skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're making relationship decisions based on statistical chances of separation you're already operating on a level of fundamental distrust. If you're planning an "out" in what ought to be a lifelong relationship then you're already not in it for the long run. Risk is part of what makes a marriage meaningful, you're mutually accepting that risk and embracing it for the good of the other.
Are there any docker images containing this? I'd like to avoid getting into dependency hell with other software on my system, as happens all too often with new technologies.
This device comes in at ~$100. You can get an Android phone cheaper than that with a much better screen, with a touch screen instead of physical keyboard, a camera, a microphone, cell modem, a bigger battery, a stronger processor, more RAM, and much more.
Not AFAIK, but SQLite is extremely special.
My first reaction was to think "Google is a shitty search engine if CNET can improve their search ranking by deleting information."

But then I thought about scenarios where this might be legitimate. If we assume:

1. Google has some ability to assess the value of content that isn't 100% reliable at a per-article level, but in aggregate is accurate.
2. Google therefore has the ability to judge CNET's content quality score in aggregate, and use that in search rankings for individual articles.
3. CNET knows that they have articles that rate well on Google's quality score, and articles that rate poorly.
4. CNET has reason to think they can generally distinguish "good" articles from "bad" articles.

THEN it would (could?) make sense to remove the "bad" articles in order to raise their aggregate quality score. It's kind of like the Laffer Curve of Google Content Quality. Overall traffic could go up if the "bad" articles are "bad" enough.

That said, unless CNET was publishing absolutely useless garbage at some point, it would make a lot more sense to just de-index those articles, or even for Google to provide a way for a site to mark lower-quality articles, so Google understands that the overall quality score shouldn't be harmed by that article about the Top 5 Animals As Ranked By Hitler, but if someone actually Googles that, it's fine for CNET to have retained that article, and for Google to send them to it.

In short: Google advising sites not to do this when there are perfectly reasonable alternatives seems silly.
Global Privacy Control for web browsers
Many religions instruct to help people in need. To forbid it is to forbid the faith. You could argue they will kill you for less.

I'm not suggesting we go back to burning all the wimmen but at some point people should be so called evil enough even for our taste?
You're not describing bipolar disorder, you're describing symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia (and other similar disorders) affects your ability to think and behave coherently. It's a detachment from reality.

Bipolar disorder is characterized by long (weeks or months) mood swings that range from very motivated and often positive to deeply depressed. When you're "up" you feel overconfident, impulsive, and restless. When you're "down," you are the opposite. There's no notion of false pattern recognition or conspiracy theories.

Not my place to pass judgement either way but don't just make things up when talking about mental health, it's not a good look.
As a practical matter, that doesn't work when the power imbalance is so great that one side doesn't have a realistic way to negotiate the contract.

I.e. if the best job that someone can negotiate is one where they are being exploited or abused, then that doesn't make the exploitation/abuse any more just.
Better than what? Currently, there is no legally guaranteed infrastructure for online transactions and identity verification.

Clearly, the world is transitioning to a place where your quality of life without an online presence is severely reduced.

Currently, due to the lack of government provided infrastructure, we all live at the mercy of a few giant corporations, who answer to no one and are free to refuse business to anyone, at anytime.

I do not see why anyone would want private banks to be able to hold the specter of canceling your account and blacklisting you over your head, or google/apple/Microsoft/whoever locking you out of email, or some underpaid ATT/Verizon/T-Mobile worker forwarding your SMS so someone can steal your 2FA codes and empty your accounts.
I'd prefer everyone I know stop using Discord and start using Matrix, but that will never happen.
Getty will send you a threatening letter demanding payment if you use a public domain image. They were previously sued by someone who received one of these letters for their own photograph. It is worth taking a long and hard look at whether Getty is who you want by your side.
Have you considered developing a new Javascript frontend framework?

Just don't sit somewhere and start to ruminate about life. Don't ask me why I know this. It doesn't end well...
> If you accept the package in a way where they pay the import taxes for you (you are not paying the government directly, they pay first then you pay them), it does indeed become your problem. They conducted a service on your behalf, with the expectation that you will compensate them, and the brokerage fees represent their labour in paying for you.

What happens is they drop a package on your porch without giving you a chance to refuse the package and clear it yourself. They have to give you that opportunity by law.

It would be similar to showing up at your house, cleaning your windows and then sending you bill. You never asked for that service, in the case of UPS you never agreed for them to act as your broker to clear your package.
>29. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi...

I discovered this when my father would come up with some project me and my siblings had to do, such as scrape, sand, prime and paint the house (which thinking back very likely had lead paint).

