skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a sophomoric philosophical position that is not endorsed by the majority of contemporary thinkers.
It seems you are saying that authoritarianism is anarchy. Which sounds absurd.
What are your thoughts on Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan?
I like moving parts, so I'd opt gasoline, but I'd probably end up doing heavy equipment or something like that that's not so commoditized
Corey, just wanted to let you know I really appreciate your work. You have been a great source of knowledge over past few years.
“Dutonians”? <barf emoji>
Seems simple enough to solve if it just fell off a truck. This distance is about a week of walking. Get an emergency search team of hikers (maybe cyclists) with Geiger counters, start at both ends, and go.
I'd argue that cross field is a good avenue for a PhD in CS. Work in collaboration with one of the sciences. There are plenty of papers to be had in application. Not everything in ML research needs to be algorithms. You'll likely find places where the models break down and need algo work too
The reason terminal interfaces are often criticized is because they lack discoverability, leaving the user at a complete loss or at least hiding the full array of functions the program offers.

The reason many amateur GUI programs (GIMP) are criticized is because they lack discoverability, leaving the user at a complete loss or at least hiding the full array of functions the program offers.

The reason many programs based on NLMs will be criticized is because...
Oh no. I think it takes a lot of resources to do that. Definitely can't be done in a weekend :)
I'm just stating likelihoods. I give him the benefit of the doubt. I only mention this to be conversational and to see if anyone else noticed something that might corroborate the theory.

It makes little to no sense that this would be an inside job. It makes a lot of sense that this person just wants their account back after willfully giving it up.

If you had an inside connection to take over an account, why wouldn't you use it on something much much higher profile and with a lot more (i.e. any) profit potential?
Oh come on, that one is gender neutral even!
Damn it! Thought I'd fixed this. Back to that micro service I go :(

Thanks for using and for the bug report!
uhhh, I've been waiting for this. ba-dum-tiss (=
I think part of the scam is the move from "practical definitions" of words to (pseudo-) philosophical ones.

There ought be a name for this type of psychological manipulation, but I don't know it. It is universal in a certain type of "motivational scam".

Crypto Scammer: Isn't it bad that finance is so centralised?

Crypto Scammer: Let me sell you a decentralized database!

Sceptic: But that isn't the same sense of decentarlization?

Scammer: Ah! But doesnt power flow from centralization of infrastructure?

Sceptic:... maybe, maybe not. Hey, why do you have your hand in my pocket?

Here, whether "consciousness" is on a continuum across all physical objects, or whether only a subset of objects have it, is kinda irrelevant:

The machine doesnt care about you, has no intentions, has nothing it wishes to say, and doesnt know anything about your or anything else. Its text generation is only a reflection of you, and the average of the superficial data of everyone else around you.

In sum:

Don't take philosophy classes from sales people.
> I for one would like SF to be the great place it was before these policy changes

Then you'll need to find some way to quantify what it is that you're talking about, because using words like "crime", "safe", etc... don't correlate and aren't what you mean.

I'll just say it: is it homelessness? It's probably visible homelessness, right? We used to push these people out of public spaces and now we don't.
nothing is a reliable or comprehensive method of protection - that's why we employ defense in depth, including host-based security and software hardening.
I agreed to when I was hired. It was a basic summary doc: I've returned everything that isn't mine. I haven't kept records of things I'm not allowed to keep. I'm not going to poach your customers or employees (for 12 months, which was the part they tried to change to 24).
I don't think the org that I work for has really found it.

Enlarging the menu so its easier to find with screen reader tools like TalkBack and VoiceOver has been somewhat effective. However, if you have split menu's, login, search and other features, you start running into complex design issues with where to put all of those and whether you want to stuff them all in the mobile menu, outside the menu or a combination of the two. When you start putting features like search and login into the mobile menu, that also creates more accessibility issues as well.

