skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see people comparing the Sprinter class RVs to the class C frequently. The parent comment is absolutely the reason. a $90k RV is a great value for space, but it is built out of ticky tacky and will be begin rusting, breaking, and leaking probably before you even take possession from the dealer. That said, you can patch them (they make special tape), lose some of the bits that break off, and make do with the rest and have a great time then sell them on when you are done.

In contrast, if a buyer is forking over for a Sprinter chassis then the RV builder figures you want nicer construction and all the pieces are better and it doesn't disintegrate around you nearly as rapidly.

And just to put some concrete the class C quality… in no particular order… exterior latch screws which rust instantly, exterior locks with corrode to useless in a couple years, generator fuel pump lasts 30 hours, water tank did not have drill shavings removed when drilled (end up in strainer), water pump strainer installed backwards so it can't be emptied of said shavings, winterization drain valves are undocumented and inside a sealed compartment (found while replacing water pump which turned out to just be blocked by shavings), 120v electrical box with no cover because the wires were too bulky and it would not fit on (under the sink where you stick metal trays), roof membrane was slightly too short to overlap and engage front roof (manufacturer covered with copious sealant goo to hide, eventually failed and inflated roof while driving down road), mysterious current leak will drain starting battery if you park too long, battery combiner to use house batteries and generator to start main engine clicks relay but does not actually combine batteries, likewise circuit which chargers vehicle battery when plugged in does not function (there are no wiring diagrams available, not clear where it even should be), house fuse panel is so badly made that fuses bounce out while driving, furnace failed two ways in 5 years (once off, and once always on. Good variety at least), knobs snap off, anything screwed in might drop screws, black water tank outlet didn't fit so manufacturer kind of gooed it in place (it held for a couple years, sorry about that mess on your road, great state of California) . – In short (long) a class C is cheap for what you get, but is an ongoing project. Good news, you have room for plenty of tools and recovery equipment.
You can hack it with the \m[<color>] escape in groff:

\m[blue]int\m[] x

Of course, you would use some kind of pre-processor to
make this less of a PITA, but it's not inconceivable.
If one got no skills, social ones may keep you afloat in any more complex hierarchical organization. And its part of the village psyche since the dawn of time. Having two plans, two bosses, two options or opinions, steers some deep dread instinctive fear of infighting and the tribe breaking apart in some.

Its a retardation, but a understandable one, though those suffering from it, do subtract from whatever they are part.
Usually not. I got a similar "ping" page on my website but haven't found a browser that closes the TLS connection between secondly requests. Also built a websocket version but that turned out to only be useful as canary because it doesn't survive connection changes.
> Although I understand your sentiment, there was a big uproar (rightly so) when Mozilla cut a lot of stuff that wasn't directly related to Firefox, such as MDN web docs or the experimental Servo browser engine. Building a healthy and innovative ecosystem requires not developing tunnel vision. Having a future requires investing in the future as well as the present.

Funny how under that goal Firefox has gone from 30% of the market to 3%:

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

Mozilla today is a net negative for the web. We would be better with them dying in a fire so something new can take their place and actually be something that people want to use.
You're looking for an 'overlander' conversion. Stick that term in your search engine of choice and you'll find companies happy to build you one, but hold on to your wallet because they're all $200k+ (seriously). They take a $100k offroader (new G wagon, Landcruiser, etc.) and go wild makinng it livable.
Agreed, I always forget about the Damocles sword that is lack of basic health in the US. I’m now wondering if this is by design…

The other points do still strike me as more qualitative though (for the cohort) but you convinced me with the health coverage. Absolutely nobody should be in danger of falling through the cracks on that side.

So yeah this sucks, it’s not great at all. Still would say: don’t give up folks - you’ll be able to find a job (better even, found a company?) even in a downturn. Again, this is software. The big co-enabler of unhinged capitalism. Here to stay.
Debian Install on QEMU
I think it’s also important to highlight that the analogy between neural networks and brains is to help people visualize what a neural network is, not what a brain is. It’s really just to convey the idea of multiple nodes passing information to one another. After that point, the comparison is useless because the two systems diverge so wildly outside of that one (pretty loose) conceptual connection.
From the actual study's abstract:

> Unique to Neuroscience, deep learning models can be used not only as a tool but interpreted as models of the brain. The central claims of recent deep learning-based models of brain circuits are that they make novel predictions about neural phenomena or shed light on the fundamental functions being optimized... Using large-scale hyperparameter sweeps and theory-driven experimentation, we demonstrate that the results of such models may be more strongly driven by particular, non-fundamental, and post-hoc implementation choices than fundamental truths about neural circuits or the loss function(s) they might optimize. Finally, we discuss why these models cannot be expected to produce accurate models of the brain without the addition of substantial amounts of inductive bias, an informal No Free Lunch result for Neuroscience. In conclusion, caution and consideration, together with biological knowledge, are warranted in building and interpreting deep learning models in Neuroscience.

