skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experiments show that groups of humans pick as their leader the loudest and most confident of the bunch.

You can imagine how this quirk of psychology affects power at all levels in our society.
Devise? No thanks. If auth were handled by Sorcery I’d be much more interested.
cunnilingus simulator 0_0
Youtube overwhelmingly shows me videos that it's showed me 100 times before and didn't click on, or stuff that I've already watched. The only time it's anything else is when a channel that I'm interested in posts new content. I find it super frustrating to the point I don't even bother going there anymore unless I'm looking for something specific.
I have no problem with the police hacking into devices. They have the right to use bugs and find exploits just like they have the right to pick a safe of force a door.

But backdoors and unacceptable, that's like mandating that every house have microphones in every room connected to the police center
No it's not. It's the other way around.

People are looking at something and not realizing how trivial it is. It's a sham. It's like the mother who secretly had her kid paint random shit then she started secretly selling the blobs of paint as modern art and showing that the entire industry was just empty snobbery. True story.

Personally, I've looked at the divide and stepped over it and did it. My "designs" are on par with someone with "design" training.

In fact my skills are often superior as i can produce graphics beyond what they use in flat design.
This. Early days of Internet were exactly like this.
Interesting how our leaders see their role not as representing our interests, but in shaping our interests. There exists an entire subject in political science dealing with how to increase compliance with the schemes of regulators (see Nudge Theory).

The mistake they make is a classic short-run vs. long-run miscalculation. In the short-run, you can get away with these kinds of tactics to increase compliance. For example, running talking points on the MSM works well. They run the talking points and in the next days, everyone is parroting what they heard on the news, as if it's their own views.

But in the long-run, people will become more familiar with these tactics, such that they will become less effective (e.g. waning trust in the media). They are burning through the cultural & social capital which sustain these institutions (like the MSM or academia), and don't realize that once it runs out, they will no longer have these levers and buttons at their disposal.

At that point, the only way to increase compliance is with force. And once you go down that road, it becomes extremely clear to those wielding that force, just how precarious their situation is (e.g. Maduro assassination attempts). That is how totalitarianism takes root, fear of the people.
I've read stuff that a big solar flare could take out the whole electric grid and that it would take so long to restore it with parts we don't even have that things would basically devolve into chaos.

https://emptaskforce.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/A-Call-to...
It’s different budgets, but it’s the same amount of tax money either way, so arguably it shouldn’t make a difference from the employer’s side as well. The budgets just would need to be organized differently.
I can't comment to how one would use that phrase in French, but in English it does seem to be a correct synonym of the French loan-phrase [0][1] - especially in British English.

Looking on n-grams it seems to have been used since the mid 19th century. Interestingly in en-GB it was even more popular than bon vivant in the 70s and 80s[2].

I have no opinion on the GP's original use of the phrase, but I don't think noting that a phrase which evolved in a different language to its origin is now different to the original shows too much.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bon%20viveur

[1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bon-viv...

[2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bon+viveur%2Cb...
This argument is invalid. These two things are easy to pattern match, but every theorem comes with an obligation to show that your current state matches your predicate, which is very hard, generally.
But that would mean the “pay your fair share” people would actually have to pay their fair share, which they will never support. We all know that the fair share is a percentage of someone else’s income you feel entitled to and not a fee proportional to the amount of state services you use.
Why stop at Gemini? You could bring internet navigation back to a CLI-only interface and someone would find a way to show ads.

Heck, NPM of all things had ads until they sent out a community-wide request to stop that: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/635

The problem isn't the permissibility of a web browser. It's that we live in a capitalistic world; someone somewhere will always be trying to figure out how to post a bill on a wall that reads "POST NO BILLS".
Lyft plans to 'significantly reduce' workforce, CEO says
I don't browse the dark web so I cannot make a solid first-hand counterargument. But I seriously doubt your comment, given the amount of illegal material there, including most of the dumps from the thousands of past data breaches. Even if your comment is true regarding text content, it is almost certain that also they will try to capitalize on LLMs for improving their cyber crime codebases.
How long does that trip take in a tesla? Charging included.

When I need to make that trip (with more than one person. If just one traveler it's cheaper to fly) I just rent a gas car and can make the trip in just over 5 hours. I'd say that includes gas stops but often I don't even need to stop for gas. One tank will get me all the way across. It's still a good idea to stop for gas because you can find cheaper stations outside of the big metro areas. But a gas stop is 5 minutes offramp to onramp.

