skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I salute your tilting at windmills against Political Correctness. But it’s a waste of effort.

I mean that it is pseudo-science in the sense that there is no scientific substance to it. I mean that every time someone has tried to make a science of race—and there have been plenty of attempts—it’s just turned out to be a crock of shit.

There is an everyday meaning of “race”, yes. mostly about skin pigmentation, eye shape, bone shape. Things like that. So why do I mention the pseudo-scientific connection? Because “race-mixing” implies that different “races” breeding is bad, which must mean—beyond the completely shallow like the appearance of people who are “mixed”—that there is something substantive to the notion of races which makes mixed-race people inferior in some way. Or that non-<race> are inferior. But there isn’t.

One can easily imagine a parallel universe where what we call races correspondend with completely wildly different traits, like a completely different level of intelligence (a recurring racist trope). Or we could just look at the differences in other biological species in our own (non-parallel) universe. But it just so happens to be the apparent fact that human races (in the everyday sense) are not substantially different.

Certainly not different enough to worry about race-mixing.

If you raise a child born in Indonesia in Sweden, they will speak Swedish and be like other Swedes. But if you put a 20-year-old Swede in the middle of a jungle of in Papua, they will probably just die. The point is how plastic young children are and how inconsequential the fact that your genes came from the other side of the planet really are.

Your allusion to examples of differences between people illustrates this:

> Human beings are a single species with a large number of branches allowing them to survive localised environmental niches.

Human beings are a tropical primate who use technology to survive permanently in climates ranging from the tundra to the desert. The know-how of an Inuit is much more relevant for their survival compared to the fact that they are probably more adapted as an organism to living in eight-month-winter climate compared to a Spaniard.

> But to pretend that races aren't real just because of an interlink between the study of race and racist ideologies is fucking ridiculous.

Nowhere did I say or imply that I think that “race” is pseudo-science because of racist ideologies.

Stop making shit up!
I'll echo the other top-level threads and say it's the same technology as what happens in your car and it reads/replies to your messages.

Sidenote:
Can someone school me and tell me how Apple got this iMessage thing "right" when Blackberry/BBM didn't?

Or is iMessage eventually going to go the way of BBM? I suspect it's more than just iMessage, like Apps (pre-BBM days) and tighter integration, but I'd like to start a dialogue here.
Not sure if I'm blind, but what is the number of parameters?
As if you'd "buy" such a car. I imagine Ford would love getting rid of the idea of car ownership in exchange for years-long rentals, as long as you keep paying them for the privilege.
Again, you are living in the past.

- I can share a note with my wife and kids and they can live edit together.

- I can encrypt my notes and share them across the cloud.

- I can send my notes in an email, I can embed photos, videos, emails, messages in my notes.

- I can send my notes directly to my reminders and attach them to a reminder.

- I can can documents and sketches directly from my notes.

- My notes automatically look for keywords to turn into dates and reminders.

- My notes can add tags and have automatic backups and recovery.

You can also put code blocks within a note, export it, and then run it through a code executor, which is way safer than having some sort of editor automation that will slurp up a random note and hack your computer and steal all your credit card info.
I agree. I have a similar account where I:

- started using a pomodoro timer in emacs

- noticed I wasn't using getting up for breaks

- thought about how to fix it

- added `(switch-to-buffer "~/reminder.txt")` which read "HEY! go on a break" to the "org-clock-out" hook that was called by the pomodoro timer

In about 5-7 minutes I permantely fixed my issue thanks to the extensibility of emacs.

I think a lot of these things don't get shared or posted because to the initiated they seem trivial. Or it's hard to know what level of experience should be assumed.

I think "start with vanilla emacs and show how to do this one thing" might be a good place though.
That's my imprecise phrasing, by invisible I meant plain text without any markup like bold asterisks (but without having to explicitly build it to make it visible to not introduce any extra inconvenience)
He’s good at creating useful MVPs that are architected well enough to attract other people to finish the remaining 99% of the work as he moves on to the next project.
out of curiosity, how many YOE do you have? a lot of the stuff you've written reads like exactly how i felt 2-3 years into my job and thought everything was bs except the code. "screw sales, what do they even do, code is all that matters", "screw PMs, their jobs is just spreadsheets and docs, code is all that matters"

i'm over a decade in at this point and couldn't disagree more with all of your points. nothing makes me want to run away faster than dealing with some genius who "disappears" or argues around a ton of things/has no EQ.
wow, yeah, very frustrating experience
Oh yeah dealing with random dtype changes is a total PITA.
What point are you trying to make here? That T-mobile maybe needs to screen employees better? That compromises are inevitable and we just need to deal? That we shouldn't give out so much data to corporations?
Actual title "Yammer is evolving to Microsoft Viva Engage with new experiences rolling out today"

I worked in a place where someone senior decided we needed Yammer. Mostly non tech workforce. The only use it got was HR sending out some newsletter that could easily go in an email.
The home screen ads are infuriating. I know it's Android, by Google, but I bought the freakin device. It wasn't cheap. And they added this retroactively. Shame on Google and shame on Nvidia for allowing it.

