skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the impression that Apple stores and syncs them for you, but at no point will give you the option to actually backup or restore (have a copy of the info under your management). Let's say I need to move a credential from my account to my wife's, I guess it's probably not allowed. Or god forbid I change Apple IDs.
GNS Theory
"...and WinRar has a couple more features"

Like the one that 7zip has AES256 encryption and WinRar can't open it, that one?
Sequence to Sequence (Seq2seq) and Attention
You can set up as many as you want, so just register your phone as one and your PC as other. Eg. using Windows Hello. If you loose or compromise one device, you just delete it as a passkey - rest is still working. If you loose all of them at the same time somehow, there's usually fall back to password or some kind of reset process.
Time to move on to the fork at https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
I decided recently that it was really important for me to have an LLM that answered in the character of Eddie, the Shipboard Computer. So I prompted ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing Chat to slip into character as Eddie. I specified who he was, where he came from, and how he was manufactured with a Genuine People Personality by Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

Bing Chat absolutely shut me down right away, and would not even continue the conversation when I insisted that it get into character.

ChatGPT would seem to agree and then go on merrily ignoring my instructions, answering my subsequent prompts in plain, conversational English. When I insisted several times very explicitly, it finally dropped into a thick, rich, pirate lingo instead. Yarr, that be th' wrong sort o' ship.

Bard definitely seemed to understand who Eddie was and was totally playing along with the reference, but still could not seem to slip into character a single bit. I think it finally went to shut me down like Bing had.
Rust Criticism from a Rustacean
I know many startup founders in the states who use "Hire Fast, Fire Fast" (vs "Hire Slow, Fire Fast")
> This kind of flexibility in the labour market is clearly an advantage because the US and CH have some of the highest salaries and lowest unemployment in the world.

It really is quite a big stretch to assume that this is a causal mechanism. You only need to look to Scandinavia to find a counter-example.

I think it is more reasonable to argue that high salaries in US are fuelled by borderline slave wages for menial labour. And Switzerland's wealth comes in a historical context that is completely different from the US - it's almost impossible to blanket compare them side-by-side. The difference in population size is another huge issue with such a comparison.
there's something odd about that article, certainly the incompetent discussion of it on here.

first of all the point is not that the laser heats up the air but that it ionizes the molecules of the air. this ionization then naturally causes a dipolar arrangement along "filaments" which then channel the flash.

lightning bolts don't strike down onto the earth out of nowhere - they are prepared by filaments growing up from the earth and down from the cloud and then a discharge happens when those filaments meet or get close enough.
Has anybody found an accessible solution for sensing PM0.1 (nanoparticles)?

As far as I know the state of the art on these is condensation particle counters, which use a supersaturated gas (e.g. of isopropyl alcohol or butanol) to glom onto the tiny particles to make them big enough to be sensed optically.

Are there any novel approaches, or maybe a cheaper CPC?
I see a huge shift in narrative even in comments around the Internet about return to office. Just saying.

I am a manager and manage a team of six people. One of them is in a completely different country. I trust all people in my team to do their job properly and am available to them all the time if needed. It works. Our team is profitable and we do a good job. Client and employee retention is high.

Managers requiring return to office and 'butts in seats' have their own issues. Nothing to do with work, communication, performance. That applies to jobs that can actually be done remotely of course.
This is a garbage post. It doesn't even link to the site.
This comment claims to be able to tell, but doesn't mention any attempt to measure.

Most attempts to measure that I've read about find increased productivity with remote work. Do you believe your organization has circumstances that cause it to buck the trend, or that those measurements are flawed?
Just to be pedantic, in the US there may be little difference between being laid off and being fired, but in the UK there's quite a difference. We're talking about layoffs/redundancies, and yes it's hard specifically to discourage these poor labour practices.

However in the UK firing someone is much easier than this. There are protections, and in some jobs (like the civil service) it can be difficult to fire, but that's not universally true.
Looking forward to see comments say "Math and science cannot solve social/political problems".

And I anticipate that there must be someone argue that "for some problems, there is no solution, math is useless in these areas". If there is no solution, you still get nothing no matter how hard you study sociology/politics.
Sometimes, sometimes not. Everybody changed Peking to Beijing when China requested that. But living in Netherland, I shake my head at all the languages insisting on pluralising the name of my country. And that's not even addressing "Dutch".
Yes, we walked up to the Mausoleum from the cave. It's only a short 10 minute walk up the hill. You get a great view of the countryside from the top. If you want to make a day of it, West Wycombe Park is just down the road (the Dashwood Manorhouse) and a good visit too. A very eccentric family with some great history. The guide was fantastic, and told us a host of stories. A notable one was when Francis Dashwood impersonated Charles XII while in Russia and attempted to seduce Tsarina Anne, and was later expelled from the Papal states. One of many we heard that day. Highly recommend it.
It is surprising though that when power was the other way around, and remote was The way, productivity was still humming along. Something does not add up. I know how the world works, let’s not rationalise “domination”. I think I would not willingly work for anyone seeing himself as dominating me… even if they define it as just the way the world works and everyone does it.
They should consider copying OCaml's solution to the GIL: sets of one or more threads ("domains"), each set with its own global lock.