It would inevitably take roughly 3 times longer than he wanted it to take. And of course being an adult he'd throw a tantrum about it.
Linux Foundation decreased Linux spending to 3.2% in 2022
Experimental verification of quantum Cheshire cat effect
could I keep only half of all the keys (e.g., I'd never need 0-9 or cursor keys, but then maybe ANS is useful), reoder them and attach a shortcut to each button?

Or replacing sin with the rad/degree switcher (without the dropdown)?
My dad drives for Uber Eats as well as Skip the Dishes (a Canadian gig work food delivery app). He gets paid more per hour on Skip but the app will not allow him to work as much as he wants, it forces him to sign up for 3-4 hour shifts a week ahead of time. Sometimes Skip will only give him 1-2 shifts in a week (8 hours total work), which is simply not enough money to get by.

So he uses Uber Eats to pick up the slack. The app lets him go online and go offline any time he wants — no shifts, no scheduling ahead. He’s also completely free to reject as many orders as he wants until he gets ones that offer a bigger tip. Skip, on the other hand, penalizes his earnings if he falls below 80% moving average accept rate (over the last 10 orders).

If Uber were forced to employ all of their drivers full- or part-time, he would lose all of the flexibility he now enjoys. He’d have scheduled shifts and have to clock in and clock out at specific times on specific days. He’d likely also lose the ability to reject orders entirely.

I can tell you right now, he would hate that. So would many other gig workers, who take full advantage of the flexibility to be able to look after their families and otherwise live their lives. Compare that with the chaos that is the life of a retail worker stuck with an automated shift scheduling system and zero start/stop time consistency and zero flexibility.
Heidegger wrote on a work attributed to him, but recent scholarship has reconsidered that attribution and it’s now attributed to Thomas of Erfurt
The main page says “Eliminate 97.42%* of your software development effort”…

That’s a very specific percentage of effort to eliminate. How did you arrive at that figure?
A person had a bad experience. There's a decent chance that bad experience is more that person's fault than it is any technology's. But also:

> If there's a _right_ way to do things then it should be blindingly obvious and these kinds of experiences would dry up.

This has never happened for any technology ever. People misconfigure things all the time. Even hardened technologies get used incorrectly very frequently. It's just the reality of our industry. Which is why I say, all of this is just a proxy for "I didn't like my experience with Python", which is fine! But also in no way condemning of the technology.
I have ChatGPT4 tab open most of the time, so it's always ready to go.
It’s all about edge cases, ie what specifically happens when a customer throws up in your car.

That’s not something the average person off the street is going to ask. But many are going to be pissed learning they will reimburse you for paying someone to clean your car but not the time it takes you to do it yourself, nor the lost wages until it’s clean.
No? A JSON object could have any type at run time. You cannot do anything at compile time to figure out the right type.

Please point to a specific library if you disagree.
> They've only recently started processing tourist visas once again

The whole welding people into a building that then burns down is a difficult thing for Tourism Departments to compensate for.
Maybe they were experimenting with reject inference to improve the model but it didn't work?
The proposals were literally mowing. Like a lawn. Leaving the soil undisturbed. An improvement over every other crop, esp corn.

That said, all the (huge scale) biofuel options will likely be mooted by green hydrogen. Fingers crossed.
That was my first read as well.
I’m really tired of all of these “low-code” tools for the enterprise.
one of the best product i'd used thus far. too bad it did not sustain the market. the quality of video and audio so good even low bandwidth areas. sad to see this product goes away. I Hope they spin-off as separate product rather than sun setting it.
If you want to get pedantic, we could more precisely define the upper-class as those who extract value from others, and the lower classes as those from which said value is extracted from.

Were we to push that to the extreme, the only upper-class at Goldman Sachs would be retirees, either as direct shareholders or as beneficiaries of some pension fund. Even if they were lower middle-class Americans living in an old aging house they can’t afford to fix.

That would be the Value Extraction definition of Class.

Others would argue that class is more diffuse, and that one’s class depends more on their family's history, where they went to school, and who they know, than on how much they have. Which is a valid point.

That would be a Social Capital definition of Class.

I doubt however that anyone would consider a street-sweeping former Emperor (eg Piyin), or some penniless heir to some old industry dynasty as still belonging to any sort of upper-class.

Meaning the actual definition actually is some fluid mix of the two. That and probably some other definitions I’m not even aware of.

> In the modern economy, capital owners are reliant on a class of non-fungible white collar workers that bring their own human capital.

It’s nothing modern. Capital owners always have, since the first scribe, and probably before that (see Japan’s former hordes of perpetually desk-bound samurai).

Still, let’s entertain the argument. I’ll use, and I’m truly sorry for that, a tired analogy.

In the modern world, many people are reliant on many different types of usually non-fungible pets and somewhat fungible, depending on who you ask, animals, for many different purposes. Some of which bring their own highly sought-after hard-earned skills.

