skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the precedent is allowed to be set, there’s a good chance the power will be used against your cause in the future.

I've become deeply cynical about this argument. The Constitution is a weapon, used by the powerful against the powerless. I think it's pretty clear that in many cases the Supreme Court decides cases on purely ideological grounds, then goes back and creates post hoc justifications from precedent and the text.

Public opinion is useless here - it doesn't matter whether people are "OK" with something. What will you do, elect a new Supreme Court?
You can get the links here https://www.espressif.com/en/dev-board/esp32-s3-box-en
If a single company controls a bunch of AI girlfriends which can be manipulated in order to control the minds of people, and also it is much more powerful because it can engage in private and personal conversations in an extremely low price, it can be dangerous to all of us.

tldr
One company controls a lot of "girlfriends" and it's cheaper to have long private conversations.
This sounds really interesting, please drop me a note on Mastodon or Twitter when you have something to share! You can see a video of how I've approached this with Notado feeds here.[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgtrBdp2AZQ
> Does AI's current state stored in volatile memory doesn't matter? Or it does? Should we avoid turning off only those AIs which store they weights in DRAM?

Is this supposed to be hard to distinguish? Destroying something is clearly a difference. But you could still "shut down" an AI that normally stores its state in volatile memory by saving the state to non-volatile memory. We don't know how to do that with humans.

AIs are also different because they're often minor variants on each other. The value of information is largely in how much it diverges from what continues to exist. For copyable data, minor forks can't be as valued as major ones. We don't have the resources to permanently store everything that is ever temporarily stored in memory. So "can you destroy a minor variant" has to be yes as a matter of practicality.

Notice that this is already what happens with humans continuously. You're not the same person you were yesterday; that person is gone forever.

> I believe slaves didn't trigger sympathy in slave-owners, but it doesn't stop us from believing that slavery is bad.

I don't think the people it didn't trigger sympathy in thought it was bad. Some people are sociopaths. And some people at the time it was happening did have sympathy and think it was bad.

> If we could roll back people to a previous snapshots after burning them to ashes on a bonfire, would it be ok to burn people and then restore them?

If we could roll people back to a previous snapshot then what you would be burning is meat. There are reasons you might want to prohibit that, e.g. because the meat is someone else's property, but it's no longer the same thing at all as murdering someone.
Replace your CEO with an LLM
Media Bias Chart to the rescue: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
What Strange Horizons really wants is a high-quality SF/F/Horror story.

They see hundreds or thousands of low-quality stories for every high-quality story. And nobody wants to be told that the reason that they aren't being published is that their story sucks.

But everyone sane can see that their story might have been done before, perhaps too often -- so it doesn't hurt as much to be told that your story is being rejected because it's on this list.
> Any drive to return to the office on the basis of propping up real estates is ultimately going to be undermined by newer players with no skin in that game, for whom not having to pay massive real estate costs is going to be a real competitive advantage.

The question is whether that competitive advantage will outweigh the incumbency advantage of the massive current players in various industries.

Sure, the small fry ABC IT Consultings of the world might get their lunch eaten by sharp new outfits that don't have to foot the cost of a floor full of downtown offices, but a behemoth like Dell, particularly one that has already been paying those costs as long as they've existed and has them built right into their structures, isn't going to be nearly so easy to dislodge.

This is one of the huge downsides of allowing so much consolidation across the board for decades. The incumbent players become much more resistant to disruption through changes like this—it will take a huge percentage of us, the tech workers, firmly saying "no, we will not accept on-site-only jobs anymore," to make a real difference.
It's pretty hard to have good faith to people who have bullied and been deceptive to attain their goal of undermining bodily autonomy.
We weren't talking here about the pandemic OR turning in family so it's a confusing thing to bring up unless painting it as some sort of example of something where "government" should always come second?
self-driving vehicle

self·-·driv·ing ve·hi·cle

a small self-driving vehicle released from a gas station, used primarily to transport vehicles or cargo

"they want to build the first self-driving vehicle in the US"
I seem to have understood that this list is about things that would get rejected when they're the sole point of the story, but they'd be fine as plot devices within a more fleshed out narrative structure.

Even then, I can recall very good reads (or watches) that could readily fit squarely in one of those boxes but are either very well executed that you either don't see it coming, or even if you do you continue nonetheless, or that have specific context or otherwise build up that makes it very good even if it can be narratively distilled down to a simple this or that.

Also also, this list seems extremely small when compared to tvtropes.org with which, when I catch myself running down that time sink again, I always end up thinking that every single plot has already been written though sheer bruteforce.

