skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you (although I think one should be upset about this, and you seemed to imply that you disagree with the "systemic racism people").

This would directly penalize endangered languages and dialects, which is a tragic loss for linguistic diversity. I think a lot of people hoped the WWW would connect these small and dwindling communities, and even help revitalize them, but policies like this sound actively harmful.

If we're looking at it through the lens of systemic racism, it seems pretty straightforward as well – anyone who speaks a non-standard variant or dialect of their language will have less power to share their thoughts and ideas. They will also see less other people doing so, creating a feedback-loop discouraging the use of non-standard language.
The problem is still that you have no idea what is true and what is made up. Especially as a learner. On my last attempt it gave me a disguised infinity loop that ate up all the ram and frooze the computer.

I believe AI will be amazing for traditional language learning with voice recognition but it really needs to improve to be useful in other areas where facts actually matter. Maybe it can be solved by toning it down so it's less convincing and stop making up things. If that's at all possible.
That's just the fixture Apple uses isn't it? You're not required to use it.
I agree that the ownership of natural resources would still matter. I don't think that concentrated oligarchy is the probable outcome, though. If robots do everything, trying to prevent copies is like trying to prevent copyright infringement. It's the clanking, macroscopic equivalent of having a replicator. It's as easy to make weapons as to make appliances. I can see things spiraling out of control to the point where e.g. routine civilian air travel shuts down, following the wide availability of MANPADS, and nuclear proliferation runs amok, but I don't see a stable equilibrium that ends with secure oligarchies. There are too many rival oligarchies in the world for them to coordinate on the problem of keeping do-everything robots locked down in the interests of their own safety. There will be defectors.
Climate models warn of possible ‘super El Niño’ before end of year
Neither are the Filipino dudes.
Maybe their audiences are smaller. People that depend on their large reach on Twitter are going to be much slower to move on than those without audiences.
> In practice, this means you need to band pass before the ADC, right? i.e. "signal" in this case is the entire input to the ADC and not just the particular modulated signal you care about

Right and right.

And, you’d normally want that to be a contiguous 100 MHz band of frequencies (you could in principle have multiple discontiguous bands that add up to 100 MHz if they are spaced right (they don’t fold down to the same base frequencies), but that would be quite an unusual application).
Also, the cards in the should-be-face-down deck seem to sometimes be face-up when I remove the top card. I played with it a bit before dealing cards, though, like "fan," "sort," "poker," etc, so I'm thinking maybe it doesn't properly reset the face-down-ness when you click "shuffle."

FWIW I don't think the Kings easter egg is a good idea as-is. Maybe require a modifier key like "Click the kings while holding down the `K` key." Otherwise someone might have to click all kings while playing Free Cell and have their game ruined, that's no fun.
I would like to see HTMX cut down to a tiny size. It's already larger than several network packets for many network configurations (15.05 kB gzip / 42.58 kB size). Now we need an htmx-lite that focuses on not growing into it's own JS framework (that's kind of the whole point after all)
This is not a competitive market. It is a completely regulatory-captured market.
Meta point (pun unintended): the gravy times are over for us SW engineers, and I won’t be surprised if looking back many will see the past decade as a wasted opportunity for some sort of collective bargaining, or a greater seat at the table of businesses
How much of a premium are you, as a customer, willing to pay for the beauty? How much functionality will you give up for the shinies?
How do you handle template and fragments? any libraries/usage patterns you use to integrate django <-> htmx?
So we’ve gone from “Elon will save Twitter by fighting the bots” to “Elon will buy Twitter and pivot to bots”?
That map clearly shows that only a few locations are experiencing a fall, so neither "plenty" nor summing to zero as claimed. But I'm interested to learn more about the evidence that the pre-industrial trend was the same, since my inexpert googling suggests otherwise, eg "Exceptionally stable preindustrial sea level inferred from the western Mediterranean Sea"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm6185
> Almost all of these luxury truck-shaped vehicles never see a speck of dirt, and are used to carry one person and maybe a grocery bag.

That has not been my experience.
So you want to spend 60k/yr on prison times the homeless population of America? Because that’s what your comment suggests and there’s a litany of better options.
Whilst I understand the sentiment, this also assumes that doctors are never wrong, which unfortunately, they frequently are. Malpractice suits anyone?
> But I was taught Europeans didn't covet Indian spices until way later. Why? What use does that narrative have?

Because spices were a major driver for European colonialism in Asia from the 1600s onwards (East India Company, VOC, etc), but they did not significantly influence British, Dutch, etc history before that.
I've seen many cases of the opposite, where despite plenty of room, text is inexplicably truncated to leave a huge amount of whitespace instead.
People need to vote on the ballot and with their feet. Don’t be a hero and make a statement by renting on lower Larkin or on 5th and Mission. Do what the city administration does and avoid living in any of those areas.

