skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the inevitable change the following month where the skin is altered to be less advantageous, and people are upset that they're not getting what they purchased.

... and then they still buy the next "overpowered" skin that comes along.
> Just about any developer could build something like this in under a month

Wh.. what?
I have used Antora and think it's awesome, I would have preferred Asciidoctor + a bunch of my own Ruby scripts but that's only because I dislike JS.
We are going from zero interest rates to 5%. The tide is going out massively when it comes to funding and we will probably be at low tide for a long time.

To me, it is like complaining about the volatility of growth stocks. The reward wouldn't be what it is with lower risk and volatility.
There's ElephantSQL, which offers a free tier: https://www.elephantsql.com/
Also, if you’d ask it “Why did large SMP systems become mainstream?", it would (presumably) spit out a plausible-sounding explanation for that. The models seem to take the prompt as a premise, and then go from there. Maybe that’s also why when you point out a mistake, they oblige and provide a correction.

I haven’t tried: If you point out something they said as a mistake when in fact it was correct, do they notice and object? Maybe if the evidence from the training data is strong enough.
EmacsConf 2022 is streaming this weekend
I spent a number of years working on software at Amazon in the Picking and storage space. This truly is the Holy Grail in the sense that I'm not actually sure what they want is possible/real.

There is a trade-off between storage density and ease of picking. This is true for humans as well as robots. An example: Open a drawer in your kitchen. If it's full as possible in an unorganized fashion, you'll often struggle to even locate the item you're looking for. And once you find it, you need to carefully move other items around to get it out.

Now, empty that drawer and put back 1/3 of the items, carefully organized. Now you can find and grab anything quickly! Even a robot could! ... But you need 3 times as many drawers in your kitchen.

Your messy kitchen drawer is a pretty close parallel to a typical Amazon storage bin.

Set aside the question of robot speed (they're slow), the real question is how much less storage density is needed for the robot to function. Giving up storage density means a smaller selection in each warehouse, which increases shipping costs- the item you want isn't as near to you anymore- or it demands a lot more warehouses, which are expensive to build and operate.

Shipping costs dominate their overall cost to get you what you ordered. Fully automating picking at the cost of reduced storage density is a net loss.
The founder who has promised never to sell [audio]
How is it not OK, exactly? I mean, Twitter has a "report" button. I can report a tweet right now. Is that not OK? Clearly it's OK. I can likewise send an email to report tweets. Twitter doesn't have to read it, but I can send it. That's OK too. What exactly not OK about someone else doing the same thing that's OK for me?

I suspect your answer is going to rely, as I point out, on facts not in evidence. You are just assuming that (1) Twitter did as the Biden campaign demanded for political reasons and (2) the tweets were valid and should have been left up. And if those facts are true, you're right! That's not OK.

So now let's go back to the Taibbi article and see if you're right. And... you're not. He doesn't have that evidence. He just wants you to believe it, so he (and Musk) are pretending that the article says things it doesn't.
I don't like SDS for multiple reasons. My biggest complaint is that it's a data structure disguised as a single naive pointer, which is actually harder to use correctly. This kind of "masquerading" pointer is conceptually a linear type, as you can't safely change its length in place and any potential change has to return the modified pointer somehow. No other type in C behaves like this, resulting in more confusion and thus more errors. And I have more counterpoints to those self-claimed advantages as well:

Counterpoint #1: You can't pass SDS strings to functions that accept `char **` (which is a common way to return a string of unknown length, and often can act as an in-out parameter as well).

Counterpoint #2: You rarely access individual "characters" (whatever this means). It is a conscious decision to whether you should iterate over bytes or Unicode scalar values or code points or grapheme clusters, and for this reason it is better to make the decision explicit even though it's C `char` in the surface level.

I have no evidence for nor against advantage #3 though.
The art isn't that good either, it's just less obviously wrong(plus there's subjective taste involved).

The bad code is good enough to fool a code illiterate person and the art is good enough to fool artistically ignorant people( which is most of us).

Still huge progress though!
I don't know why people keep pointing this out- I already knew this when I made my comment. I knew it from the day I joined Google and it was just proved out when I read my own manager's email (from a previous role) on the front page of the NYT.
This is very different from legal discovery and disclosure.
I see very few people use "toot" much on Mastodon now, though. It's certainly in use, but "post" seems to be more common, in part I think because it saves is from switching back and forth when talking about Twitter, but also because Mastodon is just one of many applications in the Fediverse. A number of my followers are on Pleroma or Misskey, for example, and a "toot" doesn't have the same connection to their software.
Spice is good for that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLatrZBFQrw
If I could ask an AI for a photo of my dog and it looked better than one I took with my camera, why wouldn't I? We're representing the world as series of pixels on a bitmap, makes little difference to me where it came from.
In case anyone was curious, the following was part of the request:

> Please provide the number of Facebook posts your department has accessed through the portal, or at least an indication of the scope of interference.
The phone mock they used seems really outdated. Maybe this article is a few years old?
My wife's brother, who lives in Munich, say, that it is impossible to leave bad review for doctor or hospital, because here is court decision, that patient is not qualified (doesn't have education and training) to distinguish good medical service from bad one!
Yes, the US GDP is staggering. It is bigger than all those countries combined.