I used a 3rd party launcher but there wasn't a way (at the time) to make it the default.
Yes, more 8086 microcode. I'm here for any questions...
Biodiversity & ecosystems seem obviously existentially important to the long term survival of humanity. Even if we're not sure what exactly would kill us (first) from acidifying the oceans, killing all the trees, melting the ice-caps, & killing most wild mammals.

The enormous risk we've created against there being a human future. I for one hope for a sustainable flourishing, and find any other avenue not merely uninteresting, but actively malicious & evil. Global gaian awareness is absolutely required, or you are just a primitive wild mammal.
Show HN: Briefsky – a free Dark Sky clone for multiple weather APIs
I always put on confidence level on projected dates (and that confidence level is never "100%"), both formally with my own companies and informally when working with others. I think it's incredibly useful for a number of reasons, but the primary benefit is in managing expectations.

For instance, just today I was asked when I could finish a task. I answered "I'm 80% confident I can deliver in two days". If I leave my confidence measurement off of that and just say "two days", it could lead others to make inflexible schedules and a delay could derail things. Giving a confidence level gives them an additional bit of information that can be very useful.

Sometimes, I've said something like "80% chance of 2 days", and the response was "what would it take to make that 90% (or whatever)." That's also very valuable, because then we can have a realistic discussion about tradeoffs/prioritization in scope or quality to gain more certain scheduling.
I actually had a _lot_ more trouble with the first sentence oddly enough; the proliferation of commas where (in modern syntax at least) there should be no commas kept placing unnecessary and unwanted breaks in the language flow.

It's entirely possible that by the time I was into the second paragraph that I had simply adjusted to the writing style and was able to proceed without any issue; I haven't the time to properly compare the two.
You are right, the paper can and will be improved. I think that I assume too much that people have read the Pang2014 paper.

Hopf coherence is not new, it's a name for an old concept that did not have a name.

Unit and counit together make the residual stream.

The antipode is a part of the OV circuit (see section 6.2.2).

You are right re: basic definitions, I wanted the definitions in there and briefly considered a separate section that provides an overview (as is customary) but there were not enough of them to warrant that but they do seem somewhat out of place sometimes.
Yeah, I clicked on it expecting something about the PS/2, not the PS2. Showing my age, I remember when the PS/2 was new.
Safety performance of the Waymo rider-only automated driving system [pdf]
It would be nice if it was as easy to use as VSCode / Obsidian, but alas. I will not learn a second language for using it and I will not paste mystery snippets from blogs and other sources to get something done.
AI folks parted ways from programming language folks (1980) [pdf]
If you haven’t played with Stable Diffusion based stuff before, note that as well as telling it what (in terms of subject) you want in the prompt, you can also tell it style things. Compare:

“a goofy owl”: https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/oymg4kadgvezxppvwkf5...

“a goofy owl, realistic photograph, depth of field, 4k, HDR”: https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/va5l24amjnb55g62renz...

“a goody owl, pointillism”: https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/5dfnru4f6zguphjvvdrl...
Thank you! Totally hear you on the part about convincing people who know how to do it to use a tool. We've found that those folks respond well to the counterargument that they shouldn't have to do it, even if they know how to, unless it's mission critical for their application.
And thank you for the advice and good wishes!
I will, this is the first approximation. I'm working on an implementation that will provide further guidance for the paper.
The problem with "subscription models" isn't "subscription models" per se, it's greed.

People aren't showing aversion to "subscription vs non-subscription models", they're showing an aversion to greed, and businesses not treating them as a valued customer, but as a resource to be milked until either the resource dries out or the business goes bust.

In the original definition it used to be that a "subscription model" meant a win-win situation for both the user and the business: the business gets some sort of pledge that the customer will continue purchasing the recurring product or service in question because they are a loyal customer, in exchange for extra benefits (typically a discount, or some sort of extra goodies or support).

Now we have the reverse situation: greedy companies treat subscription as their "main" business plan, hoping to milk as much money as ephemerally possible without necessarily valuing their loyal customers, offerring either no non-subscription alternative, or a highly crippled or ridiculous alternative to coerce you into subscribing just to get the "base" product "at least once".

It's become the software equivalent of hardware companies coming up with "bullshit consumables" that serve no real purpose in a device except forcing users to keep paying after a purchase (this is super common in biomed devices!).

