skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice one, I've been thinking about this for past months. Something like TikTok and new Twitter algorithm with infinite scrolling.
They still take in a lot of sensory data, eg related to touch and proprioception.
The one I saw flew fine, for short distances and indoors at least.
This should've been a browser option since the beginning.
>> John Michael Greer is the author of over thirty books. He served twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America.

Oh, ok. Sounds definitely like someone worth listening to.
An Object notation for every language? Perhaps this is the way all languages will go but it seems a little bit retrograde.

e.g. Python Object Oriented Notation (POON) would have double quotes and True and False and "None" but otherwise be easily mistaken for JSON.

Scheme Object Notation Externtion (SCONE) would presumably just be a lot of brackets?
Because we know that there is no accountability in the construction industry.

This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.
Aren't there a lot of "native apps" that just launch a webview though?
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I'm quite happy to read this, because my experience was also awful - they didn't accept the IMEI of 3 phones I tried and their app is full of ads (not to mention that I kept receiving scam calls).

I really hope that it's because they are awful and this is not the typical American mobile phone experience.
We also used to train neural networks over multiple 'epochs' of the same data.

Can't we keep doing that again?

We had techniques like drop-out and data augmentation to help.
There's gotta be entire libraries that haven't been digitized that can be mined for data.
You know this because you think it is mathematically impossible?
He says his BitLocker drive was on a work computer. If it was managed through Active Directory then those key may have been recoverable through his employer.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informati...
> Haryana provides 100% waiver of electricity taxes, cess, electricity duty, wheeling charges, cross subsidy charges, transmission and distribution charges, etc. for rooftop solar projects

I wonder why it's 'rooftop solar projects' specifically and not also inclusive of on-the-ground solar projects.
I've found German train enthusiast channels to be a decent source of this. Don't have any to link at this moment, but they're out there.
> Give Duolingo a try. Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it will at least get you started.

I don't think this is good advice. There are myriads of ways to get you started, so Duolingo doesn't provide additional value in that regard.

The question is: why use Duolingo at all instead of any conceivable alternative out there? What's the upside to Duolingo? Is there any, whatsoever?
I teach at a Vocational college the teaches entry level system administration.
I am one of those boomers (1959) but I have no degrees above a Bachelors. I could not get out of the teaching because of ageism and assumed if-you-cant-do-teachism.

I took this job 15 years ago because prospective employers looked at my then
30 year career and repeatedly said you cannot adapt to new tech and are too expensive. So I took my sysadmin, programming, and management skills and taught them to younger people who did get the jobs I was rejected for. Hopefully some of my work ethic will have rubbed off on them and when they hire they will do it with less "ism".

Now I get to play with the newest tech and teach it.
No, it's not. That's not what "tracking" means.
they eat oil (fertilizer is an oil byproduct).
Do you have a place for any nvi tips and tricks?

Or any macros you have shared?

So far I have

Matt Widmann's notes: https://mattwidmann.net/notes/the-nvi-text-editor/

vi mail archive (not much, mirrored)

Learning the vi and vim editors (O'Reilly)

johnsonjh@github work on OpenVi:
https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi

HN comments around OpenVi, nvi, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30394952
In 1940 there was a good chance you lived in a dirt floor structure with outdoor plumbing, no electricity, or climate control. You probably has a lot of people sharing a bedroom and maybe didn’t have much of a kitchen.

In the city you had a good chance of living in a tenement building under cramped conditions with other families. You were desperately afraid your kids would acquire polio or that everyone else would acquire TB.

Regardless, your building was probably rundown and in need of renovation that wasn’t possible since the depression and WW2 made materials impossible to get or afford. Meanwhile the cost to live in the city was still relatively high, hence why so many people cramped together.

People moved to the suburbs in the 50’s to escape this. (Moving to flee blacks is more of a myth.) We has breakthroughs in manufacturing houses (which only wealthy people could really afford prior) in terms of materials and methods and the automobile and road network became viable.

You could stay in a cramped, expensive, outdated, and dirty city or you could get a plot of land and a spacious (for the time, average home sizes are twice as large today) home and a new car. This is what people did because it’s a much better way to raise a family.