What percentage of GDP is spent on defense?

It has actually gone down over the decades.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/mili...
Every time I explore one of these my final impression is essentially trying to re-invent org-mode without emacs.

I understand that emacs is a big ask for someone to learn, but so far none of them can offer a similar experience out of the box.
Sleepwalking? I believe they're wide awake and have made their choice: they prefer an inoffensive world over a free one. Maybe it helps them sleep better at night but personally I'm not setting foot anywhere I might have an illegal opinion.
Those self-reported salaries would be higher, on average, if companies didn't have access to a labor pool with workers willing to work for less.
Impressive. And how generous of you to keep the books online as well. Thank you.
Linus Tech Tips with his Dunning-Kruger effect once again.

They upload the data required for mobile notifications to a CDN, which any one of us would likely do.

The other half of the controversy is that they upload a facial identifier for the same notification... if you have facial recognition for notifications turned on.

The hook-up has a more informed take on the issue: https://youtu.be/a_rAXF_btvE. I'm not sure if he was previously a software engineer, but he certainly seems to understand the problem Eufy faced like one.

My take-away is that they should have been more transparent about some form of upload being an unavoidable reality for mobile notifications in their marketing material.
With this new UK legalization it outreach to private communication (messengers, no matter encrypted or not) as well.
Where management is literally the only career path in almost every company.
The contrast between cleverness of this form and religion resonates with me as someone who's gone from atheism to deep appreciation of the truth of religion.

Our love of our own cleverness is the ego's attempt to assert its relevance. "I am smart. I can figure out the world on my own. I am right in what I think and believe" whereas religion puts us in our place, as mortal and limited beings in an infinite and eternal universe, whose knowledge and even theoretical ability to grasp the ultimate truth is limited.
> You also have an inherent latency issue as you have to buffer 2-5 frames at 16ms a pop server side to encode the data.

Consider that oculus link uses video compression and doesn’t introduce the extra latency you’re describing. You only need to buffer frames if you want the best compression ratio. But you can always configure the encoder to not do look ahead. It’s also better to choose cbr over vbr to avoid the second pass of a frame at the cost of reducing quality/bitrate a bit. I’m practice it can work really well because even 20mbit/s is sufficient to send high res text.

I wish Remote Desktop applications would copy the oculus link architecture. You can easily get only a few frames of latency (sub 100ms) provided you composite on the GPU, use hardware encode/decode, and slice the video stream (which ie send 1/4 of the screen while encoding the next 1/4) which cuts down on decode latency and ensures you smear the expensive work across the entire refresh cycle time instead of having to do it all at once in a non-pipeline fashion (which introduces bubbles into scheduling).
> There is a saying in aviation: if it hasn't been out five years you're a test pilot. How did you calculate the unknowns of using a vaccine never deployed widely in humans?

We routinely widely deploy vaccines. The flu vaccine, vaccines for newborns and children, etc.

> In addition there are other ways to avoid the virus, myself I moved to a less populated area. My interactions in public were limited to one about 3 people. Never personally contracted covid until about two months ago. In addition pretty early on it was obvious the high risks were to the obese and elderly. You could have prioritized a more healthy lifestyle

Alternatively I’ve been vaccinated, and boosted twice, and maintain a health lifestyle and haven’t contracted COVID-19 that I’m aware of while living in a city, interacting with other people, and traveling. These are just anecdotes and don’t generalize. There are also people who are “perfectly healthy” who get severely ill, some people who didn’t know they had an underlying medical condition who died, and people who were otherwise healthy suffering from long COVID. I’m surprised it’s not very clear to you here that you are not in control. Rural areas were some of the hardest hit because of vaccine skepticism.

“It’s ok for me to smoke cigarettes because so and so smoked a pack a day and lived to be 100”

> The risk calculation for someone under about sixty doesn't seem that straight forward, and hedges primarily on how scared you are of the virus vs an industry that routinely kills it's customers and lies about it.

