skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly didn't predict my reddit thread (https://old.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/13ozrn9/what_is_t...) would trigger so many discussions hackernews threads and blog posts. Glad I positively contributed to the embedded community :-)
Amazing how many people insist that there can't be any evidence, the evidence presented can't be real, etc etc.

There's a notion under all this that "Someone" has been preparing the world for the revelation of Intelligent Non-humans for a century or so. The "Humanity wasn't ready" reading. It's hard to argue against that one sometimes, when seeing how tightly people cling to the notion of human uniqueness.
Beer wouldn't have bee 0.5% historically. Historical recipes where they survive are pretty much exclusively much stronger than this. Moreover a beer at 0.5% will spoil in basically a small number of days, unless it's heavily soured which isn't described in historical sources. Table beer of that strength, while it exists wouldn't be very good as beer. It's a real art to produce a beer that weak that tastes good at all. Moreover manual laborers in fields were drinking beer for calories as much as for hydration, and any beer with a significant calorie count, say 200 will be in the range of 4%. Pre-modern brewing didn't have precise fermentation controls.
For a while I worked at a company that did arguably worse things than Google does. Regardless of dignity and courage it's hard to just "walk away" from a paycheck when you have mouths to feed, a mortgage to pay, a family who gets sick and needs medical care, pets, hobbies, whatever. There's also the fact that for most of us work is a huge percentage of our time and our social lives can be deeply intertwined with our work lives--it can be a tough decision to walk away from all your colleagues and friends who you enjoy working with even if you don't particularly enjoy the work itself (sometimes shared hardships and commiseration can make those bonds even tougher to break).

Expecting engineers to die on this hill for us seems incredibly unfair. To balk at someone not upturning their life and (under the US healthcare system at least) endangering the health and well-being of themselves and their families in the name of dignity or morality when the net result of doing so would be exactly zero because Google can replace them in a heartbeat is, in my opinion, a gross and unnecessary misdirection of blame.
Only if you measure cup (200 or so ml) of Gyukuro to an expresso (30 ml). Per 'weight' it has much less then coffee. (same measurements: 100 ml of expresso is about 210 mg of caffeine and 100ml of gyukuro is about 70mg of caffeine)
Anyone downvoting: talk to some teachers. Maybe start with junior high teachers and see if you can even stand moving up the grades. Your skin'll be crawling in no time.

If you don't share this view, you don't know what's going on. That's all there is to it.
Southern bluefin tuna is rebounding.
"Moving to a service based society. If you don't have to work in a mine, you drink less."

Unless you are a software dev...
How do you think the “Chrome company” would be funded?

How is Firefox funded today.
I hear a lot about CUDA and how bad ROCm is etc. and I’ve been trying to understand what exactly CUDA is doing that is so special; isn’t the maths for neural networks mostly multiplying large arrays/tensors together? What magic is CUDA doing that is so different for other vendors to implement? Is it just lock-in, the type of operations that are available, some kind of magical performance advantage or something else that CUDA is doing?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to integrate DDR chiplets in the package, like Apple is doing? Even though the approach is not competitive with HBM in performance, on Apple processors it does seem to offer better power efficiency and bandwidth compared to off-package memory. But for some reason neither Intel nor AMD are moving in that direction.
I wonder how those ‘use GNU IceCat’ conversations went, if they ever happened.
> where someone pays a single subscription and gets access to all content providers on the platform (in this case content is software), where creators get a proportion of the subscription fee

It is like that, except that users buy the subscriptions directly from the developers. 1Sub doesn't handle any money. This also means that the developers get 100% of the money (except for any transaction fees depending on payment method).
If I was a teacher, it would be inconceivable that I could not confiscate anything that is distracting my student's attention. They could have their items back after class, but there is simply no place for such distractions in the classroom. That said, I'm opposed to federal level involvement.
I need some hand-holding .. I have a directory of over 80,000 PDF files. How do I train Llama2 on this directory and start asking questions about the material - is this even feasible?
Where's the incentive to block your potential customers?
It wasn't better.

Observe:

"According to Allen Baum, the StrongARM traces its history to attempts to make a low-power version of the DEC Alpha, which DEC's engineers quickly concluded was not possible."

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

"The Alpha AXP has a notoriously weak memory model. When a processor writes to memory, the result becomes visible to other processors eventually, but there are very few constraints beyond that."

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170817-00/?p=96...

No question, it could not compete.

