skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shift workers eat more and face higher illness risk than day workers, says study
Teach kids about static electricity
Totally legal, just be sure to declare whatever. We do it for ketchup chips (From Canada)
The beatings / deaths happen in big cities where higher % of black cops are the norm. The cops who attack Floyd were black and this happened in a large city.

Randomly I will pick Atlanta. 58%

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Police_Department#:~...
>Unions have a very specific set of rules to play by, and these rules are different for each country.

The rules unions have to play by were put in place to reduce their power to effectively organize.
I'm not mad at anyone here, no worries. Mainly just posted originally + here because I think some of the arguments being made are fairly ridiculous as stated, and primarily because I think the claim that you can get diabetes from eating too much fruit is just untrue in practice.
Happy to see an open source alternative to KittyCAD
motioncanvas seems like a nice open source alternative , although motioncanvas relies almost completely on JS to draw and animate https://motioncanvas.io/
I think this is working as intended. We often joke that if something is publishing in Nature it's almost certainly wrong.

But realistically, at any time in any field there are only a small number of people who are truly pushing the state of the art (I'm referring to discovery science, not reference science- IE, a focus on adding 1% additional knowledge to our already copious understandings. Any I think tthose people shouldn't have to follow the normal rules about scientific publishing: I want them to push the limits as much as possible. That means occasionally publishing something that contains a mistake (not a falsification), and then being willing to have it retracted (without consequence to future publication).

These sorts of fields tend to self-correct because somethign that's wrong isn't reproducible, and all these scientists are working to reproduce each other's results (note: both the people who thing Dias faked his results were going to take the new protocol home and attempt to repro it in their hands ASAP).

In a sense, it's being willing to accept a higher false positive/false negative rate so you don't filter out some true positives.
Throwing away the keys is surprisingly hard to do.

Say you have one root key and you derive per-file or per-block keys using various metadata (inode numbers, generation numbers, block addresses, whatever). You can't throw away derived keys though!

Or say you generate random keys per-file and you store those somewhere (it's annoying to have to store them). Now to throw those keys away you need to re-write the blocks containing them. If there's any behind-the-scenes copy-on-write going on then re-writing a block doesn't necessarily lose its old contents.

The only thing that's easy to throw away -maybe- is the top-level / root keys. But that means deleting the entire filesystem.
To answer your opening question: no, Bloomberg has not been a credible business publication for some time. They’re one of the legacy publications that used their name recognition and reputation as a springboard to essentially a paid op-Ed publication - authors pay them to have their opinion pieces published. See also: Newsweek.
"Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous."

Wow. I have problems with Instragram, but I've never tried to sum it up into a single statement and while this is rather specific and may not include all the problems I _feel_ are there, it really does bring home the main issue, for me. A little snark in there about democratizing, as some people will always put a positive spin on such things, which I feel is totally appropriate here.

Just... The comment could have stopped right there and been as or more impactful (for me). Thanks. :)
> There must be a way. Why not have freedom in social media again?

Because any kind of social media, especially when it allows binary assets, will be abused by CSAM and piracy spreaders, by Holocaust deniers, by scammers, by spammers shilling dick enlargement pills, questionably "legal" drugs, questionable dietary supplements or all kinds of other stuff, by trolls bullying people right up to suicide "for the lulz", or as we're seeing in the wake of the Russian invasion by enemy propaganda.

> Moderation. Thats a stickier problem, but volunteer/community tends to be better... imo, than organisational moderation anyway.

Nope. Reddit's various cesspools, from lolicon to the_donald [1], show that any platform needs centralized moderation lest it became overrun by any of the groups listed above.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...
OMFG...... in small quantities it kills dogs???!!!!

I don't own a dog, but my God I hope they have warning labels on it!
> People, when left to their own devices, have generally preferred something like von Thunen rings, rather than a single level of density.

Citation please. The US can’t be used as an example because zoning laws have enforced strict single use zones for many decade. When you look at Europe which never had such zone if laws, you don’t find clear cut zones, or such clear cut concentric rings of density.
Some of it is that Android phones are slow. Apple has been consistently improving the performance of their chips but the Qualcomm chips used in cheap phones have stagnated since 2018.
I think that's fair, but i also thing that it's mostly just musicians that would ever think that. I don't think the average person (geek or not) would assume that. I'm a musician and I didn't think it'd write sheet music.

As a geek whos done basic music arrangement, I also know that that's an incredibly hard problem once you introduce modern instruments. even staying with just classical ones differetiating between a violin part, and i a viola? or even a cello playing a high note vs a viola? Like... wow. that would be SO hard.