IOW _execution_ also matters.
How does it decide the direction of movement? I'm unable to figure out
on a side note: I would argue that Unix-on-the-desktop for non-nerds was basically always a pipe dream (excluding highly locked down things like a chromebook), and indeed the unix philosophy itself doomed it. Lots of tiny tools chained together doesn't really translate to a GUI paradigm.
A gem of a book, and not just for web browser networking, but a good read for web networking in general.
Most embedded toolchains are ARM or RISC-V GCC these days, they get all the features.
It was California ReadyReturn that got murdered.

Imagine building a tax collection product that attains a 99% satisfaction rating from the people that pay those taxes and then having it get killed by legalized highwaymen. Even today the top google results return dubious totally-not-funded-by-intuit sources such as "the tax foundation".
> only thing I don't get is why they don't allow for binary payloads

I've always appreciated that it's just a simple line-oriented UTF-8 text protocol. Binary transfers are handled more efficiently with something else. Or just base64 the payload if it's not that big of a deal.
For my fellow high-IQ individuals initially confused by the seeming lack of content in the article, it's under 'Guides': https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent...

A bit easy to miss, but includes some actual code samples and a really nice walkthrough. Highly encouraged even if you already "know" SSE and want to solidify your knowledge, I like how it doesn't hide any of the details.
ChatGPT is the fastest growing application in history. It had 100 million monthly active users just two months after launch. No one is “waiting” for Google’s version.
It's not absurd. It's because these tax prep companies spend a lot of money lobbying and putting those congresspeople in office.
> The author is apparently unaware of the American constitutional amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment, and so postulates that in the future, American punishment will be extra-cruel in some unusual way.

I am also tired of following American news
If you're wondering why the dots approach the circumference and not the center, the length of the vector is `diameter * (1 - random(random(...)))`

It's interesting that the second circle is a pretty uniform distribution. `1 - random(random())` must be approximately `sqrt(random())`, iirc that's how you correct for the error demonstrated in the first circle (https://youtube.com/watch?v=4y_nmpv-9lI).
On a laptop with a GTX 1650Ti (4GB), I’m seeing very roughly twice the audio time with “SUNO_USE_SMALL_MODELS” turned on, and about 4 times the audio time with that flag turn off.

Given what people are reporting for high-end cards, that’s much higher than I expected, which seems to underline the descriptions that its not fully utilitizing higher-end cards.
As the sibling post said, you probably have a ton of code that deals with what happens when a RequestWithZ appears. The thing that changed is that that isn't a thing that can actually be sent to you.

Now, you are right that you can contrive a situation where you can choke off all parts that trim this down. And then you can use the type system as a tool to help delete dead code. When it works, it is a great tool. Just like the example in the original article. Please don't take my point as a complete teardown of the idea. Just don't oversell it, either.
The government can just suddenly shut off public transportation at any time. They can't just suddenly destroy every road. Since plenty of used cars exist, you aren't reliant on the car companies to have a car. And isn't the only thing Amtrak wants your money?
a significant factor in choosing my current role was that it was 100% on-site. Of course, this comes with a significant amount of nice amenities like catered lunch, free beverages/snacks, a gym, etc. It's also close to where I live. I understand people's reasoning for wanting to WFH, and they are valid, but just wanted to voice there is a subset that don't prefer this way (or thrive when WFH, I am like you, I am much less productive at home).

At the risk of getting downvoted I do think there's another subset of people who are convinced they are more productive WFH but actually aren't. Or, know they aren't, but don't care. I think this realization is what sparks these draconian RTO policies by upper management.
I have to wonder if it's related to subsidies by the government.
Have you turned in your family members before? Just curious what it would take for you to do that? Jay walking or murder? I know in Quebec they had a curfew, and neighbours were ratting out neighbours.
I come from the position that lockdowns did more harm than good. The damage to the economy and personal freedom, and eroding trust in government.
Absolutely not more efficient when dealing with Mathematics or math-heavy notation which is 90% of my notes. Maybe an iPad might help but it's out of my budget right now.
There is PostMarketOS which is archlinux, and nixos on mobile.
i thought it was more "check out this new plugin package I got for my CGI rig" heh.
Nobody else is admiring typed enumerations?

Particularly when using structs this removes a lot of ambiguity if you ignore the indirection to find out the underlying type of the enum (or encode it in the name hungarian style).

enum D : uint8_t {
A = 0,
B = 1,
C = 2
}
typedef struct {
D f;
} __attribute__((packed)) E;
assert(sizeof(E)==1);

etc. could make grokking protocol declarations with enums less onerous and requiring one less level of indirection.
This is very practical way of looking at the problem and is true for majority of systems, but anyone serious enough about keeping their data, and not just pretending, has some kind of back pressure mechanism built in, so the messages will stop flowing if they can't be processed.
@btobolaski, I'm most interested in nix for creating reproducible dev environments. Do you have any public Python/Poetry2Nix projects on Github that I can look at?
Also available here: https://archive.is/46cSX.

This has been posted several times before, but has not had any discussion within the past year.