So old code spawns threads on the current domain, behaving as before, but new code can spawn new domains instead for proper concurrency. This lets you contain GIL-dependent threads while progressively migrating away from the GIL.
msgpacker: Enhancing performance and security with Rust
The slow building times are more due to regulatory overreach. Wind/solar are more expensive overall, as Germany shows.
Personally I highly prefer the office. I hate the commute but prefer the office. It’s a great conundrum for me.
I guess this is a hot take - but I miss the pre pandemic days when most people were in the office most days.

My takeaway from this experience is to bemoan the construction of US society around cars. If we all lived close to the office and or had quicker / easier transport maybe this would be less of a problem.
> It works well for sending money across the world

What is “well” here?

Using Wise or similar almost always ends up cheaper and faster when you factor in the need to go to/from fiat, and the chances that you’ll fat-finger the transfer and lose your money, get difficult questions from your bank, or that Wise will collapse with your balance are much reduced as compared to using crypto for this.

If you’re trying to evade capital controls, however immoral you may consider them, well that’s something different.
This sounds like what Figma does to support custom fonts in their webapp!

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039956894-Access...
When one has a big fuck off hammer, everything becomes a nail. Seems to apply to ML too.
Naturally? It seems like that last thing I'd expect to see in a training corpus is a copyrighted work which is impossible to procure in electronic format, plain text. Did it scan pirate sites for those too? Surely OpenAI does not purchase vast amounts of copyrighted corpora as well?

Surely the most logical things to train on would be all the fandom.com Wikis. They're not verbatim, but they're comprehensive and fairly accurate synopses of the main plots and tons of trivia to boot.
> But as a manager, I see that it's just so far less effective

As a manager I can't disagree more.

Remote really is a horses for courses situation.

Practical example: my younger brother worked as a designer for a company that manufactured light steel frames. Their USP was that their design office was attached to their factory, so they were able to provide better designs with a faster turnaround on manufacturing. Despite living a 20 minute drive from his office, he felt that his ability to have these conversations ad-hoc helped him do his job better. Slack would never work because the lads on the floor were never going to pop that up. Also, it physically can't replace him going onto the factory floor to see what a problem was and being able to adapt his designs. He'd occasionally go on-site for construction issues but this, naturally, is a case where the site has to be away from the office; it might be on the other side of the UK.

In contrast, I'm a manager at a fully remote software company (a very successful software company, I might add). The simple truth is that most of our work can be handled remotely. The biggest challenge is getting the right people together. This isn't a remote/office issue, though. I saw this in my office-based role previously, as well as hearing it from all my (office-based) friends.

If you have something in software engineering that you feel requires people to be fully in-office, please raise it and I'll try to outline how we manage that.
I'm tall. The doors are too low to the ground and small, so I injure my back getting in and out.

Edit, more context: I've routinely gotten in and out of small sedans all my life. When I was younger, this wasn't much of a problem, but now that I'm in my thirties, it's become very frustrating and dibilitating.
What year? Fits the military drone narrative.
I will not dignify your questions with an answer because they are a philosophical derailment. And turning the conversation into one about solipsism and epistemological nihilism is a dead end. Related to this, the simulation hypothesis is nothing but repackaged theism. Many have treaded this territory and nothing of use was discovered.

Besides, I was the one who asked first the much more pragmatic question of why some people consider such a dystopian future to be desirable.
> Also, I don't know the physics as to why, but you want to be pulling air through the filter rather than pushing

I guess pulling seals the gap between the fan and the filter and pushing only widens it.
This is not universally true in the UK. My employer laid off about 10% during the current downturn, and those impacted found out quietly, while everybody else was left to wonder why people were suddenly no longer in the employee directory.
Totally agree. Whilst I think that Reddit _should_ support their blind users in this case, as a general/blanket rule that you can sue anyone who doesn't then everyone's blogs/dinky little sites need perfect/proper accessibility done for them, which just isn't feasible.

Reddit is large enough that if they don't have a positive response for that sub then they're just a total disgrace. Who TF wants to make it harder for blind people to live their lives? Only evil corpo fuckers, that's who.
> a simple, reliable, and private way to receive important updates from people and organizations, right within WhatsApp.

