skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, now add an option to autosave the screen captures to a folder vs the temporary one that I have to make a script to rsync them out of now before they are expired.
Same with Mac OS constantly asking Apple whether it's fine to start a program. Which was fun not long ago when that Apple server went down and people couldn't start programs anymore as long as the Mac was connected to the internet because Apple of course couldn't imagine their own creation being fallible.
“Date Me” Docs
Yeah, I was wrong. Thanks for pointing it out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle_drivetrain#Seri...
Cloud of Suspicion: AWS as Corporate Securities Risk
As someone who does believe in God, it seems odd to get someone to swear on a book that tells you not to swear an oath at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_5#Verse_12
Things have gone rogue. You can no longer tell a button is a button anymore or a link, menu, etc.

So often have friends and family got lost wondering what to do. Oh you got to click on it? The visual clues are all gone. "Flat"... right.

Too many things are rushed out the door. Too much focus has been placed on "features" "features" and more "features" and no polish. Every release there are new features and yet the old 1s still have lots of bugs :(
Scala and Kotlin just implement them using a trampoline, the JVM does not itself support tail calls.
Sadly, to confirm or reject your suspicion, we would need to develop tools which can peek into someone's mind and see whether true self-consciousness is actually there.

Until we have that, I'm afraid no one can be right about whether the semblance is something more or not.
luckily the cheapest ICE saves you about $30K to begin with compared to a model 3.

you could buy a Prius Prime and a used BEV cheaper than a new Model 3.

Or a PHEV and save $15K or so compared to a Model 3. no matter how you think about it, BEV doesn't really make sense.
Because Carl Sagan can’t strike him down with a bolt of lightning or send him to hell, so it’s just an empty gesture. For a religious believer it isn’t.

Religious rituals are not just symbolic, they are real. Communion for example is not just a nice symbolic act, it’s as real as taking your medicine, and much more important if you’re Christian.
Humans didn't have any incentive to develop 'actual' consciousness either. Evolution simply incentivized 'better adaptation to the challenges of the environment', which produced consciousness as a side-effect. But for the purpose of evolution, 'something that quacks like consciousness' would have sufficed completely.

So I'm not sure there's any additional effort involved in turning 'quasi consciousness' into actual consciousness, because they might just be the same thing. Maybe consciousness is just what it feels like to process information in a way that seems conscious from the outside.
Private tweets aren't private, they're limited audience. If you're saying something defamatory behind "private" tweets then, I hate to break it to you, it's still defamation. You might get some mitigation from limiting the audience but that's it.
the right workloads
Do we know which data it uses? Collaborative filtering or content/metadata?
Couldn't agree more, and have found people in disagreement with my stance on that [0]. Although my context is C#, I reckon it's similar.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35486983
How to Polis 101, Part IIc: The Courts
> It will sound like a nitpick but it's not: there's no socialism in Europe.

If Europe has no socialism they've still somehow managed to end up with a lot of European Socialists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_European_Socialists). Some words are basically meaningless because everybody has their own definition for them and socialism is certainly one of those words. It's probably better to avoid the term entirely and just describe what you mean because some people get so emotional just hearing it that they seem to lose the ability to think.
> Children _can_ receive puberty blockers, which _by definition_ are 100% completely reversible.

This is such an absurd statement. You don't "define" how the body works.
Could PyLLMs connect to a locally running LLM (e.g, llama variant)?
There is no 'fast moving highway' where the acceleration post 60 of any modern vehicle that has a license plate is a problem. What is a problem is other drivers that make unrealistic assumptions about the capabilities of other vehicles.

I've driven >> 1,000,000 million kilometers in 36 years of driving and to date I've never seen a single instance of the speed of acceleration being a safety issue. Even on short on-ramps - which is really the only spot where acceleration in normal traffic matters - almost every car will do just fine, and in case it doesn't you either stop or use the emergency lane (if that's allowed where you live).

Above 60 you are already in traffic and the differences required to overtake another car are minimal, you can do it faster to be out of the left lane a bit quicker but you're still limited by the speed limit and traffic that comes up from behind will just have to be patient.

What may be the case if this is a situation that you encounter frequently that the problem somehow lies with you and/or your driving style. Most people just want to get from 'A' to 'B' safely and economically, and speed of acceleration considerations don't enter into it at all. Given all the other vehicles that you share the road with, a large number of which are much slower to accelerate than a Prius ever would be the whole idea is to work together to keep everybody safe and get them home in one piece. Not to extract the maximum performance from their vehicles.
I wonder how long it took to learn the actions.

