skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A collection of Ghanian movie posters
The plutocrats would like a word.
Why would they do that? Cars used to have slots that you could put your own radio in. Then manufacturers figured they make more if they sell you their own system for 2000€.
A bandaid solution is for the HN commentariat to post archive.today[0] links, which somehow through some magic sauce presents the unpaywalled article. (Don't ask me how this is done, I haven't researched it, but hey, it works!).

[0] https://archive.ph/
Other comments have proposed that depression may have multiple underlying causes, and thus may require different treatments.

I'm curious about the other direction of thinking. What do SSRIs, psychedelics, CBT, and TMS all have in common? Suppose that there is one common cause, or one at least one cause that applies to 90% of cases. And it's treated by all these seemingly disparate methods.

That's what tickles my curiosity the most, as it begs a more fundamental question about the functioning of the brain.

Maybe the author's theory is correct: brain signals between certain regions are going the "wrong" way in depressed patients. That would imply that SSRIs are causing the same shift. God, I would love if the authors tested that. And then we can finally dig into why SSRIs work (we don't current know). If they're causing shifts in brain activity flow, then we can find out how. And from there maybe we can treat other mental diseases with better pharmacological or TMS solutions. Are things like schizophrenia arising from a similar bad pathing of information around the brain?

Psychedelics is also a weird one. People have proposed many theories as to their mode of operation for treating depression. But now I wonder, based on this research, if the key factor was just the disassociation from one's body and altering of senses. The other effects like connecting disparate thoughts, forming more brain connections, ego death, etc may not be related at all. That could lead the way to more targeted drugs.

Really cool stuff. If if pans out, of course. But unlike other theories of depression, at least this one is easy to test.
Government funded news wants you to know that our political elite have tired of the Proles not funding their lavish failing city policies. You are to promptly return to office servitude where more taxes can be levied upon you for your frivolous and dangerous driving. What, you do not desire tremendous inconvenience? How selfish you are. All of these under served small business who do fuck all for you will suffer! Think of the chi- economy! Think of the economy!
I find her continued non-incarceration infuriating. "Liz" needs to be in a cell. NOW.

I guarantee you, somewhere in the US, there is a black inmate named Elizabeth Holmes, incarcerated for some petty theft, who has a better case for remaining free than this fraudster.
I think these going to the fore will become inevitable. These improvements will make things we do now easier, so why not let them help? Until we as human are totally replaced by AI, we will just coexist with them and then we find something new to work on. Evolution.
Do you support GCP?
Summer of Math Exposition
This order all but guarantees that, even if she games the system and gets time served, she will never have the opportunity to reoffend.
People keep hyping this automatic UI but having tried it it's honestly so awful. Can't believe people are saying it's better than dreamstudio
Fastest Growing and Declining Industries from 2021-2031
Hard to imagine satellite and telecom tech will decline 21.6% but interesting list to ponder none the less.
I was reading "Controlled burps help prevent wildfires"... time to go to bed.
That's a crime in California. Labor Code section 1050[1]

[1]:https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
The question is what __else

It already has so many uses. That’s my point. There will be more, unknown uses, but there are a lot right now that are already potentially world changing.
This seems to be a setup of an extremely interesting experiment. We could get a bunch of different language models and actual humans together and prompt them to write under these different scenarios.
(Just so you know - from Rational Wiki)

"There could be competition among different brands of law, just as there is competition among different brands of cars." — The Machinery of Freedom, chapter 29

Friedman is much more radical than many anarcho-capitalists, such as Murray Rothbard. Both he and the Rothbardians believe that all functions of government should be privatized and replaced by competing companies, such as private security firms, toll road operators, and arbitration courts.

However, while the Rothbardians believe that all the competing companies should enforce a single body of law that has been reached by consensus, somewhat like how things were done in the medieval Icelandic Commonwealth or in pre-Cromwellian Ireland, Friedman believes that the legislative process should also be privatized, and there would be no rules at all except cuius regio, eius religio, or its equivalent with secular law. How (or whether) democracy then sets in is another debate altogether.

Friedman also differs from Rothbardians and other natural-law anarchists and libertarians in advancing purely utilitarian arguments for the model he advocates, without reference to ethics except in the context of the operation of law.
That's like being in a car driving towards a wall and saying "see, everything is fine".

The moment climate change affects you personally will be already too late to do anything about it.
It's just plain-old corruption

Yup - as with Dropbox's tapping of Condoleeza Rice.

Lest we forget: https://www.drop-dropbox.com/
Every new feature starts at -100 points and must have at least 100 points to be added to the list of features.

You should only be adding telemetry if you can verifiably prove it will give you information you can't get otherwise, that you will actually use that info (what features hit the most bugs doesn't freaking matter if you are spending 95% of ever sprint doing completely different things) and only if you can find a way to legally guarantee that info is used for NOTHING else.

