skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this has been obvious or well known, but this was a revelation to me:

> It took six hours for my order to complete, and the accounts look legit; each has a profile picture, different companies that they work for, a couple of repositories, and a contribution to one or more open-source projects, next to being a GitHub member for over a year.

This is the motivation for garbage AI-generated PRs or insubstantial docs changes that "people" make. It doesn't matter if they're good. They only exist to add surface level legitimacy to fake accounts so that services like this one can exist.
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> Uber capitalists

The government did at least most of the polluting. They contracted the cleanup to private companies.
In the skip-gram algorithm (aka word-2-vec), words vectors are global; i.e one word maps to one vector.

In practice, as you intuit, contextual embeddings are in fact useful for obtaining more precise word vectors. The example given in[0] is BERT's embeddings, though I would imagine that most NLP applications nowadays all use contextual embeddings since they're a strict improvement over static embeddings.

[0]. https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/6.pdf (search for 'static embeddings')
Stars also can act as bookmarks to projects. There are tools out there (https://github.com/simonecorsi/mawesome is the one I use for my private stars list) which can take your stars and turn them into a markdown file.
If you happen to be in the Boston area there is a tDCS study going on right now that is looking for participants. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152197
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Maybe they were the leakers?
To save our freedom, we must get rid of surveillance advertising along with all other forms of commercial spying.
Yes everybody here seems to be ignoring that car accidents are the leading cause of deaths for children and young adults… car safety is not a solved problem!
You're going to love it when the kids reach puberty.
It's been very interesting to discuss the potential future of VR/AR with software pros and hardware pros. Us software people seemingly tends to "ignore" the real limitations of current battery/power-delivery/power-draw(?) technology.

We've seen massive improvements over the years, but when talking about the size/weight of glasses it definitely seems like the next "frontier" for the battery challenges.
The high rate of desertions should be a point of pride, it was a dumb war.

It is embarrassing that the British Empire couldn’t achieve a full victory against what was, at the time, a regional power. It is embarrassing that the US couldn’t fend off a sideshow invasion. It is embarrassing the whole thing couldn’t have been sorted out diplomatically.

Nothing was accomplished by the war but a bunch of buildings burning down and some tens of thousands dying. The deserters look pretty good in retrospect.
The part about immune system reacting to harmless stuff is not true.

Autoimmune diseases are diseases in which a body responds to itself. Not to external factors.

Think of it as threat classification errors
You’re Allergic to the Modern World
VTubers are already a thing. For those who don't know, it's a streamer who leverages a virtual avatar to hide their appearance. Nothing stopping someone with resources introducing a vtuber presence leveraging a voice ai. Could be a hybrid channel where peak hours is a real person, and they leverage the "AI" version for additional channel coverage.
Your point being..?

Every treatment for anything has benefits and harms, there is evidence that the benefits of ECT outweighs the harms in select patients (like those refractory to conventional treatments) so it has been accepted medical practice for a while now.

You certainly wouldn’t jump to put a patient on ECT. This is jogging my medical student memory but when I rotated on psychiatry the patients who underwent this procedure had quite severe and disabling symptoms, it seemed to help although I’m outside of my scope.

It’s certainly accepted in the medical community though.
It would be if each partner we dedicated exclusively to the flourishing of the other partner. But in this relationship neither partner would find that an acceptable state of affairs.
For a benchmark test for a British computer magazine in about 1996, I hand stripped down an installation of Windows 95 so that it could fit on a mid-1990s SSD: which is to say, a PCI slot device with 16 MB of DRAM which appeared to the computer as a disk drive. So, effectively, a 16 MB SSD. Not gigabytes, megabytes.

So I can say with some authority that it is possible to have a complete running installation of Windows 95 in 16 megs of disk space; however I had to trim it pretty brutally to fit, so, for example, I think it had 2 fonts left, one of which was used for the widgets that display window-close boxes and so on.

