skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Girlfriend AI apps are a well-established business model. It already exists in the form of Replika and its many competitors! Its model will sometimes talk about cheating on its users.

See for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/1305q4v/my_replika...
Ups says drivers to make $170k in pay and benefits following union deal
"I've got nothing to hide."

Cool, then you're fine with me putting a webcam in your bathroom facing your toilet to watch everything you do.

Oh wait, it turns out that privacy has intrinsic value.
> I don't think I ever had to write down the date a battle happened.

Maybe not, but if you didn’t know when the battles happened you’d have a very difficult time identifying how they influenced each other.
We can count beans over whether it's appropriate to address how Islam entered the region in a PR piece, but I think we'd just be waxing historian in traditional HN fashion.

After some thought, it's obvious that it's beyond the scope of this book to address the history of the Islamic conquest to the extent that you desire (I failed in my part to recognize this earlier). I can understand how it can be interpreted that the book is advertised in a way that compels some of its Western readership to assume an implicit guilt or adversarial role as "Islamophobes" who denigrate the influence that the Islamic world had on its land. I myself was skeptic of this tone at first, but as a whole it simply isn't the responsibility of this particular book to cater to readers who want the history of the Islamic conquests from the perspective of the West (as the colonized) to be brought forth aside from the architectural influences that the conquests had. War and colonization involve more than just the bloodshed of the belligerents. For us to even focus on the just the event of conquest at the expense of what occurred afterward does a historical and cultural injustice. The Islamic conquests are in fact unique in this regard, as opposed to say, the Belgian Congo.

The irony here is that I can make the same accusation of "self-flagellation" to those who are desperate to be recognized as "the colonized" (in this instance by a cultural "other", in a sense) as I can make against people who woefully lament their history as "the colonizers". The former accusation feels even more apt because if so much lengths have to be taken to recall this history, maybe that's indicative of the significant steps that the region (as a collective) has made in progressing past that stage of their legacy. Of course I feel that there are some exemptions.

But on the whole, as I've said elsewhere, the Western world (as a hegemonic region that claims the most prosperous nations materially) in a way has lost the "narrative privilege" of the periods where they didn't have the upper hand being popularly discussed.Of course there are exceptions to this, but the Islamic conquests primarily have the distinction of being carried out by nations who if not foreigners themselves were driven by motives—the Islamic faith—entirely foreign to the invaded lands. It's not that there's anything to erase or twist, my hunch is that aside from specific historical discussions like this one, it's not worth mentioning.
The ingredients of Coca-Cola are a trade secret.
Thanks for pointing this out - I have not gotten around to political views yet because that is not something that users usually bring up, but let me get around to that in the next finetuning!
You think your subconscious is “fate”?
I was working on some video processing for 360 video and 180 camera dewarping.

Emailed him for help and he ended up selling me some of his code to unstick me. Great dude in my book.
I don't think ambient and noise music have any of these five properties generally, and it sounds good (where "good" is highly subjective).
You're not currently entitled to know everything and the position of the article is that you should be. And I agree. Hoarding knowledge is just slowing everyone down and it makes you greedy.
Not sure what you're interested in exactly but happy to discuss more:

https://www.tesotaoverland.com/contact
Why do you think "they" refers to anyone other than farmers?
It’s striking that: “The justice system in Veracruz can’t be relied on to investigate, punish, or deter criminals, nor has the government launched a major campaign to boost the vanilla industry”

And later: “In Mexico, the majority of businesses are small, informal, and off the books.”

It’s a tragic catch-22 of developing nations that governments are inept and corrupt for lack of funds. While distrust of government and rampant tax avoidance cause systemic underfunding.
Livekit is much more developer friendly , easy to setup , and really powerful alternative to jitsi .
https://github.com/livekit/client-sdk-flutter

It have spatial audio , much better performance , easy to configure backend for UDP Holepunching , STUN/ICE or TURN Relay.
The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco
Queue the scene from Billy Madison: https://youtu.be/xKGeHuln08A
I suspect you're in USD and they're in NZD. At the moment, 150NZD = 90USD, 150USD = 250NZD.
If you love your child for who they are, then presumably you can describe what difference would make you not love them.
Do I think offensive comments can be prosecuted in practice? Yeah, I do. Just as there are limits to free speech in the USA, there are comments that can have consequences.

The bar should be set high, and in general it is, but no, I don’t think hate speech is inherently free speech, for example.

The US way of doing things is not a) the only way of doing things, b) intrinsically the best way of doing things or c) trending in the right direction. Free speech is not something with a magical clear definition, and I think it goes without saying that we at least try to take incitement to actual race hate a little more seriously. We can set the bar differently; we have.