People know a greedy model / bullshit service when they see one. As a result, they put off using it as much as they can, and when they finally succumb with a heavy heart and subscribe because they need the "base" product that should have been available without a subscription, they retaliate in other ways that harm the business (e.g. single star reviews, password sharing networks, etc).
"Queue" the language prescriptivists! We need to be "weary" of these folks. They are just trying to "flout" their English knowledge. Don't let them "effect" you. Personally, I'm "bemused" of all this. This "could of" been a good thread, too.
Weirdly enough Dell has had this tech since ~2018 but you had tk spoof your computer as a Dell to use it on non-dell computers. Looks like Intel bought the company that made it in 2021 and the Dell app is being discontinued.
At this point we're considering it a foundational concept to build around - web content changes, so our best option currently is to make the query as easy as possible to change, and alert when things break.

We have done some preliminary work in some AI or other intelligence for pattern recognition to be able to handle structural changes better, but still have lots of work.

But the expanding and querying concepts also make a lot of sense with APIs, which tend to be a little more stable.
> Everything you said is a guess

I saw GP's arguments less as guesses and more as statistical probabilities. We are discussing layoffs, which is a socio-economic topic after all. So unlike Physics, you should expect probabilistic reasoning here.

Regarding conviction / sincerity, do you see any problem with any of the 4 arguments GP presents? If so, let's discuss that instead of just ad-hominems.
People who give out car loans want you to pay back the loan. They don't want to repossess the vehicle. There is a real cost associated with it and you can't just take the car and make a profit. You'd be able to recoup what was owed and some costs may not be coupable. Again, they're not in the business to lend out money to people they know that can't afford it. There may be fraud at the individual level but the system doesn't work like that.

The recovery rates for subprime auto deals are historically around 50%

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/structured-finance/soa...
One very widespread use of two-color (red and black) e-ink screens is grocery store price labels. They're everywhere in Canada, and they work great. Even the fine-print (price per 100g) is clearly readable.

I don't know if they have batteries and wi-fi, or if they're updated manually with NFC, but either way they can't be too expensive if there are 5000+ in every store. They're a bit smaller than the badges these guys made, but they might be a lot cheaper and easier to work with.
I frequently teach new org-mode users how to just "click then tab" to expand nodes as well as using `context-menu-mode` right click.

That way they don't have to remember any bindings, however I point out that the bindings are listed in case they every have interest in memorizing frequently used ones.
Not that kind of emergency. AM Radio stations are used for disseminating information about weather and road conditions during weather events and natural disasters. Around where I live, there are signs that say "Tune to XXXAM when this light is flashing"
I think what you're talking about is "solitude", which is a kind of inverse of loneliness in that gives you a kind of inner strength rather than taking health away.
Props to everyone out there digging up, preserving and translating old interviews, articles, etc. Some others doing this work:

Did You Know Gaming?: https://www.youtube.com/@DYKGaming/videos
Shmuplations: https://shmuplations.com/
Shouldn't an outbreak happen before the lab is shutdown instead of months later, during the flu season?

A lot of elderly that died is 3?

You're right, this "US lab leak" (kuch) is way worse than the one from Wuhan that infected the world with millions of casualties.

LOL!

What are you even suggesting even? It's starting to get ridiculous.

Oh yeah, your source was probably this: http://de.china-embassy.gov.cn/det/zt/BekaempfungCOVID19/202... . Which matched your exact 'mystery pnemonia cases' keyword and is ( not ) surprisingly similar to your "references".

I'd expect better of state funded propaganda outlet for 1 billion people.

PS. https://www.polygraph.info/a/china-disinfo-covid-19/6742435....

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58273322
FWIW, I haven't found a better outliner for projects than orgmode and have look for alternatives because of the reasons you mention.
That works. That's what I did
It's not you, a system like org mode that allows a user to be terribly bad is a failed system. It's a productivity system that makes you unproductive. It's the kind of yak shaving emacs users love to sell to unsuspecting programmers when they could use modern tools that actually increase their productivity from the start and don't suck them down a rabbit hole of wasted time only to realize they have to set up a small company's worth of infrastructure just to secure and sync notes.
In terms of ROI, a person with an English degree is in a much better position than a person who dropped out without completing the final year or semester. The important thing is that your child completes.
I dunno, there was an article in Creative Computing magazine circa 1984 about how to code one up in BASIC that required a little creativity but made it look pretty easy. If you sort the words in the document it is pretty quick to check them against a dictionary on disk.

