skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a Telegram bot to save messages into a Google Spreadsheet [1], with some sime parsing rules to split the text into columns (essentially, #hashtags for column names and everything in between as content). The idea is then to use pivot tables and other spreadsheet goodies to aggregate, summarize and report data.

I mainly use it to track expenses and random thoughts or links.

The bot's username is @gsheet_notes_bot, feedback and suggestions are welcome :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TelegramBots/comments/wqkpm7/your_m...
And every human being is clearly an expert in honeywell flight automation and can rationally understand what it means. Wait, no, that's not correct at all and most people think planes basically fly themselves. They also don't seem to realize that "follow this carefully mapped and highly regulated GPS route" is a hundred miles away from "drive an arbitrary road route"
Partly, but also they spun up an entire game studio and then shut it down after two years. What was that even for?
Om is a prefix concatenative language

https://www.om-language.org/index.html
I sympathise. I have a 16in M1 Max, coming from an LG Gram 17. I can't fault the power of it, but the heft isn't ideal for me.

I'd welcome a 15in or 16in Air. The rumour mill suggests a 15in Air is in the works. However, I'm now used to the 120Hz display of the Max, which I suspect wouldn't be an option for the non-pro models...
https://i.redd.it/lt7xl43joni61.jpg

Not that this is entirely my experience, but somewhat. But I'm a more "sensitive" guy and a lot of my friendships form accordingly. I'm probably not usual.
How do layoffs like this happen? Every team cuts 5%? Wholesale elimination of teams?
60 Minutes' coverage of Nuclear Fusion at LLNL
Huh, interesting. I should try to learn more about STEPS in general some time...
If you’re laid off from anywhere, are in a position to join a very early startup, love Texas Hold’em, and have technical or design experience, drop me a note.

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Perhaps the problem is that all secular thinking is bad, and teaching young men and women to blindly follow is always a bad idea, even with good role models. If you don't learn to think for yourself and contextualize what you see/hear, you've got pretty bad odds at being a good adult.

And that's just a problem on both sides of the aisle. It will probably continue to dominate modern politics, until improving democracy becomes more profitable than making people argue passionately.
A good, albeit somewhat impotent, move. The companies wont yank it from the app stores in the US for fear of reprisal, but that is the better next step.
Government regulations are capitalism and other funny stories you can tell yourself
What is this inceldom gobbledegook, come on man, this is a very unrealistic way to look at the world.
As an investor in MSFT, I would have a positive interpretation of this move.

If MSFT cuts big again next quarter, I will then begin to reconsider my position.
ADD is a bit different in that "impulse control" usually refers to actions, while ADD refers to thoughts.

Someone with ADD lacks some control over the direction of their thoughts, but not necessarily actions.
The two are similar, of course.

Jumping from a vehicle or throwing a punch is a failure of impulse control, because the person usually regrets doing it at all, almost immediately. ADD doesn't usually lead to regretted actions, but regretted balance of how time spent, how long is spent on an activity.
Why are you sitting indoors?
I feel similarly.
I'm sorry, I'm lacking the historical knowledge to answer your question.

My view is that a measure of "bias" should reflect what a representative sample of the entire population [1] would answer if you asked them how biased the AI is.

Of course, if you live in a historical context where slavery is socially acceptable, then the answers the AI gives you will reflect that environment. It's no different from raising a human person in that same environment.

The problem is, you can't necessarily know whether something is good or bad without the benefit of hindsight.

Thinking you know better than everyone else and then imposing your view may just serve to magnify your mistakes.

However, one would think that, once we have that technology, a sufficiently intelligent AI would start to have opinions of their own about what is moral/ethical vs what isn't, that isn't strictly a representation of the training data.

[1] of the world even, if that's the target market for the AI.
A lot of federal agencies would melt down if they halted remote work. The campuses are already underprovisioned for existing staff, half the time workers show up they can't even find a parking space, and this is with large numbers of them working remotely.

