skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish it was that easy. Smoking is addictive, and I can assure you that quitting requires a lot of effort and in some cases luck too. I was "lucky" enough to be hospitalized for an appendicitis that degenerated into a peritonitis due to a wrong diagnosis just at the right time, that is, in the middle of a local tobacco crisis during a spring in the early 90s when cigarettes were so hard to find that either one knew someone in the black market or had to roll mashed cigar leftovers like I did just before getting ill. Moral of the story, I had been hospitalized for 12 days when I was already smoking a lot less than my usual rate (two full 20 packs/day) and when I was discharged from the hospital I said to myself "it's now or never!" and the rest is history. 30 years have gone and since then I didn't touch any cigarette, cigar, pipe, or anything else because I'm 100% aware that if I'd take a even just single puff for a friend or my girlfriend I'd start again, because I still like that smell unless someone smokes directly in my face.
There is also what comes across as fake friendliness when going to a restaurant in the US.

> Hi, my name is Bobby, I am gonna be your server today. Blah blah blah blah...

It always comes across as angling for tip money. Waiters here don't usually introduce themselves by name and you generally have less interaction unless of course you start conversing. I prefer the lack of expectation if the and waiter does a good job, then I am more than happy to tip a little. I am in Catalonia where tipping isn't a big thing. Not sure if it's because of the Catalan reputation for being tight with money, or having read Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia", it is related to when tipping was banned and the city was run by anarchists.
I had exactly zero problems with hotels and a number of problems with private hosts. Now I don't even consider the latter. When I'm on a trip, whether it's a business one or with my family, I want consistent service and predictability. Maybe I'm just to old to deal with that crap.
> The story goes that after every plague, "and god hardened pharoah's heart"... which means pharaoh didn't have the free will to let the Israelites go

I am familiar with an explanation for this: the "hardening" was just a reinforcement of what was already there. God didn't make the pharaoh's heart this way from the start. He was already disinclined to let the Israel go, as per his ability to choose freely. Hardening of the heart was just letting him dig in deeper in his conviction (or, if he chose differently, to distance himself away from the old position).
> Yay that's like... almost as much as normal 1U server can do

What about cost, and other metrics around cost (power usage, reliability)? If space is the only factor we care about then it seems like a loss.
So... they are amazing at making content. They can sell it and make a profit.

Also great partnerships with IPs and so on. I'm no disney fan, and prefer slow paced european numbers, but their numbers are very good.

The movies industry has had a lot of trouble in the past decade and they've still thrived.
It is hard for the "puffer" people too.

When they are on the clock, people generally want to be at least a little bit useful, at least do something that will be of value to someone. Sitting there doing nothing is not fun.
Sure, but then one questions the need of these extremely-well renumerated CEOs. If they are guided purely by quarterly numbers, stock market trends and industry groupthink, then why not save a fortune and replace them wholesale with an AI.
xdotool emulates user actions under the X Window System (e.g. typing, mouse around, click etc.).

I'm using it to send keypresses to the browser, as you rightly observe.

So if I want to just reload a page, the browser gets F5.

To GOTO some page, it gets a stream of keystrokes for the URL characters and then Enter.

It's really that simple-minded, and it works!

This case statement covers my usage: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/hotre...
Google does this same shit. They even have a graphical tool for it; not kidding.

Google, widely mocked for the douchiness of its hiring process (which it admitted to years ago and claimed that it was trying to reduce), forces employees to rank their fellows using a graphical tool that presents their pictures on screen and demands that you move them up or down to rank them in reference to each other. The application makes it impossible to align colleagues on the same horizontal line.

I mean... who the fuck expends the engineering time to create such an offensive tool? Google; that's who.
I might be missing something, but C# lets you omit the classname in "new" entirely if the target type of the expression is known - isn't that even shorter?
> [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180804012045/https://dailystor...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180804012045/https://dailystor...

> "This child will join a right-wing death squad some day."
Just wait to you get to Italy or Spain, sometimes restaurants in very touristy areas will charge different service charges based on seating area. Eg nice area is 20% or more service charge, vs maybe 12.5% for a table without a view. You don’t see that until you are already in your seat, and then you have to deal with the social awkwardness of asking to move tables (which some don’t do because they are some mixture of introverted or embarrassed).
So I can just tell the police to delete crimes right?
Exactly. The most insidious part of addiction is identifying as an addict. It’s that acceptance of your own addiction as a core part of your identity that makes it impossible to quit. As soon as you change your mind and decide “I am not an addict” you’ll quit instantly.

