skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have we gone back to the 1950s - 1960s obsession with thought control? That era birthed the CIA's MK-Ultra progam of research in 'behavioral modification', the 'winning hearts and minds in Vietnam' effort (also called 'pacification'), along with other psychology-inspired behavioral research & social manipulation programs. A lot of this seems to have taken off in the 1950s with Ford Foundation funding for programs at places like Stanford, e.g.

https://casbs.stanford.edu/news/casbs-origins

Claims that the Chinese government is running social engineering programs aimed at American citizens are identical to the justifications for the Johnson/Nixon Operation MHCHAOS CIA-led program that ran from 1967 to 1974, and its partner progam COINTELPRO run by the FBI around the same time - i.e. fears of foreign infiltration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

The US government is caught in a Catch-22 situation, however - it's clear they want a population that's susceptible to domestic propaganda and that lacks critical reasoning and analysis skills and isn't skeptical of media and government pronouncements, and which has 'faith in institutions' (the same goal the Chinese government has with respect to its own population), but this kind of population is just as susceptible to foreign propaganda as it is to domestic propaganda.

The only real solution for anything approaching a free and open society is to improve education for all and teach skills like logical reasoning, research and analysis, etc., all informed by a healthy dose of basic skepticism.
It's just 2 syllables more than in English, is that really that much of a difference?
I'm afraid the comment doesn't contribute to the conversation. This is a lifestyle that can hardly apply to anyone else, especially those in a relationship or having a family, so might as well just keep it to yourself.
Yes, but the confusion caused by not knowing which way your writing it makes both ways worthless (unless your audience is strictly IN or OUT of the US - OR - if one number is greater than 12).

It's annoying, and I just ALWAYS use YYYY-MM-DD, and everyone is happy. Please join my cause. If there's one thing we can all agree makes the world just a little better, it's using YYYY-MM-DD to get people used to it.
As a tech lead I am tasked with finding ways of organising development process to achieve the result the best way we can.

At some point this has to result with dictating how people need to behave, what is expected of them. Unfortunately, giving people just the goal and no process to get there does not work. What does work is giving people progressively more freedom after they have shown this can at least potentially lead to better results. Taking away freedoms does not work -- people become resentful, demotivated and stop working. That's why demoting people very rarely leads to good results.

Giving entire team complete freedom can work with highly selected individuals who are very committed and motivated to achieve the goal. But then the reason this can work at all is because they organise themselves and they honour their internally established constraints. But those circumstances are rare in large companies and building those teams is extremely difficult. I am not naive to think I can do it and even then I usually am given a team rather than given free hand to choose whatever people I want at whatever price I find necessary.

I empathize with people who don't like being constrained in how they do work, I don't like it myself. But this to some extent is required to get a large organisation working. The best solution is to do your job well and show it is in everybody's interest to give you more freedom.

> And then you tell me that this is how I will be required to work 100% of the time and I'll end the interview right there.

And I think it is perfectly fine. This is the point of interviewing process -- for me to find if I can work with you and for you to find if you want to work with me. For my end I try to explain and demonstrate how it would look in reality. It costs me much more to hire somebody that will then be unhappy with the process. On a more personal level I am trying as much as I can to not hire people that I would have to soon fire. I hate firing people. And more than that I feel responsible for causing problem to a person that I could have prevented by not hiring them in the first place.

So in a sense you breaking the interview is win win for both of us.

Hopefully there would have been screening before the interview where you would learn a bit about how we work and you would leave the process with less disruption to both of us.
I don't have information about specific speech synthesis systems, but contemporary speech synthesis often relies on neural networks for best quality, and those can benefit from GPUs. If you truly prefer robotic sounding, that may not be relevant to you. But if it's all about synthesis speed, that's where GPUs may bridge the performance gap.
Using outgoing esps (email service providers) and self hosting the rest trivializes this.

Or you can just run something like mdaemon and let it trivialize self hosting mail.
There is no way. What I am alluding to is that, the only people who will go down the path of being a junior to senior dev are those that truly love the field. It will purge those that only go down the path because they think it will make them a lot of money. Is this good or bad? Only you can decide.

What I didn’t say but should be a given is that these AI tools won’t be able to completely eliminate the need for any human touch, it will just reduce the need to the point where there won’t be the current huge demand for developers, and thus, the only people that travel down that path will be the ones that are truly passionate about development.
Tax math: it's the marginal tax rate you have to look at for deductions, i.e. the rate you'll pay on the next dollar you earn, or save on the dollar you deduct. We don't have a flat tax at the Federal level, or most states.

