skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often skip the fact that i work in tech in certain circles in the beginning.
Instead i'm just a business consultant, or working with project management.

Probably a bit cowardlike but people really love to put other people in boxes and for a lot of people working in tech means "oh so you're one of those super nerdy people that is naively optimistic about technology, is socially stunted, loves infantile pop culture and has zero sense of aesthetics" as an example.

And not that there is anything wrong with being that type of person (i also have some of those traits) there is very limited elasticity in peoples image of you after you've told what you work with, at least in Scandinavia where "you are your career".

I have a friend who works on movie productions and everyone always seem to find it amazing and extrapolate all kinds of positive stuff about him, while the opposite can happen with tech and unless i also make some weird underhanded disclaimers like "I'm actually also really into x genre of music and have played since i was a kid" or "well i actually love reading obscure literature", "i actually really like travelling, that's why this career was so great for me" people will just assume i do nothing besides program 24/7 - hyperbole yes but still.

Can anyone relate?
Do we know why they chose to remove it?

I can't see any rationale posted on the linked page, or the comment threads it links to. Maybe I missed it though.
One import distinction is that artificial chemicals were not part of the environment our bodies evolved in, whereas some of the natural chemicals were. Furthermore, most of the natural chemicals would be more closely related to other chemicals we did evolve in contact with. The ones that are less novel to our bodies are less likely (in a very general sense!) to cause trouble.

For example, cyanide is otherwise lethal but widely present in plants, so our bodies are actually pretty good at dealing with it.

So along that axis you could probably lump stevia and aspartame closer together, while sorbitol (which is very much naturally occurring) would be much closer to sucrose.
But that's what https://nohello.net already is
I make no claims that they taste the same, you can absolutely tell them apart. Honestly, I think you could tell them apart texturally if not from flavor. Sugar-free sodas are just thinner.

You can definitely tell them apart. Diet Coke though tastes nothing like Coke. Coke Zero tastes like a close approximation of Coke.
Bags of cash found at the home of the European Parliament vice-president
> But passkeys aren’t a new thing. It’s just a new name starting to be used for WebAuthn/FIDO2 credentials that enable fully passwordless experiences. These types of credentials are also called discoverable credentials, or sometimes resident credentials.

Can someone explain what discoverable credentials have to do with a passwordless experience? Accepting a WebAuthn credential in lieu of a password is a policy decision and is every bit as possible with non-discoverable credentials. As I see it, discoverable credentials enable a usernameless experience, which is a rather different phenomenon.
It's a factual description.
Combine these two google searches:

- "ch width css", e.g: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/css-unit-guide/#:~:text=Th....

- "average length of English word", e.g: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-word-length-in-t....

So:

- 8 to 10 words, call it 9

- average word length: call it 5

- 5 * 9 = 45 word characters

- 9 words that's 8 space characters

- 45 + 8 that's 53 monospace characters

- in monospace all characters should have 1ch width (width of 0-character), so

- css as follows:

:root, * {
font-family: monospace !important;
}

.whatever-comment-class-is, p {
max-width: 53ch;
word-break: break-all;
overflow: hidden;
}
But if its true? I mean is it really doubtful that Twitter, a remote company, had very low office utilization?
Two bits of advice from something of a polyglot here:

Languages aren't something you learn, they are something you join.

With Duolingo, take a second language along with the primary one. No, not German or French. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and select Latin, or Klingon, or Dothraki, something really short and just for kicks. That way when you are stuck in your primary language, you can switch to the fun language and keep up the habit. Duolingo is all about keeping up that habit. Also, you get to learn another 'language' and checking that off feels good and makes it so that you want to be a polyglot.
It's getting very boring hearing Americans going on about "Jan 6th". Some protesters entered a building. It's not that big a deal, no "political violence" happened.

It's been 20 years and Americans have finally recently stopped harping on about "9/11", after decades of them murdering orders of magnitudes more innocents. It's incredible to see them committing some of worst attrocities in the world and still loudly yell about their own tiny issues.
Imagine being this triggered because somebody opened their conversation with “Hello”. In my experience not many people will simply leave it at “Hello” for more than a few minutes. At which point you can respond to their question. And if they never provide more details then the problem solved itself.
Labels can be both self-imposed and given. A self-imposed label is one that a person chooses to use to describe themselves or their experiences. For example, someone might choose to use the label "vegan" to describe their dietary habits because they feel that it accurately reflects their values and beliefs. On the other hand, a given label is one that is applied to a person or group by someone else. For example, a teacher might use the label "gifted" to describe a student who excels in a particular subject. In this case, the label is not chosen by the student, but is applied to them by the teacher.

