skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
That's rather handwavy.

The question is about a performance benchmark. From a performance standpoint, rpc and rest are the same (http requests that execute code on the server).

The "semantics" you assign to one or the other don't change the technical details about implementation and performance.
I'm planning on doing all sorts of tutorials for pidgin 3 when it gets closer to release. Things are so much different that it's going to be a requirement to get people to port stuff :)
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Companies have to guess what is PII and what is not, the EU have no idea (other than they know which companies they want to punish)
Is your contention that if I click 'no' on the GPDR nag screen it won't sell/harvest my data? The few times that I've looked at the T&Cs more closely, they simply say that some cookies are 'essential' for the website and that I can't opt out from them. I took that to mean that clicking anything was accepting their T&Cs to some degree- hence, I refuse to click any GPDR nag screens ever.

If clicking 'no' is effective, it raises the question of why can't that just be done automatically for me by my browser, sparing me the obnoxious nag screens
A sequence generator is going to flip flop between internal states to fill out a sequence, whether it is a slot that holds the name of an MLB team or a quote (real or imagined) from another document or a quote of a character in a dialogue or a transition from an abstract to the other parts of the paper, etc.

If the system is responding to different parts of the prompt it is going to be attending to one part of the prompt when it is outputting something relative to that part of the prompt and attending to another part of the prompt where it is attending to another part of the prompt.

There are numerous ways this can go wrong, frequently when somebody gets a chatbot to go rouge they talked with it for a long time, to the point where the beginning of the prompt left the attention window long ago and now it is attending to the text it generated as a result to the prompt and of course the alignment will go bad the same way that you'll make a bunch of wood blocks of irregular sizes if use block N as a template to make block N+1.
I wonder if the sequel will also have a mortuary-based economic system.
Probably does makes sense as a comparison to the Linux part of the review, and for investigating differences.

It's not like the Linux review part was completely skipped, which would make the review a bit silly.
Germany planning to ban Huawei, ZTE from parts of 5G networks
What seems to be bad is not communicating your emotions. Like being sad but not showing it, because you want to show how strong you are.

But it is not exactly that here. "Who cares" is not something you do for others, it is something you do for yourself. And I don't think it is bad, at least compared to the alternative, which is feeling helpless because something horrible happened somewhere and there is not much you can do about it, you may try, but then another horrible thing happens and you really can't do anything about that one, and again, and again...
10K is a rounding error, to most folks, around here.

The app (and the demographic that it Serves) are very security and privacy-conscious, so security and privacy are the main coefficients. Most folks would be disappointed in how few features the app boasts, as each feature is a potential compromise. I'm glad to have low usage, as a result.

I wrote the backends, as well as the frontend, and have avoided third-party dependencies, all around.

It seems one of the first casualties of fast scaling is security.

I really didn't want to take any chances. An overly-complex architecture is begging for security compromises.
Thank you for all of the work on Pidgin over the years.
Another example is how to treat criminals. We obviously have made no progress—lots of theory, but no progress—in decreasing the amount of crime by the method that we use to handle criminals.

Vitamins for convicts could save taxpayers' money

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140867

All experiments in psychology...

Psychology is really hard to do well. I tend to look for real word data that casts light on a thing because psychological experiments involving humans are so often designed so very poorly.

For example, it was found that when women take an interest in a celebrity, they do a search for his marital or relationship status. When men take an interest in a celebrity, they do a search for nude photos of her.

This is people in the privacy of their own homes on their own computers looking for something to make themselves hot. They aren't worried about what other people might expect from them, yet male and female strategies differ in ways that fit with historical norms that women are usually looking for a relationship and men are often just looking for sex (at least at first).
> Plus, given dark matter and dark energy, we know something must be out there, even if its not unicorns, there's something.

Because science is paradigmatic, this is the problem. We do not know something else must be out there because we have no direct evidence of either Dark Matter nor Dark Energy, which, btw, have absolutely nothing to do with one another. We might just not yet have the intuition to understand what is causing our perception of the need for these labels.

