skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how Google can ignore the privacy of internet users' conversations but when it comes to their employees' conversations, Google does not want to share those with the Government. According to the Government's memo supporting sanctions, Google is deleting conversations within 24h despite being under litigation holds.

https://ia902501.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.22...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt appearing on CNBC once said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

If Google is not doing anything wrong, then why not give the Government what it is are asking for and let justice prevail.

Google collects and surveils internet users' conversations on a mass scale without a subpoena, for whatever purpose(s) it chooses, for profit. To Schmidt, and 130,000+ other people on Google's corporate welfare, that's apparently acceptable. However when the Government subpoenas Google for Google's conversations, for the sole purpose of determining whether Google is complying with the law, Google resists.

Personal data mining on billions of people. No problem. Monitoring employees to catch leakers and whistleblowers. Can do. Saving employee chats to satisty document requests from the Government. Too time-consuming and burdensome!

There is perhaps no company in the world better equipped to comb through peoples' conversations.
> I wish the west would stay out of conflicts it doesn't have a stake in

I think there's a solid human rights reason to be involved in the way we are. But even ignoring that, I also think we do have a stake in this.

> The fastest way out of the war is negotiation unfortunately

Russia wants no negotiation that doesn't result in them stealing territory from Ukraine. You can't negotiate with that.
My understanding is that the original Transformer paper ("Attention is All You Need") and BERT papers came from Google. In particular, BERT's pre-training task is to predict how to fill-in-the-blank from a sentence that's missing a random word. OpenAI started from that architecture and made it output text generatively, by using beam search on top of a next-token prediction task.
Agreed, there are several aftermarket ethanol content analyzer sensors available, easily installable onto the fuel line of any car. These supply an ethanol % reading to the ECU and allow for aftermarket tunes to adjust timings based on the current fuel blend. No manual swapping necessary.
Obsidian Starter Vault is now v1.0
After a year of using Obsidian, I am finally ready to share my recommended starter vault configuration.

https://github.com/philoserf/obsidian-starter/releases/tag/v... 10
https://github.com/philoserf/obsidian-starter 10

This is a clean, uncluttered, minimalist setup for beginner or advanced Obsidian users. While it is minimalist it is also opinionated. Take a look for yourself and see how you might adapt it to your needs.

At least one test user was able to use this GitHub template with the Visual Studio Code Foam plugin too.

Good luck and happy note-taking and note-making.

Warning: There are two crufty bits in this starter vault as a result of GitHub best practices. Feel free to remove the README.md and LICENSE files after you fork the repository with the “Use this template” button.
We don't have any bindings for Dioxus into other languages, but there are a handful of projects within the Dioxus ecosystem that do, like taffy.

http://github.com/dioxusLabs/taffy
https://asdah.org/health-at-every-size-haes-approach/ - and similar efforts have sprouted like wildfire these last several years in the name of inclusivity. Claiming or hinting that obesity is bad for one's health is considered highly gauche in polite company.
Me, I just use the stdlib and my local packages.

There's something beautiful in knowing you're using pure, clean Python. Much easier to install, also.
I think the end result will be that elderly won't be supported anymore. But let to work until they die. Cultures can change, assisted suicide or simply not keeping people alive past certain point might come reality.
It's very concrete. There is a huge difference between an elective abortion and a medically necessary one. You're conflating the two because "a doctor performs it".

My statement is simply that there is no reason not to prohibit elective abortions after some point in the pregnancy. Typically this is at viability, which is around 24 weeks. If you claim no woman would ever get an elective abortion at 8 months then I would imagine you also believe no women would ever get an elective abortion after 6 months (ie 24 weeks, the point of viability). Therefore there is no reason not to restrict elective abortions after that point.
They need to reform themselves before that level of power is justifiable for sure.
I am not sure about this, because if so, then you'd see submissions at a constant rate.

But they tend to cluster around business hours Pacific: https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective

I've posted on Sunday and the new page is super slow then.

It might be a function of the number of submissions + the number of people available to upvote them (both increase during the work week and decrease on the weekend).
X vs Y is always very opinionated and I too myself want to express my frustration/gratitude towards a single option. Sadly, life is life and a single option will not suit everybody. In my professional experience I have switched between Linux and Mac a couple of times.

2015-2017 Linux Yay, happy to work for real.

2017-2019 Linux I love Linux. So many things I can configure, i3 is the best.

2019-2021 Mac Ok, got tired of various configuration options and my set up wasn't perfect still...

2021-2022 Linux Grr! Mac is so limiting. Just look at Fedora Silverblue and its immutable file system. ThinkPad's keyboard is the best!

2023- Mac Macbook M2 works really great out of the box. Hibernation works :whoa:

For me I've noticed that I do get tired of a single OS after a while and want to try something new. Switching to a different OS gives me a clean slate for experimenting.
So do you think that Sundar will go to jail? please
> since it is constantly ignored by American media.

