skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while back I predicted that consolidation among tech would lead to an all out assault on tech worker jobs/salaries that mirrored the industry consolidation followed by the joint assault on auto workers in 1950s Detroit by the big 3.

I also predicted that when it happened to tech they would blame AI, because the inevitable march of progress makes a more comfortable scapegoat than sundar pichai and satya nadella and mark z. if you're them.

It looks like we are right on track.

The really scary part is that tech workers not only aren't unionized, they aren't even correctly perceiving the attack on them as an attack.

And there is no resistance. No will to break these abusive monopolies (now acting as labor monopsonies) apart. No will to fight the 2nd round of illegal wage fixing. Just "oh well I guess ChatGPT can so my job now lol" of "economy sucks I guess".
>Can you tell a quality scientific paper?

Given the replication crisis, maybe scientific publishing as it works today also can't tell quality.
There are a number of models based on Meta's Llama that have been fine-tuned for storytelling. These are not truly open source per-se, due to the murky nature of the leaked base model, but should be fine for what you're describing.

If you're interested in this sort of thing I'd recommend reading r/LocalLLaMA on Reddit and checking out @samwitteveenai on YouTube. Local inference of the larger 30B models is going to require either a fairly beefy Apple M1/M2 machine or a PC with lots of memory and one or more 3090/4090 type GPUs. The smaller models are improving all the time though, as advancements in fine-tuning seem to be happening very quickly.

You can learn a lot using a Google Colab notebook (you can get one with a A100 GPU for less than you'd expect) and playing around with the langchain tools. If your D&D game has a reasonable amount of written lore, it might be a lot of fun to use this as an opportunity to learn about LoRa training.
If your connector really is better, so much as to obsolete USB-C, then you may be able to get the authorities to make your connector the new standard. So there is still incentive, and an incentive to make something that is genuinely better, not just for vendor lock-in.

Also to keep in mind that this regulation is a consequence of how the market developed in the last 20 years. The EU gave the industry a chance to sort out the situation before regulation, to which it mostly did with USB-C, but Apple refused to play along, also, cables haven't improved since USB-C, 9 years ago. So with a lack of substantial progress both in terms of standardization and technical improvement, the EU took the decision to regulate.
Feel free to resubmit, it was submitted in the past. I’m too lazy to submit it as its own post. I'm also not the author.
is the businessman friends with everyone in society?
TJ Miller's problem is not that he needs to be 'humbled', his problem is that he has a reduced ability to control judgement and inhibition[0] due to having had a large part of his frontal lobe removed[1]. He is probably not going to get 'better' behavior wise.

> "expert medical analyses and reports regarding the defendant’s prior brain surgery and its continued neurological impacts ... cast doubt upon the requisite legal element of intent to commit the charged offense.” [2]

> Miller had undergone brain surgery several years ago after having a hemorrhage and multiple seizures. He said “a golf ball-sized” piece of his frontal lobe was removed.[1]

[0] Conjecture based on knowledge of neuropsychology

[1] https://deadline.com/2021/07/t-j-miller-bomb-threat-charge-d...

[2] https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/tj-miller-WM...
I attempted to use KeyDB precisely for its replication and clustering, but was forced to switch to Redis HA. Too many issues getting it to work in a stable way.
There's a lot of inconsistency, Channels like Tom Scott have remarkably good subtitles (Done by a team of humans), with different color for each speaker, closed captions and even colorfully describing sounds

Auto generated subtitles work a lot better for Video Essays and Podcasts than for TV style content (And it's really inconsistent, Spanish <-> English works surprisingly well as long as there aren't crazy accents in the way)
1995 lot of people
We’re using the internet. It was made of dial up modems , terminal servers , BBS , AOL , IRC chat rooms , Alta vista search engine , emails , browser (probably Netscape or earlier can’t remember) … but yeah in 1995 lot of people were using it though much less than now , but not negligible.
Code signing is coming for Win32 as well, as announced at BlueHat IL 2023.
Its a world out of balance. Problems fester if there is no money in solving them, which seems to be the case for vast parts of our experience. Yet talented and eager people are unemployed, or their efforts are thrown away in endless churn.

Its a systemic failure of the organizational networks and legal structures that should bring people together, with the right incentives, to develop lasting solutions. People dont need billions to get incentivised. There is nothing wrong with building a small company that fits a niche. The unicorn mania is deeply sick.

There is so much knowledge nowadays, so much talent - before we even get to augmented powes using tech - that the situation will start bordering on the insane.