This reminds me of the big show the GOP made of halting hiring for federal employees a few years back. In reality, it made zero difference in federal staffing levels, it merely moved the headcount to contractors which cost taxpayers dramatically more in payroll expenses.
This will never, ever happen. The salary scale for federal national security jobs are set by Congress.
I completely agree. Running the numbers in my head that would be up to 10 million patients this surgery would be relevant for in the US.
I recently "upgraded" to a new phone, not because I wanted to, but because my prior phone was too old to receive security updates. The new phone, despite being newer tech, is abjectly worse at being a usable device: the fingerprint is in a worse location and has terrible accuracy, scrolling or zooming anything is a stuttering nightmare, it's too heavy and wide to be comfortably used one-handed, and so on. It's so much worse it makes me not want to use it. And, ironically, being discouraged from using my phone has made me marginally happier throughout the day. So thanks, I guess, for making an inferior product??
You're the least safe at the companies that have the most money, because those are the ones that overhired.
That's just because spammers have wised up and started using Gmail itself to send spam, including old established accounts via weak passwords. Those spam would pass SPF, DKIM, DMARC.

It would be both inappropriate and probably illegal for Gmail to automatically mark emails sent by Gmail as non-spam.
Why isn't "as soon as you know they are a bad hire" the best time to get rid of them?
Not really a surprise. Bird flu = lots of dead or culled birds, and that means less eggs.
Now add in part time workers, contractors, and contracted-out workers like cleaning staff that are still required, just not counted as FTE. Would be interested to know those numbers too, and... are any of them being affected as well (assuming so, but it'll be accounted for in various other ledgers).
FAANG is missing the M
Pegasus: A Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy
the party of shitty managers who only feel good when their employees are forced to bow to their pointless wishes in person
MSFT is more diversified and has a lot of sticky B2B customers while AAPL is mostly B2C. Sure, they are selling to businesses too, but MacBooks can be easily replaced, unlike MS Office and its like.
This is a curious decision. Microsoft shows a ~73 billion dollar net income [0] and it's probably reasonable to assume their shareholders are enjoying a robust, growing business. I wonder what they believe this reduction in staff is meant to provide? Will this really and meaningfully move their bottom line or will it better tighten the performance characteristics of the staff?

[0] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/789019/00015...
Heh, the store still has the listing, but no models available: https://store.google.com/config/g1q35w?hl=en-US&pli=1

Anyone know if it's possible to buy one anywhere? I recall hearing that it was a decent controller.
The SSDs in the apple silicon machines are likely much much faster than whatever you have in your macbook pro so when they do spill over into swap it would be much less noticeable. That being said, I'm pretty pro apple silicon (purchased an M2 Pro this morning) and I would never recommend anyone buy a new computer with less than 16GB of ram unless the usecase is strictly web browsing/streaming/ms word type stuff.
But what about the team leader/manager's egos though?
Not a book but The Coding Train on Youtube is probably one of the best introduction to programming. It's fun to watch, Daniel Shiffman is a fantastic teacher and he doesn't take himself too seriously.

But what sets this course apart from any other are the coding challenges. Following the thought process of a programmer in real time, watching him making mistakes and hunting for bugs is invaluable.

He uses p5js, a javascript library for graphics. The lessons are geared towards generative art but cover a broad range of topics including machine learning.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheCodingTrain
Worse for rural house prices though, right?
Definitely interesting, in that it uses the Postgres wire protocol.

Also, nice to see an http interface, though it doesn't support parameterized queries, which is a major issue, at least to me.
I have not seen that one. It’s funny. Thanks for sharing it!
Never let a good recession go to waste without firing people.
I recommend taking a look at Cone in a little more detail, its type system support for allocators are head and shoulders above what Rust has. The language's awareness of allocator allows it to decouple it from the users code in a way no other language allows (except perhaps Odin).
There was a
Maybe we should require that Congresspersons spend five days a week in their offices, doing work and not spending it on fundraising.
what is unrealistic about it? Maybe you should put your idea to refute mine. Just saying something is unrealistic doesn't make it so.
Most coffee shops?
isn't a single CT scan and surgery cheaper than 40 years of medication?
I'm sorry to see the service go. It carried my through the pandemic. I do have to say I'm impressed, as this is a very user-centric move from Google. Big kudos for that.
“But how will it make money“
> where you get almost the same hardware a superb display and a keyboard built in.