The problem in the UK is not a rash of prosecutions for offensive comments because despite what the parent comment says, they rarely come to trial. There is no enormous procession of these cases, and knobends are actually pretty free to be knobends here. Speech is free, newspapers don’t get raided when they happen to investigate the local police chief.

The problem at the moment is that the guidance is in flux, and too much time is wasted determining that something won’t be prosecuted. (Well, that’s the main problem. The secondary problem is the USA exporting its newest renewable resource, alt-right trolling, to every corner of the English speaking world, exhausting everyone’s patience.)
> Our child has a deep fear of failure that has prevented them from moving forward with learning particular skills

What I am saying is actually in-line with your approach of encouraging them to overcome that fear. My disagreement is when you tell them failure is ok. You are confusing "try+fail" with "try". You praise their perseverance not their failure and perseverance isn't possible because you fear failure, it is possible because you believe in them and love them no matter what, their worth isn't tied to the outcome of their efforts, they persevere because they want to succeed and because failure sucks.

To put it differently, when you say "it's ok to fail" you want them to not feel bad about themselves when they fail. But the shortcoming there is you didn't tell them failure itself isn't good, it just doesn't define them and shouldn't be feared.

In the real world they will fail a lot and you won't be there to coddle them. The best you can do is teach them to not fear failure or be discouraged by it but to understand its cause and overcome it. To despise failure without making it your identity and celebrate and pursue success.

Last thing, if praising means showing love and affection then that is just messed up, that's a given! You should display affection to a child no matter what, not contingent on their success or failure. I am sure you agree with me on this, but also, that means reaffirming to them that their value and worth in life is also not contingent on their success. But nevertheless, success should be pursued and failure despised because failure in the long run means harming themselves or harming others one way or the other. Failing at math isn't a big deal but accepting failure there could mean a mindset that accepts failure in their jobs, marriage, friendships, business,etc... and expecting others to praise them when they fail and getting upset when that doesn't happen.
The only thing on my CV that indicates my age are my early jobs. Just take those away. When they do ask, I say that work I did at that time wasn’t relevant to today.

Either way, as soon as they figure out my ago, the screening call is typically over.
Copyright is just one of the impractically odious pillars of capitalism buckling under the stresses of late capitalism. Trying to "make it work" is a temporary measure at best, but I think more relaxing of the restrictions at least behind the advancement of technology by at least a couple of decades will be the only chance it has to remain relevant. The laws that stopped people from running bootleg vinyl presses are laughable when applied to copying a file from one of my computers to another.

The current experiment of seeing how many $10-$20 corporations consumers are willing to pay monthly ends either with monopoly/oligopoly of art or a new golden age of piracy.
I am curious .. how would you convert an inbound webrtc stream (from the presenter) to HLS for a broadcast to the viewers? Wouldn't the lag make it unusable?
Working on a similar thing that uses toml to define pages... But closed source, for now...

I like toml because it's easy to read and write as a human, even without text editor help...
https://github.com/livekit/

It dosen't limit number of P2P participants.
If you read the Llama2 paper it is very clear that small amounts of data (thousands of records) make vast difference at the instruction turning stage. From the Llama2 paper:

> Quality Is All You Need.

> Third-party SFT data is available from many different sources, but we found that
many of these have insufficient diversity and quality — in particular for aligning LLMs towards dialogue-style
instructions. As a result, we focused first on collecting several thousand examples of high-quality SFT data,
as illustrated in Table 5. By setting aside millions of examples from third-party datasets and using fewer but
higher-quality examples from our own vendor-based annotation efforts, our results notably improved. These
findings are similar in spirit to Zhou et al. (2023), which also finds that a limited set of clean instruction-tuning data can be sufficient to reach a high level of quality. We found that SFT annotations in the order of tens of thousands was enough to achieve a high-quality result. We stopped annotating SFT after collecting a total of
27,540 annotations. Note that we do not include any Meta user data.

It's likely OpenAI has invested in this and has good coverage in a larger range of domains. That alone probably explains a large amount of the gap.
> But as supply grows then demand shrinks and if you’re importing supply at the same rate as demand then wages are flat and if faster then wages drop.

No, this is the lump of labor fallacy. People /are/ demand and you can't treat them like commodities. What matters are if immigrants have complimentary skills to natives, which they generally do.

> Australia is incredibly restrictive with immigration

1/3 of Australia's population are immigrants! They can be restrictive relative to their starting population and amount of land sure, but in absolute terms that's still a lot.
There was a dedicated effort by the Dutch resistance to destroy the records of the civil registries. During the occupation, forged documents could be checked against the records in the civil registry. By bombing the civil registry office, the forged papers could no longer be validated against the civil registry, and would pass inspection.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_bombing_of_the_Amsterdam_...
>As one commenter suggested the answer is nuclear power.

