skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with phones, even up through the Symbian ones that presaged the iPhone, was that if you didn't have the most popular phone model around you could not find a decent replacement battery after the product end-of-lifed. For a while Fry's was the only place. So with respect to 'the largest battery' it's a matter of whether it's really fruitful for your new model to have a battery that's 2mm wider than the old one because you shrunk some component and want the extra 10% battery life you get by doing so.

If you're laying up your own prismatic cells from a reel of battery film, why not? If you need a whole separate distribution chain, fuck it, we use the same battery as last year.
> 75% of teachers are women, 97% of coal miners are men - certain professional aspirations attract certain people

Curious why you're implying your statistic implicitly and naturally leads to the truth of the statement "certain professional aspirations attract certain people (of specific gender)"

Correct my addition of "specific gender" if that wasn't your intention, but it seems what you're implying - that the reason 97% of coal miners are men because men prefer to be coal miners and women don't.

I disagree completely. I think there's probably far, far more reasons behind the statistic "97% of coal miners are men." Luckily for you, I think our society has trained us to nod our heads and think that your statistic makes "common sense," that's a distinct advantage, despite the fact that your proposition is really lacking in logical, deductive, contextual, or evidential rigor. Watch what happens when I make a similarly non-rigorous statement: Actually, 97% of coal miners are men because the people that hire for the job hold the mistaken, antiquated especially with modern technology, belief that men are more capable of the job because "men are stronger than women."

If I had made my argument as such like you have, I bet I'd get a whole stream of comments demanding I demonstrate the hiring bias with evidence, sources, that would challenge my idea, even try to show that men on average are stronger than women (without of course then completing the other half of the argument, demonstrating that greater raw strength leads to greater outcomes in coal mining).

You were replying to:

> Similarly how do they stop majority dominance

So, given that your answer is "common sense," and my argument is "yup, that's majority dominance, men hiring men," I repeat our OP's question: "How do you stop majority dominance when the conservative argument (yours) is so integrated into our social fabric that it goes unchallenged?"

My follow-up is why is the reaction to people protesting the people that make these types of speeches (such as arguing that men are better at a given job than women) so much stronger than the reaction by the mainstream media and the university heads to the person actually making the speech? Especially when those protesting have the much stronger argument that the defense of the bigot is actively contributing to the continuance of unequal opportunity for people (solidifying the "common sense" idea that women don't make good coal miners).
Thank you for your post, I find it very fascinating.

I used to play MUDs back in the day and they had a protocol that, in theory, could allow you to move from MUD to MUD and transfer your character. I don't think it ever got really popular though, due to all the problems you can imagine from trying to seamlessly move between completely different MUDs. This is all from memory, so I could be mistaken about specifics.

When second life first came out I think I logged onto it a few times and then concluded it was a gimmick and haven't really been back since. I think your post explains very nicely why it never drew me in, I thought I was logging into a game.
Trust the fundamental physics: spend more calories than you consume.

For the rest:

- Cut alcohol and sugar(-y drinks).

- Prioritize plant-based, whole foods.

- Minimize processed foods.

- Drink water.
While I don't know what IFR to use for China -- I'm not familiar enough with their vaccines nor their rate of vaccination -- remember that in general, there's one IFR for "sick people can go to the hospital" and another, much higher one for "sick people cannot go to the hospital because they are full."

The hospitals will be full, so the IFR will be at the high end of whatever we fear.
Contrary to all the naysayers I think a future version of GTP will be trained to evaluate its own certainty and express this verbally. Probably through an extra training channel.
Final episode of 'Revolutions' podcast published
Another random selection:

* When choosing internal names and identifiers (e.g. DNS) do not include org hierarchy of the team. Chances are the next reorg is coming faster than the lifetime of the identifier and renaming is often hard.

* The industry leading tools will contain bugs. From Linux kernel to deploy tooling, there are bugs everywhere. Part of your job is to identify and work around them until upstream patches make it to you if ever.

* Maintaining a patched fork is usually more expensive than setting up a workaround

* Your hyperscaler cloud provider has plenty of scalability limitations. Some of which are not documented. If you want to do something out of the ordinary make sure to check with your account rep before wasting engineering time.

* Bought SaaS will break production in the middle of the night. Your own team will have the best context and motivation to fix/workaround them. When choosing a vendor, include the visibility into their internal monitoring as a factor for disaster recovery (exported metrics and logs of their control plane for example)
> it's not really an experiment

Of course it is. It's not a controlled experiment, but it's still an experiment.

> 3 years to cool?