Designing for accessibility can get really complex, really fast and I'm not sure there's really a solid design pattern yet that addresses all of the issues we're seeing now.

I know that's not a great answer, but it just highlights the complexity of designing for accessibility.
If the author(s) of this website are reading: The LinkedIn info I found about you was all Web3-related. If you're actually going after people looking to reduce their AWS costs, you may want to fix that.
Honest question out of curiosity: why still hold onto it? why not sell it if it means nothing enough for you to use it?

I know for me personally, if I was getting hounded by emails, I'd definitely look into getting rid of it somehow.
Yep. That's how it works in general. Thank you!
Activation lock is not the same thing as file system encryption.
"Two of these genes, desert hedgehog and Indian hedgehog, were named for species of hedgehogs, while sonic hedgehog was named after the video game character Sonic the Hedgehog.[15][16] The gene was named by Robert Riddle, a postdoctoral fellow at the Tabin Lab, after his wife Betsy Wilder came home with a magazine containing an advert for the game Sonic the Hedgehog.[17][18][19] In the zebrafish, two of the three vertebrate hh genes are duplicated: SHH a[20] and SHH b[21] (formerly described as tiggywinkle hedgehog, named for Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a character from Beatrix Potter's books for children) and ihha and ihhb[22] (formerly described as echidna hedgehog, named for the spiny anteater and not for the character Knuckles the Echidna in the Sonic franchise)."
Peer review.

After WW II, there was a large rif (reduction in force) in the US military. The Marines decided to use this to their advantage

At each level they did peer reviews, where the results were one of a) retain at current grade, b) retain, but at lower grade, c) do not retain.

This was all done with peer reviews of people at the same level. The result was they retained most of the best people they needed to retain.

I've never seen promotion boards or managerial review produce very good results. In largish orgs, you might as well just hold a lottery.
>Apparently the laptops are given to a recycler to be destroyed by an institution. He’s trying to refurb and sell.

So he stole those then? Because he's not the rightful owner right? Even trash belongs to someone.
> If you buy a second hand device this can happen

If you buy a second hand device and this happens you bring it back to whom you bought it from and ask it to be unlocked or your money back. Same as if it does just not turn on.

> if you have a company and a previous employee doesn't unlock it for some reason

You put it into the offboarding process to check this. If it is missed or can’t be done for some reason you take it to Apple with proof of purchase and they unlock it for you.

> But in reality that doesn't happen

Yeah. Like for example you fenced a laptop from a shady guy.
Yes, they built a platform Cello [0] that would allow for that if I remember correctly

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170829230730/https://www.erics...
It seems straightforward. If a company wants to fire an employee with cause, stack rankings and performance-improvement plans provide them. Otherwise people in orgs that apply it wouldn't call it "rank and yank" when they're being candid or honest about it.
They're expanding into advertising as a revenue source. This undercuts google on their platform, but it does mean that advertising revenue will become something they want to protect. Google makes lots of money advertising and it's possible this could become a major (thinking around 30-40%) portion of Apple's revenue.
“There will always be theft so we shouldn’t try to reduce theft” is pretty circular.
> In this case, if a device is given to you, why can't you have the person giving it to you (assuming they're the legitimate owner obviously) remove activation lock if they forgot?

What happens if the original owner died?
Maybe we should consider the context before we crack a joke.
Classical ML Still Relevant?
** Pls bear with me if its been already discussed or not related **

With all the proliferation of DL and LLM along with near unlimited compute, energy and bandwidth do we still need classical ML approach for solving the problems? Is DL / NN going to take over everything?
Yup, same here :(
There's a component that seems to be missing here which is preemptive task scheduling. I've not seen another non-OS system do it like the BEAM VM (the VM behind Erlang), though there may be something I'm not aware of. It really prevents a whole class of concurrency issues where a hung process can freeze or slow down the entire system.