In the more recent context of widely available LLMs, I am specifically fascinated by the idea of "Freddish" as prompt engineering for young kids. Children and LLMs are alike in many ways (they latch onto patterns and occasionally make faulty inferences) and differ vastly in others (the innate knowledge in a child's neural architecture is of an entirely different character than the textual dataset of an LLM).

I am curious if HN has any other insights about commonalities in the "demanding process of getting all the words just right" for when talking to both.
> Monitoring an active riot seems pretty much what I’d expect the FBI to do.

What - if any - is the difference between a riot and a protest?
You speak about physics and how unrealistic a bridge collapse in a movie is yet want to hand wave about the physics of golden plates showing up from a civilization 5000 miles and 1500+ years away with zero evidence that the plates ever existed other than "trust me, bro".

As you go back through history, its understandable that earlier civilizations attribute things happening around them, or things they observe, to some higher power or having completely false notions of the world, like the earth is flat for example. And then humans come to a more accurate understanding via science. How many hundreds or thousands of deities/gods have humans attributed things to during our thousands of years of existence?

God or a higher being isn't the discussion point, the discussion point is how silly it is to think that something like being led to/discovering golden plates happened at that period of time.
How well do these work out in practice across a variety of platforms, behind firewalls, on phones, and so on?
I would guess that they are. One one hand, I agree with your point that putting one's kid in front of a TV connected to an NES console playing Metroid is the same sort of passive "caring" that is putting one's kid in front of a TV that's connected to a Chromecast playing Netflix or Youtube. On the other, I can also see (I believe per their point) that an NES doesn't have constant content updates or any sort of "feed" which instills a desire to constantly check for updates.
One major issue I encountered with SSE is dealing with reconnection. WebSocket makes it very easy to detect differences between a loss of network connectivity, a server dying, and a client exiting properly (eg: closing the tab), on either side of the socket.

Maybe there are facilities to do so with SSE that I don't know of, but my experience in reliable server-to-client-only comms with it has been a bit rough.
I won't get too deep into our architecture, but needless to say letting users dynamically edit/add/remove fields in their databases is not easy. We use Postgres + Prisma as our ORM, and I'm fairly happy with its DX re: handling this level of complexity
What was the challenge in typing indicators? My naive idea is that it's basically sending `typing_started` and `typing_ended` messages.
Oops.

Yeah, I knew some of them did and then at some point I just started tossing more programs in the list as I ran across them.
HUD 2023 Dataset
After 1 month delay HUD has released the 2023 data
> So the exact same as a non-union workforce.

The claim was that unions would be an improvement.

> I love how people just assume companies are this perfect machine that both know what's going on and understand the choices made, especially in a thread where Blizzard clearly isn't able to deal with their choices and almost certainly didn't intend to lose such talent.

Markets don't cause everyone to be perfect. They just cause poor decisions to have consequences. Now they're experiencing the consequences, and anyone seeing it may want to make different decisions than they did.
Try writing something on this without knowing cursive! I rest my case.
Note that this really isn’t anything except the agreement to send messages separated by 2 new lines. The SSE object in browsers is old and quirky; for example, it only supports GET requests, which means you’ll hit path length limits if you use it for something like LLM completion with large prompts.

Luckily since there’s nothing special about the browser support, you can very easily replace it with custom implementations. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@microsoft/fetch-event-source for example offers mostly the same API, but does offer POST requests and a bunch of other goodies.
Certain teams do suffer from incorrectness they produce, and I think obsession with correctness can be beneficial for them. But it's a painkiller, not a cure.

Once you build a good team, the source of incorrectness shifts to the vagueness of the requirements and domain complexity. And indeed, attempting to solve it (be it with types or with tests) is pointless.

In essence, if your team finds a lot of benefits in types, you have a mediocre team. And mediocrity is almost unavoidable at scale, that's why big companies heavily invest into those correctness procedures (unit tests, types, various forms of bureaucracy, etc).
DSL's are great, but we should write them inside of a language like Lisp, Scala, Haskell, etc. where we have all the tools already for editing and debugging them.
Ok but... let's just pull a Pareto here and assume that times requiring the team to be together in the office are 20% of the total working time of any project.

You are now paying rent (and utilities) for a space that is severely underutilized for 80% of the time.

What about the food catering? The security? Parking space?

All these collaterals cannot be dynamically scaled up and down at will.
I suppose this was inevitable
This TV is going to get hacked in 5 minutes. Or just tape a piece of paper over the advertising screen.

I'm thinking of getting one just for the novelty, and not attaching it to the internet.
couple tricks:

What role do you want it to take: if you want it to answer smarter have it take on the role of a smart profession. if not sure ask it what role(s) would be best at answering this question.

