skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://makofintech.com/

We do a lot of thinking about the place of low-code or no-code in the industry.

We're intentionally low-code, for example, because we think the accessibility gained by a no-code (graphical programming) interface isn't worth the tradeoff in loss of power. (A lot of people, like some tech VCs we've spoken to, think "well if low-code is good, no-code must be better" without realizing there is a tradeoff here.)

We don't really see any clients deciding to roll their own solution because the value prop of low-code for forms is so dramatically superior. We do end up competing against other low-code platforms like Pegasystems or Salesforce.
New macOS malware steals info, including a user's entire Keychain database
Ah, management’s never ending dream to commoditize software development; gotta love it. I’ve spent the last several years being paid good money working on various failed “digital transformation”projects and am currently working on another one I predict will fail.

One of the root causes of these failures is viewing the actual software development as a mere afterthought once all the high level boxes are drawn and power point slides created. Tremendous resources are spent on everything ancillary to the software and insuring proper adherence to process is kept no matter how orthogonal that process may be to maximizing the delivery of quality software in a timely manner. It’s really quite amazing.
I'm working on the search for the EDM of the muon.
Essentially it's much harder to search for the proton EDM than the neutron EDM. All EDM searches rely on a strong electric field applied to the particles. Because neutrons are neutral they are easily stored in some volume for a long time. You cannot so easily store protons because the moment you apply some E-field you start accelerating them. That's why you need to build a large storage ring with magnetic/electric focusing and so on. This brings numerous challenges that you don't have for the neutron. This, combined with the fact that we don't expect much different novel physics for the proton that won't be seen in the neutron has led to the focus on the neutron EDM, while the proton was left behind.

The usual quote is that for the proton we can reach sensitivities up to 10^-29 (around three orders of magnitude lower than the current nEDM limit), but thats only the statistical sensitivity. The systematic effects that would spoil that come much earlier and this limit is close to science fiction at this point. For example, if you have a magnetic field in the order of attotesla in the region of the storage ring it will dominate the measurement.

Would be happy to answer more edm questions :)
Which is why TypeScript has T | null | undefined <taps temple>
I literally made a mistake, I thought it was needed for the free trial. This thing is a cesspool of dark patterns.
For things like tsunami warnings, they should post them where the people are. At least for now, people are on Twitter.

And, being blunt, effectively 0% of the global population uses RSS for news. Especially time sensitive news.
I sometimes need to connect to a CI runner to debug some CI build script. I made a (quick hack of a) tool [0] for doing that by creating an Onion service on the runner listening to SSHD, and printing a one-liner I can paste on my dev machine to connect to it via Tor. This sounds like basically the same idea, but using a DHT and hole punching instead of onion routing.

[0] https://github.com/milesrichardson/shonion
Most web games use the dom as a layer over top of the 3D canvas and then use 3D to 2D projections to align the elements. This allows you to use regular HTML and CSS for a lot of text elements.

Also, you can render and rasterize fonts + dynamic text to a texture and UV map it to a quad in 3D space if you need to. This is pretty inexpensive and easy to do as well.

Lastly, the most difficult but performant option is using a shader to compute the font rendering. This is basically moving the font raster from CPU to GPU and there are various shader examples for this in GLSL (popular shader format used by WebGL/OpenGL) that you can use.
Document everything you've tried so far and then do a charge back through your credit card company.
> Entry is granted for a purpose, not as a default right

Tourism is a permissible purpose, and it is legitimately the purpose of entry for “digital nomads”.

> I know Thailand has become more active in refusing entry to Europeans doing remote work for 3-month periods one after another

Many countries, and Thailand quite infamously, have always had strict approaches to the tourist “visa runs”, because it has always been associated with visa and tax fraud, in the form of people working under the table jobs in the country (very frequently as English teachers). This isn’t new.

> Over the past three years many countries have introduced a so-called digital nomad visa for remote workers. Why would they need a new category if this were already allowed under existing tourist and business visa rules?

It depends on the specifics of the visa. But the most basic form of digital nomad visa is simply a longer duration multiple entry tourist visa. These are created to encourage digital nomads to stay longer than they could on a normal tourist visa, and they are created to capitalise on what the newly emerging digital nomad segment is. Which is simply a highly valuable group of tourists who bring lots of money into the economy without consuming any public services.

Other types of digital nomad visa are created to encourage people to shift their tax residence, and sometimes include tax incentives. These visas are created to capture free tax revenue that they would otherwise have no access to, and usually also don’t include any entitlements to public services.

