skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently had this exact thought.

Then the taxi driver tried to scam me multiple ways, including demanding cash because they "forgot to start the meter" and attempted to take the long way to my home (I live about 1 mile from the airport).

Won't make that mistake again.
So if gunpowder is 75% saltpeter, and His Royal Majesty wished to have a plentiful & reliable supply of gunpowder, then ...

(I don't know about the sulfur situation back then, but charcoal - the 3rd ingredient in gunpowder - could hardly be in short supply.)
Since 1950.
I didn't know that.

Why are there so many psychologists practicing psychoanalysis today, then? Has modern psychoanalysis evolved so far beyond Freud's psychoanalysis that it became a serious branch of psychology? If so, why is it still called "psychoanalysis"?
I use symlinks for that!
Previous comment beat me to it... This is Koyaanisqatsi for petroleum.
Los Alamos – Compound to County
Reading through these comments, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

From the Daily Beast:

>Clarence Thomas’ mom is definitely still living in a house bought by a Texas billionaire who bankrolled luxury trips for her Supreme Court justice son, according to a report. On Thursday, ProPublica reported that Republican megadonor Harlan Crow bought two vacant lots and a single-story home in Savannah, Georgia, from Thomas in 2014 and that experts believe Thomas violated a federal law by failing to disclose the sale. Crow also then reportedly spent tens of thousands of dollars on renovations at the home occupied by Leola Williams, Thomas’ mother, but ProPublica couldn’t definitively confirm that Williams was still living in the property after 2020. Later Thursday, Slate reported unequivocally that Williams remains in the house to this day. The outlet said one of its reporters interviewed Williams at the property “two weeks ago” for an upcoming podcast.

This is acceptable conduct? We should just accept this level of venality? Boggles my mind. Where are all the patriots?

[1]: https://www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-thomas-mom-definitely...
I built a VR environment for making and thinking about music, intuitively playing with alternate tuning systems, building instruments in space and livestreaming.

https://www.youtube.com/live/v4uHqdTr-bs?feature=share&t=426...

There are a few simple but powerful building blocks. One main feature is an egg shaped "note" which can be placed, resized, retuned and cloned on the fly. It's played by physics interactions with a "mallet" or sports balls, anything with a collider.

One of the instruments is a sine wave organ which has drawbars to control the amplitude of overtones. Unlike a classic organ, these overtones can be independently retuned and assigned envelopes to produce a range of timbres. Pitch is consistently mapped to a spiral - an isomorphism of pitch space.

It has a theremin which provides visual and tactile feedback and a voice with vocal formants controllable with a thumbstick.

It has a physics based sequencer of sorts which consists of "mallets" on a wheel which spins at a desired ratio of whatever BPM is set in a DAW. These wheels can be cloned and multiple mallets arranged around the circle using the Euclidean rhythm algorithm.

Since low latency audio in Unity is tricky, the VR app is really just a controller for synthesizers running in Max/MSP and IEM spatial audio VSTs running in REAPER. One day I'd like to package some portion of it into a mobile VR app for things like remote jamming or music lessons where models of the theoretic ideas are right there in front of us to tinker with. For now, it's just for me.
If you're going more than 30 minutes usually the taxi line has hilarious "out of jurisdiction" charges they tack on

From SFO I once went to South Bay, Uber would've been $50, taxi was $150 because of some esoterically worded rule that tripled the mileage cost outside of SF proper. I wasn't even in SF to start! What a joke
So code optimized for 80486 machines in the 90's is not less perfomace after the rewrite in Rust.

What a miracle!

Rust marketing is the best.
> If I don't have any servers in your nation, I don't see how you could possibly even begin to regard me as having expanded into your nation.

Simple — by making sales and/or servicing customers for profit in my region, your business has “expanded” into my region. Server location is irrelevant — as you’ve pointed out, the internet is everywhere.
Just makes the browser the level that has to be up to date, which determines what hardware is still usable.

If Chromebooks are anything to go by, this will just end up making more hardware unusable for new software.
I really don’t see how new ai capabilities lead to big layoffs and new opportunities for Dropbox.

I can think of plenty. Text-based image search, "find the latest TPI report last modified by so-and-so", etc.

