skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia bans beef imports from anywhere that's had outbreaks of BSE. Because they would like to not have it.
lol when I saw him hold up his piece of cardboard I thought, “yeah that’s definitely random numbers he invented 2 hours ago”
I live in Japan, and I can tell you that I'm worried about Japan. There are constant murmurings among politicians to repeal article 9 of the constitution, the one shackling it from war; you talk about racism but the xenophobia here is visceral and constant; and there's still bad feeling that is also noticeable regarding WWII and towards other Asians and their countries.

I've met some lovely, kind, and outward looking people in my time here, but I'd have to be as blind as a bat to miss the dark undertones running through society. If the Americans didn't have their bases here I think we'd be back to a pre end of WW2 Japan quite quickly.
One benefit of rc is this[1]:

> The most important principle in rc’s design is that it’s not a macro processor. Input is never scanned more than once by the lexical and syntactic analysis code

I worked at a unix shop that deleted most of a working drive because a shell script was modified while it was running. Luckily they kept daily backups on tape. This was about 17 years ago.

[1] https://www.scs.stanford.edu/nyu/04fa/sched/readings/rc.pdf
In some ways I feel sad for all the linguistics and NLP people, though the Bayesians had their day too.

However after 20 years in RL I’m glad that RL (MDP solving) is finally coming into view as the primary generalist intelligence framework.

People made fun of us RL people because the data/compute overhead but now that every robotic controller and system is becoming RL tuned it’s just going to chew its way through the whole computing stack eventually.

I see so many people in AI burning out because they see all these narrow methods failing to generalize.

Exciting times ahead.
Worked for me in Mobile Safari in iOS on my iPhone.
I was about to post largely the same thing. There is a saying in design: "Good, fast, cheap --- pick two." The default choice always seems to be fast and cheap nowadays. I find myself telling other people to take their time, but I too have worked jobs where the workloads were far too great to do a decent job. So this is what we get.
On the upside, maybe it'll be cheaper for us in Australia if we don't have to compete with overseas buyers.
If you're comparing alcohol to water you may be an alcoholic.
Looks nice, and I'm glad they put some effort to fit into the current properties and capabilities. It felt like in past, examples such as adding CSS grid syntax was really different/idiosyncratic for unclear reasons.
Or standard of living can fall. Which is quite likely
How is it theater?

When customers give you money, they expect a date.

When investors give you money, they want to see whether or not you are investing in the right initiatives.

When you open a company, the IRS, SEC, and other regulators expect some amount of financial compliance.

Do you want me to come to you and give you an ultimatum to give me an exact date, calculate amortization, and defend existing investments, and if any of those slips you are the fired? And do that with all the hundreds and thousands of initiatives on a daily basis?

That's the alternative.

Welcome to the industry - you're paid to make purchasers happy, not you. Purchasers don't care if you DuckDB or OracleDB - they care if the product they paid for will be delivered on time and meet the needs stipulated in their contract.

If you want to be happy and only deal with engineering problems, you sadly have to deal with the poopshow that JIRA is.
Go slice array differences golang
The point of blurry placeholders is to support loading a page with potentially hundreds of images (maybe with additional lazy loading, which doesn't need JavaScript these days) without blocking display of the page on loading those full images.

I'm not sure why you think it has anything to do with forcing people to execute JavaScript?
They're trying to square the circle with anonymized data, but I think even that is still about profiling, and group profiling is only one degree less concerning than individually user profiling.

So I don't love it, but I know how to differentiate it from the worst of the worst.
Bugger, I was just about to set up my EV Manufacturing plant there
I work in an industry where F# is a non-starter but I still love to use it outside of work. Also what I learn from F# and functional programming still benefits me in my day job (mostly c++). I think I tend to write a bit safer code after understanding the benefits of a functional language.
Not be surprised we tend to lag on re-approval, if it's good for our farmers.
Most of those companies are still growing despite their size, which is boring to investors. To be a true unicorn you need shrinking sales and margins, a toxic brand, paying your hated CEO more than lifetime revenue of the company, and 2% share of the market you're in (with a valuation of more than all the competition combined).
Reminds me of the "ugliest color"[1], the brown Pantone 448 C, selected for use on tobacco products in an attempt to dissuade purchase. However it turned out to be quite nice looking on packages[2], and at last here in Norway lead to no measurable decrease in sales[3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone_448_C

[2]: https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/ddB3zq/designekspertene-elsker-d...

[3]: https://www.nrk.no/nordland/fhi_-ny-design-pa-roykpakker-og-...
These types of mice are just not for me but I looked at some of their other products and honestly the thing I like most about them is how everything is open source.