We're barely getting words right. I don't think there's any way we're anywhere close to transcribing a full band or orchestra in a meaningful way. Extracting the melody? sure. Chord changes? Sure. Actually doing an accurate and even remotely complete transcription? Incredibly hard.
Discussion forums are not a viable substitute for encoding solved problems into documentation. This will continue to be a new discovery each time a service shuts down. If a solution is not incorporated your effort’s formal documentation, then that solution will eventually be lost. Trying to shift the burden of documenting solutions from the project to the forum archives, whether hosted or outsourced, will eventually fail.
Yes. No gotchas there.

>>> foo = b'foo'
>>> foo[0] == b'f'
False

Don't get me wrong. I love Python, it has been my daily driver for 20+ years (and it pays my salary), but it does have its own set of cognitive burdens.

Also, shell scripts I wrote in the 90:s work today. Python scripts - not so much.
I guess it depends what you're selling:

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You still can in Argentina and Paraguay.

Paraguay up until recently required a ~5k deposit but they dropped even that. In Argentina "technically" you're supposed to follow a bunch of rather restrictive resident visa pathways but few do that and you can file for citizenship immediately upon landing and until your case is finished cannot be deported. The requirements are basically live there for 2 years and show you had some income, but by judge shopping some allow black market income lol.

Others of note: Bolivia and Somaliland only require a token payment for a 1 year resident visa (think in Bolivia you only need do that 2 or 3 times to become PR or citizen). If you have a bit more cash several places like honduras / nicoragua / ecuador only require ~30k "investment" which is basically accessible (eventually) to anyone middle class+ with enough determination. When I went to Rojava they also accept basically anyone as they are a "people without a nation" who happen to have sort of a nation.

And then there's weev, who posts here on occasion. I think he got a Transnistria passport, which is obtainable after only a year of residence. It's my understanding residency is as easy as going to a hotel and asking to talk to the right people about getting a resident permit, and paying some moderate fees.

If you're not too discriminating pretty much anyone can emigrate from the US forever with very little capital.
I hate how I got rid of TikTok because of the addictive short form content and now I find myself somehow in Instagrams short form content. Now YouTube are also doing it.

These companies are just selling attention crack disguised as "creativity".
Not necessarily. Making it easier to build housing or creating temporary tax abatements for renovations is a tired and true strategy that doesn't really cost a city anything. Attracting new residents to rehab and move into formerly run down housing will actually increase tax receipts in the medium term.
I believe the subtext of that comment is that they feel it can't be "left to die" as Groups is too important in the ecosystem.
Can genetic engineering rapidly bring to market fruit with all the flavor but 1/3 the sugar?
No, the two are quite different.

Which is worse in your opinion: smoke, or CO2? (Defining smoke broadly.)

It's a real question: Diesel motors make less CO2, but more smoke (of lots of types).

Would you rather spray some pesticide on crops? Or would it be better to use an energy intensive tractor (lots of CO2) to handle the situation mechanically?

The world currently is obsessed with CO2, and I think that's a huge mistake - the other types of pollution are worse.
That's just bozo filters with a side of Web of Trust. It's been done. Bozo filters help with spam on the client side but don't do anything about spam on the server side. Servers still have to host everything because they can't know a priori what clients will want or not.

Not that your idea is necessarily bad but it breaks a lot of the utility of Usenet to have whitelist based filtering. I can't know ahead of time I like your posts and want to whitelist you. I also don't want to have to "know a guy" to get involved in a group (via Web of Trust).
Google Suite and Gmail are not the only ways to get through spam filters, and since when has latency been an issue? Do you know what "extinguish" means? Because that does not sound like "extinguish" and only barely scratches the surface of "extend".

If anything, Gmail's spam filters are absolute shit, judging by all the random spam that blasts through. It's a colander at this point.
I recall using SumatraPDF in its early days. I also worked at the IT department for a university and we started putting it in all PCs. It was fast, reliable and no licensing issues whatsoever.

I use zathura on Linux nowadays, and it like a not-too-distant cousin. It's perhaphs a bit less newbie-friendly, but it shares the same focus on "let's just render things fast and no BS", and also uses mupdf under the hood.
FWIW, I've always found Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" column to be funny and informative.
Resumeworded
Greetings techies! I came across this platform on LinkedIn and was wondering if any of you have experience using it. Lately, AI services have been all the buzz on LinkedIn, so I decided to check it out and see what it's all about.

From my perspective, they charge an exorbitant amount for something that is automated =). I have used Jobscan before, but I'm uncertain how similar these two platforms are. Could someone shed some light on this matter and advise me whether or not I should give it a shot?

I've been seeking some comfort in my job searching journey, and it's been quite a rollercoaster ride. I've either been ghosted or received automated responses and it sucks bawlls.
> At some point you might turn that idea on it's head and realize that a lot of "intelligent" behavior is mostly parroting what worked before.

