skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way [video]
Ethnic and cultural discrimination (in the US and elsewhere) is not just a form of discrimination against the poor; in fact, it is a causative factor (in the US and elsewhere) in relative and absolute poverty. Trying to squeeze the issues into a one-dimensioned worldview misses what is really going on.
But this does nothing for the 90% suffocating below the algal layer. They will always be stuck there, because the algae use up all the oxygen.
Survey on the Utilization of Artificial Intelligence in Online Dating
Yep. I've been using my git server to mirror any and all software that I find slightly interesting. Instead of starring repos, I make them available when GitHub goes down :D
What is the mojo approach?
A shame you still need to give them personal details to sideload on their android device. (quest headset)

I opted to go with a disposable debit card via revolut, rather than a phone number.

I wonder if this will work in facebook ads in the quest.
> checked "White" for race and then "Hispanic" for ethnicity

I've always found it weird how Americans can just declare something without having to provide proof.
How does this automatically pull location?
Formalizer: Turn the spicy thoughts into classy ones, or vice versa
You can win in specs and still lose the picture quality battle
Is Stevia evil these days?

Tastes less toxic. Is it?
Ah yeah I confused rope with SuperHOT.
"In researching the genealogies of America’s political elite, a Reuters examination found that a fifth of the nation’s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people.

Among 536 members of the last sitting Congress, Reuters determined at least 100 descend from slaveholders. Of that group, more than a quarter of the Senate – 28 members – can trace their families to at least one slaveholder."

Elsewhere: "Two of the nine sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices – Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch – also have direct ancestors who enslaved people."

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slav...

This is only politicians, doesn't include former and present business leaders. Wealth may have disappeared at certain points, but the social networks remained and wealth was rebuilt. It's a fascinating read - Barack Obama's ancestors were part of that club!

I understand that many think this was a good decision because logic, but let's hope the same enthusiasm goes into figuring out a way to deal with the disparities that were born back then, at both ends of the spectrum.
All available credible evidence says they’re sending money to sanctioned entities and intentionally defrauding their customers. The fraud rate is somewhere between 50-90% of revenue, and adds up to billions.

The article cites specific examples of fraudulent spend, with screenshots, etc., on comically easy to detect domain names, including ones that other parts of Google block.

Also, they’ve progressively taken action to expand the percentage of advertisers they can defraud, and also to ensure the fraud is difficult to detect.

On top of all that, it is only possible due to monopolistic bundling of YouTube and the ad networks, in a scheme that could be a textbook example from “anti-trust litigation 101”.
Ryan Seacrest, “Wheel of Fortune” and the Lasting Pull of Game Shows
I don't disagree that adding data can increase risk. I'm just not seeing the argument against exterior cameras.
> Groups of people don't have guilt or automatic responsibility, only individuals do.

This is not exactly correct. Governments are composed of groups of people and governments maintain continuity of responsibility even when all the people in that government are different. Black Americans were discriminated against as a matter of state and federal policy and thus both state and federal government is at fault for the treatment of Black American. There is clear precedent in American law that in such cases, harmed individuals and groups are due financial compensation. Precedent for financial compensation due to government abuse of power is an incredibly old precedent and the only reason Black Americans haven't been compensated for the discrimination they've suffered is because the continuation of racism, the tradition of discrimination and the sheer size of the problem have turned what should be a fairly straightforward legal case into a complicated political question.
Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling [pdf]
I think the Photos and Videos are the easy part.

Whatsapp / iMessages and iCloud Password are even worst.
I think it's an exaggeration to say you'd be losing money after taxes.. it's still at least 3x, but point taken.
This is a cool approach. I really like the notion of small, powerful components that compose well together. ML infra is sorely missing this piece. I wish you the best of luck!
Also having a 20:9 screen instead of 16:9.
That’s just false. One doesn’t follow from the other.
>“What’s intriguing is that, unlike the case for light of any wavelength, in neutrinos, the universe outshines the nearby sources in our own galaxy,” says Francis Halzen, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and principal investigator of IceCube.

Wild stuff.
X is color-managed to the same degree that it is in Wayland. That is, all buffers are sRGB, and the application needs to convert output buffers in sRGB format. Chrome certainly takes great care to do color management of the content displayed in the window, but again, it is limited to sRGB output. This is the same in Wayland and X.

