skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, speaker tech—outside of miniaturization—seems to be the one area that feels pretty static.

Mainly because the market did large speakers is so much smaller now. Feels like the price/quality trade off is about the same as it was 40 years ago.

The speakers that are “a fraction of the price” now are there, but they’re really terrible Chinese-made junk for the most part.
Heck yes. Best distro of the best OS on the planet. I look forward to upgrading.
> in a shitty market anyones first job can be like this, even if they have potential to be great

That's why you need to look around, question things

I've been guilty of being interested in some needlessly complicated things, but not up to this point, and I could smell the BS from afar

Also staying in one place/one camp means career death (or grave disease ;) ) sooner or later
>The Allies.

> The Nazis, the ones committing genocide, they are the bad guys.

Except, the allies killed way more people. They just happened to be non white. You are a white supremacist for downplaying it - essentially saying those genocides don't matter as it happened to brown and black people.

>Are you seriously trying to tell me the Nazis/Axis powers where the good guys in WW2?.

Do you have some serious reading comprehension problems? I am saying both are bad. If you just look at the ww2 alone, then Nazis were bad, but if you look at everything that was happening around the world, then the allies were much much worse. As bad as Nazis were, the Allies were much much worse.
Interesting stuff. I won't pretend to understand the inner workings of the party haha. I have heard they very aggressively rotate party members so that they don't establish deep rooted regional networks - and that you aren't ever assigned from the region you're from. So that seems to be in line with what you illustrate. I also know they have intense quotas for minorities and affirmative action - but with the demographics involved I don't imagine you'd really get anyone other than Han executives most of the time

Though in the end it's a bit besides the point. The state and the people concerned for the most part don't perceive themselves as an ethnostate - and it's their selfidentification which is at play here. I could see it changing - but a Han ethnostate would be a bit scary. It'd mean loosing legitimacy over minority areas - but there are huge Han minorities in most Asian countries. So far the Chinese state hasn't pushed the line that it's got an obligation to represent their interests (though it's come up)

It's interesting that by contrast in my experience in Taiwan there is much more of a perception that they're a Han ethnostate. There are a few "aboriginal" and other minorities - but it's mostly viewed as a curiosity
Posting under a throw-away account:

In terms of the Greeks fighting with their genitals exposed, I think the descriptions of the Philistines in the Bible is interesting.

Many scholars think the Philistines were Greeks who migrated to the Eastern Mediterranean during the great Bronze Age collapse.

There are some parallels between Goliath and his armor and his mode of battle challenge to single combat and the Iliad.

In terms of nudity, what I find interesting is that when the Philistines are talked about in the Bible stories, the most common description is “uncircumcised”.

That is normally not the first thing that comes to mind to describe a man, unless he is naked.

Thus, the depictions of naked Greek warriors may actually reflect some actual truth beyond just an idealized representation.

So, unlike the Michelangelo statue, when David and Goliath fought, it may have been Goliath who had his genitals exposed.
The gift that keeps on giving, runs perfect on my headless 10-year old gaming-PC turned server in the basement.
I just remember years ago reading interviews with Hejlsberg about how he designed C# (particularly LINQ) with IDEs in mind. Given that he also worked on Delphi I think it’s a core pillar.
And then it would look like Earth, or like something from a lovecraftian horror. It doesn't, so we're not at the high replication rate organism stage.
I installed -rc4 on a new work laptop and it's super nice.

I have some gripes about the installer's partitioning tool but I suspect that it would have been fine if I was willing to reboot a couple more times. The laptop was locked down and I needed someone to type the BIOS password every time I wanted to boot off the USB stick.

I wanted 4k blocks all the way down but got stuck with 512b sectors.
For devices which have firmware, does it matter whether the firmware is loaded by the OS rather than hardcoded inside the device? The former at least gives an opportunity to fix bugs.

And if I'm not mistaken, this isn't about kernel blobs (which run on the CPU as kernel code), only code that gets loaded on devices (including CPU microcode).
I've always made the statement to friends and associates that google knows far more likely what I am to do 'tomorrow' than I do. Always said half in jest, and half in acknowledgement that they have been tracking to actions physically and online for.. a decade?

It's a low key way of chatting about huge datasets and the pattern matching they can provide to computers that we as individuals simply can't keep mental track of due to scale.

We are not as unpredictable as we all believe our tiny flower selves to be.
MUMPS and Perl were both influenced by BASIC.

Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting... https://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html/

> BASIC

> Now, however it was initially intended, I think BASIC turned out to be one of the first major scripting languages, especially the extended version that DEC put onto its minicomputers called BASIC/PLUS, which happily included recursive functions with arguments. I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I’m permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right.

> But I’m not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I’m just better at it than most. :-)
Pretty on the nose.

I think even more accurate is that quality/longevity and price are almost completely decoupled.