Edit: $40,000 for a license for OSF/1|Digital UNIX|Tru64 was the real kiss of death.
> When thinking about a new proposal, it's often safe to assume that Occam's razor is applicable and the reason it is being proposed is that the team proposing it is trying to tackle the use cases the proposal handles.

Ockham's Razor doesn't apply in an adversarial situation.
They don't say not to use them, just not to trust them, "when you can avoid it". That seems fair actually.

Like, "never trust a stranger" is dark because most people are strangers? It's not.
I don't think it's double-think, it's just a lack of consequential thinking. I believe the writers of the spec when they say that they just want to be able to see which ad views are real or not. They even lay out some (far too weak) ideas to keep the system from being mandatory and abusable. But they don't realize just how quickly things will go out of hand once the rest of the organization realizes what they have created.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Tip: Work for an established company - preferably a non-Internet oriented one. Perhaps a traditional engineering company (you know, the type that actually manufactures something physical). Definitely not a startup. Or one that is not in tech (e.g. bank, hospital, etc).

They typically will not work you that hard, and no one checks your blog or Github.

Of course, there are downsides to this approach as well...
Is Firefox consistently trying to find ways to show you ads? Are they working on technology that helps profiling you?

One thing is funding, keeeping independence, another is controlling
Until Google Search starts punishing sites that don’t require a trusted execution environment…
What's stopping a non-complying browser from sending forged attestation tokens? Honest question.
See, I'm a little on the other side of this. I believe in compulsory service. It's not that I think the military is all that (it isn't, source: did it myself), it's just that if we're gonna let people have weapons, it is a Good Idea to train them on how to respect them properly.

It's hard to take these gun nut militias seriously when all their videos have them doing dumbass shit like barrel flagging and handling them loaded when they're just showing them off. Never mind that mass shootings have become like, the new normal. If we are showing we can't be trusted, then we can't be trusted. It's pretty cut and dry.
The divergence being one group attempts to build hyperspeed superintelligent AI command, control, and swarm deployment as fast as possible for purposes of global dominance, whereas another group uses it responsibly to help society.

You're right, of course the US and China should keep strict separation between moral and strategic concerns. That has always led to a safer world in the past.

"Trying to get people with very divergent goals to operate under a common set of guidelines seems like a disaster waiting to happen." -- you think it's safer for the US and China to NOT work under common guidelines and instead race for world domination by deploying the most powerful superintelligent AI-enhanced military force??
Nothing. Old tech is fun for many reasons:

1) It's still simple enough that you can actually get a full diagram of the processor and actually have hope of understanding it.

2) It's interesting enough to actually produce good things. Blockbusters like Super Mario Bros 3 were based on this tech. The Terminator runs on the 6502. The low-cost CPU was comparatively as ubiquitous as the Intel architecture is today.

3) Limitations breed creativity and ingenuity. When you only have uint8 as your only data type, the kind of tricks you have to do to get a simple physics engine working are very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UP7HImbAlA&t=517s

So combined with not-too-complicated but complicated-enough-to-be-useful is basically why old tech is fun.
The nutrition label will tell you if it contains sugar even though none was added.

If the ingredient list contains sugar, it was added.
Microsoft also makes Windows, and Windows takes backwards compatibility very seriously.

Even if they don't work on maintaining Office 2003 directly, they indirectly work very hard making sure every subsequent version of Windows does not break Office 2003.
This not only requires Google but websites also need to implement.

The problem is given the number of Google's services, it can easily "nudge" site owners into implementing it.

They can make it mandatory for adwords or analytics or any other service that they have for webmasters and everyone will have to jump in while it is still technically voluntary.

If your $bank choses to implement it, then it can very well mandate only windows or osx clients. Then you can't use firefox on linux.

This may sound like conspiracy theory but we already have examples of similar restrictions on android apps with safetynet. Bank apps already refuse to run on custom roms. It will not be limited to banks. Someone mentioned that McDonald's app doesn't work unless you pass safetynet.

That is how ridiculous it can become.

Edit: fixed typos
How does this apply to decaf (which is still a non zero amont of coffee, but certainly reduced to actual product)?
Lots of online games already require that. Valve is especially notorious with that.
I'm not sure what to say to this... you can just buy an old copy of Office 2003 on eBay, an old Windows XP computer, and boot it up and try it out?

