skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also fit into that camp of un-interesting people you're describing, but I'd say the intersections between privacy and law are a bit more underhanded and dangerous than the intersections between privacy and corporations.

In legal circles, for example, there's the refrain that you should never share unnecessary information with police, even if you're well intentioned and have nothing to hide, because innocence isn't a preclusion from being royally fucked in court. It's true that "the government" as a homogenous blob has mountains of information on you, but I guess I'm not so eager to dissolve what few helpful divisions within that blob exist.

On the whole though I agree that my information existing somewhere in that blob isn't the hugest deal.
This is a typeface I'd be prepared to enable Google Fonts to use...
I'll clarify Tostino's comment. For most of Moore's Law, price per mm of silicon was constant. A state-of-the-art 10 micron, 5 micron, 2 micron, 1 micron, and 500nm node, at introduction, was basically the same price per square millimetre.

This meant you had exponentially-growing numbers of transistors for the same price.

Density is going up now, but so is price. A billion transistors a 4nm will cost less than a billion at 40nm, but it's a different ride since you don't ave a 100x reduction in cost. There is a reduction, but it's not the same wild ride.

At the same time, NREs are exploding.
I'd disagree a bit with the faceless part and being able to call and talk with someone. It depends how much patience you have to wait on the phone.
1) "Code sober, debug drunk"

It's harder to read the code than to write it so if you can barely comprehend the thing you just wrote, you probably won't understand it in the future: https://sonnet.io/posts/code-sober-debug-drunk/

2) I think it's more like speaking with ghosts (including a spoiler for The Sixth Sense):

https://sonnet.io/posts/emotive-conjugation/
I thought the same but I really do understand the "hate" now. In fact, as someone who sees a lot of potential in the tech, there's even more reasons to be upset. "Blockchain" and even "crypto" are terms that became synonymous with opportunistic speculation at best, and scams and frauds at worst.

And honestly, the vast majority of people on the "inside", i.e. those actually working with it, were opportunists as well. Most of them saw the tech narrowly as an unregulated financial instrument.
> In a purely capitalist economy a lack of supply would cause prices to go increase and the market would respond accordingly.

In a purely capitalist economy, those with capital would have the easiest time getting more capital, as they get more capital they get more and more influence and exist farther and farther from consequences. Then it's trivial to get things like citizens united, stock trading congress members, and regulatory capture. As ruling institutions weaken so to do the systems that enforce "pure capitalism." Thus "pure" capitalism plants the seeds of it's own destruction.

"The free market solves all problems" is 2000's Ron Paul era thought, and it is clearly very wrong.

The right results from a "free market" are not inevitable. The results, right or wrong, are a summation of the actions of it's individual participants. Culture is the first line of defense, and when culture fails, you must rely on regulation, and when regulation fails, you must rely on force.

> The fix for to much regulation is less regulation, not more.

The fix for the wrong regulation is the right regulation.

Analyzing for less and more is intellectually bankrupt and shows lack of critical thinking. Less regulation used for regulatory capture is good, less regulation used for legitimate consumer protection is bad. More regulation that stifles innovation is bad, more regulation that prevents robber barrons and bullying of small business is good.

You need to do more reading on "the tragedy of the commons." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
I tried both. I'll certainly try it remotely as well. Was just pottering through HN before bed.
To be clear, the recommendation of N=30 came from the LessWrong article the author is critiquing, not the author themselves.
Pardon me for asking what sounds like an aggressive or leading question, I assure you it’s not: if you have to take a pill to get your work done, could it be that you’re doing the wrong work? I always feel like if I have to take drugs to accomplish something non-medical, maybe I wasn’t meant to accomplish that thing.
I think this is common theme in eastern religions. I feel like I’ve also seen aspects of this in western philosophy. My disclaimer here is I am not well read in any of these topics!

My more general insight is that humans have put a lot of work into trying to seperate themselves from the complications of our obligate social brains. We will always feel bad, but maybe it can be ameliorated.
Metaphors are also ways of communicating ideas. A good metaphor is as simple or as complicated as it needs to be in illustrating a new concept
To be fair, you can compile the code (including the protobuf format) and implement your own export to any format. It's a bit obtuse, but I had a obsidian vault full of markdown files that are also completely useless as they have a bunch metadata that needs the obsidian plugin to render. This is not a critique of obsidian, but there is a limit of markdown and obsidian is bypassing it using a lot of extra code. If obsidian got deleted from the internet, I would have my markdown files but a lot of the processing would be gone.