If they want to turn those areas into a Mad Max hell scape, let them, and don’t work anywhere that requires you to risk it out there either. Why be a martyr?

In the end people still actively rent in the luxury apartments in the worst parts of SoMa, so the markets are clearing. Why they do it is beyond me, but to each their own. My guess is that it's the usual new batch of tech space cadets in their 20s who do their time and bail as soon as they need more space, safety and they can afford it.
There's no spending involved on your part. Don't spend a dime until you show up in court to defend yourself.

"I've been asking for 2 years for a breakdown to explain how what is listed on their website as a $600 charge became a 120k charge."
It sounds like we are in a similar position. I had no desire to get a 64gb laptop from apple until all the interesting things from running llama locally came out. I wasn't even aware of the specific benefit of that uniform memory model on the mac. Now I'm looking at do I want to do 64, 96 or 128gb. For an insane amount of money, 5k for that top end one.
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NLP is solved, more or less. Either way, Bespoke NLP is on its way out. It's pretty funny how buried this is in the original paper.
How many people were at YouTube and Instagram before their mergers?

It all depends on the stage of the companies. When companies are still in growth mode it can create more revenue and jobs. When companies run out of ways to grow (mature industries like telecom) then mergers are almost always about economies of scale and cost savings.
Well you can also buy a trademark, right? Though I think different companies are allowed the same trademarks if the things being trademarked aren’t confusable
that's exactly what https://cardtables.online does
If I am not mistaken, last time I looked at it I think I saw that HTMX has the ability to declare handlers. So that if you instead want to provide Json, one of those handlers could transform/handle it client-side. I think, haven't tried it myself.
Are they really an outlier, or just the best at what they're trying to do? I mean I guess you could always say that the best is an outlier since only one can be the best.
Yeah before you needed soldiers and many of them so you couldn't add all of them to the 1% of elites. Those people were obviously sympathetic with people not from the 1%, so you could only go so far until the soldiers mutinied or just... didn't fight the revolutionaries with the zeal needed to be successful. With AI you'll have way better tools at your disposal. You can man a 24/7 control room of 10 people hating the poors, all made up of 1%ers, controlling an army of 10 million robots.

But on the other hand, elites themselves also have hierarchies. There used to be kings, lower nobility, higher nobility, etc. Those would fight all the time about how much power each of them had. If the top 10% of the human population had a secret meeting to kill the bottom 90%, and used their combined powers to do that, then what used to be the bottom 9% suddenly becomes the bottom 90%. Probably those people get really scared that the same will happen to them at the next meeting of the top 10%ers council.
With the integrated ram and cpu and gpu on apple silicon, however it's done it yields perf results. I do think that probably has higher cost than separately produced ram. And even separate from that, because they have that unified memory model unlike every other consumer device they can charge for it. So 64, 96 or 128 gb?
> First you need the ability to recognize top talent. That's already super hard.

Yeah that's exactly why Jobs never did that. Nobody has to "recognize top talent" to assemble it.

He knew that talent likes a good challenge without being micromanaged. The talent becomes top talent when they overcome the challenges and accomplish something new and exciting. You retain them by maximizing their autonomy. That's all.
There's an old story about that.

An art dealer approached Picasso to authenticate some drawings. "All fake!", says Picasso.

A friend who watched this was skeptical -- the drawings looked real to him. So, on the sly, he gave the dealer one of his own Picasso drawings and had him come back.

"Fake!", says Picasso.

"But Pablo... I saw you draw that. You gave it to me with your own hands."

"Bah. Anyone can do a fake Picasso. I often do them myself."
I've been watching this application grow since its early stages, and not only is it a useful, practical, and an "ahead of its time" tool, but the team putting it together is top notch. Motivated to make a difference,
Oasis is the next big thing to watch.
With the goal of keeping the grid as cheap as possible it is indeed unrealistic to care about global warming or the environment. The only thing that matter is to use what ever technology is cheapest at any given job at any given location, and especially focusing on fast returns on investments and political policies that can provide windfall during a single election cycle.

It is however not a policy I would advocate or vote for. I rather oppose fossil fuels especially when they are being subsidized through taxes. Europe can also not really handle an other winter, especially if the weather would not be exceptional mild. Bailouts can only be paid so many times before it becomes unrealistic.
> > Design is how it works, not how it looks.

> I’ve gotta push back: Design is also how things look

To synthesize these two comments: How it looks is a huge part of how it works.
In all of this it's a matter of scale.
Products with 100 million users can amortize the costs over a much larger number of deployments. Even the smallest details become valuable at that point. Conversely, at a certain level of deployment, usability is not worth the time investment. Machine Learning researchers can frequently get away with a loose collection of Python scripts with a basic set of instructions that probably worked on their local setup.
I graduated from an Australian uni in 2006 and have nothing but wonderful things to say about the experience. Heartbreaking to think that my kids might not have access to the same quality of institution.