You don't have to believe me, I imagine practically every reader on HN has the means to verify this for themselves.
Been on a lot of hiring teams over the years. Hiring managers are especially wary of self promoters. If it's a genuine contribution, side project, or meaningful community involvement, that's great and it counts a lot. But the idea that this status doesn't take much to achieve can backfire if you try to game it.
Running AI/Machine Learning Algorithms in Python Jupyter Notebook
Speaking of software business models, I like the idea of charging money for convenience. As in, make the app open-source, but sell compiled binaries and maybe tech support.
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> When you have no clue what is going on, stop applying your basic recipes on new health issues from pandemics, you would literally harm other people that could suffer because of your silliness.

How can my comment harm people? It didn't say that walking (any distance) is the only or the lowest exercise possible nor did I say that lack of exercise is the only explanation to begin with. Actually the opposite is implied and taking a walk was an example for something that is usually not considered exercise.
By the popular conception of "diversity," these arbitrary dividing lines should certainly be a strength and not a weakness. It's telling that "mixing different cultures together" becomes a reason in hindsight that an African country fails , but looking to the future is supposed to be a reason a Western country (or company, etc.) will succeed. It's difficult to see how these claims can both be true.
I'm from South Africa, so I've always been captivated by the South African season/win at the 1995 Rugby World cup and the political context of it. Dramatized in the movie Invictus.

I don't know if it's the best sporting moment of all time, but it's certainly an interesting one.
I never used Firefox profiles, but Firefox container tabs work really well IMO. I much prefer them to Chrome's profiles for managing work vs personal logins.
...and Microsoft has more power than Google at the moment
I don’t know if they won the game of capitalism but their market power and profit incentive are facts.

If you don’t want to stop using Chrome, then your alternative is to buy a controlling share of Alphabet and appoint a Board that forgoes advertising revenue in exchange for being nice to adblock users.
Sorry to hear you ran into trouble with the sandbox. Data persistence is a premium feature, but it should warn about unsaved data if you try to close the tab or navigate away. Did that not happen in your case? And if so, what browser/OS/device?

If it's not clear, you can just sign up for the free trial of Premium, cancel it immediately, and have 7 days to try everything out for free. Perhaps offering a limited time to restore a previous session without needing to do that would be nice, but I don't think I have a good mechanism to make that tamper-resistant.
I'd say yes and no.

They didn't change Reddit's behavior in any way, shape, or form.

But I did close out an account I'd used there for ten years and have been actively seeking too expand my use of alternatives. I discover myself needing it less and less and alternatives replacing it more and more.

So I suppose it's all about your perspective.
Unemployment being low in the US is not so directly correlated with how workers are treated because there are so few labor protections in place and those that do exist are rarely enforced.

For a tech industry example, what Elon Musk did with layoffs and worker treatment at Twitter in his relentless efforts to demonstrate his incompetence would be illegal in most of Europe and quickly face the ire of unions and regulators. In the US, by contrast, his behavior was seen as aspirational by a number of other tech CEOs, who quickly followed suit to demonstrate that they were just as “smart” and “tough” as Musk.
> I’ve spent a lot of time constructing workarounds for apps my client didn’t want to pay for, and its highly likely me and my hourly rate to code these solutions would of paid for those apps twice-over.

I always find it funny how much money new business owners will invest in order to avoid a monthly business expense. Once you get a bit more experience, the question of build vs buy gets a bit easier.
Does someone know if this change of licence/business strategy is expected to expand to sold[0] (mold for macOS)?

[0] https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold
It reminds me of the dining hall at my university. The food would always be unbelievably good on parents weekend and any time there were tours that would eat there. Every other time it was mediocre at best. The check for the meal plan money cleared and the goal was to give back the bare minimum.
I wish education went the other way, focusing on integrating educational tools to adapt to a world where everyone has access to the world's full repertoire of knowledge at all times. Teach kids to integrate these powerful tools as part of their learning and problem solving skills. By the time a kid is out of high school they should have a powerful index of knowledge accessible from all devices to help them tackle complex problems.

I was always resentful in high school when teachers said you wouldn't have access to informational charts or calculators in the real world. At that time I considered my integration with some electronic devices an extension of myself and an external index, it was like having a bunch of additional limbs for problem solving. Not having access to my tech devices was equivalent to being artificially lobotomized. And kids growing up will have access to even more powerful tools thanks to LLMs.

Societies that adapt and integrate tech devices as part of the educational experience will have a competitive advantage in the long run.
PrivacyPass is an extension that lets you pre-solve CloudFlare CAPTCHAs if you're on a VPN. However, that was too frustrating, so CloudFlare partnered with Apple to integrate PrivacyPass into Safari.