Color management needs improvement across the kernel & drivers, the compositors, and the applications. For more details on implementing color management, see Henry Wentland's 2022 XDC talk about implementing HDR (a feature that requires robust color management up and down the stack). You might notice that it primarily focuses on Wayland.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDnbWaIMJJA
Passwords in iCloud Keychain have a very easy plaintext export option, and there's no social graph component to it, so I don't really understand how that's a lock-in vector.
Funny … I thought once you had a critical mass of lidar enabled vehicles illuminating the same area, the lidars would blind each other … ignoring any juvenile delinquent with a laser pointer could play havoc …
You are certainly free to ignore logic and play identity and association politics. I doubt it will actually get you very far in an intellectual understanding of the nuanced point Sowell argues, but that’s your prerogative.
However, for the class in question - African-Americans - is it not the case that they have been in America for generations, and so these cultural 'characteristics' would have been far more influenced by their experience in America (at the hands of the ruling white population) than anything that they might have brought with them over the Atlantic?

Unless you think the 'characteristics' have a strong genetic component, and so we are back to racism.
Great comment, I think a lot of us can find something in it that we relate to, even if not the whole story.

> Nobody wanted to be the team that missed an integration test which came up as a cause of an incident. Our net reliability didn't actually change though

This caught my eye because I’ve seen similar phenomena as well. No matter how well meaning those processes are very rarely do apps get significantly more reliable. It still seems entirely down to how complex the software is, it’s very hard to integration test your way to multiple 9s if it isn’t simple (some companies do it, but at bigger cost and slower velocity).

As for some other points…

I’ve come to believe change in culture is really something inevitable after a certain number though. And that number for an engineering team is not even hundreds, but may be only dozens. You operate less as a team and more like an army, with all the personnel issues that come with it.

What interests me lately is the idea that, for many companies, 80% of the value/growth seems to be delivered when the company is relatively small at X headcount. Then increasing the headcount to 5X does not deliver much more than incremental changes built on top of the core product.

Now if you have that many employees you need to find things for them to do, like managing themselves, creating processes or going off on new market bets, and you risk losing focus.

But at the same time a company with 5X headcount seems more attractive to investors than one with X. The measure of success being only an IPO means there isn’t much pride in being well-run, small and focused, admitting that you’ll never be the top player in the market. That precipitates changes in developer culture.
America has a vast brain damage problem from explosions in Iraq and American football.

If you’re looking for ideas about how to recover from concussion damage they have a state of the art interest in the field.

GOOD LUCK!
That’s strange because the 2022 deficit alone exceeds defense spending by a factor of ~2. DoD spending was up ~10% since 2012, which social security spending was up ~50%.
Why not post this "credible evidence" then?

> The fraud rate is somewhere between 50-90% of revenue, and adds up to billions.

This is the only part that is relevant, and if you have a source for this then do share it.
> It's another thing to claim that the idiots are doing the math.

Did someone say that?

If someone keeps a bag because they don't trust the airline, that's an emotional decision, not a math one.
But length() is standard POSIX, no? Even length(array) has been approved by POSIX [1] but not yet included in the spec (they're very slow to update the spec for some reason). Both forms have been supported in onetrueawk, Gawk, mawk, and Busybox awk for a long time.

[1] https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1566
I miss the old status page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170110044141/https://status.gi...
> Rich white young women (for those colleges that do AA based on gender)

Very few colleges prefer women. Of those that do, it's pretty much just the engineering focused ones and thus would pick up nearly as many Asian women as white women.

Generally, (weak) male preferences are more common given the general male underrepresentation in higher ed.
This is blurry af, it doesn't work.
Plus stress and high cortisol levels from burnout.
The 3.5mm width is some difference.
Are we all just going to carry on like this first sentence isn’t bonkers?
True - the majority of the BART maintenance cost is the rolling stock not the track. How much does the average commuter spend on car maintenance and fuel? Or even the capital expenditure in the first place, if that commute is the difference between needing a(nother?) car for the household in the first place.

And costs like the drivers and station workers is just split over the 1-per-car drivers across an equivalent road. I don't know anyone who enjoys that commute, likely arriving more stressed rather than less, and you can't read or prep for your real work in any way when driving.

It's a common fallacy to ignore relatively small per-person costs, even if the total adds up to a massive amount due to the numbers of people.
LLM's have no short term memory. Their internal state never changes.

When you have a conversation with one, you are actually feeding it the entire conversation every time you reply, usually with specific formatting the model is trained to "recognize" as a ongoing conversation, like its continuing a long story. There are some other formatting details, like the initial "instruction" always being preserved at the top as the old conversation gets truncated, and there is some caching done so it doesn't have to encode the entire conversation every time.

The context size is how much conversation you can feed them at once.

