skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather hear about their porn habits than endless virtue signalling that's prevalent in the 21st century USA.
I definitely enjoy them talking to empty rooms, and posed at awkward angles.
Then maybe you’re not the target audience
Looking for recommendations on AI/ML online courses
With all the movement in ChatGPT3 and AI/ML I'm feeling a little naked and want to extend my skillset into this field. And of course, play around. Does anyone have any resources on Udemy/Coursera/etc they would like to share that would be good to get up to speed and start hacking on this?
Exercise and make it easy to do. I got a peloton bike and just made it a habit in the morning. I then eased into yoga at night.

When Covid hit, 4 kids home/remote job/divorce all hit at once. I have to do something hard enough that my brain can shut off worrying about the thing. Lizard brain has to be active enough to think threat is gone and shut off.

The hardest days for me are intentional rest days/weeks where I have to be mindful of not having that same release.
Indeed, good regulation grows the pie for everyone - of course the zero sun gamers want to take it all and push for the repeal of regulations.
You missed

* There's an app in the Universe repository, which consists of software that is not formally supported by Canonical at all, which has security updates that are actually available from Canonical if you're an Ubuntu Pro subscriber.
i wonder how hard it would be to make this work for Counter Strike: Source
hmm...that sounds like a dangerous opinion you are holding there. Are you sure you are not a jerkoff? Not accusing, just asking. And, this has meant as a quasi-humorous post for all of you who don't quite click with humor.

Dangerous opinions are in the eyes of the beholder. Another person being a jerkoff is in the eye of the beholder. OK, not Hitler, he actually was a jerkoff.
‘Blood Batteries’ Drive America’s Frantic EV Ambitions
How so? It's not a clue at all, as the training data is inherently biased anyway.

LLM's are magical and can only work with the data corpus they have. "Objective truth" simply doesn't exist outside the realm of mathematics.
Pardon my ignorance but How could any radioactive material whose half life is 30 year could survive billions of years on earth and still be radioactive?
Here is the IAEA report from 1988 https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub815_web.pd... (mind you with some injury photos too)
> How does an L9 SE get laid off?

Should L9 be a tenured position ?

Bad luck, performance, budget, re-org, shake up for L8s
That doesn’t follow. A similar proportion of electors in swing and non swing states could have fixed voting patterns. The only difference in California is that the proportion of fixed electors for each party is further from 50%.
That is, it might be the case that only 10% of electors in any state are ever prepared to change their mind, but the ones in Ohio get more say than the ones in Cali.
At my job, there are three levels above "senior" and senior is the lowest we typically hire. So the ridiculous irony is that "senior" here means noob. :D
Generally, you would only care about up-votes from people you trust, and if you vote down stuff that your friends up-voted, then your trust level in those friends would be reduced, rapidly turning down the volume on the other stuff that they promote.
Although it’s currently archived, there’s another open source orchestrator that’s similar to Borg: Treadmill.

AFS solves for Colossus, with packages being distributed into AFS.

[0] https://github.com/morganstanley/treadmill
No, it's the argument by association that's appalling, because it's dishonest. The rhetoric is usually just wrong. Being wrong is superior to being dishonest. Wrong people can be corrected.
This article itself is a perfect example of why we don't trust the news anymore. I'm no Trumper, but most people know that Trump is not singlehandedly responsible for their distrust in the news, yet here we are reading an article telling us that that is the case. The narrative is too obvious.
Disruptive science is leaping forward, not limping along
I live near this area and am very familiar with the exact DD location in question. Obviously arresting the parents was a huge overreaction but the one thing I will say in defense of the police is the roads in this area are not pedestrian friendly at all. Portions of the road in question are 4 lanes including highway on/off ramps and dozens of businesses driveways and parking lots. Sections of the road have sidewalks that abruptly end and turn into guardrails forcing people to walk on the shoulder 1ft away from traffic moving at 45-60mph. I rarely see people walking these roads and as a result drivers are certainly less likely to be watching out for pedestrians. If I had kid I would not let them walk these roads. I would be on very high alert walking them myself as an adult.
audio spatialization has gotten really fancy in games. We can trick your eat into thinking sounds are coming from any direction with a combination of filters, delays, attenuations, etc. Of course it's not as good as the real thing but it is still very convincing (and certainly good enough to be competitive in CS these days).
> assist in story development, unexpected plot twists, believable character dialogue, etc.

This is the sort of thing I'd expect current ML language models to be terrible at, judging from my limited exposure to them.

They just shove in what's the most likely completion based on their training data.

Most writing on the internet is by people with little grasp of character, believable dialogue, or compelling plot arcs (including twists).

