skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been shopping at UNIQLO for half a decade now. In my opinion their current offerings, at least in the North American market, aren't as good as they used to be.

I have some shirts I bought there 5 years ago for $15 a pop which have held up amazingly well and are higher quality than the ones they are currently selling for > $25

That said they still have the best price to quality ratio of any clothing store.
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow...
I know its HN and bashing big tech/ad-tech is what almost everyone agree on here, but come on, is it really the same as tobacco.

Even if we focus only on big ad-tech, many of the ad-based companies provide very useful products. That's why their business models work. Think google - maps alone is one incredible product or think Meta, Whatsapp has helped me save thousands of $ I would have otherwise spent on international calling, and I am so much closer and engaged to family and friends because of it, Martketplace has helped me buy/sell lots of stuff and saved me lot of money too. And the list goes on.

I do not disagree there are problems with these companies and products but its just simply incorrect to equate it to tobacco. There are tons of products that these companies make that are actually very productive and useful.
I don't trust scientists, in particular doctors, when they're effectively bought by big pharma.

I don't care if you have ten degrees from Harvard Medical School if you also take a 7 figure paycheck from big pharma, you're a big pharma rep as far as I'm concerned.

Same with economists who shill for various groups, and so on.

I suppose I can trust astrophysicists because so far we have no evidence they've been bought by alien civilizations.
You could go to the 2016 election and see Nate Silver backtrack and never admit failure if you like. This guy came up out of nowhere and is a clown.
Not just that: the LLM outputs not individual tokens, but a weighted recommendation. The most probable (“best”) token has the highest weight, but there may be many alternatives including JSON symbols like quote characters.

The “temperature” setting adjusts how likely it is that an output token is chosen that is not the top-rated option. That prevents repetitive output.

Forcing an LLM to obey a grammar is mostly about filtering the list before the token choice is made. There may still be a random element controlled by the temperature!

A more advanced feature not commonly used is to also enable back-tracking if the AI gets stuck and can’t produce a valid output.
>Interesting addition

Only interesting in ~ 2023. Was a standard addition for millenia...
This implies new ideas have to be revolutionary ? It's usually possible to progress in the existing direction. Science advances one funeral at a time and all that jazz.
I want to disagree with how you got to this conclusion, but in the end anecdotally this is 100% me. I’m a runner with ADHD and if I don’t run for a couple days I go crazy. Exercise in generally has made me feel infinitely better as an adult.

But I don’t think effects of ADHD should be limited to “acting out”. And there wasn’t the same abundance of cheap stimulation 30 years ago for me.
It can inform treatment options. NPD, unlike trauma initiated disorders, is not something that changes over one's life.
Yeah documentation is hard and I'm guilty (as a former maintainer of SealedSecrets)

SealedSecrets was designed with "write only" secrets in mind.

Turns out a lot of people need to access the current secrets because they need to update a part of a "composite" secret.

There are two kinds of "composite" secrets, one easy and one harder, but if you don't know how to do it, even the easier is hard:

1. Secret with multiple data "items" (also called keys in K8s Secret jargon but that's confusing when there is encryption involved). I.e. good old "data":{"foo": "....", "bar": "..."}

2. Secrets where data within one item is actually a config file with cleartext and secrets mixed up in one single string (usually some JSON or YAML or TOML)

Case 1 is "easy" to deal with once you realize that sealed secrets files are just text files and you can just manually merge and update encryoted data items. We even created a "merge" and some "raw" encryption APIs to make that process a little less "copy pasta" but it's still hard to have a good UX that works for everyone.

Case 2 is harder. We did implement a data templating feature that allows you to generate a config file via a go-template that keeps the cleartext parts in clear and uses templating directives to inject the secret parts where you want (referencing the encrypted the items)

The main problem with case 2 is that it's undocumented.

The feature landed in 2021:

https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/pull/580

I noticed that people at my current $dayjob used sealed secrets for years and it took me a while to understand that the reason they hated it was that they didn't know about that fundamental feature.

And how to blame them!? It's still undocumented!

In my defense I spent so much effort before and after I left VMware to lobby so that the project got the necessary staffing so it wouldn't die of bitrot that I didn't have much time left to work on documentation. Which is a bit said and probably just an excuse :-)

That said, I'm happy that the project is alive and the current maintainers are taking care of it against the forces of entropy. Perhaps some doc work would be useful too. Unfortunately I don't have time for now.
Immersiveness. Maybe it's intriguing to look at the human face in extreme detail?
Remember the US is an oil exporter now. Most of this oil analysis stuff is leftover from the 2000s; it's also coming from overly materialist analysis of the Iraq War, where they assumed "this war is for Iraq oil" instead of the real answer which is literally "we invaded Iraq because we felt like it".
No conspiracy, the books sell. People buy and enjoy them. Not my thing, but it is what it is.
Could SAG start their own studio, backed by members and community at large?
In the same way "retina display" is not fundamentally unique, the Quest line is just as capable of "spatial computing."