Ironically I think the fact that they open source their designs probably helps sales. My first reaction is to scoff at the $144 price tag but I know that if I go look at what it will take to build one myself I’m sure the $144 price tag will become much more reasonable.
Except paying more for a service doesn’t guarantee better service. I have hired local handymen at $75 per hour and they have been equally bad with fake reviews.
Spicy take: hooved ruminants like cows and sheep are singularly unsuited to the Australian bush. No longer rearing them for the sole purpose of exporting to the US would probably be a good thing.

https://www.bushheritage.org.au/what-we-do/our-challenge/gra...

On the upside, maybe Australia can keep selling horse and kangaroo to the US as beef and they won't even notice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_meat_substitution_s...
Nope, sometimes I would have a rebuttal but flagging is the better option (constructive discussion is hard without mutual respect, and/or don't feed the troll). Or, the comment doesn't even have anything to refute, it's just disrespectful or it's spam, or both.

I have flagged a few comments but I'm rarely mad.

And if one is mad because of a disrespectful comment, the flagging is probably appropriate too.
> > Now I hire local professionals, even if they cost more. Their experience and trustworthiness save me time and frustration.

> I've found the exact opposite. ... My local upholsterer is a pleasure to work with compared to any tire and alignment shop.

I'm confused, isn't your local upholsterer exactly an example of a local professional?
This is actually a good lesson in communication.

Question 1, are you fine with the chicken in with the bread?
Question 2, would you like the drain cleaner left separate rather than with the food items.

They either don't care or would suggest leaving the bread or chicken separate, same for the drain cleaner.

The worst grief you'll get is why they can't have 3 bags.
Good call out! Just updated the link, should work now. (its definitely open to everyone)
Okay. Let’s say you have a compelling and coherent argument. Where can I go to read more about each of the things you write of, and share community with like-minded people?
not the parent, but accountability is supposed to be assumed up the org chart while responsibility is delegated down.

so, yeah. the people ultimately accountable for fucking shit up should probably be held accountable first and foremost.

(this is why CEOs often resign in the wake of a scandal)
This is unfortunate. I distinctly remember participating in NaNoWriMo back in middle school. The writing often extended beyond November as it was actually enjoyable. Freeform writing is so much better for learning than the contrived bureaucratic style we're forced into in high school.
US Gov is vibe tariffing
Love headscale, we just took it to production and it’s been great
There's at least one plan [1] that specifically addresses this problem called FairTax:

> The proposal also specifies a monthly payment made to all households based on household size. Called a "prebate," the monthly payment offsets the regressive nature of a sales tax up to the poverty level.

Of course nobody agrees [2] on how effective this would actually be:

> Sales taxes are normally considered regressive though the FairTax provides a rebate that supporters argue would create a progressive effective rate on consumption. However, the Fairtax would also eliminate the EITC and CTC, dramatically reducing this benefit.[58] Additionally the FairTax would be applied to goods that are currently not subject to sales tax. These include all food, all prescription drugs and other health care products and services (such as doctor’s visits and laboratory tests), purchases of new homes, and utility bills. These goods make up a substantial share of low income families expenses

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicted_effects_of_the_FairT...
I don't know. If it's not a poison, why do they call it "alcohol poisoning"? Go figure it out.
Reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560115
UPS drivers keep crashing into my rock wall. They aren't even delivering packages to me, they just use my drive way to turn around and keep hitting the rocks.

For some reason its always UPS. Maybe some quirk of their navigation system is tacitly encouraging it.
> I can't really relate to the mindset of people who use downvoting as a 'I disagree' button.

Downvoting is a legitimate expression of disagreement according to PG.
I like the book quite a bit, and it's been formative in my politics.

That said, I am not sure if the take-away is that managers need to account for these factors by allowing for illegibility- I am not reading you claim that, but contextually that's how the discussion feels to me.

I do agree with Scott that enforcing perfect legibility is impossible and even attempting to do so can cause immense problems, and I agree with his analysis of these modernist efforts and have found that it's a useful lens for understanding a lot of human enterprise.

I find a lot of hope in that view: nothing actually gets done without some horizontal, anarchist cooperation.

But I also find hope in the fact that it's structurally a issue with authoritarian organizational strategies which can't be accounted for and surmounted.
Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices
"You can solve every problem with another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many levels of indirection".
Everyone is so used to garbage documentation, that they go googling instead, but OpenBSD docs are in fact very good.
The wikimedia foundation spends a ton of money on nonsense stuff. Look it up, a lot of people don't like the wikimedia foundation for very valid reasons.

The constant calls for donations are to support the foundation, not the website, but they make it look like Wikipedia could disappear at any moment.

Their cost for bandwidth is a rounding error vs their salaries and other costs that the foundation racks up.

https://youtu.be/MpeOFvxor_0
The administration just didn't want anyone to feel left out, I guess.
People have to care about outcomes in order to get good outcomes. Its pretty difficult to get someone to work extra time, or care about the small stuff if there is a good chance that they will be gone in 6 months.