That might have been a tad excessive, but waiting that long does remove any possibility that the observed behavior was due to residual heat.
ChatGPT writes great first drafts, but needs a good and knowledgeable editor on the subject to create valid factual documents. Likewise, Google finds great pages with facts, but lots with untruths too.
Lazy but, yeah, nobody knows. Not a research priority.
Curated lists of sites is the web. A site links to a few sites that the author knows to be good and those sites do the same for a few more sites. That's the web. It's what enabled the Google page rank algorithm to work in the first place. The Internet we continue to use and enjoy but the web hasn't existed in any practical form for 15 years.

If people do start rebuilding the web then Google's search algorithm will suddenly start working better which will cause people to stop building the web. So obviously we'll just end up with a steady state where Google just kindof sucks but is kindof usable. I think that we might be there already.
I remember writing to Jef Raskin and asking if will sell me one of his Canon Cats in the early 2000s. He wanted $10K for one, which I couldn't afford. Didn't realise until much later that he was probably raising funds for his medical treatment, hence the steep price.

Jef also died of Pancreatic Cancer, just like his arch nemesis, Steve Jobs.
Hacked New York’s JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System
All you've proven is the exact opposite. The facts and history are on my side. You're just parroting talking points from someone else who didn't study history. I've already destroyed your talking points, which is even more apparent given your reply
why does the person have to believe what they're saying? isn't that Socrates method or devil's advocate? you have to explore both sides even if you're leaning the other way
The credits also reference Pocket PC:

CString theCredits[50];
theCredits[0] = "POPULOUS";
theCredits[1] = "FOR THE";
theCredits[2] = "POCKET PC";
There's no such thing where I live and the definition of Nazi is extremely fickle. In the strictest sense, there are no Nazis after 1945.

One could set up a dress code or any other arbitrary policy as a proxy to refuse entry to any group, without explicitly doing so.
For 2, the big thing is that things associated with women get devalued. When you're looking for equality, it's to value things women want to do equally to things men want to do.

Without teachers, we cannot uphold our civilization, and clearly from the pandemic, teachers are absolutely considered essential workers to parents. However, society is still unwilling to pay for that because it's women doing the work
>> First, where did you get this extra context that our OP and I both seem to be missing, that "free speech is about time and place," or that political rants are only ok when people are "free to leave?" I'm not finding anything like that clicking through the links. Is this just your personal value about what you believe "Free speech" to be? Does MIT agree? Has MIT codified something like this? I'd like to read it, if so, because I'm very interested in this conversation and idea.

Free speech, as in the first amendment, has to do with the govt making laws _prohibiting_ speech. It is silent on other bodies (companies etc) which are pretty much free to make their own rules.

Free speech gives you the right to say whatever you like (publish whatever you like etc). It doesn't give you the right to force that speech on me. If I don't want to hear you I'm free to leave. If collectively we don't want to hear you, we might ask (or require) you to leave.

In other words free speech doesn't exist in a vacuum, it exists in the context of a wider society.

Universities are in a strange meeting point of freedoms. MIT is trying to codify this (with inevitable shortcomings) because people seem to have forgotten why they exist.

Perhaps they could just come out and say "University is not a safe space, you might hear, or see, anything, at any place or time, and most of it will offend someone."

That doesn't sound like much fun though, because university is also supposed to be a place to learn. It's hard to properly pay attention while covered in the blood of an animal slaughtered in the quad by a vegan to highlight animal abuse.

I'm agreeing with you that in a university context is is impossible to opt out of some activities and situations. Thus there needs to be room for both "safe space" and free speech. I should be able to go to class, I should be able to stand outside the class handing out flyers, I should be allowed to invite any guest speaker I like. Because, it appears that people are people, who need rules, MIT has to try and codify each possible scenario and say what isok, where, and when.

The power dynamic between faculty and students is prone to abuse. Sleeping with a professor to get good grades has pretty much existed since we invented professors and students.

Most universities have codified the ethics around this, and it's well understood.

Equally professors have had radical political views since forever. In itself that's OK, but clearly the politics of the student shouldn't affect the grade (but sure, if does.)

But free speech is not Free behaviour.

If a professor denigrates a woman in class, (say a political studies, of gender studies class) as part of exploring an idea, then OK, that's part of the course. If a misogonist professor grades all women automatically lower, then that's not OK.

Grading is not speech (IMO, I'm not a constitutional lawyer.)

It seems like professors, and students have forgotten basic norms, and need to thus have all the rules written down. And yes, I agree, to MIT I say "good luck with that."
Is that a response to some specific events?
Yeah, given your terrible arguments that would be you who doesn't have a good understanding. When you start relying on attacking people instead of arguments, that signals that you lost the argument and that your knowledge is both flawed and weak.
An important point about the authors of this post. They are very biased (at least Bender) because they are academic who have been fighting large language models from industry for years now. The main reason is that they make all their research obsolete so they fight to keep their relevancy.
Abolish exclusionary zoning regulations by executive order and the government could easily afford to implement UBI.