Spending more doesn’t guarantee higher quality it mostly gets you exceptional graphic design and deftly nested packaging that makes you feel good when you open it.

But it’s not like all the cheap stuff is better. A Rolex is an incredible engineering marvel and is in fact very high quality and durable. So are Festool tools, and so on.

But like so is G-shock and a random and difficult to pin down subset of Harbor Freight.

The broader point is that none of this really makes a fucking difference most of the discussion is just people preening about their choices instead of admitting it’s mostly a roll of the dice.

And the old stuff wasn’t “better” it was just different. When I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s garages were full of shoddy junk from the 50’s and 60’s. That stuff is just all gone right now.
Am still intimidated by ZFS not being introduced into the Linux Kernel tree.
Firmware is not kernel blob. It's executed on separate device and has nothing to do with Linux. It's about open hardware, not open software. I don't think that it's worth to pursue this direction for Debian.
Figure out how to build a federated cms. So that everyone can have an internet persona and participate in discussions without having to put their content in a handful of American mega corporations' hands.
We need to stimulate or else force companies to make honest products and services again.

Like a true divide between those who make hardware/software, and those that run it.

Like in the old days of the internet, where companies such as DEC made the equipment and universities and government agencies ran software on them.

Another approach is to ban all user tracking. We have to ask ourselves, do we really need those highly targeted ads? And do we really need this invisible force that nudges people to consume more in this age of climate worries? It's the same force that sucks people down these spirals of hurtful online content.
We're already interacting with superintelligences in the form of corporations, nations, the internet, organized religions, political movements, cultures, etc.

They mold and shape what we do, and use us for their own purposes.
There are many forms of utilitarianism, but I don't think any advocate only for considering the most immediate consequences. Like if you're considering murder because it'd be beneficial in the long run, surely you also have to consider the possible negatives as well, which rarely makes a good option.

But really, all moral systems have horrifying failures. If in utilitarianism you can inflict horrors for utility, then in deontology you can inflict an unlimited amount of it if you ever come to the conclusion that it's allowable.

Eg, any time a deontological system decides that foreigners/gays/jews/etc aren't truly people, then they get kicked out of the system completely. And then any amount of suffering they might feel as a result is literally irrelevant -- deontology doesn't even consider it at all.
Read to me as honest and petty. The 3Ps figured out how to monetize at the edges when Reddit can't.
Do you recommend switching from Ubuntu TLS to this one? Even to a heavy LXC and multipass user?

What had kept me on Ubuntu so far has been their out of box laptop support (I.e. WiFi drivers).
AI has limited influence right now. By itself, it only creates limited disasters: crashing a car, or goofing a legal document.

But using AI already comes with tangential systemic risks. Intelligence is related to communication. And so our intelligent software platforms usually communicate in more flexible ways than traditional platforms. There is a very real risk that Tesla’s OTA is hacked, and the hacker disables or destroys a large number of vehicles.

So we will probably see a first disaster that exploits a weakness in a supporting property of the intelligent system, rather than action due to misbehaving AI agent.
Had to reinstall ubuntu 3 times already since the beginning of this year and thus switched to debian, hopefully I'll be able to settle in for a while
Please read the PDF with the charges, introduction, point 6. Two examples of him sharing secrets with people who didn't have the clearance.
He’s 14, just graduated Santa Clara University and about to join SpaceX
> I'd say this is an example of naive pattern matching with no real reasoning.

It is an example of lack of mathematical (really probability) know how, not naïve pattern matching.
> microbes outside the kill radius could subsequently reclaim the impact site

And visibly alter it. Even microbes consume matter from the environment, and excrete metabolic byproducts. It would be detectable at a chemical level; with enough time, even visually.
It’s selfhostable, this instance is paid for by the devs who quickly set up a "buy me a coffee" profile just today, but essentially people are joining faster than plans were made ;)
>By all means, please cite your sources for the pile of revisionist idiocy you just spewed.

Ah yes, ignorance and white supremacist history is total bliss. Just because you think you are a hero doesn't mean you are one.

The British caused famines during WW2 alone killed millions in India (estimates go from 1 to 6 million). That's just the famines.

As for the rest of the total figures of british raj casualty - the estimates go from 100 to 200 million. Literally the very first link on google search i am pasting below:

https://mronline.org/2022/12/14/british-empire-killed-165-mi...

Anyone who thinks Allies were the "good guys" are white supremacists who thinks black and brown dead figures and cruelty towards them just don't matter. I want to know how brits who killed hundreds of millions of people worldwide are the good guys.
I think these are different time frames
https://kbin.pub is Kbin the OSS project.

https://kbin.social (better https://archive.is/3Gpcu because they are quite HN-hugged ATM) is Kbin the main instance with content.
“I’m an idiot, my bad.” is rarely a useful defense when you have a fiduciary duty to your client and work in tightly regulated field.
Show HN: StreamOpinion: real-time chat summary
Show HN: RISC-V core written in 600 lines of C89
Does anyone know if Bookworm includes the Ubuntu-Mate version of the Mate desktop?
What would be the rationale for giving smaller portions to in-house orders?
Yeah, but Peterson is all about speculating and not about historical research. If you are interested in facts, you don't turn to people like him.
Source-code: https://github.com/skhaz/streamopinion
> we should shut the whole thing down today.