You're missing the point of the article by discussing given labels.
the european parliament exists for the sole purpose of making the EU appear to be democratic

whereas in reality it's the only parliament in the world that can't legislate
> It’s, for example, common for senators to become presidents in the US.

Yes, it helps to know the system and the people in it. You’ll find that businesses, charities, and pretty much any other organization pick CEOs in a similar fashion.
AVIF? The war was lost when Apple set the default iPhone photo format to HEIF. You can't compete with that.
At the time, there was contention about whether all implementations needed to be patched. I only remember agreement about the academic scope of the protocol problem.
FFS :/
You'd be surprised. Some of that restaurant equipment is in high demand, and is also pretty pricey. Anything pro grade can be tens of thousands of dollars each.

Just some of those espresso machines are $10K [1] and $25K [2] each.

Freezer is $24K.

Of course, all these are "new" prices.

[1] https://www.espressoparts.com/products/la-marzocco-linea-cla...
[2] https://www.espressoparts.com/products/la-marzocco-strada-ee...
[3] https://www.webstaurantstore.com/traulsen-rlt232dut-hhs-stai...
Even when the fixes are arguably improvements, it's still tough sledding.

Ask Guido van Rossum re: Python 2=>3.
Thanks for good point. I sometimes released, many extroverts (managers/tops nearly all extroverts), are tongue-tied, because they are not thinking before say.

They act like Colt, polling any semi-relevant phrase from scrap-bag of memory, and shooting with it.
> Examining the entire election enforcement Slack, we didn’t see one reference to moderation requests from the Trump campaign, the Trump White House, or Republicans generally. We looked. They may exist: we were told they do. However, they were absent here.

Sure. Not one request from a single Republican was found despite their existence being known by others. So maybe those people are lying. Or maybe they are telling the truth, and as with Twitter Files parts 1 and 2, Musk is releasing to journalists a selective portion of the dataset that pushes his narrative.

Let’s see what Republicans were requesting Twitter do on Jan 6. Perhaps they were also requesting that Twitter do something about Trump?

We know they were begging Trump publicly on TV to stop. We know they were calling him privately. We also know (from the first Twitter Files) Republicans had no problem using back channel communication into Twitter to request enforcement of content. So we are to believe they despite trying everything else, they didn’t try their Twitter contacts?
Awesome visualization. Don't even need the prose with such a concise rendering. Nice.
'Could' is the key word here.

Of course they could just deaig and sell new motherboards with new chips for the older laptops chassis, like framework does, but knowing Apple, such user upgrades will not happen.
Yeah I've encountered at least a couple of recruiter companies who were really weird and gave me bad vibes and decided not to continue with them, trust your gut, what made me think twice about these recruiters:

1- Unusually bad English (Not talking about normal immigrant English like mine, but like really bad, no way someone hired this person to recruit for these kind of positions).
2- These `recruiters` talk in very low volume, I had to tell them to speak louder, my guess is that they are in an office with a lot of people doing the same.
3- They ask you about weird stuff in their e-mail communication, like sign something in early phases of interviewing.
4- When tell you when they will call you and the number is flagged as 'SCAM LIKELY' then they tell you to save the number, super red flag

After that I googled the companies / job postings and were super generic with bad reviews in glassdoor.
It was no longer unstable beta
No because they compile the apps and not the developers.
There's no such thing when you define "coasting" to mean "work 40 hours a week plus unpaid on-call between 30% and 100% of the rest of your time."
The reasons stated are:

- Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely

- There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL

- The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default

- By removing the flag and the code in M110, it reduces the maintenance burden and allows us to focus on improving existing formats in Chrome

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Dropping-JPEG-XL-Reason...
Similar situation as you. I stopped keeping up around 2015ish.

I just read Francois Chollet's Deep Learning with Python and found it to be a fantastic high level overview of all the recent progress. There's some code, but not a lot. I mostly just appreciated it as a very straightforward plain-language treatment of RNNs, CNNs, and transformers.

Now I'm going through Stanford's CS224 lectures.

I'm sort of planning to read papers but as some other comments have pointed out, I'm less sure of the ROI on that since I'm not sure how feasible a future in AI is for me
I've used Total Suspender on Firefox for a few years now. It has whitelist/blacklist, ignore pinned and sound playing tabs. Works great for the most part. It is a bit annoying that youtube vids lose the timestamp, but youtube is a massive hog so it is a worthwhile tradeoff.
A new Tesla neighborhood launches with Powerwalls in Las Vegas
I find the implicit assumption a bit funny that the only reason OP might be asking this is for career reasons rather than say, curiosity, the joy of learning, love of knowledge for its own sake.
De most advance image compression technology that humanity managed to master out, and yet they removing it entirely... What kinda conspiracy hafta be behind of all of that?
I can assure you I would give you an equally unclean garbage product whether I extracted or synthesized.
I haven’t searched for all Europe but here are two sources about Norway and France:

https://www.fhi.no/en/op/hin/health-disease/overweight-and-o...

https://liguecontrelobesite.org/actualite/taille-poids-et-to...
In Russia. The store website [1] says that they can deliver it within 2 hours, so it can be bought locally. Irbis seems to be a brand of cheap laptops targeted at Russia, so it might be not known in other countries or they are sold there under another brand.

