skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm boring, but that design mostly reminds me of the Oktatrack Mk.1 :p

Looks like a neat project, but I'm a little disappointed that they won't give you the instructions to make one yourself. Teenage Engineering is hardly an "Open" company, but they're nothing if not supported by their community. Trying to steal part of their market is a long road if you don't intend to embrace the community.
> particularly in AI

What? This is a file storage service.
i said "a plurality (and majority, up to ~75%)". I was wrong. Sorry. it's 70% on at least CBS, and more than 50% across all networks.

> Of the 69 scripted television dramas that aired on the big four US broadcast networks (CBS, NBC, Fox, and ABC) in the last year-and-a-half, 35 were about law enforcement, according to a Quartz analysis. CBS was responsible for 16 of those on its own. About 70% of the network’s dramatic programming from 2019-2020 were about cops. [0]

And that's "Dramas", i guess if you consider "all programming, including for example comedies" the ratio goes down to a peak of 28.7%. however:

> Even many of the non-cop dramas on these channels are so cop-adjacent that one could reasonably argue they are also about law enforcement. CBS’s Madam Secretary follows the fictional US secretary of state, a former CIA analyst. Evil follows a forensic psychologist investigating supernatural incidents. Blood & Treasure follows a former FBI agent teaming up with an art thief to track down a terrorist.

And now, you said:
>> You also stereotyped a whole generation

I didn't, if i stereotyped anyone it was cinematographers that grew up with that as "normal", or, if they didn't grow up with that, at least consider it normal.

[0] https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-abou...
Vae victis. Whoever wins the war will set the record on responsibility, like they always do.
As somebody with a jacked up spine, chiropractic care has its place.
Alongside a doctor’s treatments, physical therapy, etc..
With respect to work, just as with business, the first step is to think about value.

What does a large group of people find valuable?

What fundamental problems aren’t being solved in an easy way?

What skills do you have to provide value? What skills do you need?

The past 20-30 years have been a no-brainer for a lot of young, smart folks looking for lucrative employment: software. But it wasn’t always this way.

There are still thousands of options for providing value that aren’t software related or prone to elimination from automation. Take a look at any list of current problems facing humanity-it’s a very long list.

It’s just going to be a little more difficult to choose. And perhaps it will mean moving to a new location or not working from home. But it’s not the end of the world, just yet.
Cigarettes are obviously an awful way to deliver nicotine, but I've failed to find any science showing that nicotine is any worse than caffeine. In fact, its shorter elimination half-life makes it far less disruptive to sleep. Are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

Gwern on the subject: https://gwern.net/nicotine
“You might remember me from such self-help videos as ‘Get Confident, Stupid!’”

This is useless advice that basically says “I quit smoking by simply not smoking any more”.
It's honestly amazing how many of my saved favorites list on YouTube goes missing years later.
I know make sure to download any video I want to be able to watch again. Because between creators changing style, getting worried, going away, or getting stricken down by YouTube bots, it seems like anything worth watching won't actually be available to watch 3 years later.
That's a false positive vs. false negative distinction too.

The GP is concerned that Tmobile allows hackers to impersonate you/your wife on the phone.

You're concerned that even after providing all possible account details - password, PIN, last four of her SSN, last bill amount, anything else they might want to ask that's not literally a live biometric scan - they can't distinguish the two of you just because you don't sound like a woman.

Perfection is unattainable.
The machinery looks the same regardless of the economic system. (I suppose a Soviet oil rig might have looked a little different, but basically the same thing)
The Supreme Court is a critical piece of the checks and balances system. They need to hold their positions for life because they should not be afraid of losing them due to the whims of the President, Congress, or even the voters. We want them to be outside of the political process once they've been appointed; that is a feature. If a justice is corrupt or incompetent, there are processes to remove them from the bench. The ironic part is that if that doesn't happen, it'll be because the people charged with doing it are so mired in politics that they can't, or won't.
I dropped Dropbox when they put KindaSleezy Rice on their board.
Completely agree. I'm fine with a free beer license. The context of the post is that the binary is licensed using an Open Source license which leads to confusion.
Goto in e.g c# doesnt allow you to jump wherever you want

Youre limited by scope, and since we do not write imperative code nowadays everywhere then it is enough to make significant difference
Was that part of some program?
I was the person who first used Ant outside of Sun. James Davidson developed it so that he could build his servlet engine more easily. I brought it into the ASF when we created Jakarta and got the code to the servlet engine (which became Tomcat). I did a lot of early work on Ant.

It solved a problem at the time, which is that Java didn't really have a build system. We were using Makefiles and that wasn't easily compatible with Java.