I, for one, am absolutely convinced Dark Matter is absolute bunk and will be widely accepted to not exist eventually within the next 50 years. The initial reason for Dark Matter's existence, to explain rotational velocities of spiral galaxies we assume spiral galaxies appear to have more invisible matter, has been explained by the fact that the initial observation was of a galaxy in isolation, and the assumption that it was an isolated inertial frame without considering the cluster of galaxies around it, which perfectly explain spiral galaxy rotational velocities without any need for Dark Matter. But because science is paradigmatic and even in the Space Age the correct information is taking decades to disseminate, many if not most are still are convinced Dark Matter is needed even though no one knows what it is. It's nothing, really, it's a phantom, imagination gone haywire. Also, as other unexplained developments occurred, these too got lumped into Dark Matter, which galaxy clusters can not explain. So the problem becomes the shame of not just saying, "we don't know... we don't understand this," and labelling it something to fake it like we do understand it. This is a flaw of modern science, or at least of cosmology,i.e. the unwillingness to accept that we don't (yet) know the precise reasons for what is observed.
My suspicion is that this is true for you, but untrue generally. When walking and biking, all of my close calls have been with large trucks. Drivers typically feel more confident going faster in large vehicles because they are higher up, and they are less likely to see pedestrians and especially small children. Modern trucks and SUVs are very unlikely to rollover in normal intersections, so the more awkward turning doesn't force drivers to slow down. Is there any data on how often trucks and SUVs hit pedestrians and bikers compared to cars? They are certainly more lethal when they are involved in a collision.
My impression came from the lack of discernment with the BigTech recruiters I encountered over the past few years. I thought they would give anyone a chance to do at least the initial screening for an SWE role that applied.

- my very light LinkedIn profile showed nothing but a history of working at no name companies and doing CRUD work before 2020 yet I had recruiters reach out to me from Facebook, Apple, Google, MS and I believe Netflix

- I’ve had two internal recruiters reach out to me about “exciting opportunities at Amazon” while my LinkedIn profile clearly showed I worked at AWS.

- I’ve had a recruiter from Facebook reach out to me about a senior engineer position repeatedly even though my LinkedIn byline doesn’t say anything about my being a current software engineer (“cloud consultant specializing in application modernization”)

- I’ve had a recruiter from Google reach out to me about an “engineering manager” position even though I have never managed anyone in my life.
The article both praises and dismisses the Apple TV. It is by far the best box and I have tried a lot of them. It isn’t even close.

You don’t need to like or use Apple anything else for it to work and work to its full potential. The grid of icons are great. It is easy to understand and use. The remote is good as well and works seamlessly with most TVs. There are no ads and the interface is well designed and thought through.

It is also fast and because it is based on iOS all the apps are well supported.

So if you discount the Apple TV all of the streaming boxes suck, but there is really no reason to cast it aside.
I don't think that's what he was saying, but if he was, are you suggesting there's a problem with that?
>The career scientist couldn't care less about being right

What you are describing is philosophically, definitively, not science. The career scientist is a scientist who is committed to the scientific method. The career crank is committed to selling the notion that they have all the answers. That could be a citation chaser or a youtube contrarian.
When was this rejection? They don’t have any rule like this currently, and the App Store is full of apps not using Cocoa/Carbon/SwiftUI.
You might like Alastair Reynolds’ earlier works too. His short story collections are a good place to start (Zima Blue, Diamond Dogs).
It might be small-ish in terms of units shipped, but nowhere near small in revenue and profit.

I guess it's not exactly a laptop monopoly, but a walled laptop monopoly alright.
You say this as if getting a fully remote job that pays $175k is easy to come by… I’d guess that most people making $300k in high-priced areas would take this paycut to $175k every day of the week and twice on sunday if they were offered
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You should not believe the US regime's self serving, feigned morality. If the UN and international norms were so important to the US government, they would not have unilaterally invaded Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other countries murdering million of people. All this despite endlessly lecturing everyone for decades about rules based world order. Where are those principles now? All of those high-minded thoughts are forgotten the moment it is convenient for the US to do so.
1) what would you consider to be "wow" or magic that would go beyond a+b. What is steps c+d that would be incredible value?

2) We're working on stabilization... just asking for a bit of patience.
Google posts stats about how many people connect over IPv6. It exceeds 40% on weekends.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
The social sciences indeed have the politically charged element, but I think you've hit on a broader point here. Investigating "what is" needs to involve to at least some extent a true curiosity and an adaptable plan. Modern science is so formalized that I find these ingredients to take way too much of a back seat - at least in what I've observed of modern biology.

I swear more often than not the way proposed experiments are framed reeks of a "what ought to be" perspective. Not because it's wishful thinking or an externally incentivized conclusion, but just because questions are often both incremental and kinda binary. So it is reasonably likely that what they've proposed to check will turn out about how they expected, and if it doesn't it may not be publishable at all. By crafting the proposal in a particular (fairly common) style, they've inadvertently turned it into "what ought to be".

By contrast, I loved talking to my really old professors because there were some awesome ones that you could tell spent a decent amount of time in their day just absolutely fucking around. Should that be the universal model of science? No, but I do believe you need those types, and I've struggled to find much of a modern equivalent. The tight job market doesn't help.

Of course with fewer low hanging fruit over time as well as greater experimental costs, it is indeed more difficult to effectively spitball now. And sure there are fewer random novel observations that would be worth a fun off the cuff paper for others to follow-up on. But I still can't shake the feeling that the scientific system has partially self-imposed the eradication of this style of curiosity, in a misguided attempt to formalize science.

