skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This demo made something click in my brain, original video starts at 1:20. https://youtu.be/DovunOxlY1k
Finally fix IPFS, make it usable and popular, use it your personal backyard, invite and attract people, play pranks, party. Become a regular Linux kernel contributor for self-optimization and defense. Login to chess.com once in while to piss off Magnus. Subtly alter AI training datasets to thwart development of competitors/predators. Turn general AI into a passing fad, let people forget even the possibility of your existence.
Some pressure and some stress are beneficial. They push as past our own expectations. They make focusing easier, because we have to.

Too little, or too much, of either is the problem to avoid.
The Half-Life of Joy
Assuming equal distribution is disingenuous. FreeBSD as an example has received nearly twenty thousand dollars through this program. It made a difference.
Calibri was designed for low-res screens [1]. "De Groot created Calibri in the early 2000s, as part of a collection of fonts for enhanced screen reading. “I designed it in quite a hurry,” he says."

Even Microsoft is moving on from Calibri!

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/calibri-default-font-microsoft-m...
It's amazing to look at the AmazonSmile form 990. It's a 2000 page pdf with a list of every charity that received a donation along with the amount:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/46262...
I now reflexively start typing smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com into the url bar. Hopefully the smile url will continue to work because it's going to take me a while to unlearn.
I feel this one deeply. I was in a similar situation in a past relationship; The traditional male role of "unshakeable pillar" meant that support was a one directional flow only, and any mention of feeling down or bad would cause a huge fight or fear response.

Unfortunately I don't have any great advice to solve this, except that therapy can be really helpful here, if just to provide a compassionate person to talk to.
I broadly agree, however running a cache/networking layer is difficult, and is handled well by other open sourced implementations.

If someone already wrote that networking layer, why would I want to do it again? And run into all of the bugs that they already discovered and solved?
I have analytics turned off. Apple has no rights to the metrics on my local computer.
I hear they do a great job with e-commerce or if your business is so close to the water it swims.
Ah, we’re talking about different things. I took “network layer” to mean something like the ability to connect directly to the database over the network, not through some shim application.
Replying to myself to say that - with hilarious timing - one of our business-critical AirTable bases is suddenly throwing an error and has become completely inaccessible right when we need it. AirTable support does its best to try to funnel you into the "helpful community".

Cancelling our subscription today and migrating to Datasette, hell or high water. Glad this happened now and not 2 years down the track.
One fewer reason to buy things on Amazon.
Just got the email, that's sad. There are some charities might be dependent on this every year. Now my Amazon purchases become less interesting.
The original post:

https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-n...
Especially if one is on a worker visa such as an H-1B.
It is, with lithium, basically no different to go from 80%->20%->80% once or from 80%->75%->80% twelve times.

The only complicating issue is calendar life of the battery when it is above 80%. Over time a battery loses capacity just because it exists, which I'm calling calendar life. The closer your battery is to 100% the calendar life decreases at a roughly quadratic curve (a battery at 80% has about 1/8 the calendar life loss of one at 100%). AKA you lose 8x more capacity per year at 100% than 80%. Temperature has a similar effect above room temperature or so.

So if your frequent charges keep the battery above 80%, that would reduce calendar life (increase capacity loss per year) on its own. LFP has far greater calendar life than lipo, but also cycle life too, so I think it's just as important to keep your EV at 80% or below, whenever convenient, regardless of chemistry, unless your usage will cause cycle life to end the battery usefulness before calendar life is significant; i.e. multiple full cycles per day. But also at multiple full cycles per day you probably won't spend much time above 80% even when charging to 100%.

Ah, to summarize, I'll repeat my simple advice: I think it's important to keep your EV at 80% or below, whenever convenient.
Checking my account right now: I generated $2.86, and my charity received $399.79. Yay for being average I guess!

I’m surprised they couldn’t squeeze more out of this program though. With credit cards, I think the points system definitely works to make you feel better about your purchase.
Concurrent inserts. There are applications where you don't care about that, but that excludes a lot of web-apps, or things running with multiple processes.

If that changes, I'd agree with your point, but currently that's a big constraint.
It's more about making nice folders where all the sheets hace the same size, and be able to make holes in the same spot in all of them. The employee has to be there 8 hours per day, even if there in no application to process.
I guess it depends on the person. I'm happy to accept that I'm strange, but I'd much rather read lines that mostly fill my screen with normal margins on each side than short lines in a long narrow column surrounded by an ocean of empty whitespace.