You can live in a small place and work a job that doesn’t require an education. Tons of people do today. You’ll still have better conditions than people back then.
It's worse because they now give the checks to people they don't like.

And the checks imply endorsement of a paid service.

And the people getting checks don't want them.

It's such a mess, I don't even.
Mozilla has this for Firefox

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/12/24/configure-firefox-to-rejec...
An additional thing to add about unemployment benefits: today, they might be high-touch, high-bureaucracy, and not aligned with tech job searches.

I think maybe all the talk/reality of people disappearing from the workforce during Covid might've made some states much less trusting that people actually want to get back to work.

Personally, if I'm ever again laid off, and I can quickly have promising opportunities lined up, I'm not filing for unemployment insurance payouts, unless&until I really have to.

Also beware that unemployment insurance programs aren't the only potential urgently threatening layoffs-related demand on your time and nerves. (For example, health insurance company runaround hell throughout each week, because, you find out after months, they disagree with employer's Cobra enrollment confirmation letter, but seem not to want to simply say that. And needing a new HCOLA housing lease or mortgage while unemployed, so keep incurring/enduring all the reasons you wanted to move.)

While techbros know that normally one should be calmly focusing 100% on practicing for Leetcode hazings, memorizing STAR format answers to "tell me about a time when" for each of a particular company's Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, adding hot new keywords to the resume, networking, and sifting through recruiter mass-approach noise.
The concept has been done, though not with such a large baseline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spektr-R

I don't know what exactly the tradoffs are, but I suspect this approach has a lower sensitivity due to size of the dishes, it's more difficult to get enough telescopes to form a good image, and transmitting the data back is likely to be a challenge (the black hole observations were shipped on hard drives instead of transmitted via the internet. Even achieving a broadband-speed transmission rate with a deep space object is difficult)
Honest truth, this is only going to side projects I wouldn’t even think of bringing this to production, it’s cool tho
This, basically.

I would happily teach at a CC for ~40-50k. I consider having my basic economic needs taken care of a necessity to being a good teacher - there is a correlation between poverty/economic stress and agitation, irritability, etc. Being in constant stress is not going to be conducive towards teaching well. If I have to work 2 jobs, I'm going to not spend my time grading thoroughly, I will choose the quick and easy route to curriculum development instead of tailoring the curriculum, etc. Oh and forget time for office hours or student emails; have to go deliver groceries or work at a car wash so I can make rent.

I'm not going to take a job where I'm not given what I need to be good at the job - it's terrible for me and it's terrible for the students. The only 'winner' is the institution.
Absent any real data -- which currently no post in the thread contains -- this seems like it just reduces to "What stereotypes do you hold about people younger than you?"
The formal lesson planning has been cut back a bit these days (last 3 years or so). One of my employers went over to the 'five minute lesson plan' [1]. With a solid scheme of work (plan of the whole course) that works OK.

I taught maths (basic level) and we had a team of something like 20 tutors so materials got produced and a common scheme of work got adapted as needed. All that cuts the work down, along with some amazing Web sites [2]. If you are the only teacher of a specialist subject, yes I admit the planning could be heavy the first time you run the course. Local management can be a factor sadly.

Recent sad events in the UK news [3] I think will result in a change in approach from OFSTED. This will I think happen when the new OFSTED head is in post.

[1] https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/5minplan/ [ I don't think we paid anything! And the differentiation bit is different for adult education]

[3] e.g. https://www.skillsworkshop.org/ and
https://corbettmaths.com/

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-65207784
I use wezterm and love it, too - BUT, it doesn't yet support SSH agent forwarding, which are an integral part of my workflow for some machines.