Better yet, folks might not even need it anymore.
My Bluetooth headphones stop working around the train station at rush hour. While the coding used is spread spectrum and many devices can use the same frequencies, each transmitter lowers the overall effective signal-to-noise ratio for all other users in the area. At the train station with thousands of radios transmitting on the same frequencies within a stone's throw, there is so much noise my headphones can't hear my smartphone despite being one metre away from it.

Same idea with radar aimed at an urban area. Thousands of WiFi devices in a high rise will add up. Tens of watts, hundreds of watts of noise. A large and dense downtown core will be transmitting kilowatts of radio noise from millions of devices. More noise means less SNR. And less SNR in radar means a blurry/noisy radar view, and lower effective range.
We were looking for a quaint excursion outside Paris and someone suggested Monet’s garden in Giverny. The bus loads of tourists put a damper on what was otherwise a really beautiful garden.

It was so crowded that I don’t remember having even a sliver of solitude in the garden or the house.
Stick your tongue left or right instead of dead middle
Not yet 1:1 replacement, but AI chatbot agents that are capable of interpretable chain of thought reasoning and conduct searches to fill gaps in knowledge and check their sources will be highly disruptive to legacy search and will supplement, and even replace legacy search engines in many use cases.
Thanks for the explanation and SNI (TIL) pointer, I was expecting any previous thread to be auto-detected upon submission, looks like variation in titles (for/from) and second-level domains prevented a match by Algolia.
mobx-state-tree (https://mobx-state-tree.js.org/)

Benefits of it over mobx is data normalization with references and JSON patches which allow you sync complex state easily. Typed models are also a plus.

Drawbacks are performance (see https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx-state-tree/issues/1267).

Previously was using immer, which I loved because of immutability but moved off since classes and OOP didn't feel as natural as in mst.

If I were to pick an alternative, might try redux with normalization https://redux.js.org/usage/structuring-reducers/normalizing-....

And if I were to build a state management tool, I would prioritize a library that has
- immutability
- JSON patches and snapshots
- data normalization with references
- schemas / models compatible with zod
"After paying about $1,500 for home office equipment: a computer, two headsets and a phone line dedicated to Arise; after paying Arise to run a check on her background; after passing Arise’s voice-assessment test and signing Arise’s nondisclosure form; after paying for and passing Arise’s introductory training, to which she devoted three days, unpaid; after paying for and passing a certification course to provide customer service for Arise client AT&T, to which she devoted 44 unpaid days; after then being informed she had to get more training yet — an additional 10 days, for which she was told she would be paid, but wasn’t; and then, after finally getting a chance to sign up for hours and do work for which she would be paid (except for her time spent waiting for technical support, or researching customer issues, or huddling with supervisors), Tami Pendergraft spent three weeks fielding telephone calls from AT&T customers, after which she received a single paycheck for $96.12"

That may not be illegal, but it sure as heck should be.
content is already highly curated by AI, should we tag that too?
not that I'm disagreeing with you.. we should date and author everything
Take it a step further and use home row mods and thumbs for layer keys. And consider switching away from qwerty ;)
You can be pretty sure that you have some corrupt bits
This book coming out is an amazing news. The HTMX website already does a fine job of explaining the philosophy behind hypermedia applications. But taking a 101/102 application like contacts app and building it with hypermedia is enlightening. Wishing you best luck for this book. I also liked the fact that rather than preaching one way to do things, the book shows alternatives and their downsides too (for example, the scripting chapter covers vanilla javascript, alpine.js and hyperscript). Kudos!
I want one...
> A grep for the internet is what most of us technical users want

not really. the problem is that is way too easy to game.

i want that when you really get down to highly specific technical details, but not for the average everyday internet search where i'm not searching for something that thousands of people haven't searched for in the past week.
For early retirees, Ben Felix has found the SWR to be closer to 2.7%.

The oft-cited 4% depends on US data and studied 30-year time horizons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FwgCRIS0Wg
How does a Wi-Fi chip know what country it's operating in to know what the relevant DFS channels are?
That's as far from socialism as possible, so I'm really not sure how your example is in agreement.
It's hard to do. If you were a search engine and someone searched "dog" what websites would you return?

You can't really tell what the user wants.
Your comment seems to boil down to you thinking that you will lose the argument to the other side, so you need to use "suppression."
Good results exist, and they are mostly on reddit. The commercial blogspam drowns out the quality though.
At the very least, immoral. Shameful companies support this exploitation.
It will be fascinating to see if they can get the hardware to support multiple displays under Linux on devices given that Apple doesn't support it.
Was it this review? https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry...