Twelve years of Coalition government is part of the problem but imo the decline really started earlier, under Howard, with the shift to “user pays”. The rapid expansion of international student intake began shortly thereafter as a response to funding shortfalls.
> Doesn't it also prove that it's still easier and faster to create a proper app and GUI toolkit yourself and just render pixels to the screen (as all desktop GUI toolkits do these days) instead of fighting the browser tech idiosyncrasies, even a proper app and GUI stack isn't trivial in itself?

jmo, but i think so as well....

tho i wonder what the performance/battery-life implications of everything doing that might be... perhaps you could have an 'libhtml' for static sites and documents, and different ones for more interactive apps etc
Powershell has grown on me. Over time I've worn down and started utilizing my Windows install in the Windows way. I think Powershell is a well overlooked feature of the platform, to the point where I now have moved a lot of my scripts/automations on my home server (Linux based) from bash/js/.NET 7 binaries to Powershell Core.

Big asterisk, my day job is as a .NET/C# developer. So much of Powershell does feel like a .NET wrapper or C#-lite, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. It lends itself very well to feeling like a traditional programming language. Hell, it even has a debugger! My only real complaint about it and adoption thus far is the release management. Windows 11 _still_ ships with 5.1, and 7 is leagues ahead in terms of performance and features.
I'm hardly the first person to single out SE / SO for trashing.
Who needs free speech when the AI bots start trolling us all?

I suppose I'm being facetious, but I really don't see why a conversational platform would even need an AI chat. And given Elon's paranoia about what AI can do, his will probably be super tied down (ie: not very functional).
Interesting to see what the impact will be on crowdsourcing annotation companies like Scale AI, especially after reading this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/04/11/how-alexa...
> I am specifically talking about your urban/suburbanites that commute daily in their trucks, and use the bed once or twice a year for small home projects.

The very definition of truthy. Sounds good, even without a shred of evidence to back it up.

> A professional is going to be looking for something very different than an amateur home cook.

I guess. The home cook might be inclined to buy an absurdly priced knife. The pro and competent home cooks both will reach for a basic Victorinox knife for everyday use.

> He's probably not driving 2+ hours to a worksite out in the middle of no where,

Most work trucks are driven around town. There's a niche for people who travel hundreds of miles in a day, but it's not the most common use case at all. The Lightning works great for >90% of all the usual things trucks get used for.
> Update: Apple has temporarily pulled the AirPods firmware update. It should be back in the next few days.
The data entry speed on an old fashioned cash register, compared to a modern pos of a pos is insane.

It feels like a variation of learned helplessness, watching someone fumble with a Stripe terminal.
Thanks, I was wondering what "SSO tax" means. I see it differently. The enterprise plan is that the company really wants to sell. But it gives a discount to small companies that don't need the enterprise features like SSO, at least not from the beginning. I think it is very similar to freemium pricing - extra features, extra cost. Of course, when I look at a product, I look at all the plans and decide if it is worth the money now and in the future. I may feel pity and not buy it. But I never blame companies just for their pricing page.
um... not consciously no.

I think its more just being mindful. Something i feel we could all benefit from doing more of.
I wonder if there is a potential here for a parallel to what we see with flagship cars from major automakers.

What I mean by that is that producing flagship cars is not always driven purely by sales. Often it is driven by something else, like producing a homologation special, competing with another manufacturer, or just sheer excessiveness.

Maybe the economics don't add up, but I would like to see the big players mindset shift from 'make the most money' to 'show up our competitors and have fun'. Movies too, if I'm honest.
A George Carlin quote would be apropos here.

Furthermore, it's worth considering both the cultural biases skewing multiple choice tests and the rebasing of tests to maintain 100 as being the "mean" value. If IQ tests were absolutely sensitive and specific for performance prediction, corporations would find a way to administer them. At best, MBTI personality tests are sometimes included as part of an overall candidate profile. It's an easier signal to use university pedigree such as Ivy or JEE as a proxy for properties, rewarding a type of monocultural groupthink.

If you want to see someone highly-motivated, consider a parent with kids and a mortgage on the brink of bankruptcy. They'll pass all sorts of tests and get shit done. People who have been through difficult circumstances tend to be the most capable and highest achieving. Special forces and startups tend to attract a mix of people who grew up poor, semi-abused, and/or semi-homeless and race car drivers/fighter pilot types.
>... essentially ruining one of the world's great information platforms

I think it's a good thing in the long run.