I just priced out a 24GB RAM/2TB storage M2 mini, and it's still $1kCAD cheaper than the equivalent Air.

There is definitely a large "screen and keyboard" upgrade tax if you're actually considering it.
Woah, I mean, this argument (the last few comments here) has been a central one in 'western' philosophy for at least the the last 2400 years, if not the last ~4000.

I'm not a philosopher by any means, so I'm unaware of the current state of the great conversation. But as to whether reality is even knowable is still very much up for debate, I believe (please correct me philosophy peepz!).

In physics we're still woefully unaware of what ~70% of the universe's stuff is doing (negative energy) and if it effects us at all.

In neuroscience we still debate what % of your brain neurons make up vs. things like glia. Etc.

Like, even trying to capture 'reality' with our quite primitive eyes and sensors and optical engineering is really really hard to do (Abbe' diffraction limit, entropy, Lens maker's equation, etc)
I worked as a grad student in LBL/UC Berkeley for 5 years. At the time I didn't want to make a career of it, but if I had to go back to a national lab, that might be the one. The culture was department dependent, but at the Molecular Foundry was pretty good. The campus is gorgeous, it's not isolated like other national labs at all, pay is low compared to tech for the Bay Area, but not pennies, and the conversations and people you can meet are fantastic. Always lots of new faces with students and visitors, but the core group that I interacted with were all very kind, helpful, hardworking, and just fun to talk to about science! I can definitely recommend it.
There is a detailed breakdown by
Thunderf00t of how the "Tesla Bot" video was clearly also staged here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO9yw9QThzU
The vast majority of arterial hypertension is “essential hypertension,” meaning no identifiable cause. I assume this is (misleadingly) saying that of the secondary (non-essential) hypertension cases, the condition that this scan detects is the most common.
Finally an explanation.

And there's a good metaphor: The surface of Earth has no center. Therefore we can imagine that space similarly has no center if we imagine it having 4 dimensions.

But what proof is there that universe is actually 4-dimensional? Or > 3 dimensional in general?
> In a statement, a representative from TikTok said they are disappointed by the news.

> "We're disappointed that so many states are jumping on the political bandwagon to enact policies that will do nothing to advance cybersecurity in their states and are based on unfounded falsehoods about TikTok," spokesperson Jamal Brown wrote.

Regardless of you stance on Texas and Texans and politics, the above is a pretty funny statement to make. We have to protect the integrity of short video apps that are built for advertisers to push products and services through ads and influencers.
From the description they took off from 18 (now 19 due to pole drift) it sounds like they might have taken a left basically immediately off the runway which would put them pointed pretty directly at the restricted airspace around the Capital and White House. It is odd they'd be there though considering the story says the check for the river on reaching 1500 which even at best climb would be around two minutes after take off which should be well past the river.
The United States governmental structural encourages obstruction. If your whole platform is 'government bad', its incredibly easy to keep the government from functioning.

I don't think the constitutions writers really planned for a mainstream political party becoming anti-democracy and the basic assumption was that people elected to the government would all desire a high-functioning government while disagreeing about what that government should do.
Mass layoffs give you the opportunity to quickly purge poor performers without as much paperwork. It's advantageous to have regular rolling layoffs because of this if you can justify them by economic conditions.

There's also an effect of wanting to do smaller, pulsating layoffs over the course of many months or even years rather than one massive layoff of the size you actually need, because ultimately no one knows exactly how the machine of a corporation works, and you have to be careful not to cut so deep that you go beyond cutting out fat and start to damage critical systems.

