skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny thing, as popular as sixels are now, they were pretty useless back in the day. It would take ages for a picture to appear on a VT terminal with those slow serial speeds (VT320 doing 19200 baud max! - not sure about the 330/340). Especially with colour. I'm pretty sure the later ones (I have a VT520 myself) didn't even have it anymore!

I know word perfect for Unix used it for the print preview but I don't know any other app from those days that used them at all. The same with the double width or height fonts the VT series offers. I've only ever seen them working when running vttest. They could be very useful, but in practice I've never seen them actually used for something other than testing.

These days with pretty much unlimited speed sixels actually become useful. But they don't support full 24 bit colour so another technique is probably better for today's needs. For example it would be great to be able to define a terminal region and send images and video to it with full hardware acceleration and compression (H.264 or similar). I think there's still a good usecase for terminals, but holding on to sixel feels a bit too much of a kludge to me. If they were super abundant and popular, sure. But they never actually were.

I think this is also why kitty chose to build a custom protocol instead of implementing sixel.
It's amazing to me how quickly the narrative on the future of remote work and work generally shifted in the past few years. A year and a few months ago Al Jazeera was running stories on us entering a "golden age of the worker": https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/1/6/are-we-about-to-...

Now, with layoffs, AI, and higher interest rates, you're getting stories like this wondering if all the lost jobs are ever coming back. I'd like to see at least 1 more business cycle end to end - recession and recovery - before jumping to conclusions. As someone who's never been in the job market during a significant downturn like this, though, it is a bit mind-boggling to see how quickly people think this is a permanent state of affairs given how hot the job market was just a year and a half ago.
For what it is worth, even with my medium-complex tax return I have had great results with freetaxusa.com for the past few years. The first couple of times we used it we ran the taxes through TurboTax and FreeTax at the same time and due to better UI the FreeTax version was faster and less confusing. That said, at the end of the process after entering all of the same information in the same places the TurboTax one did offer about $50 more in returns for unexplained reasons (The calculated figures were just plain different even with the same inputs, and doing the math by hand we got the FreeTax figures), but would have cost me $60 to use so we went with FreeTax instead. The second year we did the same thing and had a similar result so this year we didn't even bother.

The process is still way too hard and confusing, but at least it feels like I'm feeding one less parasite this way.
I think by ""efficiency" OP means that WPM is typically faster when typing vs. handwriting. That's certainly true for me.
Or the major DNS providers are just providing the government with the data without the need to MITM the connection.

Major ISP's definitely I feel like would do this. And most people are leaving DNS as default to their ISP (especially on mobile)
How many "Show HN" posts does one app need? This has knocked up about 5 so far.
Somebody who owns a large percentage of a company is not "a random shareholder".

Your simple-minded models work for random shareholders, but not for people who own significant fractions. They're playing a different game. They can't exit without moving the market. Their actions are tracked by other players, who will treat it as material information. Liquidity is not some magic reservoir; it's composed of individuals with fixed sums of money making trading decisions.

I will take your continued inability to name anybody who would buy a major stake in Lyft at market price as an admission that you agree there's nobody like that.

Since you claim to be concerned about straw men, I'll point out that I never suggested "this were a normal reasonable thing to do". You asked why somebody might take an offer that didn't have a premium, one that "won’t be higher than the current stock price". I explained why Lyft's current shareholders might do that. That's all.
Sorry if I seemed to imply a productivity gain of 350-700 times. This is a very rough estimate for only the tasks accomplished by a combined harvester, which happens in a very narrow timeline in the season. I was certainly not talking about the overall productivity of the farms.
> And how many employees at Dell would risk working for a small struggling employee in this market?

The laid off ones.
The Home Assistant project (as part of the "year of voice") is working on wake word, etc for Raspberry Pi from what I understand. However, as someone who's tried to do exactly this on a Raspberry Pi before supporting wake word and getting clean audio from 25 feet away with background noise, acoustic echo, etc with a random collection of software and hardware is very challenging. I have an entire graveyard of mic arrays from seeed and others myself :).

