length.

> If you accept them in the name of interop, something inevitably breaks later.

Why? That's only the case when you have legacy software written by less than careful people. There's no reason to expect breakage when you are designing new software, just like the people in the article where doing. (Of course, back then they didn't know what they were doing, so we have a lot of breakage historically.)

But for the very specific purpose of the shell talking to a helper program for globbing, you can control exactly what's happening, including all the encoding and decoding (or escaping and unescaping). So there's no unexpected breakage.

And btw, you also need to give the human a way to specify a literal * in a filename, too. Not just for communication between programs.

> Best practice in SQL was to abandon parameters escaping completely and pass them out of band.

Yes, that's partially because SQL is such a complicated language, and because you are talking about program-to-program communication anyway, so you don't need to be human-friendly there. So communicating them on a separate is the simplest thing that covers all cases.
I think the argument is that American consumers have never before signed up in droves for a Chinese-owned site hosted in China and mostly used by domestic Chinese users, and that the content posted by the Americans is likely to change the culture on that platform, unless XHS decides to reject a shot at "owning" the short-video space.