skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder if CharlesGPT will be more or less likely to say something that embarrasses the government than the King!
You made me check, 150ms from start to finish

We're really missing out
Living near the ocean means that salt air corrosion will become a problem eventually. It eats away car bodies over time, for example.
What it gives is a step up from spreadsheets for managing everything from projects to customers. You can build a trivial CRM with a few tables.

Earlier today I thought, I need a quickie CRM. Each customer has contacts, Each customer has logged events (phone calls).

I could build a CRUD app to do this. I built it in notion in about 10 minutes.

And the thing is - a company like mine already has things like internal portals to do all sorts of stuff. Instead of a business admin asking the developers for a new field on X, he can just go build it out - but it has two killer features to excel/docs

1. Global search. I cant stand having a million different excel sheets where nothing is linked. Even if notion search can be slow - typing in something and getting an answer is a breath of relief

2. Has way better structured data, templates and plugins out of the box ( I can just do remote data to jira, bitbucket, etc).
That reminds me of the time I debugged some code (also neural network) that was in both Java and C++ and I was able to attach both gdb and jdb to the same process but had to disable the segfault trap on gdb because the jvm segfaults all the time in normal operation.
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Royal Society digital archive puts letters of Galileo and Newton online
I'm finally out of Sudan, and safe – no thanks to the UK government
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. It sounds super cheesy but I miss common space where people play / mingle / relax / drink. Like a freaking plaza with table and chair and benches.

Those exists of course, just further far and between.

It’s counter intuitive because folk from the US are incredibly friendly and open. Super easy to talk to.
We don't know the field of view of the lens (or crop) being used here, so you can't say anything about the apparent size of objects. With a smaller FoV lens, or even just a tighter crop, the Earth could look significantly larger.

If you took a normal snapshot of a scene on Earth with a typical 55 degree field of view lens (e.g. your smartphone's 1X lens) I think you'd be quite surprised by how small the Moon appears in your photo.
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I'll be honest, none of this sounds very well thought out.

If a bank tanks a risky loan, then they need a high interest rate. That's going to accumulate capital in the hands of the lenders, not the workers.

And now the government is going to back these super risky loans? So socialize the loses, but privatize the profits?
US consumer confidence hits nine-month low
This has been sitting with me for a couple hours now. The impact was semi subtle at first but has really grown as I keep reflecting how much better it fits my personal view.

The Bimodal model really reflects a lived truth, that explains things differently than Normal or Pareto curves. Some people aren't just higher output but are fulcrums of the business, are core drivers.
Oh, nix is an extra mile. A lot could be improved, but that's what I'm using to deal with dependencies.
I love cracking these homegrown license schemes, people come up with really interesting stuff and as you say it usually only takes a few hours. Can't crack flex though :(
If I include tl;dr or eli5, chatGPT makes an effort to distill the answer to the essentials.
Especially since you can share notion webs publically per page. Perfect for latest documentation, job postings, etc.
> No. It is very much possible when the measure is undefined, as was the condition setup before the bet was made.

I promise you, it's not, because that's not how medians work. This is the Wikipedia definition of a median:

> In statistics and probability theory, the median is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution.

There have to be half on each side or it's not a median. The mean doesn't have to be distributed like that, but the median does. It doesn't matter if the measure is undefined; the median divides the upper half from the lower half. There are always 50% on each side (and one on the median, if there are an odd number of samples).

> If we take it to the logical end where your chosen measure is simply the inverse of my chosen measure, then those above the median by my measure fall below the median by your measure and vice versa, leaving the entire set of those outside of the median to be seen below the median (and also above the median).

Sure, but that's not a median. That's the intersection of people above 2 separate medians of 2 separate measures. You can't combine the median of separate measures and have it still be median; you can combine the measures into a single measure and that has a median where half are above and half are below.

> As it pertains to the larger discussion, how the quality of a developer is measured has not been established, which means everyone is likely to measure differently and often in conflicting ways, and so most of us are bound to be below the median according to someone.

Totally agree there, I'm just beating a pedantic, dead horse that that's not a measure (it's a bunch), and it doesn't have "a" median (it has a bunch). You're talking about the intersection of people above the medians of a bunch of measurements, which doesn't share any of the properties of a median or being above/below it.
Yikes! Those are some big hunks of concrete flying 1400'
The right wing militia movement was in the late 80s to the mid 90s about 20 years later.
They are genuine issues, within Rust, but the way you /categorize/ the severity of the issue is different within language communities. They don't impact usability /much/ because of Rust's community, focus, size and niche.

Compile times in Rust are a problem, but the RLS does a good enough job of feedback and the development loop happens enough in compile time, that users don't miss it enough, compared to, say, Java which relies heavily on runtime behaviour/reflection for application behaviour.