A dance revolution style tutorial would be fun
I really like the use of the word "thine" here. In the Scandinavian languages it's translated to "din" (singular) or "dine" (plural) (with an ee sound like in leek, instead of ay like in fine dining). It means yours. In the Scandinavian languages "min" (also with ee pronunciation) means mine. So the thing can either be thine or mine. It's very familiar language to us Nordic types, albeit archaic.
This makes me so glad I don't use PHP.
It’s a shame the page does not explain which algo is being used.
Yes, that was my intent. If we're going to celebrate this choice, then we should also give the Director her due respect. :)
The jump for space and the jazz hands for exclamation mark are pure gold
I’m not saying that religious texts are non-factual, I’m saying scientific texts have no moral implications, they ONLY lay out material facts.
> I loathe things "magically" disappearing and reappearing. I want a predictable, consistent interface.

I do not want the trackbar to magically disappear. I want it gone for good, unless I ask for it, which is predictable and consistent.

> I can work faster when things are consistent. Scrollbars, besides allowing me to jump around in a document, give me an indication of where I am on the page.

I work faster with a good concentration, which is helped by a lack of UI clutter (FYI I use my browser in fullscreen mode because I find buttons and tabs distracting)

Hitting the touchscreen, doing a gesture on the trackpad (or the trackpoint), or pressing pageup then pagedown gives me context when I need it and if I need it.

The rest of time, I don't want no scrollbar.

> When I ask, "How much of this page/window/document is left? About where am I in it?" (a common question) the answer should be RIGHT THERE and not unhelpfully hidden/unavailable or difficult to see. I shouldn't have to waste time fighting to find out.

When I do any of the above, the scrollbar is here. The rest of the time, I shouldn't have to waste my concentration on a useless indicator nagging me on the right side of the screen.
If “it’s just a cache,” you should never be able to fix a build problem by nuking your cache. But I frequently can.
Just open the link in a private/incognito window
They do save to a folder for a while:

"%LocalAppData%\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\ScreenClip"

I have a WSL2 cronjob that does an rsync to the Pictures folder, but its ridiculous how dogshit it is, not only obvious missing functionality but how it takes multiple seconds to do a capture.
Your second link is from 2018, and would indeed need a case study for Loom. For example the concerns
about thread-local storage are addressed, and the base overhead is understood (as in: don't use them for CPU-bound worloads, they'll fare better on IO-bound workloads)

Also, the cases studies in that paper are platform-level when I believe the language has to be involved; as a runtime has more information when resuming to a suspension point. The paper even acknowledges Go as a successful implementation although with C-compatibility call overhead caveat. In the Java world, the vast majority of programs stay in the Java language. So I'd say that paper would list Loom as the best implementation (And maybe revise their recommendation. It'd be useful to have that author's opinion of Loom in 2023)
Ok I ate at the #1 on the list, by accident, when I spent a couple months in Redwood City two years ago. Just looking for tacos, bought and ate in my car. Socks knocked off, under the impression since then that Redwood City Taquerias were all that good. But I was just lucky!
OMG this!

I grew up on Windows and only around XP did it begin to get okay. Before then it was mostly garbage, and after then it was Vista! I have my issues with modern MacOS, but it's generally pretty amazing. I feel like asking the same of these Jonathan Blow acolytes -- When exactly was this golden age? Are you sure it's not nostalgia?

If your poison is Linux, do you remember what the Linux desktop looked like in the early 2000s? On the server, it's ridiculously more resilient and polished.

FWIW I have tremendous respect for Jonathan Blow as a software engineer, but I think this has always been mostly a self aggrandizing pitch, from a craftsperson to people who like the idea of crafted things, that is -- if all the software in the world is getting worse, then there must be some priesthood of the worthy. When, in fact, the "bad" software Jonathan Blow sees is software produced simply under different constraints (expectation is software costs nothing, it must run everywhere/on the web, it's part of a distributed system, compatibility with earlier crappy software really matters, it's made by people who simply care less about the it being a perfect experience, because its not their game). Of course, some new software is actually bad, but I'm not certain software is actually getting worse.
Battery price reductions aren't magic, they are as inevitable as any other advancing technology.

"Magic" is assuming that the added complexity of a dual power train will always be cheaper.
My hunch is that, with regards to consciousness, the advanced LLMs are like self driving cars with an empty driver's seat.

It may be that they could be a component of a consciousness when combined with other systems that confer memory, learning, intent and some sort of reflective activity like 'daydreaming'. Maybe those components could all still be LLMs, tuned to different roles and prompting each other..

But that's just my lay persons musings.
Workers at Facebook 10 years ago: I’m glad my company isn’t like Microsoft.

Workers now: I wish my company was like Microsoft.
Is AI leading us to abundance or abundantly hard times?
Dystopia vs Utopia - fine we're aware of potential final destinations. Lots of talk on how we get to either. I wanted to take a harsher approach on changes happening in the near term and what they could mean.
Is this the equivalent for the .NET TPL (task parallel library), which exists for over a decade now?
>The physical world has peaked, in every metric.