All code rots over time and part of that is because we learn better ways to do things from prior experiences. In the case of Ant, other solutions were created to solve the problems that Ant didn't solve. For example, Maven promised to clean up the code duplication that Ant created (mentioned in the comment below). Maven created a whole another set of issues though, so Gradle was created to "fix" those issues.

I'm sure one of the fancy newer FAANG build systems is far better than Gradle, but they have issues around being focused on insanely large codebases. At the end of the day, I still don't think this is a solved problem in the way that git kind of solved SCM. Heck, I'm not even sure that a perfect build system can be solved... everyone has their own requirements.
> If you have 10s or 100s of app servers that has the exact same working set in memory, it's probably not worth it.

The introduction of intelligent application-level partitioning [1] and routing schemes can help one balance cost and performance.

[1] https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/implicit-partitions.html
Why is the supply of tokens limited? Are they currently represented as 16 bit unsigned ints (I hear vocab size of about 50k for GPT3)? If so, is there a performance penalty for going to u32 beyond the extra memory?
So if someone can never change, they deserve what they get? Even though some medication can help them?

We're all dealt the exact same hand of psychological cards to work with?
Can't read the article, but what are they suggesting we do about it? Seems better to just let things work out as they will, and adjust policy to reflect the new reality.
Math proofs could be fun just check out this video:

https://youtu.be/Sgupo9DLMGs
Sure? No. But the idea isn't completely ridiculous. We already allow Supremes to "retire" as senior judges (where they sit on lower benches - O'Connor did this, IIRC). The proposal to enforce this after some term of service is just an extension of the idea. It basically interprets "their Offices" to mean "office of federal jurist" as opposed to the specific role to which the judge was appointed.
1 could be fixed by using a tokenizer that only splits at syllable boundaries, but 2 and 3 are independent of the specifics of the tokenizer, and switching out BPE for something else won't help much.

Glitch tokens are glitchy because they were not present in the training data for the embeddings, so they're essentially uninitialized. The real issue was not the use of BPE, but that they didn't restrict the tokenizer to only output tokens that the model was trained on.

Similarly, garbage sequences are present in the tokenizer vocabulary because those sequences were common in the data that the tokenizer was trained on. The solution is to not include garbage in your training data, though admittedly that's a tad tough when you're starting out with an uncurated dump of random internet content.
Not 'til much later, which is the point of the piece.

When prototaxites ruled, the next tallest thing was ~6cm.
When your miss rate from experience is stuck around 20-30% for almost a decade, there is no future
What’s wrong with reporting on it ?

It happened, it gets reported

Don’t like it being reported ? Don’t do it
How is it useless? If I acknowledge that placebo gimmickery didn't stop me smoking, but just powering on through withdrawal and not giving in to the easy instant gratification, how is that bad advice? It isn't like alcohol where it might actually cause you brain damage to suddenly stop.
AIUI, the full peer is Datomic; the RPC server is just a full peer that exposes the API over http and is mainly intended to be used with clients that don't run on the JVM (and so can't run Datomic itself in-process).
A no-cruft Ruby backed version of Delphi with full cross-platform support would clean up right now
Because you don't want to pay 4 times as much for the ride? My local airport has an exclusive agreement with one taxicab company and to go to my house less than 2 miles away is $20 if I take them. And that's the base price before you add in the gas surcharge, COVID surcharge, luggage surcharge, airport surcharge, depreciation surcharge, and tax. Lyft doesn't hit me with any of that bullshit. Also with Lyft I don't need to make sure I have cash, because of course the cab's card reader is always broken.
Indeed. I find it highly disturbing that the (very high) suicide rate for trans people has not precariously fallen as the number of people identifying as trans has risen. That doesn't make statistical sense if suppressing your trans nature is worse than embracing it. Something is wrong here. I wonder if perhaps we're classifying multiple conditions as "being transgender" and only some of them psychologically benefit from transitioning. Considering the charged political climate I doubt we're going to see any rigorous research on the topic for decades.
second comment:

> Plus, you can use it as a portable disk. No "content protection". Yay!

good times
Signing off on interactions has usually been an iterative process and so on most projects there's a bit of frog boiling going on.

The logarithmic increase in set/insert times as your user base swells by orders of magnitude, for instance. This was all fine when we had 100 test users in our database. Response time is not so great with 100k. The first app I ever did performance tuning on essentially had time series data and (when I got there) quadratic search time with 2 criteria. Nobody before me had bothered putting a year's worth of data into the sample data, let alone 5. They also hadn't dreamed of 3 search criteria (surprise, cubic time!) Of course before me the app was too slow to care - literally could watch the UI paint it was so slow.

