skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d be impressed with an Android phone that actually charges when I plug it into the charger. Every Android phone and tablet I’ve had frequently will be at 10% charge then I plug it in for an hour or 10 hours and come back and it is still at 10% charge.
This has reminded me about “open addressing” also known as “closed hashing.”
Emacs pinky can be a bitch
Companies that laid off employees in the United States should lose their H1B quotas for 5 years.

If you got rid of workers, you shouldn’t be able to say you have a shortage and need to bring in more workers.
I remember going to a LibrePlanet years ago (2012) and a woman gave an awesome presentation on the effort going into Gnome to make it more accessible. It also peaked my interest in Emacspeak.
Easy to say when it doesn’t effect you. Lots of things would be good for the world that would foist suffering on a small group of people but that’s not how we try to do things.
Common problems in my experience:
* Build performance is crap every morning as the file cache is purged from RAM overnight and needs to refetched from remote disks
* Build performance is largely determined by how much cpu and RAM others VMs on the server are using concurrently. Sometimes it's really good when it's underutilized, but sometimes it can be pretty bad as you are no longer using more resources than you were allocated
* Trying to interact with it via a GUI (chrome remote desktop for instance) is quite laggy. This doesn't bother me as I am already on the ssh + tmux gravy train.

I really appreciate the consistency of dedicated hardware and really don't want to give it up.
One of the first lessons I used to teach new guys in tech support was to work one ticket at a time. Take your time, document….. and just let the phone ring and let SLAs get missed if that is what happens.

Go getter guys would rush because calls we’re waiting, it was hard to break them of the habit of trying to rush and documenting later. but inevitably rushing meant poor work was done.

In the end though you have to do your job right fist. That’s always on you.

Missed calls, ultimately that’s someone else’s staffing choice.

Sure someone will say “Hey what happened you missed a call?!?” but if there were 4 people and 6 calls… there you go. In many orgs if the call(s) wasn’t missed it probably would never get addressed…
<pedant>Not log N, but N/e.</pedant>

More seriously, that's the optimal solution if your goal is to maximize the probability that you end up with the single best person in the pool. I don't think that's a good match for most people's objectives when dating.

(If instead each prospective partner has a score chosen uniformly randomly between 0 and 1, and you want to maximize your average partner-score, then you should use a similar strategy but with about sqrt(N) dates before taking the next that's better, instead of N/e. That's still not super-realistic but it's probably more realistic.)
The attitude of this writer is precisely why so many people struggle to find meaningful relationships.

The internet tricks them into living in some fantasy world in which perfection is not only possible, but accessible. To connect with someone is not to open oneself to the surprising richness of life and experience and to stumble into a fulfilling partnership in which you, crucially, grow but rather a little game with "goals", and "checklists", "non-negotiables". It's scrolling through dossiers and presentations and a constant comparison of the "real deal", which is never up to snuff, with these digital portraits.

If people took a second to just reflect on how rigid, robotic, and insufferable they've let themselves become, and instead opted for the natural, childlike openness that we all have inside, before we let ourselves start treating life like some kind of quarterly deliverable, they'd fare much better.

A relationship will never form if you refuse to budge. It's as much about being willing to change yourself, grow, and bob down the winding rivers of life without certainty as it is about finding someone that makes the current you happy.
They are more like a super well connected SSH client. I think you could probably get X11 / audio up on it but I’ve never had the need to.

Development on an internal fork of VS code (web page) which sets up all the build tooling for you to use your cloud top as your build eng. Includes ML based completion as well which is nice.

So if you have used VS code I’d imagine the accessibility is similar as audio is rendered locally?
>Most of it goes to the lie that is the premise that interest rates are really the optimal way to control inflation

There are only 3 ways to decrease inflation:

- Interest rates

- Price controls. This tends to have a lot of harmful side effects, such as the necessity of rationing and discentivizing the production of whatever you're price controlling. You only really do this for a few goods, so this doesn't help overall inflation much, if at all.