The popular open models were essentially limited to ~2K tokens until recently.
Chinese spy balloon did not collect information over US, Pentagon says
Uh, the other (correct) way to look at it is the Bay Bridge requires a staff of 1000 people to move 1000 people across the Bay. Just because you externalize the costs doesn't mean you eliminated them.
I wish they’d just force all products with a non nutritional sweetener to have a big cigarette-style warning label on the front of the packaging.

I still haven’t gotten over the rise of “organic” artificial sweeteners. That must have involved some N-th level regulatory capture with the product labeling regulators.
I've used GPT for DnD type stuff. It's really good if you don't have an existing expectation of the world you're in, as everything should be a hallucination. Within the context window LLMs are pretty internally consistent, so within a chat session it'll be surprisingly coherent and human-like. But inside of a full game world like Skyrim, each hallucination could lead to wasted time finding the magic scroll the LLM told you about but never existed. If you can think of a style of game where hallucinations aren't a problem, or a way to put the LLM on rails so that it won't hallucinate too much then I think players will have a good time.
Neither the Japanese, Chinese, Irish, German, nor Mexicans were subject to chattel slavery; it's a unique heinous wrong in American history. Native Americans and First Nations peoples suffered genocide and civilizational erasure, another unique and heinous wrong in American history, and while there can be no adequate reparation, as Americans we are able to sustain several Government Bureaus and Departments, and accommodate Tribal Autonomy, Courts, Casinos, and more as some small measure of respect. Reparations can be non-monetary too.
Am lesbian, can confirm. My partner is a woman, just like my mom.
> Your comment is really misguided.

I think you're reading something into my comment that isn't there, probably because the nature of this site lends itself to reply opposition. I'm not against police enforcement. I'm trying to say, this desire you speak of isn't visible.

While what you say is true about lower income residents, plenty of community groups who perform outreach to lower income communities show up and comment against the police. Pro-bono law forms, homeless volunteers, soup kitchen folks, they all claim that low-income people dislike the police.

All I'm saying is that this disconnect is frustrating. Fundamentally low-income people are just being spoken for. On this site it's high-income people who claim to know what low-income people think, and in public meetings it's community groups who claim to know what low-income people think. I myself grew up low-income but am high-income now and I'm wary (my skin color is dark) of but overall positive (I mean what's the alternative? Lawlessness?) toward the police, but again I'm a high-income earner in a high-income district.

All I can say with certainty is that cops are expensive and that nobody seems to be excited enough to secure the tax revenue needed to fund them. If the only point of contention here was policing attitudes that would be one thing, but transit agencies don't even have enough money to maintain service let alone hire officers.
That was saccharin. I remember the label on my granddad's Tab cola.

It caused bladder cancer in lab animals at high doses, and it was later found that the metabolic pathway that caused the cancer did not exist in humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharin
Every time I want to play a game, I have to dismiss a few weasel-worded Edge adverts, and work around some asshole dark pattern trying to trick me into logging in to Microsoft account and agree to tracking. And I haven't even upgraded to Win 11 yet.

I'll happily burn Windows to the ground if Apple manages to make majority of Steam games work on their platform. I don't think it will happen, but it's nice to dream.
I'm in the same boat, I do think we are in the minority. At least the market trends point that direction.

& I agree, I'm still rocking a pixel 4 because I can't bring myself to buy a new phone (when there really hasn't been any note worth advancements in years), especially when the avg phone these days are just mini tablets IMO.

As of now I am waiting for the Nothing Phone 2 announcement to see what I get. But this Zenphone 10 is now a contender.
Water and ice versions exist, IceCube consists of detectors dug into ice and Super Kamiokande (example) is a big container of ultrapure water (not heavy). Hyper Kamiokande will be even bigger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-Kamiokande
That’s a long-winded way of saying that things have causes. Yes, they do.

But the people and laws that caused evilness in the past are largely gone.

What we are talking about here are the effects. But the effects are not cleanly separated by skin color, and the burden of addressing them should not be assigned by skin color, either.

Affirmative Action is just a bad solution from all angles, created by anthropomorphizing groups of people as though they were individuals.
you take motivation where you can get it. if Internet points got him to run a literal extra mile, good for him! I'd love to lose 26 lbs.
If your GPU workflow is the classic kind of parallel processing with a compute bottleneck, then a couple of discrete GPUs is going to be faster, for sure.

If your GPU workflow is instead VRAM bottlenecked with unpredictable data access patterns then Apple silicon has the potential to be faster with that crazy amount of uRAM.

There’s also a dark tail of applications currently using the CPU because CPU-GPU-CPU latency is too damn high. Having everything on the same SoC will be a substantial latency improvement, which will enable using the GPU in places that discrete GPUs can’t go.