For example, if you recreated gen_server in a cooperative concurrency environment, one gen_server could use up all of the CPU and have an impact on the performance of the rest of the system. Maybe the other threads (microthreads, not OS threads) would still respond in <500ms, but if every request takes 500ms when they normally take 15ms you could essentially have outage-like conditions, particularly with upstream timeouts.

Instead, because BEAM is preemptive that one (or 10) hung gen_server doesn't hang up everything else on a node. Sure at some point performance will degrade, but that point is much further down the line than in cooperative concurrency models. There was a fantastic talk by Sasa Juric that demonstrates this in Erlang. [1] Otherwise you run a higher risk of even the supervisors being starved for CPU time, particularly if you are launching hundreds of processes that are all locking the CPU.

It's really the combination of the behaviors (OTP), the scheduler, lightweight threads, message passing, and immutability to me that makes the Erlang (Elixir for me) concurrency model so appealing.

Creating a language with the feel of a lisp, the environment of Smalltalk, and the concurrency of Erlang has been my dream for a long time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE
Sure I think there are senses in which Tim Cook is accountable to customers, or maybe his own moral compass (as might be the case here), but in a specific and direct sense the board that controls whether he keeps his job or not is legally bound to act for the shareholders.

However I don't think Tim Cook in that moment was necessarily saying that accessibility was non-negotiable, shareholders be damned, it's also possible he was taking a broad view of shareholder interest that is about more than immediate ROI.
Why the downvotes to this guy. He is right. Rajesh Adani is Gautham Adani's brother. That entire conglomerate is the poster child of post-liberalization goondagiri, but that was kind of the norm in Gujarat politics in the 90s. Each state in India has a couple Adanis, like the Ansals in Delhi NCR or the Badals in Punjab. They're one of the various thekedars (infra contractors) that just happened to get lucky that their baap fast tracked from Ahmedabad local politics to PM.
Tracks form a network that can be used to reach more than just the directly connected cities.

Similarly, airports require a high up front capital cost and form a network that allows you to reach further than the infrastructure at the starting point allows.

On rail having high maintenance cost for the infrastructure: every flight requires expensive and fragile planes + lots of fuel, so the marginal cost of each trip is high.

So it's a little more complicated to compare the costs than you suggest.
the term "verify" in this situations has started to mean "we are extorting you for your personal information by holding your account hostage".

It's most often a phone number, and as you point out, way worse on facebook where they demand government identification.

Please stop using facebook, people.
A lot of that is that weird headcount thing that translates to how important you are as a manager.

- if you have a lot of reports YOU ARE IMPORTANT

- if you have a big budget (because of lots of reports) YOU ARE IMPORTANT

wait, firing someone might take away a req/headcount. I AM NO LONGER AS IMPORTANT

To the point that managers that don't have more than, like, 4 or 5 reports basically should plan and aren't a "I do a workers job plus management", regardless of company, should know they are going to get laid off or fired at some point.

You're right, it is a forced culling. I can see it as being done for a couple years to cull fat, but as a permanent fixture of the business practices? Well then it's your culture, and your culture is backstabbing, machiavellian, ass kissing, undermining, outright sabotaging, juking stats, etc.
Why not Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac)? I use both extensively. I keep folders for projects, and use these to drop notes into the folder. A word processor is overkill and takes too long to load, but I usually manage these projects from Windows Explorer or Finder so I don’t want to drop into CLI to use Vim or use GUI Emacs. Nice to stick to the GUI stuff when in there and leave the terminal for the heavy duty.
This looks really cool. The number of times I've had to google things like "delete all files that were created before a certain date but not if they have certain characters or are a certain extension" is uncountable.

Kind of wish the command was just "genie" though. Suppose I could ask it how to change the name.
Parenting in America Today
Cool! Looks like an improved version of Natbot https://github.com/nat/natbot
FWIW, I think you meant to say "paring it back" and not "pairing it back".

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pare
> Intel made, what 10 billion in PROFITS last year? With a "B". And times have been semi-lean the last few years.