I feel like all this comparing of charging times and ranges of various EVs misses the point that NONE of them offer a better experience that a gas vehicle yet. Sure, it's a trade off some people are willing to make already and that's great. But it needs to get even better.
I don't think you can do 1, can you demonstrate that is possible?

I don't argue you can't add to its trainingset, of course you can.
Oh, I'm not defending him.
Thanks! that worked great
Front end gateways make this so easy. Stand up the service a couple of times, then send different routes to different pools. This is the easiest implementation of the Bulkhead Pattern one can see, it's great. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/pattern...

I've had so many jobs where we either have some awful slow routes, or we have some latency critical routes. Thusfar I have yet to convince a single company what an incredible & vital win this would be, to create different service pools for certain classes of routes, but wow have I tried to make it happen & man what a win it would be for users.
Sounds like you are just being grumpy.
Part of the benefit that comes from being well traveled is sharing stories and experiences with locals, leaders don't do any of that. Generously, most of them are too busy to do so, and instead spend most of their time in a building that could be anywhere in the world in a similar looking conference room.

Although you are right, it does take a certain level of intelligence to recognize when one is outside of their element and to seek proper expertise. Assuming no malicious intent.
It's not even power over you. It's mostly power over their political opponents.

You can read up on how Polish government used their access to Pegassus.
Sure. But people are not all exactly the same.
One of my old bosses would schedule an hour a week between him and I with no agenda to help with these more natural unplanned convos. We'll probably only do 5min catchup and then bullshit the rest of the time about random stuff, but something always tends to come up that spurs an idea, provides clarity, or helps in some other way.
I used to work as a contractor for John Deere and one of the engineers there would capriciously insist on adding runtime consistency checks in code review because "you never know if lightning might strike or a cosmic ray flips a bit in RAM". This was not for any life-or-death software, it was for the infotainment stuff which was already insanely buggy beginning with the Bosch radio we had sourced and carrying into the ambiguous protocol John Deere designed to speak with the radio and the application code the lowest-bidder contractors wrote before hiring me to fix it (lightning strikes and cosmic rays were the least of their worries).

So the radio would fail to connect to many bluetooth devices at the time (because Bosch), the application had no way of telling what state the radio (that it was meant to speak to) was in (because of the faulty protocol), and the application was riddled with other bugs (because lowest-bidder contractors), but by god it was safe from lightning and cosmic rays (except not really because they could just as easily alter the program as the state the program was operating on).
The site even detects that and runs a banner "It appears you are using Enhanced Tracking Protection. What are the consequences? <link>" I actually laughed at this.
The use of trademark enforcement to coerce conferences into certain policies (which might contradict local law) is a deal breaker. It also demonstrates a willingness of the foundation to use wield power for purposes completely unrelated to the language.
Love how supposed privacy advocates will use patriot act arguments to justify violating financial privacy, then immediately turn around and play the other side when the same talking points are used against any other kinds of privacy.
I think it could as dealing with concrete things is a direct evolutionary advantage grounded in reality. Usually, we are shit dealing with abstract concepts. A quote that beautifully demonstrates this:

"To deal with hyper-planes in 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everybody does it." — Geoffrey Hinton
> aren't where they should be in their careers

Why should they be at a specific place? Maybe their life goals are different than yours? Are they enjoying their current lives?

> How far off is writing a blog article about Nix + make?

Likely a bit further away in terms of creativity / time commitment. But I'm not going to judge either. Let people enjoy things we don't like/get :-)
The statement was that ZGC (or any JVM GC for that matter) is better than Rust’s GC, which is just naive ref counting. This is true - if we were to create a program that allocates the same amount in both implementations, Java would win by a huge margin.
That's the excuse they use.

Unfortunately, they've often been shown to also be lying bastards in other matters, so why would we believe them for this situation?
Correct me if I am wrong but does it really GC at all if you receive an OutOfMemoryError?
Unrelated, I just wanted to get it on record somewhere that I sometimes like to send myself random strings of characters and/or bytes. Sometimes to friends and family too. Sometimes they think its so funny they send back random strings as well. Its a thing we do, so I'm glad this law is not going to stop us from sending plaintext random strings to each other.
PCA is an interative algo. Once you build the leading vector, you subtract it from your data and then build the next.