When you have two buttons on the interface everything is snappy. Each new button should reasonably expect logarithmic overhead, decent designs often add square root overhead (memory costs on real hardware are n^0.5), and bad designs add constant or quadratic overhead, and either nobody checks or is so focused on the deadline that they can't see the project burning down around them. Every day that click takes a few milliseconds longer.
And just the same, copyleft licenses (which are not "non-permissive" in my book) such as GPL don't "mean that you cannot without consent", they just want you to share the result back under the same license (which is often an issue for some corporate projects).
I live in Chicago and find that Ubers/Lyfts are sketchier than taxis. Not to call a taxi luxurious by any means, but just compared to a lot of the sketchy cars i've had for Ubers I find taxis predictable at least.

For that reason, I don't use UberX at all anymore. I always upgrade to UberLux or Uber Comfort or Uber Electric if its available. Even the Uber Comfort's are not that great most of the time. If I have to use UberX, I will just take a taxi. Taxis in my part of Chicago at least are pretty good and predictable (but other cities might not be so lucky).

I think this is market specific. Because when I go back to Oregon to visit family, the UberX there are super nice. I had a brand new Tahoe on my last ride there.
Theological morality is not based on things like culture and science, which change all the time. Instead it’s based on divine words of God (Holy Books), and acts and words of prophets who are constantly checked and corrected by God to always act good. In Christianity and Judaism other people also have a say on morality, but in Islam morality completely originates from God, goodness is obedience to God and badness is disobedience to Him. In fact, all moralities except those which are based upon an ontologically higher and omniscient entity like God are subjective and non-normative, since they all rely on products of human mind, which always change (science, culture, etc.). Why should I be prosecuted for theft or murder? Just because you feel so? Countless other people in history felt otherwise. Even if all of humanity feels I should be prosecuted for a crime, I will ask, what makes mere feelings normative? It doesn’t make any sense at all.

I think we should be better than “We can’t see anything objective to base our morality upon, so we’ll just base it upon our feelings.” mindset. We should be able to at least admit we don’t have a normative morality and our laws and law enforcement is simply bullying people and making them submit our (collective) feelings and desires because we have the power and means to do so.

Regarding the question what God says being subjective: No, there are arguments of current and past miracles, and recorded honesty, reliability and mental health of prophets, and many other things. At least for Islam. You can search. If you have questions, simply refer to this playlist [1]. Every question regarding Islam and modernity is (repeatedly) asked there.

I could write a lot more but I have a lot of things to do so I’ll simply direct you to this documentary series [2] which elaborates on morality among other things. Both playlists are intellectual gems no matter what your background is.

0: See Rabbis having authority and knowledge over God in Judaism, and countless versions of Bible which are clearly not all the exact words of God, and instead of non-prophet humans. Also Christianity and Judaism doesn’t see prophets as constantly checked and sinless. See examples of sins commited by prophets in Bible and Old Testament.

1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcnL9bB-q3ylQ9CZdB8YfjoDv...

2: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcnL9bB-q3ymnRNcpZGcVVjiD...
You could use shorthand for date and times in the title. I tried your prompt saying "J N 2 5" instead but apparently "this afternoon" is 5PM, so that's odd.
BrandonM was right all along. Nowadays you'd probably use "rclone mount" or sshfs though.

(For anyone wondering the parent is channeling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863)
Who wants to set up a company to repair John Deere equipment? We can aptly call it "Dear John".
In Seattle, traditional cabs are 50% cheaper than Ubers to go from Seatac to the city.
I wrote an app to do that with my Tesla.

The Tesla app is great, but with one caveat: it won't let you turn on climate controls until the car has "woken up". Upon opening the app, this usually takes 5-15 seconds, but when I first got the car, sometimes took a full minute.

Someone else had already reverse-engineered the Tesla API, and I wrote a quick app that would just let me press a button and it would wait for the car to wake up and turn on the climate controls in the background.
> in my industry they don't care about performance until it's a noticeable problem

Yeah, I've done several dozen 10x or more performance improvements on our codebase. It's not always trivial, but most of the time it's not super-hard either.

In fact just today I did a 10x speedup of a query. After a couple of hours analyzing the issue, the fix was relatively simple: populate some temp tables before running the main query. A bit more complex than just running the query, but not terribly so.

Why hadn't we done that before? Because a customer suddenly got 1000x the volume of the previously largest user of that module, and so performance was suddenly not acceptable. It's 5 years since we introduced the module...
We are.

I was an exchange student in Ukraine in high school and the town I lived in periodically gets shelled now… we live immensely privileged and comfortable lives.

This is not a bad thing, it’s great, but we should try to make everyone else’s life as good instead of hoarding our privileges.
I walk nearly a mile (1.2km) just to get to the nearest bus stop (that buses come to often) from my airport. I only travel with a backpack though. You're right in that they don't have sidewalks though out of the airport area.
Oh... not that Pine. Here I thought we were going to get some really rock'n SBCs and PinePhones.
It doesn't help that Apple doesn't let third party developers use it. The only SDK available for Homepod, is locked behind a bunch of approvals and the only thing it does is allow developers to implement music players. It's very specific to playing music. Not even Podcasts.