Microsoft did not have broad telemetry in Windows in the 90s, and yet Raymend Chen had no trouble getting popular software and running it to find out what problems it ran in to. When vista had basic telemetry, all they found out was that nVidia makes crash prone drivers (50% of all Vista BSODs) but that didn't help them at all. People still blamed Vista for all the problems not caused by Vista, and nVidia was not getting that telemetry.

Telemetry is a weird crutch that people keep latching onto before they even break their legs.
This piece looks really nice and I almost want it!

But have no idea what to do with it. What are your plans folks? How you are using similar hardware?
How is this an overreaction?

I would expect Dropbox, a file storage company that proudly invests heavily in tech and infrastructure to achieve a better availability than what they already were on AWS (99.99%)

In terms of availability the change is pretty much 0 and as a business / enterprise customer I might as well choose a different service with similar or higher 9s or (if my needs are complex) choose S3.
Stable diffusion cost only 1 million, that's like 5 marketing people for SF salaries. Not sure they'd achieve better results than SD got them.
Amazon corporate just went to 100% in-office. People who were previously remote now have to commute or would be fired. Even if there job has nothing to do with being in an office and their team is elsewhere in the world. My neighbor is one such employee where it wastes gas and time getting them to an office they don't have a business reason to be in except fulfill butt-in-seat mentality of the overlords.
https://archive.ph/OwgOY
I get my views on the police from the news and from observing them and hearing stories about them from relatives and friends, some of whom have worked with police or in other parts of the justice system.

My conclusion, after years and years of all that, is that you should only call them if you'd rather end up beaten and cuffed and facing charges, with a bunch of your shit broken and/or stolen, than let whatever's happening now keep happening. Bringing them into a situation comes with a serious risk of "now you have two problems". For lesser non-emergency stuff, they're not gonna do jack-shit except give you a report for insurance (and charge you money for it), so, do get in touch if you need that, but don't expect anything more from them, because you won't get it.

I also treat them as the most dangerous drivers on the road. From what I've seen of their driving, they're up there with a teenager in a sportscar who's simultaneously applying makeup and texting. Except that sometimes when they do something dangerous and stupid, you get a ticket (seen it happen).
That was before we had to update every system every day :-)
Unfortunately rear windows have been getting smaller and smaller, so without backup cameras you have very limited vision.
Hacking your switch can lead to better Tears of the Kingdom frame rates
This person uses a whole lot of words to provide an extremely surface level critique which essentially boils down to: "you claim to not support capitalism yet you live and participate in a capitalist system, how curious". supported by "look at how vapid 'definitely just a cookie recipie NOT a manifesto for overthrowing late stage capitalism' is haha" and "get a real job".

There's an awful lot of well researched content out there critiquing aspects of capitalism and the system as a whole. This article is a lazy attack on the most vacuous facet of the movement. I think most people with a sort of anticapitalist lean have correctly identified that whatever the fuck economic system we have going right now has failed to distribute wealth in a way that is globally optimal and are A) mad about this, and B) looking for a solution. "Capitalism sucks" is an easy shibboleth to ease human communication about the matter. There are clearly large swaths of people for who the current system is not working well, we should listen to them.
Oh wow. Exactly what I was looking for, these are promising projects. Thank you! Looks like FVWM may be a good choice if I stick to X11.
And Americans will do nothing about it, even as they suffer under it, because they see themselves not as an oppressed proletariat, but temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
We'll be sharing the STEP model of the device and the enclosure here https://github.com/sqfmi/beepberry-hardware
Feel free to hack away!
Confused outreach or LLM content? I wasn't sure.

Now I wonder if these two have structural similarity? As you move away from someone's specific research (or sometimes teaching) focus, quality of understanding falls off surprisingly rapidly. Towards something which is not rational transferable integrated understanding, but rather a "science"-education artifact, a pattern-matched chained-regurgitation of misconception-laden stories. Larger tokens, but the mechanism and results remind me of LLMs.
Police officers scale as calls scale. There's some minimum threshold based on space, but if you have 50 calls at once then you need 50-70 officers. And your manhattan officer doesn't have the option of "let the angry dude kick rocks in a farm field until he gets bored and arrest him". Every fleeing perp becomes a danger to _hundreds_ of other people. Every fired pistol round has a high chance of hitting a bystander. CS gas cylinders are right out.

Same for fire, except now you have a new problem. When a house in New Jacksonville burns, one option is to let it control burn. The home is a loss, but this is a safe and viable option.

You can't do that in our manhattan. The entire city will be on fire.

And fighting a fire on a one floor residential house is easy. Fighting a fire on a 40 floor condo structure is complicated and takes many, many more trucks - and now instead of one home being lost, we are looking at ten or more homes, even if we are successful.