If we were to store markdowns only with linking and no advanced tables, do we need any advanced app on top?
I'm sorry and I'm trying to address this in good faith. How does this change anything besides making Italian grandparent poorer? He's still going to use AC, even if it costs double.
So this dumps the documents returned from the vector store into a prompt to the LLM. How does it work when there are many documents returned? What's the upper limit there?
Fibonacci starting 1,3, so 2030.
On Borrowed Time – Preventing Static Power Side-Channel Analysis
Fortunately, it's open-source and progressively licensed, so you can rewrite in Zig if you prefer it.
Ugh. Of course we should be mindful that "history" is created by people and people are fallible (and worse, e.g., intentionally biased), so caveat emptor.

But it doesn't mean that historical facts don't exist (shit happens - those are facts), but the recounting of such should be consumed knowing that there are likely inaccuracies.

This is not license to only take in the history we like or rewrite it to suit our agendas.

I'm technically a Boomer and my education on the history of the US was amazingly light on any details that would today seem unsavory (e.g., the expansion to the West was not simply moving into uninhabited territory, etc.).

A People's History of the United States was eye opening and a welcome revisiting of the "official story". Some might say that Zinn had an agenda to shit on White Men, but I saw it as a heartfelt attempt to correct the record.

I didn't learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre until about 10 years ago, and already there are attempts to squash that because, and I kid you not, "it makes white people feel bad".
Do you think private unregulated businesses (CashApp, Venmo, etc.) that this is trying to replace are any better? These companies just sell your transaction data to the highest bidder, no warrant needed.
I withdraw my statmenet because all data conflicts and I have no idea.
Plot twist: that next developer is you. Love yourself!
We're parsing periodically (though our index is more up to date than Nix Package Versions at the moment). We've also truncated pre-Flakes commits, though we are planning to include those in the future
It's true. 19 in the United States.

Nolan only distributed 100 reels worldwide for Oppenheimer.
Spack – package manager for supercomputing centers and home setups
Sounds like they're looking for a person who'll work 3x faster than the rest of the team by taking shortcuts and slowing everyone else down.
This is a rather short sighted and somewhat gate keeping mentality. Acronyms are often contrived and separate from the common vernacular and idioms related to a subject matter.

As a software developer with a forty year career behind me I'm quite familiar with the "SICP" book. But for some reason my brain won't persist the connection between the full title and the SICP acronym when I bump into it. Yet somehow I can recall what each and every assembly language mnemonic means across a fairly broad range of micro and mini computer processors.

> maybe that's a sign that particular thread isn't for you, and that you likely have little of value to add.

Sure I may not have much to add, but the reason to read a thread, article or essay is to become familiar with the subject matter because it sounds interesting. Don't assume your reader is an expert in decoding your special and often made up acronyms.
I recently had the opposite experience: encountered some code from 2017(!!!) that was really solid. Few "silly" things but the important stuff was there.

I realized that when I did that project I "had the time to care" which is not the case lately!
>> learn how to turn requirements into code. A boot camp grad has a leg up here.

> We did that in undergrad, most of my friends and I are leading small teams a few short years after graduation. We found that people without CS degrees can't handle ambiguity, and need a lot of hand holding to get things done, but maybe bootcamp grads are different.

i don't think that bootcamp grads are different because of the bootcamp but possibly because they already have real world experience from before or were switching fields. they are also often older and more mature, but, most critically i wonder how many places teach how to turn requirements into code. my CS undergrad classes didn't have any of that. it's not "science" to solve peoples problems.
People were too quick to claim so I wrote a hacky script to try to auto-claim in a loop and then ended up with a PNG in my terminal, beware, save the response to the request if you're going to automate the claiming part.

Well I got another pixel anyway.
to be fair, the argument that people don't use google while someone is saying they use google while limiting to a specific site is more the point. while reddit's internal search is terrible is not really the point even if a motivator. googs is still being used nullifying whatever the point of the start of this topic was
I think web components were almost a good "built-in" way of doing React/Vue. Where it lost me was the Shadow DOM. I get that it's supposed to encapsulate the contents of a component and restrict JS/CSS to itself, but it's overkill IMO. It's basically like having a bunch of iframes and makes it much harder to query things, which is very much unlike the rest of the DOM. I don't need guard rails to tell me how to do encapsulation.
> threat models

This is exactly the thing you _shouldn't_ put under NDA. What on earth?
I prefer the quote that goes

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
A couple years ago, the IRS didn't pay my income tax refund for six months, and during that time they couldn't tell me why they weren't paying, when or if they were going to pay it, what the status was, whether there was anything wrong, or when they would have any information on what the status was, and this was after waiting for many, many, many hours to get in contact with the person that wasn't going to tell me anything at all.

