skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the worst places to live in the world (Somalia, Sudan, Gaza, etc) also have the highest birth rates. I'm sure the lack of birth control contributes here, but I still feel like we're missing a piece of the puzzle. In any case, "comfortable living space" is something only wealthy first-world couples think about before having children -- and those couples usually end up childless whether or not they have that space.

Fertility rates in most developed countries go down, not up, as couples get richer. Poor couples think they'd have more kids if only they had more money, a bigger house, access to good schools, etc. but the couples who have all that stuff are actually having fewer kids than anyone else.
People still use GDI+? That brings me back.
I miss VB. My most productive programming environment ever. But VB did Windows Desktop applications only, which was fine at the time. The huge problem now is catering to 3 operating systems plus web. I'm not sure we're ever going to overcome that.
How to Build Manhattan in Space
It would not surprise me if fertility corresponded with eschatology.
Ooh, blast from the past. I wrote some Erlang code to crawl this stuff back in college. Just found it, wow: https://code.google.com/archive/p/erlysocial/
> If you have a fast design/architecture, you may never need to optimise the code at all. But the flip side is that with a bad design or bad architecture optimising the implementation won't save you. With a sufficiently bad architecture starting again is the only reasonable choice.

Yep, completely agree. I worked at a company with a poorly architected high-throughput system that was written in Perl. It got to a point where no more optimisations could make it scale, so it was rewritten. Of course the rewrite in a "faster language" was touted as the reason for its success but the truth was the new architecture didn't pound the database anywhere near as much.
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Perhaps he was either a) jealous, b) skewing to anti-social, c) rationalizing obsession in one area to the detriment of another, or d) lacked time management skills.

What's the point to achievement if you have an empty house and empty life? That is another kind of poverty.
You can see the splashes in the surf as debris scatters outward, starting at about 16 seconds. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1649097087248891904?s=20
I earn decent money and I can't imagine trying to raise a family in the shoebox I live in. I would have to sacrifice a significant portion of my monthly savings to afford a better living situation (ie. essentially condemned to being a lifelong renter), and that's before considering the other costs of raising a family.
What's the relationship between this work and rhasspy 3?
> Over the last decade, the US shale industry had become a byword for capital destruction. Shale investors recovered about 50 cents for each dollar they invested during the 2010-2020 period.

Oil business is not that easy to analyze. There is no such thing as "recovered about 50 cents for each dollar invested". People think the oil business is all about drilling. In reality it's first about reserves and then about drilling. "Each dollar invested" goes first towards acquiring new reserves and upgrading existing ones (from possible to probable, from probable to proven). A bit of "each dollar invested" goes into the actual drilling. The sale price of the oil certainly exceeds the actual cost of drilling (oil producers are very, very elastic in shutting down drills). But how exactly do you measure the return on investment for the money that does not go into the actual drilling?
I don't know what it's like now, but back in the day devdiv (owners of Visual Studio, .Net, etc.) and Windows were highly siloed and it was hard to get them to align on a common way forward. Rust seems like the sort of thing devdiv would naturally pick up though.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3875-i-feel-thin-sort-of-st... Tolkien apparently, although I definitely remember a similar Pratchett quote.
Windows Remote desktop (display redirection) used a GDI xpddm driver up till Windows 19h1 (and Windows Server 2022). They switched to IddCx which is pretty cool to play with.
No true Scot would ever be caught dead making claims about "success" like that.
I'd interpret it as "more than one", rather than "largest number shy of an outright majority" in the electoral sense.

And "plurality" as opposed to a single identity or strictly bifurcated classification (e.g., male/female, black/white, Catholic/Protestant, etc.).
Their hypothesis that pollution, varicocele and insulin resistance are the main contributors seems sound because the first and the last have been increasing proportionally during the same time frame as the effect in question.
These “freeloaders” is why people visit Twitter.

Twitter still doesn’t seem to understand what it’s product is.

Also the MTA clearly already has the infrastructure and provides this service in multiple other places.

They have 2 apps, their website, and SMS/email alerts. So the infrastructure is not an issue.

The only difference is if someone wants to look up an MTA alert they will now go to the website, like they always could, instead of possibly going to Twitter and being exposed to Twitter ads.
I will build an AI-Powered Platform helps people discover platforms like yours that helps people discover AI tools.