Alternatively, if leadership is going to cycle over in 6 months - then no one will remember the details.
If you don't list this location, perhaps it could be used for helping American buyers evade tariffs. The shipment just wouldn't mention Australia, and somehow slip through the cracks.
I feel reasonably confident at this point, declaring this a myth. Mozilla absolutely made missteps and lost browser market share, but it had almost nothing to do with spending on side bets, if you look at the budget and you look at the numbers of these things. Most of the sidebets already happened after they lost the market share and did not happen at such prohibitive costs that they prevented them from investing in browser development. And there's no such thing as a missing browser feature they could have developed that would have recovered all of the market share, which they failed to develop because of a side bet.

Nobody who repeats this has even looked at Mozilla's budget, or checked to see whether the side bets overlap with the time where Mozilla lost market share. The one exception to this is Firefox OS, which does appear to have used significant resources and happened during a critical time where they lost market share. And while that one at least would be a fair criticism where there's real data behind it, I actually respect it as a bold strategic move and personally deeply wished it worked out. But for whatever reason, a complete disconnection from factual reality has never stopped people from claiming that the VPN or the Mozilla Foundation or whatever was the problem.
I had the same frustration as you with finding the pricing information. With some serendipitous clicking, I managed to find it!

https://pico.sh/plus

It does also mention there is a $0 "Starter" tier.

(I found that link on this page:

https://pico.sh/pgs )

EDIT: Mention the Starter tier.
I guess all you'd need is evidence.

Biden being the President and the DOJ charging Trump does not imply "Biden went after Trump."

There's actually no evidence Biden played any role in DOJ's decision to prosecute either for the stolen classified documents or for the election fraud. The brazen criminality was sufficient for an independent DOJ to take up the matter.

inb4 "DOJ didn't make that decision independently" which is another way of saying "I'm willing to believe things without evidence."
>The EU has a tendency to demand without thinking. Just like the last time, the modern world will move on, and the EU will pretend like it had anything to do with the next time.

I have no imagination of what you're talking about. EU is more modern than the vast majority of the planet.
This is really cool, I love seeing folks use CSS in clever ways. :)

My one feedback would be to avoid using attr selectors on the style attribute like [style*="--lqip:"]. Browsers normally lazy compute that string version of the style attribute [1], but if you use a selector like this then on every style recalc it'll force all new inline styles (ex. element.style.foo = bar) to compute the string version.

Instead if you use a separate boolean attribute (or even faster a class) it'll avoid that perf foot gun. So write <div lqip style="--lqip: ..."> and match on that.

[1] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...
One of the consequences of WWII was that everyone's plans, ideas, and work cultures were turned into direct results very quickly, in the real world. Sometimes fatally.

The people who lived through that had their feet on the ground.

Aside from its many other flaws, post-70s neoliberalism added a bizarre abstraction layer of economic delusion over everything. This suppressed the core truths of physical reality, common sense, and the basic social requirement of sane reciprocal relationships, and did its best to make consequences as indirect and deniable as possible.

Things that really, really matter - like ecological, political, and social stability - were devalued in everyday experience and replaced with economic abstractions that are more mystical than practical.

It's very culty, and the disconnect between how things should be and how they really are is getting more and more obvious to everyone.
"Why don't they just break the TOS"

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Try to make a thread about unions on HN and read the comments, then it'll make sense.
> So in your world, the people running the business should fire themselves first?

If they are needed to continue leading, they should consider cutting their own salary until the problems are fixed. Let them take their entire compensation in just their equity for a time.

However we all know this won’t be the norm, and that’s OK. Not great, just OK.
"The president said there will be a "baseline" tariff of 10% on all imports"
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reciprocal-tariff-chart-20545...

The islands aren't actually on the list, just covered by the baseline afaik
thanks for the good read.

I used Amsterdam BSD two years back to scratch my itch. It was a no nonsense, perhaps perfect way to try out OpenBSD.

The thing keeping me from using OpenBSD/FreeBSD on my new production app is I don't know what kinds of issues I may run into compared to Debian stable on a fairly beefy dedicated server.

My new app has dependancies:

a) http reverse proxy. No problem

b) Java 21 / Clojure 1.12. JDK 21 virtual threads is a must. Unclear what level of support/quality can be expected on OpenBSD or FreeBSD.

c) Postgres 17 (TimeScale)
My eight year old daughter is busily writing several books about the adventures of cats on nanowrimo.

Are there any good open source alternatives for self hosting this kind of platform?

This makes me very sad.
How did he intercept what API calls a mobile app was making?
Not all CD-ROM drives, even those that can play audio, can be used to rip digital audio. Some only have an analogue audio output for playing CDs. I know at least some IDE CD-ROM drives can't read digital audio.

