skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a sysadmin so hardly an IT Luddite, I do my best to NOT use any smartphone, I own some, only one maintained just because my old Nokia can't be used anymore lacking GSM SIM cards and even decent GSM coverage where I live, normally left unseen when at home (WFH) or in sort-distance trips where I do not need decent car navigation etc. People can reach me via mail, various VoIP lines on a home PBX with various filtering/redirection rules and I'm VERY happy of that even if so many crush my ** trying pushing me toward WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, $PickAProprietaryServiceNameAtRandom.

BUT I start seeing more and more third parties "choices" that need to be ANNIHILATED with all the strength needed, nuclear bombs included, forcing me on a mobile:

- banks who pretend a crapplication is needed to access they crappy porcals (portals are another thing) while we have OFX&c since decades so even no need at all of a portal and far more secure physical OTP logins where a time-based attack is just theoretical while the large set of craphones vulnerabilities might easily allow to made a transfer to some exotic place on my behalf and I have nothing to prove that's no me...

- cars, EVs in particular (GRRTRRRRRE£$*"£y$"%"), their public-private charging infra (&$"&t$"£$"£$"!!!!) who do their best to force MULTIPLE crapplications to do absolutely dumb things that does not need nor benefit from such approach at all (except of course for the sake of surveillance capitalism)...

- PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS who do their best to tie public services/mandatory acts like paying taxes, to craphones and crapplications with a craploads of ridiculous excuses...

And so on. Long story short, YES cut the tie to the genital with the macrospy/electronic anklet of the condemned, without being one of them is SOOO good, and it's even easy if we are not so much intoxicated by modern chem-less drugs BUT many do their best to impose such tie, you like it or not and that's the real battle we need to win for the sake of civilization.
Nice comment. To your point about the author's blindspot/preferences, I think it's fair to say that the LessWrong community definitely has a very specific worldview that is bringing lots of implicit assumptions to the discussion. I generally like reading these "rationalist" analyses, but would love to see a critique of their worldview as well.
The Stack Overflow 2022 Developer Survey report states that JavaScript has been the most popular programming language for the tenth year in a row, and is now used by over 65% of developers. But Douglas Crockford, the father of JSON, said in a recent interview that JavaScript has become an obstacle to progress.
That still creates the same conflict of interests with regard to targeting data that made Google turn consumer hostile over time.
That unfortunately hasn’t helped C# become more popular outside of Microsoft legacy shops even when it did go cross platform and open source.
I'm using both these extensions - I don't see cookie consent very often.
it may be illegal but I see it all the time.
I can't believe no one is mentioning Django.

Still in use, still killing it.
What do you use for family or gf notifications, if not WhatsApp?
How does that help? They're not going to magically acquire experience on what the weather was like 10 years ago.
That has changed with persistent inflation. We are now moving up from zero rates.
Elon Musk is the embodiment of human fault. And a colony on Mars, if even remotely possible any time soon, will solve nothing. His selling of it is just that, a sales pitch and a medium for his ego.
https://archive.ph/3ePHO
I wonder in what category the concept of decentralisation fall into.
Because anyone in a position to control the succession today will know that they may only have a short time to do it in before they personally lose the chance. The more people fall out of windows, the more they might feel the need to press the issue.
Fun hack. Though, for myself, I'd be afraid of breaking either my diet or my normal goal-directed work focus.
Glad I live in the very south of Australia.
- get a new job

- it's easy for me to recommend this because I don't have a family to support, and I don't have to deal with the same amount of risk/uncertainty of potentially landing at a worse company

- £60k is low for 15 years of experience

- 13 employees = tiny company, not not even close to calling it medium-sized

- find a new job first, then quit the current one
> Pointing out that your thinking exhibits

Incorrect. Any statement concerning the arguer and ignoring their argument is ad hominem and fallacious argument.

> And your second paragraph is amply demonstrating this.