And IMO a succinct description of the problematic assumption being cautioned against in the study's introduction section:

> Broadly, the essential claims of DL-based models of the brain are that 1) Because the models are trained on a specific optimization problem, if the resulting representations match what has been observed in the brain, then they reveal the optimization problem of the brain, or 2) That these models, when trained on sensibly motivated optimization problems, should make novel predictions about the brain’s representations and emergent behavior.

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I think to most, the problem with claim number 2 directly above is obvious, but it's important to also look at claim 1.
They gave grants to change master/slave terminology in documentation. After that, I can't donate and assume the won't wizz away my money on some stupid endeavor.
I built a camper van from a Promaster and it’s 78 inches across in the back. So with a thin layer of insulation I can fit a full size mattress across the back. The Promaster is wider than the Transit or the Sprinter.
There are several services that host Stable Diffusion API, DreamStudio being the official one.
and its just marketing spiel.. for a product they're going to have available in 66 days? can't even get it out for XMAS in this climate (financially not actual weather)
> Oh, you bought booze and chocolates yesterday? You're getting fat and drunk, your health insurance just went up

I mean, you’re exaggerating. But yes, I’d like obese people to pay more for insurance. Also, if government thinks booze is bad it shouldn’t sell it.

> As said by someone else below, china has a similar system in place

Anecdotally, I asked about this a Chinese friend I studied with in Europe. She said “Social credit? What’s that?” It’s not that she can’t read, she’s on Instagram and WhatsApp.
Thanks for the comment. I'll tweak the page to make it more obvious. We'll expand to Mac eventually, but I have no release date to share here. Feel free to sign up to our newsletter to get notified: http://eepurl.com/dBFrBb
> Which political party repealed net neutrality?

Which political party has held the house and the senate and done nothing to reverse it?

Honestly, people who pretend that bourgeoisie issues are somehow the province of just one party are worse than wrestling fans -- they at least know wrestling is fake.
The brain is not involved in a whole lot of behaviors though. Cells organize themselves to an extent. Cuts heal without us focusing conscious thought on them.

The brain is a hard drive but the body is the whole computer.

Science is proving physical causation. Not just writing down what we want to be true.
Why the hell does Google Docs not let you directly download an image?
I have to specifically either a) export as HTML or b) use Inspector to find the image.

I legitimately cannot come up with a singular good reason why the hell Google does not let you download the image directly?!
Spamming is an attempt to promote something. Destroying the forum is a side effect.

It's fair to describe indifference to negative effects of one's behavior as malicious, and it is, indeed almost never possible to transform a spammer into a productive member of a community.
Yeah exactly. I don’t think of a worker who wants to stick to 9-5 as worth less until appraisal. I may still give them a full rating but not as much in bonus. You’re already paid plenty just to do your daily job. If anyone is going above and beyond in meaningfully productive ways, they get paid more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid#...

It looks like there's a line where grid north and true north always agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_magnetic_pole#/media/Fil...

Looking at this, it looks like "places where magnetic north matches grid north" might not be a straight line, or might not be a line that goes straight up and down the grid?

E: maybe the former is the border between the red and blue areas here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Magnetic_Model#/media/Fi...
R2's compatibility with the S3 API still has a ways to go. I tried to port over a relatively trivial app written on the AWS SDK and found:

* Request header signing is not supported (ok, fine)

* Tagging is not supported (showstopper)
I find most forums that advocate against behavior they view as malicious wind up becoming hugboxes as people skirt this arbitrary boundary. I will never, never come back to platforms or groups after I get this feeling.

Hugbox environments wind up having a loose relationship with the truth and a strong emphasis on emotional well-being.

Setting your moderation boundaries determines the values of your platform. I’d much rather talk to someone who wants to hurt my feelings than someone who is detached from reality or saying what they think.
Guessing "military-industrial complex".
Automation creates a much bigger problem. If you had 10 independent bakers, the price of bread would be limited from both sides:

* The bakers would rather quit than keep earning less that what easier jobs pay, pushing the prices up.

* If the price went too high, someone would setup another bakery to get a market share, pushing the prices down.

With automation and consolidation we have 1 corporation owning 1 automatic bakeries and 10 completely disposable bureaucrats on near-minimum wage. If the demand goes up, jacking up the prices is easier than setting up the 11th bakery (what if the demand goes down later? too risky!). If a new player enters the market, they will just sell the bread in that neighborhood at a loss until the competitor is out, then get the prices back.