So it's great -- for me -- for local connections, or remote ones where I don't need to pass an SSH agent, but it's not yet there "fully" for me the way KiTTY is.
Winner winner chicken dinner. Could sum the argument as: Transformers appear to be approximately emulating the brain despite us not fully understanding how either works "inside". Which is weird and eerie, but plausible.
The prose from the AI feels very stilted, more like Eliza than GPT, which results in it feeling like talking to an AI, whereas a conversation with GPT feels like a normal conversation until you run into its 'As an AI...' canned limitation responses.
LLM chatbots are going to make typing words on a tiny mobile keyboard a lot more common in the near future. That’s going to annoy a lot of people, because slate smartphone keyboards universally suck.

My PinePhone’s mechanical keyboard is a step up in this regard, but not perfect.
I agree about calming and I feel we were all much calmer overall in daily life. For this video I can see myself being in such stores, looking at all the computers, listening to adults talk as these people were, and it’s such a calmer environment. I worry about my kids as they seem too excited always. I know I wasn’t like them.
When smart people keep making the same mistakes, we need to realize that there's a problem on the systemic level.

In this case: C is riddled with these easy-to-make mistakes, and it's not enough to think that "a smart developer" is able to avoid these mistakes, but that everyone will make these (or similar) mistakes as long as we're allowed to.

It's one reason why I'm so big on Rust: because these mistakes are much harder to make.
Can I speak to your mom? Apologies for the directness but I work with tech for UK colleges and would love to hear her view (and see if there has been change since).
> Yet on HN people talk about Duolingo as if people would be spending their Duolingo time chatting to Spanish speakers if Duolingo didn't exist. Nah, they'd be doom scrolling.

This observation might be good for Duolingo's stock price, but it doesn't fit reality. Duolingo is not the only way to learn languages online, nor is it known for being effective.

For example, to me Memrise was far superior to Duolingo to expand vocabulary, and pretty much any YouTube series on learning language X is far better than Duolingo. Even browsing newspapers in language X paired with Google Translate is a far more productive experience than grinding on Duolingo.

The only selling point of Duolingo is that it sells you a false sense of progress and provides you a positive feedback loop that keeps you optimizing on local optima that are awfully unproductive.
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I think this is what is being meant;

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_software_engineering (ESE)

Popular: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/empirical-software...

Microsoft has a ESE group with some interesting publications. I had read/downloaded a couple a while ago which unfortunately i can't now remember nor locate. But this is a good starting point - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/belief-...
What's with this widespread confusion between kW and kWh, especially from supposed experts in solar power...
This may be right for a big distributed open source project or something, but most things I work on are proprietary within companies, and in that case it's easy to just pick something better and standardize on that. My current company is pretty much standardized on yaml, which isn't my favorite, but it's fine and better than json and we don't argue about it much. Things get serialized to json pretty often, but most stuff that is checked in and intended to be human readable is not json. A different company could easily pick cue or whatever else and it would work just as well.
I think you are mixing up layers of abstraction.

The network is most likely trained with something like a categorical cross entropy loss function. Those totally punish being wrong a lot more than saying "I don't know". See https://www.v7labs.com/blog/cross-entropy-loss-guide

It's just that saying "I don't know" means that your model is spreading the probability of what the next token in the text stream might be over many different outcomes. A very 'uniform' probability distribution, instead of sharp prediction.

That looks very different to GPT literally outputting the words "I don't know".
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Sorely lacking from this article: at least a hint of perspective at what Europe, China, India, and other world powers are doing in this field.

China, in particular, seems to be doing amazing work on the field, and tops US for number of patents:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/China-tops-nuclear-...

When it comes to Europe, no mention at all of ITER.
But I guess that a publicly funded project is not as interesting as the private and for-profit projects of Billionaires who are trying to get even richer by controlling the future of energy.

Really depressing.
I listen to them sped up because my comprehension is the same if not better. A lot of content is paced very slowly which is distracting/frustrating.
The point I think is that they _could_ and _should_ have been large bets and this makes them missed opportunities. At least most of those could have been massive cash cows (see Slack, Teams, Superhuman but 100x, etc). And they just failed to have a consistent product vision top-down, having all the pieces needed. Who to blame if not the CEO?
They never shipped out my Pebble Time 2 before the project (and company, for that matter) got shelved. Something I'm still sad about even today.

No other smartwatch released before or since has even come close to Pebble's Pebbles.

