skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lem is one of the most interesting sci fi authors. He is deep and philosophical, but can also be very funny. Solaris is definitely not one of the funny ones.

I also love both the film versions of Solaris. The Tartovsky one is the best IMHO but very long, but I also really like the more recebt Soderbergh one with George Clooney.

For funny, try The Cyberiad. A collection of short stories of two robot inventors who try to outcompete one another.
If you are the only one to own a car, where do you get gas? Or replacement parts?
It would require some sort of continuously tuned arbiter, ie. similar to in RLHF as well as an adversarial-style scheme a la GAN. But I really am spitballing here - research could absolutely go in a different direction.

But lets say you reduced it to some sort of 'trying to prove a statement' that can be verified along with a discriminator model, then compare two iterations based on whether they are accurately proving the statement in english language.
I never owned or used a laptop with a battery that lasted more than four hours, maybe only three. However that has always been ok because I always used laptops at home or in a office. Only a few times on trains, planes, airports. Battery life is not an important factor for me.
The Three Buckets of my time
> “Telling people to be quiet is not a good thing,” he says. “Part of the charge to us as human beings in the world is to listen to other people, right? Especially if they are suffering. Especially if they are crying out to us for help. If our expectations are ‘I should not have to hear anything,’ and I can convince myself that the right way to live in the world is to live in this acoustically tailored environment, then I don’t have to hear all that stuff. . . .

I think the writer here is confused, they very likely mean 'listen' in the metaphorical sense not the literal sense, since it's obvious there are real world scenarios where it's physically damaging to actually listen.

But if they mean 'listen' in the metaphorical sense, as in perceiving another's mental thoughts through any medium, then the noise levels of everyday environments has little to nothing to do with it.
I bias strongly to text-only, by default.

For something to involve other media or forms it needs to be a strong clear net win. In my own software work I've coined a private term for it: CLIFMO (for CLIs First, Maybe Only.) Its not a novel idea by any means because I know hundreds/thousands of other engineers prefer it too. But I try to be religious about it.

For example, I've been making a new game lately, and the prototype is 100% text-only, and the final shipping version might be too. (NOTE: If curious, see my bio for details: Slartboz, a sci-fi post-apoc IF adventure.)
Those are people who don’t use it judging by superficial things.
China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya
ITerm2 on MacOS
There are things that work anonymously (or at least pseudonymously) already: pizza delivery or hotel booking. It's not like the data presented at a random registration form has to reflect your government ID. Skipping the login step just saves the hassle, and preserves the win of being able to do things online.
IIRC, the 90s Japanese game show "Irritating Stick" had a premise where you had to guide a metal training sword (a stick) through a wireframe maze without touching the sides. Failure would shock the contestant.
A browser that's not a years out of date chrome re-skin is a safer browser. Pretty much anything that gets updated regularly is good enough vs that.

I prefer firefox with a few addons because I generally know what I want, but opera and brave have good defaults out of the box from what I hear.
I'm glad I didn't switch to the 360. I love my Advantage. I'm not even on an Advantage 2 yet. They cost too much for me to get another one.

I added o-rings to the keys and think that made it a little nicer to use.
Worth noting that these actions are very modest and far from an outright ban (ie Apple products with Micron chips can still be sold in China). And Micron (having itself lobbied for restrictions on its Chinese competitors) had expected to be sanctioned.

Curious to see the US reaction and whether this will trigger further US restrictions on Chinese tech.
Fair. And, historically, companies known for being consistent dividend stocks got hammered if they cut back. Which, as you suggest, may or may not have been a good thing in general. Whereas buybacks haven't really acquired the same level of X% per quarter. (And, in fairness, is inevitably caught up with questions of whether the stock is "fairly" priced.)
I remember hearing a news report about a study where they found that the critical limit for public transit schedules is 6 minutes. Once trains or buses come more often than that, people stop looking at timetables and just go to the platform whenever they are ready to depart.

This lines up with my own experience. On weekdays, trams go every 5 minutes at my stop. On weekends, they go every 7.5 minutes. And that's just enough over the edge for me that I'm tempted to check the schedule on my phone before leaving my home.
Asymmetric fields is a really clever idea.
This isn't a graph database like neo4j. This is a graph database like I hoped neo4j would be. It's not about having an easier time working with schemas. It's about analyzing graphs that are too big to fit in RAM. Transaction analysis for banks, trafic analysis of roads, failure resilience of utility networks, etc.

In these kinds of workloads you quickly run into performance bottlenecks. Even in-memory analyses need care to avoid conplete pointer chasing slowdowns.