They’re not created to allow something that was previously prohibited. They’re created to maximise the benefit that this segment of tourists can provide.
I struggle with understanding that size comparison, given that the size of the electron is unknown: we only have a maximum size that's based on the accuracy of the measurements, no lower bound.
Hmm, maybe you hoped it would fit your needs and then learned it didn't?
Because smartphones are designed to keep you stupid. Computer literacy means you are able to poke holes in their shitty abstractions. The industry does not want you programming or creating, the industry wants you to be consuming. Preferably with your credit card.
I eat nootropics like smarties.
Did someone just say blue ribbon committee? All my fears have vanished:D
IIRC, the neural tissue around the gut is near identical to the brain tissue.
> It’s just like building on top of AWS or GCP.

Yes, but companies still use "hosted on the cloud" as a feature in enterprise SaaS.
I mean, you have an 8-year old computer. What did you realistically expect would happen here? For Apple to support your computer until the end of time even if you’re the only person using that model? In the tech world, 8 years is already practically a lifetime.

At a certain point, it’s no longer profitable for a company to continue supporting old systems. And that rarely has to do with power and almost entirely due to it being 8-year old devices with practically no remaining user base.
It’s extremely unethical to force users to do more to cancel a subscription than they did to sign up. I hope one day these types of shenanigans are outlawed in the US.
I want my next car (probably an EV) to be just the best physical thing it can be and as much of the interface to be CarPlay powered like they showed in a WWDC before where even the speedometer was powered and rendered by Apple.
Not if you are TSA pre-check or better yet if you use Clear.
But they don’t have a monopoly and that’s not normal Manhattan pricing. As the article mentions, you can go down the street to Panera or McDonald’s or anywhere else more easily than in the airport.
Steam at this point has massive market power as a distributor. They must already have some sort of anti-malware policy they hold their suppliers to. If they wanted to, they could extend that policy to include intrusive anti-cheat malware, and the industry would change its ways overnight. Only the most powerful game companies could afford to forego Steam distribution. Steam 100% has the choice, and they choose to distribute this software.
Revamp an IDE to abstract away from the file system. Let the IDE organize the code according to functions and subsystems instead of files. Add tools to the IDE for better search, and the ability to hide sections of code and comments when you don't want to see them. Add an automatic map builder that outlines control flow and indicates which sections of code are closely related. Add an AI to suggest code and to analyze and summarize the structure of the code. The code all gets compiled into one binary or app so it is logical to treat all of it as one monolithic thing, but people aren't capable of even seeing 300 pages of code at the same time, they can only keep small sections visible and work with them at one time. Design the IDE to handle that complexity and make it easy to zoom in on the code that is relevant to what you want to do.
You can cancel your subscription in the Settings page. Why were you forced to contact support?
Life pro tip:
Use https://privacy.com

You can simply burn the payment details you provided them.
Consider the case where there’s a configuration error — say, a cable not properly seated.

You can have results that are highly precise, but due to cable issue, not baselined correctly and therefore systemically inaccurate. Eg, faster than light neutrinos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_a...

I think people get confused because they forget that systemic bias can impact precise measurements: if your system is wrong, you’ll precisely come to the wrong conclusion.
"Looks good here flight, go to green!"

I admit I hadn't clicked before even though I'd seen the links & thought it was probably going to be neat.

On desktop, you can listen to any of the like 20 different comms channels. This is so fascinatingly neat.
There are papers on it from people more knowledgeable than me but what it comes down to in ML is always the dataset.

A machine that is already ready to generate datasets for you improves the quality many times. That means with every Version of ChatGPT, the datasets for other companies grow richer.

My personal take is that it takes many AI's in combination with a kubernetes like control loop to reach AGI not a single big one.

Take for instance programming. Given enough iteration and therefore money AutoGPT can reach "somewhat usable" code and just like in regular development the whole deal comes down to testing of what you desire. Therefore if you can find a way to "test" your dataset you can iterate automatically and that's easier for some task and more difficult for other but still possible.

The common thought is that an AI model needs to "know it all" but as they thought me in business psychology, that's actually not even true for humans themselves.
Furthermore, i have mentioned the new "cards" from NVIDIA who are even more powerful than what we had before

So yeah i think the space is still wide open.
The genesis of the US nuclear weapons program went hand in hand with the genesis of the US biological weapons program (and of course both were predated by the US chemical weapons program). An important date in both efforts was July 1941:

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Event...