Kickstarter page is still up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-2-time...
That's the ideal/stated desire (and historically this was more likely to be true and it does hold true in some cases: graduate school adjuncting is more likely to be of this sort), but the economic incentives and overproduction of graduate degrees relative to the jobs requiring them have functionally made adjuncting the service class of academia.

And just because the hours are flexible doesn't mean the pay isn't an issue: Employment perks are relative and flexible hours are way more common than they used to be. For most people who qualify to be adjuncts, they could also freelance (which I do do) and get both payment and flexibility.
> Second guy, hard-selling the PC....

It’s just because him or his family already had a PC. It was tribal. Remember it was a lot of money and people would natural want to justify that the decision they had made was the right one. It was not an straightforward choice at all.
Twitter has a surprising 'no refunds' policy for rejected gold check applicants
I’ve outlived every computer I know of and I’m not even that old. How do AI people think AI will live so long without being unplugged, losing a power source, or having errors? In a future without humans I mean. We are the universal troubleshooting organism.
Nice try PLA. We are all familiar with CCP influence over Tik-Tok already.
As long as we are on topic of JSON alternatives suitable for configuration, I've been tinkering with various minimal syntaxes and formats for a long time, most notably Jevko[0].

One format based on that I've been conjuring up recently would represent the first example from the RON README like so:

GameConfig[ optional struct name
window size [[800] [600]]
window title [PAC-MAN]
fullscreen [false]

mouse sensitivity [1.4]
key bindings [
up [Up]
down [Down]
left [Left]
right [Right]

Uncomment to enable WASD controls
;[
W [Up]
A [Down]
S [Left]
D [Right]
]
]

difficulty options [
start difficulty [Easy]
adaptive [false]
]
]

I put a syntax-highlighted version and some more details in this gist[1].

I wonder what you guys think about such a minimal alternative.

[0] https://jevko.org

[1] https://gist.github.com/djedr/4eeac1de466512ec211ff17cfd1f5e...
And if you want something Anglocentric instead of US-centric, there's the London Review Of Books.
HOCON is a great human-readable alternative to JSON. It's a superset of JSON with lots of cool features that make it both more readable and easier to use.

Here's a rundown of HOCON's main features: https://github.com/lightbend/config#features-of-hocon
In a way it'd actually be great if police was frequently cracking encrypted communications of old algorithms. It'd both increase the pressure on better standards as well as remove the need for shitty laws banning encryption outright.
Russia killed a lot more than just its tech industry. While the real impact of this won’t show up for 20 years the impact will be severe.

I’m pretty sure Russia will try very hard to attract foreign labor and immigration in the next years to fill some of the gaps that the country has to fill now.
> diversity is creative and resilient.

I spent a majority of my career in "R&D-heavy" companies, so I'm fairly used to diverse teams.
Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started
Could I get a visualization of patterns (or lack thereof) of the declension of nouns and adjectives in German ?
Paraphrase: teaching a few classes at a community college can be great for you, in the begining, but probably not long term, and it is probably not great for your students.

You are doing something new, learning to communicate, potentially even learning some new material or a new perspective on something you know. At the very least, you get inspiration to create new materials (for teaching).

This experience is not great for your students. You are being trained on the job. They are looking for training. You are learning from the mistakes you make teaching them.

This isn't necessarily horrible. You teaching the class could still be better than the next best alternative. But the fact that CC (in the US, in STEM, IME) are not paying enough for this to be a viable career means that you will never stay long enough to be an experienced teacher who has figured out a solid approach to teaching the classes and students that you teach.
The linked ElcomSoft article claims that LUKS does does that sort of thing by default:

>LUKS varies the number of hash iterations used to protect the master encryption key. When creating an encrypted disk with a given combination of encryption settings, LUKS benchmarks the user’s system. The data is used to select the number of hash iterations protecting the master encryption key.
You can do this sort of thing on a smaller scale but with similar results by volunteering for mentoring organizations like Underdog Devs, Vets Who Code, Operation Code, or another organization that helps underprivileged people try to get programming jobs.