Which isn't to say that Dropbox won't spend most of its efforts thinking up features that most users plainly don't need or want, and in cranking out buggy versions of these non-features at the expense of their core product. Like all these companies, once they get sufficiently long in the tooth.
It deals with my oven fan and similar regular kitchen noise pretty well. I hold it close to my mouth at parties, so I can't really compare it to e.g. Google Home or Alexa's far-field capability.
Ever heard of Visual Studio, XCode, Microchip,...?
I find it odd how Apple has seemingly dropped the ball with Siri. Don't all newer iPhones have some sort of neural chip or something that could help Siri expand its capabilities? It's strange that Amazon is so far ahead with Alexa and Siri is lagging.
Hi Satya, thanks for posing this interesting question.
"Even" implies a consensus that I don't think exists except in the minds of people who find hating something recreational. Siri works pretty fucking well in my experience, but that experience is colored by my understanding of what it is, and what it's good at.

You have to be aware of what makes a good Siri question or task. Technical people tend to understand this implicitly; we are, after all, talking to a computer, and computers are notoriously literal and have trouble with implied contexts, etc.

I think I've talked about this here before, but my wife often phrases questions to Siri in a way that results in the dreaded "I can send the results to your iPhone" non-answer. One example I remember happened when we were idly talking about King Charles. My wife asked Siri "how old is king charles" and got the non-answer. I asked Siri "what year was king Charles born" and got hard data back.

It's that kind of thing.

In the narrow case of music there's more to complain about, I guess, but the base problem is specificity and name collision. It doesn't seem to always pull the example of any given non-unique name that I might want; sometimes I wonder if what i get is just random.

If you ask for "Take Five", you MIGHT get Dave Brubeck. I'd argue that, in the absence of something specific, you SHOULD get Dave Brubeck, and moreover you should get the album cut from "Time Out." But Siri doesn't really agree, for whatever reason.

OTOH, if you ask Siri to play "Take Five from the Dave Brubeck album Time Out" you'll get exactly what you want.

Siri excels in simple, discrete asks or tasks, though. We both routinely use it to add things to the shared shopping list we keep in Reminders. That's kind of awesome, and beats the old norm of "go find a pen to add this to the list that you may or may not remember to take with you when you go shopping." Setting timers or alarms verbally is awesome. The list goes on.
No, ChatGPT Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Need to Learn Things
Generally, you sit down to a meal or coffee with the executive in question; they answer your questions and try to convince you to join.

That conversation might span a few sit-downs or extend into e-mails.

If you eventually say “yes”, you’ll be funneled into the hiring pipeline midstream, skipping the entire front-end process.

It’s largely a formality — HR is told to hire you unless there’s a glaring red flag.

When I’ve been in that position, I wasn’t even asked for my resume until after we’d already negotiated my compensation, solely for inclusion in my HR file.
Taxis are often far more expensive than Uber/Lyft and such. Going from the local airport to a hotel the first time I came at $location, cost me about 20 euro, going to the airport in the middle of the night from my apartment cost about 5.
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Thanks for adding those to the list as well.
I saw far far more artists hating NFTs than loving them.

And the idea that an NFT has any "emotional resonance" is just weird.
What an interesting cultural transition to live through. Smoking was omnipresent. Already I am having to provide background to younger folks on automotive cigarette lighters and ashtrays. Along with promotional paper matchbooks.
Okay, that is a fair point on virtualized scrolling, and while I can somewhat point to reasons why that's the case they're not strictly related to accessibility. They're more an API/extension concern than an accessibility concern, I guess.

That being said... I have also kind of soured on virtualized scrolling over time as I've spent more time working on UX projects, and I realize that sort of sounds like an excuse (we don't support this well, but you shouldn't be doing it anyway), but... I do kind of feel like infinite scrolling and giant lists of elements to the point where the list needs to be virtualized is bad UX for most apps.

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And to be clear, I'm not necessarily saying that the DOM is perfect as an accessibility tree, just that it's good enough compared to the kinds of accessibility APIs that most native devs want when they complain about the DOM. In practice, a full-featured accessibility API with the same feature-set as the DOM and the same level of capabilities would likely have performance costs no matter how it was implemented in the browser.

Sure it could be better. But also all of those improvements could just be added to the DOM instead of making a new native web API. The biggest difference between adding those improvements to the DOM vs reconstructing something very similar to the DOM as a separate browser API is that devs could ignore the performance costs of that API and only benchmark their apps with the accessibility API turned off.

And I think it's good for devs not to have that option (or at least, for browsers themselves not to directly provide that option; again I'm not saying that I don't think AccessKit should exist).
I sailed a tall ship between Shetland and Norway.

We zig zagged between oil rigs.

I felt like I was starring in Water World, The Pirates of the Carabeean and The Goonies all at once.