If you trained one on solely the scripts of the great films and literature of the past thousand years, maybe you'd get somewhere - or maybe it would just rehash the tropes with no understanding of what makes a great story. :shrug:
The torrent of garbage may require AI based moderation solution itself.

Although I hope we may see big come back of Web 1.0 forums such where users have to gain street cred and even invite referals with realy genuine contribution into community, no way to fake with AI today.
C++ needs spatial memory safety. It can be added without greatly changing the semantics of the language. Temporal memory safety is much harder.
Thanks. I have managed to get chatGPT to continue again (90% of the time) by asking it

Continue, starting from:
last line of output
With both Mint and Pop!OS I worry about the consequences of essentially being downstream versions of Ubuntu. I'll see if the Mint maintainers have a view on this; it does seem like a candidate.

Pop!OS seems nice, but I never really got the impression that System76 is doing much more than just reskinning Ubuntu. It just doesn't feel like something that will last.

Going back upstream is an option of course, i.e., Debian. It seems to have modernized quite a bit since the olden days.

At least there are choices. :)
Haven't used it, but just looked that up, so take my comment with skepticism. I didn't end up signing up for that service because it seems like it will attract a certain type of person, so it may be yet another echo chamber on the Internet.
The lack of diversity in opinion and ownership dates back to the Reagan era, when FCC dropped rules about how many TV stations could be owned, rules about oligopoly ownership in a given market and rules about cross media ownership (papers and TV or radio back then). The slogan then was to let the market decide.
This topic isn’t something I care about, but I did want to say, great work on the design — I have a thing for minimalist designs like this.
Wait until we have multilayered AI models.

One to generate the 3d scene. One for the lighting. Three for cameras. One for each actor acting out the given script along with a set amount of "improvising" and "randomness", one to generate background royalty free music based on the emotional context of the scene, one to serve as a Foley artist for environment sounds.

The equivalent computer power of a medium sized bitcoin farm running everything with the only humans being the writers, the IT people running the systems, a director watching each take as it is rendered live to pick the best ones, and an editor to slap all of the takes together.

That's probably technically possible now, if not actually implemented.

Another 15 years or so and kids will be rendering full movies in the basement and watching them with their friends.
Ubuntu used to be a nice default distribution, but with the hideous snaps and now apt spamming ads for a $500/box/year subscription for security updates, it's getting pretty ugly.
It wouldn't surprise me if commenters were bots too.
> From a business perspective, you don't want to alienate developers who work to build your ecosystem.

Musk is trying to monetize every last aspect of current Twitter possible while cutting costs to stave off bankruptcy that his acquisition made imminent long enough to pivot Twitter into a completely different business model centering on being a payment intermediary, apparently to relitigate his firing twice from X.com before it became PayPal.

He doesn't care about the ecosystem, because its an ecosystem for a completely different busoness than the one he wants Twitter to be. He cares that use of Twitter outside of the 1st party frontends bypasses monetization, so he wants it monetized or gone.
Underfunded lmao. This is some grade-school level of bullying. “We will stop the beatings and murders if you give us more money.”

LAPD got 1.9 billion in 2022 by the way: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/police-commission-votes-to-...

Various cities can spend over 30% of their budget on police btw.

Maybe it should be even closer to 100% huh. Why live with iPhones, flat screen TVs, computers, when all of our spare cash can just go to the police.
There are mainstream conservative points of view that posted here get flagged by users and sometimes even by dang himself (you can see it was him when the comment tree automatically collapses, only he can do that)
100% agree on the point that there's now space for niche search engines. I don't think a search engine for everything is a viable goal (there's too much crap to sift through), but I do think there's space for smaller search engines for particular domains.

Even better, make them somewhat curated by domain experts so that users are served high quality content and not just low quality sites that magically rank high because they managed to tick all boxes in the ranking algorithm.
No.

99% of people around me including close friends pretend sex, naughty bits and porn don't exist. It's this weird social norm black hole that makes other honest interactions feel less honest and more fake. And it's not a victim less thing either - like anything else that we pretend doesn't exist, it allows things and people and issues to fall through unspoken cracks.

Just like with any other topic in the world, if I don't want to hear details I don't need to hear details. And I really really don't want or need to hear 99% of details from more than. 99% percent of people :). But I'd like it to be a conscious choice not a social taboo of shame.

My 2 cents and note I wasn't born with this perspective - it took lots of work and many years to clear out my own social conditioning :-/

(that being said note that the article isn't even REMOTELY about pronography but an Interesting short anecdote about long lost video format and piece of television history. It's safe to read! Even if you're ashamed of your porn!:-)
Huh, I had no idea that XIII had received a remake.
> the native APIs builtin to browsers have a tendency to shift every few years

The web platform is incredibly backwards compatible; I'm having trouble thinking of any cases where they've dropped a format (which doesn't mean there aren't any!)