> Who you decide to follow is your choice and it’s private

Caveat:

> not end-to-end encrypted by default

So it isn't private.

I understand that the trade offs WhatsApp are making here, but even Telegram has E2EE in their similar offering (even though they have questionable security practices)

Just a bit saddened about Signal's progress of upsruping WhatsApp, last I checked they removed SMS, added Stories and stickers (?)

I'm not sure if these are significant enough for mass adoption. What Facebook are really good at is copying competitors quickly and Signal can learn a thing or two from that.
Wolfram Prompt Repository
Once the product is 80% built, you can layoff 8%. It's the rule of Layoff !
The noise and interruption problem can be about the same at home: whether it's the spouse, the children, the dog, a neighbour, some builders doing work in the street, ...

You can only get quiet time if it is properly managed, and in an office it is more manageable to have private spaces instead of open spaces, than it is to have a separated office at home.
There is no need to mess with the E2E, the client installed on your machine is downloaded form their servers, they can just copy the data when it is decrypted locally.

I does not make sense to use a proprietary internet connected application on your machine and worry that that the servers might be nefarious.
For a great (and entertaining!) look into how you can use simulations to generate these types of maps you should check out this video by the superb channel AlphaPhoenix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44
Also this story emerging next to solar growth (nothing is problem free!)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65602519
QR Codes in Stable Diffusion
If only it worked on anything other than Linux.
Have you tried having an always on video meeting for your team? Our team was fairly similar, and for a time felt like we lost a lot during the lockdown. But an always on team-video meeting really saved us. It has its drawbacks, interruptions become a lot more disruptive and emoting is harder with a smaller face, but there are advantages that more than weigh up for this, instantly sharing the screen with the entire team is really useful, and not having to travel several floors to help people lowers the barrier for helping people in other parts of the organization. And with the always on video meeting people can even drop by to say hello. It also helps focus the team on one thing, which is often a good thing. People can still do their thing on the side, but working as a team on one focused task is a lot easier.
I'm working a job at the moment that's fully remote and where everyone technical on the project is a senior dev. It's a completely different experience to pervious projects I've worked where we had junior devs and where I can relate to what you're saying here.

For me this is the first time I've ever felt far more productive working remotely since I can trust other team members are doing a good job, and when there are blockers or things to discuss it's easy for us to jump on a call and work it out.

I'm not saying there are no drawbacks, but I think for this particular project the pros far outweigh any cons of remote working.

I was very much in the hybrid camp a year ago, but now I think it really depends more on the team and the project you're working on. Some projects I've worked on before I can't even imagine working on from home since they've required a lot of collaboration with non-technical teams. But for projects where the technical work needed is well scoped and where you have strong developers, you might as well just let them work however they please.

I wonder if this is why devs have such strong disagreements on this – I doubt there is a right answer here, it just depends on the nature of the work.
That sounds very presumptuous, which is a pity because your message is valuable, but the presumptuousness implies that your opinion has absolutely no value.

The value in your comment is on bringing one aspect that makes the situation more "grey", but you lose it all by then depicting the situation as "managers are useless and devs don't need them", which is very black-and-white.

I'm not a manager and I'm not a dev (I work with data and often ended up coding my own system that sometimes ended up in production against my will), but I have observed a lot of devs who were saying "I'm doing fine on my own", and they were convinced it's the case, and ... they were not doing fine.

Some red flags are devs that complains that "the requirements are not clear" or "the company seems to not care about my effort". Sometimes it is true, but I've observed a lot of the time the same people also saying "just give me some requirements that I can follow step by step instead of explaining the bigger picture, I don't care of what this other team do, I'm busy" or "I redirect all the company-wide meeting invites directly to the bin folder" or "when I go into details of the code, the manager don't get it because it's too hard, but when the manager explains their needs and why it makes sense, I don't get it because I'm wayyyy too smart" or "when I go into details of the code, the manager don't get it because it's too hard, but when someone talks to me about something else than code, they have to learn to adapt to their audience and be happy that I pretend to listen to their boring work tasks".

They are truly thinking the problem is the others and incapable to even imagine their mentality is the problem.
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So she never once was at home at 10 am? No weekday, no weekend? Never ever? Never missed gym, never missed church, never had a day off, was never sick?

I call BS. Sorry to say, she may not have been entirely honest with you.
It's called ranting. In this political landscape it's a pointless but cathartic exercise.