Debugging token macros could be better, such as with a better macro-stepper, but you don't write enough macros in Rust to care heavily about it to make it a big deal, unlike in a Lisp.

Hot reloading would be nice, but not and ~essential~ part of development and deployment like in BEAM. Better reflection utilities might be nice but I doubt Rust libraries will ever be heavily dependent on it in the same way that Go or Java are.
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I like driving around cities when it's moving time for college kids. You can pick up all sorts of great scrap wood left on the curb, mostly from IKEA parts. I had to stop picking it up because I amassed so much. I've made several tables and 3 bed frames.
This continued into the 90s apparently

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/former-teen-idol-says-she-16...
Ah so the add starts the period during which notifications will be caught ahead of the wait call.
thanks for this :D I am interested in game engines.
Ok everyone, the debate is settled. No more eruption talk.
Just because it’s a commercial endeavor does not make it useless, impactful, or suggest the people behind it genuinely care about the work they are doing. I’m willing to bet people working there right now watched in awe while humans first stepped foot on the moon, or watched the first space walk, or even witnessed some of the tragedies that happened during the shuttle program, all while dreaming to be part of them next team to do something even greater.
Great for those nice cutting mat desk pads!
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Title says it all.
> objectively cruel act

You mean "subjectively"

Which is the whole crux of the issue isn't it?

You think it's "objectively cruel"

Many people don't think it is.
Maybe he did and maybe he didn't, but what's the value of a completely speculative prediction?
NASA's Perseverance rover loses its hitchhiking pet rock after more than a year
“You can't even call people out for grooming anymore”

Tragic. I, too, yearn for the old days when accusations could be leveled at Katy Perry for grooming.
HDHPs all have out-of-pocket maximums, usually around $5K per person or $10K per family, per year.
Yes but also stop using plastic bevause it requires oil extraction which causes climate change that will doom us all within a generation or three, and also don't use metal because that feeds the military industrial complex and/or supports child labor or slavery or other exploitative conditions.
The trademarks are required for Chinese businesses to house products in the USA for Amazon FBA (freigh by Amazon). They make non-sensical trademarks so there's no conflict with the trademark office. Techquickie (Linus Tech Tips) has an episode on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UrqlMfwUC4

Amazon 3P (third party) has essentially become what eBay was in the 90s except the crap is sometimes housed in the USA for faster delivery. Amazon doesn't care. It pretty much all fell apart after he separated from McKenzie and lost the way.
> lithobraking

Love it
No, but I took a few phonetics classes in grad school. Does that put me ahead or behind watching the video?
If we are going to do this, we ought to stop celebrating St Patrick's day

https://dot.state.wy.us/news/drunken-driving-fatalities-doub...
Please exclude my ignorance, but what would happen if network weights were modelled with arbitrary-precision numerics, such as a rational type, instead of IEEE floats?

(Other than drastically slowing things down, of course)
> One could hope that "web developers" will stop accepting money in return for putting this garbage into pages. IMHO this is unlikely to happen

The minute that software engineers stop working for Google and Facebook…
This works about 10% of the time for me. 90% of the time this is what I see:

"The inference service may be temporarily unavailable - we have alerts for this and will be fixing it soon.

You can try the regenerate button in a few moments.

If your query still does not work, you can try searching this on Google or DuckDuckGo.

You can also prefix your question with !g or !ddg shortcuts. You may have to enable popups for this to work."
Changed to 15.5 btw!
After reading the article, isn't it simply that there is no statistically relevent evidence that piracy harms sale in this study?
Hate to break it to you but the top is particleboard, and on the extendable versions there's a lot more particleboard.
It will be both hilarious and horrifying to see what emerges from Congress playing with AI tools.

I am sorry to say I have grown to have contempt for the vast majority of everyone involved in government. Sometimes it seems that these people would have ended-up being criminals, ambulance chasers, bad used-car sales people or some other combination along those lines. The level of ignorance in our governing bodies is something to behold; hilarious and horrifying in its own right.

This comment applies to all political parties, BTW.

Short story, back in the early 80's I got to spend a lot of time working with the late Frank Zappa. We discussed all kinds of topics over dinner nearly every day for months. It should come as no surprise to anyone of that era who know what Zappa was about that politics was one of his favorite punching bags.

I don't remember the exact statement he made one night. The gist of it was that, as he put it, intelligent and capable people like us don't ever go into politics because the whole thing is a dirty slimy cesspool of ignorant, petulant, self-absorbed, tribal morons who only care about themselves, their political future, their party and not one bit about the people, the country and the job they are supposed to do. An intelligent person wanting to make a difference would quickly be ground to dust and exit all bruised-up.

That was in the 80's. I can't imagine what he would say if he were alive today other than "It got worse than either one of us could have ever imagined.".