There are multiple measures of profit, but none of them are $10B.

Per the 10-K for 2022, Intel's operating income was $2.3B and their net income was $8B. Net Income was higher than Operating Income because Intel had gains in equity holdings, interest payments, and favorable tax treatment. Put another way, 3/4 of the year's bottom line profitability was not from building and selling things.

It should also be noted that almost all of their profits were in Q1. Q2 and Q4 actually had negative income (both operational and net). A big part of that is due to aggressive investments in advancing their fab capabilities (which is a multiyear process that wont deliver much outside the lab until 2024/25).
Strongly agree, noticed this when signing lease agreements. Currently leasing from a place with tons of one-sided rules, fines, surprise fees, etc, and they've been awful to deal with overall.

I signed another lease recently with more sane rules and enjoyed living there a lot more than I enjoy living at the other place.
Just an idea, but, I remember something about T2 macs, and the find my integration and if you put the device into “lost mode” on the web, it sets a (numeric) firmware password as part of the ‘mark as lost’ process.

I think that overrides any user set firmware password, so might allow you to recover it,

Just a thought maybe a little searching can validate it before you might try?
On most major appliances, the service manual is in a plastic pocket adhered to the inside of either the top panel or the rear panel of the machine. Worth checking for. Appliance repair companies don't have them either, they get them out of the pocket and hopefully remember to put them back.
Awesome idea! Timesavers should be moneymakers in this time.

Also, did you get 5000 downloads in a single day?

Or when did you launch it?
One must consider what he spent the previous 22 years doing.
My arcade back in the '80s was in the mall (which has long since died) and only a few stores down from the Marines recruiter, so they were always popping in.
Isn't the micro text editor the standard in these sort of "command line 'normal' text editor" tools?

It's what I use at least
These days, if you have Kubernetes, queues, and worker queues, does OTP still have an edge?
I'm curious why they made this choice in the first place
https://micro-editor.github.io/

It's being actively developed. I wish it replaced Nano, Pico, etc
I think this is shortsighted. Criminals might be the target of this policy today, but when these machines are no longer current, the owners of the machines might no longer know or care where the device is, and they will still be unusable. This to me is unacceptable.
I'm in automation so when I'm out of a job, everyone is. That said, automation doesn't really eat professions - automation does tasks. Very few professions are composed of a wide variety of tasks. For example while we might at first glance think of truck driving as merely guiding a vehicle, in reality a truck driver does much more like loading and unloading cargo, handling paperwork at pickup and destination, checking for issues that would require maintenance, sitting with the vehicle so neither it nor the cargo are tampered with, etc. Automating a particular task may remove a bottleneck that allows individuals in the profession to be more productive, and thus the same amount of total work could be done in theory by a smaller labor force, but in nearly all cases it makes more sense to have the same size labor force do more work: it always takes a smaller percentage increase in sales to make as much money as a cost reduction could save, and costs can only be cut so far while there is no hard limit on growth.

Much more likely than automation taking over a profession is that automation changes the nature of a profession. For example with truck driving while there's much more to it than driving the truck, the ability to actually drive the truck has always been critical and thus things like the possession of a valid CDL limit the number of people who can enter the profession and keep wages pretty high. You automate trucks and you're still going to need lots of people to do logistics, but those people may not need a CDL and thus wages might be more similar to delivery van drivers. Other professions might see a less crisp change, for example I would expect as AI becomes better at technical things like diagnostics, bedside manner will become ever more important a metric for medical professionals and doctors who don't like that aspect of the profession will become steadily more dissatisfied.

