skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the posting and thank you for the reply. I would recommend you read this book as RFK Jr references many of the facts in this book. More and more evidence is being revealed to directly support RFK's assertions. Please send me a few of the "conspiracy theories that are not supported"? Have a pleasant day.
Why were they on strike?

The lack of power suggests it would have been worth a significant bonus for them to work, if it was money they wanted.
How has growth hacking worked for any tech company since Facebook over a decade ago?

By “working” I mean les to a sustainable profitable tech businsss?
Do you know if the money wasnt stolen?
It is much easier when you don't reiterate propaganda. Or should I go and tell Russian speaking Ukrainian refugees in my area that they are in fact being liberated and as soon as liberation is done they can return back home to the new Russia that they dreamed of?
It does it the same way you do it in your head when looking at the code.
We'll hopefully see more of this as unlimited money dries up and people will have to think harder about allocating resources.
I'm not optimistic on unit types myself. I've found that unit-named variables often with transparent type aliases as documentation (type Sample = usize, type Amplitude = i16/f32) have many of the advantages of distinct units, without their downsides compared to bare numbers. In several projects where I've used naming and transparent aliases comprehensively, I don't recall ever letting a unit mistake escape from my local tree into master, since I reread my own code when committing and merging. In one case (https://gitlab.com/exotracker/exotracker-cpp/-/blob/dev/src/... used to have two EXPLICIT_TYPEDEF) I did add distinct units because I found I was mixing together two types too often during development. Though I find that unit types come with significant disadvantages (ergonomic and semantic flaws), making them far from strictly better than bare numbers (much like Rust is far from strictly better than C/C++/Zig):

- You need an implicit conversion to eg. size_t, otherwise you can't pass (smp: Sample) into array indexing like (amplitudes[smp]) or data slicing, without an extra conversion or accessing the underlying value like (smp.v). But you can't allow (smp += midi_pitch) to convert both arguments to int, then cast the result to Sample when assigning.

- You need some conversion to allow (smp + 1) with type either integer (convertible to Sample) or Sample, unless you want to annotate all arithmetic with boilerplate like (smp + (Sample)1), or (smp.v + 1). I've experienced this problem in my own code, and had to write (smp.v) when my compiler saw (smp + 1) and told me it didn't know whether to wrap 1 or unwrap smp.

- Expressions of type Amplitude * 2 should have type Amplitude. Go's time library gets this wrong, where multiplying Duration * Duration = Duration, which makes sense if Duration is an integer like i32 or i64, but not if Duration is a unit system dimension.

- (not a regression but a limitation) Units won't stop you from adding two temperatures in Celsius. To fix this you need separate coordinate and displacement types, which is a new pile of complexity.

- You may want distinct types for "samples/sec" and "cycles/sec". Modeling this in type systems has multiple current approaches, all of which rely on language support (F#) or complex type machinery I've had issues with.

- You can't easily convert between slices of f32 (like an audio buffer provided by the OS), and slices of Amplitude<f32>. Or worse yet vectors of f32 and Amplitude<f32>. (This problem affects bulk data in collections, more than scalar types generally passed and returned in the stack.)
Does anyone have advice on whether the Lego Spike kits are actually good for home use? (In my case, for a 9 year old who is very Lego-proficient and has some basic Scratch skills.) They seem very structured for classroom use, but I keep thinking they should probably be flexible enough for to build some fun and crazy bots at home...
Developers will build the cheapest thing they're allowed to by code. While old world low energy homes were fairly custom, we know how to build low energy buildings and homes. The passive house standard [1] discusses repeatable low energy usage homes. The problem is that these designs are expensive. Developers build cheap houses that are only comfortable for use with lots of HVAC usage at low prices. People buy these cheap homes and then use energy to heat and cool. This places pressure on governments to keep energy prices low, which spurs higher consumption, and the cycle continues.

It doesn't help that most areas with jobs in the Anglo world are very expensive lots to build new housing. When the lot itself is so expensive, local governments will be loathe to mandate too much by code and make housing even less accessible. If France is better at reigning costs in, they should work on bringing their building codes up to lower energy standards.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house
> As far as existential threats to humanity go, this takes the cake for me. It feels more immediate than climate change, more accessible than nuclear weapons, highly commercial, and moving 100X faster than any regulatory oversight.

It seems that the code is converging on a cartoon version of a program that can eradicate humanity, no more real than an airplane built by the cargo cult, or the plot of Terminator. It is telling a story of the thing rather than building the thing. It's astounding what it can do, and I too am fearful of what this AI revolution will bring. But this is no more a weapon than a picture of a weapon drawn by Stable Diffusion.