Why can't an eCommerce app implement, "Hey Siri, tell Online Store to add Tidepods to my weekly order". ?

What about Audible implementing, "Hey Siri, tell Audible to add Tale of Two Cities to my reading list." ?

There's remnants of a car service interface that never got used or shipped AFAIK. If you ask "Hey Siri, get me an Uber to the train station". It just replies "sorry, I help with rides".

Or maybe even work with other Apple stuff better. I can say "Hey Siri, turn on Television" and that works and then say "Hey Siri, mute television" and it will reply, "There are no televisions to control".
I disagree. I think a lot of people try various gimmicks and tactics without staring themselves in the mirror and deciding that they actually want to for themselves.
Epic movie hahaha
The difference is that breaking a caffeine addiction is feeling like shit for 2-3 days. And then you're done.

Breaking a nicotine addiction is something most people struggle with for years.
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.ph/qsC5b
How weird I just watched this today.
Daily reminder that online, someone well-off lying in bed with a nice bowl of soup can be talking with someone homeless in a third-world country with no chance of improvement whatsoever. Hopefully the OP in SE is not the latter and it's just a temporary situation, especially if they're in Ukraine and Ukraine wins.
My favourite get-out phrase is "Now remember, I'm telling you *how* to do it, I'm not telling you that you *should* do it."
Kind of. But your conclusion is also kind of backwards: code is full of errors because it's not written very mathematically. It usually has side effects. Also, mathematicians are trained to think very carefully about the types of objects, and about domains and images of functions (i.e. the set of possible inputs and outputs) whereas programmers tend to leave gaps and think only loosely about these things. For example you write a function that is declared to take an integer, but then the implementation divides something by that integer. Now it can't be zero, but where do you capture that fact? Or a function is supposed to return a number but it can also return null, which isn't a number.

When you tell a mathematician "this function takes an integer" or "that function always returns a string" they will immediately jump to looking for counterexamples to see if they can break it. They do this because they know that one counterexample breaks a proof. Programmers who think that way tend to produce fewer bugs imo.
I'm curious the size of the companies you've worked in, and what sort of support, legal, finance, etc requirements they've had. Companies aren't just made up of engineers.

I see this same comment on every single one of these layoff threads and they always seem to be a bit disconnected.
I have to give an unpopular opinion here. I strongly respect the SCOTUS justices and the methods of their qualification to the bench as well as their lack of term limits and seniority as a long-term component of stability within the federal government. There are few other institutions that provide the same level of rigor and thoughtfulness to our government, and have the credibility and respect because they do not swing with the wind every year.

Part of that capability includes that they not be swayed by whatever hot topic of the moment, including this. In general, I agree with the line, "if a Supreme Court justice can be bought for so little, the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined".

Not to say that no justice has ever done anything unquestionable. But I find that the muckraking (like the Daily Beast article quoted by another comment) only seemed to garner interest in being investigated because of the number of controversial opinions lately.[0] And people on the left were happy with the way things were as long as the Court ruled in their favor. Which is a weak position to find yourself having taken.

Any time an argument about the structure of the Court comes up, I ask, did you feel that way when it was ruling in favor of you? If not, then what kind of institution are you asking to be created? Beware.

If you thought the Court needed to be packed, would you adopt the same position if it were to be packed with conservatives? If you call for the removal of Clarence Thomas, would you be happy to have seen RBG removed for some similar questionable travel she engaged in? You want term limits on the current justices -- would you have been in favor of that for the justice that was giving you "yes" votes on cases? Or is it just because the Court's rulings aren't going your way lately?

We have far too much in society today where people want to change the rules just because the last decision didn't go their way. Democracy, I think, is actually about losing gracefully and without having a revolution, not that you always get your way.

The Court is deciding topics that are intrinsically hard to make "objectively fair" decisions about. This Court chooses to return us to previous positions that were also defensible (or saying that interpretations were incorrect) and according to certain legal principles, re-adhering to what the Constitution says to do. The Court rules on things that are intrinsically open for interpretation.

And it is a reflection of our other parts of government being dysfunctional that we for example, cannot amend the Constitution if we think that standards need to change. No court will save us on an issue where 50% of people disagree on it, no matter how strongly you may feel that your side is right. The Court is the last place that you should try to make change happen.

I am not in favor of suddenly finding / proposing all sorts of new rules just because a ruling didn't go your way.

[0] See this story for why you should read more of the detail if you wish to have a position that's more informed than "this is so corrupt": https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/the-billi...
In nyc traditional cab is always cheaper than a lyft. Possibly exception with the flat rate rides from the airports.