The problem was that the object of the exercise was the benchmark how much quicker it was — but there wasn't enough space left to install any applications, and our benchmark tool used real applications. So, although I did several days work and I did get paid for it, the effort was at heart in vain. But in principle yes you could run Windows 95 entirely out of 16 MB of cache memory, and if you had say 32 MB of cache memory it would be no problem at all.
I really wish politics could be about discussing policy, rather than this endless football-tier obsession with "teams". The worst part about American politics (Anglosphere politics in general) is that every single political discussion devolves into shouting and insults, because people have made their political group their identity. It's harrowing, and I don't know how we can change this.
Surprised there isn’t a MFI program for 3rd party Apple Watch bands that provides the connectors only. (At some inflated unit price of course)

Or maybe 3rd party bands are only viable in the low cost side of the market, and apple just owns the high side.
That's not how that works.

https://www.corrosionpedia.com/definition/395/diffusion-limi...
This is the sad truth for many things that go "viral". If you are a creator or trying to sell an online product and you have scruples about this sort of thing, you are inherently working at a disadvantage. They allow steroids in this league and everybody who isn't taking them is almost certainly a loser by default.
You can try Quest headsets at retail stores like Best Buy.
I’m not sure that’s a pun. But on re-read I am seeing the humor. On my first read I just saw the tired vitriol, “google == bad”.
The orbital eccentricity distribution of planets orbiting M dwarfs
> When I watch a movie, I do enjoy it. But there are so much way more interesting and exciting things to do than to watch a movie. So I rarely watch one.

I used to think this, turns out I was watching bad movies. Use time as a filter and watch old movies by directors that are still talked about (Kubrick, Tarkovsky, etc)
A big barrier is that Meta isn't going to allow Pornhub (or whoever) to publish on their Oculus app store.
Macs don't even support alt+tab to tab between different windows as a stack correctly, this can never be superior.

NOTE: I don't use windows but linux, with desktops that are windows-like.
I thought the idea of Facebook was to connect people with people. Did consumers really want "news" and other corporate content in their feeds to begin with?
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They did a price drop on it, seems like it will stick around until they can make the Quest 3 a more consumer-friendly price.
I had no idea that third party straps connected differently! Thanks for the info.

I have had two third party straps tear off, once during boxing and once while playing with my kids. The (much pricier) Apple ones never have, and so I only use those for sport as well.
Doesn't matter, those policies won't mean much as soon as the EU forces Apple and Google to allow 3rd party app stores.

I would also argue that accessing a website is not an API or an undocumented feature but a public entity. Who decides how a browser is supposed to display a website? It's up to the browser maker not some app store review process. That is why we have moz- CSS and apple meta tags.
I've always been a fan of looking at number of issues and closed issues vs. open issues (judging differently if they auto-close).
AI probably won’t kill us all
Asked for a PE ratio graph but didn't work, gave me a price only graph
Which assumes he has the ability and necessary tools to acquire and play the leak.
The 0% VAT is just a way to get rid of some administrative overhead. Repeatedly selling something (like electricity) makes you a VAT-liable entity. You must charge VAT on what you sell, but you can deduct the VAT others charge you. That can go into the negative, giving you a tax refund. This is how VAT always works.

Then there are rules regarding smaller entrepreneurs. Those changed a bit in the past few years, but both before and after the changes there were rules making it so you don't have to pay VAT if you stay below a certain amount of revenue. Those amounts have always been well above what a typical residential solar installation earns.

So what happened was, some tax-smart type deducted the panels in their first year, and was planning to not pay VAT in later years. The tax service didn't agree with the whole "I'm an entrepreneur now" thing, and a court case was fought. The court agreed with the entrepreneur, so for years people could get their solar panels essentially VAT-free.

But it's pretty complex for ordinary people to do this. There were some specialized companies that could help with it, and installers would offer those services as part of their package. It was a mess, and they finally just said: let's just stop this "vestzak-broekzak" nonsense and set VAT to 0%.