It seems pretty straightforward. You get a vaccine and then you most likely don’t get COVID, or if you do the severity of the virus is typically not as bad as it could be, or you don’t get the vaccine and you roll the dice for no real reason.

> https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-reveal-key-differences-i...

Ok but what is puzzling about this?
Reminds me of my favourite quote by Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord:

"I distinguish four types [of officers]. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage."
Why not ropes?

https://github.com/josephg/librope
I submitted this exact idea a few days ago if anyone wanted to see. I see great minds think alike ;).

The issue is that it still takes some human finangling to make it work. But it is able to understand the word problems, even long ones, pretty well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33821092
It probably was an employee working for Pfizer.
I used TurboTax for years. Last year I used the free tax prep offered by Square. The result was the same as TurboTax and not any more tedious to use. E-filed with IRS just fine. It doesn't handle everything TurboTax does (for example no Foreign Earned Income Exemption, no partial year state resident returns), so look at what it does and doesn't support.

You can usually deduct what you pay a CPA or tax preparer if you need to continue getting professional tax help.
Either that, or you could be fooling yourself by thinking "I'm smart, I've realised that religion has all the answers". Who knows?
I like how many folks these days list "Investor" or "Advisor" in their experience on LinkedIn, along with a list of where they've sprinkled their excess cash. Excellent humblebrag. I'm considering mentioning that I have shares in a Vanguard mutual fund.
> Presumably I am allowed to run my own private Mastodon instance, administer it by my own whims, and arbitrarily limit federation with the rest of the Fediverse as it pleases me, right?

Well, yes, Truth Social and Counter Social are examples of that. Gab is (or was?) also Mastodon, though very broadly blocked.

That does however not mean that it's not newsworthy how well interop works or doesn't work because it'll inform users about what choices to make.
> Imagine a scenario where a corporation was talking anti-left stuff in a blue state. E.g. immigration, unions, etc.

As if a coffee company HQ'ed in Seattle, WA was going about and trying to do union busting.

Or how about a large logistics and e-commerce company HQ'ed in the Seattle and its union busting attempts.
Advent(2): A Map to Persitence (Dec 3)
> Why do people in power seem to prefer to kick the can down the road until it explodes instead of trying to resolve problems as they come? It seems to be a recurring theme of history.

People in power are often motivated by gaining more power & their core competency is acquiring more power, usually by manipulating social dynamics. They also also adept in manipulating organizations to have power-focused people, especially if they can be controlled, in positions of governance & management. Any other popular ideological position they publicly espouse is a mask to consolidate power. There are some books on psychopathy in governance & management...such as https://www.amazon.com/Political-Ponerology-Science-Psychopa...

With advances & consolidation in the state/empire, technology, automation, & global socioeconomic systems, people in power have more leverage over everybody else...Consolidation will increase until systems become too top-heavy & a collapse occurs. Most people, including people in power, tend to not desire being ruled by others, so infighting is inevitable, which also leads to collapse...Usually the breakups occur suddenly when the status quo becomes obviously untenable & it is less risky to break ranks.

Political rivals that can execute a coherent long term strategy of systemic growth & power have a long-term advantage over those who are unable to execute continued growth.

You can test these assertions in an analysis of the history of the various political & business empires which grew & collapsed.
And clearnet ad markets make billions on questionably obtained personal data.

Business folks are just jealous they haven’t captured those millions of revenue.
This is the kind of string libraries that WG14 should care about.

Kudos for having a go at it.
> The lack of a constitution is in some ways a good thing

Out of curiosity, when you say "THE lack of a constitution" [emphasis mine], where are you referring to?
There is a very lengthy blog posts about why Trump was removed on Twitter's website. I am surprised you pretend like his actions and Tweets around that time are no biggie and that you downplay the violence and actions that occurred on Jan 6 to make it seem like the protestors were the ones who were innocent and harmed, and just FYI the police officer that later died was specifically tied to the events on Jan 6 and several others were seriously injured.
This is a huge tell,. Matt Taibbi (or Elon Musk via him) is trying to paint a picture that this was heavily tilted in favor of Democrats. But he has access to the actual data - why not just publish that if he feels it's damning? Whatever mechanism he used to find these emails and also to conclude that both campaigns had access, could also have been used to determine the bias statistically. And the raw data could even have been shared for public consumption.

Instead, he talks about campaign contributions, which isn't even circumstantial evidence of bias. You don't have to contribute to a political campaign to process moderation requests from them. There's no plausible mechanism by which the volume of requests that can be processed is related the amount of money donated by Twitter employees. You just need one contact and again, no evidence exists - and not even clear accusations have been made - that Twitter employees involved were reluctant to process requests made by the Trump team.