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

The nuclear effort is of course more well known and documented, while relatively few books have been written about the biological & chemical warfare programs, and those that have tend to suffer from large-scale omissions (Korean War, Vietnam War, covert CIA programs, cooperation with Canada and British BW programs, etc.). Nevertheless:

> "Secretary Stimson conveyed the committee's recommendations to President Roosevelt, who in May of 1942 authorized the secretary to create an organization within the Federal Security Agency to conduct the U.S. Biological Warfare Program so as to avoid public concern over America's vulnerability. The exchange of information on this subject with the United Kingdom and Canada, which had been inaugurated some months before, was continued, and provision was made for the interchange of biologic-warfare personnel among the 3 countries (U.S. Army 1977)... In 1942, the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service assumed the responsibility for a large-scale research and development program. Fort Detrick in Frederick, MD, was selected to carry out the biologic-warfare task."

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/5739/chapter/12

The entire history is fairly insane, as large-scale tests of actual pathogenic bacteria were also conducted over large barges full of animals scattered across large tracts of the open ocean, which also exposed naval soldiers, as revealed c.2001, in tests with names like "Shady Grove" from the early 1960s:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-0110230264oct23-story.htm...

Notably, many elements of the US biological weapons program were revived in the 1990s following revelations of the scale of the Soviet BW programs that continued through the 1970s and 1980s, and many people think those public-private contractor-led programs were the actual source of the anthrax used in the 9/18/2001 and 10/9/2001 anthrax mailings to media and Congress, respectively. The justification was 'we have to make these weapons to study how to defend against them'. Examples include:

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

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

This, incidentally, also explains some of the justifications for the gain-of-function research developments of the past two decades (many financed out of Project Bioshield-type funding approved after the anthrax attacks) that appear to have played a leading role in the genesis of the Covid pandemic.
Xfinity is the only choice I have. It advertises as 5Gpbs and costs 100 USD

My real speed:

Download 14Mbps -- Upload 1 Mbps

If I had a choice of any other service, I would jump.

Note, Xfinity is really Comcast. I used Xfinity so this would show up in searches.
That is service. Not DRM.
Same reason you can’t buy anything but crap hotdogs in Central Park - vendors pay millions for the exclusive contract to sell and then they sell crap at high prices to cover their investment.

No competition, no innovation, no reason to not gouge tbe punters.
Why call it an IT company when all it does is to use existing IT? I think it's fine.
https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/suspected-bob-lee-ki...
Thank you for your time. Appreciate your honesty.
Probably. Check search trends. Consult chatgpt for marketing advice
I have yet to see a true AI ( or ML ) based Video Codec, or some potential Generative Video Codec like what Google did with Audio For Voice. And if it cant be done for Audio I doubt it will work on Video given the complexity. The current working prototype of H.267 ECM 8.0 aims to squeeze another 40% to 50% reduction in bitrate from H.266 / VVC Codec. There will likely be some ML usage on the Encoder side, but in terms of codec the exploration path hasn't provided much evidence how it will fundamentally change the codec efficiency.
The fact that the LLM in question has never seen the token petertodd so it's interesting what it generates when you ask about it.
The handful of international business class lounges in the US that I've visited were comparatively quite stingy/basic with food items (compared to typical counterparts in e.g. Europe or Asia).

Anyone got a recommendation for a JFK lounge that's a good deal when you're paying for access?
Depends on whether you value your principles more than money.
It is a little bit of both, but the discontent is because workers find out exactly how much businesses are able to shaft their workers. I know I was upset when I found out a new hire got more than me after years of service. Boy did I learn a valuable lesson back then.
Note that changing your payment details does not cancel your responsibility to make payments.
Really? Can SQL queries do image recognition? How about self driving or, more recently, natural language processing?
Slight correction, from a former Turbo Pascal (and subsequent Delphi) programmer...

"Real" types were platform-dependent floating-point types, not suitable for monetary calculations whatsoever. and would map to either Single or Double depending on the underlying CPU architecture. Sort of like a C-style "int" that would map to an 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 36-bit, 60-bit, 64-bit etc integer, depending on the compiler and the compile target.

Turbo Pascal did have an 8-byte, fixed point, "Currency" type suitable for monetary calculations, however using it was very, very slow compared to pure floating point ops - just as the comment you replied to suggested. If that weren't enough, library support (both built-in and 3rd-party) for math and other utility functions was either limited or non-existent.
There was a bug fix in Nethack a few years ago to make eating parchment spellbooks break vegetarian conduct. Which at one level makes perfect sense: of course parchment is an animal product. But the fact that it comes from the intersection of several kind of weird systems in the game made it such a great Nethack bug. First, that the game tracks vegetarianism at all. Then, the randomized unidentified item descriptions that are mostly flavor text but occasionally have gameplay properties. And finally, why are you eating spellbooks in the first place?
I get what you mean, but my original thought was about complexity as in how much effort (work & time & money) would it take to re-create the thing and start a competing business, given you already have all the necessary knowledge. Cause it increasingly feels like working on state-of-the-art is only achievable by big players...

