skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does happen.

It starts as a box that the user submits all of their texts, recordings, emails, content to, and a comprehensive survey covering items such as accuracy, temperament, "what would so and so do in this situation". Think of it like reverse-takeout. The box arrives, you fill it, then send it back.

That box ships off the data to be 'curated' (remote training and buildup of an ad hoc model, read: taking existing data provided and supplementing data based on region, familial background, community), then the curator provides a sample window for the user via their browser or phone. If they choose to keep the cultivated persona representing their loved one (or marketed persona), they pay and a box device arrives, pre-programmed with the model they've ordered. At first these are dumb and only have knowledge of what they've been provided, but eventually they're able to assimilate new data, and grow or evolve the persona as if it were still a person.

Few buy the full body, some stick with just the interaction provided by their Alexa, some a painting or app. The medium is transient, and offers degrees of expression for the proxy model, a mother may want to be able to hold the child she lost, while someone who lost a friend may find it adequate to have their friend in an app. It's personal choice.
I really like the concept!
So, a Physician's Assistant Assistant? But who will assist them?

At some point, dealing with the system is somebody's job. It used to be slow on paper, now it's slow on a computer. Your wife is being asked to do that because the physician has offloaded that to her. Maybe she can offload it to somebody else, but then that person isn't freed up for actual medicine.
I've long given up on keeping my data safe. What I mean is I try and restrict who has what data and provide junk when necessary but after awhile, there's only so much you can do.

So I've done the opposite: I've made it impossible for them to use my data to target me. I block ads on all of my browsers, I regularly reset my advertising ID, and I hope that the amount of trash data I feed makes it even more useless.

One day, I'll set up some sort of home server and use next cloud or something and finally move off of Google's garden.
Definitely there's a lack of shared wisdom about tuning parameters (along with other things in HPC, at least in the circles I see), and too much churn with Linux v. userland (e.g. cgroups).

Actually, I was forgetting the stupidity of the memory cgroup invoking the OOMkiller, rather than giving ENOMEM, if you purely use the cgroup for memory accounting -- a sensible-looking change from OpenVZ was rejected. That means there's probably no indication about what's happened unless the job is correlated with the syslog message. As I don't get to do that stuff any more, I haven't looked for a way to hook it now. There's obviously a window in which it can fail, but the resource manager can track the job's PSS, as well as at least ulimiting data and stack. You certainly don't want the job to start paging, if you have swap -- that definitely wastes the resource. If you really don't want to limit jobs' memory use, the resource manager can at least adjust the oom_score.
Cool, this was my uneducated assumption, thanks!
what if i told you the same people on r/politics are just as capable of writing books full of equally dumb ideas, publishing, and getting them into a library as well?

the medium is the message.
And that’s similarly how I feel about people who think Svelte is significantly less complex than React. At least React is just Javascript. Svelte tries to override assignment to trigger side effects. That’s crazy.
They more than $20k's worth of publicity from the stunt. Totally worth it.
I think there are two things that are interesting about your point of view.

First, I think a mistake the react team made was not exerting more control over the ecosystem. I think a lot of questionable content marketing pieces ended up as “best practices” which we are still unwinding as a community.

Second, I totally buy the idea that there are multiple personas and that different tools speak to different personas. The sustained popularity of constrained dsls among subsets of the frontend community speaks to this.
"Granted Spotify has a much bigger library" - i dont think this is true.

I do the family plan and youtube ad free is the best, i do my music discovery via youtube and youtube music does an okay job.
Couldn’t you e.g. use KeplerGL or something like Folium to plot data on a basemap?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywriting
Nothing specifically AFAIK; it's just fewer platforms to test and support, making development overall easier. Microsoft ended extended support for Windows 7 in 2020, and special enterprise security updates this month. Windows 8 will end extended support July this year (before Go 1.21 is released); I can't find anything about any volume security updates; I think few people care, as Windows 8 is used less than Windows 7 today.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57003

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57004
I don't know if the original assertion is true. I'm only pointing out that median income doesn't say much about wealth and power within a group.
There is absolutely a counterculture, but you won't really see it in the usual "public spaces." Even if the members of it are there, the spaces dont allow expression of it, so it's not there. You won't find ot on Facebook and TV, what you'll find are caricatures of a previous counterculture expressed by the establishment, posing as a counterculture.