From my perspective, there seems to be a massive underlying assumption throughout the system that scientific outputs should stand as nearly atomic units, with little chance for "unscientific" pieces of work to contribute to an eventually formalized scientific result. That clashes awfully with the ever increasing scale of open questions, and it doesn't play well with the individualistic academic ego stroking credit model either.
Stripe Faces $3.5B Tax Bill as Employees' Shares Expire
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Shortly after launch of the app store. It was posted within a month or two of launch, and pulled about six months later.

I feel like enforcement is rather random though. It seems like submitting updates draws their attention.

But you could be right. It may be it's a rule they abandoned.

In any case I don't think there's anyone around with the heart to try again.
Curious how it would handle domain ownership changes.

Obviously the account would still have standard credentials but once the new domain owner proves ownership does the old handle get reverted to something else so the handle can be used by the new owner or is that account name forever squatted?
> No - millions of people have tried these apps, motivated by some mixture of serious interest and, basically, shits and giggles. That doesn't mean they've used the apps to actually useful stuff (for either business-grade use, or for sale, regardless of value) in those categories.

Totally and absolutely correct. 'Thousands' not 'millions'.

Vox is essentially late to the click-bait party and attempting to capitalize on the ChatGPT hype which is a glorified bullshit generator with limited use-cases since it can't be used for anything serious other than text summarization.

> Then again - if facts don't matter to ChatGPT, then why should they matter to journalists out for an easy puff piece?

Vox is searching for an excuse to join the AI hype with low quality articles like this one. A shame that journalists have bought into the generative AI hype and never brought or mentioned any serious use-case outside of text summarization. This current AI hype is no better than crypto in 2017.
Thank you very much for this detailed walk through.
Very cool, not GP but also thanks for pointing me to this board. I’m just getting into hardware stuff but have an e-ink project in mind.
Not quite the same treatment as anyone. Certainly corporate giants get warnings paired with face-to-face executive meetings instead of mysterious rejections:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/23/15399438/apple-uber-app-s...
When I was in an engineering IC version of this role, I longed for someone like you to have my back in management and have customers’ backs too. If I had a time machine and a magic lamp I’d team up with you.

As a future representation of past me, I can tell you:

1. Everything it’s making you feel is valid.

1b. If you’re feeling burnt out, please listen to it. It gets worse if you let it.

2. While I can’t hire you now, I can already tell you’re eminently hireable. If you have any cautious inclination to move, you will probably be better served by greener pastures.

3. Just take care of yourself.

4. When 3 contradicts 2, favor 3.
They're tied together. Once you join you'll be in a place that uses that interview process.
When you look at the same graph for IPv4, its pretty obvious that graph isn't showing data that supports the conclusions you're drawing from it:

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2022-01/addrfig2.png
As a long time fan I'm completely open to alternative takes on the life sim idea.
Yes, exactly. This is the case in a lot of other large companies. It basically enables management to fuck it up royally and repeatedly while the more senior engineers, which ambiguously defined technical leadership roles added to their IC responsibilities clean it up and keep the lights on.
ISP uses DS-Lite: ipv6 is native, ipv4 is 4-in-6/CG-NAT. When
I switch to bridge mode, it loses ipv6 connectivity, so sadly, that's not an option if ipv6 is the goal.
As the links I provided clearly explain, Taiwan is not a country. What US is doing is funding and arming a separatist movement in a province of China.
An interesting thing about the Mac App Store: When you're on an Apple Silicon Mac, the Discover page doesn't show Intel-only apps (even if you have Rosetta installed, which I do). This is why the Top Free Games and Top Paid Games lists are half empty on the page.

Many Mac App Store games have not been ported to Apple Silicon yet (or ever, likely).
This is the 102 language dataset they used for evaluation: https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/xtreme_s
Ok, but in 1980, you needed that 20% down payment because mortgage rates were approaching 20%.
I've worked with lots of (enterprisy) hard drives and SSDs. The hard drive failure rate was easily 10x the rate of the SSDs, but the SSDs basically never gave symptoms of impending doom. They just disappeared from the data channel. We did have one group of drives that gave symptoms... 50% of the batch dropped dead within 2 weeks of entering service, a good number failed over the time it took to get the rest of them replaced. And one drive that had very poor throughput for several minutes did show SMART metrics that it was reallocating sectors, but we took it as a sign of death and replaced it; I think it might have worked fine once it calmed down, but we'll never know.
My four year old that's just learning to read had a great time trying to figure each out. This could be great as an early reader game
I disagree with your assessment of importance. A work like this strikes me as being primarily important as a "concept of operation", with sketched numbers from (presumably) sub-studies. In other words, my primary concern would be Does the whole thing hang together? Hard to say for such a vast project, so you need to start somewhere with many estimates and placeholders. I wouldn't shoot down the value based on missing references for sub-projects. Especially for what appears to be a solo-author work.