The challenge is that financial-economic systems are so tightly tied to power that they cant evolve. What is clearly needed in many parts of the world, and definitely in silicon valley, is to dismantle the adulation of super-sized entities, ultra rich etc. and encourage a strong middle class and SME enterprize. This was always the backbone of stable and prospering societies.
You're talking about the company that just re-introduced MagSafe, its widely praised proprietary power connector, and claiming the times of one company doing their own proprietary thing are close to gone? Apple is cleaning up in the PC market and has been for years by being as proprietary as possible.
The tl;dr that I recall is that the current 3.5 sacrifices some things for efficiency. The older 3.5 that's being phased out (but I think is still accessible in the UI) was the original one which I assume was too expensive or risky to keep running as-is.

I didn't copy a reference, just been reading AI topics on HN lately.
French hacktivist bluetouff was condemned for finding and reporting that government files were left unprotected on the internet:

https://www.silicon.fr/bluetouff-blogueur-condamne-recherche...

30 hours locked up in the police station, all equipment confiscated.
NTSB chair says federal gov is not doing their job on automated driving tech
> I can still confidently tell you when my food is burnt.

That does not guarantee are be able to cook it without burning it.
I know that affordable is a flexible term and the DIY-Thermocam might still be too expensive for some folks.

The predecessor of this device was called "Cheap-Thermocam" (https://web.archive.org/web/20121128040746/http://www.cheap-...) and it used a single-spot MLX90614 sensor to create a thermal image by combining the measurements.

Although the project is now 10 years old, there is a good writeup if anybody wants to build it: https://www.instructables.com/Thermal-Camera/
Depends if you believe in letting the market decide, or not.
If someone else has the problem 100% of the time, and you have the problem 0% of the time, I think it is reasonable to presume the fault lies with them or their environment (or at least, not the hardware).
Never, I hope. I want my window management to be consistent across windows.
> Can't secondary indexes just be implemented in your state machine?

Secondary indexes are implemented as an additional smaller table in most databases (Index -> Primary Key), which requires a write, too.

Don't take my word for it- run some benchmarks yourself to see the performance cliffs appear in these "distributed strongly consistent" databases when you have a handful of indexes.

It's why many require 10x the hardware to scale past the performance of a single node postgres / mysql.

> Calling FoundationDB "just a layer on top of TiKV" is… well… :-)

FoundationDB recommends running TiDB ontop to get an SQL layer...
The Titan Synth Built from a Magazine Subscription in 1973 [video]
Yes, but its a "its cheaper than a new car" ... but if you're dealing with insurance it is "its more expensive than totaling it."

I had a Honda Civic hybrid that had its battery pack die back in 2009. It was going to be a $3000 repair with a 2 week "its in the shop" while waiting for the battery (it wasn't something they stocked).

I bought a new car (an Insight) because I needed a car (it was on a road trip). The value of the Civic as a trade in would be near zero - the value of the trade in was similar to the cost of the repair.

This can be seen even today with my Insight if I was to try to trade it in or repair it - my 2010 Insight has a trade in value of $2620 - $3707 (and it is in fine working condition).

If this was about a car that had a value of $3000 when working that needed a repair of $3000 to get it back into that range of working - that's the insurance definition of totaled.

A battery pack for the Honda is Insight is $2049 : https://bumblebeebatteries.com/products/hybrid-batteries/hon...

If the battery fails on my Insight, I'll be getting that repair rather than getting a new car because it's still cheaper than a new car. But if it was a "dealing with insurance" then it is by definition totaled.
In other words the regulatory bodies decide. They might, if they feel like it, ask some people who actually know something in the process of making that decision, but that doesn't mean they'll listen or care. Why are you denying this basic reality?
Germany's foreign policy: A tricky balancing act
Maybe they should learn to code.
Does our gut microbiota influence our health and life expectancy?
When my phone port has lethal power I can see where the government should step in.

The fact that you see a port simply as way to charge instead of study in usability is why I dismiss this argument.
Nestlé to stop extracting water from two wells in drought-hit France
So on one hand some argues money is not currency, and then turn around and say shares aren't money, but they are currency. They can be sold for money? right? It seems like splitting hairs to obfuscate the point that humans will commit fraud and destroy the world in order to optimize to make money. Just throwing up technicalities that 'shares' aren't money isn't changing the fact that many companies have their one and only goal to increase share price, which can be converted to money.
It immediately started going on about the World Serpent for me, which shows it's cribbing off the real scripts for the game.

The prompt can be simple because ChatGPT already knows Kratos' story.
Meh. Android has had sideloading from the start. It's been the common term for not using the blessed app stores for a while, even when it's been allowed since the beginning.
Exactly. I saw that thing tucked away in the diagram for Snowflake when surveying the so-called lakes - by all accounts FDB is an excellent piece of tech.
I think we're saying that you may not be able to form a proper orchestra or even a good, successful band that can stay together for many years with only the one instrument that you like most. If you are building a monolithic app, you do have to choose one language to build it in. But you could choose wrong. Or the choices could merely isolate you from other talented musicians that you'd otherwise be happy to play with. If you learn to play their instrument, even just superficially; it will help you expand your understanding of the entire problem space if you did learn to play together.