Espressif really did us all a solid with this hardware and their ADF and SR frameworks.

Whether it's cost, being fully assembled and ready to go, and even wake word, AEC, AGC, BSS, NS, etc at least as of now the ESP BOX is essentially impossible to compete with in terms of hardware in the open ecosystem.

I talk about this and more on our wiki pages[0] (check out "Hardware" and "Home Assistant"). In short, the Espressif frameworks we use /technically/ support the "regular" ESP32 but it's so limited (and the ESP BOX/ESP S3 is so cheap) we're not super interested in supporting it.

We're aiming for an end-user experience that's competitive with Echo, Google Home, etc in every possible way - speed, quality, reliability, functionality, and cost.

In fact, we want to crush them on all points to where there's no reason left to buy one of them.

[0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/wiki/
Pretty much all of my favorite pulp sci-fi stories use at least two of the items on the list. Of course, that's reasonably forgivable because:

1. They used more than one

2. They were published long before this list was made.

3. Pulp

[edit]

e.g. 5,271,009 by Alfred Bester hits at least 4 of these while also poking fun at various wish-fulfillment stories
> I don't like that "crypto" means the grifter funny money shit now, instead of cryptography like science intended... but it does. My objection doesn't change that; it's a consensus thing. It might be the same for you.

As an aside about language, I don't think this is the right way to think about word meaning.

Before, it meant nothing to most people and "cryptography" to computer scientists and cryptographers. Now it means "cryptocurrency" to most people and it still means "cryptography" to computer scientist and cryptographers.

Just like you wouldn't have said "crypto" means nothing in the times before, it is incorrect to say it now means "cryptocurrency". Alternate meanings can and do coexist. The tyranny of the majority does not a language make.

And this is the crux of the issue, I think. There is no single language at any time -- this is only an often useful simplification.
sternet (noun.)

- the small intestine of certain birds (such as African ground squirrels)
"sternets of milk and breastmilk"

It looks wrong on so many levels...

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w8e8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy_(United...

You are entitled to privacy even for certain public situations. Even if you can see through a window, the government can't go training telescopes inside your home without a warrant. It's an active battle for things like location data.
Yeah, I can see how this bots inability to speculate about how black people are less intelligent than white people could really impact GPs daily work
Part of the reason I think LLMs are a step in the right direction is that it's too big of a coincidence. We don't know how our own brains work, but we have good reasons to believe that, whatever the "magic" trick is, it can't be too complex, because evolution had to "oops" into it too.

Now, it would be one hell of a coincidence if the model we "oops-ed" into with LLMs, and the model evolution "oops-ed" into, were completely unrelated approaches to the same problem.
oops will fix. never using names of numbers of zeroes ever again. that stuff sucks, i will express everything in scientific notation
> I've never been out west but I assume that BC and Alberta is the most 'normal' of the Canadian differing accents

If Linus Tech Tips is anything to go by, this tracks. All of their hosts have very "generic American" sounding accents. They are very very close to Washington state which doesn't have a strong accent in my experience. Contrast this with Minnesota or northern Michigan and how "similar" they sound to the stereotypical Canadian accent.

Linus has a bit of a Valley Girl sometimes and wholly acknowledges it.
How exactly does it work?
Pro tip: If you have a tax bill over a few thousand dollars, sign up for some credit cards with big fat bonuses just to pay the taxes, and you can easily make up the $100. When the system of {government, financial institutions, credit cards, etc.} sucks, shove it back to the system.

Obviously, calculate whether it really works out in your favor with the credit card payment fees, but in many cases it will.
I wasn't refering to casual games. I've played thousands of hours of cs and almost all the girls I've seen were with thier boyfriends and were always bottom frag with few hours on their account. The competitve nature of cs makes it a male dominated game. I see women playing candy crush/ animal crossing all the time but these games are not competitive.