On the other hand, while the browsers generally ship with many codecs [1] the APIs for interacting with them are pretty terrible.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/A...
I think so. There's an undercurrent of thought that what we will be able to create will be vastly superior to what we had before. This results in a perception of past accomplishments being inferior to future accomplishments and a singular focus on making everything conform to these future technologies, whatever means necessary. There needs to be an appreciation of things as they are, and what that enables at that time, so it can inspire the development of future technologies and keep others at bay and let existing systems continue.
As a fellow introvert, this sounds insurmountably painful. How did you have something to talk about every night? How did you even find that many people to fit into a rotation like that without feeling like you were annoying them? I have so many questions. If you do write that blog post, I'd love to read it. Especially the "how."
Wouldn't Debian be a safer choice? Ubuntu is just layers on top of Debian (one of the layers being the "pro" thing, it seems...). So Debian should the the obvious solution. RHEL would be the most likely to move in the same direction as Ubuntu, wouldn't it?
Alternatively you can just go to real events now and spend less time on the Internet.
The central allegation is that Tether would print coins for themselves that were not backed by USD and then buy BTC. Thus, artificially propping up BTC in a price range where they could then quickly sell, pocket profits, and stor the money to back the Tether they just printed.
You can't get a NaN from a None value in Python.
(Duck typing still has rules)

The error you have posted isn't a Python error.

Looking a bit deeper, the error occurs in C++ code. C++ is a statically typed language, last time I checked.
> "committed to the cause"

Ignorance is enough already, you don't need any malice. A child that didn't have had the chance to learn about radioactivity is enough to kill plenty of people.

That's why you control radioactive elements. Not exactly because of some antagonistic group. Any such group could probably kill way more people, way more easily by messing with something else.
I was probably taking you too literally. I thought you were talking about links to arrest records, which I pretty much never see. I may be not looking closely enough for those links.
It can have positives, not sure if they tested it alone

https://news.mit.edu/2022/small-studies-40hz-sensory-stimula...
Won't this just have the effect of rendering Twitter's data/product less relevant?
The answer is yes. Murdering other humans who have no way to see it coming and no way to defend themselves is deeply evil. Especially when you factor in the murder of innocents (also referred to as collateral damage), and the facts that mistakes happen.
This is the most honest answer and something I have seen a lot folks who want the higher pay of the higher roles but none of the responsibility.
I dunno I like this proposal. So at least one person wants it.
Same! It was so obviously a scam, and only became more obvious over the years.

But seemingly smart people kept falling for it. They'd get angry and then dismissive if you showed them clear evidence.

I thought people would get wise to the bullshit after evidence came out - instead they all kept following the Piper. People who should have known better started attacking the whistleblowers, even though the smear campaigns were as blatant as could be. Basically all anti-war media is banned from Wikipedia - and 'the liberals' are fine with it.

I believed people would wise up as the true costs of war (20 trillion plus if you count the interest and don't count the societal destruction) started to be felt. Instead, the anger was successfully redirected to 'others' of various stripes; immigrants, refugees (from the wars we incited!), 'Russian hackers', blue vs red, "gobal communist elites" (ffs), etc.

My own parents minds were melted by corporate media over the last twenty years. Close friends got baited into the same permanent fear/rage state that they complained about Fox News promulgating.

And people seem to have forgotten it all, let it slide, to the point where a key architect, cheerleader and enabler of the disastrous invasions is now President. And people are happy about it, even as he breaks strikes and sets record military budgets while talking shit about nuclear and economic superpowers.

I'd love to see America get its shit together, but now it feels more likely that Santa Claus will drop me a PS5 and a Ferrari. Constant ceaseless propaganda has more of an effect than I gave it credit for, and people are way more likely to put up with it that I could have believed.
It’s at multiple universities

https://news.mit.edu/2022/small-studies-40hz-sensory-stimula...
Oh I didn't think of that, thanks!
> 120 years ago when newspapers owned by the likes of William Hearst were doing their best to start unnecessary wars for shits and giggles, would you have trusted the news media? I hope not.

And 150 years ago, the San Francisco Chronicle editorial staff founded Bohemian Club to “facilitate the arts” and throw parties up in the Sonoma redwoods every summer. Some pretty high-profile guests over the years too. Move along, move along — nothing to see here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1_Executive_Committee
I fully agree with this. For example that assigning a freed pointer in C is UB is not because of optimization, but because there were real world architectures with memory segmentation were loading such a pointer caused a run-time trap (e.g. 286 protected mode). Or that reading an uninitialized automatic variable is UB is because it could cause a trap on architectures which could detect this (e.g. IA-64). There were also C versions with bounds checking etc. That compilers which are popular today focus on exploiting UB for optimization instead of security is an implementation choice, but not a fundamental problem of the language itself.
The media is not united in support of one party.
> I've lived in 5 different states and never saw anything like this in any of them except California.