How do you figure that? Seems to me that things are still rapidly changing. Starlink, fusion, JWST, computer hardware, 3D printing etc...loads still happening.
I have one of those hybrid models because the place I live in has a shitty EV charging infrastructure. And I live in an apartment building. Not living in a single family home makes EVs more cumbersome to have.

That said, love my hybrid. Very economical, I manage to run on EV quite often, don't need to refuel so much. Much more practical than EVs, especially considering I mostly drive in the city. Almost never drive on the highway.

But I swear, the petulance of EV fans online is sometimes so infuriating, that it almost makes me want to buy a Diesel generator and leave it running to throw some extra carbon on the atmosphere just out of spite.
https://archive.is/ta5js
You can go to archive.is and put the url in. Braves "speedreader" mode typically works too, I use it a lot

Here is the bypass url for you: https://archive.is/ta5js
Are you talking about gatekeeper flags or app signatures? As far as I know, both of those can be managed locally, I don’t think Apple is informed every time you try to open a process.
And the opposite? What if the world is full of people like who you claim that the machine is pretending to be conscious, and is only “quacking like consciousness”? Would you be okay not affording a conscious thing rights?
> I haven't done anything worthy,

Keeping yourself alive for 40 years. Not a minor victory.
The alarm app on Windows now asks me to sign into a Microsoft account, presumably so it can track me.

I think that answers your question.
Almost nobody cares about the value to the user anymore. Value to the owner/seller of the product is what matters.

This results in poor UX, apps spying you constantly, useless features and easy to fix bugfixes that aren't fixed in years.

As a software developer I'm disappointed in this approach. If I can I try my best to produce the best experience for the end user, but in the end I can only get satisfaction in open source...

But open source is sometimes hell too!

Just recently I found super popular open source library that earns $200k each years from donations, but the its Github is filled with issues and PRs. Author doesn't care, the money flows anyway. It hurts to see most major issues are already fixed by PRs, but the author doesn't even bother to merge & release.

Sad.
Software gets worse as it gets bigger. The classic measure is 15 or so bugs per 1000 lines of code. Most software companies have career ladders that reward building broad abstractions that affect most of the product / company. So people add layers of complicated middleware to have “broader impact”.

So over time, you aren’t just subject to bugs in feature A. You’re subject to bugs in feature A and library B and framework C and injected monitoring D and so on for the same user action.
Well, not if the words are aimed at your God.

In Christianity and many other religions it’s a very real thing to promise God you will do something, it’s not superstition.
CA legislature pushing to neuter ballot initiatives
Same here. I’m sitting here reading stuff about reporting time remaining and wondering why that matters? Isn’t the concern just when its done?

I got one of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LN3C7WK . Connected it to my HomeBridge server (all local), set up a push notification using when the energy drops below 5 watts (which happens about 1-2 minutes after the cycle ends).
When I graduated as an Engineer, I swore an oath. I still remember one value that gets tested from time to time is to remember my work is for the betterment of the human condition, not only the perfection of machines. This has guided me through some difficult choices.
The owner of the link is listed on that page, so I'm guessing it's no coincidence.
https://archive.vn/NOLUY
Actually, it is not true. Hilarious

Author compares different encoders: for Facebook's NLLB and GPT2. Where did title came from?

Another point is that OpenAI changed encoders for chat models. Link: https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...

Now English is less optimized for tokens usage and other languages are much more balanced. E.g. Ukrainian takes only twice as much tokens, before it had 6 times more tokens
Neither approach will reallocate.

In the append case, since the underlying slice has capacity, then each append will just extend the length. If estimated length was too small, then reallocation would occur.

In the reslice case, the new slice is a value type that points to the original underlying memory, with a length that is shorter. So no reallocation.
> people do move from Promises to async quickly, when React switches to hooks everyone switches quickly, etc etc

On Reddit or HN? Definitely in not the real world. Plenty of projects and even recently created 1s don't always use these new ways of working. Even on Reddit when I see a new project getting posted it doesn't have this trait you mention.

And lots of companies are still on Node 14/16 or even older :( only forced to move by e.g. AWS lambda runtime requirements...

And Node developers are still using ExpressJs and promote it all the time. Guess when Express 4 was released? 5 has been in beta forever with no updates. Yet, most promote it and ignore the other options. Lack of legacy? This thing is 10+ years old. It's barely maintained... what's the difference?
Levenshtein's Algorithm Is Awesome
Software is getting worse, yes, although to be fair and mildly abrasive:

1) If you haven't actually lived through the arc you can't really spot this so you invite "okay boomer" sniping if you point it out.

2) Knowledge does not update the genome, therefore knowledge transmission is A Hard Problem, therefore because "developing software" is not a small and formal discipline the lessons learned by experience are not reliably/effectively/efficiently/at-all transmitted to the newer "generation" of "developers". This gives the appearance of "not learning from mistakes" or "things degrading" but the reality is simply that everyone is always reinventing things they don't understand as a result.