Under these assumptions it's not really being bleeding edge, how much research went into it, or how hard of a science is behind that make it complex, but rather the amount of components and parts needed to assemble it (and in case of hardware also the rarity of them). When I am talking about state-of-the-art technology there I just mean the newest competitive version of a thing that most people use daily...
Verizon fios, 100mbos, $65. Major (for us) metropolis, East coast USA. They turned on IPv6 like 2 maybe 3years ago, yay.

I'd love a gratis bump to 200mbps some day.

Edit: oh snap! It was pretty hard to find plans on the website (most pages wanted me to check availability with address/email/phone... No) but I did eventually find a page that told me there's a 300mbps for $55 - $10 if I use a de it card. Called them, and done! This post saved me money & tripled my speed.

I have a very expensive grandfathered Verizon unlimited wireless plan with no softcap (but they'll drop me if I use 100GB or so repeatedly). Alas it's not qualified, otherwise I'd save another $20!
Compared to eating, I guess a game played for 1400 years is a fad ;)

I've never really put a lot of time into chess, but maybe learning to play better with my kids might be fun, and a "fad" /s is a good enough reason.
Yep, that's why I drive a 20 year old truck. Interestingly, I've driven 60k+ miles in this truck (and others like it) and maybe 1-2k in all other vehicles, including those with auto breaking/etc. The only times I've been in incidents where auto breaking was needed was when I had it. No clue why, perhaps something about all the features lulled me into a false sense of security where I took my eyes off the road for much longer than I would in my truck.
To get investor bucks
Datadog is very difficult too. Including a call with your account rep…
End users don't care who in your dependency stack is enabling NLP, but that your tool can do things the non-NLP tools cannot

Likewise, that is key signaling for all stakeholders on what is to come. If using AI is part of the core identity & value prop, great. If not, great too, hopefully there is some other wow. Whether users, staff, investors, same deal.

Ex: We do some custom graph neural network & custom auto feature engineering to help ppl look at & analyze their event data more easily & intelligently. OTOH, our LLM work currently uses OpenAI/Azure, and we are deferring self-hosting and fine-tuning for when more useful, as we rather focus more now on bits like vector databases and UIs. In both cases, our users care more that they can get better results and a journey committed to doing more, vs precisely who is doing what & when.
Ever heard of the chain of command?
1 Gbps fiber optic with unlimited traffic in 2 places, one in the capital city and one in a small village in the mountains. Another one over GPRS, ~150 Mbps down and ~ 25 Mbps up with 200 GB/month of traffic. About $10/month each. Country = Romania.
So in Arkansas you are allowed to go work at age 13 without parental consent but not allowed to use social media? Got it.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/politics/sarah-huckabee-sande...
I have my router, wifi, and a mac mini server that are connected to a UPS, which is connected to a LiFePO4 battery, which is charged by solar panels. But you don’t see me bragging abo- oh wait.
This is nothing. During the dotcom boom there were companies owning only poultry farms in places like India that changed their names to sound like an IT company or a dotcom to so that the stock goes up. Atleast these "AI" companies are doing pass through AI, hopefully with some good user friendly and useful features on top of OpenAI's APIs, or targeting different verticals.
I have a 2015 27" i5 iMac and I use OCLP to run Ventura on it.

Everything is fine - apart from some very occasional graphics glitches (transparency effects and so on). A bigger issue is every time there is an official OS update, Bluetooth breaks. I have to plug in a keyboard and mouse, get OCLP to repatch the OS and reboot.
This is why you should always use fake data when registering somewhere.
BabyAGI: An Autonomous and Self-Improving Agent
It’s ludicrous that proof of ability to operate a motor vehicle is positioned as a prerequisite for using the Internet—- more so given the myriad of ways that a license can be suspended.
I'm not alone: https://ca.trustpilot.com/review/docusign.com
You can find a security focused browser that don't implement these.
That's the same thing with all technology choices though - if requirements change substantially you always risk a rewrite. If write a full-code application with all your logic in server-side .NET and suddenly your users have a requirement to use it offline, and then you are trapped with an app that needs to be rewritten with data that needs to be migrated in order to implement one feature

This is all part of having a good level of intuition for what capabilities you are likely to need, and then picking appropriate technology.
Not only the industry.
Yeah, kinda. It's not even really that related, but I've been tinkering around with indie game development and I just can't shake the feeling that the quality of experience waiting to be delivered through emergent interactions with AI agents is going to make whatever I cobble together look trite in comparison. Time will tell, though.
Funny, we've just replaced DocuSign with a custom-built solution that will achieve full ROI in less than one year, thanks to recent price hikes on the contract.