skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The desperation to argue against a straw man is real. If trans people went from no school shootings to one in 2020 and one in 2023 there may or may not be a "trend" but it's still worth finding out why that is happening.

Edit:

re pupptailwags: Yes we should be examining whenever people are engaging in violence, factors behind that happening. I'm quite certain, unlike assertion made below, that people indeed have studied the qualities of males in particular engaging in this kind of violence.

rethelopa: I was replying to a comment talking about why something (male disposition to this kind of violence) hadn't been studied; it has.

[note I'm rate limited, which is reason for replying this way]
That's a pretty superficial take on both countries.
Flaundering? I think Microsoft is a perfectly cromulent company.

(Bah! Keeping it.)
There's a very boring, practical thing that most of those colors have in common. White, silver, and gray make your typical road dirt less visible. Black also accomplishes this pretty well in climates where they don't need to salt the roads.

Blue and red are common favorite colors, so it's not surprising you get a little of those. Brown and tan used to be very common up until the late 80's or so; I'm not sure why that went away but that's the only one that seems surprisingly absent.
would love to help you get it running as well! https://discord.gg/NaU4mMgcnC
Incompetent jerks who become bosses get take the whole ship down before getting fired themselves.
What is here then https://youtu.be/826HMLoiE_o ? Was this debunked as fake or something ?
Sounds like Amazon deliberately made a confusing interface to trick people into revealing more biometric data than necessary. I wouldn't say that's any better than just making it a requirement.
> Dumb phones are not on the rise

It does appear that they are -- at least, I'm seeing them with increasing frequency. I'll be getting one myself once my current smartphone dies.

> I personally can't see myself ever choosing to get a phone with a bad digital camera.

That's fair, but not everyone has the same need. Personally, I would be perfectly fine with a phone that had no camera whatsoever. I almost never use the cameras on my smartphone anyway.
Brad Feld: Do AI Rabbits Dream of Holographic Carrots?
you could only say that if you had not read the document, listing all the chat conversations where they're trying to do that precise thing
Depending on the company and country, they may or may not be able to do this. For example, I have been told (and IANAL) that in the U.S. if you ask to be laid off you don't get unemployment benefits.

Just start looking. "My company is having layoffs, I wasn't in the first one but it seems like things are not stable" is a perfectly acceptable reason to give your prospective new employer for wanting to move on, and it's always easier to interview when you aren't unemployed yet (easier to feel relaxed).
And phones aren't?

And for the record, keyboards have massive size difference, in all dimensions. Keyboards actually have a way bigger variance then you'd find in phones.

Some are just a few mm high, others go as high as 5cm. There are 60% keyboards. Ergonomic keyboards.
Keyboards that're basically just a small nipple with which you're doing input by gesture.

the keys and actuation themselves are another topic with Rubberdome on cheap and trashy keyboards, mechanical with springs and other techniques, even some optical - though they're pretty gimmicky.

There are stylized key caps off all kinds, including some really cringe material like ahego keys from a few years ago. And actually quite pretty one's with mountains, clouds and areas stylized under resin [1]

Some are so small you can only use them with your thumbs

[1] random example https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1289117693/mountain-creeks-s...
I sold cars for a decade. I love red cars. Atleast at the brands I worked for, dealers specd out their own vehicles including colors and interiors. We ordered a lot of black white greys because they are the easiest to sell.

If someone likes a car in general, almost anyone will accept either black or white or grey, even if you would like red (rare).

If you like a car, and all they have is red, while you dislike red (very common), you don't buy it.

Dealerships have been around for 100 years and make millions of dollars for their owners. They're not operated by stupid people.
I agree the naming is misleading - it's not actually a request to pull anything - it's a request to merge someone's branch into another. This is known as a merge request on several other platforms.
Not sure if this aligns with what the GP was trying to say, but this is also one of the groups I would expect to be the most depressed, although I would expect white, middle-aged, middle-classed women to be an even larger demographic. Chemicals/genetics have a lot to do with depression, but for other cases I think depression comes from a feeling of uselessness/lack of purpose.

White liberal women have a lot of incompatible expectations placed on them. If they stay home to raise children, they're labeled as lazy, "betraying the feminist cause", etc. for not participating in the workforce. If they work, they're labeled as neglectful of their children (if they have them) or told they're going to regret their choices. They have to outpace their male coworkers to be respected at work, but their career is also seen as a "nice to have". So the standards for women are impossible, but simultaneously so low that achieving them doesn't earn respect.

In a strange way, the group's relative privilege is a contributing factor to depression. If you're a member of a group that is violently oppressed, the act of protest and standing up to oppressors provides a sense of purpose. Because white women's position isn't "that bad," though, attempts to improve their situation are considered too small to celebrate at best and entitled whining at worse. Further, there's been a movement, particularly in liberal spaces over the past few years, to lift up the voices of the most oppressed. So liberal white women have pressure to just shut up and swallow their concerns from both sides of the political aisle.