It was awesome.
I believe in treating people the way they ask to be treated so I always respect pronouns, bathroom choices, etc. What I've never been particularly clear on is why we've collectively agreed to cooperate with the social construct version of sex, i.e., gender but not anything else. If someone identifies as being tall, or older/younger than they are, or a different ethnicity, why doesn't anybody respect that identity as well? Is it just because there are a lot more people who don't feel like their assigned gender than there are people who don't feel like their assigned, say, eye color?
If they were "death traps" the stats would have them as the most dangerous cars on the road rather than one of the safest (in terms of deaths per mile). The grandparent was speaking absolute nonsense.
> somebody else will get the prize?

> Mathematics should be about collaborative understanding of the universe

If you really think mathematics should be about collaboration and not competition, why do you worry about who gets the prize?

You should pick what's more important to you - if it's collaboration, why not publish the steps you've accomplished? If someone else uses it to achieve a full solution, you'll still have a claim to part of the credit towards the solution.
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I built Packj [1] sandboxing for securing “pip/NPM install”. It uses strace for sandboxing and blocks access to sensitive files and limits traffic to known-good IP addresses.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
Not on HomePods as far I as know.
This is what always frustrated me about people like Steve Jobs. Don't you like, ever enjoy stuff?
Competition isn't enough for this issue, it needs to be written into law.

And tractors/farm equipment isn't the only thing we need right to repair on. So count this as a small victory towards a much larger goal.
Dyalog APL Graphs
As a fellow graphics programmer, this is a perfect answer.
Also I burned myself by activating backups in the app and not realizing I had to activate it in system settings in iOS too (or something to that effect).

So I lost my 2-factors, luckily I had spares for most.
None. All disabled
I see the following problem here. When the war starts citizens are forced to tighten the belts. Military industry meanwhile gets rich so they're inherently supportive of wars.
If a transformer has a good "place" to assign meanings to I think it does a pretty good job of (1) discovering similar meanings in synonyms, (2) representing words differently based on context. That later one is a huge advance over word embeddings which I thought were holding progress back instead of advancing it.

You're right that what they are doing is morphological, not semantic, but it helps a lot. I would say that

日本語

"Japanese Language" is a good token to apply embedding, attention, etc. to because it has a definite meaning to which the transformer can attach whatever syntax and semantics it learns in terms of activations. If BPE gives up and processes it as UTF-8 bytes

e6 97 a5 e6 9c ac e8 aa 9e

there is no clear meaning for any one of those tokens, and the model is going to have to work a lot harder.
Judging from how little it takes for a pharma rep to entice a doctor to prescribe their product, there might not be an amount that can prevent the temptation of corruption. Getting something for free can still be enticing to the wealthy, especially if they think they're getting away with something. Probably pushes some buttons that aren't really related to wealth, at least not directly.
This implies that law firm partners and other lavishly rich people are immune (or less likely to fall) to corruption, which is very obviously not true.
That’s exactly how Siri is supposed to be used.

If it can do something — well, that’s the usecase. It just works.

If it can’t do - then why would even one be trying to do that! That’s not how it’s done.

That’s the Apple way. And that’s exactly how Siri is perfect!
The US judiciary system is an absurd institution. Unelected, holds their position for life with no accountability and virtually limitless power to give/take away rights on a whim. Where are the checks and balances that every other branch of government adheres to?
I'm reading this while smoking.
This tool really helps visual thinkers! Yeah, I'm a fan! ;)
> > No metaprogramming in the language meant we had some parts of the code that were written in pascal to generate pascal code before compilation of the main project.

> Weird…if you are talking about Generics

But aren’t they very clearly talking about metaprogramming, which is a completely different thing than generics?
Seems like it does - cool! - but why does it sometimes spin for several seconds when faced with a seemingly simple request? I'm guessing it has some path where it tries to use the network if possible, but if the network is spotty then the requests timeout and it reports a failure?
> Dropbox in particular excels at sharing documents with others outside your company, but that is also where there is obviously the most risk.

> Currently, I find Dropbox's enterprise permissions management tools pretty difficult to use.

These two sentences were one after the other. So which way is it?
It probably won’t be soon but alcohol will be next.
Agreed. See also "How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking"[1]. Meta has a problem: lack of ethics. EU has a solution: regulatory ethics. If anything, it is the US that needs to seriously re-evaluate Meta's position.

How is Zuckerberg allowed to own any social media company after Cambridge Analytica? (not rhetorical)

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35726102
What do you think, then, about Mein Kampf being unavailable? Or Youtube videos beeped whenever fuck, shit or god can be heard?