Incorrect and a tu quoque argument. I did not address you, personally, but only your argument, and if my use of "you" is confusing, it is the royal you, "you all," and I may as well have used "we."

> I pointed out the physical implications of encoding your femtometer cubes at atomic scale.

Using current understanding of how it would have to be done and in denial that it might ever possibly be done more efficiently in the future.

> Nothing more.

>>> I think Maursault has thoroughly demonstrated their lack of serious thought

other than this ad hominem.

> You are proposing to simulate at subatomic scale so obviously encoding it into atoms will make the simulation larger than the object similated.

and this straw man

> To engage with your argument directly: You have none.

but wait while you prove yourself wrong,

> All you repeat is that the past has seen technological breakthroughs,

Yes, my argument is that technology advances, and since it has always done so, my crazy idea is that it will keep on doing so. Though it is possible technology has stopped advancing, I think it is unlikely.

> therefore the specific fantasy you propose makes sense. Non sequitur.

The specific fantasy is your straw man, and I drew no conclusions, those are yours. Frankly, my first comment was a joke and not meant to be taken literally, and I only intended to argue against someone else's idea that increasing simulation resolution is not the future of weather modeling, and you're not the only one that got tripped up by my use of femtometer. Regardless, I still see it as possible territory, and anyone else not being able to conceive of how does not mean it is impossible, only that we can't conceive it, just like Bill Gates, not a stupid man, was unable to conceive of anyone needing more than 64KB of RAM, so you also are unable to conceive of how something that would require incredible, inconceivable advances in technology to achieve, and yet, within the next 5 years modern medicine will advance further than it has in all the years before, that's just how it is, and students of the history of technology know this the same way you know how many femtometers there are in silicon's lattice spacing. What you seem to be unable to do is understand there are things we don't understand, and in physics, a good example of this is dark matter, which for some reason we haven't figured out a way to detect it, and it is so similar to the luminiferous ether in this regard, that only students of the history of science suspect that it might be bullshit, while every scientific mind is convinced it exists, just like the luminiferous ether in 1886.

> That some breakthroughs have happened doesn't mean that any random breakthrough will happen. And your ideas are pushing hard against the limits of physics.

As far as you or anyone else knows, today. But we don't know the future, and we never have. This is not my proof that this will occur, only that we don't know.
It happens because not everyone is wired the same as you are. You probably already noticed this in other fields of life.
> For a human, it's a simple description. You or I could draw it freehand correctly given 5 minutes, with no training or preparation.

In the blog post, the humans drew it incorrectly as well (although they got closer). If it was as simple as you say it is, i would not expect the humans to err as well.

> If you're saying they're not designed to deal with inputs more complex than one sentence, then sure, I guess I agree.

Indeed. I would further say its not designed for someone to use it as text directed paintbrush. This is not surprising since human graphic artists dont work that way either, or at least get very pissed off when they are micro managed in that fashion.

That said i think its also fairly obvious that these systems are also not replacements for graphic artists in general. The human element is important for a lot of reasons; graphic artists dont just "draw pictures". I dont think people seriously familiar with these systems have ever seriously suggested it was a full replacement for graphic artists, although in fairness random internet commentators certainly have been having a moral panic over it.

Not to mention its entirely possible that an AI more designed for this task would do better.

> But this post goes to show that if you require specificity in your desired visual output, then you need more than one sentence's worth of complexity, and therefore the current generation of AIs are not yet broadly usable.

I don't really agree that this post showed that, but i would agree that these AIs are not the best tools if you have very specific objective requirements.

AIs are tools not magic, there are things they are good at, but they aren't good at all the things and still require to be used with thought.

> It's about illustrating the current limitations. This post is not implying that the technology is a failure or that it isn't enormous progress.