The real counterculture is on the edges and in the shadows, as it always has been, but it's cultural form does not take the form you'd expect if you're looking for it that way. It's not wearing all black, it doesn't have nose rings, it doesnt listen to edgy music, there is no consumerist element to it being exploited by corporations yet, that's actually a cultural cornerstone of it. It looks a lot like business as usual from the outside, but it isn't.
How annoyed was/is your family at your privacy antics?
> Culture is not required to take subterfuge in dog whistles. Only counterculture is.

> Culture is what's uncontroversially and fearlessly blasted on front pages, and on mainstream TV.

My comments on dog-whistling were specifically targeted toward the one commenter talking about how politicians don't seem to care about white people.

If you want to go back to the broader discussion, on culture, then yes I agree. And what is blasted on front pages and mainstream TV is overwhelmingly white, with tiny pockets dedicated to other groups. To say that "whiteness" is a counterculture is absurd.

As an aside:

> the millions of white Democrats

The Democrat agenda also fits white people better than non-white people, though they make more effort than Republicans to acknowledge minorities.

As for why non-white Republicans vote that way, maybe they miss the dog-whistles, or maybe they think the racism of the party isn't directed at them (e.g., since they're "one of the good ones") or that it's outweighed by other factors (i.e., they hate taxes), or maybe they think the Republicans are the better of two evils. Not really relevant, since they aren't in this discussion. Do you have the critical thinking skills?
A neuro-chip to manage brain disorders
The way to think about our edge runtime is (which is something you're seeing across the board in the industry) is that there's a pure subset of WinterCG APIs, plus Next.js enabling a compatibility layer on top to play nicely with the _vast_ npm ecosystem.

Everything about the feature you're referring to is open source. We're expanding our documentation to better present this compatibility layer.
Wait so it's not a joke, it's your opinion?
I see what you mean. I have no opinion on that, as that doesn’t really matter for the subject at hand.

My main point is that if you go about living a normal live, attend social functions, or just see other people on a regular basis, most people will be attracted to some of the people they meet along the way. What I’m getting at, is there is no skill nor effort needed, nothing needs to be carefully evaluated and planned. These attractions just arise naturally for most people. So altering your life course to maximize some chances of attraction, that is weird.
objectively this means you still get ads just less releavnt ones, no? It's not like the button says "Don't show me ads."
The question in my mind is, what replaces the 747, and is it safe? Looks like 777X is going to replace 747. Does the 777X have the same design flaws as the 737 MAX, namely larger engine, positioned forward in way that destabilizes the airframe?
They ignore the letter and spring to action when the AG comes knocking.

The engagement with the AG's office does fire off internal processes that scale linearly, involve expensive labor, and are treated as urgent. If even 10% of customers did this it would result in some exec's attention.
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What do you think the lesson is?
there's film of Tex Johnston's Dash-80 barrel roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk

many years later, Boeing Chief Test Pilot John Cashman stated that just before he piloted the maiden flight of the Boeing 777 on Jun. 12, 1994, his last instructions from then Boeing President Phil Condit were “No rolls”. -- anecdote from https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-tex-johnston-barre...

I wonder why "the suits" at Boeing are so against the barrel rolls? The pilots all agree it's not that big a deal, not dangerous, and anybody watching is going to love it.

this article https://www.straightdope.com/21341407/is-it-possible-to-loop...
says that the bigger the plane, the more dangerous because it will roll more slowly, and during parts of the roll particularly 90 degrees off "flat" there is no lift and you're going to be falling.

I'm reminded of the tragic crash of a B-52 illustrating a similar circumstance, and this was the pilot's last flight before retiring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6io8Tjv7xk
I'm fluent in Chinese and intermediate in Japanese. I'm aware of pitch accent but it's nowhere near as hard as tones. And one thing to be aware of is a compliment is quite relative if you're a foreigner speaking their language. "Nihongo jozu" is a pretty well-known meme and applies to Chinese as well.
On a much smaller scale, it has been around for a long time:

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CFPB should be handling some of this, but it's clear they'll never be funded and staffed like they should be, and it's been demonstrated that when one of our two political parties controls the executive the CFPB won't be permitted to do anything but twiddle their thumbs. That's until they manage to eliminate them entirely.
Almost nobody generates electricity from oil in significant quantities.
Sure, you could have two programs for "chat app" and "audio/video calling".

But it's hard to split it much more finely, and two in one isn't going very hard into bloatware. And I like the integration between the two.

I would change a lot of things about discord but not so much that part.
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Aramaic wouldn't make any sense either as aramaic isn't part of european civilization. It should be latin and greek. A degree in "classics" ( the works of greco-roman civilization ) should require both latin and greek.