So if you’re doing 3D/vfx you’re probably unhappy, although as far as I know none of these people use Macs anyway, they all use PCs with high-end Nvidia cards.

On the other hand, this chip is going to be incredible for audio, once applications start taking advantage of it. Audio programming is really latency sensitive so discrete GPUs are right out, but with an SoC you can start to rely on the GPU being able to serve your request on time.
Obviously. According to the FTC, millions and millions of dollars worth of worthless car warranties, fake fraud protection, scam legal protection services, and fraudulent pharmaceutical benefit services, just to start with.

Gotta keep those lights on...because they're just marks and screw them if they fall for it amiright /s.
I think this is more of an issue of smaller models with larger context aren't a magic bullet and I'm not sure anyone really paying attention thought they would be.

Falcon 40BN, after extensive use, is the only model that has crossed the "I'd build a product on this" threshold in open source. I expect my tune won't change there until we see larger Open Source models trained on high quality data. These are the models that will benefit from the extended context lengths.

But longer context without a model capable of utilizing the context to actually do things, is yeah, unsurprisingly, not useful.

There's also not really an incentive to currently make that happen in Open Source. If you can train a big model, with a unique high quality dataset you've assembled, using some novel techniques on some performant serving infrastructure, you basically have a blank check right now.

Edit: On my last point, I'm going to say I was being very jaded. I think the community is doing a lot of awesome things and I know of a few efforts personally to train these larger models for open source consumption. I don't mean to be so overly negative here.
I find the regularly scheduled "ooh, a small(er) phone" HN posts very amusing.

Hundreds of comments from nerds with niche obsessions and preferences yelling into the ether about "why won't anyone make this?!".

Inevitably followed up by seven replies crying out for other, mutually exclusive, similarly niche nitpicks.
I recently started exploring, and slowly migrating, to .mdx over .md for content. So far it’s been a breath of fresh air tbh. My biggest problem of markdown was the specific flavor I happen to be using and the type of cliffs I’d run into, then how to extend them.

I’m extremely satisfied with 80-90% of the standard Gitbook markdown flavor. Then every now and then I really wanna make a complicated table, or a code block highlighting few lines while maintaining syntax highlighting, or an interactive slider, or a formula calculator that’s built-in the documentation instead of a complicated function, or a particular graph/chart etc. I don’t know how something like mdx would work for a large team (ever tried to clone Microsoft’s doc repo?) but at least for my own stuff, it seems like a definite improvement.
I remember reading back in the early 90s a number of studies that showed elevated risks of certain brain cancers from aspartame. The evidence was pretty strong - it wasn't conclusive (hence the "possibly" qualifier in this label), but it was enough that I was personally convinced. The link between aspartame and cancer is much stronger than the one between cyclamate (banned in 1970 but legal in the EU) and cancer. My parents never let me chug Sweet'n'Low packets the same way I chugged sugar packets because of it.

IIRC, the only reason aspartame was not banned was because saccharine had just been, and if you banned aspartame there would have been literally no artificial sweeteners on the market. That is no longer the case, with sucralose (Splenda), acesulfame potassium (Coke Zero and other diet sodas), Stevia, sorbitol, and several other sweeteners now on the market.
Neat idea, and the step-by-step instructions are awesome. But wow, the scenes are mind-twisters. Especially the leopards. I think one briefly sprouted wings!
> Poverty alleviation can be done just with money, but social systemic unfair treatment cannot be undone with money.

That sounds backwards on both points. Poverty impacts how people perceive and interact with the world from building relationships to the use and conservation of assets. For example people in poverty are less likely to save for the future because institutions necessary to safely preserve assets into the future are distant therefore resulting in behaviors motivated towards immediate consumption. That is not something fixed by just throwing money at it.

At the same time social systemic unfair treatment can be fixed with money as it allows an otherwise well positioned person to alter their relationship with the constraints imposing such unfair conditions.

> So, if a poor white family is given a lot of money and they move into a richer neighbourhood, they would enjoy a social capital the same amount of money cannot buy for a black family.

That imposes a bunch of unstated assumptions that may or may not apply. Most all my neighbors are black families of different economic statuses who moved into a predominately white neighborhood and did just fine regarding social capital.
And if sweeteners were at play (sucralose also has scary new research) I couldn't see why the food industry, the paid off gov regulators and insurance companies would cover this up and short the involved companies.
Sadly, this is not possible, at least AFAIK. The basic problem is that a gravitational wave won't push against you, like a water wave would; the wave will pass through you.

See https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36113/woul... for a more detailed explanation.