skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wary this will change baseball for the worse. Already, we've seen the power game become more and more dominant since the steroid era. You see less of the base running and nickel and dime baseball. It's all about home runs. If it were up to me, they would make the bats deader, not more lively.
> Cool business

Shameful parasitism. The engineers working on this garbage knew what they were doing. I'd question the ethics of anyone who worked on this.
Governments have militaries for many reasons. If you work at a US arms manufacturer, some of your output may indeed being going to defend Ukraine, but some of it is also going to the Israeli military in Gaza, the Saudi Arabian military in Yemen, and a long, long list of countries listed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_aid
The appeals process is the standard here.

You aren’t the first person to have the thought you are expounding above.
You are indeed wrong.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...
> Strange. This inability to select any text has always felt like one of the most hostile things developers could ever do. It feels like pure vandalism.

Use Circle to Search? Native capability that works on every single app, and is close to perfect (with the exception of handling text at the very bottom/top of your screen that's covered by your navbar/Google logo).
DataHub MCP Server
UK's GCHQ Intern Transferred Top Secret Files to His Phone
I think it's cool in the sense that's it a cool concept for a (alleged) scam.
Do you watch sports because of the chance of people dying from accidents and because you know they are risking themselves, or despite it?

If the former, I regret to inform you: you are a psycopath.

If the latter, then please go read some Nassim Taleb and refrain from opining on what is acceptable risks for others unless you yourself are willing to pay for the consequences.
Know of any online examples of the same?
To try and steelman it: With Tesla you buy the car online, and don't sign the papers until you pick up the car. The day you sign the papers is perhaps the day you're considered to have bought the car, rather than the day you press the "buy" button. The cars tend to arrive in large batches, so it's very possible that a single months worth of sales arrived all on the same day and those papers were all signed on the same day.
Sounds like the government needs to rip PayPal a new asshole.
4872 is really good, u should play chess
So much this - the game is better when the focus is on getting the ball in play. Likewise, I prefer the WNBA these days because it's a game of fundamentals rather than the 3-point shootout of the NBA.
1. Drawing, like proper academic drawing. I think I'm close to the skill cap on mobile dev. Design skill would help a lot, things like seeing lighting and stuff. There's things like ambient light, like if the bottom of an area is purple, the top is green, the bottom will bounce some purplish light onto the middle which affects how shadows will look. This is something AI still has problem grasping. Also things like composition, like which people are on the left, which are on the right.

2. CSS tricks and animation. While other people try to race on Leetcode, my personal favorite is CodePen.

3. Probably learn Flutter and React properly instead of just going in blind and editing code.
really cool stuff. I think you should have a bigger penalty for when the knight moves to a spot that can be taken by another piece.
They have an Ad-lite option. Literally give us money monthly and we’ll still show you ads (just not personalised)

Quite possibly the most obnoxious route to take
I didn't make any claims about performance per $, just relative performance compared to VMs. I hate Oracle as much as anyone but the EXADATA is impressive hardware. It has lots of RAM and Infiniband networking. It can push query predicates to the storage controllers to reduce the data that had to be transferred.
Steps were as follows;
Screen grab of a clip from the series Severance, of the Lumen OS GUI,
uploaded screenshot to blackbox.ai/screenshot to transcribe it into SVG,
Uploaded SVG and 5 second clip to bolt.new with prompt instructions to guide,
clicked "deploy"
You cannot legislate mortality. Yes, federal power/funding is the norm, but not within the confines of religious control, which is what the Project 2025 is all about.