It is? It seems to be talked about a fair bit for being ignored.
Smells like someone virtue signalling to a group I know nothing about, but not in a way that I find equitable. Smacks of someone trying to transplant their own form of racial(?) superiority to the US. But what do I know?
The lack of mac support is tragic. It means I can't use guix at work, where I might benefit from it the most.
I think this is a common sentiment. Prolific coffee YouTuber, roastery-owner, and former World Barista Championship winner James Hoffman doesn’t do espresso at home, and says something to the effect of “home espresso is a hobby, not a way producing coffee”.
> I wish the west would stay out of conflicts it doesn't have a stake in, and I wish Russia would stop attacking Ukraine.

Unfortunately, since the latter has happened, there's no moral high ground to be gained by "staying out" of the conflict. Russia started this war. Russia could end it, today, by leaving.
Besides cost today, may also help mitigate a possible helium shortage in the future.

Also: MRI@Home?
And it isn't just a "normal" short lifespan - The octopus lifecycle ends with self-harm and what in humans would be called depression, in addition to other more typical hallmarks of senescence, and this is a complicated process involving a whole bunch of signaling systems which is centrally coordinated by an endocrine gland!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198452/
I've always been interested in sailing. I'm from Illinois. I once went to Jamaica and sailed a small catamaran for several hours on a protected bay and had great fun. For years afterwards I was reading sailing textbooks and dreaming about it, but given my location, I don't want to put money into it

I've played some sailing games and had fun, but they weren't simulations. I've never tried a sailing simulator. This one looks great, and I'll try it out, if I can make it run on Linux. (I notice you say that it's Windows-only, I take that as a challenge)
What's the great instant you drank? Clearly you love and appreciate good fresh coffee so I wonder what it might be that met that bar when others didn't. I don't mind some instant coffee now and then but it has a certain quality to it that makes it identifiable as such, if not simply "worse" than fresh (which can be quite bad).

(My standard coffee setup, since we may as well: Technivorm KBG-V, 40 grams of medium grind for 6 cups (approximately two regular size mugs))
Ah ok,then my next thought is grinder. For what it's worth I found a huge difference in consistency after getting a decent quality burr grinder.
The US tried that with voting. Didn't work out too well.

Edit: Here's more information on voter literacy tests that were once conducted. The outcome kept POC from being able to vote.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/democracy-exhibition/vote-voi...
Without motorized vehicles we would also lose a lot of the degrees of freedom that make modern life as comfortable as it is. No one is going back to delivering stock to city stores via horse and carriage - and you might not like it if they did, seeing as horses produce emissions of their own that aren't especially pleasant to scrape off a shoe or have sprayed up off the road by a bike tire.

Now, the idea of constraining motor vehicles, that I'm all in favor of, as a sometime cyclist and pedestrian who hates needing to own a car at all. Carless CBDs. Streets bollarded off. Time-of-day restrictions. Mass transit that actually works - yes, yes, yes, and please-for-the-love-of-God.

Argue that motor vehicles should serve where they suit best and not be allowed to pose a hazard otherwise. Don't argue that motor vehicles should cease to exist entirely - they won't, but your audience will.
The West have their own interests surely but this war is fought by Ukrainians on their own collective volition. Negotiation is therefore also should happen on their own volition. Even with the slowly trickling and insufficient Western military aid, Ukrainians still prefer to take a chance to preserve their land, statehood and culture.

People hate the Western MIC for a reason but in the end desire to avoid a genocide has to be stronger than hate for the MIC.
I appreciate that Apple's response basically boils down to:

"Here's a separate, mostly unrelated security metric that we did well on! Therefore, this problem doesn't matter at all! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
> I do know a lot of people who believe being overweight is unfairly demonized

Because it is. As you yourself allude to later...

> I don't think we should view fatness as a moral failing

It clearly is not. I suspect the only people who believe that are the folks 'born on third base' as it were.

> some people need a bit of a push to kick bad habits like overeating

Some people? The vast majority of people are overweight. Anyone who isn't fit & trim has no business commenting on anyone else's bad habits and moral failings. None. Got a little bit of a spare tire? Shush. Got some love handles? Shush. Skinny fat? Shush again!

> if we can reduce it, we should

100% agree.

Edit: Downvote all you want, guys, most of you pushing that downvote button need to lose weight just as much as I do.
Ansible – State of the Community 2023
It's probably always cost and scale
This little thread was actually more interesting/informative than the linked article
You can make small LLMs more performant than large ones like GPT-3 by fine-tuning on specific tasks or providing them tools to offload precise calculations:

e.g. Toolformer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

which uses APIs and functions to improve GPT-J beyond GPT-3 for various tasks
Thanks! One last thing, since I have your ear. The function transformation aspects of jax seem to make their way into downstream libraries like haiku, resulting in a lot of "magic" that can be difficult to examine and debug. Are there any utils you made to make jax's own transformations more transparent, which you think might be helpful to third party transformations?

