skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it doesn't produce meaningfully different outcomes

It absolutely produces different outcomes than a two party system. Smaller parties make demands as a condition for joining any coalition (or similar arrangement). For example, Canada's NDP only agreed to back the Liberal Government on condition of state funded dental care for children being implemented. Now it is. Millions are affected. Whether you agree with it or not - that is unquestionably a "meaningfully different outcome". Other examples abound if you care to look.

>I'm not aware of any parliamentary system with a wonderful diversity of thought and a long record of positive accomplishments.

That's an impossibly high bar. The standard we're talking about is whether it's better than a two party system.
CarPlay works surprisingly well for driving to charging stations.

You tap add waypoint (or whatever) in Apple Maps, then tap EV charging station, or tap siri, and say "DC fast charger" or whatever. (Tested with a Chevy Bolt).

However the navigation isn't as well integrated with range, etc, as was common on older vehicles.

If this wasn't a blatant "have Google pay us to force our customers to give Google their data" move, I'd be cautiously optimistic that they weren't just trying to shovel crapware into their cars.
I also hate the "tool fetish" (and general advocacy of hidden but substantial complexity) that the software industry seems to have created...

Programmers like to think that they spend all their time creating elaborate & complex abstractions

...and that's the essence of the problem. If you want to create needless complexity, you'll also suffer its consequences.

although there absolutely still is a pretty strong contingent of people that advocate for a reversion to a “simpler” way of doing things

I'm one of these, and I still avoid additional tools like the plague, unless they offer a very clear cost-benefit tradeoff. The vast majority of what I do needs only a few windows of a plaintext editor and a terminal. In my experience, others I've worked with who are also similarly minimalistic tend to be more competent too; at the other end of the scale, those who seem to love complex tooling are also the ones who need them as a crutch the most.

That said, I have a different view of the "coding" vs "programming" distinction than some of the other comments here; to me, the latter implies more mindless work while the former (exemplified by terms like "sizecoding" or "democoding") refers to a more intimate and lower-level knowledge of what's going on, along with increased creativity and a problem-solving perspective.
Tesla and Musk Lose Ruling on Factory Union Issues
well in a way - open source software something that you don’t directly pay for
WTF is AuthorIsEligibleForConnectBoostFeature? I guess this may explain why some people seem to accumulate a lot of followers very quickly while all those trying to grow organically seem to struggle. You can imagine if a lot of people benefit from this Connect Boost feature, it would make it impossible for others to be noticed through the noise created by all of these boosted individuals. That's essentially what Twitter feels like ATM. Recently, I manually unfollowed anyone who I suspect may have received a special boost from the algorithms.
I live in a 1600 sqft house on a 5600 sqft lot. If everyone in the US lived in that area, we would take up ~51,423,324 acres (assuming population of 400 million). (~2.7% of the Continental US)

If instead, every person took up 800 sqft in an apartment building, and assuming absolutely no vertical building, we would take up ~1/7th of that space (7,346,189 acres, 0.38% of the Continental US). That would free up ~44 Million acres of open space. Every level up you build, you get to increase the amount of open space by
A further 6/7ths of the previous value.

Now, Admittedly, this is back-of-the-envelope math that doesn't work for all scenarios (farms and whatnot are a separate thing). But pretending that suburbanism is better for "open space" is a load of BS. Urbanism provides more open space.
OP here: thanks for poking your head over the parapet. But we've submitted that form three times over five months, with no discernible effect.

I have wondered if a pattern-matching algorithm is penalising us for having a similar IP address to a spammer. But given that practically all servers are now located at hosting companies, IP address is a completely valueless signal - and an arbitrarily damaging one. We have no control over other servers near us in IP space, and can't even ask our hosting company to deal with the spammer because we have no idea which IP address they are on.

If you have access to an internal directory, could I prevail on you to pass this concern on to the Gmail spam filter team? I think there is a genuine bug here, and if they fix it and let me know, I promise to post a followup article saying that fixing this shows GMail isn't killing independant email on purpose.
See my comment to @Syrusakbary
This is interesting. You can exchange or even purchase stolen or breached data to confirm its authenticity or access your own data (see haveibeenpwned). You can also leverage the data to find its origins, leaker, etc.

You cant handle other materials to find the perpetrators?
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Large amounts of residential areas filled with single family homes, all of which have their own private parking lots.
> For most non-Windows developers, a giant amount of time is spent using the terminal.