The so called slippery slope is a worn out trope from the 80's, that has lost all meaning under the current administration. This is why live and let live works, as long as we all obey the law. We have to realize the rule of law is for everyone to adhere to, it doesn't matter how hard either side pushes, the only other option is jail.
Why would you ever want to remove the iconic blue color?
Surprised they didn’t just close it down frankly. It’s just a PR liability now
This is assuming one needs to campaign in an election in order to continue their command of the executive branch and the military. I'm pretty sure the president's claim that he can serve a 3rd term means he'll serve for however long he determines, as an official act. Any court that dares issue an order to the contrary will have as little power to enforce their order as they are demonstrating now.
For sure they'd have. I have heard they hired tons of people in Seattle area, presumably from Amazon. Also Amazon hired lots of people from Oracle. Starting from many deeply technical Java/JVM experts to tons of B-grade solution architects types.

To me this assumption that rank and file employees would find their employer evil but keep working there nonetheless is unrealistic.
I see some car companies there. A few Nordic oil companies. Are there others?

edit: Nestle and Dior if you want some candies and fragrances, I guess.
Only one political party, namely, the far right, has argued that the courts should be politicized and used to punish their political opponents.

This is super dangerous “both sides”-ism.

Only one side is trying to do what you think “those in power” do.

Nazis will argue up and down about their right to free speech, right up until the moment they are in power. And guess what happens then?
Having had a regular Hibreak since last August, I would like to caution about the build quality: in those 8 months, the display adhesive is progressively getting off and I'm not sure how much longer this'll live...
Circle to Search can translate everything on your screen without you needing to go through the whole "copy text, open Translate, paste, switch back to app" workflow. You just hold the home button, then press the translate button.
>In January, four showrooms in three major cities managed to sell 8,600 cars in the span of just a weekend following news that the country would no longer help fund part of the purchase price for a new electric car under its iZEV program.

This is supposed to be suspicious? What's next? It's "suspicious" that Amazon had 5x the orders in the weekend after the fourth thurdsay in November? There's a pretty straightforward explanation: the government announced the subsidies were going to end, so all the potential buyers sitting on the fence or planning to purchase some time in the future made the leap and purchased immediately, causing a spike.
The ones I subscribe to sure aren't sales professionals. They just want to talk about or interact with media. But some do do it for a living, so it's no surprise they look at what works and what doesn't and adjusts their content for their audience.

It was honestly surprising when one of my subcibed creators (around 400k subs on Youtube) talked a bit about financials and that half their revenue came from sponsors. And this was one who avoids all the typical ads. I imagine the numbers to sell out to yet another RAID ad must easily double that.
Uh no. They are radically different newspapers.
How would this be resolvable ?
IMO it’s telling to view something as innocuous as The Guardian as “ragebait”. Yes, it leans mildly left but that’s only notable because so few other outlets do. Most major news outlets lean center to center-right, they just look left wing because they get compared to Murdoch tabloids and FOX News.

Just because it makes you angry doesn’t make it “ragebait”.
To be fair, it's a product directly endorsed by the President of the United States of America. As he said, "we have to celebrate [Musk]", especially when there's an "illegal boycott" as stated by that president. I'd be very surprised if a US president supported any company that engages in fraud, it's just unbecoming of the position.
Websites with novel content get more views without a paywall.

Breaking news whenever it feels like breaking.
lol, the article is now flagged because it spoke against dear leader.
Feels kinda like: "No offense to Information Technology, but my understanding is that they produce basically nothing in this company..."
YC and PG think they are going to be able to escape the worst of what is to come by appeasing the far right in advance.

Narrator: they were horribly wrong.
Isn't the problem that none of this was transparent to the user? That honey takes affiliate commissions and MAYBE gives some of that money back to the user? That honey takes credit for the sale and MAYBE stands down in certain circumstances?

I don't think any of this is transparent to the user. That's the scam.
The author is also a proponent of tired light theory, which has been thoroughly refuted.
I took a look at the listing[1] and looks like it contains unprintable characters, maybe they were ASCII art of some sort?

The checksum algorithm is fairly simple: line 32150 sums the products of all character positions and character codes, and lines 32160-32180 does a modulus to convert them to printable characters. The multiply-by-position bit is clever because it allows the checksum to flag transposed characters. ISBN-10 uses a similar scheme[2].