Rinse and repeat for a decade and here you go: assets prices are through the roof, salaries are stuck, there is a shortage of everything, prices are going up, competence is lost art, nobody knows what to do.

Artificially created jobs won't pay for a decent house because they don't come with a bargaining power. We could print money and turn $5/hr vs. $3K rent into $50/hr vs. $30K rent, but it won't change the balance of power. If you want to change it, we need to crack down on centralization and make small businesses competitive again.
People don't care enough about the "community" anymore. It might work on a smallish-scale but the reality is everything is shitposting, even here.

Even in Slashdot's heyday the number of metamoderators was vanishingly small. The best thing it had was the ability to filter anonymous cowards and the ability to browse from -5 to +5 if you wanted to.
I _just_ started using Firebase and I'm already worried about cost. Is this a drop in replacement for it ? All my code will work against nhost , just change the config files ? Or what does the transition look like at the moment ?

Very excited for this!
Low performers always 100% of the time get dropped during layoffs. It's the one window that companies can mostly let go of employees without being sued. (Though, if they lay off too many people in a protected class, still can get sued). What's interesting about a lot of the division or sector-downturn layoffs, that you end up seeing solid performers, and, when you are dropping a good portion of your division - very good performers let go. Most companies try to make a play for keeping their 10x developers - but, I've been in layoffs (Browser Division, Netscape, 1997sh) - where just absolutely everyone was dropped, regardless of performance.
I didn't mean "mature normal dynamics" of open source. I meant that in general humans prefer outrage and drama to things working well and people having functional discourse and I wish the latter was celebrated more.
I doubt it's explicitly for mentally ill teenagers. It could be, say, a video game discord, and so the demographics are mostly teens who play the game, and obviously some subset will be mentally ill.
Stocks were valued mainly pretty good when you consider interest rates. As rates go up then the expected return on stocks needs to change (we expect more return on them) so the prices fall. For instance, a dividend paying stock will see its price fall when interest rates increase because the dividend yield is a percentage of the stock price. When interest rates are low the yield can be low which means the price of the underlying stock is high. Until their profits catch up with the new reality the stock price will remain lower.

As for high flying tech (cloud, etc) - yeah, probably too much speculation there.
This isn't about "jargon" being used to "be polite". "Jargon" is specialized terminology which may not be understood outside of a group or context. "We took an existing encoder-decoder transformer model from huggingface and slapped a token-level classifier head on it" is lot of jargon. By contrast, everyone understands what "let go" means.

The reason for choosing to say "let go" vs "terminated" isn't to "be polite". More broadly, in this and similar announcements, we see framing, of active vs passive parties, to spin responsibility, agency and involvement. The tone of the whole thing is "because of the broader economic environment, this business outcome was so inevitable and our hands were so forced we will barely acknowledge that it was a decision." And as a stark contrast, they describe all of the things they're giving "impacted" former employees in the active voice: "We'll pay", "We'll accelerate", "We'll cover", "We'll be supporting" etc.

I think they actually seem to be doing a pretty good job supporting the staff they terminated. I just think if they actually want to take responsibility for their actions, both bad and good, they should talk in a way that acknowledges when they're the principal actors.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2017/06/01/using-the-bu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon#Specifics
My company is actually hiring senior/staff Clojure devs.

https://grnh.se/08cec3bb4us - Senior Engineer
https://grnh.se/5c028b554us - Staff Engineer

You should take a look and let me know if you have any questions.
> Any individual post I might make is fine and contextual to the convo. But I'm bringing down the over-all quality of discussion by basically spamming every convo with my personal grievance.

Isn't this how a healthy society functions?

Political protests are "spam" under your definition. When people are having a protest in the street, it's inconvenient, people don't consent to it, it brings down the quality of the discussion (Protestors are rarely out to have a nuanced conversation). Social Media is the public square in the 21st century, and people in the public square should have a right to protest.
I mean it's clearly obviously designed to get people to read the ads he has in it.
They already do for copyrighted works eg region locked for Disney movies or World Cup games
Maybe? Reputation systems can devolve into rewarding groupthink. It's a classic "you get what you measure" conundrum, where once it becomes clear that an opinion / phrase / meme is popular, it's easy to farm reputation by repeating it.

I like your comment about "track record of insightful, levelheaded conversation", but that introduces another abstraction. Who measures insight or levelheadedness, and how to avoid that being gamed?

I general I agree that reputation is an interesting and potentially important signal, I'm just not sure I've ever seen an implementation that doesn't cause a lot of the problems it's trying to solve. Any good examples?
Nah people should have a job they believe in. It can be an adventure
> we’ll be supporting transitions to non-employment visas wherever we can.

wtf is that even?
Meh, it’s the most reasonable bad solution imo. I’ve had some pretty heated convos on reddit and have only ever been blocked once.
Twitter Blue launches for $4.99/mo, includes NFT profile pictures
Why are they making it possible to make scrollbars thinner?! They're already so thin they're almost impossible to see, let alone click on most modern UIs.