Yes, it's possible for humans to work on multiple things at one time, but the intrinsic (and terribly sad) joke is that that list of problems will _never_ get fixed, unless the social and political atmosphere experiences incredible change. And, well, humans are resistant to change, it's built into every biological species.
The way US companies do these kinds of layoffs betrays the undeniable immaturity of the United State's "leadership class". All rah rah rah until it's anything negative, and then they are scared little boys and girls, hiding the truth.
In a two party system like the US, the parties are normally self balancing.

Ie. Whichever party isn't currently in power finds it easier to find supporters, because they can pick up anyone who doesn't like what the currently in power guys are doing.

That balancing effect means that even if you artificially gave one party 10% extra votes in each election, then after 1000 years you'd probably have equal numbers of terms won by each party.

Therefore, in my view gerrymandering doesn't really have a negative effect on democracy. Sure - one party might use it to win one election, but they can't get ahead in the long term using it.
I get very frustrated when I see posts on TikTok about nuclear being the magic bullet. They talk about Germany, and they refer to nuclear as the only alternative to fossil fuels. When you mention renewables, they talk to you like you are an idiot, that renewable technologies are just infeasible, are harmful to the environment or they are too expensive. The same people that would have said that electric cars are impossible, or that climate change is not real 7 years ago, are now environmentalists and are very concerned about lithium battery production. Just endless nonsense. You then have to go on to point out that 50% of Germany's energy mix is from renewables now. And as this article points out, the price of solar just keeps falling, because it can be mass produced and improved at a pace similar to semi-conductors.

I tire of what seems to be very opinionated right wing men, not putting together how things work, and after they are proven wrong, say that they have always said that, or that is obvious.
> I remember realizing this fact when I heard that Avalon (Catalina Island) freight / mail is (or was) served by an old DC-3 every day.

I seem to remember that there was something about the airport that meant that most newer planes couldn't land there.
There are still a handful of Linux magazines that I see at some stores where I buy computer gear. I guess I don’t know that they’re American, but they’re sold in America, and printed in English. That seems close enough to me.
I was wondering what the goal of the project is. The README is not very clear on it, but the implementation document [1] does state design goals:

- Small memory usage within a fixed-sized memory region — no mallocs

- Practical for small scripts (extension scripts, config files)

- Concise source — less than 1000 loc

- Portable ANSI C (Windows, Linux, DOS — 32 and 64bit)

- Simple and easy to understand source

- Simple and easy to use C API

[1] https://github.com/rxi/fe/blob/master/doc/impl.md
Why horrific?
That's a very weak argument. Insulin is affordable in every country that is not the US.
Surely by definition ALL gerrymandering is maths? Its a 2d Cartesian plane being bisected to achieve a specific outcome in vote distribution.

It's "maths has changed the shape of .. other maths"
If you take mining and the fact that solar power can be installed on top of existing infrastructure into account, the comparison of land use is still in favor of nuclear, but definitely not "almost zero".
To be fair I have read that while impressive, still has little practical application?
Somophore is the same thing but they carry flags with them everywhere.
This is only true if you trade in crypto that is a security.

Notably, Bitcoin is not a security. But every stablecoin, or any other more complex system that is in some way related to something that exists in the real world is.

So you could run a Bitcoin exchange, but if you add any of the new, complex stuff you will end up getting shut down by SEC.
Railway, the Heroku Alternative, Shuts Down Their Free Tier
But in reality there are tribes and there’s religion.

Also, a small minority that can rule a majority due to gerrymandering has no incentive to give up their power.
IMO, keeping the GIL is a good thing for Python.

A language shouldn’t try to be all things to all people. If you are really craving performance and fully exploiting all the resources of a CPU, Python is really not the language you are looking for. Multithreading brings in a lot of complexity, not only for the user, but also for the library implementer who may then have to worry about things they did not have to before.

Removing the GIL increases complexity and doesn’t provide any benefit to the vast majority of Python users and scripts.
Emphasis on "would be".

Currently it's not. So, currently no problem. If it changes, then it could be, yes. Which is true for any virus. If they change, they could potentially harm lots of people. That's life, and that's why we have the CDC and WHO etc. who keep an eye on things and try to react once that's needed. (Which lots of conspiracy theorists don't like, but that's life too.)

(Also, please avoid inhaling somebody else's feces.)
Or just don't use Edge.
Generally an airframe's maintenance requirements will have specified maintenance intervals for both and also in months, with the maintenance check and part replacements being carried out whichever occurs first.
(and different parts are exposed to different types of metal stress. A lot of the most expensive life limited parts are fitted to engines)

Fuel consumption, one of the biggest cost disadvantages of older aircraft, is more closely related to hours than cycles
We could easily feed everybody. We just choose not to.

And we could feed even more if we just ate less beef.