And this is the IRS that wanted me to provide them with a selfie in order to make estimated income tax payments online.

That is pretty far from OK. I will be paying for tax preparation software one way or the other, I would much rather pay the private sector so that I have a choice if I don't like a particular application.
AI Helps Digital Nomads Find a Hotel Room with an Ergonomic Workspace
Doesn't 'fair use' come into play at some point? I know this is all new, but isn't this approximately what fair use is about? Even a little modification of prior art is enough to qualify. Embedding it into an AI corpus is quite a bit of modification.

Or am I way behind the curve on this one.
https://archive.is/yLTZq
The PDF linked in the thread [1] specifies T+20s or no settlement.

[1]: https://explore.fednow.org/resources/technical-overview-guid...
I'm sure British loyalists circa 1776 would have agreed with you.
This blog entry is a much nicer and more graceful version of the old adage about writing your code like the next guy is a psychopath who knows where you live...
I'd Just As Soon Kiss a Wookiee!
> Think about all the information (marital status, dependents, residence, childcare spending, healthcare spending, education spending, charitable contributions, …) you need to correctly calculate your taxes owed. Now imagine that the IRS is tasked with maintaining all of this information in a single database so they can send you your “statement”.

There's nothing hard about updating a few values with these then you're done in five minutes. State governments already do simple walkthrough forms and federal is really no different. If you have a complex tax situation then that's your problem to deal with. Don't burden 99.9% of the population with something that should be free, should be simple, and should be fast.
I don't know any trans people who believe any of the things that you're suggesting they do. Literally every single one of your claims about what trans people believe are false; I count at least 7 distinct ones. (I can enumerate them if you'd like.) It's honestly impressive how little your world view overlaps with reality.

On another note, in this comment you mentioned the genitals of children and surgery on the genitals of children ten times. Given that genital surgery for children is not something that transgender activists are advocating for, I must ask you why you seem so fixated on the topic?
Sorry, I misunderstood.
Expected the sendmail story, got the sendmail story.
I predict that statistically trans women live a lot less long
JPEG XL uses the ISOBMFF container, with an option to skip the container completely and just use a raw codestream. HEIF is also ISOBMFF based but adds more mandatory stuff so you end up with more header overhead, and it adds some functionality at the container level (like layers, or using one codestream for the color image and another codestream for the alpha channel) that is useful for codecs that don't have that functionality at the codestream level — like video codecs which typically only support yuv, so if you want to do alpha you have to do it with one yuv frame and one yuv400 frame, and use a container like HEIF to indicate that the second frame represents the alpha channel. So if you want to use a video codec like HEVC or AV1 for still images and have functionality like alpha channels, ICC profiles, or orientation, then you need such a container since these codecs do not natively support those things. But for JPEG XL this is not needed since JPEG XL already does have native support for all of these things — it was designed to be a still image codec after all. It's also more effective for compression to support these things at the codec level, e.g. in JPEG XL you can have an RGBA palette which can be useful for lossless compression of certain images, while in HEIC/AVIF this is impossible since the RGB and A are in two different codestreams which are independent from one another and only combined at the container level.

It would be possible to define a JPEG XL payload for the HEIF container but it would not really bring anything except a few hundred bytes of extra header overhead and possibly some risk of patent infringement since the IP situation of HEIF is not super clear (Nokia claims it has relevant patents on it, and those are not expired yet).
The paper has recently been called into question for overestimating their performance relative to BERT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758433. Might be good for the blog's author to take this into account in their explainer. The author's perspective sounds a bit too positive (and borderline salesmanlike).
Yeah... I mean, how to represent that type of indentation, I know it's the Tab key on the keyboard, but what to call such a beast.
Obligatory: You can buy a cheapo $50 DisplayLink USB adapter to run a second monitor up to 1080p[1]. I have a really old Monoprice USB 2.0 adapter I still use that even has my security camera video feeds on. Does totally fine.

1. They have USB 3.0 ones that do 1440p, but I've tried a lot of them and haven't found one with good performance on Mac.
>>Federal Reserve is a private company with a chair that is chosen by the President of the US with advice and consent from the Senate, and serves a four-year term

Sorry but no... You can not be a "Private Company" and have your leadership appointed by the President like any other Government Agency

The Fed is a Government Agency,

>>The reason the US government has a national debt is because that debt is owed to the Federal Reserve,

Incorrect

Some of the Debt is owned by a Federal Reserve, more recently as no one want to buy US Debt any more but....