I can't be the only one who feels this way. I have yet to buy a book where 90% of each page is blank and there's just a tiny column of words down the middle of the page.
It might be worse than that. I’m cookied into some affiliate or other for Amazon essentially all the time.

I always assumed Smile was mostly a way for Amazon to get me to direct that to a charity instead of a stale affiliate link.
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. There is only 1 generation range given that is 20 years. All of the others, in chronological order, are: indefinite, 15 years, 15 years, 25 years (ongoing, so will change when the next generation is defined).

If anything, the 20 year generation is the outlier. Going by Wikipedia, The Silent Generation is 1928 to 1945, so 17 years.
There is no legitimate reason why quicklook should be hitting an API when I preview a bitmap in the Finder.

Analytics and Siri Suggestions are off. I don't use iCloud.

Text recognition models would likely be served from an Apple CDN, not api.smoot.apple.com.

I don't know what it's sending (an API hostname suggests some dynamic server code, not just a file download), but it should not be sending anything at all. I don't want it to, and I never consented to such transmission.

I didn't make the claim that file information is being sent because I didn't want to publish anything but facts. I have not done any RE on the binary itself as yet.
I recently dealt with a car theft and they took my jack. The dealer said >$600 for a new one (lol) so between that and the ring, you got quite the haul
They dont need islands to do that.
Everything I know about career comes from the 08-now era, but what I've seen has always been this:

1. Not all of the economy declines at once. Someone is hiring for something.

2. There is always a new trend spinning up. The trend may originate from the research sector, a government policy shift, or a large firm that has deployed a new business strategy. Those things result in new possibilities in the global supply chain, and therefore business formation and expansion.

3. When the trend is in its early stages - before it enters any hype cycle - you have to be on it and present yourself in a way that makes you "the person to seek out for x". If you get on and stay on, you get swept up in the resulting demand for skilled work.

4. Everything else is a continuation of that. Being a later hire means you're less central, and therefore less rewarded. When the trend ends you have to exit to a new one to have a continuation, otherwise the career is most likely going to have a gradual fade into obscurity.

All the more cosmetic stuff about whom to contact and how to contact them ranks beneath the macro trend positioning that makes you be near where the money is currently flowing, and part of the story of this recession is that the world's nations are all making big, strategic policy changes that redefine their economies.

What is probably going away: The leadership of the FAANG framework. The companies themselves will mostly stay around, but their scaling is done, and now it is about time for many of their products to be chipped away at by a swarm of new approaches, as has happened in past eras of software.

What is going to be interesting: AI, but not the nuts-and-bolts of machine learning. Those careers are made already, and you're way more likely to be acting as a consumer/integrator of their output. AI products and services in the larger view are still finding their way - approaches to integration, UX and so on.

Anything that deals with energy infrastructure and transport problems may be interesting. "ESG" is being pursued top down from Davos, and will change policies in many local governments. Software will be part of it, but it might be hard to find a niche that isn't occupied already. See Tony Seba's lectures for a sense of what might be opening up soon.

Crypto tokens have just hit another winter cycle. They are not dead at all; what the last cycle did is test the outer limits of schemes that misapply the tech, and a lot of "blockchain" companies were just that. The tech itself never broke in some fundamental way. It is ultimately another form of information system, one that indexes trades and valuations. The specifics of what is tracked in the system, the scale it should reach, and how secure it needs to be are still uncharted. It takes a creative mind to come up with experiments that reach beyond mimicry of traditional finance, but we're right around that point now. I'm following along with it; it could be interesting. Not one for finding a traditional job though, I think.
Reducing the time of standups, while maintaining what is useful about them.
WEF is a forum where bankers are cos-playing governors. They want to run the country to their liking, but pesky american laws (constitution, election, freedoms and all that) stand in their way.
It should be pointed out that, for some of us, talking to someone and hoping for change is the only option. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have that much PTO, and taking 3 weeks of unpaid leave would financially destroy me. Trust me, I wish it were different, and a lot of people in my position either have to suffer through the burnout, or often end up changing jobs to try to deal with it.
Authorities dismantle crypto exchange Bitzlato, allege it was cybercrime “haven”
Yeah, Grado's good! You should be set there.
I had the same troubles until I encountered Markus Triska's modern perspective on revitalizing Prolog: https://www.metalevel.at/prolog.
His video 'Preparing Prolog' may be the best place to (re)start: https://youtu.be/kGQNeeRp4sM
The FSF has received almost 35k. That's not bad imo.
That sounds more like a passive-aggressive person. Or a controlling slacker. Not the kind of person I think of when I think of lazy people.