>what makes programming a man thing?

Characteristic Share of respondents

Man 91.88%

Woman 5.17%

Non-binary, genderqueer, or gender non-conforming 1.67%

Prefer not to say 1.65%

Or, in your own words 0.74% [0]

There are almost as many trans male programmers as female programmers. It is also linked with autism which is mostly a male condition. (Which is true for video games as well.)

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/1126823/worldwide-develo...
> an incoherent blob of text arguing with itself.

Kinda like HackerNews but from before someone invented modern threading and quoting, yeah?
I was grabbing beer with a buddy who has ran some large - petabytes per month - Kafka deployments, and his experience was very much that Kafka will lose acked writes if not very carefully configured. He had direct experiences with data loss from JVM GC creating terrible flaky cluster conditions and, separately, from running out of disk on one cluster machine
It seems you've worked at companies that were remote just in the name and actually had awful practices.
“Basic Principles of Frequency Modulation” 1944 U.S. War Department Film
US professor breaks record for longest time living underwater
AMD’s x86-64 architecture was designed around 1999, but the first actual hardware was released in 2003 (the K8 Opteron).
Gray whale that spent record-breaking 75 days in SF Bay washes ashore dead
Agree. I guess I was thinking of tea/coffee.

I don't really think of soda as being a serious component of someone's diet. I mean, it's totally optional, just drink water lol.

The main issue with sweeteners it seems is that people use them to justify eating/drinking non-foods. I wonder if the same effect comes up when people have like, roast chicken with a sweetened sauce rather than honey or equivalent.
Unfortunately microsoft gated ability to run linux GUI apps to windows 11. While this feature was under insider program it worked on windows 10 but for release they decided to only keep it available in win11.
My wife's employer has experimented with ChatGPT writing. Their experience has been it's way slower to use it in any but very limited ways, and having non-writers/editors try to use it to do the job of writers it is a disaster.

I think you need just the right combo of task and worker to actually see a notable speed improvement from it... unless the job is "write huge amounts of bullshit", which some jobs truly are (astroturfing, certain kinds of advertising or marketing, scams).

[EDIT] I should add that this isn't preventing them from hyping the effects externally. I'd be wary of companies' claims re: the effectiveness of AI. They're all afraid of being seen as having missed the train, even if the train's not really going where they need to go.
The idea is that indeed, yes, choice is real. Being in an office should have tangible benefits beyond seeing people (its nice to just not be home to work). Having to be on calls isn't supposed to be negated by being in an office, since you need to accommodate remote workers too right?

If the only reason you're going into the office is to socialize with other people, then I think there's bigger questions to ask
Using lobbying corps can spend money to get laws that are against common good. Whether that money goes to the politician directly or indirectly (ie corruption), or a bunch of astroturfing puppets whose goal is to drown out the peoples voice with FUD is irrelevant.
> I'm betting on this: the Overton window of Artificial Intelligence will shift in the next five years where the current cream-of-the-crop has been delegated to machine learning yet again, it's just accepted. It augments humans where it makes sense, the hype wave has subsided and everyone has stopped hammering it into their products where it doesn't, and we're no closer to the undefinable "AGI", let alone something that produces X-risk, global scale.

I agree with this but ALSO think there's a small chance I'm wrong and a well designed prompt and action loop would let a future GPT7 LLM use the range of human thinking techniques in its corpus to bootstrap itself.

And there's also other non-LLM AI that might be a problem in the future and we should plan as to how we can design institutions and incentive structures so that whenever this future AGI comes about it preserves human value.
Sealware.

1. A kind of electronic apparatus for sealing seals between seals, such as a sealant or a small metal plate, such as a door or hinge.