3) There are too many people engaging in the act of producing software who shouldn't actually be doing it. This is true of all fields where demand outstrips supply. LLMs are going to solve this problem in a most unfortunate manner.

4) The reality that cannot be discussed is that "stupid" is a much larger problem than anyone realizes, it extends well into areas that people normally think of as "requiring high intelligence", and it exacerbates all of the above.

5) We incentivize and, for reasons already given, actually justify behaviors that also tend to produce this. Ex: I assure you that somewhere out there is a product manager with a drug habit desperate to find a way to turn hammers into smart devices with a subscription service, NOT because this will help people who use hammers, but because this will increase profits for a company that produces hammers. This is an objectively bad and harmful practice that we encourage daily.

Soooooo, again, yep.
No, it's akin to using a forklift at the gym
It's easy to see why the motion controllers we had failed, but it's hard to tell if a better ones would have been successful.

The original Wiimote only had an accelerometer, that worked well enough in a game like WiiSports where all your actions are predetermined and you only need to measure how 'hard' the player moved the controller. But that approach doesn't work in games where you have multiple actions at the same time.

MotionPlus added an gyro, that's better, but still not good due to lacking a magnetometer, so you had to constantly recalibrate it every couple of minutes. That gets old fast. It also still had no position sensing, so still a lot of guesswork involved in trying to figure out what the player was actually doing with the controller. The Nintendo Switch is also still stuck at this level.

Meanwhile Playstation Move had full 6DOF tracking all the way back in 2010, no need to ever recalibrate thanks to a tracking camera. Amazing in theory, but in actuality that controller was handicaped by a terrible button/stick layout, as in they didn't have any analog stick on the 6DOF controller and instead had a untracked NavController with only one stick. This rendered the Move controller impractical for most regular games. Worse yet, they never updated it and kept using it on PlaystationVR, only finally replacing it this year with PSVR2. The Move controller handicapped a whole decade of motion gaming.

Would a better controller succeeded? Hard to tell. Gyro-aim is still popular on SteamController, Switch and Playstation and is a big upgrade over stick controls, but not as widely adopted as it should be, due to Microsoft not having any motion sensing in their Xbox controller, thus making it impossible for multiplatform games to depend on it. The laser-pointer input of the Wiimote was also working really well and is essentially what most VR games use for UI navigation, but it requires having a split controller.

Going the obvious path of just taking a regular controller, splitting it in two and adding motion tracking to each half was never done by any of the big companies. Even modern VR controllers don't go that route and end up with a layout that is unsuitable as a drop-in replacement for a regular controller.
I mean yes, it's what the medical experts and reports told us happened (even the lead defense witness merely advanced alternative theories about how the restraint could have contributed to his death in ways which wouldn't make the officers culpable rather than pushing the 'overdose' angle, whilst also conceding that the officers' failure to attempt to resuscitate him after detecting no pulse was a contributory factor in the death).

But clearly nothing can compare with what your favourite partisan source tells you happened.
I enjoyed this reverse engineering, using a direct connection within your home network after the keys have been extracted after an initial authorization to the Bosch/Siemens cloud:
https://trmm.net/homeconnect/
It's a full linux system with a lot of IO and easy to embed in other devices. Since this thread is comparing arduino and Raspberry Pi I think most commenters are thinking about embedded/hardware controlling applications. Plus it has multiple form factors useful for prototyping and final product. And it's just the de facto standard for these applications. There are competing products with varying degrees of compatibility but with Raspberry Pi if you want to add a camera, sensor, motor driver etc you can always find a pre-made hardware interface and the code to make it work, at least at the prototype stage.

For a webserver an small x86 system is a good choice but it doesn't work as the brains of an IoT device or 3D printer.
chuck a baby into a brick wall
DaVinci Resolve. Proper video editing, VFX, and colour grading software as used on stuff you've seen in the cinema and on telly.

Free, if you don't want the clever "neural engine" stuff or >4k timelines.

Oh, you do want that? That'll be 300 quid then, and it's yours for life. They have never even charged for the updates, either.

Of course, they make their money on cameras and control surfaces.
Every language has it's quirks.
>He's a couple houses down from the local meth lab,

Meth is $2000 a pound. No one makes it anymore. You can't even get the ingredients for that cheap.

Nice made up story though.

Not saying there isn't crime out in rural areas, but you can shoot thieves where I live, so its understandably not very common. I can't speak for Texas.
I found that it recommended poor imitations of books I liked. I’d rather read the best in a range of genres than all the books in a specific genre.
At some point after a few clicks text comes up which tells you this "secret", so yes, not much hidden easter egg ;)
End of bullshit:

https://stallmansupport.org/the-practice-of-ritual-defamatio...

Even women close to Stallman had to stop people like you defamating people.