The addict self-identification is also the reason why people get so defensive about it. People tell them to quit and they treat it like an attack, an injury against their identity, and this cognitive dissonance protects the addiction from being resolved.
Cory Doctorow’s latest book, “Attack Surface”, does a good job of exploring this concept IMO. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250757517
No problem: install it on a laptop, run it, stick it in the overhead locker!
Indeed, that box here next to my desk draws 50W of electricity continuously despite being mostly idle. Why? Because it has ECC.

Having some affordable low power device with ECC would be a game changer for me.

I added affordable to exclude expensive (and noisy) workstation class laptops with ECC RAM.
a) false, b) irrelevant, c) false, and d) false
Yeah, we tried to buy LTSC when I was working for an embedded startup. We found we couldnt just "buy" it, instead had to go thru a complex partnership with MS, which people told us could take months and lots of legal fees.

We ended up shipping standard Windows 10-- with candy crush saga.
That did suck big time, makes them less independent. But at least stuff I already bought and downloaded can't disappear overnight, as I have the files on disk and backup already. I learned something from Spotify after all :)
Ok, still it would be nice to have a line that says this system can do X1 threads of X2 GFLOP/s and has a memory bandwidth of X3 MB/s, or something like that.
I don't know anymore what it was concretely. That was two years ago on some project that wasn't even part of my usual duties. We lost some team members and I had to look after some extra projects. As I have quite some experience with JS I was given a TS task.

At this point I was even quite eager to update my JS skills with TS knowledge. All in all it was fun to write this project. But my error was to trust the types like I would when programming on my main project in Scala. Big error…

Since than I think TS is much oversold.

You can do fun things with the types (even some things that I miss in Scala, and there is not much to miss in Scala in general!), but you just can't trust the TS types. So this makes them superfluous in some sense. (Yes, some types are better than no types; especially when it comes to the IDE experience; but as long as any lib call (due to trivial bugs in "typing-files"), or some "impossible" input can break things this is not as helpful as one would like; especially when coming form really strongly typed languages).
This is a continuation from my other reply. Read the other comment first. Or not, it's rather long. I type fast.

>These days I struggle to watch a movie, there are just too many options, AI is only going to make this problem worse. We'll be drowning in shit.
Holy shit. Now you need to hire a guy to choose the movie for you. Pay him a movie directors wage. Clearly this choosing stuff is so hard we need experts! No I'm kidding. Let's be honest, choosing things is easy.

>Nothing is as simple as it seems.

The irony here is that your conclusion is the simpler one. It's the easy way out. People are optimistic by default and pessimism is actually the harder path because it's so much uglier to admit. The truth is actually more inline with pessimism as the world is more or less built on competitive darwinian fundamentals with cooperation existing only as a side effect. The brain paints a delusional reality in such a way so that you don't get constantly scared or depressed. If you find your thoughts always being overly optimistic there's a good chance you're biased.

>From the perspective of psychology, I think the most salty people are those who don't do art, it's almost like people hope this is the end of people being able to freely express themselves. Kind of like the quest to crush artistic freedom is in progress.

I look at this statement and there are things about it that are obviously wrong. And I wonder how come you're blind to it? Like you're obviously referring to me somewhat. But that's not even the issue.

The most salty people are the people who entered into a lawsuit. You have to be really fucking salty to spend the time and the effort to do that. Who's in the lawsuit? Not me, I don't give a shit about artists. Let me spell it out: Artists are suing AI companies because Artists are the ones that are the most SALTY. That's not even a huge revelation. The revelation is how this came to be NOT obvious to a pretty smart person like you?

You use psychology to imply I'm the one out of touch? Take a look in the mirror.

A better analogy for this is oil companies and climate change pre 2000s. I'm the environmentalist saying something is fucked up here. You're oil baron. You're the person in Software who's in denial about how Software and ML is about to make some drastic and extremely negative changes to the way the world works. I can assure you oil barons couldn't face the cold hard truth and grasped at every positive angle they could get there hands on to build a universe where they weren't responsible for harming the world. They couldn't face the reality. Can you.

Can you face the truth that the artist working for your company is about to become useless. Can you fire him and tell him that to his face? No. You need a narrative. What about your own skills as a software engineer. Are you able to face a reality where your job is basically within 10-20 years going to be phased out for AIs? Likely not. So consider the possibility that you're the one that's biased and you're the one with the overly rosy outlook.
Someone logging into your account, registering their key and locking you out. This is a somewhat common scam
> One thing I've never understood is the argument for tipping

European here, from Italy, we don't tip much and it's not mandatory.