I'll argue that the one major difference in Apple's approach is they're going with multi-app support out of the gate. It positions the device as a low friction compute device instead of an engrossing entertainment device.

...but that's just software and I think it's within Meta's reach. It'll be interesting to see when Meta decides to make the pivot themselves and how much of Apple's custom stack will need to be replicated and how far ahead they actually are.
Remember the good old days, when laptops could take PCMCIA / PC Card / Express Card peripherals?
Too bad, because from my (close) experience with people with BPD that I talked about elsewhere in this thread, good therapy can totally fix that. However, that probably also needs a great deal of introspection, and from my experience with people in general, it sadly seems like far from everyone is really introspective.

So if your mother is on top of the BPD someone who generally does not inspect and question her feelings, might not have helped...
I’ll add some tinder to the fire.

I have an indoor bug zapper. I set it next to a window and it gets the bugs that are inside. Does a great job. But always intermittently some small fly will fly into it. Even when a door hasn’t been opened.

I joke, but I’m semi convinced that 1 in every few billion try’s, the tiny flys make it thru the glass of the window. Where else are they coming from ? lol.
I don't know about the actual decision, but I can see the result: Protobuf is ubiquitous. Now take it like this: if Protobuf was not open source, wouldn't there be an alternative? I would say probably, since there are already alternatives (just not as popular as Protobuf).

So from Google's perspective, not open sourcing Protobuf does not really give them an edge: alternatives exist. However, by open sourcing it, they end up with a ton of devs who learn Protobuf outside of Google. That makes it easier for Google technology to be adopted if they release something new, and when they hire a new engineer, it's a win if he already knows Protobuf.

Same applies to gRPC and others.
That's something ghost.org does by default. I unknowingly ran into the same issue for my blog.
it's exactly the same as the AI bros

as long as they get their $1280 bonus they don't care

even if they're destroying their future employment prospects
"You can use adblock" is a pretty chunky benefit over Chrome
They only said that it was worth striving for, and not what needed to be corrected to make it happen.
Xreal come close but for this use case not ready yet but if they ever release v2 with 4k resolution per eye + programmatically dimmable shades + better software then that would be better then vision pro or oculus for this use case
To be fair, the Quest Pro has been in market for almost a year, and I'm betting it's another year before Apple Vision Pro hits the market. So a 2 year gap makes a bunch of sense that Apple's design would be far ahead.

The fairer comparison would be Quest 3 (~$500) to AVP (~$3500). Let's see how those two stack up when they are both available.
This is a sort of modern version of https://wiki.c2.com/?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers, one of the most useful software patterns.
It can be fixed, if the person is willing to.
Only if you throw Apple, Microsoft and Meta into the grinder as well. Our regulators are fully captured and have been for some time.
The OP mentioned SICP more because it's famous, but the core of their desire is to improve as a self-taught programmer, and I've heard from even experienced developers that the design recipe and systematic techniques taught in HTDP have benefited them, and they're more directly related to the problems OP described as wanting to solve.

Worst case, they find it too elementary and wasted a few weeks or months.
Can you mention one of the attack vectors that would allow an attacker to see my K8s secrets, provided that RBAC is properly configured?
It's running on many e-Passports and e-ID cards, i can't find the documentation from my e-ID card which runs on Java, but the chips are quite common
like in

https://www.cardlogix.com/product/cardlogix-credentsys-lite-...

And on another source:

Visa became the first large payment company to license JavaCard. Visa mandated JavaCard for all of Visa’s smartcard payment cards. Later, MasterCard acquired Mondex, and Peter Hill joined as their CTO, licensed JavaCard, and ported the Mondex payment platform to JavaCard.

Source: https://javacardforum.com/2022/07/28/the-birth-of-javacard/
Juul is vaporware. Get it?
Honestly, that sounds a lot different from BPD, like a separate disorder altogether.

Sorry, I don't mean to belittle what you go through, it sounds terrible. But I have to "defend" people with BPD against it, because I have people close to me with that affliction. What you describe sounds more like a very narcissistic person instead.
Isn’t this approach forcing the LLM to adapt? E.g. it is throwing tokens away that don’t match the grammar.
Examples from the software domain:
Dependency resolution in package managers (packages with version requirements) may use constraint solving.
Or type checking may be implemented using constraint solving.
Though often if the application is well understood enough, it may jump over generic modelling language like MiniZinc and generate instructions for a boolean satisfaction solver directly.
https://archive.is/9dRjn
I am sorry for your loss. There's a million things to say and none of them would sound right. That could have been my way out too in many occasions, but it wasn't. Heal. There's a lot of us in this process. Feel free to hit me up if things get out of hand.
Buying a plant seems easier, and I'm definitely not crafty enough to build a fruit-peel beer cone glass and have it look good enough to display.
Recognizing string prefixes with SIMD instructions
Those are already available from several brands (XReal the most well-known at the moment), though probably still in alpha mode as regards what people will actually buy and feel happy with.
There are still specialists but probably not as many as newsrooms have been cash strapped.