I do still hope this is fast in like a single CPU 32 core 64GB system with an SSD. But if this takes a cluster to be useful, then I will still love it.
a barbershop that needs login/password for scheduling haircuts? fuck off

If it takes reservations, it's not a barber shop. It's a beauty salon.
Exactly. Purchasing with a guest login works fine for most shops here.

In this specific case I was talking about it's even worse: I already have to click a link in the email (or answer an SMS) to confirm the appointment. It's ludicrous.
The developed nations have known exactly how to build structures that ACTUALLY reduce noise for 70+ years, but they didn’t care enough to mandate such construction techniques into the building codes at our own peril.
What is the point of making the data structure any more complex than:

2011/03/15 Trader Joe's
Expenses:Groceries $100.00
Assets:Checking
2011/03/15 Whole Food Market
Expenses:Groceries $75.00
Assets:Checking

I don't even need to explain the data structure to you, it is self evident. Any number of sophisticated functions can be built into an interpreter of the ledger data, but all of those complex functions never obscure the basic data which can be edited by hand in a plain text editor if desired. Or you can use ledger-mode in emacs and enter transactions through prompts so you don't have to manually structure the whitespace for it to look nice. However complex you desire, you can use ledger in that fashion, that is the strength of its minimalism.

Like I said elsewhere in this thread, I like to use ledger inside codeblocks in org mode (org-babel) in a simplistic application of literate programming. The extremely human readable nature of ledger's data structure is a natural fit for the similarly human readable org format, and in export of an org file into a website, html document, pdf or other media (via pandoc) ledger codeblocks remain human readable, even to someone who has never heard of ledger-cli. This means that an org file tracking a complex project with associated costs at each step (though ledger can track anything with units, including time) can be easily converted into a professional quality document that can be used in any number of contexts.

The professional outward facing document used for conveying information about a project to others can thus originate out of the same org file that is being used to work on the project itself. In other words, your notes are only a step or two away from a presentation in any number of formats.

When you want only the finances from the project file, just tangle it out and treat it like a normal ledger file.
It's 2023, and Windows still hides file extensions by default. Easy mistake to make.
Assuming 1kb per "record" that's 150 million records per customer.

Definitely a data heavy product, wherever it is that you're offering.

(Unless you keep large blobs in the DB. But database scale has more to do with records than raw storage.)
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> Well this sticking to the rules no matter what is where you lose my sympathy

Cash-only places are less common than they used to be, but there are still some really popular places to eat near me. And they’re popular for a good reason: they provide excellent food/service, and delivery services can’t insert themselves into the business model. It means I have to pass an ATM that day, but it’s a perfectly viable model.

If I’m going to a place called no screens cafe, I’d personally appreciate the complete commitment to the endeavor. If nothing else, it’s an invitation to ponder the frictionless ways we part with our money almost everywhere else.

Comparing “cash only” to “aggressive TSA” seems like a rather stretched analogy.
Freezetab chrome extension
> For 95% of the tasks this thing is absolutely fine

At work I got a 4770k too, bought it exactly 10 years ago. Besides adding more RAM so I could run some more VMs and upgrading from a SATA SSD to NVME it's chugging along fine. Most of my time is spent on reading specs, documentation or mails, writing code or queries and similar.

Sure build times would probably come down some, but we're not using C++ so build times are like 1-2 minutes tops anyway.

Figured it was time this year to upgrade, all the others have swapped out their laptops about 3-4 times in the same period, though it would be more like a preventative measure. We're a Windows shop so at some point I'll have to upgrade from Windows 10...
Not saying it's bad as a qualitative answer, but it doesn't say anything quantitative about the effect of the temperature in the ChatGPT API. Temperature is a well known and wel documented concept, but if you don't know what y_i is, and for all I know that's just a number coming out of a black box with billions of parameters, you don't know what temperature 0.7 is, beyond the fact that a token i whose logit(y_i) is 0.7 higher that that of another token, is e times as likely to be produced.
What does that tell me? Nothing.
All true, but I think Oakland has always had this kind of reputation, while SF only recently fell into it.

So I think that's been "priced in" for a long time.

My part of Oakland is quite safe, though we have some minor homeless camps.
The most annoying part of company support forums like this, other than the total lack of response from actual company representatives, is the bootlicking simps who show up in the replies to defend the company. What kind of person does this? What possible reward do they expect for defending the user-hostile decisions of multinational billion dollar corporations?
The link is wrong. YAML 1.2 fixed this.
Agreed. 4x is not a lot. Generally when you buy something at the store, it's about 8x the price from the factory. Tech tends to lean towards 10x the cost.
Awesome!
I love that it "just works"; I might engage with the CLI for meaningful integrations later, but right off the bat I can create custom SVGs thanks to dynamic URL params:

https://badgers.space/badge/mylabel/statuscode/green
Clouds are thoughts in the mind of the sky.
This is exactly the issue. I've lived in so many places but have never just seen people in the UK complain about their lives and not want better for themselves.