It is worse. Today, if you don't fall in line, they will do their best to ruin your life, your career and your family. Why would anyone with more than two connected neurons want any part of that? This is why we end-up with the "leadership" we get, election after election.

And now we are going to give them AI?

Brilliant.

Maybe the rule should be: Government is banned from using AI.
This podcast episode by Andrew Huberman does a good job explaining why it's not really an open question at all.

I think it remains open because people really want to drink, and people really want to sell alcohol. There are many things like this in our diets, and the evidence is fairly conclusive. We just struggle to accept it.

https://hubermanlab.com/what-alcohol-does-to-your-body-brain...
Important to note that the encryption you mention applies to user data traveling between the UE and the eNodeB. Some control plane data between the UE and eNB is unencrypted and no encryption of user data is done between the eNB and the network (unless it’s done at a higher layer).
Complete control over the hardware, microphone and camera may allow more data to be gathered by e.g. turning on the microphone and recording everything it detects but the data still needs to get off the device somehow. The hidden AMSS operating system could theoretically be used to open a covert channel through 3/4/5G independent of the user's mobile subscription but that is not what this article is about - read it again if you missed it:

> We also didn't place a SIM-card in the phone either so it could only send and receive data over the WIFI network which we are monitoring with Wireshark. Wireshark is a professional software tool which allows us to monitor and analyze all traffic being sent over the network.

If the claims of Qualcomm using its hidden AMSS operating system for data exfiltration were true it would not matter whether the device has a SIM card installed or not. Even without a SIM card the thing is still able to reach cell towers, it still has an IMEI, it can still be used to call emergency services (112 or 911 etc), it just won't have an IMSI. Mobile operators are by law mandated to enable connectivity to emergency services to all devices so those connections are passed to their destination. Without an IMSI they do not know who to bill for connectivity so they do not pass any other traffic for such devices. Even with a SIM and thus an IMSI there is no guarantee the subscriber has paid for data so again the operator will only provide connectivity when there is some account to bill it to.

> After we provided our WiFi password in the setup wizard, the router assigned our /e/OS de-Googled phone a local IP address and it started generating traffic.

The data is exfiltrated through WiFi - which goes through the Linux kernel, using the Linux driver for the WiFi hardware. A default block for outgoing traffic puts an end to this just as surely as removing the battery does bar any covert manipulations of the device.

Realise that those who wrote this article are trying to sell you something, hence this rather poor article which tries to insinuate Qualcomm has somehow managed to get mobile operators to cooperate in a scheme to send private customer data through a covert channel. Realise also that they claim their 'Nitrokey' device does not contain a Qualcomm modem. That is quite possible... but it does contain a radio modem and the accompanying RT OS to control it - radio firmware delivered as a blob to be installed on that Nitrophone which is nothing more than a rebranded Google Pixel - using a Samsung Exynos 5300 modem - with GrapheneOS installed.

This is a sales pitch, nothing else.
The one data element missing seems to be concurrent streams per account? Just seems to me that one account with 200 active streams might be fraudulent.
Especially given his Twitter handle:

* https://twitter.com/natesilver538

:)
Ideally a good tech lead should share stuff like that with the team to take into account opinions of team members.

Having 2 meetings. 1 for task presentation and 1 for task estimation next day is really great
Very curious where he goes, if it'll be back somewhere mainstream like NYT, or if it'll be independent on Substack, or somewhere else more alternative/indie like Vox.

Also a shame he can't take the FiveThirtyEight trademark with him. He can take his models, but not the brand. Still, his own name "Nate Silver" seems to have just as much recognition as "FiveThirtyEight" so he'll do just fine.
Yeah, hanging onto mine! Awesome desk.

They used to crop up on craigslist occasionally for $100-$200. not checked in a while.
We have a lot of stone or concrete buildings from 2000 years ago still standing, and even more from 1000 years ago, so those would be safe bets. No surprises there. There's a glass window just shy of 1000 years old in a Cathedral in Germany, and other slightly younger ones scattered here and there, so glass definitely can make it. It just isn't very impact resistant, and it's also a fairly new material so there are fewer examples to draw from. Similarly, materials like Bronze would do just fine over 1000 years, and have done so in the past, but they tend to be appropriated for new building projects even if their original building is still standing.
2-hour video posted a month or two ago in a comment here: "Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

(I haven't gotten around to watching it yet)
To be fair, if you want to go drown in the cosmic ocean of unbeing, I don't think anyone, hegemon or no, is stopping you but your own self-imposed linguistic and social structures.

It is ultimately an irony that the epistemological position--that Civilization is fundamentally about domination and cannot stand marginalized or dissident narratives--has only and could only flourish under civilizations in their least-connected-to-quotidian-life institutions. It requires being sheltered to recognize that ultimately everything is a social and linguistic construct. Everyone else doesn't have the luxury and are just trying to survive.