NPR had a bunch of economic reporters and they’re mostly ok but they still get a ton of stuff wrong, so it’s not a great solution either.
Depending on what type of battery you use or how long you want to store it, it can be cheaper or cost competitive. But the same factors apply as well, production capacities are not catching up fast enough. Still, The end of fossil fuels is inevitable, as renewable sectors keep growing. Also, the potential for small nuclear reactors or maybe even fusion could change this even faster.

If politics had backed renewables a few decades ago just as much as they back fossil fuels, we wouldn't even need to have these discussions.
well this is a WoW thread, so I guess icy-veins is the citation:

https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/fire-mage-pve-dps-rotation-coo...

All of the guides on this site are written by top-ranked players and backed by simulation data. Most of the guides can be customized to your character's talent selections and the leveling guides let you set your current level so as not to show things you don't currently have.
So what you are saying is we should break up the US so they don't get in a real war with China?!
SPOILERS (for 30+ year old book, hah)

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To me, the delightful thing about Foucault's Pendulum distinct from the broader "conspiracy fiction" genre is that there is no conspiracy discovered, only created.

And that's a fundamentally different story and investigation into human nature than a straight conspiracy story like Da Vinci Code - IMO, a much more interesting one.
I believe it is alive and well, but was never a big contender in the space. I personally have no experience due to professional reasons and a slight unease about home rolled crypto. I believe it is quite similar in concepts to Ansible/Puppet/Chef with a high level declaration of resources and provider implementations in a "real" language. Perhaps someone else can chime in!
And that's why everyone knows there's no relationship between autism and vaccines?

I think you're underestimating the ability for people to abuse trust, i.e. lie.

You can't say "trust scientist A but not scientist B" unless you've got some way to judge them. Which we don't as we're the ignorant laymen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccines_and_autism

edit: Global warming would have been a better example. You can point to scientists on "both sides" that each say the other is wrong. No amount of "blindly trust scientists" makes it better.
And isn't that the great thing about America?
Of course The Simulation has wallhacks.
Try Chimera
My word for “borderline” in my family is “LARP’ing”.
‘This Is a Big Deal’: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP
It makes sense to my uninformed intuition, which is that a strict grammar reduces the search space for the token generation and so the AI can eliminate possibilities that would otherwise be ambiguous.
No, it wouldn't, at least not given the contextual details of this situation because we wouldn't do that. Honestly there are parts of my above comment that hold but I admit in the moment that it was a bit impulsive of me because I hadn't yet learned all of the details necessary to make that judgment call. That number is right under slightly different circumstances if you're asking, but it sounds like you were trying to prove a point. If that's true, you succeeded. I learned a bit later that what they were calling a cluster was a single server and that's just... yeah.
There's about 25 years of actual usage that clearly states otherwise. We can give your idea some weight after 25 years of people consistently calling Llama 2 open source, effectively diluting the term to mean nothing in the process. Meanwhile it's just as if I told you that the sky is green.
Apple has moats around the mobile space far greater than the moats in, say, cars or washing machines.
I tell it to write something only someone with typoglycemia can read and remove random letters from words longer than three letters. This usually gets around word filters and semantic analysis which will give me more interesting results. I also just find it interesting that the model can keep coherent despite outputting something that is, language wise, complete nonsense. Though because of however my brain processes I can read it with only a little extra effort.

I further wonder if this reveals some as of yet unexplored method of shrinking models or increasing output speed. You could train it on a set of shorthand words that another model could translate over to which would make it effectively faster at generating characters per second and increase window size by representing words as something smaller.
Maybe there's a guerrilla component to it, but it's been all over the NYT recently... Definitely a full press marketing campaign. And we're falling for it with multiple posts about the films hitting the front page recently.
Exploiting PUAFs
It’s not an either/or situation. Most of the Big Oil companies have significant investments in renewable power. It’s just that oil is insanely profitable, to a point which is hard to grasp so it dwarfs whatever else they do.
The game usually needs to implement their own handling and color shifts.
The proposed application for these lenses is for a spectrographic telescope, looking for exoplanet atmospheric biosignatures. See the white paper "Nautilus: A Very Large-Aperture, Ultralight Space Telescope for Exoplanet Exploration, Time-domain Astrophysics, and Faint Objects" (2019)

<http://nautilus-array.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Nauti...> (PDF)

As such, the disadvantages of Fresnel lenses (or for Nautilus, a "multi-order diffractive engineered material lens" or MODE lens) for imaging of objects are largely mooted, as the challenge instead is to gather sufficient quantities of light, in sufficiently short exposure periods, to gather useful spectroscopic data, that is, the light spectrum showing specific absorption lines experienced during planetary transits of their star.

