skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Someone shouts something positive at them, they respond and start a conversation, and from there a friendship might start.

The trouble is that this very much isn't what was happening. There was no room to respond, and in general I they think they weren't even yelling at any particular person. You certainly could stop and talk to them, but anyone willing to do that wouldn't be the kind of person who didn't know how to start a friendly interaction.
Factually, there aren't any glaring errors.

The way it frames things is weird, though. Not to say SoMa and downtown aren't shitholes that will make you feel unsafe multiple times per day; they are. But most other neighborhoods have a much safer vibe, and many of them are literally a 10 minute bus ride to downtown. His pooh-poohing the idea of moving to a different neighborhood is just weird. (If he were complaining about the school system or something being disfunctional or cost of living being too high, then his critique of SF as a whole would make a lot more sense.)

He can't really take his experiences living a block from 6th Street and apply them to the whole of SF, and he must be aware of that, or be particularly clueless.
Hook up a heart rate monitor to someone walking down the street on University Ave. in Palo Alto, then hook it up walking down Market Street. Those feelings are real.
> I’m getting frustrated with Lemmy.

I am too, but I am sticking with it for now. It is really hard to ignore all the horrible horrible bugs, though.

> I’ve tried to reply to a post this morning and the submit button just spins. No error, nothing.

I have the same issue. I always always copy the text I've written before submitting on Lemmy, because it happens so often that it just swallows the text and my comment is gone forever.

I have noticed that manually setting the language to "English" (below the text box) somehow reduces the failure rate significantly. No idea why.

Other things I have issues with:

- The "Hot" ordering on my instance is never updated. The newest "Hot" post is 4 days old by now and it never changes anymore. Not sure what happened 4 days ago, but I can only browse by "New" or "Active". The "Active" browsing is dumb, because I think every new comment is bumping it up again, and "New" only gets you the brand new stuff that nobody has commented on yet. "Hot" would really be my preference, but that's broken...

- The commenting issues described above. If I don't set the language, I sometimes see "language_not_allowed", and sometimes the text just vanishes. The Android app isn't working anymore because of this. It won't let me set the language and it won't let me post or comment.

- Subscribing to other communities is painful. The UX is not there yet. You can't just subscribe. Instead you have to manually copy the URL to the search box and let your instance discover the community, and then you can subscribe.

- Missing comments/posts: When subscribing to a new community, you won't ever receive old comments for posts. You'll see new comments come in, but there is no sync mechanism (not even a manual one) to retrieve the old stuff. This leaves you with an incomplete view of the world.

- Missing comments/posts (part two): Even if you have subscribed for a long time, comments and post will not have all comments always, either because of a delay of minutes (or hours!), or just because of bugs, idk. It's annoying.

- Security: There are some bad security issues [example: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3060], which is obvious in the early stages of a piece of complicated software like this. But still. I think the reckoning will come eventually now that Lemmy is on the radar.

- Privacy: There are a number of privacy concerns, namely that posts can never truly be deleted, and that things are public that should not be (like likes/dislikes). See https://discuss.ntfy.sh/comment/51609

- ... (more, but the post is too long already)
Content negotiation is a thing that should be used. My browser sends this in the request headers when I open up one of those RSS links:

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8

Which means it would prefer to get a response from the server in (basically) the order shown, but it will accept any response type (*/*). So ideally the server would be using that information and making the decision to serve the RSS feed as application/xml instead of application/rss+xml. AFAIK if the "subtype" (rss+xml in this case) has a + in it, then it basically means it conforms to the format after the + (e.g. application/xml) and thus is just providing a bit more context, but is still valid as the more generic version.

Though I do think the browser should also keep that same thing in mind and attempt to render any application/whatever+xml in its XML renderer.

Edit: another thing you could try to add this response header:

Content-Disposition: inline
Not parent poster, but Swiss citizen having lived in London for past 2 years, my wife is a healthcare worker for the NHS.

There are def. signs that human suffering of substantial parts of the population has dramatically increased over the last years.

Here‘s what I can see:

- Substantial energy bill increases: For us at least 100% over last year. Media is full of stories of people not being able to heat their homes

- Dramatic inflation, with cost of food now approaching levels I know from Switzerland. For example, a regular weekly shop for 2 people used to be 100£, now it‘s typically 170£.

- Continous strikes of large parts of key sectors: Teachers, Uni staff, train/ tube drivers, nurses, doctors, public servants. They are mostly protesting the fact that pay has not kept up with inflation for the past decade.

- Huge increase in food banks: I think this is a clear proxy for human suffering. There are foodbanks in hospitals for staff.

- I specifically see the suffering of healthcare staff. Service levels are going down to scary/unsafe levels and most doctors I meet through my wife are talking about leaving for Australia or New Zealand or go to other industries (huge waste given that it takes a decade or more to train a doctor).