We can find plenty of taxpayers in NY, CA, or MA who have a marginal rate of 40-50%. They are the highly affluent people that those PBS pledge drives featuring Baby Boomer musical acts are aimed at.
> we had to store 11 million copies on disc

The reason you were allowed to store 11 million copies is because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled[1] in 1984 that you were permitted to make copies of TV shows to watch later on your VCR. And this was reputedly because some of the supreme court judges had VCRs — which had been spreading lightning fast at the time — and understood the concept and wanted to find or create a legal argument to permit such copying.

Just imagine if VCR adoption had been slower, and that the judges had not yet tried out that newfangled invention for home recording, and they had ruled that personal copies weren't allowed. Then today, you'd have been making 11 million illegal copies. It's amusing to think about whether making a single copy available to 11 million users would have been much less legal risk in that scenario.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....
IIR - So long as the time it takes is longer than the periodic DRAM refresh interval, the ECC can effectively stop rowhammer.
you may as well ask why 100% doesn't represent "half". Fahrenheit is best thought of as a range from 0 to 100, the numbers outside of which are extreme outliers
A lot of Google core products feel like that now. The core features seem to have been abandoned, and in some cases only get updated to make them worse.
I feel you...I'm not German myself. It's quite annoying, and every time I want to be sure that the number I speak is understood properly, I give it number by number. I've seen too many Germans having issues with that myself, and it's just too risky with foreigners.

Interestingly, I've rarely seen it being an issue with dates. Maybe because the amount is too small and people got used to it.
US Navy swaps $38,000 periscope joysticks for $30 Xbox controllers (2017)
GPT4 Has 1T Parameters
The numbers that are too big to imagine
I don't see any major blockchains going down right now?
It’s not hard to imagine but the point is they don’t broadcast that because it’s too niche.
I dimly remember trying this five years ago and it being a bit of a mess. IIRC it was that date picker widgets in browsers presented in a different format to what the Accept-Language header suggests (a killer when you're trying to render static and editable dates in the same table), or users were confused seeing dates in their preferred format after being linked from a site that disregards them, etc. Perhaps the situation has improved by now.
It's stated in the FAQ:

Was PDOS written in C90? As a matter of fact, yes. PDOS was in fact written in C90.
After Credit Suisse’s demise, attention turns to Deutsche Bank
15 trillion operation per second ? Of what kind ? Addition ? Isn’t that mind blowing ?
This is my point too: all of this is not "human-friendly" but "American-friendly" or in the case of dates "english-friendly".
Using outgoing esps (email service providers) and self hosting the rest trivializes this.

Or you can just run something like mdaemon and let it trivialize self hosting mail.

Self hosting is the original devops
GIT tells the why.
WFH works only in certain niche areas - when the work you do can be done alone on your laptop without any heavy collaboration required. I sincerely wish that the current meme of "WFH FTW" dies out before it removes one of the last ladders left for the Western masses to prosperity.

I can understand why capital class is in favor, they after all get labor for cheap and get to break the inconvenience of having to pay higher compensation. I just don't understand why labor (eg. software engineers) doesn't see the inevitable writing on the wall. But again, people also had a rose-tinted view that companies will never do layoffs and high TC will perpetuate forever. Hopefully, people are realizing now that the capital class will fuck them over at the fist chance they get.
Or, do what I do and avoid tipping restaurants when possible.

Tipping is inherently a negative experience and you should treat it as such. So for example any service that operates on tips looses a full star on review sites from me.
All creatures act in their self-interest. If you act towards any creature with malice, it will see you as a long-term threat.

If, on the other hand, you act towards it with charity, it will see you as a long-term asset.
It looks longer than it is if you speak it though.

It looks scary too btw. Had to double-check it too because you rarely write it as words in German (I'm not German too).
I figure as long as it's an hour or less it's fair? I once had one that was an hour and a half, but they actually compensated me for the time (sorta feels like zirp in hindsight tbh)
Yes… it is a strawman, you just keep responding to something I never said. I mentioned regulating farming’s use of water in each of these posts. I simply am not going to sit here and act like bottling water is somehow “”ok”” according to some posters here; it is a complete waste of resources and a source of pollution and micro plastics.
Significantly different. OpenAI isn't in the business of building a profile on you and using it to sell your attention to advertisers. The information they have is that which was public and that which was voluntarily provided. There is no privacy violation here, their core business is not at odds with privacy the way that Google is.
Uh, you do realize this is just about physical books, right? When I want to read the latest news I don't go to my local bookstore and grab a book on news, I get that from the internet, which the Internet Archive is perfectly able to archive, as it has nothing to do with this. Sigh.
The Fight to Expose Corporations’ Real Impact on the Climate
Mathematicians Discovered a New 13-Sided Aperiodic Monotile
https://archive.is/vCPc1
I am usually an apologist for imperial units thanks to the divisibility by 3 and "human" scale, but temperature is ironically the one that I think is the silliest. It's basically arbitrary.