It might be true that all SATA drives can read digital audio.
So, why would this extract more semantic meaning than multi-head attention? Isn't the whole point of multiple heads similar to how CNNs use multiple types of filters to extract different semantic relationships?
Credit cards have expiry dates, or at least they do over here. I expect my partners domain to expire 10 years after my death, as I can only pay 10 years in advance. To many people, there are more important things to worry about (and often second thoughts after the fact).
> they're paying me a ridiculous amount of money to do a job I enjoy

> It's a deal that 99% of the world is envious of, and I don't think it should inspire bitterness and cynicism

First of all, I think it takes a lot of guts to continue to have this attitude in the current economic climate. Or, in your case, immense skill, but not everybody - not even everybody in the big tech companies - has that.

I think the bitterness and cynicism stems from not enjoying the work. As crazy as this sounds - it's the intangibles as much as the cash: for example, knowing the company will fight your efforts to improve things.
i love 0ad so much but it runs AWFULLY as soon as you get a fun number of units on the map.
Why would there be a new Zelda? There were two new games in the past two years.

Yeah, it has been 8 years since the last new 3D Mario game.
Some of their side effects can obviously be sex-dependent thus this study.
I use a trackball, you can set it next to you on the couch and just use it normal. As for gaming, I still freak out people when I tell them I use a trackball for gaming.

The only issue is games like Skyrim when lock picking requires moving the mouse around, doing it with a trackball is a painful experience.
Also related, https://patrickcollison.com/fast ; a list of things that were built really quickly and cheaply in the past.
Congrats on the GA launch, Mark! Atono is truly redefining how teams collaborate—eliminating silos and making the development process more seamless. The platform is tackling the inefficiencies of traditional tools with a clean, intuitive experience. Looking forward to seeing how teams adopt it!
If we weren't idiots, Balance of Payments edition
I think you need to look into your hiring portal. I have actually applied to this position (or a position with the exact same description) many months ago. Never heard anything. Which is strange since I have decades of video encoding, video player, c++, and cross platform development experience at both startups and FANG.
Yeah, the new interface sounds ridiculously bad. Sorry you have to go through that.

o1-pro is quite reliable for elementary problems, FWIW. I use it extensively for reading AI research papers.
Unfortunately, around here, most of the self-checkout "lanes" are explicitly marked as "X items or less" express lanes. If you're doing a full shopping, they don't want you using them. (This seems particularly stupid at one of the stores, where they have about a dozen self-checkouts, half marked 14 items or less and half marked 20 items or less, and literally every time I'm there, at least half of them are unused. Fortunately they also have a lot of manned regular checkout lanes.)

Furthermore, because the expectation nowadays is that the cashier will bag the groceries, too, the checkout infrastructure is very much set up to support that and only that model: rather than having a short belt after the cashier to send the groceries to a bagging area, the cashier has a couple of bag slots right in front of them, and a tiny island behind them to put your bags on, along with any items that they need to hold onto to bag later (eg, chips, eggs—things they don't want to put under other things). So even if you wanted to bag for yourself, it would make it much less efficient and more awkward for the cashier.
Nice! Looks like you’re missing https://www.datapacket.com/ - they’ve got top tier hardware and customer support
Yes, I rely heavily on ^ and ' in antuin, though that's partly to workaround the relatively poor fuzzy search (in fzf I never even needed those).
I'm guessing other potential sources are smart enough to realize if any of this speculation is what happened, Goldberg's hand was basically forced by Waltz to reveal as much as he did (which wasn't an admission that Waltz was a source of his, but very heavily suggested).

What's he supposed to do, go to jail for hacking to protect his previous source who is actively throwing him under the legal bus?
This doesn’t answer your question, but one thing to keep in mind is that past the very first layer, every “token” position is a weighted average of every previous position, so adjacency isn’t necessarily related to adjacent input tokens.

A borderline tautological answer might be “because the network learns that putting related things next to each other increases the usefulness of the convolutions”
Sometimes, yes. For example:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5677564/
How isn't this the breaking news story of this and future weeks to come? The government likes to spread a lot of FUD about how foreign nation states can interfere with citizens, but when there is an actual vulnerability in such corporate turds as Verizon that actually allows the foreign nation to spy on you, nobody in the media bats an eye.

Of course, the answer is that the corporations own both Congress and the media.
Classic hero's journey:

The author starts in a familiar place, then

is forced outside their comfort zone (by generated content)

has to pay a price (disengage from targeted media)

to return home, changed along the way
I hate that dismissal "its whataboutism" in a discussion - but use it myself, too. I guess, I've just read a peace of self-exposure and can see what the author wants to express through self reflexion. Nice!

Bookmarking it for future.
If Mozilla didnt waste money on dumb things I would sign up, but they could have done this long ago, and they definitely waste their income on dumb things. Like what happened to making Firefox fully oxidized? That would have made Rust drastically more mature and proven.