Come on, this is brilliant.
A tangent but how do distributed robustness properties in face of communication hiccups compare between Redpanda and Kafka? Eg with Raft apparently you can still fail in presence of asymmetric network failures (like in https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-byzantine-failure-in-the-real-...)
What makes you think there is a difference? Seemingly the "story" here is just an explanation of what the person likes about it.
For the HN crowd there's probably a more realistic path toward writing as a career: self-publishing technical books.

[By one year after publishing my first book](https://jeremykun.com/2019/12/01/a-good-year-for-a-programme...), I had sold 11k copies, and with self publishing you get a much bigger royalty from each copy, drastically lowering the bar for financial success. I expect my second book to do even better, because my audience has only grown since then and the book is more general purpose.

I might be an outlier in that I have already built up a large audience from blogging about math. But the benefit of self-publishing, aiming your work at folks with disposable income, and having a niche all seem to make a full-time writing job quite straightforward.
When SEO Algorithms Shift: The Case for Diversifying into Influencer Marketing
Is influencer marketing the ultimate weapon in this age of AI-driven SEO uncertainty?
Informally speaking? yeah sure. Discussing the relative benefits of natural forms of locomotion? absolutely. Designing the entrance of a building? I should consider that not everyone is bipedal.
Technically "histology"—the microscopic study of tissues—also makes sense in the context of the lab (studying neurons), but it would be far less funny of a joke.
There are 15 funding organizations on that page, why did you choose to only mention that one?

Also, this is a simple listing of self-declared lobbying efforts. Even the most mal-intentioned nefarious lobbyist could not seriously consider this site to be "fighting" them.
Counter with Flight of the Conchords: https://youtu.be/qTwAoFR4DuM?t=104
> All this, without touching any tests. I didn’t need to - because the types provided the direction.

Which is all great and wonderful - until things change, and requests can suddenly come in without an ID - meaning that you must assign them an ID in your response. Not so easy to model using only the type system!

And then later as session support is added, there are now two IDs, but one of them must be omitted if the session is not already active in the system. So now you must either make your request aware of the session system so it can check, or you must move the validation out of the request. Your type system is no longer helping you avoid erroneous conditions, and your lack of tests leaves you exposed.

It's all great when the system is small and easy to model...
This is a known issue called unhallucination.
Basically every way? If the government was tracking everywhere you went via cameras, people would also call that spying. Are you arguing that when a spy follows someone in public and watches everything they do, that isn't spying?
Eh, it's more prevalent than sugar, but also has more reduced sodium options due to some common medical restrictions. I would equate a low sodium diet with a no added sugar diet - there are many sources of natural sodium as well as natural sugars.
I can't list names about the "unserious" people who aren't running multi-AZ, but this is the approach to durability that MongoDB took ~15 years ago and they have never lived it down.

It may just be that data reliability isn't a huge concern for messaging queues, so it's less of an issue, but pretending the risk isn't there doesn't help anyone.
How to hardwire your home without ethernet in the walls
> there are plenty of people who are older and less knowledgable about government surveillance

IME, younger people have given up on protecting themselves.
As a newcomer to the area and a noob in most things ML, one think that I still have a hard time evaluating is the minimal type of hardware to run these LLMs either locally or at scale.

I often see a lot of detail on how the models were trained but do not see much information on what is needed to actually run it. I found some information on /r/LocalLLaMA/ but it still very sparse.