Water distribution to a bunch of little houses is easy if sort of requiring some piping. Distributing to a 40 floor condo building is an expert task requiring a whole mess more of complexity.
This is still really nifty.

> All "over-the-wire" API calls have been replaced by a plugin system which allows you to easily swap out the back-end.
Ok. I'm not sure how this happened, but I think the dataset was somehow mislabeled. It appears that this dataset is the Q1 version, not the latest Q2. Can you please try re-downloading it?

We're probably going to have to make an public announcement about this...
What you're missing is that the after (optimistically) netting 200k from a 300k house, is that the next house is really a lateral move to another 300k house being sold for 500k, but with higher property taxes (At least in states like CA).

This would only theoretically work going from a HCOL area to a lower one, and then moving again becomes even harder.
I've worked at a big telco and now FAANG and I can tell you there is so much non CRUD work it's crazy. There are very very hard technical problems to solve in FAANG.
explain like i'm 5 (years old)
UK PhD students’ call to action amid the cost-of-living crisis
A PocketChip built by the same person that made the Pebble Time Steel 2 that's on my wrist right now.

Take my money. Again.
Yes. The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839, is a good model for a programmer's union.[1] TAG represents animators at Disney, Sony, and some lesser studios. (Mostly Disney now, because Disney acquired everybody else.)

This is the current Master Agreement.[2] It specifies minimum wages, but not maximums. "Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent any individual from
negotiating and obtaining from the Producer better conditions
and terms of employment than those herein provided."

See section 5, "Hours". "Time worked on the employee's sixth workday of
the workweek shall be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the hourly
rate provided herein for such employee's classification. Time worked on
the employee's seventh workday of the workweek shall be paid at two
(2) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee's
classification. Minimum call for the sixth and seventh days shall
be four (4) hours. ... All time worked in excess of fourteen (14) consecutive hours
(including meal periods) from the time of reporting to work shall be
Golden Hours and shall be paid at two (2) times the applicable hourly
rate provided herein for such employee's classification."

These are standard union terms in Hollywood. This is why film scheduling is a discipline but software development scheduling is a joke. Hollywood has crunches, and they hit the producer's budget hard. So planning goes into avoiding crunches.

Despite significant efforts, TAG has been unable to unionize game developers.

[1] https://animationguild.org/

[2] https://animationguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2018-2...
According to that wiki page, the courts eventually did rule that HiQ violated LinkedIn's terms of service, and a settlement agreement was reached.
Might be the first actual data we have on Twitter usage after acquisition:

> Six-in-ten U.S. adults who have used Twitter in the past year say they have taken a break from the platform recently. And a quarter of these users say they are not likely to use Twitter a year from now, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.

> The Center’s new analysis of actual behavior on the site finds that the most active users before Musk’s acquisition – defined as the top 20% by tweet volume – have seen a noticeable posting decline in the months after. These users’ average number of tweets per month declined by around 25% following the acquisition.
$500 in monthly savings is huge. Love the video walkthrough. Congrats on the launch, Team Cloudthread!

We primarily use Cost Explorer to dig deep into cost usage.

What are some of the primary factors of Cloud Waste that you have noticed and can you share top 3 recommendations to reduce Cloud Waste?
>Something as simple as Win+Shift+S is an amazing improvement

Just now I hit that chord once to try the feature out , it came up but I hit "escape" to cancel the interaction. Now, typing the chord a second time, Windows no longer brings up the snipping UI. If I can find a show-stopping bug in an "amazing improvement" in five seconds then, I'm sorry, but it's not an improvement.

Ditto with the new Windows Terminal: occasionally connecting via SSH to a box already running `tmux` will just crash the renderer. Of course crashing the renderer (a fairly fatal error for a terminal emulator) doesn't tear down the program (!?!) so the renderer continues to crash once per frame drawn, every time you say OK to dismiss the error, until you terminate the program.

I cannot even think of something new in Windows 10 or 11 that has not, at some point, given me grief. The new task manager refresh, maybe, but I still have to dive into Resource Monitor (Vista) multiple times weekly, so even that improvement is not so good that it displaces its predecessors.

This is software that costs 100s (Windows, Office) or 1000s (VS) of dollars, and they can't even get it right. I generally like surreal humor, but we are way beyond absurd at this point.
At big companies there are high level IC roles, supposedly "mirroring" the manager levels, for people who are the "creators" and effect change in tech on a large scale without people management. For example I remember at Facebook I attended a "class" on keyboard shortcuts, taught by one of the creators of a *nix utility (I forget which)
"being a landlord is a second job" is something I hear a lot from renters, I've never heard this from an actual small time landlord who has two or less rental properties. And yeah, if you have 30%+ equity in your house you can generally have a property management company handle everything for perpetual 10% of the rent + first month's rent and come out even, in most competitive markets. Being a landlord in a low cost of living area, more than an hour from a major city is probably a losing proposition for most people under 50.
> In any case, web scraping is a sort of gray area of the law.