I do agree those would be helpful references. I've contacted the author asking for collateral materials and will post back if there's anything to share.
https://archive.is/5jsvT
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints, and then I smoke two more...

Smoke two joints...
You mean 10x bigger. One order of magnitude is 10x.
When Apple dropped iChat it hurt too. I agree with you that Google was the mail in the coffin but the fact that there was no way for me to go from my .Mac iChat account to iMessage seamlessly (I could use the same ID but had to add everyone as contacts again).

Slack was definitely a major blow. I used Campfire at work but we still had to use other services, usually gChat, to message privately. When we migrated to Slack in 2014 or whatever, we now had a service that allowed private messaging AND had mobile apps too — something that the old era of the Adium/Pidgin/Trillian’s never quite executed on (I know there were mobile AIM and gChat clients back in the day; I had AIM on my SideKick in high school and a number of decentish apps on iOS even, but those protocols just weren’t ever designed or well-adapted/executed to push messaging a la BBM or iMessage or SMS the way it needed to be — largely thanks to the wireless carriers who wanted to keep a hold of that pure profit SMS for as long as possible.) We had mobile-first/mobile-only services like WhatsApp (which immediately took off outside the US) and the GroupMe’s had some success too, but those services were slow to support (if they ever did) XMPP or other bridges to get them working on desktop), so Slack was a nice unifier.

I loved Adium for so long. I even had a Slack bridge I think in it at some point. But I had to finally let it go and remove it from my dock.

I pay for Beeper today, but I don’t use it as much as I would like. But it remains one of the better ways for me to recreate the world I had 10 and 15 years ago.
Every account gets identified by a DID which is long-lived but not human readable. Records use them instead of domains for links/follows/etc. That's how domain-name changes or debindings avoid causing issues.
> Renting a truck might be a pain for you. It's not a pain for everyone.

What are you renting it for?

Renting a truck to tow car trailers or RV travel trailers tends to be a pain. In all cases where I've needed or know someone who has needed that, we/they end up going with a friend who can lend them one. Many rental places either don't allow towing or don't have the right equipment.

So for many use cases, if you're only going to own one thing, it's more practical to own the truck and rent small cars when needed since a small car is easy to rent unlike the truck.
Being on the developer spotlight (https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=t4n6e4wo) kind of indicates they’re a bit more than “nothing very memorable”.

At least, Apple certainly thought so. Not every developer gets a spotlight.
I can't say I'm impressed.

https://i.imgur.com/Iq9DcSY.png
What the what?! You’re damn right I’m interested to know.
About the etymology of Bachelor

That's just terrifically improbable. Historically, bachelor's degrees were, in fact, intermediate degrees awarded part way through the period of study required to achieve a master's degree - which was the "real deal". The degrees emerged during a period when the term bachelor was already established as a term referring to a squire or junior knight.

We already have plenty of English words from Arabic; there's really no need to retcon even more.
My suggestion is to grow up and face reality.

A lot worse shit than baby elephantcide is going on in the world, and always has.
Ah, thank you, I should have realized that. Same thing with weed, basically but weed generally doesn’t destroy families.
The cost of maintaining it doesn't. I have never read why the standards folks didn't make IPV6 a superset of IPV4 but my goodness I wish they had. I would have probably made the implementation harder at the time but it would have helped by now.
It doesn’t “work”; it helps you know what to skim and skip because of the already shallow engagement with the content.

It isn’t writing intended for an engaged audience, which is to say it isn’t writing. It’s just copy.
On my linux machine, dns queries would sometimes last 5 seconds with ipv6 enabled. It made my internet surfing experience extremely frustrating. Disabling ipv6 resolved this issue.

Don't really understand networks yet, but I guess it was because my isp doesn't support ipv6, but linux kept defaulting to ipv6 before trying ipv4.
Coincidentally, I recently looked into the slow startup time for shiki and it was mostly from parsing JSONC, not WASM: https://github.com/shikijs/shiki/issues/439.
The Case-Shiller index, in points, adjusted for median income and inflation is almost constant for the last 50 years [0].

[0] https://adjusted-for-inflation.com/case-shiller-index/
Ask if the dog is an escape artist and make sure it won't hop a fence or open a door. A friend had someone watch their dog and the dog escaped through a partially left ajar gate (or the dog opened it). They finally found him but it took them weeks of looking and worry.

They make airtag holders for collars, I don't think it's a recommended use but maybe some insurance for a week while they are out of town.