What we really need is 'scrollbar-width: thick-ol-windows-95-bar'

Why do designers hate scroll bars :-(
What do you mean 1 data point? It transmits bytes, not data points. I could easily stuff 60 temperature and humidity readings into one hourly 192b packet(ie per-minute weather data). That's 120 data points, not 1. And you could easily double that with simple differential encoding or beyond other compression techniques
Adults also know what tact is and what is considered socially appropriate and not. You don't have to be a kid to not be needlessly insulting to a wide swath of people just to show it to a company who isn't going to read or care about what you said.
Research suggests why older violins sound so good
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Submission: quotes
Irrelevant to what, exactly?

You can't come to my house, sit on my couch, eat my food and watch my television unless I say you can. If you try to do so without my permission, I'm within my rights to throw you out and, if you resist, use force to remove you.

How is usage of a private company's private server resources any different?
What do you mean? It’s just “sftp” in front of the repository name!

And SFTP is SFTP, regardless of the OS.
My wording was unfortunate. “Extremely low interest rates” would have been better.

But all this is a bit beside the point as I see it. If you run the economy on negative real interest rates for an extended period of time you will see seemingly profitable economic activity that in fact destroys economic value (but does so slower than the negative real interest rate). When rates go up such activities will reveal themselves as unprofitable.
Eh I prefer win11 on on a E3 or E5 package over the old setups any days. Like honestly some of the ghetto ass shiz I come across in old smb setups is astounding. Also micro businesses thinking they have the capacity to run maintain and manage local servers w no IT teams. Man gimme a cloud backed win11 setup over that crap anyday. Win10 is eh AVG, mandatory tpm rocks.
Wait, this is a real app?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVoFzu-vH4o
This kind of thing worked for a few forums that tried it before FB/Twitter came around.
AFAIK Debian still doesnt have any integration available for handling thee integration of systemd-boot & kernel packages: there's nothing to maintain the loader/entries files that systemd-boot expects! It's really a shame because systemd-boot is 10x simpler and 100x more plesant to work with than grub & it's multiple overlapping but different obtuse config handling shell scripts. Bootctl is excellent & understandable, the entries are human readable/authorable.

I've been on systemd-boot for a long while now. For a while I was just hand maintaining vmlinuzs & loader entries, copying & editing stuff on /boot/efi. Easy but inelegant & I'd forget the very simple steps.

I've been copy pasting (well, its in my ansible now) /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ hooks from stackoverflow, which writes these files, & that greatly simplified life. It's a jank hurdle & I wish my os would actually support this wonderful easy to use tool. Systemd-boot is so much less obtuse, such a breath or fresh air, after years of grub (and many of uboot as well, but that's a different sector).

I made the jump ~two years ago to a single partition, just the ESP partition. Theres a warning abiut not being able to set permissions properly but its worked fine & been so much more pleasant to operate. Very strongly recommend. It just worked for me on Debian, no real fiddling.

https://github.com/filakhtov/kernel-postinst-d/blob/master/9...
For starters they can fire the CEO that's seen their market share decrease by an order of magnitude while seeing her pay increase by an order of magnitude.

After that go down the org chart and fire everyone not coding for the browser.

Then you can live off donations until the end of time.
It's for global IoT connectivity, just as it says. That is a very specific application.
> For a time, Ford CEO Jim Farley had a reference to the bit — and his late cousin — in his Twitter profile: “Mustang and racing fan. Happen to love white vans ... preferably down by the river.” The auto executive has paid other tributes to his cousin on the social media platform through the use of memes and other media.

Popping over to the Wikipedia page, the connections to SNL continue:

> James D. Farley Jr. (born June 10, 1962) is an American businessman who is the CEO of Ford and a board member of Harley-Davidson.[1] His career in automobiles was inspired by his grandfather, who began work at Henry Ford's River Rouge Plant in 1918.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Farley_(businessman)
The triple lock only applies to the state pension, which is not generous - it's basically about the bare minimum to live on I think. That's part of the reason why the government is willing to increase it so aggressively.
I perhaps could have specified that part of the prediction was that if QE was used substantially more to deal with said shock, it would lead to hyperinflation. What we have now looks (to me) like bad inflation but not hyperinflation.
Python tools for insurance price transparency
What do you mean, "download an image"? Are you saying if you get a document from someone else and it contains an image, that you can not download that image? If so, can you zoom in on the image and take a screenshot? Would that work?