Anyone has tips on how to figure this out besides actually running them (and needing to spend $$)?
Spacemacs for the rescue.
You have highlighted the core basis of Foucault's Boomarang: it doesn't matter the target of oppresive technologies and practices. Sooner or later, their scope will be turned on you.
I don't think that saying vile and racist things is helping his business. The only motives he seems to be having are those of a 12-year-old craving constant attention.
It's not a huge leap to think that someone that abstains from such a crucial piece of social lubrication will be an outcast.
can confirm the fast part. Doom Emacs was the first time a pre-packaged editor was much faster than my laboriously handcrafted init file and I was really salty about it. It's a solid project to try out even if you know your way around emacs.
Another option is to write documentation for opensource projects. Many have some sort of funding, but not good doc.
A comprehensive and hands-on guide to autonomous agents with GPT
>in this article, I will provide a comprehensive overview of autonomous agents, including what they are, how they work, what they can do, their implications for businesses and workers, and even a hands-on tutorial on how to build a simple autonomous agent.
Those who like this may also enjoy "Shelfbrain: Holy Trinity of Human Spelling", which is a physical dictionary of LLM-hallucinated words: https://shelfbrain.com/
> The C2 wiki was re-written and re-implemented as single page app, currently at http://fed.wiki.org/

It seems empty. Or am I not grasping what this is?
Mostly off topic, but every time the subject of US taxes comes up I can't help but think about Tom Clancy's Executive Orders. (Spoiler coming) At the beginning of the book the entire US administration except Jack Ryan is killed in a terrorist attack, leaving him President and with the entire government to rebuild. Later in the book one of his advisors tells him something like "This is the only chance in History we will have to make all the hard decisions, all the hard choices we've been too afraid to make. We need to completely overhaul our tax system. This is our chance".

As the years go by and all these plans are killed one after the other I realize how right this guy was.
> But put four people from any location into the same room and you’ll find plenty of differences between them.

I think most of us first discover this fact in our own nuclear families. :D
Everyone is thinking about their cloud costs right now, so something that offers higher perf and lower ops is going to be more relevant today.
The concern about redlining has always slightly puzzled me. Why do we only care that some people are being unjust denied loans when those being denied loans make up a recognizable ethnicity?
Very strange design. It completely ignores the potential ergonomics of functions over Option<T> like map, unwrap_or, flatten etc that you'd have to implement yourself for every option-imitating enum.
Diet sodas have been a helpful tool to me when losing weight, as I enjoy soda enough that it's one thing I don't want to give up- and diet sodas are a way to enjoy it without calories and sugar and it keeps me a bit more satisfied 'in the moment' at least, when I'm eating less food

Do they cause cravings and would switching to something else (water, etc) be better? Oh I'm sure. I'm not aiming for perfect. I've been able to combine keeping drinks diet (soda, flavored water, completely unsweetened sparkling water) + other calorie restriction to lose weight.

I still struggle off and on personally with weight loss in general but that's more because of psychological struggles than anything else. But keeping some things I enjoy but having less of them or less caloric versions of them has been far more sustainable than any other weight-loss lifestyle I've tried- one that's easier to bounce back to when I do struggle
Why not just call genocide what it is -- genocide? Wouldn't it be far more accurate, and just as concise, to say "Bison had become nearly extinct due to genocide by European settlers"?
Nahaha, great writing! Though, the irony of reading this and articles like these (as they often come up, or maybe that is my selection bias)... right now? Thanks, Jim.
bodonic (adjective)
(of a horse) able to glide on the ground
"a bodonic dancer"
I don't really understand this myself. Language is either comprised of loan-words, which are words which follow another language's rules, or it has its own rules for composing words. I tried a bunch of reloads and got plausible words, mostly following latin and greek word roots with some extra decorators. Lots of un- and -ers. Simply because the word isn't popular enough to be in a dictionary doesn't mean the word doesn't exist - if the word follows generally accepted rules of composition then the word surely does exist and it's easily grasped by someone who understands that language. This is why, for instance, John Dee, Shakespeare, etc "made up" words which were well understood.

I had fun, but I doubt the claim that "this word does not exist". :)
Not only did they raise the standard deduction, but there's that $10k limit that you slam into when trying to itemize. My total tax burden went up about 2% after that change, but it does make filing theoretically easier, except that my wife is always holding out hope so we go through all the work to itemize only to discover yet again that we're over the cap and wouldn't benefit.
Wow, I hope I never have to work with you or anybody who shares your opinions on this topic