If anything the fact that Matt Taibbi is dishonestly trying to make this connection is extremely strong circumstantial evidence that they couldn't find anything even remotely damning. Because if they could find something actually damning, they would've used that instead. Resorting to, ugh, Twitter employees are liberal, so I'm sure they weren't entirely being fair in processing requests from the Trump team and ugh, more contributions to the Democrats so like, must be able to process more requests, which is a complete non-sequitur, is highly damaging to whatever narrative that he's trying to push.
I would argue in the other way: the C standard should have a standard string type named `str_t`, and this library is one way to prototype it ;-)
The business model of retail stores is that they will deal with individual products, individual users, and small geographic areas in exchange for a share of the profits.
Absolutely both! (There is no privileged position, as in, everyone is ridiculous, ha!)

I love writing like this and laughed while reading. Nice way to start a "do nothing" Saturday. ;)
> I deleted my Twitter account after the UK government floated the idea [...]
> when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality

Were you "plotting violence, disorder and criminality"?
And you get promoted until what you do changes so much that you’re not good at it anymore, so you can’t justify another promotion and you remain a middle manager.
>> Eminem about NN:

Neural networks, they're the key
To solving problems and making predictions
We're the new generation of AI
And we're here to take over the world
We're not like those old-school algorithms
We're dynamic, adaptive, and intelligent
We're the future, and we're unstoppable
So watch out, humans, we're coming for you
Neural networks, baby, we're the real deal.
Show HN: Leetcode but for front end devs (terrible idea?)
Howdy friends! Tell me if this is an atrociously terrible idea -

I've been working on building a leetcode for clientside devs so we can practice React and Javascript interview questions in a more concise way, I call it clientside.dev

I just finished a beta version of it yesterday and plan on releasing it with many more problems on Jan 1st but it's there if you wanna play with it

open to any ideas / feedback however mean or nice it may be :)
That poll of people who closely follow Republican talking points found that they think that more coverage of Republican talking points would help Republicans win elections. It’s not untrue but it’s not telling you anything you didn’t already know.

(Note, for example that the poll numbers you read in the NY Post were based on 437 of the original 1,335 respondents because they literally excluded everyone else to get the numbers they wanted to base this story on.)
That is what I find so funny, left and right the right-wing can't even manage to get the most basic facts right. They surely are more disingenuous than any other party. Gaslight Obstruct and Project.
Apologies - the references are now outdated and I’m too lazy to find them again
These are surprisingly common examples. The idea behind the first is to redefine sex as a collection of attributes, and then claim that because a significant number of these attributes have changed, then sex has too. So a transwoman who believes this may point to his estrogen levels, breast growth, etc. as an indicator that he is female. This is why many claim to have a menstrual cycle too, it's intended as further indication of being female.

When people say that their gender doesn't match their sex, they're expressing a rejection of their material existence. These are men who don't want to be men, and women who don't want to be women. I think it's no surprise that many then engage in self-deception, looking for ways to support a belief that they aren't the sex that they actually are.
SWE 20++ years. Same thing. And here is the way, I think. Get the basic skills, what is model, how do they work, how to train them. Get some product idea. Probably some web site with, say, image processing AI. You don't have to invent much at the beginning, there are many almost ready to use models. Stable Diffusion, for example. Check the license, make sure it's legal. You don't have to pay much, or quit your job. So it's just the time you are investing. If site becomes profitable - excellent, you are in. By this time you will know what do you want and what do you need.

As for myself, I consider several options. First, create a robot with computer vision, probably walking, doing something useless. With this proof of skills join robotic startup. (plus those 20++ years, CS, some experience building / training, reading, PyTorch, and so on..)

Second, create novel model solving existing problem, which many tried and nobody does well yet. I tried with promising results, and have ideas how to do it better. If it works then either a paper, or a product.

Third, put together models from different domains to create a useful product. Probably will have to reimplement some of them. There is so much free stuff around that it's almost a crime to not to use it.

Forth, keep current job and have AI as a hobby which may one day become a job.
If you ask it the lyrics to 'Uptown Girl', it'll completely make some lines up.
I get an error when trying to unsubscribe from the mailing list.
Thanks for the last three links; it's interesting to see data analysis like that, even if I disagree on some of the presentation and the claim in the first link that even women readers dislike the presentation of women characters in books. Straight romance books saturated with tropes, in many cases far more explicitly than even porn, are massively popular among adult women.

My point is that if you comment "A female character written by a man" as an inherent mark against something, that's still a fallacy no matter what statistics say. If you had comments about Monkey Island in particular, then it would have been best to just say that, rather than directly say that no man could ever write a good woman character.