Let’s limit ourselves to the oh so tired dog analogy.

A person and their dog have myriad common interests. Those interests are, in many cases, in opposition to those of many other people and animals. Even more so when said dog is considered a family member, serves as a guard dog, as a shepherd dog, or is specialised in drugs detection.

Does that make them equal? Does that change anything to the fact that one is extracting value from the other, and often only pays them back in dog food, usually made from our food industry’s literal scraps and refuse?

So yes, I agree with you: there’s no simple and definitely no simplistic definition of class.

I am still convinced however that, in the specific and limited context of the comment I was replying to, the one I used was good enough.
This is op. Check the link.
Mine would likely last a few months, but it's mostly old stuff anyway.
The tweet is also clearly saying that deleting old content will increase the average page rank of your articles in the first N hours after it is published. (Because the time to first crawl will decrease, and the page rank is effectively zero before the first crawl).

CNet is big enough that I’d expect Google to ensure the crawler has fresh news articles from it, but that isn’t explicitly said anywhere.
I've had UPS packages dropped on my front porch with import duties and taxes by UPS, without my consent. And then received a bill for duties+taxes+brokerage fees for a service that I never asked.
>I think for a particular segment of society we've actually gotten much better at putting ambitious people to work

Yes yes yes!! There's this great essay from Stephen Jay Gould on why we haven't had 0.400 hitters in baseball for so long. His argument was that the overall pool of baseball players got too good so you're not seeing strong outliers anymore! I'd say that this is a phenomenon we see across all kinds of life, not just sports.

From a paper reviewing the evidence of Gould, I can't find the original essay online:

>Gould then supposes that the decline in batting average peak (the .400 hitter, the outlier) is due to decreased variation in the population of hitters. In other words, as the skills of both hitters and pitchers improved, and as the pool of talented players to choose from increased, the variation in talent (the difference between the best to the worst batting averages) should decrease. Therefore, players in Major League Baseball in more recent period are arguably reaching the “wall” of human performance. Gould’s analysis of the data supports this idea, as the standard deviation of league-wide batting averages has decreased steadily since the early 20th century.

https://sabr.org/journal/article/can-stephen-jay-goulds-theo...
Heisenberg’s estimate of 180,000 people have worked on this project (130,000 did), that it’s done to quickly end the war and Europe will be under Anglo-Saxon control was good.
> race to the bottom that crowded the streets with empty taxis all honking at each other

Which is, to your point, exactly what has happened with Ubers and Lyfts in Seattle.

In any popular neighborhood on any popular evening, public transport becomes even more difficult to use because Uber and Lyft drivers absolutely do not respect bus lanes or bus stops. They turn, even more than they already are, into fare pickup zones for these private companies. If a bus driver does manage to make it close enough to honk but far enough to not pick up someone safely, the gig worker does not do anything.

I'm starting to see this at the new train station that opened on the north end of Seattle. There is a "kiss and ride" area and it is routinely covered up with people driving vehicles festooned with the logos of the app companies. Some have even figured out that, apparently, they can get even better ratings by dropping their fares off at the bus stops in the bus-only lanes.

Meanwhile, there's nothing any of us can do because there is no public registry or complaint process for the public to gripe about app gig workers, and if you ask for one you are pilloried as wanting to "take away good pay from hard-working immigrants" or some other trope.
you can't blame the distro when the main page has the same interface, I've replied re. customization in a different comment
> Sure, we could dramatically overhaul national employment laws and legal theory, but that's not what courts are supposed to do during a lawsuit, and it's usually outside the scope of what many local/state legislatures are prepared and willing to tackle

Literally what you are saying is "well that might be a better place to be, but the courts can't do it, and also it's too hard for the legislatures".

If you truly believe that making good laws is too complicated for the government to handle, then people and corporations are perfectly within their moral rights to ignore the bad laws and to do everything in the power to evade the consequences. You've lost the mandate of heaven, it's time to start over.
Cracks in Ancient Martian Mud Surprise NASA’s Curiosity Rover Team
> 35. (de Saint-Exupery's Law of Design) A designer knows that they have achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Virgil wrote the Aeneid by following this rule!
>When they say you should return it, ask them for a prepaid label to do the return, which is your right

Which countries does this apply to? (Story is about Canada, but wonder if this is true in the US as well)
Secret Pakistan cable documents U.S. pressure to remove Imran Khan
You should consider Storybook. It has really changed my team's thought around frontend components -- they think in much more of an atomic design mentality now, build little stories out of their atoms, and then assemble those onto our existing pages. The APIs they're building are cleaner and less ad-hoc, which contributes to building more reusable, understandable and refactorable code.