Regardless of Brexit, Covid, Wars, other countries seem to just get on fine and people in them want to get better lives. And with far less they seem to do much better and be happier - and want to grow more.

Your comment illustrates this. Try getting the same comment out of Australia, Japan, India, Germany, Uganda, Canada, the US. You could name any country and more people are stuck with malaise in European countries than I've ever experienced.

Self inflicted imo. If a Brit person spent any time living overseas they'd come to their senses and see actually things are better than most places.
Speculation is defined as trying to sell something at higher prices, generally short term. Bitcoin or gold are examples of speculations.

Investors on the other hand are not necessarily interested in price fluctuation but owning their share of the cash flow through growth or dividends.
I think of ambient silence as the most valuable sound of all. Think about what it'd cost you to get freedom from your neighbor's lawnmower, traffic, sirens, construction, dogs barking, and the rest of the mindless noise that involuntarily assaults the average person's brain all day. You might think you can move out to the country, but most of the homes you might buy still have plenty of it. Neighbors will have bigger lawns that require even louder diesel tractors to mow, large dog ownership is at a higher ratio, recreational gunfire is more common, or you might hear a chainsaw running all day. In fact, it might be even more noticeable due to its irregularity.

I hope the future is a quieter place. Electric motors replacing internal combustion engines is a step in the right direction. I suspect we'll need a full cultural shift and actual noise ordinance enforcement to get there though. Otherwise, it only takes one guy with $100 buying a leaf blower to ruin everyone's day.
> Would you prefer to schedule haircuts via a call or an anonymous online form?

Why the hell no?

At worst "an anonymous form" can ask for your mobile number only to remind you about the appointment (if it's not today for example). At best it should be really optional. In both cases there is absolutely zero need for both a login and a password.

I have a local pizza joint working like that - you just punch in what you need, your number with SMS code confirmation and you are in, with your address/es and pizza coins or whatever. And they have your number to contact you if anything is wrong with the order/delivery.

Another one just asks for a number and call back to confirm with an operator.

Why the hell I do need a login, a password and email|Facebook|whatever for a pizza delivery?
China bans Micron products after security review finds unspecified flaws
I'm always surprised that we tolerate so much unnecessary noise. We let people fly helicopters around and run leaf blowers. We even allow trucks to go beep beep beep and alert everyone within a kilometer that they are backing up, even though we have rearview cameras, like it's everyone else's responsibility to scurry out of their way.
Sounds like an amazing feature already if it was an opt-in service you could turn on and off when you're going to a place where you expect murderers.
Russian IT guy sent to labor camp for DDoSing Kremlin websites
You know about Takeout, right?
183 after some recent cleanup
Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers
Talking about scams in job proposals. Lately I've been getting a lot of recruiters contacting me with sweet fake jobs opportunities, only to really try and sell me their recruitment services.
How do you handle data structures in your key/value world? Parse it out of some adhoc key string schema?
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes offshore northern California region
Understanding full well that these are pretty artificial results, I'm surprised at just how well Node and Python faired against Go and Java. For all the default assumptions around languages that folks have, they've certainly held their own here.
What's the point of 2FA if you store it in the same place as the first auth factor?

Or maybe I've misunderstood. Are they behind different master passwords or something?
I don't know if I agree. A password manager is more pragmatic even for just a handful of accounts.

Whether it is safe or not, people can argue, but more practical? It definitely is.
Seems like their status page (https://metastatus.com/ ?) does not reflect this?
It treats the system prompt specially - it's more than just a prefix to the conversation. OpenAI have said they put a lot of work it making it follow it as closely as possible (but no details of how they did it).
some parts of your convo can be sent to third parties, without informing you of it prior to doing it
Time to fire a bunch of people then
"What would become an ongoing part of the rest of my life’s work became clear, as I sought find out the real truth about lead in gasoline. The first result of my study, “The Secret History of Lead,” appeared in The Nation magazine in 2000, and made the case that some of America’s biggest corporations – DuPont, its longtime charge General Motors, and Standard Oil of New Jersey (today known as ExxonMobil,) – had put lead in gasoline for profit in the 1920s, ignored legitimate health warnings and covered up safer alternatives, which we use today."

A Brief History Of Gasoline: A Century And A Half Of Lies
Go networking framework using io_uring
How many smart TVs have you seen running AOSP? Zero? Yeah, me too.
Efficiency is great but it's hard - going from 20mpg to 40mpg is twice as hard as going from 10mpg to 20mpg. Efficiency gains are frequently trade off gains - in the best case scenario you're giving up something you don't need for something you want; sometimes though what you don't need now and what you don't need in the future are two different things.