By the way, one of the buyers wrote that it is "great for studying" and another wrote that "it is confortable to use with Linux".

[1] https://www.dns-shop.ru/product/829ba65324bded20/133-noutbuk...
> “The fact that everybody’s five times better off than they used to be, they take that for granted,” Munger said. “All they think about is somebody else [has] more now, and it’s not fair that he should have it and they don’t.”

To make this statement, Munger is drawing on a comparative visualization of circumstances over long time periods. This is not a natural ability that everybody has. Or knows what to do with.

So, unfortunately I don't think this is a very tractable line of thought with which to scrutinize the average modern person's actions or motivations.

Munger is also generally reductive with ethics, focusing limited pessimistic energy in bursts (i.e. hobby/after-work energy), and more detail-oriented and patient with regard to data and the qualitative construction of time-differential-based economic viewpoints.

IOW he's got some interesting takes but I would personally rather study his moves as compared directly to historical charts, instead of trying to build any kind of worldview based on his words. You will end up hearing something similar to the basic moral philosophy of the mega-church, or a 1950s sci-fi movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior
> not... but

If you act according to your Real Preference RP, then RP is a fact; if you Role-Play, it is also a constraint.

Edit: there is also a notable third position: when you act from a what you judge a Right Position RP - you do what is right. It must be noted because it may look like an "identification", but it is different in important ways.
You've taken this discussion off course by discussing given labels.

If you decide to self label as a 'creep' or 'success' then it's relevant to this thread's discussion. If people just decide to label you as a 'creep' or 'success' then it's not relevant.
I always used to try to take a run past Wigtown when I was working in the far distant end of Galloway. It's well worth a trip if you're into books, or better yet bookshops.
I don't think you realize how easy and secure things are in Europe.
LLM is the major trend. Focus entirely on that and the tools landscape and how to integrate it and apply it.

Rather than jump on the same horse that everyone is jumping on, maybe one should start looking at where language models fail -- and from the very nature of how they are conceived and what they are made of -- will most likely never be good at.
Does manifest v3 support wasm?

Time to package a JavaScript interpreter into wasm and run it within the extension.
I used to be infuriated with colleagues who felt the need to preface questions with “Question…” and then ask the question. Just ask the damned question. I should be able to figure out that it’s a question.

Now I am more patient.
Fine tuning models is where the future will be, it doesn’t necessarily mean LLMs but I suspect that LLMs will shortly become multi modal and at that point they will be the ultimate models to fine tune for a given task
The point is that if your threat model cares about interception, you have to verify the identity of users out of band - same as Signal or WhatsApp or whatever.

Then, if you've done that, and an unverified device is added to the conversation, the warning shows up and explicitly means "your group chat has been compromised" - just like a big red TLS warning on a webpage means "this certificate is bad". It does *NOT* mean that "it might just be bob bought a new phone"; if bob bought a new phone, he'll have verified it when he logged in, and so the warning doesn't show up.

Anyone who actually uses Matrix will be familiar with the fact that it's pretty rare to see a big red X on a user who you've verified, and when it happens, you go ping them to ask wtf is going on - much like you'd ping the webmaster of a site whose TLS certificate is bad. This is why the Matrix community is not up in arms about this "vulnerability" - it is literally following the intended design, right from the point that we announced verification back in https://element.io/blog/e2e-encryption-by-default-cross-sign....

Now, this design can absolutely be improved on - at the least, we could go back to freezing the room whenever there's an unverified device, forcing the users to decide how to flush out the old device. Or we could switch to TOFU, and block unverified devices by default. But we've chosen to prioritise migrating the clients onto a single E2EE codebase (matrix-rust-sdk-crypto) first, so we do that work in a single place, rather than in quadruplicate across matrix-{js,ios,android,rust}-sdk.
AVIF lives inside an HEIF container, too.
I'm in the same boat kinda, but even more outdated on some parts. I had some AI specialization back in college, but that was before deep learning was even a thing, so we did stuff like self-organizing maps and evolutionary algorithms, but it wasn't really all that useful for much back then. Been following deep learning from the sidelines, but for work my AI work has been restricted to GOFAI until recently.