Heck all students in american education ( K-12 ) should be taught latin at the very least. Why we stopped...
Well if your job is automated, as well as all software developers then at this point sales, marketing will be because way easier to do. And then no managers will be necessary if there is no human working. At this point Saas companies will probably have no meaning and we all be jobless from the current perspective.
We will either create new jobs that machine can’t do yet. Be reduced to slavery from very rich people owning the tech. Or maybe we’ll all enjoy this new tech that freed more time. Given the past human history the former is pretty unlikely tough
> Markets measure the tiny fraction of buyers and sellers on a given day and ignore the super majority of holders.

Not really. The decision to not sell and to not buy is itself reflective of the price. If a stock is super cheap, people will buy. If the stock is priced fairly or overpriced, few people will buy. Same goes for selling.
Two comments:

$> aptitude show sudoku
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My life, and blood pressure, would be greatly improved if every article about JS frameworks ended with a paragraph that says something like "... but JS frameworks are pretty fast really, so you'll only see a problem if you're changing lots of things on the page at once. And if you're updating lots of DOM nodes in a single action then maybe you need to think hard about your underlying HTML structure and UX instead of worrying about what JS is doing. That's where your problem lies after all."
Ask HN: What is your oppinion on Plan9 making more (than Unix) stuff files?
Is something not fitting that model? Are there any costs that are too big in some cases? Is some too much mind boggling than needed?
I'd like to shout out Adam Ragusea for having a >2M subscriber cooking channel while not doing any of this.
Trads are perfectly fine advertising their sexuality to strangers. Some wear pants, some wear dresses.
Markets aren’t efficient. People are biased and can’t look past them.

I think they are efficient most of the time, but there are edge cases that allow for higher risk-adjusted returns than predicted by a purely efficient framework. A notable example is Renaissance Technologies.
> I work in climate tech and the product my company produces monitors electricity usage in the home. The average user reduces their home electricity usage by 7% in the first month, solely due to becoming aware of what they are using.

What product is that? I'd like to learn more
There are local consumer protection agencies and the better business bureau that might be able to help here. But, I mean, there was an issue and it got resolved pretty seamlessly. What do you want the BBB do? If this becomes a regular occurrence, that's another thing.
Well it's hard to add a new word to mean either "gratis" or "libre" in english because free would still mean both things.

But to be more clear:

Free as in "gratis" is like "buy one get one free". It means something provided at no cost - ie: "They had a problem with their computer system so they gave me the salad for free"

Free as in "libre" is like "freedom", a more abstract concept about being not being restricted from something or having the right to something.

Software can be "free as in libre", ie: it's open-source. It can also be "free as in gratis" in that it costs no money. But they're different concepts, and have different implications.

Many developers want software to be "free", as in open-source, and confuse that with "I will allocate no resources towards that thing".

I particularly like the "free as in beer", which is a HIGHLY confused term, but I take it to mean: Beer itself is free - it's not patented and anyone can learn to make it. However, any individual beer is a product that took effort to produce, and thus, is not free of charge.
If any human being, including a cop can get you to agree to pay money to someone who says they can kill someone for you, the problem is that you are willing to order a hit on someone, not that cops are allowed to try and persuade you to do illegal things.
I think some people can handle that just fine. But the real issue comes down to the job market. Why hire someone who just has a BS in CS when it's super common to have a new grad with a BS and thousands of hobby hours.
What does "compile time" even mean for Python?
Do you mean this kind of dep? https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3028-cargo-binary-dependenc...

That's an interesting thought, I'm not sure I've ever seen someone employ that as a pattern. Actually no wait, I thought cargo bin-deps specifically gave the developer no way to manually invoke it (i.e. there's no equivalent functionality to npm's npx)? Without that, what use would the dependency be?
Us: Mom, can we get a counter-culture?

Mom: We have a counter-culture at home.

The counter-culture at home: 4chan incels
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(Not working in AI.)

I feel like many of these reductive views are expressed in order to provoke unusual thoughts. This is useful.
Tl;dr

"Dear CTO, let me leech onto this unrelated topic to ask you to completely remove ways you gather data (even though it's the core way you create any of your products)."

Some people man..
The bare list of safe "turbo buttons" is below. Just google them for the specifics and the benefits:

- Enable the "Lock pages in memory" privilege.

- Enable the "Perform volume maintenance" privilege.