Hope someone will develop a platform that helps people discover my platform.
The key is hiring experienced grant writers and having an insanely social department head who's part nerd, part salesman, and part tour guide.
Because the things you consider work and what you consider a large burden is different for everyone.

As an example.

I exclusively run hosted apps for email and chat at this point (Outlook/Gsuite/teams/slack/etc).

I use Plex for most of my personal media consumption.

When outlook/gsuite/teams/slack/etc stop working, I realize there's nothing I can do, lots of engineers are fixing it and I move on to some other task.

When Plex stops working, it doesn't come back online until I do something.

Maybe it's just restarting it's container, maybe some update broke something and I need to downgrade, maybe the spinning bit of slowly rusting metal in my basement failed and I'm going to spend the next week fighting with mdadm because the raid rebuild goes poorly. It happens. If you're self-hosting, even if you want to claim to be perfect at deploying/running software and even if you think you can constantly upgrade things without any issue or even if you think you can leave things running on old software forever, something will eventually break. Probably software at times, definitely hardware will break.

Do you see fixing and troubleshooting these kinds of issues as a burden, or a large one? That's the question.

At this point in my life I do. If not for the cost, I'd run absolutely everything on the cloud.

The amount of free time I spend with computers is not infinite and I'd prefer to spend it doing fun new things rather than troubleshooting for the 30th time why some random ISP I was trying to send mail to is blocking my home mail server. Been there, done that, burned the t-shirt out of frustration.
reddit had a fascinating take on this. Obviously, killing your neighbours is not good. But the amount of widespread socialised "I wish they were dead" that comes from leaf blowers, lawn mowers, hedge clippers, car exhausts. It's as if both sides across the gap of normal living expectations, "my home is my castle" and a right to privacy and peaceful enjoyment of your home can't come to an agreement.

honestly I have no idea what the "fix" is (aside from "don't kill people just because they annoy you") -because every one of the HOA rules which are designed to minimise angst probably cause as much as they cure. And, "just talk to each other" ignores the power dynamics across a boundary. I live here vs I own this vs The law vs "you're not from round here" vs petty racism vs ageism vs mental health vs simple shitfuckery.

(where I am, it's usually about dogs, and exhaust pipes. I didn't realise that some of these hoon boy racer drivers actually have a loud-soft knob inside the car, to alter how much the exhaust farts when they accellerate. It means for some people "its your choice to annoy me" is actually pretty real: they're not just deliberately pulling on that throttle, they even tweaked the exhaust to make it worse)

But killing people is wrong. Don't do that.
You can't wait until the program is working correctly and you've benchmarked it to start optimizing. By then it is too late, you've already committed to data layouts that cannot possibly be fast.
I had trouble with that too initially. I think that's actually fine: the representation the paper wants to use is that the variables in a path are the ones set to true, so omitting one means that variable must be false to satisfy the expression.

It does create issues with determining which expressions are satisfied, since two different paths can meet at a merged trie vertex higher up, which requires the extra bookkeeping that kills it.
Mark I or Mark II?
Very cool to see researchers moving the needle on something as fundamental as PCA.

A few caveats for the "impact" in finance: PCA is an oft-used tool during the initial research phase, however, once a model, whether on the alpha or risk side, reaches production, marginal improvements to the leading eigenvector will likely be a rounding error compared to other confounding issues, that's assuming PCA survives past the basic first-pass approximation phase of model building at all.

There are a number of better and more analytically useful models which I would expect to be used instead.

I can already hear some people coming from less quantitative firms or groups arguing PCA is used extensively. However, those same firms and groups rarely adhere strictly to model outputs - Layering on discretionary traders views, which are not often not quantified.

I was never on the sell-side responsible for derivatives pricing, but they would almost certainly never include PCA in anything they do, unless perhaps it was a client request?
While you are correct, if the knob was only used for a single task, most car stereos I've used in the digital era give multiple roles to any knob(s) they may have. In the common configuration with one knob on each side the default modes are usually volume nearest the driver and either manual tuning or rotation between presets nearest the passenger, but if you go in to the menus one will usually scroll the menu while the other one changes settings. You don't want to have your volume or station change just because you needed to tweak a setting.
> If they didn't have a modern US military defending them, they could be easily conquered by almost any country.