- Effective policy and investments increasing the quantity or quality of goods and services. This is perhaps the "best" way to decrease inflation, but it takes years, if not decades to materialize. More importantly, it requires the elected members of government to formulate and agree on, which unfortunately is becoming increasingly rare.

>all you are doing is causing misery and maybe adding fuel to the fire as people already maxed out buying essentials are in fact going to seek (require) higher salaries when you add to their cost of living.

This is moot because when interest rates were 0, inflation was outpacing wage increases. Let's say that wasn't the case and inflation was 10% and wages increase 10%. All evens out right? Not really. The problem is that not the people can take advantage of an inflation-induced wage increase. Younger people, with fewer commitments are able to job hop to a better employer or prepare to negotiate for a pay raise. Meanwhile, other people don't have the bandwidth to do so or are retired and depend of fix income, but they still need to face the costs of inflation, and these are also the people who are the most vulnerable.

So in the end, all we can do is raise interest rates.

Also, Australia doesn't really have a choice, because the US is set on raising interest rates. Any country that doesn't follow will have their currency severely devalued when investors sell buy American bonds over their own.
It would be a big boost to the city both economically and culturally if more people went back to offices. That said, he’s not going to make it happen by guilt or shaming people for staying in their PJs.

The city need to do more to help landlords and business owners court workers back to office spaces. Revitalizing areas like midtown and FiDi would be a start. Also tax breaks for people who rent in coworking spaces or credits to rehabbing office space to match post COVID preferences would all be more impactful.
> The simple act of tracking things - even with no intent to change - typically makes me eat far less, or do the activity far more.

When I started tracking things so closely, I was already concerned that I’d been losing weight and feeling very strong cravings for sweets which I don’t usually care for. The effect wasn’t that I ate less: I started making an effort to eat more, again much like I used to eat. The biggest change is that eating enough has been a concerted effort rather than fairly automatic.
Jimmy Carter
Ohh, nice. I recently took the dive to update a side project to the 1.7 preview release to try to wrap my head around some of the new stuff. So far it's been a lot of fun, I really like Phoenix.

I could definitely use an updated copy of Programming Phoenix and Programming LiveView, both books have been really valuable as I got into Phoenix.

I really enjoy Elixir in general and I've been excited to see some of the recent stuff coming out. Great language, just feels fun to write in a way that not much else does for me these days.
I'm a Canadian software developer looking to work in the US in the next few years. If I work on a TN visa and get laid off, do I also have 60 days to find a new job or leave? Is it less of a hassle for a company to sponsor a TN visa compared to an H-1B, improving my chances of finding a new job compared to an H-1B holder?

Also, when applying to US jobs that ask if I need visa assistance, should I say yes or no? Since my understanding is that I apply for the visa at the border, I just need proof of employment.
I've worked on a lot of IMAP stuff and it's been decades since I've seen an implementation that didn't support reference by UID.
While I agree that drugs like this shouldn't necessarily be handed out like candy (ignoring the lumping-together of amphetamines and opiates in the headline), it has been a real struggle to get legitimate stimulant prescriptions filled since at least October '22 in my experience. It's been an administrative challenge, which (ironically?) is one of the things ADHD types struggle with most, having to call ahead and try and get your order in before the prescription is due without coming off like a junkie. I feel grateful that I take d-amph "merely" for ADHD and not something like narcolepsy, which can be more acutely life threatening depending on the circumstance.

I suppose what I'm saying is that while I understand the need or desire to regulate powerful drugs, I fear further zealous overreach by the DEA et al that has already made it difficult for responsible users to access important medications.
> Over the next 24 hours, she said, about $10,000 vanished from her bank account.