[1] https://www.atarimagazines.com/software/displayfile.php?file...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN#ISBN-10_check_digits
I’ve had Linux servers with > 1 year of uptime. I’ve seen much, much higher. It’s entirely possible to have a stable foundation; it’s modern software that’s hot garbage, and relies on ephemerality to stay running.
Nothing is something indeed
Comparing a fine with market cap doesn't make a lot of sense.

More logical is to compare it to their yearly profit. Net income was $74B last year.

So the fine is ~0.2% of that, which is pretty significant for something as tiny as having two pop-up messages rather than a single combined one.

And for a regular person making $50K/yr, it would equate to a $100 fine. Not fifteen cents.
>If you can detect failure, you can create a retry loop, assuming you can understand the rules of the environment you're operating in

Indeed, this is what makes autonomous agentic tool using systems robust as well. Those retry loops become ad-hoc where needed, and the agent can self correct based on error responses, compared to a defined workflow that would get stuck in said loop if it couldn't figure things out, or just error out the whole process.
True. Give us money and we will show you less ads (which is what they literally say for the supporter plan) is really annoying. There doesn't seem to be a truly adfree option.

For me this is very counterproductive. If I still need to use my adblocker why bother to sign up?

I have the same thing with YouTube. Even if I pay for premium I'll still need to mess around with the sponsorblock plugin to get a truly adfree experience. In that case I'll just go the full way and just block everything. Especially on the TV as it means I'll still need to use smarttubenext. Because the official YouTube app doesn't support sponsorblock.

If they offered sponsor free videos to premium subscribers I probably would subscribe.
The so-called expectation of privacy is irrelevant in this context
This is about workflows that use AI, but it lead me to actually think of the inverse - has anyone experimented with AI agents defining and iterating upon long-running workflows?
You don't think it's suspicious that those four showrooms each sold 2,150 cars in a single weekend?

I mean sure, there's a chance that happened for real, but "suspicious" doesn't mean "there was definitely something shady going on", it means "maybe there was something shady, this deserves a closer look".
Wonderfully fun game, but I really wish there was a way to save progress instead of starting over again and again.
I agree that one could make wild YAML if you get into advanced stuff, but I make YAML files that look like this:

things:
- title: "A thing"
item_id: "deadbeef-feb1-4e8c-b61c-dd9a7a9fffff"
is_active: true
favorite_formats:
- yml
- ini
- title: "Another thing"
item_id: "deadbeef-feb1-3333-4444-dd9a7a9fffff"
is_active: false
favorite_formats:
- mp3
- wav

Just because you can use it to create a monstrosity doesn't prevent it from being useful for simple configuration. Basically, it's just prettier JSON.
Hi d_burfoot, really appreciate you bringing that up! The idea of pre-training a big foundation model on our raw data using self-supervised learning (SSL) methods (kind of like how GPT emerged in NLP) is definitely something we've considered and experimented with using transformer architectures.

The main hurdle we've hit is honestly the scale of relevant data needed to train such large models from scratch effectively. While our ~19.5 years dataset duration is massive for ecoacoustics, a significant portion of it is silence or ambient noise. This means the actual volume of distinct events or complex acoustic scenes is much lower compared to the densely packed information in the corpora typically used to train foundational speech or general audio models, making our effective dataset size smaller in that context.

We also tried leveraging existing pre-trained SSL models (like Wav2Vec 2.0, HuBERT for speech), but the domain gap is substantial. As you can imagine, raw ecoacoustic field recordings are characterized by significant non-stationary noise, overlapping sounds, sparse events we care about mixed with lots of quiet/noise, huge diversity, and variations from mics/weather.

This messes with the SSL pre-training tasks themselves. Predicting masked audio doesn't work as well when the surrounding context is just noise, and the data augmentations used in contrastive learning can sometimes accidentally remove the unique signatures of the animal calls we're trying to learn.