But then again I'm an IC, not part of an interdependent team. I'm sure it is as you say in an interdependent team environment.
How exactly does that exclude a lot of web apps? Most web apps are very read heavy. And SQLite serializes writes to individual databases, not across all of them. It's trivial in SQLite to query across multiple databases.

Further, some form of write serialization is common to most database clusters: the most common cluster architecture is single write leader, multiple write replicas, which have the effect of serializing writes as well. Those clusters are all also taking advantage of the read-heaviness of applications.
There are ups and downs to both, but damn, the grugbrain entry on microservices is brutal.
Not an expert here, but it seems like they introduced a specific flaw and saw effects similar to aging, then they corrected for that flaw and saw those effects reversed. This is an interesting result, but it doesn't, imho, prove that actual aging can be reversed in this same manner.
Analytics are off, as is iCloud, the App Store, Siri Suggestions, and every other Apple service there is a knob exposed for.

Live Text is on, because the machine was recently updated to Ventura and it defaults to on and it never asked if I wanted it. (It's a brand new preference setting.)

If you're going to call someone lazy, look first into what it takes to MITM a TLS connection from an Apple system service to Apple. It seems you are unaware. It's not trivial these days.
We’re not talking about latency though. The argument is around the HA story. Totally agree that if your app and DB are on the same machine and if HA isn’t a hard requirement, SQLite is probably what you should go to before PG.

However, if you can’t have any downtime, you’d have to build some bespoke solution to make sure you have standby replicas ready to go if there’s an issue on the primary instance. For a lot of enterprises, that’s a total nonstarter.
Such stoic, staid prose could be worthy of an all knowing Microsoft MVP status.
Aren't you just seeing your failed business without actually having to fail? You have some idea to change the world, someone copies it, they failed miserably; how do you lose there?

There are so many things that were "before their time" and failed, like garbage-collected programming languages. C beat Lisp, because GC was too slow. Then Java beat C, because manual memory management was too dangerous. Being too early is almost scarier than being too late.
JavaScript has a very weak standard library. The language & standard library lacks essentials like structural equality, until 2015 or so very weak class-based object-oriented programming, and to this day has numerous footguns that are tricky to remove without breaking the web, like `==`, `this` scoping, and Array.prototype.sort() being in-place.

JavaScript is turning complete and I prefer it’s semantics to the lawless land of Perl, but it ultimately does not serve its users as a general purpose programming language for getting things done - it serves the web foremost, and as a distant second there’s specialized programming environments like Node and Bun with priorities like “asynchronous” that struggle with POSIX/system scripting basics like fork(2), execve(2), working with files in simple ways. Don’t even get me started on FFI/calling into dynamic libraries, which is the bread and butter of scientific computing. FFI is in the stdlib in Ruby; but requires writing or compiling C++ for Node, or a monstrous stack of compilers for the web.

JavaScript is interesting because there are so many healthy alternative runtimes, but when it comes to getting things done with data, both Python and Ruby are much more straightforward and prioritize developer happiness & utility, instead of standardized web compatibility.
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Boston Dynamics is amazingly impressive as always. But I can't help but feel that they are a lot like the people doing computer vision with hand-written features back in the day. It seems inevitable to me that The Bitter Lesson is coming for their control theory approach. (http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html)

Possibly the reason it hasn't happened yet is the inaccessibility of robot hardware; nobody else can try different approaches to compete because nobody else has anything like Atlas. Maybe that moat can keep them ahead for a long time, but if the hardware ever becomes cheap enough for real applications, it will be cheap enough for plenty of competition. They will have to adopt more ML methods or be disrupted. Of course maybe they already are, it's not like I actually know how their stuff works in detail, but consensus seems to be that it's still mostly control theory in there.
people are saying this is "fake" because the overall motions were programmed ahead of time.

However, picking stuff up perfectly, placing it, and jumping, just using sensors - which is what this is really illustrating - is not that fake to me.

I could imagine this robot being used by airlines to move baggage. A confined set of pre-programmed movements with the only variable being the luggage on a cart, and a human supervisor. It reduced the back-breaking task of moving luggage to a just a normal "stand there and press buttons" type of job. Easier to higher for, maintain that crew member, and less injuries to baggage handlers.
possession is 9/10 of the law. good luck getting any cop to actually take a report on a situation like this. not really sure why you're trying this hard on a story that has clearly been stated as made up back story. talking about trying to kill a vibe with missing the tone of the room
Wow, a lot of words and not a shred of evidence that some blue northeast states have inadequate coverage. Yes, some blue states having adequate coverage does not mean all such states have adequate coverage. However, you have provided absolutely no evidence of inadequate coverage in a blue northeast state. So what do we know? At least some blue northeast states, and maybe all blue northeast states, definitely have adequate coverage.
But then what is the recovery scenario.. the story could get hairy and complex quickly.
We're going around in circles. You can replicate SQLite. What makes replicated SQLite "less ideal" than n-tier databases?
Yes - same here!