Yeah this is exactly why I don't use my banking apps on the phone I bring out with me on the street. Unfortunately too many banks are mobile-first now so I just keep a secondary device at home for this purpose.
If you’re going to ask an AI to do fact checking with today’s technology, I would urge you to start by asking the AI a simple test question: Which is heavier? A pound of feathers or two pounds of lead?
This is a release page. Clicking on the main icon gives the home page with this as the first line -

"Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime"
I would just get a part time job to make ends meet. Perhaps move somewhere with a low cost of living if you can.
I can't think of any place I've worked where I had my own dedicated seat. There's 168 hours in a week that seat could be used and I only need it for 40.
> Of course, that’s not true, most capitalists would not want price fixing - something generally done under centralized planned economies.

This is an incredibly weak and misguided argument. You're saying "Capitalists don't like X when it harms them, therefore they never like X".

Yeah, but they like X when it benefits them...

You can't extrapolate from a single data point to make a generalization about a whole. Especially when there are enormous differences.
The Hoffman Method still tends to produce bad rates of Frangilier Decay. Well, unless you've prepared a Guzman Lattice first, but let's not kid ourselves - there's almost no chance you did the spectrometry right without a paid subscription to the Escogido Index. At that point you may as well dump the intolerable bilge you're making and just buy Dunkin.
Formerly known as Luminati. They used to run Hotspot Shield VPN that installed proxy malware in exchange for a “free VPN”.

There is only one company trying to do residential proxy services legitimately, and it’s not working out. People just don’t want to knowingly share their internet connection with strangers even when paid for it. Why? Because they don’t want to be accused of nefarious deeds and the liability that goes along with that.
This is such a hack response.

>not necessarily nefarious

It might not be nefarious, but if companies are putting out "feelers", and I'm investing ~30 hours per company, and half the companies I'm applying to are like this, then there's a huge waste of time (mine and theirs). I've started calling out this bullshit: "is there a job here, or is this a position to gauge the market?"

>10 hours of interviewing is barely more than a single workday.

It's never 10 hours. It's 5+ interviews, plus a take-home test (that can take ~10-20 hours), plus scheduling, prep, etc. It's never 10 hours. Stop validating shitty behaviour.

>I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a company to expect candidates to invest some time into going through an interview process.

I wouldn't mind, if there was a job on the other end. I can't even list the number of times I've gone through the whole interview process (at big companies!) and have been ghosted at the very end. I wish they'd stop wasting my time.

>The phenomenon of hiring people into high paying jobs after a couple hours of casual interviews was largely an artifact of the recent tech bubble.

That's how it's been most of history. 10-30 hours of interviews for a single job is a relatively new phenomenon.

>It’s also part of the reason we’re seeing mass layoffs

This is so false. We're in layoffs because we overhired, not because the interview process is too easy.
I am surprised someone so smart to come up with this didn't recognize the phrase scan codes or thought to just Google them. Would have saved a bit of work for themselves.

There was a time, so so long ago when we needed them when creating keyboard utilities in assembly. Today, it seems, the mechanical keyboard community keeps a handy reference to them: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Scancode and also https://gist.github.com/MightyPork/6da26e382a7ad91b5496ee55f...

I am also surprised Yubikey calls USB HID Usage codes "scan codes" when scan codes is a completely different table, it is indeed in the order the XT scanned the keyboard you can see it https://kb.iu.edu/d/aanc here.
And housing prices are spiking... because more people, not to mention corporations, see a market opportunity to profit from skyrocketing rents.

Which pushes priced yet higher, because demand increases.

I really hope the government intervenes. The situation is dire for renters across the country right now in a way I've never seen. Rent rising everywhere seemingly regardless of desirability, wage gains, or cost of living. Or I could hope for a housing crash, I guess, when they finally drive rent too high and nobody can afford it.
One of the contributors to Emacspeak is also blind: T. V. Raman. He won an ACM distinguished doctoral dissertation award for his work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._V._Raman
I suppose it's fine if a lot of people like it, but if anything it shows how little desktop environments have advanced/bloomed, and how deeply cargo-culted that whole space is.