It doesn't help that they're pacifists either
Humans are social animals. Feeling out of place is our evolution telling us to find a group and figure out how to fit in.

It's kind of weird how we try to fight this basic human need.
Yes! I've been looking forward to official tooltip support for ages.
I mean, I hear you, but freedoms have been incrementally been being taken away from lay people for at least the past two decades. We finally won one, I think if we're going to continue to fight the long fight then we need to drop our salty packs for a bit and celebrate.
Is this architecture what autogpt uses?
Twitter is a discussion forum, or as Musk succinctly put it, "a group text service at scale".

No one goes to Twitter for some hacked-together side channel notifications. Companies leech off it for the reach. If they want the customer base (value) they can pay.
…the roles in question at Microsoft are literal business value since that’s their jobs.

Chill out and read the article.
There are many good use cases for AI, however, permissions is not one of them. The current gen AI makes things up and would likely give a member of the cleaning staff super admin to allow them to clean the data.
Is there a reason that you don't leave if that is how you feel about it? As a software engineer who left a big city, even though you may end up with a 50% pay cut, your purchasing power actually increases significantly. A lot of people end up stuck in a situation like this due to other factors, like family, but far more people live with this mentality without anything that really ties them to the city except fun and the perception of better economic prospects.
That's very interesting, I just loved how she couldn't discover the impact of Agile because nobody she looked was doing it right.
There is a reason permissions are not defined in natural language. Language is imprecise and that is why security is so hard to get right
That's how I learned about him.
My impression is that the complex optimization happens during training but that the actual inference is using some kind of greedy algorithm like beam search. If the inference algorithm was using simulated annealing or something like that that would be different.
Au contraire, it's simple math. If I invest 1 dollar in 2010, and get back 50 cents in 2020, I have in fact lost 50% of my money over that time period. It's the same as any other asset class.For example, If you're a portfolio manager and you invest in a biotech startup index and only 5% of them produce drugs, you would likely lose 50% or more of your money over 10 years, and there's no accounting for "maybe they'll have a breakthrough later", as you need your capital back due to capital calls or redemptions or whatever.
Home Assistant and Rhasspy 3 will be able to share voice services thanks to the shared Wyoming protocol.
Rhasspy 3 will have more options, including lots of experimental services.
NES Contra Annotated Disassembly
I think that "let people rewrite stuff in the new cool language/framework" is a deliberate strategy to retain midrange talent.
That's funny because to me, Perl, is the epitome of a fun write-only language!
>Second, electric vehicles are currently 7.2% of all new cars sold in the USA, and only 2% of new buses sold in the USA.

You are comparing a centralized decision to a decentralized one. It is very easy to get 20% of the population to do anything; it is extremely difficult to get 90% on your side. The purchase of electric buses is a choice that can be made by governments.
I think that's something different.

Toolformer looks more similar to ChatGPT Plugins (it wouldn't surprise me if ChatGPT Plugins was partly inspired by that paper in fact). It's a way of teaching a model to call tools when it needs to - see also the ReAct pattern.

When you're implementing Q&A on top of a LLM that's not necessarily the right approach. You don't need the model to be able to make searches itself - you need a good strategy for searching for the most appropriate content that fits in the prompt, then sending that to the prompt along with the user's question.

They're both really useful techniques, but I don't see toolformer as a replacement for retrieval augmented generation.
The lawyers haven’t reached out yet! Too distracted with all the LLM-generated emails they are getting sent no doubt
Neat but... Someone will make a crummier version of this in a language which doesn't feature parts looking like Unicode white noise and the original authors will be frustrated why the crummier vetsion took off and their project didn't.

Not every idea deserves to have an esoteric language attached to it to work.
How does the AI know which tool if best for me? What data does it use for decision ? I'm a little bit doubt whether its recommendation is trustable if it is using the official product description and some friendly comments on ProdctHunt which hardly tell the truth of the product.
That quote has been misunderstood by many. What Hoare and Knuth indented was for people to think of algorithm and design optimization first instead of doing micro optimization prematurely. Instead people stop all kinds of optimization.
At least they added tabs to explorer finally, so for that specific taskbar icon it's no longer an issue
What you're describing is a lack of volition ("free will"), not sentience. Even on autopilot, you still perceive things, meaning sensations and things constantly appear in your mindscape, right? That is sentience.
What vector store did you use? Was it an issue with the vector store or just the algorithm ANN is just not good with large datasets?
The cannibalization is one part of it (compare Apple - https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-on-cannibalization-201... and https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/articles/apples-dwind... -- Jobs reportedly said “If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.”)