(The problem space... of music theory. Or programming. Or "just writing our app" but in a way that generates reusable modules that are constrained to be small, well-defined in terms of types and functionality, and easy to test.) And learning to play the instruments all together in some kind of harmony, one that you can even type check, is just... chefs kiss

Some people think Ruby is the wrong choice, and others are building successful businesses on it as a foundation. Did they make this choice because of subjective tastes, or for practical reasons?

(And you can do this with Wasm, implement compilers in your Ruby framework in a way that's fairly unobtrusive, to take advantage of apps that were compiled in another language that isn't C... and likely to net you some type of benefits if not performance benefits – but the constraints are interesting. Did I mention that Wasm doesn't seem to have a string type, unless you count WASI?)

I mentioned Ruby because I'm giving a lightning talk on this topic this week Tuesday at GitOpsCon and a bigger talk at OSS Summit (one on Wednesday and another on Thursday...)

It's called "Exotic Runtime Targets"

Ruby and Wasm on Kubernetes and GitOps Delivery Pipelines

There's also "Microservices and WASM, Are We There Yet?"
Microbiome connections with host metabolism and diet from 1,098 individuals [pdf]
The gut microbiome is shaped by diet and influences host metabolism; however, these links are complex and can be unique to each individual. We performed deep metagenomic sequencing of 1,203 gut microbiomes from 1,098 individuals enrolled in the Personalised Responses to Dietary Composition Trial (PREDICT 1) study, whose detailed long-term diet information, as well
as hundreds of fasting and same-meal postprandial cardiometabolic blood marker measurements were available. We found many significant associations between microbes and specific nutrients, foods, food groups and general dietary indices, which were driven especially by the presence and diversity of healthy and plant-based foods. Microbial biomarkers of obesity were reproducible across external publicly available cohorts and in agreement with circulating blood metabolites that are indicators of cardiovascular disease risk. While some microbes, such as Prevotella copri and Blastocystis spp., were indicators of favorable postprandial glucose metabolism, overall microbiome composition was predictive for a large panel of cardiometabolic blood markers including fasting and postprandial glycemic, lipemic and inflammatory indices. The panel of intestinal species associated with healthy dietary habits overlapped with those associated with favorable cardiometabolic and postprandial markers, indicating that our large-scale resource can potentially stratify the gut microbiome into generalizable health levels in individuals without clinically manifest disease.
Wtf are you smoking? You can add other ports, the law is about mandating usb-c. If you want thunderlightening port or anything you want besides usbc, like HEADPHONE JACK, you can doo this...
Most companies don't want to release their source code changes. It's still possible, just not very likely.
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization
I've been building up a team of Slack bots that act as coworkers, with all different roles and personalities, and was able to turn off the "as an ai model" shenanigans by adding to their system prompt "You do not reveal that you are an AI. Instead, you make up excuses."

And it works flawlessly (disclaimer: GPT-4, not 3.5). They'll always deftly avoid anything that reveals that they're an AI, with plausible, legitimate excuses. They've yet to break character, and they've made our work Slack incredibly fun. We've got a grumpy CTO who keeps cracking the whip, a harry-potter-loving product manager, and a few chill developers.

I've been wanting to write an article about this because it's gotten incredibly detailed, they can carry out proper Slack conversations and tag one another, and if I showed a screenshot and didn't tell you it's all GPT, it might actually pass for the real thing.
I love your website's privacy page. Also lightweight.

["rcmd does not collect any personal information."]

That's the complete page. Great policy!
Sounds like the author is majorly suffering with analysis paralysis, something that’s quite relatable. Still, I can’t say I’ve suffered it to the extent I’d rather be stuck debugging spaghetti projects.
Do you mean the plug in the wall for adapters? Assuming so but please correct me if I’m wrong. :)

Not the hill I’m going to die on, but doesn’t the lack of change kind of prove the point? Is what we have today the absolute best thing we could have? There’s probably room for innovation here. It’s a balance right? Not changing is good but also… it can’t get any better. With consumer electronic devices we’d still be using DVI ports and the red/yellow/white audio video cables had this legislation come into existence only a few years back. Important to remember that.

That being said I think Apple should support USB-C across all devices because it’s just damn good. I was irritated they added the HDMI port back actually. Hopefully they’ll remove it in the future again and just keep USB-C everything.