We do at dinner if it has been a long dinner usually as a way to show appreciation, but the tip is usually a modest amount (in the 5-10 euros ballpark for a table)

The argument for tipping here is that it is tax free money.

That's why here restaurants love American tourists and their very generous tips.

That's all there is to it.
I think what's implied to be morbid isn't the fact that they haven't made them since, it's them making so many in the first place
> Even airguns are now restricted.

If you're under 18, you have to be supervised by someone over 21. You can't carry an airgun in public without "a reasonable excuse". There are several kinds of thing you're not allowed to shoot at (which you're not allowed to kill anyway). Convicts aren't allowed to own guns (roughly).

Most of the restrictions are simply the extension to airguns of things that are already forbidden.

[Edit] Looks like the rules are slightly different in Scotland, but not more stringent, as far as I can see.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Let’s not for a split second pretend that many if any of the people complaining in this thread are doing so for this reason. At best their reasoning is verging on a conspiracy theory, at worst it’s just a typical old American man aversion to not using cash.

I agree with you that businesses should accept cash for the reason that you’ve noted. The underlying problem is fuelled by the almost unique dysfunction of American bureaucracies. This is in cases where the systems aren’t maliciously designed to lock people out.
how can they stop using proprietary drivers if they are still relying on third party partners? until google becomes like apple they won't have access to the drivers
None of the hotels I went to ever charged me more than once.

I've been in many both for work and for pleasure in 4 continents
Agree. Happened at the IB I worked at. I remember a particular person who I was just baffled they kept around, so I asked his manager. "He's my designated fire-ee" I was told. "If in a given year I have to make a cut, he's the guy I cut and I know it won't affect productivity in the team. If someone leaves organically then he survives for another year". A lesson in perverse incentives.
How do you fell about internships? I generally think those are a good thing. Those are often below minimum wage jobs.

Then again, I am not in favor of say Amazon workers being exploited with very poorly paid jobs and conditions for their source of income over the long term. (Thomas Sowell gives some good arguments against minimum wage - I am on the fence and it boils down to "it depends").
My point is that "rationalistic" approach wielding probabilistic reasoning will get the cases in your examples right. It's precisely the rationalists who I'd expect to point out that "gender" and "political affiliation" are ill-defined categories, which is why they resist useful formalization. "The willingness to recognize that definitions are not historically or socially static" is something I learned from reading rationalist pieces.

Meta-point: perhaps "rationalism" and "fluidity" are themselves ill-defined categories. Perhaps the authors only ever met rationalist groups that are extremely limited in their understanding and mostly just have a crush on mathy-sounding language - and so the authors invent "fluidity", which to the rationalist groups I interacted with would be just "basics of thinking straight, explained for 5 years old".

> But basically trying to set probabilistic distinctions is somewhat like trying to measure a coastline - things become almost infinitely detailed the more you investigate it, and the map looks less and less like the territory.

I know those examples, precisely because of the probability-wielding rationalists, who point at such cases as curiosities, and show how to put numbers on them correctly. "All models are wrong, but some are useful." I think the authors may be complaining about the people who forgot about the "all models are wrong" part, but they themselves seem to forget the "some are useful" part. Throwing hands up in the air and saying "it always depends" isn't a solution.

BTW. on a bit of a tangent, one of your examples:

> If that's not to your taste, then how the distinction between the political left and right seems obvious in aggregate, but (...)

I still can't imagine to whom this distinction seems "obvious in aggregate". I never found it obvious. Nor useful for anything other than cultivating hate and shutting your own thinking off. This is not a "look at me, I transcend boundaries" remark - it's just if anything is obvious, it's that political categories do not map well to how people think about issues, much less to any sort of correct or optimal beliefs. Rather, they work as attractors in the political spectacle.

(This has become painfully pronounced in recent times, as people are happy to round you off to "far-${otherside}" just because you disagree with them on something.)
Bitwarden already takes a couple of instants more than I'd like, each time the vault is unlocked in my phone. It's always one of those moments where I'm doing something that requires a new login, and usually the step of having to derive attention to the password manager is an undesired distraction, agravated by watching an idle screen for at least a couple of seconds while the vault decides to open, and at last I can search for my secret and continue what I was doing...

I do not use biometric because they fail a lot on me (fuzzy fingerprints due to stuff)

It's not even a nitpicky complaint I'm dropping in the internet, it does really bother me absolutely every time. Making it even slower, please no.
What is this "exceptional service" people are talking about? Take the order without forgetting stuff and then bring dishes from the kitchen? Isn't that just a normal baseline for this profession? Or does it mean not spitting in the food (I'm joking)?
I sometimes leave tips, but not once have I understood why, because there is no such thing as "exceptional" in the waiting service imho. I only do it due to the social pressure, like a monkey in the story about water hose and a ladder.
Isn't that basically what they did to get ChatGPT?
Ancient heritage of water ice in the solar system (2014)
> Maybe I'm just to old to deal with that crap.