How did they do this? Simple: iOS provides cryptographic attestation that your browser isn't a bot and isn't hacked, and CloudFlare takes that as your CAPTCHA solution. This works exactly the same way that Google proposes Web Environment Integrity work.
It's likely just for technology development and someone else will launch it
The primary reason for people like Larry to exist at this scale is the tax loopholes that the ultrarich use to hide wealth. This includes international money-laundering and cartels.
This headline appears to be bullshit. The report does not recommend banning smartphones. This is what it actually says:

"Banning technology from schools can be legitimate if technology integration does not improve learning or if it worsens student well-being. Yet, working with technology in schools, and the accompanying risks, may require something more than banning. First, policies should be clear on what is and is not permitted in schools. Students cannot be punished if there is no clarity or transparency on their required behaviour. Decisions in these areas need conversations supported by sound evidence and involve all those with a stake in students’ learning. Second, there should be clarity on the role these new technologies play in learning and on their responsible use by and within schools. Third, students need to learn the risks and opportunities that come with technology, develop critical skills, and understand to live with and without technology. Shielding students from new and innovative technology can put them at a disadvantage. It is important to look at these issues with an eye on the future and be ready to adjust and adapt as the world changes."
Now you're conflating payment for order flow with buying people's orders ahead of them.
> Can you please explain why a third party browser can’t lie about its hash, just like it can lie about it’s user agent?

Because that thing basically describes a proprietary plugin like Activex, Silverlight or Flash before it, so a third party browser which doesn't have that proprietary tech can't fake it, under pretense of "standard". The code of that plugin will not be open source, worse, it will act as a spyware on people's computers at the OS level.

It's like EME before and these proprietary techs have no place in a open standard spec.
Again, you need only research and find they are designed independently not to allow this https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10077/
Support for Office 2003 ended in 2014. Close to a decade ago. No maintenance, no patches, no service packs, nothing. No energy expended working on that codebase.

Office 2016 is going EOL in two years.

That's from Microsoft themselves. They do not hide these facts or make it hard to find.
Chromebooks are great too.

gLinux laptops are OK I guess? I dunno. Every time I've tried to use Linux as my main interface, it's been crashy and confusing. Maybe it's gotten better since the last time I tried.
That's not a meaningful argument, the excuse for having parents place absurd limits on screen time and video games was the same as with smartphones in schools, that they're distracting and addictive, would affect academic performance, and would affect kids in the classroom because they'd be talking about their TV shows and video games or thinking about watching/playing them during class.

It only feels different to you because you have the benefit of hindsight on one of them but not the other.
Spread your arms and legs, and puff up your chest so you appear big and threatening. The car will hesitate and probably try to surround you, or turn back. It's very important to not flinch or run away, because this will embolden the car. Some pedestrians have evolved adaptations like large umbrellas with big eyes painted on them, which look like some of car's natural predators.
> You can't add more types to a sum type, without modifying the sum type, which is a deal breaker for this use.

Honestly, why is it a deal breaker? We are talking about a small DSL with a handful of primitives in the sum type.

I am asking because I have seen people advocate against if/case/pattern matching (FP) in favor of overloading (OOP) approach, without any consideration of the readability and simplicity of the former.

I would understand that if you need to extend a sum type across module boundary, for example give this ability to a user of a library, then the latter approach makes sense (although in FP, this can be also done with typeclasses). But I don't really see the need here.
I rarely use google maps so haven't noticed. Only thing I really miss from OSM based services is street-view.
It's good to note that tolerance to alcohol is bad. It means your body has been damaged and is no longer responding to alcohol as it once did, to protect your organs.

edit: I should also note tolerance to alcohol is a warning that much greater problems are imminent. It is a red flag.
But it’s not "happening anyway", most people take drugs just fine without getting addicted. It’s when you are in a lousy situation and you take them regularly as an escape that you have a problem.
Elon is a bastard for this one. No mask now. Everyone is inconsequential in service to his vision.
I switched to Firefox for the idealogical reasons above and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a net improvement.

The only site I have compatibility issues with on desktop is MS Teams and even then it's only for voice/video calls, everything else works fine.

Firefox Android is a slightly less happy place. The password manager doesn't work very well (am moving away from the built-in one) and I can't log in on Amazon (which is important because I can't buy Kindle books in the app because of the Play Store).
Sad that the broader message of this post was ignored in favor of “but you should use Firefox” replies.
Community Note correcting Musk’s anti-vax tweet mysteriously disappears
3-5 mg, sublingual as I go to bed with some vitamin e, that helps balance and improves the immune boosting effects.
Perhaps it did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
I did find some support from Apple: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...