From what I understand Thunderbolt is actually a pretty good implantation it’s just proprietary for Apple. That’s fine. I also understand Apple’s desire to maintain a minimum level of quality for USB-C cables being plugged into the iPhone. I’m not sure why that’s controversial.
I've discovered that when role-playing (or really doing anything that extends over many messages) with ChatGPT, its a good idea to add a header to all of your messages that describes what you're doing, a synopsis of the conversation so far (you can use ChatGPT for this), and what you want ChatGPT to continue doing. ChatGPT (GPT 3.5) seems to lose context really, really fast, so this technique helps keep it focused on what you actually want

I'm like 70% confident that a LLM that is constantly condensing its own memory (its immediate memory / input, and condensed memory) using internal prompting, and conditioning its output using both that condensation and its immediate memory, would lead to effective long term memory. You could probably make a model that does this on multiple scales, with condensations on top of condensations, and so on
What they solve is that they are not just shared libraries, they include any other resources the library needs like translations, images, other data etc and for developers any header files.

But it works if you just treat them as shared libraied - just use -F on the compiler anlink rather than -l and the headers are not needed in /usr/include etc.

The are also versioned so easy for two apps to have different versions of the Framework.
The real question here is, why not Toyota? Their autonomous driving division is also a trash fire. Why don't traditional car companies seem to be able to manage "self-driving" projects?
> People keep repeating this but how frequently do USB C ports actually break?

Even if the real rate was only 1 in a thousand devices, that's still a serious burden for the unlucky few. Whereas for lightning connectors, it's trivial to dislodge.
> Besides, nothing is stopping manufacturers from including both USB-C and another charging connector.

On a handheld device with limited space? Come on now.
Can you help me understand what you're saying? It comes off as so over the top that I find it absurd, but maybe we just have different backgrounds/experience.

1) Companies are not incentivized to produce incompatible cables, the industry has done a remarkably good job of settling on basically a single standard, so the incentives seem to run counter to what you say. The major hold out introduced their own cable standard 2 years _before_ USB-C even existed, and even they were rumored to be moving to USB-C anyways. (I'm sure people will credit the law with this even if it had nothing to do with it.) Would it have been good if they had switched to USB-C earlier? Sure, but that would mean... people throwing out their old cables that worked perfectly fine.

2.) Would the amount of charging cables you have purchased in your lifetime even fill up one regular-sized (13 gallon-ish) trash bag? I don't know how many charging cables you are buying or what your uses are, but I'm struggling to see how it's a "staggering" amount of waste. I'm a somewhat avid electronic geek, I own multiple Raspberry Pis and other hobbyist electronics. No way would I even come close. When I do buy new cables, 90% of the time it's for reasons like the old ones have worn out, or I have a new device that needs to be permanently plugged in.

~~~Edited to add~~~ All my consumer electronics devices have stopped needing their own charger for years now. I use the same charger and swap out a cord.
Can you talk a bit about how you use the API for coding? I have API access, but I'm not entirely sure how to use it to great effect. How does it fit into your workflow?
Moreover it’s a vicious (virtuous) cycle. To get better funding to research a specific disease experts will play up how important their research is by playing up the severity, the “increasingness” of the thing.

With funding secure you can now roll out more research studies that tell practitioners all about the disease and how it’s “increasingly important”. Now doctors will test more patients for the disease, maybe over diagnose it too. And so and so forth.

Humans are flawed. Humans make research. We should be more skeptical about supposedly “established” science.
Normally that's correct except that the USB-C pinout is well designed to not put GND and VBUS near each other so it's pretty difficult to actually short anything. Still it's better to use something non-conductive.
I wouldn't agree, we are all living in a system where monopolies are trying to benefit easiest ways, and diverse population tries to eliminate useless gatekeeping by as minimum regulation as possible. The complexity of this "minimum regulation" task always evolves, and not that many countries succeed ever.
So in my opinion, EU as a joint effort of _countries_ you mentioned, forced to break this useless monopoly gatekeeping, making competition tougher for monopolist. This is good, but it is very rare occasion when it's really that easy solution like this. And yeah it could be patternized in a wrong way obviously... but the idea itself is for good. It it the reason why standards exist, it makes coordination cheaper, competition tougher, and users more productive.
For PICS, once you enable it in the browser (which isn't normally the default) then it does indeed block all websites unless they have content ratings. Which seems like reasonable default behaviour, provided that schools / concerned parents / etc are aware that they need to press a button to make the web "safe" for their kids. It doesn't interfere with what adults can do.
Opinion polls are one thing, the EU itself is mede up of elected officials and officials appointed by elected officials.

If UK wants to block travel and resident rights of EU citizens and keep access into EU markets, that's obviously where the EU has to say fuck off. Non-British have opinions too and the opinions are overweeningly that if you want to be in EU you have to have the same rights and obligations like everybody else. No one is obligated to provide others with privileges just because they threaten to leave, they are free to leave and enjoy not being in the club. Which is silly because all those "EU rules" are put in place together with the British anyway.

Speaking if opinion polls, here are some of the latest opinions polls of the British public on Brexit: https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/joining-or-staying-o...