I'm mainly saying this because I had a similar mentality to you -- I didn't see the point -- but I now use it even on personal projects. It's nice to be able to easily see my various widgets isolated, on their own and tweakable without needing to navigate five layers deep into my application to alter them.
hard agree on nullable types

just make everything non null and use option/maybe to indicate absence

wayyyy simpler
I won't entirely disagree that it's fiscally regressive (most regressive tax policy in the country IIRC), but we're talking about the city of Seattle specifically which tends to favor worker rights a bit more than the statewide government does. See: sick leave policy, minimum wage policy, etc.
> move back to emails, mailing lists, and some light ephemeral thing for IM (quite possibly IRC). Because at least then, user experience doesn't have to be dictated by someone who has absolutely no idea how you want to or like to work.

Not sure if you have used corporate email in the last 15 years but admins do absolutely dictate what clients you can or cannot connect from.
Fix HomePod Mini Connectivity with the Bell Giga Hub
Those "experimental or unstable" features tend to be the advertised selling points of Kotlin. Particularly for async, the previous "experimental" APIs were the only ones available at the time and the recommended way of using Kotlin.
> I suppose it was unwise of her to enter Canada, but again, you're ceding any moral high ground here.

I'm not sure I understand your point about "moral high ground". Is the implication that US sanctions or arresting people for violating sanctions is immoral?
I have my VPS on auto-renew, so I suppose until my credit card expires, the company goes out of business, or I run out of money in the bank.
Come on man I'm not even 30, I'm way too young to be made to feel old by people saying "traditional NoSQL stack".
Common Lisp certainly isn't "pretending that it doesn't have a type system", this is the chapter about it in the language's specification: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/04_.ht...
Whisper (speech-to-text transcription model) sometimes gets stuck in an endless loop of repeating the same word. It's a known problem for lots of our modern transformer/attention-based models.

One of the hacky ways to avoid this is to ensure the last few output tokens aren't too similar. Some postprocessing filter watches the last few produced tokens. When it notices the model starts to repeat itself, the postprocessing usually perturbs the next token a little, e.g. taking the nth-top token instead of the most likely one.

Perhaps a model that genuinely wants to repeat the output instead needs a bigger "kick" to the representation which puts it somewhere completely different in the semantic space? Idk, just pulling this out of my hat.

(I have no idea how ChatGPT handles this or whether the raw implementation suffers from this problem, but Whisper-cpp has some manual entropy regularization postprocessing stuff to avoid getting stuck like that. It's super hacky and often doesn't help.)
> What also doesn’t feel good: tax collection in Cheltenham has, for some reason, been outsourced to a private company

Somehow that reminds me of private tax collection in France, which led to a city wall to collect taxes on goods. [0] Public anger over such tax practices featured prominently in the revolution several years after it was finished.

Obviously there are some pretty big differences between that and this, but I think "outsourcing tax collection" is a negative thing by default.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_the_Ferme_g%C3%A9n%C3%...
Mozilla's review process is much more strict than Chrome's: they required me to produce original source code for all libraries that I am using (like jquery), forced me to get rid of some leftover eval's in javascript, etc. I don't think they read all source code, but they definitely look for some patterns.
He is doing full stack, and is selling tinybox (a PC with 6 AMD GPUs in it).

As he went through the hard work of debugging the driver and getting AMD to care about it, I was expecting to see him in the acknowledgements.
KDE is used by default in Suse, has first class support on Red Hat distros, and is the default on the Steam Deck.

Honestly, it's better than GNOME at being an alternative to Windows UX, so calling them out for fragmenting Linux is kind of moot.
Doctors on TikTok
This plus temperature/randomness is the answer. Language models are generally non-deterministic (you don't generally use them with 0 temperature) and if the question is ambiguous, it makes the variance higher.
For the curious, this is a reference to the "always has been" meme format
Did that person try to sell drugs in China? Pretty well known that's a death penalty.
good work keep going
Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions
Used to travel to China on business quite often, including a holiday at one of their remote resort.

The level of dislike of foreigners, especially for dark skin folks, is sadly quite rampant. For my own safety, I no longer accept business travel assignments to China, being a PoC.
Interesting as this is not uber policy, but I recognize that memories shift over time.
Narrowlink – Better self-hosted tailscale/ngrok alternative
> “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."

This quote reflects a very European attitude towards wealth to me. I believe PG specifically talks about possible origins of this idea.
Two wrongs don't make a right.

(I am bursting to edit my comment to make it more punny in light of the Asian connection of the comment material, but at least I am taking the high road here - but know this, I am chuckling to myself and don't play the race card, you can't trump me)
It's funny because I was going to say circa 2012. Working at Linode I definitely saw a shift away from MySQL to Postgres around that time, but I didn't have any over arching reason beyond "it was trendy."
I spent a month there and quite liked it. Visited a lot of cities, even in Xinjiang.