I think the objection is that this article doesn't really demonstrate a meaningful limitation that wasn't obvious. It feels like a strawman. If dall-e or stable diffusion actually succeded at the task, i would be very impressed and consider it much more impressive than most of the pretty pictures everyone shows off.
There’s more to these than just the usage of cookies.
Can you please elaborate on this with regards to China?
WhatsApp is not harmless. Too many low priority messages noise. And there is no way to setup a system to only receive important actionable notifications only. Archive, Mute and other features are just not enough.
Which, frankly, has become an unwieldy mess over the years.
Running Vacuum Full in Non-Blocking Mode
Incremental adoption and syntax close to JS
Personalized ads never seemed workable, nor sensible to me, especially when showing me products I had just bought. It makes more sense if they are about tracking and influencing behaviour, as is done in Chy-nah.
Brace yourself, a new trend is near.
Not sure how successful this will be, but it's always good to see someone kicking up a fuss about it.
Apparently they're trying to block than just the visible parts ("where possible") so that's good.
But you wouldn't know it from the headline, or even the prompt in the browser (screenshot in article) -- "block the banners" to me sounds like "hide the banners".

The issue is that websites/businesses are doing things to users that the users do not want and do not ask for.
We need legislation to target the unwanted behaviour more directly. Asking nicely isn't going to fix anything.
Any 'cookie consent' style system will just be abused, worked around and cheated as the current one has.

If you give an inch, they will take a mile. Every time.
> Should we stop selling useful items when they can be abused?

No.
My points above are:

1: people go out of their way to excuse Apple of any wrongoding, part of it is because of the "cult", part of it because Apple is very good at PR and painting themselves always in a good light

2: Apple has, as usual, done the bare minimum to arginate the problem and hand-waved at it.-
Have you considered that some may not want to talk about things outside of work?

As long as they're delivering work, I don't really see an issue here.
Geopolitics can be played at long enough time scales. Putin is 70, a few more years and you could get a more rational and even democratic stooge instead of him. But now America is risking a nuclear disaster for the whole world by messing with the most powerful dictator of the 21st century. I hope they are in touch with Putin and his cronies(although it doesnt seem like it) and make sure they don't do anything crazy. Because if crazy shit happens, it's gonna be real bad and if civilization survives, will be a good lesson on how not to deal with nuclear dictators.
If I know what my access patterns are, DynamoDB is often the better choice.
Emulation or not, the Deck has really eaten into the 'AAA gaming in your hand' market the switch has established, considering most non-Nintendo titles are available on the Deck as well.
Everytime I read about this, it makes me think about this game:

https://termsandconditions.game/

(SSL warning)

These shenanigans are not required, they are very much designed on purpose.

Indeed, corporations can follow the "Do Not Track" header. There is nothing in the EU law that requires a banner, only informed consent.

So if I have DNT=1 set in my browser, pop a quick non modal notification saying "we wants to track you but but we won't because you said not to. Click here if you want to change that". Solved.

I'm informed. I made my choice.

But that's not what it's about.

Because the vast majority of people would not consent. Who are you kidding? This tracking is not benefiting us. It's like when politician says it's "for the children" or "to fight terrorists". Everybody knows there are full of it.

So the banner is just the most annoying way that is legally allowed to try to get people to force-accept tracking. In fact, some banner are crafted to make rejection the hardest path for this very reason.

Those corps chose to make the web terrible a little bit more every day: tracking, auto play, scroll hijacking, dark patters, cookie banners...

We should thank the UE a 1000 times to reveal who are the bad players.
Technically correct (best kind of correct) but irrelevant here. "utc" (lowercase) is a timezone in the sense that it is a named instance of python's `timezone` class provided by the standard library, and the obvious choice if utcnow() were to return a timezone-aware datetime.
... completely valid?
Game developers are not required to implement Steam DRM to sell their games on the Steam store.