This should be trivially easy to implement without visiting the web.
To verify, the only thing those benefits have to do with having an extra custom hardware keyboard is that the company that made the software to do those functions thinks they can make more money selling a fancy piece of hardware, right?
It's very common for young men to spend a year or two at a monastery in Thailand, and this is indeed quite respected there. These are young men in their teens and twenties, with the same emotions, feelings, temptations, and even susceptibility to influence as other young men of their age. I'm quite surprised though at the abbot being busted so easily (maybe he should have been smarter?), they are supposed to be disciplined senior monks who serve as teachers and mentors and set an example for moral conduct according to the Vinaya.

In fact, the fifth of the basic five precepts for lay-people ("Sura meraya majja pamadatthana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami") which is in fact voluntary, explicitly talks about refraining from any intoxicants (drugs, alcohol) that may cloud the mind. Every novice monk or monk-in-training must compulsorily conform to this precept, let alone the senior monks and the abbot.

It is also interesting how the other senior monk Luang Po Tuanchai mentioned in the article made claims about powers of omniscience and was driving around drunk. Making such claims [1] is in fact one of the four *disrobing offences* in the Theravada school followed in Thailand and in other countries.

Note that the appellation "Luang Po" or "Luang Por", sort of like "venerable father" is typically used for senior monks who command significant respect and veneration. Seeing such a senior monk fall in this way obviously hurts the sangha (monastic community) and their relationship with the lay-people.

Thai people in general respect and venerate the monastic community, and I can see how such behaviours by even senior monks and abbots start to erode faith and trust, and start to cause schisms within the faith itself.

These incidents are not surprising though. Even in the past few hundred years in Thailand, monks like Acariya Mun Bhuridatta Thera [2], Acariya Mahā Boowa Ñānasampanno [3], Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu [4], Ajahn Chah Bodhiñāṇathera [5], and several others not just clearly saw the cracks and problems with the traditional Buddhist structures and administration, but actually set out to do something about it and they did this in very powerful ways.

These types of incidents have been happening on record right from the early days of the Sangha and even during Sakyamuni's (Buddha's) time, which is why the monastic rules for monks and the sangha were gradually developed and refined into a very comprehensive, clear and unambiguous structure [6] [7], not just for the sake of "making up rules" but to ensure that the sangha and the lay-community would co-exist in harmony and support each other. These rules are __supposed to be__ followed by all monastics, though some centres appear to ignore them when it suits them.

[1] https://bswa.org/teaching/vinaya-four-disrobing-offences/

[2] https://buddho.org/about-the-author/ajahn-mun/

[3] https://forestdhamma.org/about/ajaan-maha-boowa/

[4] https://www.suanmokkh.org/buddhadasa

[5] https://ajahnchah.org/

[6] https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/vin/sv/bhikkhu-pati...

[7] https://www.dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html#bmc
The war would be over if it weren’t for American funding. You think Ukraine will win? Ukraine is nothing except what American war hawks pay it to be, a surrogate army fighting a war funded by American dollars, using American weapons, fighting against America’s enemy. If you think Putin invaded because he wanted to get his hands on Ukrainian resources you’re a fool. This is America and NATO’s war, being fought for our interests, with our dollars, our tanks and missiles, using Ukrainian lives and territory because we fear Putin.
> How is a company supposed to anticipate when and where the government is going to file charges and keep records for them waiting.