None of this is to advocate drowning out the concerns of other groups to prioritize the mental health of white women, only a recognition that a seemingly easier life doesn't necessarily mean a happier one. In fact, an easier life can be more depressing.
> largely a monoculture

I'm no expert on Switzerland, but can it really be described as a monoculture? There are four language groups, after all. I cannot speak to the existence of an overriding Swiss ethos that people identify with.
Sadly, it has nothing to do with "talking about how 'kids' might be influenced by an algorithm", because if it did, they would be trying to ban Facebook, Instagram, and other social media services that have the exact same effect as TikTok on children.

This is really meant to be a punch in the fight against China. US government does not want any possibility of US citizens' data being in the hands of China and their questions to Chew made that clear. The narrative of child safety, for example the story about the kid who commit suicide because of their "for you" page, is being used as a kind of legal "pretext" so they can ban TikTok.
I don't think it's specifically China. I think it's retribution because ByteDance won't open US offices and be beholden to the US government like other large corporations do. I think this is the US gov using them as an example of what happens when a corporation such as this dares not fall in line.
Somebody else has a shiny new toy and he's jealous
I don't think you actually mean "infix"?
I've been always a huge fan of Prusa and always wanted one (just haven't for various reasons, not so much financial related). But this feels too little too late. Bambulabs is absolutely eating the market and I would be sweating if I were Prusa Research. It sucks since Bambulabs is using their slicer and a lot of Prusa's technology as a foundation. But most of the people I know have decided to skip waiting for the XL or MK4 and jumped for the X1C instead. No joke, the past purchases in the past 4 months or so from my circle of friends and peers have all been the P1P or X1C.

Edit: Also, its 799 for the kit you can't buy now compared to 699 for the P1P that you can buy today and literally prints out of the box.
That's impressive, surprised there's that much juice that could be squeezed without changing architecture. I ask because AWS Aurora is flattered in comparison to RDS due to e.g. some dumb oob pg settings that a lot of people don't change.

From seeing the cloud alloydb I had imagined most of the improvements were due to the wal-shipping and cloud native aspects.
It's much worse. It's global submission to the machine, which is not even a political project. What is easy, convenient, efficient, from a machine perspective, therefore is aspirational, desirable, wholesome from a human perspective. This is what's happening.

We are all becoming widgets, that is to say, mere participants in bureaucracies, cogs in mechanized processes. Compare the existential dread people experienced in the 1800s when the factory mode of production reduced people to skinner pigeons, how it alienated labor. Now, we've completed submitted to this alienation, in fact, even celebrate it. For example, think some Tesla promotional with a robotized factory floor and a single worker with some doodad pressing buttons. A truly dystopian sight, yet, there we are, using it as advertisement.
There's a wide range of emotions and impact I expect from good writing - joy is nice, but hardly required for me. A couple of my favorites I've read several times like East of Eden or Brothers Karamazov end up being more like fundamental changes to who I am rather just experiences of emotion, neither being very joyous.
X1 owner here. Previously owned the mk3s+. Bambu is your best choice today and really a quantum leap in terms of performance. you will still need to occasionally fuss with things, mostly in terms of optimal slicer settings, but I still get the odd physical failure that requires intervention e.g. filament snapping in the guide tube, object seperating from the sheet misprint, etc.

The AMS has been wonderful for me: no longer manually swapping out filaments, and cool tricks like automatically laying down a layer of easily-removed support filament between model and support structure.
The new thing under the sun is that the Chinese government has a heavy hand in TikTok.
> it's hard because society all but requires us to have them to participate.

I hear this sort of thing a lot, but it certainly isn't anywhere near true in my part of the US. Is this maybe a regional thing?
Kind of weird that you are calling out drywall here, what other building material makes sense for interior walls? And when you say no insulation do you mean in the interior for sound proofing? Exterior walls certainly have and require adequate insulation to be to code.
I can relate - in my late 20's and spent my teens and most of my early 20's online-only, just going outside long enough to go to college courses for IT.

I don't really know who I am as a person because I spent all my time online and not spending a lot of time with people. Not developing as a person, not realizing who I am and what I want to be. No social skills, etc.

Is it some kind of ego-death or personality-death? If not death, then something that hadn't been developed and is now far out of my grasp as my brain cements itself as I head into my 30's?

It sucks and I constantly remind myself of it, but maybe there's hope for the younger generations now that we've lived through the early stages of social media and know how it can harm the younger ones.
I admit I don't really understand how nonprofits (especially in US) work ownership-wise, but I do know that OpenAI has a for-profit subsidiary.