Twitter was a gimmick in many ways. Here, throw a few words out into the ether and see who notices.

That simplicity attracted tons of people. Then it became THE place to reach a ton of people, even though it's format for such things is AWFUL for it. It's a TERRIBLE platform for meaningful information dispersal, but it's THE place to be, so you see a bunch of evidence of that.

Twitlonger, people chaining twitter posts, just about any conversation, etc. Worse it eliminated a lot of things that probably shouldn't have died. My personal pet peeve is the death of forums, most specifically for games. Pre twitter you could find old forum posts that were pinned about just about anything you wanted to get into seriously. Dustloop had character guides with a level of info that would justify a thesis on characters in games that were 8 years old and hardly ever played.

That level of information is still found now, but instead it's tied to a hashtag, and then vomited out...never consolidated. Right now i'm looking to mess with a new character in strive, and while the GGST_BE tag is nice for "oh that's neat" kind of tech discoveries, it's fucking awful for actually understanding how to play the character or what's useful from it.

To be fair, that's always the case with a brand new character, but in the old days it was somewhat easier to keep a running tally of what works and what doesn't in a forum discussion, while twitter just doesn't promote that, so picking someone up waaaay after the fact is miserable. Discord is the other spot these things are now heavily discussed (with similar issues to twitter, although the forum feature of discord has helped a bit) and the wiki's are in theory where the data is consolidated but it's just a much higher barrier to entry and thus often you have half completed pages with outdated information.

In short, i'm hoping the slow death of twitter (IF it dies. The number of people saying twitter is abhorrent...on twitter...is a sign to me it's not going anywhere) will finally lead to people realizing that we want a way to quickly spread information among those who want it, but we don't need it to be in this shallow, vapid, character limited style. Sure that works for "oh hey look at where I am today" but it drives me nuts every time i see some essay broken into 45 twitter posts.

RSS feeds are an alternative tech that's honestly quite close to being what most people want, but it lacks the discovery/aggregation effect of things like twitter in most cases (inoreader kind of has something like that), and thus mostly still relies on twitter for content (at least it did until they nuked the API).
"Mr. Das said he did not remember the exact context of the tweet."

Sorry, I can't take this guy at his word. Oh I can't remember what I tweeted or why but trust me Twitter was unjustified in taking it down.
MS Windows ca W2000. Or rather, IBM CUA – Common User Access – as embodied in ca W2000.
Well, they used rebar in the coliseum in Rome... It got stolen if I recall correctly
I view that quote a bit differently.

For 99.9% of the time since the emergence of modern humans, the ways of doing things and building things were passed down as spells and performed as / accompanied by rituals. Some of the spells and rituals may have evolved to improve outcomes, such as hygiene or efficiency, things like ceremonial bathing, shunning pork, or building monuments with stone from a certain place. Many other spells and rituals were just along for the evolutionary ride; they were perceived to work, but actually had no effect. Some potion for a headache could contain a dozen ingredients, but only the willow bark actually did anything. Some incantation said over laying stones worked no better or worse than laying them in silence.

The thing was, neither the effective nor the ineffective spells were derived from first principles. If putting blood on the pillars seemed to work, no one asked "well, why does it work?" No one set out on the long task of hypothesis and experimentation, theory and formal proof. Until people began doing that, no one discovered why one method was better than another, and so people could only iterate a tiny bit at a time.

If you handed a charged-up iPhone to a person in the 9th Century (or for that matter, a young child in this century), they would have a wonderful time figuring out all the things they could make it do by touching icons in a certain order. They would learn the sequences. But they would be no closer to understanding what it is or how it works. If the same sequences gave slightly different results each time, they would not even understand why. Maybe one time they said "Aye Sire" and it spoke. If they say it more like "Hey Siri" it speaks more often. But does this get them any closer to understanding what Siri is?

Playing with a magical black box toy is fun, but you can't get to reproducible results, let alone first principles, unless you can understand why its output is different each time. The closest you can get are spells and rituals.

I'd submit that the attraction to creating spells around GPT is rather an alarming step backwards, and hints that people are already trying to turn it into a god.
It's not just you. I've been applying to junior/mid-level full stack roles with ~2 YoE with little luck for the past 2 months. I also sent around 100 applications a month and got a single interview. I've started tailoring my applications more and moved away from LinkedIn which is flooded by third-party recruiting agencies who take a 10 second look at your CV before you're binned - to platforms such as Cord, Otta and Hackajob, which I'm having much more luck on. I got 3 interview offers today, it's looking better.
Sure -- like the way people participate in Renaissance fairs, or spend their spare time weaving cloth or making candles by hand.
Thanks for pointing out that this article is not brand new. I’m curious to see if there is an eventual follow-up. If not, then that would be extremely disappointing.