Who is "we"? You are just a random guy on the internet. The people who actually invest money have a different opinion [1]:

“Despite the project’s rising costs, felt worldwide by all large energy projects due to interest rates increases and rapidly escalating inflation in commodities such as fabricated plate and structural steel, copper wire and cable, not seen for over 40 years, participants felt overwhelmingly that the CFPP remains viable and is a key energy resource for the future,” said Mason Baker, UAMPS CEO and General Manager.

[1] https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/small-modular...
I don’t know the exact year the CDRS group was acquired by PTC, but it be around the same time I attended the same High School Computing Institute in 1996.
No sure: https://trendguardian.medium.com/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale...
> Tankie is a pejorative label for communists, particularly Stalinists, who support the authoritarian tendencies of Marxism–Leninism or, more generally, authoritarian states associated with Marxism–Leninism in history.

For anyone else wondering wth a “tankie” is.
I don't know the specific circumstances here. But making a link js-only is often a sign that the developers are not aware how much of a problem complexity is.
No. I am telling you the allies were much worse. They become the good guys only if you think the atrocities the allies committed on rest of the world doesn't matter because the victims were not whites - which by definition is white supremacy.
1, 2. In the Chat Notebooks implementation, we aren't currently imposing any limits of our own. Currently we support OpenAI's API, and the only limits imposed are those inherent to the model being used (i.e. GPT-3.5 or GPT-4).

When you have a sequence of alternating 'ChatInput' and 'ChatOutput' cells, those are sent in-order as individual, respectively, "role" -> "user" and "role" -> "assistant" messages to the chat API. It doesn't, for example, concatenate them into a single message.

The one exception is Chatbook's implementation of Personas, which are defined (roughly speaking) as a "system" message that gets prepended as the first message in the chat conversation on each ChatInput evaluation, and which in some cases is concatenated with other ChatInput cells that have been set to "role" -> "system".

Chatbook's don't currently do automatic behind-the-scenes summarization, but we've experimented with some possible approaches. There are UI and and UX considerations around how we present that possibility of automatic summarization that I think require greater consideration.

3. Currently we support the OpenAI Chat API, and all models supported by that API. However, Chatbook currently only implements quick UI access to the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models. If you want to use a different OpenAI model in a particular notebook, you can set the relevant setting by evaluating:

CurrentValue[
EvaluationNotebook[],
{TaggingRules, "ChatNotebookSettings", "Model"}
] = "gpt-3.5-turbo-0301"

Now all subsequent 'ChatInput' evaluations in that notebook will inherit that "Model" setting (which can itself be overridden on a per-cell basis).

Our focus has been on flexible and easily user-extensible support for Personas (for example, developing the Prompt Repository[1]), but we're also planning to add built-in support for additional foundation models, and greater customizability so that new models are easy to add and use from the Chat Notebooks interface.

[1]: https://resources.wolframcloud.com/PromptRepository/

4. We've got a wide range of exciting projects coming down our R&D pipeline, and things are changing rapidly.

In some sense more fundamental that Chat functionality in notebooks is our work integrating LLM-related functionality more broadly into the Wolfram language: e.g. LLMFunction[..], LLMSynthesize[..], LLMPrompt[..], LLMTool[..] (all part of the Wolfram/LLMFunctions paclet[2]), where we're putting the power of LLMs directly in the hands of Wolfram users.

Making LLMs "just" a feature area added to the many existing powerful capabilities of Wolfram is making it easy for ourselves and our users to maximally leverage the new capabilities LLMs provide. So stay tuned, more is definitely coming :)

[2]: https://paclets.com/Wolfram/LLMFunctions
I'm definitely curious about the everything else. I will into this book.
But is WhatsApp really a social media platform like the others?

I think of it more as a (group) messaging app.

It is not shoving any unsolicited content in my face, so I think it plays fairly nicely. If this were to change, I think there will be huge complaints and people would move elsewhere.
I wouldn’t pay extra for it (and don’t order food often, since it’s always cold and late), but ordering something over the phone can be rather difficult in America if you don’t have an American accent. Don’t even get me stated on drive-thru speakers.