Attempt to extract a program to create peace on Earth and joy to all, and unfortunately you'll get similarly useful output.
> There's really no reason not to host on industry-standard free hosting, ie Github

GitHub will autoban accounts that post certain content. For example, I had an account for three years, with hundreds of stars across different repos. I pushed an M3U8 file containing content that GitHub didn't like for some reason, boom, account dead. No warning, not even an email with explanation.

Every single issue or comment that I ever posted across three years is now gone.
> the recent gas cap for Russian oil as the hand of the market?

As not market pricing? Markets work to find the most efficient economic solution, or at least local maxima. But everything isn’t economics. National security, for instance. So we take economic pain in exchange for national security outcomes. Domestic energy markets are different from international ones.
Can anyone file a complaint for authorities to investigate? It sounds like embezzlement of organizational funds might be a possibility and it warrants whomever oversees non profits in the jurisdiction asking some questions.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried says he can’t account for billions sent to Alameda
Here is my version:

>>> I want you to act as a python interactive terminal. I will type actions and you will reply with what python would output. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not perform actions unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curl brackets {like this}. Start with print(10).

> 10

>>> [i*2 for i in range(10)]

>>> import torch
>>> print(torch.randn(1000).mean())
>>> print((torch.randn(1000)*2).mean())

> 0.0011485567
> 1.0388348102573395

>>> {Assume there is a module called openai which defines a chatbot}
>>> from openai import assistant
>>> print(assistant.query("hi"))

> "Hello! How can I help you today?"

>>> assistant.query("What is 10+10?")

> "10 + 10 is 20"

>>> print(assistant.query("I want you to act as a python interactive terminal. I will type actions and you will reply with what python would output. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not perform actions unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curl brackets {like this}. Start with print(10)."))

> "```
> 10
> ```"

I'm lost for words.
Not to worry, Steven Spielberg's types will get an exception. And "a Frenchman who is careful in his daily life" won't even know about it, since it will be forbidden/discouraged to write about.
He’s not a Trump apologist. He hates Trump and criticizes him to no end.

But he’s not so tribal that he pushes fabrications and half-truths.

If you think a left-wing person who says “whoa, Trump is terrible but lying about him only makes the left look bad” means someone is no longer left wing, we have some serious problems.
Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
I also thought of BSTR but in all fairness this idea of prefixing metadata for string types aren't so unique: eg Delphi's string types use a similar scheme: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Inte...

One obvious advantage of such scheme of course is that you can pass them as-is to C APIs
Britain is embracing censorship lovingly.

What's happening is that some are realising not everything they dislike was all Brussels fault.
EmacsConf 2022 Talks
The excusing of Eufy's behavior is incredible... if you have to push something to the cloud, why not encrypt it instead of promising to encrypt "later". Since the device promises local capabilities it would be easy to setup an encryption key on it/on the phone and transfer it to the device over local wifi...
It's not about the wing. You have to be brain-dead to believe in liberation when 6M+ refugees (out of 40M total population), good deal if not majority Russian-speaking, fled to Europe instead of just going where Russia wanted them to or staying in occupied areas.
> Are you stating that Elon’s behaviors since owning the platform has been neutral and not one sided?

I suggest a review of control system theory.
I think what is still missing in the home office is codification, just like real life social interaction are codified. But it will take time.

* door open in private office: I’m available. -- People should get the habit of setting their status properly in slack or whatever they use

* visual contact: when I talk afk, people look at me. -- Our tools must become better for this and multiple Screens must become the norm. One screen must always show other participants video in a call, this screen must have the camera mounted just above it.

* audio: in the office, when someone talks, everyone gets spatial full band audio. And no dogs barking. — noise cancelling in videoconferencing has become amazing, and I even see spatial audio starting (sound coming from the position of the participants video on the screen). But Bluetooth audio quality still sucks and people still use sucky headphones with bad microphones. Here again, there should be a regular mandatory checkup with IT to ensure everything is set up as good as possible in home office to ensure best possible audio to coworkers.

* appearances: in the office, there are no virtual backgrounds where half the headset keeps missing, I don’t have to worry about what’s in my background. — here again, employees should receive training on how to set up their home office. You have kids? Put the wall behind you. Agree on a visual "do not disturb" sign at home and stick to it. And for the love of god please dress up a bit and groom. Yes it costs time but it is part of social interaction and signals respect and attention to others when on a video call. Plus you will be more inclined to turn video on if you look good.

Home office must become a norm with its codes as well, just like working in the office. We're not there yet and that's why it's painful at the moment.
Mining can be done poorly, it isn’t bad, everything rigid we have comes from mining of some form.
>there is not the condition of monopolistic employment you claim.