A rapid, 90% loss of workforce like what happened at Twitter might be what the company ultimately needed, but cutting that fast and deep is an insanely risky operation that could lead to a company hobbling along in a compensatory state until it finally falls to decompensatory systems collapse that you can't recover from.
Its not me and I'm not sitting in doors but there are people who are so alone that no one would notice their absence. Actually quite a large problem in certain parts of Asia.
Intel Core i5 13400 Linux Performance – Raptor Lake 10 Cores / 16 Threads
Ask HN: Is the shortage of GPU instances in Azure caused by ChaptGPT?
A phone is not a car. You can't die by believing in a feature of a phone but you potentially can or be hurt when it comes to a car.
It's hard not to read some of these stories and not think that somehow some of these companies are free-riding on the ability to do some firings with minimal pushback because of the "well, look at what everyone else is doing!" climate that exists now. I'm having a hard time teasing out how much of this is driven by some sort of fundamental analysis of the economy, some collective BigCo CEO shared thinking, or, at my most cynical, an Overton window that's been pushed outwards by Elon firing an extremely significant quantity of the (comparably tiny) workforce of Twitter with seeming negligible external-facing impact on the core product.
Both. Teams that haven't gotten exec buy-in just get axed (with lots of good people) and then every Director is required to sacrifice a few people (in this section, most of the people laid off are low performers, but definitely some good performers who have made the wrong enemies or haven't made the right friends).
There's a lot of rural out there..
In Techno feudalism govt doesnt exist. Its just the techlord buffoon class and the serfs (ie people enslaved by their phones). The govt will keep giving Mario Savio speeches and they will end up just like Mario.
people like to keep the bad hires around for when the CFO comes and says you need a haircut. it's kind of gross how many of these big corps work
Google plans AirTag clone, will track devices with 3B Android phones
I'm not sure if automatic categorization is solved by now. Look at how many not suitable for kids stuff show up on Youtube Kids.

Maybe some other platform does this right, but I'm skeptic. I've watched some TikTok with my niece and some things were way over her age.

Maybe I'm getting old, but at least on TV there was a timeslot marked as suitable for all audiences, enforced by some agency in each country.
They make a lot of money selling services to companies that are on shakey ground or pulling back their finances and spending. This means that instability eventually bubbles up to Microsoft and other companies depending on their customers to keep spending and buying services.
Yes, except it has to be set on the _caller_ side.

I kinda see why, after all it’s the caller who will deal with the TypeError. But assuming we’re not setting types for all our functions, when I do for a specific one, I want to enforce that strictness on the _callee_ side (“for this function, it really matters that the parameters are correct”), and not have to go check if every single caller files properly has the strictness set. [0]

So in the end, the best option is to _not_ type scalar parameters, and do the strict check manually and throw your own TypeError, inside your function instead.

[0] Auto setting strictness for every file in your project and checking for it in CI clears the issue, but that becomes another boilerplate you’re adding to your system. And it still doesn’t work for native functions.

It’s so close. Really, so close to be good.
What are these so-called male-bashing cartoons, films, etc.? Are any of the Marvel or DC series male-bashing, for example? Avatar? James Bond? Video games like Fortnite?
> it feels like a full pc

The hardware is basically equivalent, but unfortunately that's far from the case with the software. It's definitely useable as a home computer if you mainly browse the web or use office apps. But there's a lot of software that just isn't supported on the ipad. It would be pretty useless for me as a software developer.
Thanks for sharing, cool system!

Can you share what do you mean exactly by "more structured"? I would expect Trello to be more structured then Joplin, what am I missing?
says guy in twitter thread.
I think it's pitting worker vs worker. The "base" perceives govt workers as different from themselves. Divide and conquer.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

I can say that I disable all the cookies that I can disable not because I care about privacy but because as somebody neurodivergent, modal dialogs cause me a lot of distress and I want to punish web sites for distracting me.
These layoff articles are incomplete without mentioning how many they hired and when. This brings Microsoft back to their staffing levels of when exactly? March 2021?
Ironic - since the house only works 146 days per year - so either gets paid to work half the year - or is doing a lot of remote work...
I know it’s not a Corolla, but it might be the Corolla of the EVs.