The terminal might seem arcane, but the fact that you can copy/paste commands in there is a huge win. I'd much rather copy/paste some terminal commands into a safe place than try to take notes on what to click on to see what in a Windows system.
I think those specific Alpaca models are all in safetensor now and there isn't simple converter to ggml.
> I might be missing something but I actually couldn't reproduce.

Someone in the GitHub comments had the same experience when using a 10GB VM to limit memory usage.

It appears the claims of memory reduction were premature. Perhaps an artifact of how memory usage is being reported by some tools.
And yet there are still people who will post about the good old days and the evils of MLC, as if current SSDs were not demonstrably better in every way.
I did leave. They lost hundreds of millions in valuation in a down round.

Companies rarely understood the value I brought to them.

You clearly do not understand.
Hillary Clinton was not prosecuted, for anything, nor was she charged for anything. Regarding the campaign fund violation, her campaign was fined $8000 by the FEC and the DNC was fined too. As the article states:

> The Clinton campaign agreed to a civil penalty of $8,000

It really helps to know the difference between civil, criminal, charge, prosecution and indictment when reading such things, and to keep note of who is being charged etc by whom.

Regarding the email server farrago, she was not prosecuted for that either. As this helpful article[0] comparing the raids on Mar-a-Lago to the email stuff points out:

> So prosecutors decided "there was no basis" to charge Clinton or her aides, the inspector general said.

and

> "The biggest difference right now between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump" is that with Clinton, "we know there was no prosecution -- that ship has sailed,"

The NYT article also backs this up by not mentioning any charge, indictment or prosecution. I certainly didn't notice it. Hillary Clinton is mentioned once.

> Some Democrats pointedly recalled Trump supporters’ calls during the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton, then the Democratic presidential nominee, to be arrested.

> “Those lock her up chants that people were chanting like hyenas in a stadium around the country were never funny,” Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democrat, said in a Twitter post. “Perhaps they now understand why.”

That's it.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbis-trump-investigation-hillary-c...
MXene spray coating can harness infrared radiation for heating or cooling
Maybe that’s why the wrong version of one note opened the other day and I had to go hunting for onenote 2010
I suppose the tires do matter a lot. I’ve driven an AWD (not sure whether it was a limited edition). The grip was indeed better in AWD mode, at the loss of range but the tossing around is still there. Maybe that would have been fixed completely by Sport seats.

Still, I’ve never had a car lose grip like the Ioniq 5. For the FWD cars that is expected, but also the RWD I have is easier to handle.
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You are more disruptive to that environment in your back yard than you would be if you moved to a city.

That's exactly the problem. Any asphalt and concrete you add is sustaining 1 person. Any asphalt and concrete in an urban place is sustaining 1000s of people.

You burn more fossil fuels in the winter to stay warm. You burn more fossil fuels to provide 1 source of light that only you use.

The multiplier you're missing is the number of people we service with the things we're doing in an urban environment.
When you live in front of a tall building that blocks the Sun the days are shorter and it's harder to keep the house warm during the Winter. Maybe I went too far calling it a "scarce resource" but tall buildings that are too close to each other increase the lighting and heating costs a great deal.
I mean yeah it must be elon we know but what I was mostly curious about was if it’s actually meant for him only, why didn’t they use his twitter handle? And just elon? I am not a developer I must mention it looks like. And I was genuinely curious.
Remember wardialing? :)
I call that first one ("typing or clicking to have computers do stuff") "typing."

The taxonomy is missing "designing," "architecting," "crafting," and more things people like to say they do. To feel important. More important than someone(s) else.

And I often call myself a "professional typist" because the whole taxonomy is pompous BS.

I get paid to solve business problems.
The US Code vs the Carnot's theorem, who would win?
The answer might surprise you!
Linux desktops are often preferable to create software which deploys to Linux servers so +1 for Linux.
This feels like a positive feedback loop (not the good kind), where the more parking is needed, the more people feel they need to drive. And the more people feel they need to drive, the more they need parking and the more space between stores gets added.
Actually the best use of "trivial" is in the negative, like...

"Wellllll, that's non-trivial."
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Meta hires DJ to play in cafeteria to urge workers to return to the office (businessinsider.com) by randycupertino:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35396701
CSS definitely has iterations. Animations are the most obvious, but you could definitely build a state machine which progressively passes through and even recurses on state with custom properties (“variables”) and various conditional interactions from media/container queries.