- Infuriatingly, the link to policy makers is broken. There is no plan or ideas in place from government to improve things. Given the poor quality of the media here, typically the ley workers themselves are blamed (tube drivers, healthcare staff, etc.).

- Obviously Brexit, which is a whole different post but reinforces the feeling over here that things are going in the wrong direction.

Don‘t get me wrong, if you are in software, finance, engineering etc. you can have a very good salary and will not feel the pressures I‘ve listed above (also if you‘re young and don‘t need healthcare services). The UK and London are still amazing places.

But for lots of people quality of life has gone down a lot.
In my experience, private instances of PhpBB forums provide niche webtools that are necessary for community building that Reddit could never replace.

The Tetris community created a Javascript gui called Fumen (https://harddrop.com/fumen/), that can be embedded into PhpBB forums.

The chess community created Javascript GUIs that read/write .pgn files (aka: move-history files) to help the community discuss games.

The Go community created a similar GUI for Go games. Etc. etc.

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Since the administrator controls the whole webpage (including Javascript), you can host local tools in a Reddit-like environment. I think people are sleeping on the potential here, especially if you've never used these custom web-GUIs before.
Are you saying the lines are blurred, or that there are more tiers of abstraction?
Also sometimes referred to as the Soap Opera effect as those shows tended to be shot video instead of film and end up with higher frame rates. Somehow we've associated that smooth motion with cheap and shallow content which turns people off to it.
From a European perspective (from Spain) it is so weird to read this kind of texts...

Quite often here, the US and silicon valley are presented as the paradise for tech people, but now it seems to me that it is a paradise only if you can afford a really wealthy area.

Here in Spain salaries can be terrible compared to the US, but even the more "dangerous" cities (like Barcelona or Madrid) are way safer than the SF described by the OP.
A HMD is much closer to your eyes than a computer monitor and a monitor will be much close to your eyes than a TV in your living room. The closer it is to your eyes the more PPI maters.
I’m pretty sure everyone has left this party for the much bigger AI party down the street.
It didn't take a single piece of new equipment to handle it. All of that equipment was built out to support my high demand loads, so it already existed and was ready to go. The power plants serving my house already had that capacity, the transformers could handle the load, all the lines were rated to handle far more power going to my house than the time I charge. Even if everyone on my street added an EV, it wouldn't take a single piece of new equipment to handle the load because all the equipment is already designed to handle more than that during other hours of the day. So long as people on average charge late at night or other off-peak times, it hasn't increased the peak loads on the grid at all, which is what they have to build to anyways.

Sure, I'm buying energy at those hours of the night, but that's a low time of energy usage overall. So much of a low usage, spot prices at those hours in my area routinely go negative, i.e. there's so much spare energy they're giving it away.

My REP makes money accepting electricity at negative rates for me to charge my car many nights of the year before even factoring in what I then pay them for it. Of course, this then figures into their overall rate contract they have for me, there's certainly hours in the day where my energy usage costs them more than what their contracted rate is for me.
"Bitcoin is only used for scams. Since this isn't a scam, Bitcoin can't solve the problem."
They're also too prohibitively expensive to be a consistent source of nutrition for the majority of the world's population. It wouldn't matter a bit to you how many vitamins almonds contain if they never enter your body.
Some Elixir Testing Tricks
A good church will welcome a non-believer. It's an opportunity to change your mind.
Just like how Samsung beat Apple to face scanning technology.

Mercedes version is extremely limited and is only available on $100k+ cars with tons of additional hardware.

I have Tesla FSD. It is certainly overpriced, but it has genuinely been getting a lot better in the last year. When I first got it I was disappointed because it was so useless, now I use it probably 70%+ of my drives.

IMO Tesla is the closest to a mass-market version of the technology.
At this point, Mastodon has more pics and vids than Kbin or Lemmy.
I wonder what the net productivity loss is due to the dysfunction of SF? You've got companies paying huge money to smart employees who then have to worry about problems that are generally reserved for developing nations on a daily basis. That stress has to impact work performance

I work remote and it's wild how SF people don't realize how insane they sound to others when they talk about what they deal with and try to downplay it as normal or not that bad.

There's just something wrong to me about the entire population of a city having to adjust what they do to cater to the small criminal population, like not being able to leave stuff in your car or your windows will be smashed and your stuff stolen.
And how hard it is to convince other people to believe in our good intentions.
Those things are already true for macs generally, your issues notwithstanding (though you seem to flit between criticizing the hardware and the OS, not sure you even know why your issue is happening), and if you think you wouldn't have these issues with Windows, why use an MBP at all? Surely the mighty Bill Gates will save you from your troubles, yeah?