Do you know by any chance why you can't use this new method recursively for building the whole SVD basis ? (I haven't read the paper carefully yet.. It's a bit at the limit of my understanding )
To me, it's more about the device being self-sufficient, meaning it works without me having to repeatedly put effort into it. Wired headphones work just as they are, regardless of time that has passed, I know that as long as they're not broken, I can always take them out of my bag and they'll work.

With wireless headphones, it's always a question, do I have enough battery for this trip, what to do if I run out of the battery, the answer is usually just taking additional wired earphones with me, just as a backup.

The same reason is why I use wired mouse and wired keyboard, I don't want to have to think about the battery nor knowing that there will come a time when I'll have to change the battery or charge the keyboard.

As others have mentioned, there are benefits to wireless devices, but everything has a Yin and a Yang, you get wireless but you trade something else in exchange.
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He misremebered the third task as well, since his solution to it, as stated, is wrong. If you aren't given that every card has a number on one side and a color on the other, then you need to check everything which does not satisfy the consequent.
Most of that would also apply to wired digital headphones. It's the analog bit I don't get. Why would I want to give up data integrity until right up to the speaker?
I do not have an all-inclusive list of which mini-PC's have the I225-V's. I have a few versions of the AMD Ryzen's and they all have them. The latest Protectli firewalls also mini-PC's have them. Several of the off-brand mini-PC's on Amazon have them. Some of the Intel NUCs may have them. If buying one of these online I suggest first posting a customer question about what NICs they have.
C already has bad performance due to null terminated strings.
15 Levels of Turntable Scratching: Easy to Complex
The UK will spend £100M to develop its own 'sovereign' AI
Yeah this is so true. I casually type like 110-130wpm and didn't think anything of it... it wasn't until I got into the business world that I realized this isn't too common, even among other career programmers. Huh, didn't everyone stay up until 3am chatting on [IRC/etc.] and then fall asleep in class the next day? haha ;)
Let's see. He knows that OAN has similar liability as Fox for the "stop the steal" nonsense. I have a feeling he may slide into a consulting/lobbying gig. A better Steve Bannon/Lee Atwater than Steve Bannon was (Lee's hard to top).
Microsoft.. if they can/will audit your business don't sign
The logical conclusion to the war on general purpose computing (as currently perpetrated in the large by Apple, and spun even by people here as a worthwhile tradeoff for "security") is that computers will be replaced with appliances that can only run government-sanctioned, closed-source software. That is the only way these laws could be enforced.
So what would be the correct term to use if one of the "ends" is not a human?
But why would companies want to say (a) and not (b)? Seems like “you lost your job because the government raised taxes” would be a pretty popular explanation and PR strategy to get the change reversed.
I find delightfully ironic you just accused me of not having an intelligent take on AI, just trying to fake one.

That out of the way, the very term AI has been applied to automatic computation since its inception. And the current hype drive is nothing but marketing for software engineering done the hard way. You get one good chatbot by turning 8 years of internet into 1 tb of parameters on memory, costs nearly a million a day to run and... it can regurgitate semi-coherent prose. Wow. Talk about hype.

I'm not skeptical on AI to sound smart. Hell what do I get from some random anonymous account I use to read some blog aggregator? I am deeply skeptical of people selling hard some shiny new compute silver bullet that will do away with all the nasty complexity. Because it won't. We've been warned nearly 60 years ago about that.

Since you don't know squat about my background, maybe you're the one slinging snark around here.
Ah, you sort of accidentally stumbled upon the very heart of the matter.

For example: https://www.youtube.com/@OxfordUnion/videos

The Oxford Union is the world's most prestigious debating society with a tradition of hosting internationally prominent individuals across politics, academia, and popular culture. Founded in 1823 at a time when The University of Oxford restricted students from discussing certain topics, The Union continues to uphold the principle of free speech through the exchange and debate of a wide range of ideas and opinions, presented by a diverse range of speakers - some inspiring, others controversial. As we celebrate 200 years of free speech during our Bicentenary year of 2023, we reaffirm our commitment to our integral values and also our belief that the discussion of complex topics should not only be encouraged but is an essential element of any free society.

Now, click around a few of the videos, and observe if the above description, an honest self-image of the best and the brightest, I'm sure, comports with the actual reality on display.

Make special note of the attitudes displayed by these bright young minds and the questions put to the speakers. Heck, might even notice the ever increasing pop-culture nature of the proceedings. I guess hearing from PSY about Gangam style is one of the most of all time.