I'm not knocking any of that but I think we should be clear eyed about it. Further there are alternatives to efficiency - increasing the absolute amount of energy produced for one. That comes with problems obviously but it also opens up a lot of possibilities that increased efficiency does not.
I've said it once, and I've said it again for well over a decade. The only google account recovery is creating a new account in 5 minutes. If doing that does not restore the full extent of the purpose for which you were using google's services, you're doing it wrong.

Google accounts serve one purpose: if you are trying to use a google resource that requires an account. Example: save some marked places on google maps.

I can't think of other examples. As the article states, google's explanation for their user-hostile policies, is that at their scale, there is no other option. The other option is, provide services at a scale you can support, and if going larger is not affordable, then you are not able to go larger.

Imagine going into a store. You purchase a microwave. You get it home, open the box, and in the box is a dead cat. You take it back to the store, and there's no one to talk to and no customer service desk. You walk back out of the store with your dead cat in the box, and when you show the receipt to the guy in the store, he accuses you of stealing a microwave because the receipt is from yesterday. No, he won't look inside the box, there's another customer walking out whose receipt he needs to check.
Then they ban you from all their stores for trying to steal a microwave, because they have you on camera walking.

You write a letter to corporate, and they tell you that at their scale, they cannot have a customer service desk, or hire another receipt checker.

The thing is, there's actually no real reason to use google for anything. You don't need to ban it from your life, you just don't use it for anything that needs an account with data you need to keep. I use google products for maps and to chromecast to my tv. I use it for search. When I get a new machine or browser, that account just gets recreated because I don't bother storing their password or login name. Like for this site.
It's cash only because pay terminals have screens, and his inflexible TSA-like adherence to the rules don't allow screens.

Imagine a potential patron to this (afaik still hypothetical) cafe has a hypothetical medical device attached to her that has a monitoring screen. Should she be allowed in, or not? Cut-and-dry no, easy enough, right? Who needs to be flexible?

OP's idea of no screens is so people aren't glued to digital entertainment, it's not like a pay terminal screen (or a medical device's status display) is digital entertainment..
Yes and no.

The result of buybacks is that the number of shares drops. E.g. Berkshire's stake in Apple raised from 5.2 to 5.5 % merely as a result of Apple's buybacks.

Obviously shareholders benefit from having a larger piece of the cake while not requiring to pay any tax on this operations.
Even that seems a bit high but at least manageable
The main effect will be making it harder for small businesses to compete and funneling money to consultants. This is all about regulatory capture. It will be good for open source because (I'd like to think) there's no way government can control it, they can only try and wield money as a motivator. I'd worry a bit about compute infrastructure getting less available.
Sorry if my comment did sound dismissive of the idea of No Screens Cafe. It's kinda opposite. I'm doing my own "no screens cafe" regularly. Just today, I left my phone and iPad at home, grabbed some snacks and water, an e-reader, and went to the forest nearby on a bike just to sit and read the book for a few hours.

The reason for me is simple – gadgets and online presence wreak havoc on an ability to focus and concentrate. I miss childhood days when I could get lost in a book for a good half a day.

So this "no e-books" policy kinda ruined the analogy for me (I would love to have such a cafe nearby, but where I can read). But I get that it's not that easy to tell if it's a tablet or an e-book, and many e-books have browsers and the internet and a full-fledged Linux box inside, so there is no easy way to draw a line.

What's the broader idea behind No Screens Cafe? The article does a good job of describing the rules but not explaining the reasoning behind them.
Re trucks beeping - that’s partly legal responsibility isn’t it? I mean, we have had the ability for trucks to beep as they back up for far longer than we have had the ability for them to realistically have functioning rear view cameras. And since the normal expectation is that vehicles go forward, it makes sense to alert when doing something unexpected, like backing up. And so the laws we have mandate and expect beeping noises from large vehicles because the idea that laws would mandate rear cameras hasn’t caught on yet.
At least in my experience, I think the perception of quality comes from the fact that these places are the kinds of places that just never modernized beyond cash because they’re already good enough to always be busy or past capacity. There is no incentive to modernize because doing so would not increase business, and not doing so does not decrease business enough to matter.

One of the best things about the cash only places I frequent is that they don’t have to deal with delivery services injecting themselves into the business model and consuming kitchen capacity for people not actually present.

This leads to faster service overall and at worst the speed of service slows down proportionally to the number of customers at the location at any given point.

And usually these places are family run so you’re always seeing the same folks behind the counter and they actually care.

All combined, these factors lead to the elevated status that many ascribe to cash only places.