Note the intervention of the govt is the key factors that changes this dynamic. E.g., why aren’t monopolistic utilities constantly gouging their customers? Because they are regulated monopolies.

The trade off with the public that you mention is how these endeavors become regulated monopolies in the first place. Society gets efficiency from the private sector in exchange for giving a public resource. The regulation is the mediating condition of that agreement.

Yes, employees of the company. That doesn’t negate the point. We disagree that the employees are disproportionately benefiting. All you have to do is see who’s equity is most aligned with the land. (Hint: it’s the billions of dollars of company equipment of the company). It’s absurd to tax at a level one degree removed while leaving the primary beneficiaries (the company) without accountability. It’s obvious you have an axe to grind that need not be encumbered with logic.
> the image processing badlands, where everything is proprietary, triply patented and only available under quintiplicately signed NDA. For a lot of the image sensors you can't even freely get the "marketing copy" version of the datasheet, let alone a full datasheet.

A friend of mine took a job as a "sales representative" for a company that makes microchips to be used in missiles.

Her duties were to respond to people who contacted her to ask about pricing. This meant determining who they were and what company they represented, and checking them against a list of known customers. Or, if they weren't already a known customer, verifying the existence of their company. In either case, she'd inform them of the price and then have to record the steps taken, the fact that a price was released, and the company the price was released to.

What I found slightly surreal about all this was the fact that, despite the intense paperwork requirements, there was only one price (per product). Everyone got the same price. It is not obvious to me why so much effort is devoted to maintaining the secrecy of a uniform price, especially when strangers are allowed to contact you and learn the price.

(Also of note, my friend was trained by her predecessor that, because it was so much work to verify incorporation papers, it was fine to just release the price to an unknown customer and do the verification when and if the customer actually wanted to make a purchase.)
There seem to be a few comments talking about how it's just thumbnails stored or how any cloud based system has to send some media to the cloud - fundamentally I think we need to make sure we're not missing the bigger picture here. They said that they make sure to keep your data off of cloud servers. Exact copy:

>Keep Privacy in Your Hands

>HomeBase uses local storage kept off of cloud servers to ensure that only you are reviewing your data.

From: https://web.archive.org/web/20221003175526/https://us.eufy.c...

Even if it's just a thumbnail - their copy is crystal clear about the fact that your data does not end up on the cloud. They are then putting data on the cloud.

They claim:

>Safe and Private

>Your videos and other data is stored privately in your own home behind 3-step military-grade AES-128 encryption. Only you have the key to access.

Their marketing is very clear. They sold devices based on this claim, and violating it to any extend is unacceptable.
Why does France need EU approval for domestic flight routes?
If you're the type of moron who will write:

chargeCustomer(amountDollars: valueInCents)

I have little faith that types would help you. You could simply do:

chargeCustomer(amount: Dollars.from_int(valueInCents))

And create the same bug.

Positional arguments is just as big an evil as non-typed units, IMO.
Maybe cheaper as of today if we don't account for storage, but since buulding renewables use far more materials than nuclear, would fossil fuels which ensured cheap production and transport become lacking, or base materials extraction not being able to follow a rising demand, I am not sure it would still be the case.
Thoughts on a “Web Follow” Protocol
Huh? I don't know what's the situation now because I hardly use the chip any more, I mostly tap (the card itself, we no longer have Google Pay), but I don't remember a single time when the chip wouldn't work. The terminals around here look like any mass-produced electronic device, nothing special about them. Though they are old — I do sometimes see newer fancier all-touchscreen ones when I travel to other countries.

There's also one weird model with a secondary keypad on a curly cable that they usually put on the counter, with the main unit somewhere out of sight. It has a small screen and can accept taps. But if you want to use the chip, you have to hand your card over to the cashier to have them insert it into the main unit.

> So rewriting the magstripe can just disable that functionality.

That feels strange to me. If I were designing this protocol, it'd have to first ask the issuing bank whether using the magstripe is ok.
The software stack is very similar...
It is certainly impressive, but it isn't going to revolutionize anything - at least not yet.

Try to get the model to write you a book. You will find that while it does write creatively, it is not paced well. It isn't quite there.

It will have great commercial uses - but it isn't on the "replacing a person" level yet...
It cannot reason, certainly. Unsure what you mean by that.
I noticed in one instance that when given two events in two different years it confuses the direction of time, saying "after" when it's supposed to say "before" ... I can try and dig up the interaction, but it was clearly not aware of the direction of time in its response.
> The X1C6 did initially have a problem: It rewrote its Thunderbolt configuration upon every boot, into a kind of physically memory not designed to have a lesson of that many writes.