It is inexpensive for an EV and seems to be a reliable and durable car.

I’m almost sad to hear it’s going to be discontinued but for myself, when the time comes, I’ll be taking a good look at whatever Nissan will be offering.
Zara Sues “Responsible” Brand Thilikó Passing Off Zara Wares/Photos as Its Own
In WWII the Allies didn't want the Axis to know they had cracked Enigma. They used what today might be called Parallel Construction in order to make the intel look like bad luck and/or spies. They had to let some attacks happen because there was no way they could have known about them without decrypting communications.

The FBI running hundreds of servers is fairly likely, and could give enough data to suggest that all of their information is just grunt detective work.
> ctypes Python module to mmap a file as a C struct

Tell me more! Is your data larger than memory? You need persistence?

You might take a look at Aerospike, even on a single node if you need low latency persistence.
Oh I wasn't saying Bandera wasn't an Anti-semite, I have no idea. Just the idea that Ukraine is an anti-semite society, that's completely nuts. I've visited and have Ukrainian friends - they do have a big problem with racism, but not to some crazy level vs in that region. I've heard of things happening in Poland that well, are not very progressive - ie public buses not stopping for black people, racial beatings, taunting on the streets.

Ukraine just had a bigger issue I believe because of the participation of certain groups (Azov) in the Maidan revolution and then in the 2014+ war. My impression is this happened quite simply because every sector of society was at Maidan, but the Azov guys were more willing to get their hands dirty/get violent, thus they became prominent. That's my impression.
Well of course but you can benefit from having a publisher, instead of self-publishing. Does Substack take away your copyright?
If you're actually using it 8 hours a day then it's 30 watts for the mba, and 150 for the pc + 30 for the display. So the difference is 1.2kwh per day. For 200 days of work in europe, that's 2001.2.4 = 96 per year.

In the US that's 235 working days per year at around $0.20 (13 - 25ct), so about $50 per year.
If you do sustained work, like render or transcode video, the Air only goes full tilt for 5-10 minutes then starts throttling until you stop doing the heavy work.

If that's something you do more than once in a while, definitely opt for the Pro. For any other workload that's less than maxing out CPUs, or just bursty, the Air has been excellent.

I still think the M1 Air was a better value overall. And I liked the curves to it more than the M2's boxy design.
I use a Nokia 6030 phone; the old indestructible brick one. It still works where I am. But I don't use it because I want to get away from the internet. I just don't use smart phones because they're terrible computers. I use a computer for computing, a GPS for navigation, and a camera for photos. And each of these devices is better at it's job with fewer downsides than any general purpose device.

Mostly the "smart phones/internet/etc" are ruining society reaction is the same type of thing as the reactions to the introduction to newspapers/books, electricity, radio, television, etc. These were all destroying society and addicting the youth. But they aren't addictive. The only existing medically recognized behavioral addiction (ie, not a real addiction like to a drug like methamphetamine) is "gambling disorder".
I imagine it's three things. First and foremost, interest rates are up. Some development opportunities only make sense when loans are basically free. Second, the market's down, firing a bunch of people is a good way to boost stock prices in the short term, and people making these decisions are often primarily motivated by short term stock price gains. Third, big tech executives are heavily influenced by trends, they all talk to each other, and layoffs are trendy right now.

Layoffs are probably a bad idea, in general, given how expensive it is to hire new devs and bring them up to speed, but on the other hand, it's probably a pretty good way to eliminate orgs you wanted to get rid of anyway while blaming the economy. I'm sure it's not a coincidence that so many of Amazon's layoffs came from Alexa.