I’m not inclined to do this, because I have way too long a list of higher priorities, but I could possibly be nerd sniped into showing some proofs of concept if the idea sounds outlandish.
aye, just havin a bit of fun, mate. partly serious, though, because theyll have less input data for english sentences written in all lowercase. your example from the bot is definitely of a lower quality than other examples that ive seen. at some point we will all have to complete some kind of "shoe on head" test to proove we are human commentators, and thatll be here sooner than folks realize.
This should have "(2018)"

For context, Open Source Bridge was a truly phenomenal software conference in Portland, OR. At least the year I went (somewhere in 2012-2014 I think?) it was magical
I don't know what specific documents you think did that, but "comprehensively" is absolutely an awful way to describe the Twitter Files. They were anything but "comprehensive". In actuality, they were an excellent example of how easy it is to lie using partial truths. For example, highlighting all the times Twitter took moderation recommendations from a Democratic campaign looks a lot worse if you hide any time they took moderation from Republican campaigns. A simple look at the specific journalists that were given access to Twitter documents and the strings attached to that access reveals that the Twitter Files were not about transparency. They were an ideological play and nothing more. If Musk wanted true transparency, he would have given wider access to more documents or just released them all like Jack Dorsey requested.
I tried. As I said in another comment, as Chief Software Architect at one company, I built them a bank and added $800 million to their valuation. I asked for more salary and equity and was denied both over the course of 6 months. So I quit.

You know what happened? The product failed. They lost all their customers. And they had to scrap it, hire a team of 15, start from scratch, and do a down round where they lost $600 million in valuation.

All because they wouldn't give me a raise and more equity.

I'VE TRIED!!!!!!!!! I've tried so many times! I've begged and pleaded! I've shown my worth! And every company I leave quickly goes out of business because they don't realize how critical I am.

And no one will give me the cash or equity I deserve.

So you were saying?
lol, you even admit your example doesn't work well enough to "fix" traffic.

Your private taxi cab is never going to compete with the people-moving capacity of a bus, or a train. A road with 100s of cars on it, is a demonstration of how many people are heading in a common direction. If you want them to move faster in that direction, find a denser form of transportation that doesn't take up the space of 100s of cars.
The idea of a patent was always a time-limited monopoly and in exchange you would reveal trade secrets that could presumably advance science. I think like many aspects of modernity, it's a bit outmoded these days, particularly in software, but that was the idea. Copyright was similar, but it did not last nearly as long as it does today in the original US incarnations.
So, if someone has made enough to retire early, they shouldn't. Instead the should grow thier pile even bigger, because that wouldn't be selfish on account of all the other people in the world not being able to grow thier piles bigger?
Are all of these 1647 reporters (they have that many??) and posting on Twitter? That’s a lot of traffic generators or not.
Surely they could just do the bulk with 100 or so.
Ah, I see now. Good point.

I love common law but one aspect that seems inescapably (though perhaps not wholly) negative is the different levels of access to justice that come with different levels of wealth.
Presumably the downvotes are because, from the point of view of an Apple user, every single thing you mentioned is demonstrably worse.

- Apple Music, but now Google can spy on my music tastes? No thanks!

- Data subscription for my car? Why would I possibly want to pay for that?

- Google Maps: Again, Apple users have opted out of this ecosystem. Apple Maps is fine. Other options are also fine. Google Maps is my 4th or 5th choice. The whole point of this integration (per GM) is to force users onto Google Maps, and off competitive map services.

- It's like having a PC and an iPhone, or a Mac and and Android. Either way, all the cross device synchronization stuff breaks badly. Concretely: will my android maps car use siri in a privacy preserving way to check my CalDav calendar to see that I have a meeting across town, then offer to start navigation with a single tap? I think not.
python apps as .exe's is all you need to know exist to recognise the cluster fuck from miles afar
I would throw a few bucks towards a gofundme to pay for the legal costs for suing _both_ police departments involved here. The one who sought and got an arrest warrant based purely on facial recognition, and the one who picked him up thousands of miles away and refused to even investigate whether the original warrant could possibly apply when the guy they arrested had never even been to the city the warrant claimed he’d stolen in…
Greg Egan's works, mainly permutation City and Distress. These books go far beyond just LLMs and Greg Egan's novels really put the "hard" in hard sci-fi. But they describe a world where compute is extremely important. The first half of Permutation city especially covers this very well. Distress delves more into biotech and particle physics, but has its share of AI stuff.

FWIW, Egan has a Twitter account and is mostly not that gung-ho about the current LLMs.
I have a Yale lock that locks automatically after 5 minutes. This is important because we have unhoused neighbors who will occasional door check our home and you don’t want to wake up in the morning to find someone sleeping in your living room.
It's not about shaming and shunning. It's about educating, so that people are more amenable to non-car-centric changes to public transit and their cities that will improve everyone's way of life.