If a game developer chooses to implement Steam DRM, Valve will enforce it.
A couple of friend discover their simultaneous respective cheating each others following their respective macrospy devices, plus some extras like surveilling each others cars, putting connected gpses in some jackets etc... Oh, sure you might say "hey, both have done the same, both have decide to spy the partner, that's karma" but I think it's not so harmless for them.

Anecdotes aside being surveilled is harmful in various ways for various reasons, we have heard of women's period trackers who spy their human users, perhaps to decide if she plan to get pregnant and fire her just before with some legit excuse, potential different insurances prices depending on how you drive, political surveillance, wrong accusations due to wrong phone reporting logs (various news happens from DK to USA, who also involve physical arrests, penal accusations etc) and so on.

While there is nothing wrong in having a PERSONAL computer with us, have no practical control on it, who happen to be not much personal but instead a surveillance capitalism device paid by the surveilled Citizens instead of by those who want to spy on him, having more and more push to de facto mandate them because "you need a craphone to access you banks, recharge your car, ..." it's DEFINITIVELY harmful and the infinite scroll attention-eliciters drugs apps are just a mean to push such systems in the society.
Hacking Your Dishwasher
TSO memory model is indeed a standard option on RISC-V, that no one had implemented yet as far as I know.

Software designed for the normal RISC-V memory model will work perfectly on a TSO machine, if perhaps a bit more slowly. Programs that depend on TSO semantics may be buggy on the standard RISC-V memory model (or on ARM too).

RISC-V also has a FENCE.TSO instruction that can be inserted as needed into software running on normal RISC-V. If you're going to use it a lot then you'd be better off implementing an actual TSO mode (not least because of code size). FENCE.TSO even works on (standards compliant) hardware that doesn't know about it, because unknown fences are supposed to be executed as FENCE RW,RW (the strongest fence), at some loss in efficiency.

Alibaba T-Head unfortunately didn't read this part of the spec when they designed the C906 and C910 cores, which give illegal instruction trap if they encounter an unknown fence such as FENCE.TSO. OpenSBI now does trap-and-emulate if necessary, but of course at another loss of efficiency. This bug affects the Allwinner D1 and Alibaba ICE SoC.

I don't know whether this errata in the C910 has been fixed in the TH1520 SoC in the Roma laptop (and other unannounced, cheaper, SBCs).
> A quorum insert fails. is the data there or not? Maybe!

How is this point fundamentally different from SQL? In SQL, after you send COMMIT to a remote database and get back a network error, you don't know if your INSERTed data is committed or not. You'll have to reconnect and check for it.
I don't feel like Substack is any less of a nuisance than Medium. Seeing either domain name immediately lowers my expectations; I go in expecting to get a mediocre article annoyingly interrupted with pop-ups begging me to create yet another online account, and sometimes I'll be pleasantly surprised with a good article annoyingly interrupted with pop-ups begging me to create yet another online account.

Not only do I dislike that enough to not want to use Medium or Substack as a reader, but it also means that I would never want to use Medium or Substack as a writer, either; yeah, I have all of three blog posts to my name, but even my shitty writing deserves better than to have any association whatsoever with such user-hostility.
Substack makes a lot of money from promoting misinformation on vaccines, climate change and other issues, harming a lot of people.

I rarely click on Substack links, they managed to attract all the propagandists and cultists other platforms weeded out for a reason.
Absolutely. moment has a definition of that and compute it in a consistent way, which is useful. But if you want to come up with a different definition then it cannot help you indeed.
I agree. If your reduce requires mutation, then you almost certainly shouldn't be using reduce.
Ugh i hate these banners.

The web browser should control the consent. Like how it worked in IE5 before everyone realized asking was super annoying and just assumed yes.

It makes no sense for a web site to collect state to know if its allowed to collect state.
Isn't it the same frenzy with which people advocated for lockdowns, masks and destroyed some peoples careers because they didn't want to take the shot?