Absolutely correct. That's why I consider ChatGPT to be major progress even thought it's not quite all the way there yet. It's sufficiently major progress that it has changed my mind about the odds of seeing "real AI" in my lifetime. Before ChatGPT I'd have given long odds against. Now I will be surprised if it doesn't happen in the next 5-10 years, maybe even sooner.

> ChatGPT just needs a little more data

Speaking as someone who used to do AI research, I think it needs more than just "a little more data", I think it needs an architectural modification.

But yes, I think a lot of humans are closer to ChatGPT than even they themselves realize.
ah, dejanews! So many times I plugged a build error message into their search and got the exact fix I needed. One search and problem solved. That probably wouldn't happen today even if they were still around, but it was a great experience to have had.
Thanks for your reply.

>The trick for me is to find something where the MVP is not too time intensive to build, but provides hundreds of dollars a month in value to other businesses.

I think that is indeed the target for most of product oriented solo entrepreneurs. And stretch goal being getting bought out or acquired.

Do you do market research for product ideas/customers willing to pay?
This has happened to me, except I was banned instantly upon creation and they wanted a mobile number AND a selfie. Which I refuse to give them and ended up deleting Instagram.

I suspect my IP address was suspicious to the algorithm, but it's a mobile app on a mobile network so I'm not sure why it's so strict.
I can't speak about the experience of writing unsafe. I haven't written any, and hope never to do so.

That said, your concerns are pretty valid, widely echoed and are being taken seriously. Writing unsafe code is a chore and it needn't be. I'm hoping the newly created Operational Semantics team (https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/lang#Operational%...) makes progress here.
Because this is often tendentiously quoted without context, here's what Gove actually said:

> “I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.”

His problem is not with experts, but with people who claim the authority of experts without the track record or ability to justify that claim, i.e. people who are wrong most of the time, but expect you to believe them unquestioningly anyway. I'm sure we can all think of examples.
Yes but it doesn't provide an HTTP/whatever API - it's CLI.

OP said "self host" so I assumed they're looking for an implementation that provides an API endpoint.

It would be straightforward enough to create an API utilizing whisper.cpp but I'm not aware that such a thing exists.

Additionally, depending on requirements whisper.cpp is remarkably performant considering it's running on CPU but it's still nowhere near competitive with GPU implementations (for obvious reasons). Depending on expectations vs the GPU powered OpenAI Whisper endpoint it could be disappointing.

From the whisper.cpp benchmarks it's showing transcribing 3:24 of audio with whisper medium.en in 30 seconds (on an M1 Pro!!!) - which is (again) incredible considering. That's 6.8x real-time.

As an example, we've spent quite a bit of time optimizing our self-hosted Whisper API endpoint and it can do 3 min of audio (the max we currently care about) in 2.5 seconds with large-v2 and beam size five on an RTX 3090. That's 72x real-time with a much larger, more capable, and more accurate model - and we have further work to do.

Our focus is primarily "real time" dictation tasks with ~10 sec sentences. All in with internet latency of ~70ms end-to-end (from end of 10s audio segment to returned results) is currently roughly 700ms. Medium.en is 400ms all in.

Not a fair comparison but yet another example of the massive performance differences between CPU and GPU for tasks like this.

Additionally, my experience with this project has illustrated to me (yet again) the gulf between "we opened our model" and "actually use it at scale, in production, and be competitive in the marketplace". It's a HUGE difference and the resources, knowledge, etc required are substantial.
I just drove from TX to NY last week in a Model Y with no range/charging problems.

I stopped about every 2.5 hours which may be a bit shorter than the average person's leg in an ICE car but is about as long as I personally want to remain sitting down.

The Tesla charger network is incredibly reliable, the Model Y's cold weather range is pretty darn good relatively, and I had zero charger wait times the whole way.

I'm glad to hear Tesla is opening up its charger network to others and am looking forward to the V4 chargers with longer cables. My only wish is that other EVs had the same connector because the Tesla one is so much slimmer.
If you use the large-v2 model they expose via the API, the more accurate, in your local machine, you'll see that even though it works great it's slow and won't work for long audio files because of memory limitations.

It's fairly easy and quick to run Whisper for free either locally in an Anaconda environment with Python or the command-line interface or, even better, in a Google Colab notebook.

Here's a sample notebook that builds on a notebook by Pete Warden.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1sxsey3n0jd09MjUd9Ky...
When TikTok runs out of relevant content and starts showing me generic/popular stuff; I say aloud "Ope, I'm out of tiktoks".