The other part of it is that android has been poorly designed for the tablet interface. For an OEM to try to make a tablet out of android they would have to invest significant software development resources into what would amount to be a fork of android (compare Amazon Fire tablets). While they likely have some software developers, they probably don't have enough to maintain that amount of development on android (and always being behind with Google preferring phones).

... and even if they were close to parity with Android (and the challenge that would imply at trying to keep their devices up to date - with the largest investment customers would expect them to last longer) you would still have difficulties with the developers for Android aren't making things that fit well in the tablet form factor (Amazon was trying to bribe/incentivize developers to write for its form factor - https://readwrite.com/amazon-give-developers-rewards-build-f... ).

All that means that unless Google wants to do it and you're willing to go head to head with Amazon its probably not that good of an investment of time, reputation, and resources.
It looks like Google has the same report, I hadn't seen it before.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/report-downloads
Quaternions: 3D too simple? Can't figure out how to translate objects in 3-space? Invent another dimension!

If you enjoy this sort of obscene math porno, here's some related quaternion math and curves applied to CNC routing (PDF): https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/farouki/wp-content/u...
One of the things that actually sold me aside from the repairability thing and all was their wikipedia page[0] where it says that "HMD is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, and is largely run by former Nokia executives."

I was rather hoping that it'd be more like the Nokia we all remember from pre-iPhones. Guess not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_Global?useskin=vector
Legislation being opposed by large corporations is becoming a decent indicator that passing the law will be beneficial for society and we'd all be better off enacting it.
Well, if you watched the video you would know. Since they are removing whole attack surfaces, which means reduced exploits, which means more security, which at windows scale means millions of dollars saved in prevented security issues for companies across the world.
Yes, that's the plan.

We're still exploring different ML on the edge chips to help with wake word and audio processing. One hard requirement that we have is that the tooling is openly available, so that anyone can convert an AI model and run it on the chip. We don't accept tooling to be available as a website or under NDA. That challenge is harder than we expected!
Crypto’s Anti-Establishment Zeal Runs Headfirst into Bankruptcy Bureaucracy
I knew I'd heard that name before.
“…these kinds of bugs were at the heart of about 70 percent of the CVE-listed security vulnerabilities patched by the Windows maker in its own products since 2006.”

Associate a $ number to the average CVE then associate a reduction in total amount of CVEs.
What in the holy fuck is the person behind this blog smoking?

> "I don’t think I’ve been very ambiguous about the fact that I am a monarchist who thinks revolutionaries should be drug out into the street and shot..." - The Mad Monarchist
Worth mentioning Mazda has an interesting approach where they have the screen but it's controlled by a dial instead of touch. Never tried it myself, it has both fans and detractors. It would keep the screen clean of fingerprints at least.
GDScript vs. C# in Godot 4
Smoking what? Tobacco? Weed? One is down, one is up.
I built an app called Homechart that I think would be a good partnership/would appreciate help with integrating into home assistant (or you could just aquire it =D), contact details in my profile
Mark II.
Yep, AutoIt is the best for Windows. Batch scripts, AutoIt, and Excel VBA are an automation triple threat.
didnt they always require shitty DRM?

no thanks, they can keep their shit
MTA suspends sharing service updates on 'unreliable' Twitter
Ask HN: Relevance of Apple mixed reality headset in next 10 years?
There are so many speculations about Apple’s introduction of its mixed reality headset in the upcoming WWDC23. Will it be a successful tech or will it be a successful in a 4/5 years of timeline. What kind of SDK will be used to create apps on the device? How it can differ from iOS apps? I’m super excited and super curious about the upcoming tech.
On its own, absolutely none, which is true of everything that's not in service of a business solution. In general, how often are engineers held accountable for delivering direct business value anywhere rather than being subject to arbitrary favoritism performance ratings?
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