And not for nothing, but Steve Jobs was a prodigiously arrogant asshole who had very little (if anything at all) to do with the Apple of today, and nearly nothing at all to do with how macOS functions now. The man literally killed himself with his own hubris.
Two of the most ripped and jacked dudes I know are vegetarian or vegan. If you can't bulk on soy you should try lifting more bro.
Apple remake of sci-fi classic Metropolis cancelled due to writers’ strike
I very much doubt many good actors left the service over it. I assume their popularity comes from a battle-tested no-logs claim, a good UI/UX, and a general consensus that they're trustworthy.
https://subredditstats.com/
Rough guess - CSGO on one monitor and web browsers on the other monitors would be OK, four 4k videos would probably not be ok.

I looked up the specs for that GPU and they're roughly 1.5 teraflops compute and 20 gigapixels fill rate, so in theeeeory you could do a couple hundred FLOPSs and a dozen draws per 4kx4 pixel per frame, but in practice you're never going to get close to that.
FWIW I still keep about six figures on Coinbase in crypto
The day the SEC sued Coinbase back I made a large purchase of $COIN when the stock tanked. This is my personal risk/conviction level.

The SEC is bought and paid for, I wouldn't trust the SEC to protect me from anything.

I'll take off my tinfoil hat now. Everyone have a nice day. I'm not a financial advisor and I'm not shilling anything for coinbase
PostgresML Adds GPTQ and GGML Quantized LLM Support for HuggingFace Transformers
Quantization allows PostgresML to fit larger models in less RAM. These algorithms perform inference significantly faster on NVIDIA, Apple and Intel hardware. Half-precision floating point and quantized optimizations are now available for your favorite LLMs downloaded from Huggingface.
But they're not about safety! And the author (and presumably you too?) admit as much. Again, aren't we supposed to be better than arguing about policy issues via reference to our personal emotions? Isn't that what the woke hippies on the school board are doing?
I've added moderation with chatgpt
As a current Tesla model 3 owner, when I bought it - there was nothing remotely similar on the market. Today, I see the SC network, AutoPilot and general-'fun' factor as the Tesla differentiators.

When I need to buy a new car in a few years (I honestly have no idea what kind of lifespan to expect), I'm looking forward to more options.
Sqlite is fine, could we call this product somehow differently? I don't feel it's database, it's database frontend or smth.
Opera One, first browser with native AI
That is not in any way villainization. It was a polite and empathetic look at how well-meaning people could do harm.

That they didn't know better is an explanation, not an excuse. If you are trying to intervene in other people's lives, it's on you to understand whether or not you are doing harm. And please miss me with the false dichotomy between "cluelessly cause harm" and "do nothing ever again". It's not hard at all to ask, "Would it help if..." or, "Was it helpful when I..." and then listen to people.
Great! EDX will trade crypto without actually having any of it. What will they invent next, 2 day settlement times? Why do real time settlement when we can go back to the clearinghouse model which has been with us since the early days of stock brokering...
Super agree that living within a 5 minute walk of 9th and market, Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery, or embarcadero stations is peak public transit experience from a distance perspective. I loved being able to get on the train at SFO and then hop off essentially at my home.

But of course those spots also mean avoiding poops, drug deals, a homeless person in the 1% group that assaults people, and other general shadiness. Generally fine for a huge man, much worse for a dainty woman.
Latency is only one of the problems. Most of these services seem to handle audio in a way where they are picking one person as the speaker, and muting or ducking everyone else's audio. Practices like cooperative overlap are technologically inhibited.
I wouldn't call the established players "late to the game" vis-a-vis self-driving. They've been dumping plenty into research and acquisition and are probably near parity with Telsa.

The perception of the larger players as laggards comes from the fact that they aren't as keen to lie consumers and investors. Their leadership doesn't enjoy the same privileges as Musk does.
Stop using a separate CI/CD system for IaC
I don't know if I'm depressed given I've never been a psychological assessment. But if I were down the road minding my own business and someone shouted this at me, my first thought would be "by who?". So this would be an immediate reminder of solitude.
If 44% of homes in America had 4K televisions in 2021 then it is probably over 50% ("most") by now.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1247334/4k-ultra-hdtv-us...
I assume that by GPT-4, you're talking about the "Use Best Model" toggle right?
It's not really "normalization". It's just I want to do better than everyone else so I make it a point to do more.
Let's say I'm avoiding having more children due to the risk of climate change making the world a bad place to live. If I put money into fixing climate change, why would that make me more likely to have children?

My contribution doesn't guarantee or noticeably change the liklihood of climate change being solved.

The reasonable thing to do would be to still not have children, and if the world doesn't end up horrible, know let the next generation have kids knowing that climate change won't be an issue.
"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy; no more, no less." ~ Maxim 29.