Some of the stuff I'm currently reading/watching or have recently

Practical Deep Learning, though it sounds like you may know this stuff already (https://course.fast.ai/)

Practical Deep learning part 2, more about diffusion models. Full course coming early next year (https://www.fast.ai/posts/part2-2022-preview.html)

Hugging Face course (https://huggingface.co/course/chapter1/1)

Diffusion models from hugging face
https://huggingface.co/blog/annotated-diffusion
https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/index

Andrej Karpathy's Neural Networks: Zero to Hero. He goes from the basics up to how GPT etc, so you can start wherever suits you (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThs...)

3blue1brown's videos. I've found all his videos on neural networks and math worth watching, even for stuff that I already know, he sometimes has some new perspectives and nice animations.

brilliant.org. Nice math refresher and the courses there are almost like fun little games.
Well yes, I'm not arguing that it would have been a commercial success (nor did Commodore think so, apparently), just that it looked like it would have been a fantastic computer in and of itself and a worthy swansong for the Commodore 8-bit line.
He can grow into all of that.
Thanks, that all sounds fairly reasonable then.
Seems to have been partly based on this: https://storage.googleapis.com/avif-comparison/index.html
HEIF can't compete while being bogged down by patent licensing costs.
Indeed sell access to candidate information uploaded to their platform (including contacts). Can't remember whether it's clearly communicated to candidates or opted out by default or not, but there's a use case for that service and I've helped make legitimate hires using it before.

But for the scammer it's easy enough to quietly use an Indeed business account completely unrelated to their scam, buy a bunch of resumes from people who have actually applied for jobs in a certain field on Indeed, and contact those candidates, pretending to be a different business that posted real job ad for that job on Indeed.

It also helps that Indeed users tend to one-click apply to large numbers of jobs so might believe they actually applied to that specific job, or otherwise trust some clever job-matching stuff is happening with their resume. Especially since most of the time it'll be their actual resume the "employer" responds with, not just their LinkedIn profile info
The EU "government" (a non-directly elected entity) is predictably trying to enforce tax rules.
Even worse is the minimum tax on profits that targets the poorer members by removing one of the ways they can compete with bigger ones.
"...No Ireland, you're not allowed to have low taxes, we the guideposts of EU - France and Germany tax our people and companies up to 30-45%, what's that meager 10% tax you're giving them? ..."
Then he should turn that one minute into text and add it to the website.
What's your goal?

For example, do you want to develop models as a hobby? Make models or software for a living? Use AI in some particular problem domain?
Most failures of models are usually 1-2 research cycles of being updated, the amount of brain power dedicated to this problems is astounding
Belgium to tax private jets, short-haul flights
> Do we know why they chose to remove it?

Phoenix had an article on why Google decided to remove JPEG-XL.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Dropping-JPEG-XL-Reason...

The official justification seems to be a) experimental nature of JPEG-XL, b) lack of demand, c) maintenance burden.

Take it with a grain of salt. Personally I don't buy it.
Not really. It was hidden behind a flag, so where should the "entire ecosystem" (who?) show interest?
There are a ton of people frothing at the mouth to moderate Twitter for free, it's just that Elon probably doesn't want them too (for good reason!). Hell, many of them regularly @elon even now asking him to remove content they don't like.
I would look for an artist to partner with. Build a demo of 1 to 10 levels. Find finance partners.
Sad day for image formats. JXL really looked like the future, it could have replaced all the image formats I use on my websites. Especially the lossless JPEG recompression mode, for which there is no existing option.

I think I will continue using it with WASM polyfills, in hopes that Google will change their mind once the rest of the industry has switched to JXL.
I estimated this post would eventually arrive, and is why I started writing a UserScript for this purpose a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33906712.

The community (for now) expects that questions asked by humans will be responded to by humans. While I do love playing with GPT and find its discourse surprisingly accurate, especially on technical subjects, I think its fair to establish some guidelines around its usage in a community like this. If such guidelines are not followed or not feasible to enforce, then it might be necessary to have mechanisms to detect and flag, or at least ask for verifcation when GPT detection indicates that comments are not written by a human, but presented as such.

Do however know that false positives in detection may occur, see this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33930584#33931671
This could mean we need better tools to detect, as it is trivial to hide the fact that text was GPT generated with text-davinci-003.
The “hard” part is taking an example and adapting it to new tasks. This is the best way to learn imo
Using passwords is not something very comfortable, and needing to remember a password to a password manager, has some risks, like suddenly forgetting. Using a yubikey is also not very practical since it can be stolen or lost. A phone is always with us, and has small chances of being lost (also there are backups).
Only JPEG can surpass JPEG.
Pretty sure that JPEG won the format war for the next JPEG, decades ago.

No one wants this. The benefits just don't outweigh the headaches in compatibility and content duplication. JPEG is good enough, and always has been. We'll all be happier by celebrating such a impactful technology than grousing and constantly trying to fix what ain't broken.