In short, a large chunk of these "elites" who go into politics are nepo babies governed by fashionable group think no different from their less monied peers. iPhones are the great equalizer. Everybody is equally cringy. It is a different caliber of person now from the heyday and naturally trends towards authoritarianism.

The exceptionalism is gone a long time ago already. It was perfectly lampooned half a century ago in shows like 'Yes Minister'. Lofty ideals, duty, intellectual curiosity, honesty, a sense of decency, long ago succumbed to mediocrity and farce. And that was the 80s. We are way past that stage where there was still a sense of shame, past the age of spin, hurling into cynical ambivalence now and soon complete forgetfulness.

In short, the West really is in decline and has been for a long time. People who have a clue about why this is a bad idea are nowhere near the halls of power. And I don't mean intricate technical knowledge, these subjects go back centuries, the relevant ideas and ideals are at the very core of what made these societies great in the first place. Poof.

You know why this is wrong instinctually, at your core, because you paid attention to the ship of state and still give a shit about something bigger than yourself. They don't.

There's nothing outright wrong with them, they are just basic ordinary consumers. And the lessons of the past will have to be re-learned if we don't accidentally find ourselves this time in an unescapable permanent dystopia.
I never was able to make a clean experiment with the same people in-person vs remote, but subjectively I didn't find it harder. It might even be easier to have a one-to-one chat with a person you want to chat to in the remote environment than in a chaotic open space office. Not to say remote work gives you exposure to people you might not have exposure to in your country/city at all.
in retrospect, do you feel you had the correct set before your experience?

reading others online experiences, and the responses, there is often a lot of emphasis put on setting, ignoring set comes first. were you in a good place, internally, when you had your experience? were you depressed? i don't think it is victim blaming per se to expect that a person in a bad head space can enhance that bad into trauma with drug consumption.

there is huge risk for someone who is in a bad set, but also in denial, looking to drugs to "fix" what is wrong. some good people who had bad trips can do, is to describe to others what a bad set was, so others know what to look out for.
After 3 years at home I wouldn't mind being a TWAT (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays), provided I liked my colleagues and the cute account managers were in. But if I went back in and there was little social interaction I'd rather stay home.
> AMD Ryzen

Damn. That's pretty much a requirement for any upcoming home lab gear here, so I'd better be careful about this aspect when researching.

Thanks. :)
I've had female connectors go bad, but to your point, I place the blame on the connector, not the standard itself.
Shopify adds direct bill payments to be a single-stop fintech for merchants
You wouldn't necessarily need to shut down social programs. Rich people and their companies own lots of property, spectrum, water rights, intellectual property, etc, and the funding from these taxes can still be used to fund a social safety net.

As a bonus, if property taxes (or better yet, land value taxes) were 5x what they are, we probably would fix the housing crisis as all the property hoarders unload their underutilized property onto the market.
The Win 3.0 folder selection dialog is still around.
>I don't know what new skills someone would have to learn in order to do that.

The skill to actually want to do that. Some people are shellfish and don't want to.

I've had a mentor who outright refused to do any screen sharing calls with me. He only wanted to communicate in chat. So things that could be cleared up in a 3 minute calls took over 30 minutes of back and forth in chats. I hated him to the core.
TikTok Ban Divides Young and Old, Democrats and Republicans, WSJ Poll Finds
Fair enough. I think the "buy" text issue was somewhat resolved a while ago here in the EU. Yes, you may not own the game but do purchase non-revokable licence. Was it based on German law? Don't remember
This is worth taking up with the congressional committees looking for overreach by the Biden Administration. Fill out this form, to start.

[1] https://oversight.house.gov/whistle/
Prompt Engineering Is for Transactional Prompting
And now, a couple years later, he's partnered with microprocessor legend Jim Keller to start Atomic Semi.. https://twitter.com/szeloof/status/1636174775310745601
For those unaware: Rachel Maddow got her start in television as a regular panelist on the MSNBC show Tucker, hosted by Tucker Carlson.
As long as wealth is counted as property. Most people I hear suggesting this expect personal wealth to inhabit a magical class of things that are definitely owned but are somehow not property.

edit: i.e. when wealthy people say this, it is usually just a euphemism for lowering their personal tax burden.

Wealthy people require more protection (as they are excellent targets) and more scrutiny (because their financial affairs are complicated, and they can take advantage of criminal opportunities that require large amounts of capital), so taxes should rise with wealth.

edit 2: When people believe that both income and wealth taxes should be discarded for taxes on consumption, you can be sure that they are wealthy with a high income.