Higher order functions are difficult in general, and it would be fantastic to have core patterns or tools for breaking them open.
> used against those apps somehow

Speech about _draft_ laws is known as debate in a democracy.

Coercion about _draft_ laws would remove any illusion of consent and illustrate why the proposals are misguided.
Encapsulated Perovskite Solar Cells Show Resilience: Year-Long Outdoor Trial
Why don’t you post your credit card statement below if you have nothing to hide since you’re not a criminal?
But if you develop the habit of spending just 10 minutes a day on it, you can spread that over 10 million years.
Urban warfare for russians is a no-brainer - level everything to the ground. See leftovers of Grozny.
Yeah I have both a V60 and aeropress and enjoy them for their unique strengths, neither is 'better' than the other. The V60 has a learning curve and is much more fussy, kind of like using a manual espresso machine, where you really have to rely on grind size and technique to get consistent results. When you dial it in and nail it a good V60 brew with a light roasted but flavorful coffee is just amazing.

The aeropress is awesome in it's great consistency at putting out good cups with little fuss. I use my aeropress multiple times a day and never get a bad cup.
Could not agree more. Have to use mac os at work from time to time to test compatibility and it is quite terrible compared to a proper GNU/Linux desktop, specially compared to KDE Plasma. And through the years it has just gotten worse and more dumbed and closed down, while on the othe hand GNU/Linux desktop have the opposite trend of constantly improving.
> western expansionism

Pretty sure you just revealed your agenda there.
It was "Don't Be Evil".
"They seem to have abandoned that now, leaving us to fend for ourselves against the malware."

Yes, along with reducing the stdlib and directing us to PyPI for "alternatives".
Yeah, my girlfriend's Mac died so I got her a HP EliteBook replacement (looks similar) and put Ubuntu on it. I dressed the GNOME UI dock as close to Mac icon layout as possible. She sat right down and started using it. A month later she asked: "am I running Linux"? Damn right, baby!
That outlook has a name: "learned helplessness". It's the belief of lacking power that is the problem. There is plenty of power that can be had when workers organize. Don't cross taxi unions in France or they'll burn shit down. Cross French farmers and they will clog the highways and streets of Paris.

As a global perspective: American employees tend to lack testicular fortitude because they lack hope, knowledge, and self-worth.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ericsson-layoffs/ericsson...
Yes, a country well known for the nutritional constitution of its impoverished.
Totally different; a car is fundamentally an expensive luxury item, even if the US tries to justify that everyone should own said expensive luxury item via dumping tons of tax money into car-focused infrastructure. Voting is many things, but you'd be hard-pressed to argue it should an expensive luxury.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703
Youtube got acquired before they monetized, but it was obvious that they would eventually do something like that. Running at a loss to gain market dominance with a distinctly different kind of service is not 'selling dollars for 95 cents'.

You realize you're arguing against the need for government regulation.

I'm looking at some gaps in your logic when you assert that anyone who ever wants to go public is naive; when Excite (not Yahoo) declined Google's $1m buyout ask, they were already running as a public service under their own brand and had a plan for text ad sales in place. Certainly it was worth trying to develop a technology product followed by an acquisition before the more challenging (but perhaps less interesting) business of raising capital directly, but there was a widespread view at the time (among both tech and VC people) that their product was good enough for them to go all the way.

I'm not trying to debate the need for government regulation and don't know why you think this is some sort of 'gotcha'.
I am actually considering getting one. I grew up in North Africa where this was the standard way of making coffee and it was a part of breakfast. But ever since I left many years ago, I stopped drinking coffee and now I have zero tolerance for caffeine (as in, even a coke in the morning will keep me up at night). But everyone around seems to be into coffee and it seems like a nice bonding activity, I'm thinking if I get back to drinking it maybe I'll build up my tolerance to caffeine.
Fair enough mate, just don't become a hipster Patrick Bateman buying a £2k grinder to fill the void
I’m glad the author finally figured out that the abstraction he was using was the wrong one and just ended up using a C-like API - calling some global procedures that mutate the (external) global state.
There are a few hundred thousand users at this point. If this stuff is so dangerous, there should statistically be some evidence for that in the form of lots of accidents happening with these cars.

Instead we have Tesla suggesting that these cars are actually more safe. Of course they are very biased and you'd be well advised to take that with a grain of salt. There have been some incidents of course but overall it seems not a whole lot of bad stuff is actually happening. This, despite people insisting this is super dangerous, isn't working, cannot possibly be working because of reasons (imagined or real), etc.