Turbo Lighting, though, took advantage of the comparably large memory of the IBM PC to do something that really blew people away

https://books.google.com/books?id=MC8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA7&lpg=PA...
FTA: "We don’t use any information from your Gmail messages to serve you ads, and that includes the email receipts and confirmations shown on the Purchase page"

Other companies like unroll.me, however, were absolutely data mining your receipts and then selling the results.
I've got the same printer - it's great, but clearly not optimized for power consumption. The hot end could be insulated so the only loss of heat is via the melted filament - as it is, I think most of the energy that goes into the hot end is lost directly to the air. Then the heated bed is great for ease of use, but it's pretty wasteful. If power was at a premium, I'm pretty sure we'd go for other solutions to keeping the print stuck down. My making both these changes, I'd guess it would be fairly easy to reduce the power consumption by a factor of ten or so. In the end, it ought to be possible for printing to take negligible power compared to making the bioplastic filament in the first place.
Loneliness is not a phase.
why do you think that? Presumably Google Voice uses a phone company downstream, which means if that company is hacked they can reassign your number to someone else and thus you have the classic SIM jacking attack.
I completely agree-- and, upon re-reading, it wasn't entirely fair of me to cast your comment as representing an "unhealthy extreme", so I'm sorry about that. That's what I get for trying to make a nuanced point hastily!
>... of course paying a price for the conversion

As the blog mentions, once Pandas 2.0 is released, if you use Arrows types, converting between Pandas and Polars will thankfully be almost immediate (requiring only metadata adjustments).
I did that with two Caddy servers (one on my host and another locally) and Tailscale (ssh tunnel at first): https://solovyov.net/blog/2022/ngrok-for-the-wicked/
My brain also shuts off after a few commas. This style just does not speak to me.
I'm getting a cell phone plan just for 2FA. It's actually a Tmobile MVNO, we'll see how it goes.

$2.50/month, RedPocket annual eBay plan.
Probably similar in cost to the people killed by human tow truck drivers.
Yeah agreed, I'd much rather use something that's standard and installed alongside every other Node.js install. Rather than put my trust in another package manager for 10s of improvement on a completely clean install (which isn't something that I have to do very often).
I find this passage to be far more readable than the Scarlet Letter one posted above. Sure, it's long, but it's developing the character.

Before screens, people must have gotten far more enjoyment from authors painting mental pictures in tiny detail.

We have HD video as an option now. A long description of a rose bush doesn't do it for me unless it's needed for the actual narrative.
> Firstly, taking private things public is a breach of trust. There was a reason this wasn't public

There is no breach of trust if there is no expectation of privacy: we are at work, everything is logged and recorded[1] and you shouldn't be ashamed to stand by your work/words. Depositions, subpoenas, a lowly HR complaint or a curious IT drone can blow away the illusion privacy. As the saying goes: Don't write anything you dont want published in the New York Times

> Also, I'm German, where all this US "be nice and smile all the time" thing seems at best naive

Hard disagree: you don't have to smile - but you have to meet a baseline of professionalism. I had a non-American colleague who loved to criticize my work in public but requested that I send my critical feedback to him via 1:1 emails. His aggression only stopped when I continued to make all our conversations public - warts and all. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

1. Go ahead and read your organizations electronic communications policy if you think I'm wrong.
Although of course from the point of view of someone enjoying the benefits of an Oxbridge degree, that probably doesn't seem like a problem!
This follows on the unpopular news story that T-Mobile will be requiring you to give them your debit card or bank account information to continue to qualify for their Autopay discount.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/t-mobile-is-dropping-its-au...
Good advice, for you.
Fuzzy searching with things like orderless/consult/grep covers a lot.

For more semantic searching I use https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql

For my very large org-roam I'm investigating taking advantage of search in sqlite more.
I agree completely. I didn't ask why government enforced regulation hasn't happened. I asked why industry self-regulation has failed. I've worked in a regulatory/security role for a major conglomerate before.

I'm not saying I expected self-regulation to work. But, if you are in a position of customers seeing direct harm every day, it's not unreasonable to ask why there is a failure here.
In high school we had a person who did that. We called him Nostradumbass. It got bizarre and then kind of sad, just how much effort he put into it. At one point he would make lots of timestamped claims and then delete anything that didn't come true.
Why ChatGPT Won’t Become Your Doctor
A look at why diagnosis isn't what LLMs should be focusing on and how they can actually improve medicine
I'm currently on one. Was very burnt out from high stress environments and not practicing enough self care for the past five years. I experienced daily bouts of mild to intense anxiety despite being what most people interpret as a calm person. Reasoning, I was laid off and decided to not take a job.

I took unemployment.

Positive benefits: I mellowed out, started having more patience, and could see how a big source of burnout was how attached my ego was to my work.

I started working on a link shortener a couple of months ago. Despite it being a hobby project that a lot of folks undertake, building something resilient that is somewhat well-designed is a lot of work. Biggest benefit: I started looking at programming as more of something that I'm capable of instead of my self worth / value on display in pull requests.

> Did you return to your old job?

Nope.

> Would you have done anything differently?

More routine. It's liberating to be able to do what you want, as you want, but I would posit that a majority of humans thrive on routines.

> Is there anything bad out of the sabbatical that you didn't expect?

Friends and family being concerned for my well-being despite my spirits being much higher