Ask it go step by step to reason through the problem sometimes helps.
I think it's moreso the assumption/collective perception that foreign totalitarian governments are more nefarious in their actions towards their own people. Whether or not that's true is a different argument.
There is a large percentage of the US economy is dependent on them being inscrutable for various reasons.
> as your accent isn't novel to you.

I would imagine that part of the reason it gets old is that it isn't "your accent." It is a NZ accent after having been filtered and ruined by US ears and speech patterns.

Old joke. What do you call someone who knows three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American (US). Speaking as one myself...
Nice to see more data-centric platforms. One I found helpful for CV, NER and TC:
https://rungalileo.io
perhaps the gradual ageism begins at 30, but look around and try to see how many >40yr engineers are around you. Every year there is a dice roll to remove folks, and an extremely low intake of new "older" folks. (ie, 5% of 40yr old engineers might leave per year, and only 1% of 40yr old engineers are entering as their first year due to starting a new career)
Actually, it doesn't: Congress already had the power to levy income taxes. The power to levy an income tax predates the 16th Amendment. What the 16th Amendment did was to explicitly overturn the Pollock SCOTUS decision, which said that a tax on rental income is basically a tax on property, and a tax on property is a direct tax which requires specifically apportionment among the states per the Constitution.
Getting performance out of Alphas usually depended heavily on the compiler, and, really, only the DEC compiler really made it shine. GCC was notoriously bad at generating optimized binaries (circa ~2.95), at least compared to compiling the same code on the DEC compiler suite.

I'm sort of half surprised you're recalling an Intel 75MHz beating a 233MHz Alpha, but, sort of half not. Depends on the type of software you were running I guess. Or do you mean just the general system responsiveness?

I did a lot of work on Alphas w/ Digital UNIX, then Tru64, around the 1999-2002 timeframe, and they were so much fun.
But can you have a perception of how many hands you have? It is an interesting question to me.
What a fucking abomination...
The output of commercial scale wood gassification plants is not charcoal? It's ash. The whole point of wood gassification is complete combustion, so turning as much of the carbon into combustible fuel as possible.
You know, I read this and got exciting thinking "I could build that!". Then I got to thinking about the security implications of running a webserver on a personal phone exposed to the internet.

I think I'll pass.
Note: For USB-C, there already are a number of cheap docks which provide HDMI and Ethernet and can also power the host. The keyword seems to be "USB-C PD hub".

Not sure though if those actually let you route the phone's GPU to a second screen or if they just have a cheap additional GPU built-in.
The claim is that meat is "essential" to become big and strong. Which nutrients in meat are "essential" for this but not in a vegan's diet, so that they have to fill the gap with supplements to be competitive in sports?

For what one anecdote is worth, I'm friends with a former professional athlete who tried a vegan diet after after retiring - and years on he is still as freakishly strong and agile as ever. Many well-known pro athletes have gone vegan during their careers as well: Chris Paul, Venus Williams, Carl Lewis, among others.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/yes-can-vegetarian-athlet...

https://www.gq.com/story/real-life-diet-chris-paul
I just got laid off in April after months of downtown and getting on bad terms with my manager. Out of the blue he started micromanaging me, and what was once a truely remote frontend job in a completely different timezone (good) became a game where he'd call me in the middle of my day (late evening for him) and then send me passive aggressive slack messages when I wasn't immediately available. There's this managerial idea that people need to be butt in seat ready to go on a video call whenever they feel like initiating it, and that's just one more thing that stripped autonomy away and removed any sense of agency I had in how I got my work done. I was already in a zoom call at 6am most days, so I'd work for a bit, rest or go outside to enjoy the limited daylight, then come back and finish or go to a cafe.

He was definitely promoted beyond his capability though, and as a "director of engineering" couldn't keep his hands out of the minutiae of day to day code discussion.
well, processing characters you'll never see, then
Seems akin to complaints that there aren't enough good movies or TV shows these days.

That's so very not the case that the person complaining either isn't looking very hard, or else have such narrow taste that they're excluding most works without even considering them.
'Foundation' season 2 launches July 14 on Apple TV
Remember, if the cost of recalling exceeds the expected lawsuit payout, the company won't recall, your safety be damned.
I'm really looking forward to adding something like this to my home.

Are there any similar devices, without a screen, available?

Preferably with a nice design, so I don't have to hide them?
Wouldn't it still be easier to type out the entire AI generated assignment than to come up with an assignment and then type out the assignment you came up with yourself?
Also a bit of a Heisenbergs cat!

A lot of things are ‘legal’ as long as you don’t get audited.
Y'know, you were making some good points, but then you went and tarred all "developers" with one black brush.

That's incredibly condescending and reductionist, and it says a lot more about you than it does about "developers", either any individuals or in the aggregate.

Maybe try thinking of people as individuals, rather than lumping all "developers" together as one unreasonable bundle of pointless complainers...?