But I'm content to grab popcorn and watch a dinosaur fight a dragon on this one. Neither company here has clean hands and it's high time someone spent the money to force Congress and the courts to step in and lay some ground rules for the sandbox so all the kiddies can play together nicely.
Never really had that experience very often. if the manager doesn't really give off a casual vibe than probably want to look other places.

Make sure you talk about managing priorities. If you start hearing everything is a priority and talk like that then you need to find some else to work for.
That's kinda the same "attack" as extracting stored passwords of >your favorite browser< with a binary with userspace-rights. It is already a problem if a binary has your rights and it needs to be addressed how it get thus far, no matter what it does in your rights context.
I like the comfy nostalgia in this piece. Simpler, arguably better, times.
Today its $5 MRR... tomorrow it could turn into millions annually. They are shooting themselves in the foot. They live to give startups a leg up in terms of monetizing. I doubt this issue would take more than an hour for someone to look at it and realize someone goofed internally. Hell, someone internally goofed and wasted more money probably by not being thorough thereby forcing further time wasted.
That 'if' is a big one.

Musk said, in 2015: "Self-piloting cars are a solved problem." "I view it as a solved problem. We know exactly what we need to do and we will be there in a few years."

Last year, though, he was backpedaling: "Our focus is on solving the problem."
Because someone posted it at the right time and not everyone knows benzene toxicity has an endocrine component.
> Upper Market, North Beach, Hayes Valley, Valencia St, Mission Dolores, Polk Street, Upper Nob Hill, Haight Ashbury -- all fun locations.

This is like 2 sq miles of the city, maybe... If you add in Golden Gate Park and Presidio - you're still only at 1/8th of the city being nice. That's not a great ratio.

Especially when the nice parts aren't all connected and you can't venture more than a few blocks until you're out of a nice area (unless you're in one of 2 parks).
I have bitcoin.

I borrow against it for other things.

That's my legitimate use case.
Ha, my church was anything but diverse. We all had the same ethnic background, same socioeconomic status, same religion (natch). We all ate the same food, celebrated the same holidays, and most of us went on to/came from the same handful of high schools and colleges. OK, you have me on ages, though.
Yea, don't let the door hit on the way out...

Now, if only 10 or 20 million more people would get out of California,
then maybe the population would be back to a reasonable level...

Everyone who can't tell the difference between CA and TX should really
just move to TX...
> Beehaw.org has a difficult onboarding process by design

Beehaw fine. It was deliberate and up front about its gating, and they processed within a day or two, which again is fine because that’s what they said they’d need. (There are still random login bugs and the content leaves much to desire.) The process of getting one’s head around why a server must be selected, what trade offs that entails and how to make a decision about it is almost proudly dismissed by the Lemmy community, which is frustrating.
Depends on the specific plastic you choose, some are more sensitive to UV than others and you can choose the one with the appropriate properties for your usecase. That said, I don’t imagine the switches them selves have much UV exposure as they’re under the keycaps.
And that's twice the sealing surface to potentially fail.
The Mercedes system is a headline system. In that it was designed to generate headlines without actually accomplishing much.
> At present, Tesla really feels like a bit of a "Jack of all trades, master of none" job.

That's an odd take. Model Y is the best selling vehicle in the world, and the second best selling vehicle in the US after the Ford F-150. It outsells the Corolla, Camry, Rav4, Civic, etc. Look at Mercedes, BMW and Audi sales, they've been plummeting because everyone is buying a Tesla instead.

They're also the leading battery storage company and their battery storage business has been growing like crazy.

> But the cars themselves as a whole. They feel like what they are. Cheaply built, but sold at a premium price.

This has become such a meme that I think anyone who says it has never driven a Tesla for more than a few hours. The interior quality is not on par with Mercedes/BMW and maybe there's a few panel gaps, but every other part of the car is significantly better. The handling, infotainment system, performance, efficiency, autopilot, maintenance, etc. A $50k Model Y competes with $70-80k cars, but has the interior of a $35k car. Most people are more than happy with that trade off and that's why it sells so well.
Is there really an epidemic of troll answers? Not sure I've ever seen intentionally bad programming advice on reddit. (Unintentionally bad, sure.) Even 4chan of all places is rare in this regard, honestly, and in the cases where it does happen the answer is usually dripping with blatant sarcasm.

I'd guess totally made-up answers will be way, way, way more common with LLMs compared to any human social network.
put all salt making companies out of business, then whatever's left just carry it by train and put it in an old salt mine
I'd say look at government, but that is rarely remote. You can look at hourly contracts that aren't through the body shops like TCS, and some of those are still remote.

Otherwise, I'd say you're still in a position that you should consider the same path, but looking to be focused on orgs that have work/life balance highlighted.