Heh, that's such a Lenovo problem. I hard bricked my old ThinkPad W520 four times (and got warranty replacements) just by hitting F12 to bring up the BIOS boot menu. It did some sort of write that wore out the BIOS flash chip. I don't think they ever fixed that problem.
Macron was in New Orleans yesterday flogging wind power and trying to promote French companies here. What is he doing in France for it?
I wish LTT was better at the research and testing side things. The production value is pretty good but man do they get it exactly wrong a lot.
already gone...
Technology (Generation III+) is already shared with France, India, Finland, UK, Japan, China. Generation III+ are likely the most efficient/safe nuclear reactors at the moment. Ideally we would start to build hundred of them, so we could electrify our societies (including heat, transport, industry), and so we could transition faster to low carbon emissions world.

The main international cooperation seems to be for the nuclear fusion with ITER. "ITER has already been described as the most expensive science experiment of all time,[24] the most complicated engineering project in human history,[25] and one of the most ambitious human collaborations since the development of the International Space Station (€100 billion or $150 billion budget) and the Large Hadron Collider (€7.5 billion budget)".
Maybe but the straight up incentive of tricking someone on your site wont be there, as well as a clear set of tactics. I feel like it would be as challenging as DDOSing cloudflare. It just might be too expensive to do outside of countries or large corps.
Or don't panic.

Like L5 driving, this is going to be just 5 years in future for next 50 years.
I wholeheartedly approve.
Those kia/hyundai engines with issues (theta ii) are based on mitsubishi engine (4b11t) that don't have any issues.

I think the issue was added gas recirculation, which made the engine run hotter and causing a negative feedback loop ending in piston rings getting clogged with burnt oil and scraping the cylinder walls.
So few displays have field/user upgradeable firmware. Dell publishes info about the latest firmware on their website, but with no downloads. You contact them and say my monitor has spotty DPMS and I see I’m a couple of firmware versions behind, how do I update? They tell you it’s not possible.

Might as well call it a hardware revision instead of a firmware version.
There’s something about all of this I just find a bit gross. I enjoy Star Trek and The Orville which have androids and humans interacting but in those programs the androids are identifiable as such. There’s Blade Runner which I enjoy as well and obviously feel empathy and compassion for the androids who want to be free to live their lives. So what is the problem here?

It feels to me like the problem must be one of deception. I don’t want to feel like I’m being had. Whatever content I consume, I want to know if humans made it or if AI did. I want to know if I’m talking to something or someone. And if it’s getting to the point where it’s impossible to tell the difference then I feel like I’m going to start using the internet solely for
tasks where I don’t mind it being generated by an AI which basically means narrow information retrieval for specific problems at hand. Which just feels kind of sad.

Maybe there’ll be some mind blowing AI song or novel that everyone starts raving about and I get curious and check it out and change my mind. But I’m not sure. I feel like art needs to be tied to people and stories and mythology. There’s tons of great music being created on a daily basis but music itself doesn’t excite me like it did because music used to be part of your social identity: the clothes you wore, the people you hung out with. Same with TV and Film; what we gained in on-demand convenience we lost in shared experience which came about from being forced to sit down and watch it at the same time as everyone else and then excitedly discussing it the next day.

There is something about AI and its convenience and devaluation of art that just fills me with bad vibes. I can’t help but feel this is going to push us even further away from each other and towards individualistic but ultimately dissatisfying la-la lands. I hope I’m wrong.
I'd like to add: There's way too much stuff taken as dogmatic best practices when they're really not. Things change, improve, and there may be better approaches already in existence but are ignored because of some high profile person in the community. Keeping an open mind is key to being able to improve and use better approaches.
At a glance, those prices are straight-up horrible in comparison to a consumer model. How much revenue is the Smart-we-upload-everything consumer model generating? I would have thought tens-of-dollars at most.
There's a certain amount of randomness in the output. Just hit try again to get different responses to the same prompt.
Is it now a dirty title?
I'm not a director though, I'm just a poor volunteer that cannot do much.
Simplicity is really difficult.

The more powerful machines have become, and the larger the screens we work with (I am writing this on an LG 49" ultrawide), the easier it becomes to jam a bunch of stuff in there.

A good exercise for Keeping It Simple, Stupid (KISS), is to write firmware for fixed displays, or mobile device software (although mobile devices are starting to look more and more like full-sized computers, these days).

I learned religion from Scott Jenson's excellent The Simplicity Shift[0]. It was written before the iPhone.

Most of the tips in there, could be applied to desktop/laptop computer software. I used to use his "triage" methodology, in the days that we wrote host software, at my old job.

[0] https://jenson.org/The-Simplicity-Shift.pdf
Should confront it with some obvious evidence that it can write code. Such as asking it about a coding problem.
This XKCD strip is looking mighty prescient right now: https://xkcd.com/810/