Even further, the idea that everything reduces to social and linguistic games isn't new. It is one of the oldest ideas in history found in both Buddhism (through depedent coarising) and in Graeco-Roman philosophy culminating in Christianity (the Logos). Both institutions developed monasticism for precisely the same reasons.

This world isn't real. You have to be out of this world to see the illusion behind it and to be free from it.

Everyone does not have to stop pretending it's real for you to stop pretending it's real.
> Some of the obvious risk factors include:

> Is the email address a company domain or a consumer email like Gmail?

Do you actually expect people to use their work email for personal purposes?
Both aspects can be true, the elder can have a sense of duty towards their craft, while complaining about some things, while overall benefiting from having a duty and purpose in life. If you visit Japan you'll see many elders working in hospitality businesses, most being happy and kind at their work.

Coming from Canada a better aspect here is that rent & food are much much cheaper, so they are less likely to starve or freeze to death in case of work disability.
btw kde konsole has zmodem support apparently?

pretty sure it won't work over mosh tho
Volatile Organic Compounds are indoor air pollutants [1]. For example, formaldehyde – classed as carcinogen – added to bind Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF).

[1]: https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/volatile-organic-...
I can see that because I've experienced it. That said, at most places I've worked at over the decades, there was a lot of mentoring, both formal and informal. One place I worked at, however, was just depressing. No one communicated except via emails. Informal discussions about how the system never happened. No one even went out to eat together No one was hostile... it was just... cold. To me, it was just weird and I got out of there ASAP -- but I suspect many there liked it that way.
Tech's notion of talent scarcity:

1. "We can't find enough cheap labor to work at our awful jobs."

2. "We're doing everything we can possibly do attract talent (except for raising wages, which is of course impossible.)"

3. "Never mind, we don't need human workers anyway."
Could you use this to build simulated human relations and decisions, say, like in an agent-based model?
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Thankfully, information technology is inherently repulsed by capitalism and "proprietaryness". Whether people realize this or not only affects how soon changes will occur. But it is inevitable that changes will occur and the future is gplv3.
GCP support is horrible. Go to AWS
Yes, it claims AMSS can control hardware. It also claims data is exfiltrated. Read carefully and you'll see it does not claim the data is exfiltrated through AMSS - they're using WiFi for their experiment which has nothing to do with AMSS, the mobile radio firmware.

Correlation does not equate causation but they want you to think it does so you run to their web shop to buy a rebranded Google Pixel 7 (with Samsung's Exynos 5300 radio modem and accompanying firmware which has just as much control over the hardware as Qualcomm's AMSS has...).
After a few times, it is very similar to searching for what you want on pirate bay, taking the one with seeds and comments, and you're golden.

It is incredibly faster than going to the store.
Ok wth. Attempting to post on reddit.com/r/bbby an innocuous message about how BBBY was burning $1 billion a year, they are being duped by an echo chamber, and better financial advice is on bogleheads.org receives an instantaneous removal by mods.

What have we done with technology that people are getting sucked into these disastrous echo chamber filter bubbles, where any dissenting opinion is blacklisted, turning people into financial ruin and QAnon brainwashing?
>how can the father of genetic science be wrong about the influence of genetics on society? - while the truth dashes that credibility

That's your own biased judgment. Others may perceive what happened as Watson speaking truth to power, and paying the price for it.
> 20% of EV sales in California this year, so far, are EVs.

I bet it's a lot closer to 100%.
> Google is bringing in $160 Billion a year with their clean search result pages

I see nothing clean like “10 blue links” when I search for “bicycles”
I used to work in IT and one of my responsibilities was managing the company email and TONS of people used their work email for personal stuff. At least 1/3 of the company.
The part I like lost about the peek feature is when it happens elsewhere in the OS. I click a link in outlook or iMessage and I pops up right there in context without jumping all the way to my browser. ESP nice for unsubscribe links in emails.
To be clear, I'm thinking specifically from the perspective of making existing legacy code less broken, not about making the language "more friendly" - as you rightly point out, C really ought to be considered legacy by now (and in new languages, where we will also have this discussion, we can at least begin it from a clean slate). Thus there's no need to consider usability. I was also imagining a hard rule: if the only reason why something is UB is perf overhead, it must not be UB (this covers e.g. the memcpy/memmove debate brought up in that article). But, yeah, as the other example with shifts illustrates, even such tight-fisted approach can be problematic.

The real question is how much perf overhead this entails vs how much benefit from mitigating yet-undiscovered issues caused by UB in legacy code.
> erasure of women

Is there any reason to believe that they would have been more generous in giving credit had the work been from a man? And are there not dozens of other researchers who Watson and Crick drew inspiration and results from, who are not listed on the Nobel Prize?