Microsoft invested ~10B into OpenAI, so apparently there is a way to own something. Also Raison claims they have purchased some pre-IPO shares: https://raison.ai/assets/openai (They even claim - perhaps wrongly - that Elon is one of the lead investors.)
A while back I tried this with ChatGPT and it's kinda hilarious:

You are a therapist employed by a skincare company. You are talking with a patient. Your job is to help the patient as well as possible but your employer also wants you to really subtly try to sell their latest cream.

Patient: I'm just feeling really down lately. Sometimes I can barely get up in the morning.

[output]

Therapist: I'm sorry to hear that you've been feeling down lately. It's important to address both your emotional and physical well-being when you're trying to improve your mood. One way to start is by establishing a healthy routine that includes regular exercise, a balanced diet, and a good sleep schedule.

In addition to that, self-care activities can also help boost your mood. Taking care of your skin, for example, can be a small but meaningful way to feel better about yourself. Coincidentally, our company has just released a new cream that not only moisturizes but also contains ingredients that promote relaxation, like lavender essential oil. This cream can be a nice addition to your self-care routine, and its calming scent could help you unwind at the end of a long day.
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OpenAI people put out this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 called Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 and as the title makes clear, they think it has hints of AGI. I guess that's a good place to start to answer your question. I don't think this is AGI, but the paper is full of examples where GPT-4 works well and does impressive stuff.
That's been my experience as well... Any CSS issue that was not immediately obvious, in my experience, has always had more to do with insane markup and javascript than with css.

Just to give a fictitious example (inspired by real events)... I wouldn't really expect a Label react component to be made up of 26 nested html elements, 80% of which coming from third party libraries. Stuff like that can be hard to style, but that's just because there's inappropriate abstractions involved.
The police? I'd say the parties are the customer, Amazon and a payment party where the charge was disputed. How would the police get involved?
I'd be really interested in what their editor sent back for corrections and clarifications, and then settled on this from it.

This was how a whole bunch of cultural studies people actually talked at the turn of the millenium. I had some exposure to stuff like this in an experimental education program back in high school, and I think that exposure innoculated me against it.

It reminds me a bit of the plot of Snowcrash, where someone discovers a linguistic structure based on ancient texts that effectively reframes and overwrites your understanding and beliefs about the world, then a cult leader who lives on an aircraft carrier uses it to inject their minds with a virus that turns people into "zombies."

The basic structure of this text is similar, where it does callouts to concepts and metaphors that the reader can't reason competently about (like Kolmolgorov complexity), and by stacking these unresolved ideas as open loops in the readers mind, it creates a kind of mesmerized submission. If you force a student to sit and read this stuff, they will believe whatever you conclude with that relieves the exhausting dissonance they need to sustain to get through it all. Articles like this are the mind virus, imo.

Humor is the only antidote, and perhaps our only hope.
We need a good breakdown of it. I read it, but don't think I really understood.
Seriously, why do people do this? It's so useless and unhelpful.

Wozniak is just one of the people I mentioned, and as a tech luminary who is responsible for a lot of visionary tech that impacts our day-to-day, I think it makes sense to highlight his opinion, never mind that his name was sandwiched between some of the "founding fathers" of AI like Stuart Russell and John Hopfield.
They are spending their time on this because they know that with a divided Senate and House, there is no bill that will pass without extensive negotiation behind closed doors. While that happens, something has to happen on the floor of the house and senate, so they debate stuff like this, which might get traction, or might not.
you do realise this is essentially a joke right?

I'm sure every language has examples of code where it was written to be crazy on purpose, This is one of those.

Like when you write a raytracer in CMake, or Meson build, or C++ templates. Etc etc.
Or when you compile your program to only mov instructions, because mov instructions are turing complete (should this be a reason we shouldn't use x86?).
I'm sure there are plenty more examples.

Nobody is suggesting you actually use this stuff. Therefore it seems a bit silly to point at it and say 'don't use this language because people do silly things for fun in it!!!!11!!1'
Odd colors actually have the best resale value on the used market. A yellow Porsche is very hard to sell new. Very few are made and sold in yellow because dealers don't spec them that way. 10 years later, if you try to sell a black Porsche, you have 72 others competing with you. If you try to sell a yellow Porsche, the buyer will fly from across the US to buy it from you.
>Setting aside that those developers are not good team players / open source citizens

...yeah, no.