It is not just the government, evidence preservations rules attach for any relevant documents at the point where litigation is either initiated, or is, or reasonably should be, anticipated, regardless of whether the government is a party to the regulation. In the specific case of government action, knowledge of existence and subject matter of a government investigation generally provides a basis on which litigation on the subject should be reasonably anticipated (ditto with, e.g., an explicit threat of litigation by a private party. This is well-established law.
Well, you just reminded me some urinal's brand "Brexit", no kidding.
Yes, and very good points. I really appreciate your response. Though with respect to the markov chain side of things I think you may be missing that a neural network is still fundamentally distilling a markov chain into its representations -- that is exactly what it is predicting (the transition matrix over n tokens). Presumably though, the generalization happens in that the raw n-context chain (for example, a 2048 token context chain) is completely infeasible to compress into the network directly, so the network takes shortcuts where it is least punished, which I believe invariably trims the combinatorial edge cases where certain things don't show up in the data.

So it is estimating the markov chain, just in a way that is compressible and according to the inductive biases as we define them (i.e. what we nearly force the network towards with our architectural and otherwise decisions).
Since you've said elsewhere in the thread that you want to sail solo, I might also suggest getting into windsurfing. A windsurfer is a solo craft and smaller and more portable than a sailboat (no trailer required, just a roof rack), and can be used in smaller and shallower lakes. Especially if you're interested in the mechanics and physics of sailing, windsurfing is great for that, since you manipulate the sail manually and use it to do everything, including steering (no rudder).
Who? Maybe the “problem” is that most people don’t listen to classical music, and among those who do, most wouldn’t know who Joshua Bell is or be able to recognize him. IWO maybe it’s not a problem of not noticing but rather one of not caring.
What about people who are physically disabled or live in very rural areas? At one time my pharmacy was 10 minutes away but my psychologist was 90 minutes. You can't reasonably expect people to make a day trip into town every 30 days for the same meds they've been taking for years.
I would be curious about the ramifications, I can think of a handful of reasons to do this, namely geofenced online poker (legally grey at best) but I imagine most people that use these services do so illegally.
There's no demographic data to back up that claim.
No one's saying that getting Starbucks every day is in the price range of a barista either (though they can probably get free coffee if they are still in that line of work). The relevant comparison is to the less expensive alternatives, like a hand grinder.
I reached about 350 lb, and my current weight is just shy of 190. I’m eating almost exactly the same, with some minor adjustments for taste changing over time. What I eat now would still be ill advised for anyone trying to lose weight. The thing that changed is I burn a lot more calories than I used to. Everyone pointing out this basic fact is right, but the focus on calories in is wrong in my case, and I find it pretty odd to totally dismiss the calories burned factor.
I guess I was referring to more optional type work like inventing their own frameworks and abstractions, refactors for code style, major rework of some in-house blob of code that could easily be done with an off the shelf library, etc.
> I'm still trying to understand the full study, but it is odd that more people lost weight than gained weight, according to the numbers I'm seeing in it. Although that may be partially explained by the fact that it was limited to people 45 - 85 years old.

Don't people typically gain weight in that age range, the opposite of what would explain that?
Yes, TN visa is extremely easy to acquire and one can have multiple TN visas at the same time to work for multiple employers. This is especially relevant to nurses who technically need a visa for each hospital they work at. I am currently on a TN and have had 5 in as many years as I jumped around employers. Each new one requires re-entering the US. One time I flew in from Brazil and got it at Houston when I landed. I have never been denied and happy to answer any questions.

When applying, I would say it depends. For startups, it was mostly a casual conversation where I walked them through the process. For smaller places, I wouldn't say you need sponsorship until you talk with a human because no lawyers need to be involved. For large multinational companies, they probably deal with TN all the time so no problem there.

EDIT: "Extremely easy to acquire" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. One has to have the professional credentials as required by NAFTA and a job offer in hand. I assume you have both of those things before looking to apply for a TN.
Why do companies speak as if there is ONE AI. Seems to me we can have different models, different personalities. Microsoft's Sydney can be an agressive AI, OpenAI's ChatGPT a smart AI, and Google's Bard a broken and late to the game AI.

There could be others too. For example a sarcastic AI, a utopic AI, a funny AI, etc...

Right now they are all mangled as one. I say we give them personalities that can excuse their bad manors.