It's definitely an ongoing challenge in the field! People are trying different things, like initializing audio transformers with weights pre-trained on image models (ViT adapted for spectrograms) to give them a head start. Finding the best way forward for large models in these specialized, data-constrained domains is still key. Thanks again for the suggestion, it really hits on a core challenge!
As someone who believes AI will completely eliminate humans I wish I was could only be worried about job security.

But to answer your question, AI will ultimately eliminate every job in the sense that if you believe AI will eventually be able do any task, and do it for cheaper than a human labourer, then there would be no reason for you to ever pay a human labourer.

The best analogy here is probably how the industrial revolution made the horse redundant. It's not that horses can't be used for physically demanding work anymore, it's simply that it's cheaper in practically every imaginable case to use a machine so horses are no longer used.

Of course, machines didn't replace the use of horses in all industries over night and we should expect the same will happen with AI. I'll assume this is what you're asking.

It seems rather obviously to me that knowledge workers will be the easiest to replace with AI – especially knowledge workers who work purely digitally. The hardest work to replace will likely be physical labour since robotics is still very far from biological sophistication required to be competent at many physical jobs. And even when it starts to become competent it's going to take a while to build the robots to replace labourers and do so at a competitive cost.
There are lots of simple internal apps that are useful, also just the ability to script.

I have a friend in IT who never knew how to code but is now saving a lot of time every month with just basic scripts.
The DOJ should fine PayPal for racketeering. This seems like it should be beyond illegal and land people in jail.

This extorts online businesses and steals from content creators. There is no good in this tool whatsoever.

It probably tracks consumers on top of all their other shitty behavior.
They'll try to build that ladder to the moon with dollar bills it seems
Zero-copy is totally underrated. Like the site alludes to, Go's interfaces make it reasonably accessible to write zero-copy code but it still needs some careful crafting. The payoff is great though, I've often been surprised by how much time is spent allocating and shuffling memory around.
if you change the state, it is not same state, it is a new state
> The JEP says: [...]

The JEP also says:

> The sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory class only supports deserialization of objects whose classes implement java.io.Serializable.

In my experience, most classes being deserialized by libraries like GSON do not implement Serializable. Implementing Serializable is mostly done by classes which want to be serialized and deserialized through Java's native serialization format (which is used by nothing outside Java, unlike cross-platform formats like JSON or CBOR).
They STOLE 4 millions for f-sake ! AND it's not even the first time; they got away easy until this time.

They also have been frothing hard for decades about the leniency of the courts and how utterly honest they were compared to the others ... I guess its only relevant as long as they're not concerned. Incredible.

The law has been applied fair and square. Period.
> Lots of people use iPads for content creation. I think your worldview on this topic is a bit narrow

Can we stick to "by and large"? Every year many youtubers make that video of trying to use ipad/samsung dex as the productive computer for a day. Last I checked they always end the same way.
It's funny how as soon as I read to Netherlands, my brain back-tracked to correct me on the pronunciation.

If anyone else is ever in the Netherlands and has a chance, due the tour in Gouda, it's delightful and you get to try a bunch of gouda cheese!
Do you really not think this is true? In my own experience 50% is on the low end.
> Other potential tells include long pauses and inconsistencies on candidates’ resumes, such as claimed expertise in technologies before they were developed and widely available.

Funny, I've seen a fair number of job postings that require this exact thing
arch (or any rolling release) on a home server doesn't sound like a good idea?
Remember how NFTs just weren't a thing and then someone got a well-placed article talking about NFTs and all of a sudden they "hot" even though it was just a sham the whole way, before and after "I been hacked. all my apes gone. this just sold please help me"?