These days I don't check TikTok every day or I hit the normie soft cap after 5 minutes. My friends rely on me to be the "TikTok" guy since none of them have it installed for various reasons, so I "save them up" by waiting to view my fyp for longer periods of time.
> For instance, add a pressure sensor under the bathmat (or seat) in front of the toilet so that the turn-off timer doesn't run while it senses pressure. Alternatively, maybe infrared heat sensor or CO2 sensor to detect presence of living mammals in the room. But both of these approaches can be messed up by your cat/dog spending all day/night laying on the bathroom mat keeping the lights on.

Instead of ripping up your floor or adding weird heat and CO2 sensors, you could just buy a dual-tech (PIR and ultrasound) wall switch occupancy sensor to replace the PIR occ sensor. This problem has been solved already.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lutron-Maestro-Dual-Tech-Motion-...
Humane Raises $100M, partnering with Microsoft and OpenAI
Social platforms like Reddit support grift economies
Create and use Honeytokens to catch hackers
Gibberish is just a shortcut for words without meaning.

I don’t have some arbitrary rules for what passes the Turing test, but it’s about the worst case not the best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing_Machinery_and_Intell...
I like it, but I think I'm going to have to figure out an Nvidia driver situation, and (maybe related) I can't use an external monitor, either.

I like it, but it's not a huge improvement for me over Ubuntu.

I may go back to my debian roots after reading some comments in this thread.
Governments don't come from the geography, but the people. Living in a small country myself, a place such as China, India, Indonesia, or Nigeria could send (and they would gladly come) enough people to outvote us on any issue 3x over, without even noticing they're missing anyone. We would simply cease to exist first as a sovereign people, and soon after as a distinct people at all, without any territory to call our own.
Update 2: I actually figured out how to speak to Ebay directly; you have to open a chat and ask it to have a human call you. Someone did within 2 minutes, and after reviewing everythign, they agreed it was a scammer and are giving me a full refund. I'm shocked.
> Sometimes I miss my quirky candid real life photography app.

I miss the same too. BeReal is has the closest experience for candid photography. Unfortunately is not that widely used in my group
This also happens with Google-owned projects. A fair amount of Google Summer of Code communication goes to spam.
The question is "what type of interaction are you after?"

Chat systems are good for the "I need help now" and "I want to chat..." but for some things a single message takes an hour or day or more thought to formulate a proper response.

In those situations, the real time nature of chat causes discussions of a topic to become disjoint.

USENET, email, forums and the like can have single topic threads / chains / posts where one topic is followed across days or weeks or months which is sometimes needed for hard problems.
You are unlikely to find a biology paper that doesn't say that.

If it were true there should be an equivalent change in insect population as you move north/south.
That particular section of ethernet, which served about half of a floor of an entire building was intermittent. It would work the vast majority of the time, but would have mysterious periodic outages, depending on the phase of the moon, or other mysterious cosmic events.

Working at a university, no one would pay for me to have a time domain reflectometer (aka TDR), which would have helped determine if there was a bad spot in the Ethernet cable somewhere.

One of the assistant directors of the lab told me that I didn't need a TDR, because I could just diagnose the problem with a signal generator and an oscilloscope. (Which is what a TDR basically is, but just bundled up to be convenient to use.) I ended up doing just that, and was able to determine that there was a reflection happening on that section of Ethernet cable, but IIRC, narrowing down the location relied on me having more knowledge than I had about the speed of light in an RG-58 cable. And also, wheeling around a working with the oscilloscope was a PITA.

Eventually I found someone to loan me a real TDR, and was able to determine how far down the cable the problem was occurring. Of course, even with that knowledge, determining where the problem was occurring was a challenge, since the cable snaked in a out of everyone's offices.

I followed the cable, applying the TDR at various points, until I got close to where the reflection was occurring, and it seemed to be occurring where the cable ran through the ceiling for a while.

I should note that all while I'm doing this, people are griping heavily, since it required disconnecting that section of Ethernet, meaning that people couldn't get their work done.

In any case, I got a ladder, pried up some ceiling tiles, looked up into the ceiling, and found a section of the Ethernet cable that had been spliced. At first I figured that one of the splices was bad, but eventually I noticed that the cable that had been spliced in was RG-59.

In case you don't already know, RG-58 and RG-59 look almost identical to each other. IIRC, the only real way to tell the difference was by reading the print on the cable.

Whoever spliced in that piece of cable should be drawn and quartered, but once I replaced that bit of cable with RG-58, everything then worked fine from then on, with no more intermittent outages.
I've seen multiple condos in San Francisco in 5 over 1 that have perfect sound insulation, generally they're on busy streets though (and thus you don't really want to live there).
That's nice! This way you build your skillset and have a way to demonstrate it!