- Enable the "Ad hoc query optimisation" setting.

- If on-prem, set power management to "High Performance", ideally in the hardware BIOS, but failing that, at the hypervisor level.

- Upgrade the OS and DB engine version if this is compatible with the apps.

- Run sp_Blitz and implement any critical recommendations.

The below recommendations apply to cloud-hosted servers only:

- Upgrade to the latest gen DB-optimised VM sizes. In Azure I use Ebds_v5 and Eads_v5.

- Use the "temporary storage" SSD volume for tempdb.

- Consolidate storage. Striped a single large logical volume across multiple 1 TB disks. NEVER use the 1990s era many-small-volumes scheme of having separate data, log, tempdb, and templog drives!

- Move the DB VM and the App VMs into a single "Proximity Placement Group" or the equivalent construct.

In my experience the above list generally yields a total performance improvement of anywhere from 40% to 300% with minimal risk.

If you sprinkle some light tuning on top, such as judiciously creating a handful of indexes with a high predicted performance benefit can take you even further.

Past that, you have to get elbow deep into the schema, which is typically only possible with "in house developed" databases.
I said months ago when they announced layoffs that Meta is fine. They are a literal cash volcano. Zucks foray into the metaverse to the tune of 10B/year is dumb, but it's a cash expense. Eventually he'll tone that investment down and that expense will flow right to the bottom line. Full disclosure, I am long Meta.
> (paired with a microcontroller for the hard-realtime control loop)

In theory, the Beaglebone SBCs are excellent for this.

The Beaglebone Black (2014 era design, but still works) has Hard-Realtime PRUs for those kinds of loops.

More recent Beaglebone AI (2018ish) has a Cortex-A + 2xArm Cortex-M4, so two embedded microcontrollers for you to use onboard.

The most recent Beaglebone AI 64 has a Cortex-A main-core + Cortex-R cores for guaranteed realtime operations.

Oh yeah, and those PRUs never went away either.
So let us imagine an ideal situation from a recipe consumer point of view. You go to Google, type "best chili recipe", and Google would immediately show the best recipe directly into its UI, based on all the data is has on you and some sophisticated recommendation algorithm. Further, you have a set of standardized actions like "print", "send to iPad", "favorite", etc.

You no longer have to read the author's diary entry and this entire hyper-optimized workflow doesn't cost you a cent. Perfect, right?

Well, I suppose that in these AI times ultimately the effort of even asking the question would be redundant, obviously Google knows Wednesday is your chili day, and your fridge had already ordered the ingredient.

There's just one problem: what about the recipe writers? What about artists? What about anybody ever producing any content of monetizable value?

What incentive is there to produce content when users never pay directly and middlemen aggregate it, removing you from the equation? You, the person that created the bloody thing. It's like you don't even exist.

This isn't just big tech, we have an active role in this. When users do not have to pay, they generally won't. Digital content has no value yet we obviously have the natural born right to consume it anyway.
Can you provide a source for Google 'bucketing' kids based on their test scores?
How was English Knighthood seen by other European royals?
Was it something of respect and were they creating their equivalent?
Interesting point about the data only being available on request. That doesn't seem like the authors are super proud of their work. I wonder if they, or others, are doing larger follow-up studies, which could show whether this was a fluke or a glimmer of a real mechanism.

>but if there was something this significant you can bet that medical device companies would be all over it. The medical industry doesn't like to leave golden opportunities on the table.

Totally agree, except that mere sunlight could be a decent substitute for whatever they would develop and sell. Surely some people would pay top-dollar for the FDA-approved medical devices, but if sunlight provides similar benefits, lots of people (younger, poorer) would probably just stick with that.
You can connect code steps to other actions. For example, every Python code step has a reserved `output` variable which allows you to pass a list out to the next steps. It gets passed as stringified JSON: if it contains dicts, those values are made available automatically as inputs to other steps. You can also pass more complex, nested JSON and just json.loads it later.
It's great to argue for Vue/Svelte, but just to clarify - the entire point about HTML/CSS isn't really true, there's no difference in support between React or any other framework there.

And disagree on HTML/CSS skill loss being a thing, or being proximately caused by React. And no it doesn't have any div-soup causative effect either.

I get that templates are simpler for non-coders. Unfortunately, in all but the simplest cases the cost-benefit is towards the React model as you are just "using the platform" to build your views - ie, JS and not some arbitrary DSL.
Which is also significant because the global RNG is safe for concurrent use. Instantiated RNGs are not.