This also lines up with my anecdotal experience, and the best boring food I've ever found were potatoes. I used to avoid them because of the carb content, but they always seem to give me good energy while also being 'filling'. If you look up various satiety indices, potatoes always seem to be at the top, even higher than most meats.

With regular consumption, I've found simple, unprocessed potatoes to become very boring even while being very satiating. It's strange, like I have this strong psychological urge to consume something with more exciting flavor to it (i.e. processed food) while being completely satisfied physically. Regardless, I think it's a food that can really help people who struggle to lose weight.
I don’t understand what you are getting at.
No, Linus has a way of seeing straight through bullshit to the heart of the matter. You may not like that how he expresses himself, but a part of that is making it very clear where the bullshit is.

For example, his take on security bug prioritization. His argument is that all bugs have potential security ramifications in the kernel, therefore calling something a security bug is not useful, it's just a bug.

"Security people" want special treatment of their reports and he refused to give it to them.
A 'national lab' does not have anything to do with 'nationalisation'. Nationalisation means to take over an existing privately run lab, whereas a national lab can be established from scratch without even the hint of a takeover of any private organisation. In the post you replied to there was zero suggestion of nationalisation.

That said, nationalisation is sometimes the correct move as the opposite of privatisation which is also sometimes the correct move, so attaching labels like 'socialist' to it to tar the policy is not productive (just as tarring something
as 'capitalist' also does not beget good thinking about policy).
>This means that violators must be officially sanctioned by administrators, who are often their peers.

There is a bit of a paradox here, because you could argue that cancelling a professor for having an unfashionable opinion is itself an exercise of student free speech.

The statement says "MIT does not protect direct threats, harassment, plagiarism, or other speech that falls outside the boundaries of the First Amendment." It seems to me that certain forms of cancellation could be argued to constitute "harassment" and therefore violate the policy.

Those are indeed some extreme policy proposals. Perhaps you could argue against them anonymously on the MIT subreddit or something like that? (Posting through Tor/VPN on a burner account)

>If, though, I am wrong in my assessment and most academics and students, rather than a dominant minority, wholly believe that offensive utterances must be punished and unsavory research banned, I think there isn't much left to do. Any official action, let alone the posted public statement, will only galvanize people to seek out more aggressive policies and oust those that oppose them.

This suggests an alternative measure: Instead of focusing on freedom of expression, focus on providing a means by which students/faculty/etc. can be polled on these proposals in a way that is robustly anonymous. Sounds like you believe that if the poll favors the extreme measures, there's nothing to be done anyways.

>[1] For clarity, these two relate to first-hand examples of professors making statements solely out of fear of not being able to attract students their labs/departments.

I'm surprised that professors at MIT of all places need to grovel this way to attract students?
to train yes, assuming no one releases the models, but even then I'm hoping the apis will be somewhat affordable
Sure. What's your point? Your original comment seemed like you were trying to rebut my point that the Nazi (for literally any definition of Nazi you care to use) can just be removed from the bar. But it seems like you are not trying to rebut that, so I'm confused what this subthread is actually about.
Ooooh that’s some very good news! And Postgres support is natively included too!
"...it is very difficult not to extend trust in the same way as we would with a human."

a lot of research has shown that trust in each other, as humans, is quite misplaced because of bias, conflicting interests and other things.
That's sad. I really hope that Jef Raskin could afford cancer treatment. Everyone should be able to, but Raskin was an early Apple employee and also made various significant contributions to our field.
Code Coverage for GoAWK
It's either set by the user, or it's already set on the device based on the market the product is selling into. Phones have GPS though, so I'm not sure how that factors into it.
The nice use-case I see for Nix is: you can specify your env requirements cleanly in a way that you can install them both in MacOS (eg replacing ‘brew install Postgres’), and into a Docker container (which happens to be very slim as it doesn’t carry a full Linux distribution with it).

I never liked “run your dev env in docker” as it’s quite slow. So in practice you end up with two sets of build envs, assuming you support local development.
> I understand Google is a major employer in the area, but the city acting like Google's minion seems wrong.

Major is a stretch, 200 employees in a 16,000 town.
It’s really good at showing what types of scientific books and papers should exist. GPT5 will just write them, so it isn’t lying.
I'm just grateful that Apple didn't totally lock down the bootloader on macOS devices, given the knowhow evident on iOS/iPadOS.
Thank you for fixing our survivorship bias.
They may be not, but this is what I am using now for simple things. I have a shortcut on my desktop, on my iPad and on my terminal on Mac.
What's is happening in Mexico-US border is never hidden from the world, where children seperated from their families for no reason and taken as servants is the greatest shame to humanity.