I live in Texas, around Houston. Here we certainly do have representatives (but not members of the Senate) who send mail to constituents with information. Our Senators send emails once in a while, if you sign up for them.

But good luck ever figuring out the real information from the spam and ~~malicious dis~~incorrect information and opinions.
LOL “theory”.
>So instead you're left with the worst of both worlds - you both can't rely on how signed ints behave in Rust as a programmer because they have 2 extremely incompatible defined behaviors, and the optimizer/runtime then can't take advantage of them being undefined behavior in practice in release builds to optimize better.

I don't understand how this is the worst of both worlds.

You can explicitly define overflow behavior in Rust. There are wrapper types and explicit checked or saturating and wrapping operations if those are necessary for the correctness of your program. If your program doesn't rely on them then checked overflow being the default in debug builds is the way to go and given enough confidence in the final product it makes sense to drop them in release builds and given enough processor advancements we can also do checked overflow in release builds.
I lived in Killingly for some years. You probably are thinking of the wrong Dunkin. The article states they live near the Troop D barracks, so it's not the Dunkins in Killingly Commons, and the Dunkin closest to the troop D barracks is not on a difficult road at all. It's quite possible the children did not have to cross any main roads to get there.

If it's the Dunkins in Killingly Commons, I'd agree, that's tough to get to on foot and that intersection is awful.
Probably higher than his salary.
The simulator itself is fairly simple. At its core, it's just a constant-current source. Make sure that it's safe: isolated from the mains, delivers the right amount of current, and ideally has some cut-offs in case the electrodes come loose (you don't want it to keep upping the voltage if there's a marginal connection).

The bigger question is what you want to use it for. I think we've got a ways to go before we have "fire-and-forget" procedure work for everybody. Depending on where/how/when you stimulate, it's sometimes possible to produce the exact opposite of your intended effect. One of the headsets marketed for improving gaming had a big dust-up over that.
The irony wasn’t lost on me :)
The best FPS. I've been playing COD on PS5, but it is not the same.

The game play is so much better, and more intense in Counter-Strike:

* Respawn points are consistent

* You have to manage money

* It gets intense when you are the only one left on your team
I remember playing one of the early CS betas as a Half-life mod in ~1999.
It was such a huge leap in gameplay and style from anything else out there.

Most FPSs up to this point were SciFi based, guns like the BFG and plasma guns. Counterstrike's focus on realism really altered how you connected with the game. Columbine had happened very recently and was still very much in the zeitgeist. There was a very real cultural attack on video games as a scapegoat for the massacre.

My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. This was very taboo at the time. We knew that this would be interpreted as threatening by the powers-that-be at highschool, but it was exciting.
you're skeptical but you had to have been there! cheap 90s hardware was jank, and characteristics you take for granted, because they are on standard issue hardware today, were only available on high end expensive machines.

in Eastern Europe we had computer clubs, which were like internet cafes, but without internet. you went there to play lan games, paid by the hour. they were usually packed, and people were usually decent. you had computer club rats, and I was one of them. I played q1, q2 and then cs for money. you show up to a club, strike a pose, "your club's cs fu are that of a dog, I challenge any one of you lamers to de_dust 1x1 deagle only", and then sometimes if you met your match you'd put cash up. even working, well maintained hardware ranged in quality to the point of making significant difference to a game. you always carried your own mouse at least (and sometimes a keyboard), and a config on a floppy disk. but the one thing you learned to spot were monitor makes and brands, for the reasons guy you responding to stated. in fact, occasionally computer club admins in collusion with their house teams will put you on a machine with poor monitor. if you had big team vs team match planned, you'd schedule an outing to a downtown club with known high refresh rate monitors and quality hardware (they were never "the club next door" and their hourly rate was usually higher) to both level the playing field and provide peak possible playing experience.
Pantone and Textile Screen Printing (2012) [pdf]
Yes, this is exactly it.
GitHub added Mastodon links in GitHub Profiles
So... You just lost your empathy for ~200 people?
> if you are confident, know your shit, it should be very easy to convince less experienced people.

No, it isn't. I am fully aware that I am lacking some kind of ability to champion projects, explain things that seem obvious to me, and convince others, but I am also the absolute subject matter expert, know every piece of this shit and am completely confident in what I'm telling them. That's why it's infuriating to watch blatantly stupid projects with no basis in reality kick off then crash and explode in exactly the way I predicted. It is 100% a communications failure on my part. The confident salesman idiot will win every time.