The original idea of Farenheit was that 0-100 was the range between the freezing point of salt water and human body temperature, and it was designed to be convenient for use in labs. At the time, 0F was the coldest temperature you could reliably make in a lab environment (using a saltwater ice bath). 100F was when the thing started to be uncomfortable to touch, I guess?

Sure, as an American living in the northeast, it is pretty convenient for my current use - temperatures vary from 0 (sometimes below) to a little less than 100 over the year and I know what "jacket weather" is - but that doesn't really mean anything if you don't live in this exact climate. I imagine that if we switched to Celsius tomorrow, after re-learning the numbers for "put on a sweater" and "put on a jacket," it would be about the same.
It doesn’t have to be a hobby. There’s production grade tools like proxmox that loft any self hosting to comparable models
It’s sugar
You will love this: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/how-10-fingers-became-12-...
It will be involuntary.
Eugénie Brazier: The legendary 'mother of French cuisine'
ha... this is going to get much much much worse.
Ok, but they're not friendly to anything but assembler.

Well, since they typically have memory that cycles in the ballpark of instruction cycle times (unlike desktop and server CPUs where there's two orders of magnitude difference), that's friendly to Forth I suppose. But that is a small minority of usage even in those environments. It's more like Forth is friendly to slow architectures. :)
"That singularity bullshit" and "that pseudoscientific nonsense" count as name-calling in the sense that https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html uses the term:

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

(a bit more explanation if anyone cares: aggressive pejoratives tend to poison curious conversation and are easy to cut, so this isn't a hard one. I think mostly people write like that online because it's how many of us would talk in person with people we're friendly with—and there it's totally normal, because there's already a 'contract' that takes care of understanding each other's good intention. That's absent online, so many commenters are on a hair trigger with this kind of thing and will react in ways that take the conversation to less interesting, more conflictual places.)
India Remains Internet Shutdown Capital of the World for Fifth Year Running : https://thewire.in/tech/india-remains-internet-shutdown-capi...
Analysis: Wall Street push for bank rescues clashes with Washington realities
Self hosting yourself shouldn’t be less important than others.

In moments of unplanned crisis it will really become apparent that self hosting is because you value yourself as a user more, and not less.

In a way we self host lots of things on our phones.
:) just started. But I'll report back here when I have something to demo.
I'm biased since I grew up with mm/dd/yy format, but I do find month first more useful simply because the 30-day period something takes place in gives me more context immediately about an event, at least when talking about scheduling things.

The year is typically implied, so it's not needed. The actual day of month gives you more specificity, but the month is an easier "chunk" to keep in my head when thinking about a date. If I think about my next dentist appointment, just knowing that it's in September is more useful to me than just knowing the actual day of the month.
If the ROMs are out of print then they should fall into the public domain.

One much needed copyright law adjustment would be to limit copyright protection to a period where the work is actually commercially viable meaning the owner is making an effort to sell it. It doesn't benefit anybody to have old works locked up for years and years with no way for the public to acquire them legally.
That's just sensationalism. If they wanted to go after ripping CDs, they would have gone after that when CDs actually had more than negligible sales. CDs are a dead format in 2023. Most music isn't even released on CD anymore.
I've been using it to explain my own code. If it can explain it in a way that I believe someone else can understand it - then I know my code is legible to the next developer that will look at it. Also, the process is a sanity check for me and also helps me to further refactor the code.
You might be surprised by proxmox with turnkey Linux images, or rockylinux containers
> Concrete diagramming models are domain-agnostic; they are used to diagram any type of system. They can be used with any diagramming tool; however, for best results, model-based diagramming tools are recommended over generic drag-and-drop tools.

Making a statement on the superiority of model based diagrams vs. ad-hoc diagrams without any backing rationale? Adoption of such tools over the past decades outside of niches tell a different story.
The alternative before cloudflare existed was always DIY.
All of this is a matter of habit. I assure you as someone who grew up with Celsius system, we have no problem translating temperature ranges to the levels of comfort and clothes layering. European mailing addresses start with the biggest addressable unit (country) and then drill down to region, city, street, house number, unit number which is actually closer in spirit to your “lead with important information” example.
Never underestimate the sleep-inducing power of a diabetic coma.
> lower overhead and wider hiring range justifies WFH

agreed about lower overhead. Wider hiring range - only if you view workforce as cogs who have merely transactional relationships. Teams having smaller and costlier, but in-person interaction will outcompete larger and cheaper, but fully-remote teams.
Kissing Machine Lets Users Make Out Long Distance
Exactly. Without Cloudflate, preventing DDoS is extremely time consuming and expensive.
I saw that word ("enshittification") in Cory Doctorow's writing:

https://doctorow.medium.com/mass-tech-worker-layoffs-and-the...