>>which is a private bank that loans the US government money

Again FALSE....

The Federal Reserve can not Loan the US Government anything

The US Dept of Treasury issues Bonds which are sold on the Open Market, 3rd parties then Buy these Bonds, then the Fed Buys them

The Fed can not legally buy Bonds directly from the US Government. How do you think Black Rock got to be do big...
It might sound silly when spoken out loud, but I found the following example quite enlightening about this phenomenon: imagine that you want to drive to the airport, and you need to estimate how long it will take you to get there. You can simply measure how long it will take you to drive by dividing average speed by distance.

If you actually drove there many times and measured your trip length, most of the time you would end up being later, sometimes horribly so.

Why is that? The explanation is actually trivial: no matter how well things work, there is an absolute minimum time required to get to the airport. On the other hand, there are many things that might delay your trip: heavy traffic, closed roads, accidents...

So, on the aggregate, there are very few things that can "go well", and they will reduce your trip time only a bit. On the other hand there are many things that can go wrong and make your trip last much, much longer.

That's a sort of intuitive explanation of why things like software estimates are fat-tailed instead of normal.
Americans are moving to places besieged by extreme heat
This doesn't impact most people in the USA. A simple system offered for free by the IRS is good enough for 99% of folks. If you have a complex situation then that's your problem to pay for. Not mine.
Relevant: Built this which generalizes to arbitrary regex patterns / context free grammars with 100% adherence and is model-agnostic — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36750083
What it means to be "on board" is to endorse the leader's agenda. The context here is supporting the Moon landings rather than supporting any particular political candidate. (And recall that JFK only barely edged out Nixon in the extremely close 1960 election.) The question is not which candidate a non-voter would vote for, if forced to choose. That's why I mentioned the lesser of evils phenomenon.

Also, non-voters are consistently at least 1/3 of the population, regardless of the "closeness" of the election, and there's not necessarily a correlation between closeness and turnout.
It's great to see Oxide shipping. They have an incredibly talented team thats worked very hard for a long time in the best tradition of Sun Microsystems.
"Unofficial" documentation can serve needs that are neglected by the official docs, even if only by offering a different point of view. I can't speak to Python specifically, but to make an analogy, a microcontroller that I'm working with right now is documented by a 3500 page manual that requires a fair amount of expertise just to know what to look for. But a seasoned embedded dev might be just fine with that, and annoyed by anything simpler. On the other hand, I can make headway by using the Arduino API and boatloads of online documentation in the form of blogs, tutorials, StackOverflow, etc.

Likewise, nobody knows how to write technical documentation that's readable by everybody.

In the case of Python, the official docs are typically the last place where I'd look for stuff, given the quality of documents such as this cheat sheet. There's still a need for authoritative "developer" documentation, but not for me.

The diversity of Python developers, from hobbyists to pro's, justifies a similar diversity of documentation.
I would assume such a system is capable of facilitating fraud, so it's probably good to have some kind of financial hurdle you have to jump in order to use it? Not that having $25k or $50k is a guarantee that you aren't a fraudster, but I imagine there are a lot of would-be fraudsters who don't have that kind of cash on hand.

I do think this is a bit of a weak justification, though.
Images in the mind’s eye are quick sketches that lack simple, real-world details
Video altered to suggest Obama admitted he was born in Africa
Replying to myself - I didn't understand the context of this conversation before, but I just read Mark Wahlberg's wikipedia page. Yikes. Seems like the guy was (and is?) a violent, hateful, lunatic. Something smells very off about one of his victims releasing a public statement that he has forgiven Mark.

I was not intending to argue that he should be pardoned.
Most bad code doesn't exist because the writer didn't sufficiently love the future maintainers.
There aren’t many other widely used easily accessible services with as good video call quality as FaceTime in the UK. WhatsApp VC is trash.
What's old is new again, it feels like 1998 and I'm sure times before that.
In my opinion, metaphors are like a picture. They can communicate vast amounts of information very quickly but can have inaccuracies.

You should expect some additional nuance when receiving a metaphor.
I'd also like to add that I hope all tax prep companies crash and burn and everybody loses their jobs. They are parasites.
Yep the docker containers should run fine on local hardware, but the terraform config only supports GCP right now.

In terms of cost - just ran our deployed cluster through GCP's pricing calculator and it's about $300 USD per month. Definitely not cheap for individual use, but pretty affordable for enterprise use. Running the 40B parameter version will be significantly more.