I think the thing about Public Transit, is if you truly love driving your car, you should still be in favor of public transit, because better public transit means less traffic for you.
Do you know if it's available from GNU/Linux repositories? One thing that bothers me with single letter language names is that it makes searching information cumbersome, due to lots of noise in search results.
Maybe because you are suggesting removing these people's job without giving them an alternative first.

Also, reverse the tables: If someone comes suggesting to you to ban computers and the Internet completely and pull a study out (Internet damages brain). Would you be happy, offended, indifferent... okay I hope you get the point.
I mainly use windows, but always have multiple terminal windows open. Do people think that windows means I'm clicking around in folders and double clicking files all the time to do work?
It's not so much about the quality of healthcare as it is the price.
Python packaging is sooo fun it has given me permanent brain damage and PTSD. Now I have a docker devbox with all my language toolchains and fun unix tools installed. I could install 3 different versions of cuda, 8 different pyenv pythons all sharing parts (but not all) of each others modules with torch compiled for a 4th different version of cuda that is NOT installed, then replace the core system python with a duck. pipx has somehow installed a version of borg backup that depends on a secret hidden 9th python. Then I will simply `docker rm` and `docker compose up -d` and I'm back. Yesterday I ran a random academic paper ML model in python in 5 minutes on my docker machine. HAHAHAHAHAÀÄÄÄÄÄ i am invincible!!!!!!
I miss Jake
You're talking like an ML engineer. :)

Yes, there are signals in human behavior that you can feed to your model. But no, it is never going to learn "on Mondays he works on his comics, so he'd prefer to see webcomic-related content" Don't sprinkle in your explore/exploit experiments. I know what I want, just let me decide based on what I'm in the mood for!

TikTok-style feeds are the absolute worst offender here, where they couldn't care less about what you think. They will serve you content, and you will either say "yes" or "no". So the only option for you as the user is to just wander through their content hyperspace. There's no structured way to jump between topics because everything lives in this formless content soup.

The other problem is that many social media platforms have you subscribe to the content streams of individuals directly. Individuals are high variance. How can you teach these engines that "I only care about this person's posts about pianos, not their terrarium hobby."
Counter-point, I'm an average software developer, not great, but not bad. I started and completed a job hunt in about 2 weeks being _very_ picky about who I talked to. It was just as easy in March of 2023 as it was in March of 2021.

Personal anecdote, to be sure, but I haven't found the market to be any different. I even picked up a nice 30% bump per the tradition of my people.
I assumed you were referring to ‘The Conversation’ piece actually. I’m not sure which part of the article you find woke and/or patronizing? I didn’t read it that way personally. One of the authors of the piece, Chapurukha Kusimba, is East African and seems to be a part of a group of self-described “post-colonial” scholars from the region. To me I just read actual pride for the region and its history and a desire to study it from a point of view distinct from western archeology.

I’m not sure why you talked about the pre-colonial slave trade specifically, but it read like you felt this article neglected the point in favor of a rosier image of the region’s history. The article does mention the perpetuation of colonial structures by East Africans after the British left (and cites an article by Kusimba). There’s no specific mention of the pre-colonial slave trade in this piece, but Kusimba has written about the “ancient practices that can be traced back more than two millennia in Africa.”[1] I find it unlikely he meant to gloss over this, and instead probably just focused on another time period.

Just to say so explicitly, I’m genuinely curious about how you perceived this article and why!

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chap-Kusimba/publicatio...
Could you please point out the list of moderation recommendations from Republican campaigns that were actually accepted and carried out? The only ones that were revealed so far were of the following types:

1. requests to un-ban or un-suspend right-wing personas

2. removal of explicit death threats.

3. Anything against the vaccine - even actual, scientific data.

From the twitter files, the Twitter team that was wholly left-leaning spent significant time and debate looking for the mildest of excuses to ban right-wing politicians, building black lists for them and even gloating happily as they managed to kick them off. Not much doubt about that - actually no one has even denied that. There were several hearings also in the house judiciary where they even confirmed the same.

(Interestingly, there was pressure applied on Matt Taibbi to either "shut up" or relinquish all his sources to law enforcement. Also, as a form of indirect pressure to rattle him, US tax agents visited his house the VERY DAY he would testify before US Congress stating that his tax returns had been rejected due to identity theft concerns - despite him having the electronic receipt which showed it being accepted.)
I’m a pessimist about corporate doing the right thing unless it’s economically aligned to do so.

“This time” happens with open source where there’s typically no economical incentive and people are doing it for the heck of it.