Thus the best way to automation-proof your job isn't to do professions that are difficult to automate, but rather where automation would compliment your skills and let you do more of the parts you find fulfilling. For example I foresee AI revolutionizing many creative professions in the not too distant future like art and music by offering tools that eliminate much of the technical skill necessary to turn an idea into reality, allowing for artists to focus more on coming up with cool ideas. Similarly things like product development and marketing are going to be much more fun and be much more accessible, though they may not pay as well.
Impressive. I started working on a similar project, it's a NodeJS debug environment embedding a console, a debugger, and network & performance analysis tools. A bit like the browser dev tools but in the terminal.

Hope mine will reach the same maturity someday!
It also seems abhorrent that fully functional, almost new devices are stolen and resold for commercial gain.
Why not use the CLI though? The aws and gcloud CLI tools seem fine when I occasionally use them.
Now try familytreenow.com for free or spokeo.com if you want to waste a dollar on a trial.

Pretty sure they won't be wrong or out of date.
While we're joking about AWS adventures, has anyone here seriously contemplated using S3 keys as a cheap blob store? It looks like they're a generous kilobyte a pop, and prefix queries are supported, so you could hypothetically chunk your data into a [key|index|data_index| scheme and store a bunch of empty files in slightly under 1KB chunks -- ingress is nearly free (API calls, though you can batch them to keep this from being terrible), egress is expensive, and storage is free. Does that work?
The original "3-D user-friendly input device" ;)
Sugar is pro-inflammatory, and so is omega-6 fatty acids, the consumption of both of which has increased massively within the last 60-70 years. Omega-6 fats have gone from less than 5% of human diet to up to 30% today, thanks to the commercial success of 'vegetable' oils. These two alone probably represent the most conspicuous diet changes that have happened in our societies in recent history and should be obvious suspects when looking at disease factors, imho.
Whirlpool is headquartered in Michigan. This predates my telephone-using career, but my guess is that they published a local number that saved them paying the 800 fees for Michigan customers. Either those customers were fine with making (& paying for) a local call, or perhaps there was some other within-state free calling product they used for them.

(It's also the period when MCI was challenging AT&T's monopoly - possibly both were able to sell 800 numbers and Whirlpool was splitting their business for some reason. But I think the former is more likely.)
Verizon analyzed the data breach, confirmed its authenticity, and indicated the leak source as a third-party vendor
It could be good, if the interface actually understood more sentences. Usually it’s “tell me in a few words what you want,” which I do, it answers “I’m not sure what you want,” I try again, it gives up and reads off a list of things to say, none of which are what I want, then I start yelling “agent,” “operator,” and various curse words. Or “sales” on the theory that they’re most likely to talk to someone who they think will give them money.
What’s more, ChatGPT also “knows” the Voyager episodes “10:59” and “12:59”, when individually asked.

On the other hand:

$ Are there Voyager episodes titled “10:59”, “11:59”, or “12:59”?

There are no episodes of Voyager titled "10:59", "11:59", or "12:59".
Life Values Inventory
I'm genuinely curious: Have you compared their efficiency levels with newer appliances?
They can't even maintain their dividend with their latest quarterly profits. Dividend yield is 4.85%, so they should approx. be paying out $0.34 each quarter while they just made only $0.10 per share.
Would also like to affirm that same sentiment.
I assume you have to ensure you haven’t inherited Haemochromatosis. :D
I nevertheless had my M2 MacBook stolen on BART in San Francisco last month. This wouldn't have happened if it were universally understood that stolen MacBooks are worthless. My interaction went smoothly, but this could have gone badly.

If all buyers checked that the activation lock was disabled before sale, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I prefer the reduction in crime that activation lock promises.
related -- i was just looking at serenade.io and thinking to myself that aside from accessibility purposes, what developer wants to learn a new voice abstraction on top of their programming language abstraction.
- 2,288 sitemap files see /sitemap.xml

Amazon does not even support sitemaps. (They did in the early days.)
Correct. I did the same search before I posted it. =)

Side note, I remember finding one of the dirtier purity tests on usenet after I got onto the internet in `91. Just being fresh in college at that point, a few of the terms used were new to me. hahahahah.