I feel like it's also only a matter of time before we have decentralized web scrapers that can consume data and assemble datasets and store the results in a decentralized fashion in a way that is completely non-enforceable. LinkedIn data would be aggregated in all sorts of interesting ways, and there would be literally no name you could sue, no address you could serve papers to, it would be a hundred thousand bots in 100 countries that collectively assembled the dataset and put it on some IPFS or torrent.

If data is visible with human eyes, it's visible by decentralized bots, the only missing piece is the technical and financial complexity of the current state of decentralized compute.
After watching dashcam crash videos for 5 years, I finally got around to getting a dashcam for myself (not that I intend to star in any of those videos, mind you).

From those crash videos, I've learned to never turn left in Russia. You'll get t-boned almost every time.
First Gen Apple AR headset + LLM = device for hyperefficient work by voice

That’s assuming it’s physically large. As it gets smaller, it becomes more of a general purpose AR device that can overlay any context, information, or visual transformation onto your environment and allow physical-digital interaction and social experiences. First gen should in theory be that too, but in practice if it does look too big then people won’t use it in that manner as much as they use it as a panoramic monitor. Nonetheless it will start the flywheel of AR development and technology in the Apple ecosystem to lay the groundwork for mass adoption.

Apple can also use AR to lure people away from Windows and PCs, since the glasses presumably can be used as a souped up Mac. But since Apple is an ecosystem provider, they need to have world class AI in-house, if not now then at some point (otherwise competitor’s AR devices will be more feature complete in an important way). That’s not impossible given Apple’s cash pile, but it is something they’ll need to develop new capabilities around and dedicate resources to.
What does it mean for a lookup/hash table to be differentiable?
I think it's autocorrect for compensation.
Also note that KeepassXC is unaffected - https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/discussions/9433
Multiple court reaffirms in favor of scraping, including by the SC, seems more like verdant to me..
Did u ever get around to find out why the enzymes aren't made by your body?
It's a terrible title and a terrible article altogether.

> Biology, geology, and chemistry all worked together to make the present atmosphere.

No, no one "worked together".
And Earth never was an "Alien planet".

Life evolved alongside any challenges that a changing planet posed to it. Including changes induced by organisms.
Life still is evolving today and hopefully will continue to do so.

Also titles like this imply that the evolution of our planet and life is somehow guided or is directed to support humans. Or that humans are the crown jewel of evolution.

Au contraire. We are a pretty shitty product of evolution and are a danger to evolution itself since we acquired the intelligence and technology to change DNA of creatures based on our whims.
(We did this for centuries through artificial selection. Now we can do it more directly)
I’m waiting for a uConsole too. Here’s the latest shipping update: https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/update-uconsole-shipping-rel...
I feel that, in the Desktop OS development progression, at some point the providers (MSFT, Apple, Lunix distros) simply exhausted the list of features that users actually need. I think for Microsoft it happened at around Windows XP (and some people think it was Win 95). At least for me, past Win XP, the OS simply gotten worse though the infinite bloat and making UI "cool and looking like Facebook page (the so called Facebook envy at the time)".

Desktop Mac OS, which I currently use, has 99% features that I don't need and don't like. I don't need to spend every second of my life checking latest social media posts, "cool" videos or "wonderful" songs. Luckily the UI is still good and kernel is still POSIX compliant, although I would strongly prefer straight Linux and none of the Apple's command line, storage and memory compression "innovations".

Desktop Ubuntu Unity -> everything is a search. Why do I need this? What wrong with the straight windowing system coming from XEROX PARC? It was designed to be just like the pieces of paper on your actual desk. Why would you not want this? It feels like innovation for the sake of innovation.
Self-checkout works well as the “express lane”.

It’s far faster with an experienced cashier, once you have more than a few items.
I argue that the attention mechanism is just Hopf algebra convolution. The QK mechanism selects possible candidates and the OV mechanism picks one of these possible candidates.

I have recently written a paper on this https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01834

I also have a discord channel https://discord.cofunctional.ai.

Ironically, it's the same mechanism as what renormalization in QFT does. I'm getting increasingly convinced that it's also how the brain works.
This is the real-economy, human tragedy routinely overlooked within the Fed's policy mistake of unsustainably forcing down long interest rates.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=14ImM

Holders of big mortgages taken out at low rates are trapped in them, so they will continue to suffer in quality of life, and the economy will continue to suffer sub-optimal output as they try to adapt to work in captivity.