So it's not a subsidy, it's a streamlining of an existing tax reality.
"Meta said that starting June 4th, the Quest 2 will drop its price by $100 to $299.99 for the 128GB version"

Ah, what a deal. The same price it was 1 year ago.

https://twitter.com/metaquestvr/status/1551975828442910720
But to work at an Amazon warehouse ???
Discoverability for artists is already almost impossible. With all the ai spam to come, god help anybody with talent who tries to get noticed who doesn’t already have a large following
> I disagree that it's a fundamental right

That was my first thought - like, it would great if everybody agreed that it was a fundamental right, but other than as an empty political talking point, I'm not familiar with any government official in all of recorded history who's ever behaved as if they thought so. It's definitely not codified in any law I've ever seen.
I've had this exact situation happen on numerous occasions. It's always people turning into a parking lot ahead of me, in a situation where they will absolutely be out of the way long before I reach them, but also I'm actively shifting to the side to go clearly around them anyway. In none of the situations was there any chance of an accident even if the turning car stopped suddenly instead of completing its turn. And this has happened to me on multiple different vehicles.

Each time it happens my immediate reaction is "what the hell is wrong with my car" before I see the "BRAKE" on the dash or heads up display and realize this happened yet again. I'm surprised I haven't been rear ended on account of it yet.
it's the opposite. What the OP is describing is simply altruistic love. You love someone for who they are, not how they relate to you. That is the only form of relationship that involves no dependency.

Any relationship that makes your feelings for someone dependent on their feelings for you is effectively a complicated form of bargaining.
Ironically, one of the reasons I want this is that I have (4) USB-based AOC monitors. Two of them showed up with broken screens, and this is the only problem I have ever had returning anything to Amazon - but thats because its AOC thats refusing to honor a replacement and amazon claims since its a 3rd party its out of their hands.

Once I canceled my PRIME account, and then amazon charged me the $99 after I canceled.

I called them, demanded a refund AND a $25 inconvenience fee for me having to go through the process to get my refund... and they paid it!
I fully understand that frustration, but I would point out that continuing through the departure zone like that at full speed is prone to accidents with another car entering the road in that blind spot and you should adjust accordingly. Additionally, following the car in front of you so close that you hit them if they brake suddenly is inherently dangerous and a bad habit as well. Interestingly enough, a universal AEB requirement on all vehicles would help in that scenario.
Hey, some of us are listening, and would love to hear that story!
Yes, a very odd take. I had watches ever since I was a child, and changing the watch band was a regular occurrence. Mostly because I would wear through them.
In the UK I've never seen a store with one to try, even though most seem to stock them, and I've gone out of my way to look for one because I'm quite keen to buy one.
Big announcement! Congrats!
If they had a store where everyone could try out headsets they would probably have to invent some sort of one-time forhead cover.
The thing is that even countries with excellent social safety nets and childcare benefits (like northern and western europe) have seen their birth rate fall in the last 50 years. In fact the most common correlation is that as countries get richer & more prosperous, birthrates drop.
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Was half-expecting to see "YA" in front of this laptop's name, because I think we're probably at that point.

Many open source laptops have come before and none really took off. My OLPC XO-1 sits in its bag, waiting...for a day that will probably never come.

Bunnie's Novena Laptop as mentioned in another comment, the Frameworks (which is probably the only one doing...OK, and it's not a Free Software laptop iirc), lots of other little laptop projects started and abandoned or fizzled out.

The best the Linux community has now is a bunch of rebadged Clevos, apparently. It's disheartening.
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GitHub is great for discoverability, not exactly "community". Because GitHub is a high-ranking and trusted site some of it's "creditability" can wash-off onto one's own project.

Stars are a vanity metric but, they can help with monitoring some early growth.

Everyone on this thread should list their projects, then we all star each others stuff all the way up!
I have no idea if the theory has been disproven, but schizophrenia was thought to be autoimmune because the disease waxes and wanes, like multiple sclerosis and other immune diseases.
Neat! It /should/ be pretty easy to convert this to Jax, as a big party of the Jax API is just reimplementing the Numpy API.

The two changes I can imagine are: a) handling randomness requires more explicit rng estate handling, and b) wrapping the inner loop in a function so that it can be JIT-compiled.

The advantage to doing this is that you can then run your code on a GPU, getting you most of the way to 'blazingly fast.'
> - being able to translate vendor BS to "if you don't do $X, $Y will happen with $Z likelihood"

This kind of makes sense to me, having worked the last year a lot together with our industrial CERT teams and others. Most cyber security teams, due to lack of human resources and human time/skills/even more time, seem to have adopted this perspective to stay sane in the ocean of noise alerts.