Meanwhile other manufacturers now have proper self driving cars on the roads without a driver. Those to have had some incidents but not a whole lot of fatal ones. Lots of nay-sayers and yet the doom they spell just doesn't seem to actually happen.
If you're productive and happy with nano I'm not sure there is one.

I love vim and find it an incredibly productive tool, but it's rare that my editing speed is the limiting factor.

However, in recent years with LSPs, the suggestions and completion are something I really wouldn't want to give up.
All part of the same organizations - all incorrect in their assumption. Cooked meat is necessary for healthy living.
> Excess weight or obesity boosts risk of death by anywhere from 22% to 91%

A strange statistic, as the actual risk of death is 100% for all of us.
What's unique about food is that unlike smoking, drugs or booze, a human will always have to go back to eating, it's essential for day-to-day life unlike Jameson, Marlboro and meth.

If you have a healthy relationship with food then you're fine, otherwise every day you're faced with willpower checks that you might struggle to consistently pass.
Is there a "good enough" guide to making an espresso?
By your standards, based on how the US treats minorities, antiestablishment groups, and whistleblowers; runs CIA blacksite prisons, gitmo, and regularly invades and overthrows and/or assassinates democratically elected leaders; it isn't a democracy either. Similar things can be said about England.
On the other hand, US soybean acres have grown by essentially the same amount over the same period (63.78M in 1983, 87.45M in 2022). It is well understood that soybeans and corn are kept in the same rotation for a lot of practical and ecological reasons, so how are you establishing that it isn't excess as a byproduct of producing other crops? None of this happens in a vacuum.
Russia is a military state. They have about a million of police and other military forces inside the country.

And internal separatist movements are so tiny you can handle them with 1/1000 of the force they have.
Between this and the major push to work from home, it's almost as if people in tech and similar industries are willingly sprinting into replaceability and driving salaries down.

While remote work and four-day work weeks are awesome, these will absolutely incentivize leaders of big companies to find cheaper labor in other countries that are plenty fine with working a full five-day work week. This is great for lifting a lot of people and countries out of poverty but doesn't help the family of four paying down a huge mortgage.

Some leaders will (smartly) realize that it makes no sense to pay employees less just because they are available remotely for fewer hours of the week, but big companies run everything and crush views like this eventually.

Interestingly, I think this will nullify the remote work movement while permanently decreasing average compensation.
> Allow me to point to the thousands of creatives trying to cut it that cannot break in.

I'm not saying great ideas don't fail to get realized.

I’m saying that the Hollywood systen is actively hostile to great ideas, so that the reason greay ideas fail to get realized is not the limited resources within the Hollywood system, which is more inclined to crush great ideas than to realize them with whatever resources it has.

(Limited money outside the Hollywood system might be a problem, though.)

> I don't think Hollywood is stupid at all.

I didn't say anything about its intelligence, merely its function, it is far from stupid.
I'm glad to hear other people haven't had the same experience I have had, but I figured I'd share my experience.
> Russia wants no negotiation that doesn't result in them stealing territory from Ukraine. You can't negotiate with that.

You can negotiate with that, people were and are doing this all the time. The problem is that it very likely would result in just a pause and further (probably worse) conflict later.
These are simply adorable. I want to make this my weekend project.

Does anyone have tips for this? What cardstock should I use? Is there a particular weight that is best suited for projects like this?
Whatever, pal. If you don't have anything of concrete value to contribute, then don't complain about free. :)

I have one of those "classics" and have to hunt for low ethanol fuel constantly.

It's a huge PITA to retrofit to modern fuel rails when custom NLA injectors are $$$$.
Clear is not the same as making sense.

I can say the words "Dog Cat Microwave Book" and they would be clear, and make about as much sense as the idea of "denazifying" Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely is another interesting example, however in this case, Mark Stephens actually took over the pseudonym after he left InfoWorld:

After a financial disagreement in 1995, Stephens was dismissed from InfoWorld and was promptly sued by IDG to prevent him from continuing to use the Cringely trademark. A settlement was reached out of court that allowed him to use the name, so long as he did not contribute to competing technology magazines
There was an article[1] about two gene mutations which cause (a) lose fat, lose muscle, and (b) lose fat, gain muscule.

If you could build a selector between these three modes (normal human, (a), (b)), you could solve HALF OF HUMANITY PROBLEMS. For real.

That's not a joke. I see a lot of people around whose lifes are crippled by the fact they're not in the body mass which would be most productive/healthy for them. People are losing a decade of life and another decade of productivity due to this. A lot of interpersonal problems are also due to this, more than you can imagine. Half of world's perceived social injustice go away once you fix BMI.

We do not even realize the amount of self-humiliation humanity suffers by not being able to control something so fundamental.

Disclaimer: My own body weight is normal, though I would perhaps accept additional muscle; but it pains me seeing people who suffer from this every day, people who are better than me in most other respects.

1. https://davidepstein.substack.com/p/the-diy-scientist-and-th...