Same I don't want to think if my flight delays for a few hours whether the host can give me the key, where we should meet etc. I just want to get in the room as soon as possible knowing that if I'm in a new place I can always count on the hotel staff for any help.

Definitely hotels win on many levels compared to private hosts
Very cool!

This example I think needs editing:

memset(f->buf, rgb, f->width*f->height*sizeoof(uint32_t));

it's described as a way to "fill the complete framebuffer with a solid colour", but 'rgb' is shown in the previous snipped to be 'uint32_t'. That is not how 'memset()' [1] works, it will only use the least significant 8 bits of the 'int'-typed value argument. So it would use whatever blue bits where in 'rgb', only.

For clearing (all zero) it's usable, and then I would recommend writing it as:

memset(f->buf, 0, f->width * f->height * sizeof *f->buf);

this both fixes the typo ("sizeoof" sounds like a C lecturer being punched in the guts), and avoids duplicating the type and instead inferring it from the actual object, which is more DRY and a style I've been advocating for ... years.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/memset.3.html
Funny how the assumption is that robots have to save us. Worker productivity is at a never before seen, all-time high. The benefits of that productivity are going straight into the pockets of the largest holders of capital.

We don't need robots, we need guillotines.
Not true. I negotiated a major software license at a large company over twenty years ago - when I wasn't even a permanent employee, (I was working on contract).

It was for around £120,000 per year, probably the equivalent of about a quarter of a million pounds sterling today.
Twenty years of google money... what is there to feel sorry about for this guy?
Man, right up there with VHS tapes, floppy disks, and payphones in terms of "things that I grew up with I thought would always be there, until they were not".

I saw them again in Japan 12 years ago. Video arcades were lousy with them, and I came to understand why when I encountered a very sad-looking young woman smoking profusely and playing Tekken. Arcades were like poolhalls or bowling alleys: loci of working-class leisure. Of course they were going to accommodate smoking as a stress beater, since Japan was well behind the west in terms of socially deprecating tobacco use. I think even Japanese society is changing in this regard.
One of the great moments in film is the death of Vito Corleone. A horrible horrible villain who dies a good death, playing with his grandson in a sunny garden.

There's no justice.
You can find it on libgen :)
If you imagine a reality where humans only die because of accident/homicide/suicide, the necessity for generational replacement would be a moot point.

You have to imagine a whole population with a biology locked at around 25 years old, with a very small minority of infants and teenagers, to stabilize population growth.
> In recent years, Blizzard’s corporate overseers at Activision have taken a larger role in operations, pushing the company to cut costs and produce games more quickly.

And that's exactly the reason for the downfall of the company. No vision, no passion, no leadership, no quality - just quantity and money.
> My gripe is not limited to DL/ML/AI scope either. When I try to compare my results with the papers I cite, I generally can't find the formulae or the detailed method to reproduce the numerical method the paper claims, and this leaves us at the dark.

I agree. So many don't even both including hyperparams, even when they publish the code. The Github Issues for their code are littered with questions asking about hyperparams.

> All I can do is saying "Paper23 cites these results, and we surpass them at this, we are even at that, and they are better at the other thing", which I'm not comfortable doing.

If you are achieving better results, on the same dataset, and you are not cheating in anyway, and others can reproduce your results, then I don't know what is wrong with saying you got a better result.

Issues somewhat arise when you are using better hardware with more parameters or larger batch sizes than the original authors could have attempted. I think this accounts for the results in many papers.
This reminds me of the brochure I once received from a fishing camp.

In the pricing section of the brochure, there was an item described, completely un-ironically, as “compulsory gratuities”.
Those people would probably get an excellent stack rank too.
Related:

- How Old Is The Water You Drink?

https://youtube.com/shorts/iZK3zEVGGWo

- Can You Drink Heavy Water?

https://www.thoughtco.com/can-you-drink-heavy-water-607731
At least in the US, that would be drivr.

https://drivr.life

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/drivr-tips-last-mile-deliv...
It's concerning to me that children are being medicated with drugs that don't offer a cure in this way. Did you ever try getting him to meditate or some other non-pharmaceutical intervention and nutrition? You child though, it's up to you as a parent to do what you think is best.
CC Annuity? Or even the implied CC fees the purchaser pays indirectly by increased prices

Car payment interest? Student loans?