I want to iterate on that thought a little further: Is this an effect that was caused by shitty tooling?

In an alternative product that would tell you "there's 0% risk of affecting the running apache2 service with these package upgrades which would fix 1234 different issues altogether, so we automatically updated it for you" ... wouldn't that fix the risk assessment management problems, too?

With the peer-to-peer approach of our Agent, we can mitigate most of the critical issues automatically, and the deployment and rollout/update strategies are also measured in whether or not they affected the health status if a running web service (e.g. did the web traffic drop? were there a lot of segfaults after it? etc)... so this also leads to a better risk assessment because the data of whether it was successful as a mitigation strategy is shared among the peers in the same network(s).
> I've lately thought that a package manager is as essential to a new language as a standard library. I would also add a LSP and standard code formatter to that list.

Agreed. Especially on a formatter. The number of code review comments it cuts out is incredibly time and energy saving.

> It is a bit unfortunate because all of the above is a pretty tall order. We're getting to the point that new languages are expected to boil the ocean by the time they reach 1.0

In order to get into production? yes. there are minimum requirements that must be met. those are higher now than in the past, because of lessons learned the hard way. those problems have been solved (for some value of solved) in existing ecosystems -- a new language wont change the need for them to be solved.

it shatters the dream of hacking up something on a weekend and having it turn into a hit success, but it also removes the case of hacking up something in 10 days and suffering the consequences for the next 30 years.

Until they have what you mentioned, the languages aren't ready for large scale use -- they need to grow into it. They can be useful prior to that -- enthusiasts and early adopters can reap what benefits are provided. That adoption is what fuels the development of things like a standard code formatter.

edit: fixed omission of a unit of time after '30'
Absolutely! This was a very educational experience.
True, but this is not that.
Per recent announcement, Windows 11 is going to have Windows Copilot. Windows 10 - I doubt it. This alone is convincing enough to me - and it's also the only reason I'm considering downgrading my Windows from 10 to 11.
Catholicism calls for one to commit to at least one Sacrament of Service: Holy Orders and/or Matrimony.
In my case, to get alt+tab to work correctly on Mac, there is a program called AltTab, it is amazing and lets us achieve Windows-like alt-tab behavior
The “Impossible” Rocks Found on Top of a Volcanic Island
I always wonder if anyone really even learns anything from these kinds of episodes. They probably didn't even know the URL was gone until the media reported it. I'd be willing to bet nobody responsible is going to even give it thought or reflection, let alone produce a post-mortem and change any of their internal processes.

> This is hilarious and inevitable.

Hilarious, yes, but only inevitable because of widespread incompetence. Whenever I get a little Impostor Syndrome and question my own competence at my own job, it feels good to read these kinds of articles to reassure myself that there are people out there orders of magnitude less competent.
Role-play with large language models
I think that's a matter of one's workflow and what they're used to. On Windows and winlike desktops, the lack of logical grouping of windows by application (outside of maybe combining taskbar buttons) drives me crazy, and I find that alt-tab switching windows instead of apps becomes unusable past ~5 windows open.
Of note, check out PowerToys from the app store; it has a number of experimental features of this class.

List here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
Eh, I think this goes in line with Netflix's recent hardline changes.

Everyone references their Tweet from years ago of like "love is sharing passwords" and bitching about how Netflix has changed & become greedy.

But those people are thinking big enough; Netflix has changed this way because back then, they didn't really have any competition in the space. And now _everyone_ has to have their own fucking streaming platform, so of course Netflix is gonna change policy.

I'm not defending Netflix here, but what I am saying is that people are doing the shortsighted animal thing and bitching about Netflix. Really they should be bitching about all streaming companies and requesting that our democratic governments enact policies that force companies and corporations to be consumer friendly. All of them. Tax the rich. All of them.
That's still autoimmune though.

The body has a immune reaction against something foreign - however the antibodies created co-react with proteins found in your own body.
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Comparison with https://visbug.web.app/ (free as in beer, and open source)?
With most technology these days you know what you are getting, you don't have to go play with the new iPhone in the store to see how good it is, you just know. But with VR it's different in that it's still pretty new (in the context of everyday consumers) so being able to try it out before you buy is crucial.
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