From the white paper above:

The driver of the design of the Nautilus is to maximize the ratio of sensitivity (light-collecting area and throughput) to cost. The Nautilus combines a simple, non-cryogenic instrument (imager and slitless spectrograph) with a new, lightweight, and low-cost optical element instead of primary mirrors.... Nautilus will use an 8.5m-diameter multi-order diffractive engineered material lens (MODE lens) instead of a primary mirror. These diffractive lenses have ∼100× lower areal density than traditional mirrors, are 100–1,000× less sensitive to misalignments (drastically reducing fabrication and integration costs), and can be cost-effectively replicated (via pressure molding).... Nautilus will use a single instrument, the Nautilus visual/near-infrared imaging spectrograph (NAVIIS). At this point no optical design exists yet for NAVIIS, but in the following we describe the preliminary concept for this instrument. NAVIIS will utilize a dichroic mirror to split the incoming light into the visible light (NAVIIS-VIS, 0.5–0.95 μm) and near-infrared (NAVIIS-NIR, 0.95–1.7 μm) channels.
"Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.

More scientific data could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another."

Pretty standard scientific writing. I think the lesson is don't trust journalists and the general public to not blow what you're saying out of proportion and assign it more certainty than you intended.

Lab leak is possible, sure. But keep in mind every horrible disease humanity has faced up until the early part of the 20th century came about before microbiology labs even existed. Historically, a zoonitic origin is extremely likely.

Imagine if polio or smallpox or leprosy popped up today, you'd have every Joe internet theorizing how it came from a lab in whatever country it appeared in first. I guess back in the day they used to say it was punishment from God. The Spanish flu, God out there smiting the Spaniards.
I guess not unlike the software sets [0] Slackware seems to still use these days. Hearing this definitely makes me understand how spoiled we are to have reliable and inexpensive flash media, optical disks and network connections! I imagine just getting the base OS set downloaded, imaged and installed was a chore! And that's too bad to hear about the ISP idea. I've heard of stories of how one could run a small and viable ISP out of a garage or small office with descent wiring and a bank of modems. I'm glad a few providers still exist like Sonic.net, Xmission Internet and Panix.com and hope with the way things are going with funding for wiring and Internet connectivity (at least in the USA) we might be in such an era again in the future (hopefully!)
My point is exactly this misguided view of the world, that the global north can live lives of insane decadence, built on its history and continued plundering of the global south, while expecting them to find a reduction in extreme poverty as ameliorative. Your comment only reminds me that liberals are people who believe that luxury can exist without the suffering of others.

There is no path in the current Capitalist world order that will allow for a rise in the global south to current, western levels of development. The resulting increase in labor and resource costs would face immediate armed confrontation from the global north, as already happened with the myriad US-backed military coups during the past century.
Races are won at the end, not the beginning or middle.
Quest Pro supposedly being a pro device cannot replace my desktop screens. Resolution is just not there. With Apple Vision seems to be actually capable of doing this. I am looking forward to ditching my screens.

My napkin math and some googling (with the information I could find at the time of release, so probably inaccurate in multiple ways):

Quest 2= ~18PPD

Quest pro = ~20PPD

Quest 3 = ~25PPD

Apple Vision = ~36PPD

Real life vision 60-120PPD

1920x1080 27" screen from a "normal" distance is roughly 36PPD.

So I think Apple vision will feel like previous generation of screens (pre "retina"), and it makes sense why they pushed it so far. I wouldn't want to look at anything with worse quality (720p for example). And this is just talking about "pro" developers that use multiple screens.
> Then maybe the government regulates ADHD meds to keep people homeless

What for?
Yeah I’ve got an air filter that measures and adapts dynamically. Ramps up noticeably during cooking things.

Esp dry heat frying like steak in pan
Plenty of great non-game apps already very popular in the Quest and other stores, that gaming-only argument has pretty much been and gone.
A big plus for Patagonia cotton clothes is that they're made exclusively from organic cotton. [1] Conventional cotton farming uses an enormous amount of pesticides. [2] And most of their clothes last a long time, long enough to more than make up for the higher initial price.

[1] https://www.patagonia.com/our-footprint/organic-cotton.html

[2] https://www.moderndane.com/blogs/the-modern-dane-blog/why-co...
This is awesome and you feel powerful vengeance until you accidentally slip the paper cone a bit on disposal and a hundred fruit flies escape at once.
I'm not sure if this logic really holds up. Lot's of things "waste time". By this definition both television (before scrolling people would easily spend 2+ hours watching "the boob tube") and traffic (many people drive 45+ minutes each way to and from work, which is time fully "wasted") are both equivalent to smoking.