...which also had this amazing summary of what we're seeing now:

"The Big Tech firms are locked in a race to see who can eat their seed corn the fastest."
> My understanding is that it's mixed... I think it's supposed to be along the lines of, "am I being compelled to answer against my will?" or some such, in which case it can be inadmissible as evidence (IANAL).

Your understanding is absolutely wrong. There are no magic words that make your voluntary confession inadmissible whether intentional or not. l

The closest thing would be refusing to answer questions. Then, if arrested, demand your attorney and continue to refuse. Never try to rely on a Miranda violation.

Also, folks, find out if your state has a Stop & ID law and understand the details of when they can apply. You are always required to ID yourself if stopped for a traffic infraction.
use llama index: https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

The below code takes a list of questions from an excel, and answers each one based on the directory I passed in. I use this for answering Statement of Works for proposals i write as a first path. Usually, I will have a number of different directorys that i pass in to 'Talk' to different intellegences and get a couple different answers for each prompt. One trains on the entire corpus of my past performance. One has a simple document discussing tone and other information, and one in training on only the SOW itself.

def excelGPT(dir, excel_file, sheet):
#my GPT Key
os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = 'sk-~Your open AI Key Here'
#Working Directory for training
root_folder = ''
documents = SimpleDirectoryReader(root_folder).load_data()
index = GPTSimpleVectorIndex(documents)
file_name = dir + excel_file

df = pd.read_excel(file_name, sheet_name=sheet)

answer_array = []
df_series = df.iloc[:,0]

for i,x in enumerate(df_series):
print("This is the index ", i)
print(x)
response = index.query(x)
answer_array.append(str(response))

zip_to_doc(df_series, answer_array, dir)
Interesting of you to think that if these particular publishers hadn't stepped up, other publishers wouldn't have created the exact same lawsuit.
For a lot of comedy shows, they’ve started using locking Faraday-cage bags, and I like that system a lot more. Your phone stays with you, it’s just locked in a bag to block signal. Those bags (without the lock) are pretty cheap, too—I’m thinking of picking one up for things like Blackhat, but also for times when I want to encourage myself to be offline without crippling my ability to use my phone.
Arguably human imperfections are already deeply reflected in computer design and programming.
I think we need to quit blaming the utter failure of communist systems and corruption on "American bombs" 50 years ago.
As a teenager I got to work and study at Fermi for two weeks under a DoE summer program. There was one kid from each US state and territory, and a few from other countries. We worked in the shops assembling the D0 and Leon Lederman tried to teach cosmology, which was both an incredible privilege and ultimately futile. I was eating in the cafeteria the day the Texas Supercollider was canceled and I don’t think there’s ever been a sadder crowd of physicists anywhere.

I wonder if they still do that summer program.
What do you mean by disease testing centers?
Proxmox with some docker can be an effective combo.

Self hosting with maintained docker images is one way to bypass this scripting hell.

Sandstorm has been on the radar, nice to hear they keep it standardized.
Ultimate Doom on an 80s Compact Mac? [video]
> However, Fermilab may not deserve all the blame, says a theoretical physicist who requested anonymity to protect relations with DOE. For example, he says, after the lab finally hammered out an excavation contract with Thyssen Mining, months passed before DOE approved it. “I’m not sure whether it’s really the lab that has a problem, or if it’s DOE that has a problem and is blaming the lab.”

If you need anonymity to talk to a reporter, you already know that DOE has a problem.
> “It’s hard to imagine CBS or Netflix broadcasting a trans woman unpacking Hegel in lingerie or the Hammurabi Code in cat-eye contacts,”

Has this author been on Netflix?
You are most welcome. Now how do we make a search engine that finds the Miguel for every domain?
7600 people obtained fake nursing diplomas and used them to pass the nurse exam NCLEX, subsequently working as nurses. It appears that these individuals were employed as nurses in locations outside of the United States, as the US does not acknowledge foreign diplomas and experience, thereby necessitating the use of counterfeit diplomas.
16 grams of sugar per serving?!? Just the thing for bed time.
Dinosaurian is an underused adjective, I find
I think IA lives inside the HN/techie bubble, where you can get a lot of positive support for things that don't translate into the real world.
I'm using GPT to write C++ code for me. I've never worked in C++ before. It's going very well.

I'll describe what a class is supposed to do. It spits out the class files, with the fiddly bits 'left as an exercise to the reader'. I then describe the fiddly methods separately, and it spits those out too.

There's still work to be done, but anything boring is handed to me on a plate.
Is there potentially room here for the Librarian of Congress to bless CDL? Or would that require an act of Congress?
How much chilli powder does it take to kill parasites?