Influence can be bought on the cheap. MrBeast says use Honey, you use Honey. Are you going to not partner with the business that is smart enough to partner with MrBeast?
Hayao Miyazaki is frying this kind of idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

> I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself
Yes, many. It's widely used on solid rocket motors, but it's considered a bad idea on liquid fuels because regenerative cooling is usually lighter, more efficient and easier to design and build. It's hard to get a rocket nozzle to ablate in such an even and consistent way that you wouldn't have to provide much larger safety margins than you'd really want to in a rocket.
It’s possible there were cars sold before that weekend that didn’t have credits registers yet. And also possible that a lot of people placed orders that weekend to take advantage of the credit. (Which was how the program was supposed to work, consumers like credits, consumers sign deals to get credits).

This is just divisive political agendas from the Canadian media
You don't believe that Jews were ethnically cleansed from Muslim countries? Considering Egypt for example, what else would we call the expulsion of 25,000 Jews?

Morocco in particular didn't have an explicit state policy of ethnically cleansing Jews, but "treated badly" is a bit of an understatement, considering the pogroms and the government policy of essentially holding Jews for ransom.
Apparently current Japanese law allows models to be trained on copyrighted content.

https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/japan-ai-data-laws-exp...
Last time I ordered some lithium primary batteries from Amazon it came with the lithium sticker. I didn't look into the rules.

Lithium poses two risks:

1) The internal resistance is low enough that if it's shorted it can go into thermal runaway. This is the risk they had in mind when saying no loose cells (but note that cells merely need to be securely contained, not specifically in a device.)

2) Secondary cells can grow whiskers inside the cell. If a whisker grows just wrong it can short the cell from inside and drive it into runaway. This is the risk that they are worried about here--and it's a legitimate risk, it's brought a plane down.

The reason the rules are different in the passenger compartment is that while there's nothing on board an airplane that can fight a lithium fire it's generally a small, weak fire (the big e-bike batteries that have been in some rather dramatic videos aren't allowed) that humans can generally keep from turning into a big fire. But if nobody can fight the fire you have a big problem. Hence why lost phones are treated very differently--they could have fallen someplace where the fire wouldn't be fought.
Why do retailers offer those discounts then? Why not deactivate them instead of allowing honey to give them to their users? Am I misunderstanding what honey does?
No, because "revoking your visa" is a thing the GOVERNMENT does to someone. Revoking someone's Visa for their speech is explicitly what the 1st is about!

Whereas, your PRIVATE employer deciding they don't want to pay you money because you are an asshole (whether that's because you hate LGBTQ people, or aggressively defend their rights with your speech) is THEIR first amendment rights.

The 1st is about: Freedom of speech, press, religion, and association. Limiting a private company's ability to fire you for your speech is against their 1st amendment rights! Indeed, several attempts to build a civil rights framework in the US failed judicial review for this exact reason, and the one we eventually got had to make great efforts to justify that it's limited "protected class" framework was acceptable. I predict it gets overturned.

The inverse is also true: The government CAN limit the speech of people in their government jobs. Teachers can legally be prevented from saying things as teachers, without it being an infringement on their speech rights.
Price discrimination isn't just "rich people pay more." It's also, "Our data shows that people in these demographic locations will pay more."
https://archive.is/QJWxd

This doesn't make any sense.. Canada doesn't have enough renewables (yet) to supply its own power. Why would Canada agree to export some at such great cost and drive up its internal market?
you think most Android users are using PWAs instead of native apps? lol.
Maglev are less efficent than steel wheels at those speeds. Of course proper maintenance would make the subway smoother and help a lot. france has run regular trains almost to almost 575km/h - though if you really want higher speeds maglev is better but nyc couldn't use those speeds on the subway (though other rail should go faster in the city for service reasons)
Treat AI like a junior employee?

Absolutely not. When giving tasks to an AI, we supply them with context, examples of what to do, examples of what not to do, and we clarify their role and job. We stick with them as they work and direct them accordingly when something goes wrong.

I've no idea what would happen if we treated a junior developer like that.