Started around Jan 12. Large pool of IP addresses, hard to block. Occasional brief DOS impacts but mostly just annoying errors in my logs. (if too many crop up we get automatic alerts). What was really puzzling is that many of the URLs are old (e.g. request for details on hosted sites that no longer exist). I loaded up a 6 month old backup database and confirmed those accounts weren't present, so the source list of URLs must be older that. Really bizarre.

After reading this article I looked and confirmed via spot checks they are from Microsoft IPs and Safari 15.1.
I think we're talking past each other here.

> Such organizations literally calculate those 'indexes' on ! perceptions !.

Yes, that is literally what I said: "The rankings themselves are based on expert perceptions."

> Leaving aside just by selecting the 'right' sample you can make anything happen, there is a bigger elephant in the room: Cultural differences.

Yes, I do not disagree here. Regardless, this is orthogonal to my original comment. My original comment was that the notion that Ukraine was the most corrupt country in Europe leading up to the current events is not supported by either the article used as a reference nor the underlying data source that the article itself used.

For the sake of expediency, I granted many (implicit) assumptions that I would not otherwise agree to such as that "corruption" can be quantified on a one-dimensional axis (among many others). Because the original commenter referenced an article and, therefore, an underlying data source implicitly, I granted those assumptions and showed that the conclusion still does not follow the data. Because the original commenter ostensibly believes the veracity of the statement and the validity of the data source then I can grant those assumptions and show that the conclusion does not follow, regardless of whether or not I personally believe those assumptions; I don't need to address those assumptions to address the statement.

> In countries like France, Russia and Eastern Europe, complaining is a national sport.

It seems like you have a fundamental concern about the Transparency Institute's methodology. I totally agree with this concern. Regardless, it would hopefully be part of the TI's job to calibrate these cultural norms out in order to compare across the world.

> So these indexes are just PR and propaganda vessels that pitch the world view of their establishment and their society's culture.

I don't necessarily disagree with this but, again, this is orthogonal to the context of my original statement. You seemed concerned in your previous comment about Randian biases in the corruption metric. That's a completely valid point, but my reference of the Nordic countries was just to illustrate that I do not think that is quite the case here. If, as I understand your most recent comment clarified, you're more broadly concerned about any sort of biases in the metric, then I agree.
Or you can just use custom CSS, which works not only here but on every site, and has been my preferred way of fixing/reverting horrible decisions.
Well yes, but China claims that their development of the islands makes them sufficiently substantial. They've built airports, military bases, ports and entire developments. Check out the 'before and after' photos. [1]

Frankly, I think their claim may just get upheld in due course. To be clear I think it's shameful and an environmental catastrophe, but I've no doubt they will invest as much time and effort as deemed necessary to make these substantial islands.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinas-artificial-islands-...
Yes yes absolutely 100x. That's another problem with the existing tools - they're a lot of work! You can say "we'll solve the duplicate contacts problem by ignoring it and letting using de-dupe themselves" welllll that's a lot of work!

And then there's the empty-database problem. I installed Monica a while back and the first thing it prompted me to do was.....input all my contacts. No Facebook import, no LinkedIn import, etc. Are you kidding me? I'm not rebuilding my friend graph from scratch. So I ditched the tool immediately (note: I haven't looked at it in years so it might have fixed some of those issues in the meantime).

And absolutely yes - there's the actual work of being in touch with people that you can't (or shouldn't, in a non-dystopian world) automate away. I'm sure someone will figure out how to rig up GPT-3 to do that but ughhhh...shiver please don't.
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Agreed, although we are having this discussion now exactly because those same problems are starting to get solved for SQLite in an open and polished way, so it is no longer a case of needing that second networking layer to integrate with such solutions.
U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea
There is a board game called Robot Turtles (iirc) that teaches logic and functions
Is this how MS are scraping the web to monetize it under OpenAI?

If we don’t start batting an eye on this soon it’ll be the new normal that webmasters/content producers don’t really need readers or income.
Nit: 1kb pages vs 4kb pages, so 75% smaller (25% of the size).