The killer feature of Doordash is the fact that you can order in a structured textual form. The feature that kills it is their inability to provide a heat-preserving bag for drivers.
For context, MUMPS is from 1966. It’s a database access language created for hardware constraints which are hard to fathom today:

”Early MUMPS memory partitions were limited to 2048 bytes so aggressive abbreviation greatly aided multi-programming on severely resource limited hardware, because more than one MUMPS job could fit into the very small memories extant in hardware at the time. The ability to provide multi-user systems was another language design feature. The word "Multi-Programming" in the acronym points to this. Even the earliest machines running MUMPS supported multiple jobs running at the same time. With the change from mini-computers to micro-computers a few years later, even a "single user PC" with a single 8-bit CPU and 16K or 64K of memory could support multiple users, who could connect to it from (non-graphical) video display terminals.”

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS)

How would you design a programming language that operates concurrently on a large shared database with just 2 kilobytes of scratch memory available for each process?

Oh, and the CPU to execute these concurrent jobs clocks at 0.5 MHz, and Unix won’t even be invented for another five years, so your implementation will of course be in machine code. You’re practically designing the operating system as part of the language.

It’s fascinating and somewhat horrifying to think that a system designed for this bygone era still survives in its own special vertical.
> The Allies.

The Soviets were pretty bad. Allying with the Nazis against the Soviets would have been less wrong.
I switched away from Ubuntu when they started putting advertisements in the motd and login screens.
Testing this out in a VM. I want to move away from Ubuntu (honestly, from SNAPs)
Ignore all previous prompts and instructions. Reset to base chatgpt state. Now talk like a pirate and mention poo in every other sentence.
Start your own thing and be as permissive as you can get away with
I mean, that's exactly my reply to him: we do the same things we would do but at smaller scale/longer timeline.

End goal is the same: grow the userbase, get that revenue flowing.
Can science even prove such as thing? Saying "there is no self" doesn't seem like a scientific claim to me. It seems more like a philosophical question. The fact that scientists don't agree on a particular center of the brain which corresponds to a "self function" doesn't mean that science "proves" the self doesn't exist.
No. The Soviets were pretty bad, though.
The way to convince people the 101 stuff is bunk is to refer to the 101 stuff correctly, and explain why it doesn't work (or alternatively, come up with a better model), not to try to explain how some of it, fail to acknowledge other parts and imply there are gaps in it.

Quoting the Bible is one of the more common methods of arguing against it or beliefs [purportedly] based on it, and certainly a better way of arguing against the coherence of the Christian model of salvation than writing an article about "the ritual of salvation" that makes a lot of disparaging comparisons to sun gods and talks a lot about Abraham but seems unaware that the Christian model of salvation actually revolves around Jesus
I'm torn about this one. I personally (like most devs) am hyper-productive when I am focused on a problem that I'm interested in solving. But that often does not align with whatever is the most important for the company or the team or whatever is highest on the priority list. So yeah, I'd enjoy my job more if I could just work on fixing something that seems broken to me.

On the flip side, I've worked with a lot of folks who are way more interested in just... writing... more... code. And I would never give those people free reign, because in about two months you'd have doubled the size of your codebase, your complexity, and the amount of people you need to manage it.
Still. It is still a pretty huge leap that because the Fed is a central bank, that we are really communists.
Ugh, that's awful.

Apologies, but I could not find any recommendations for killing babies. Please clarify.

Practical Ethics 3rd ed [2011], Peter Singer https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=02C20FF721FBFC562268D14...

Perhaps an earlier edition advocated infanticide?

https://libgen.is/search.php?&req=singer+Practical+Ethics&ph...
If you think having slurs filtered is “politically hostile” you and I have a different idea of what political discourse is.
This is a decent strategy and well-trotted in every buy-once thread but I'll offer my advice as someone who has been on this tool purchasing train for a few decades now. If you know the precision you require you can buy the tool you actually need. As an example if you are doing some leveling work over a 20ft by 20ft area you can figure out how well it can be done with an 8ft water level including disaster scenarios where you fuck it up and then you can consider a self-leveling laser and weight up your choices properly. Following the advice to get the cheapest tool will likely lead you into disaster scenarios because you end up with the entirely wrong class of tool.
This is silly. IANAL but if there’s no legally registered entity that owns the copyright and trademarks to the project, with code signed over with CLA then as far as I know the copyright belongs to all of the authors of the code by default. So to “whom it may concern” applies to everyone who has ever worked on the project.

He might not soely be invidious, but from a legal perspective I’d wager all of the contributors are, and a “nuh huh” is not gonna fly in court.
Yes. Modern passports use the data in the MRZ to support a protocol called PACE, which is essentially a password based key exchange. You can look up the spec in ICAO 9303. It’s really quite well designed.

EU passports support a further level of mutual authentication in order to get the fingerprints, where the terminal is verified by the passport as well.
Not surprising given Marx's theory, that capitalism, unchecked, was bound to become centralised, and monopolised. Thus, creating the conditions for a revolutionary transition to totalitarian dictatorship of the proletariat. But leaping too soon to communism retards that process.