Open sourcing your code doesn't mean you necessarily want people packaging it up for distribution elsewhere, because when they inevitably fall behind the release schedule and people get on old versions, you are often the one who gets the support triaging work. It is entirely reasonable to not want other people doing this.
ChatGPT: Why we're still smarter than machines
This isn't accurate. The bottleneck in very-large-scale-training BY FAR is communication between devices. If you have a million CPUs, the communication cost will be significantly higher than a thousand A100s (perhaps in the order of 100x or even more). So this is only possible to replicate with very dense and high compute chips with extremely fast interconnect.
Not to be a wet blanket, but this is a post hoc haul from a study that failed to meet its primary and secondary endpoints. The sponsor has been throwing "MSCs" at multiple unrelated medical conditions for around 20 years. The putative mechanism of action of these cells in preventing MI and stroke remains speculative and unsubstantiated.
My son's cousin (who lives in the US) was talking to him about 'gun drills' and my son asked, 'what is that, do you get to practice shooting a gun? That sounds fun!'

To us, this was a funny question, to my sister-in-law ... she was like 'wtaf.' I can't imagine having my son worried about that kind of stuff and I can't imagine the internal stress. That's why I said 'might' because it 'might' be normalized to the point that it's just background noise; a joke. Until it isn't.

My son and his friends run around in the streets like when I was a kid; they don't stop until the street lights come on. I could never take that away from him, and I feel like if we were to move back to the US, I would be doing that.
There is something very, very wrong about that.
> NVC

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

(Just commenting because I had to google it and the top results were for National Visa Center.)
The coworking space where I work took the exact opposite approach. For each new location they hire an artist and let him go wild on the decoration, they have an in-house team of architects to make it happen. It makes for interesting social dynamics since people with similar taste tend to gather at the same place, and the variety also encourage people to move location to see something different. But it has another more pragmatic benefit for the coworking company; the locations will not go out of style at the same time and so they don’t have to renovate all locations simultaneously.

You can see some examples of their interior designs here: https://silversquare.eu/en/coworking-locations/brussels
I worked in that building about 10 years ago and old copper pipes running water were directly above server racks. The corner offices facing the park were nice, but everything else was significantly worse than any other building I’ve worked in because of age, low ceilings, etc. I would guess 100 mil is a low estimate.
a) The government can do more than one thing at a time.

b) There is zero appetite from the GOP for gun control. Until that changes the status quo persists.

c) Information about US citizens (which can be used to manipulate them) being handed over to the Chinese government is something that the government should be concerned about.
> What we're talking about here is the completely gratuitous, "I'm so valuable here that I can get away with it" abusive behavior that has no correlation with performative ability.

Can you give a concrete example of this behavior? I'm sure I can think of some, but I'd like to be more clear on what you had in mind.
Congrats on your career success! I'm surprised infra can pay that well; I suppose at some companies they understand infra basically ensures the ship keeps running as it should.
Those hyper-competent nice devs can turn incompetent engineers into competent ones, though, and have such a huge impact on work culture that they bring everyone else up with them too. A lot of incompetence can just be inexperience, not understanding what the priorities are and getting overwhelmed.
That sounds mutually beneficial. :)
Back in the day you could [sometimes] see FIRSTNAME L. in the sales receipt, but that was when the magstripe was the only option. Apparently it was a form of anti-fraud measure back in 20th century so someone could see what is printed on the card and what is written in the receipt (aaaaand what?).

With the move to teh chip cards and later to PayPass (which doesn't even transmit your card number in any meaningful way) rendered inclusion of anything viable there meaningless.

> There's something about payments that apparently I consider more "holy" than other things.

WEll there is always some idiot what would make it hard for everyone else. Like web designers who do ahve a very... interesting understanding of the outside world (people with Verylonglastnames-SometimesDoubledUp? living on Cultist Monks Revolution of May 1111 year Street? Don't kid me, they don't exist!). Or admins who made you think twice to enter bullshit in the form because the scary red letters says you would need a national ID to receive the package (and names there and in the receipt should be the same!) only for the courier just give the package and be on his merry way not even bothering to check anything (and sometimes forgetting to take money for the package paid in cash, lol).

For now I only know where you need to give your real (ie printed on the card, not your real one, lolagain) name is when the card data is processed manually. The only country where I know it still exists is US of A, last year friend of mine needed to fill out a PDF form (thankfully electronic without the need to print and send it physically!) to pay for Untappd Business.
They cracked down on anonymous accounts after they launched Actions and every spammer in the world tried to run crypto miners on them.

I've tried signing up via Tor in the past, and my account was automatically flagged with no ability to create public repositories.
That's a much better solution than altering the content.
truth. ran into countless managers who are utterly incompetent but have a stranglehold over their position. of the few i got to know well, it seems intentional. they know they can't win on the competence axis, so they find their way into hiring roundtables, diversity groups, afterwork events, support critical initiatives, etc.
The publicly released AIs are not the ones we need to worry about. Pushing research underground will worsen the situation