I am curious of a US perspective (I am French). On our country what is to be normal in the 80's is still as scandalous today - and it is a real shame in many aspects (especially the position towards nudity).
I'm of the same conclusion. Freudian analysis is the chiropracty of the mind.
If you are betting that Siri will be the same 10 years from now, I will not join you.
> Having an enterprise product automatically increases headcount by 5x

Can you expand on this. Why is this the case. Does it even mean increase in engg headcount, if so why. Can you link to somewhere if possible.
Always had this question, and this pattern is very similar in other places. So maybe it works?
I presume because it has a place, in a nonscientific way. A lot of issues can be merely talked through. For those that can't, the patient can be referred to a psychiatrist, who can further evaluate and identify the issues using scientific methods, and prescribe medicines if necessary (which a psychologist cannot do).
It could also just be used to understand basic concepts with detail. The subcategories and different "priority" you can make with this mindmap layout is strong!
https://youtu.be/2efhrCxI4J0
Yeah, I'm thinking about the 4 lane urban roads (or 2 lane one-way).
Imo the most advanced vector DB out there is Vespa https://vespa.ai/.

Harder to set up than wrappers like Chroma, but very powerful.
I have been at concerts/events/trade shows where the 4G cell network dragged to a crawl from overuse - but speaking as a consumer, I never realized a benefit of 5G was reducing that problem.
>I don't think any of them will ever be the helpful AI that they were initially promoted as, though.

I must disagree. ChatGPT-style LLM functionality with ElevenLabs-quality realtime voice synthesis will absolutely supercharge these products. The ability to e.g. answer kids' questions in simplified English according to parental prompt guidelines, or drill down on complex educational topics, or maintain context over many back-and-forth conversational interactions will be huge.
Does that mean that on the Moon (1/6g) you would have trouble telling which way is "up" if you closed your eyes?
> He mentioned something about negative mass, which is maybe the handwavium equivalent of anti-matter in science fiction?

Well, anti-matter actually exists but its mass is positive. Also, the anti-particle of the (hypothetical) graviton is the graviton itself[0], so all in all nothing fancy happening there.

> Gravity only attracts. It never pushes away.

Cosmic expansion would like to have a word.

(Though, admittedly, expansion doesn't happen in gravitationally bound systems, so from this point of view your statement is of course correct.)

> The one guy said the biggest problem with gravity is we’ve never figured outs its opposite or if there even is an opposite.

Interesting. Do you know whether he was an active researcher in the field of relativity? I can think of a lot of "big problems" in relativity but this wouldn't be one of them. I mean, don't get me wrong, it would be nice to have something to cancel out gravity since this would inspire lots of applications that we so far deem science fiction. But we already have a pretty good idea of the limits of what's possible[1].

[0]: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/273918/is-there-...

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01808 + the rigidity case of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_energy_theorem suggest that one could theoretically "shield" / cancel out gravity to some degree but not everywhere (in all directions).
It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds? -Norm MacDonald.
You do know that Apple was also caught retaining raw request data from Siri as well, right?

I’m also surprised you’re surprised?
SyncThing, while indeed amazing and my goto for personal file sharing, might not go well with your corporate policies. An alternate program, like InSync, allows you to disable telemetry on DropBox, OneDrive and Google Drive at the same time, and is easier to justify.
I have driven so many "piles" when putting up lightweight electric fences, that is definitely a job where one or two person can do a few hundred a day if not thousands. That technology revolutionized sheep herding in Australia and New Zealand (with vast open spaces to fence) and lets you set up small temporary pastures for horses and other animals in less than a day. My farm is hilly and wet though and I hate to think how a machine would tear up the ground.
So many good memories here, like making a website that curated flash games on unblocked domains and sharing floppy disks with emulators and a ROM or two.
It takes effort to sign-up though. Maybe that should be a lesson to stackexchange to not require login to post intelligent content.
I have no clue about this but my layman’s idea is:

Energy is entanglement. Energy creates gravity. So gravity is created by entanglement (gravity can be considered an emergent property stemming from entanglement).
It’s a fundamental trade off in the system. The branches of government are insulated from each other by design. In many other countries, it’s common for high court judges to be removed and replaced for political reasons. That creates a different set of problems.
I kind of miss the days of school-sanctioned educational games, like those from MECC / The Learning Company. Of course the quality varied, but it made sense as a reward for finishing an assignment, where it could still be fun, but still be educational.
Since the conversation seems to be focusing on the Apache 2.0 license, what would you do? Clearly there isn't a lot of precedent for "closed-source, free-to-use" licenses.

In this case Datomic maintains development control over their product and "source of truth" is still themselves, and the implicit assumption is that you enthusiastically use their product for free with no strings attached because you respect them as the source of truth.
Is fundraising back?
Fly to Brazil, take a cab around Central Sao Paulo.

Your understanding of the world is warped by the safety and availability of goods. It's incredible when you get in places where the state doesn't function at let's say 50% of what we get in the first world. It's one hell of a learning experience.