What I find inspiring is that billionaires like Musk are suddenly making moves to defuse the situation.
What is a "Microsoft legacy shop" ?
I've interpreted "imminent" meaning "about to occur" that is one-in-six chances of global nuclear war soon.
Hobbies and obsessions ain't necessarily mutually exclusive.
Well in one way it did work with the original point, the internet has created a centralized pipe for X. There exists not _many youtubes_ there is _one youtube_ and everyone uses that for video.

In the beginning of the internet there were _many_ options, but overtime all of these options get cannabalized by a central _service_ for that thing.

So yes and yes, which is arguably the closest thing to a matrix, simulacrum view of reality. On top of that we rely ever increasingly on models and statistics as physical laws. Oh woe to the future, for the difference between fact or fiction is irrelevant and blurred.
At least writing down that sort of stuff (death wishes against foreign politicians) on a public forum would have been frowned upon and made part of that forum’s TOS, but, as I said, doing this to the boogie man of the day is actually seen as ok.

Trump was (is, actually) also seen as a foreign-controlled boogie man, that’s why the open death threats on Twitter and the like were not reaceiving any action, including from Twitter itself. I haven’t seen any direct threats against Biden, more than that, anti-Biden people had to adopt that Brandon slogan thing in order to pass some of the implicit censorship applied by big tech companies.
Yes, that's what we do mostly, except to track external subscriptions that actually use months (I believe the Google playstore does that but I could be mistaken with another service)
It's and has always been anti-anyone that can threat US hegemony. It was against USSR, now Russia, China and EU(Germany in particular).

So you can see that when China was making shirts only, China was US' best friend. And now we get here.
I was in a similar position and went half time and got my masters
. The main benefit being that it allows me to get back into the student pipeline via internships and get an opportunity at a company that otherwise wouldn't have looked at my resume. Once I was in the door, I blew most of the other interns out of the water because I had significantly more development experience and was offered a job.
Yeah but how were the actions motivated? One must use symbols to coordinate. E.g religion, mesiahs, leaders, ideas, democracy, etc.
Oxford dictionary:

the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation.
"the bell's ringing is supposed to usher in the Apocalypse"

2.
an event involving destruction or damage on a catastrophic scale.
"the apocalypse of World War II"

Meanings of words change over time.
One day I told a customs officer landing in a foreign country that I can't give him my phone for inspection because I do not have one with me, only a laptop (with X11 disabled at login, just to do so before departure). He ask me why and I answer that's because I plan an attack in his country so I need to be a bit less traceable. He almost believe me................

The explanation of "hey, did you think some attackers can be so stupid to expose himself like that?" seems to sound even stranger at his ears.......
There is a better word used, specifically out of revealations:

Armageddon (n.)
"cataclysmic final conflict," 1811, figurative use of the place-name in Revelation xvi.16, the site of the great and final conflict, from Hebrew Har Megiddon "Mount of Megiddo," a city in central Palestine, site of important Israelite battles.
(New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world;
Armageddon (n.)
any catastrophically destructive battle;
Get a new job. You can get a contract job paying £500 a day quite easily in the UK. Do a 6 month contract, save up some runway, work on your own thing for a while, doing whatever interests you. Repeat.
Summary: day.js had DST bugs, luxon did not.
I experience the same. I mostly stopped with web development because of this, and get a lot more satisfaction out of static pages, because it is so simple (and fast!).
House Centipede
They have 99.9% influence on international performance, whether they know it or not is a different matter.

It's the same with 99.9% of players that play MMORPG's or buy a game, or anything for that matter. The participation _is_ the performance in play, and it only exists because people participate. Yet this can be unpacked into whether those participating even know they are participating and yadda yadda.

It's an interesting dive.
It was snide, I apologise. I just found it weird to compare laptop keyboards to mechanical switches since they're never going to be in the same ballpark.
But is this healthy over long run? They also don't talk between them. It's like we're all strangers.
Exactly there is the same problem, to a lesser extend, when adding/subtracting years which is not trivial to do properly.