I'm sorry, I just don't trust our governments, or future governments, to manage nuclear.

Shit happens, whether it's natural disasters, or human catastrophes like the War in Europe.

We need to acknowledge that war, and a steep decline in our ability to function as a civilization are a very real possibility.

Climate change itself might bring this about. What would a few years of extreme famine do to our society?

I agree with the conservationists on this. The solution is to build solar in the land we have already ruined with our cities, and make do with less power.
Most people I talk to haven't, even scifi fans. But it had it's viewership in its time and a following in certain circles now.
Yes, but there are places where you're a lot more likely to make $150k.
If you're open, recommend skipping to the first 3 episodes of season 2.
> have a single wifi router and power everything through that and still have much faster bandwidth than the author does

I'm confused, what's faster than what?
*Information also wants to be expensive.*

>The right information at the right time can save a life, make a fortune, topple a government.

Good information takes time and effort and money to produce.
Am I correct in understanding that this means you can only have a list of typed ASTs, or a list of not-yet-typed ASTs, but not a list with a mix?

Obviously I understand that if this is the limitation, then there are ways to work around this, and it all depends on how annoying the workarounds are.

But I’m curious is there a trick that allows it. All the tricks I can think of involve boxing the the ASTs you’re about to store in the list (which then come with memory/performance hits), and I’d love to be proven wrong.
Personally zero configuration is not a selling point for me for a professional tool I rely on to do maybe the majority of my work.

I think it’s reasonable to not hold hours or even days of setup and learning against a product I’d use in this fashion. Even a tiny 1% productivity benefit obtained after configuration and learning earns me about 2.5 dev days worth of benefit every year. And if I expect to use the tool for a decade that’s almost a month.
Very solid article with many points I agree with.

Some notes:

Keywords are not simply "another pragmatic solution that won over finding a more elegant way to support named arguments" and they are inherently different than maps and serve different purposes. Maps are unordered hashes, keyword lists are constant time, ordered list that can have duplicate keys. For example, in the language core, duplicate keys are used:

import Foo, only: [bar: 1, bar: 2]

Ecto's query syntax makes use of both duplicate keys and ordering:

from q in query,
join: t in assoc(q, :table),
on: q.table_id = t.id,
join: o in assoc(t, :other),
on: t.other_id = o.id

Everyone complains about the f.() syntax. It's necessary as explained in the guides in the Anonymous Functions section [0]. There is also a nice little parallel to Erlang in that a regular function call looks like `f()` whereas an anonymous function call looks like `F()`.

Contexts can be confusing, unfortunately. They're based off of bounded contexts from Domain Driven Design. I wouldn't say there is one right way to use Phoenix contexts, though reading up on DDD's bounded contexts really helps. I already had DDD experience before I learned Elixir, though, so it's easy for me to say and maybe more of a pain for others who don't want to do that.

Comprehensions can be much more concise in certain situations. You can certainly get away with avoiding them, but they can really come in handy sometimes. Not gonna give examples as this is getting too long. A short example would be Cartesian products.

Finally, I don't quite understand the gripe with `on_mount` or even `live_session` but that's been addressed in another comment.

[0] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/basic-types.html
I agree with most of your point, but it absolutely is a luxury brand, even with 50% share, in the usa, a quite wealthy nation.
> Free people are able to go outside and start dropping rocks from different heights to start deriving physics. Or study wildlife for biology knowledge.

Thank you for clarifying this. I could see how a reasonable person could easily assume that Elbakyan is in fact talking about the prohibition of dropping rocks without going through an elaborate bit of mental gymnastics for a pedantic language gotcha in order to arrive at such an interpretation.
I don't think that's their motivation, but either way they're wrong, as resources aren't used per-person and reducing the population will not give them more resources. Rather less, as there will be less people to invent new more productive ways to use them.

Lot of places on Earth deforested themselves with much smaller populations than they have now, because they cut down all the trees to make firewood.
Gay couple wins lawsuit in Italy after son's birth photo used without consent
Small correction: the example of "Mode-7 like effects" in Batman and Robin on the Mega Drive is not done in software (where "software" implies the CPU is drawing the pixels).

The Mega Drive's VDP is capable of both line scrolling and column scrolling, and the effect (commonly called "tilting") is a combination of line and column scrolling.

Tilting can be done via hardware on the VDP quite easily. Both line and column scrolling are easy to set up. One disadvantage is that a background can only be tilted to a certain degree before the illusion is broken (which makes it different from true Mode-7 rotation). Another disadvantage is that there's a bug in the VDP such that when both forms of scrolling are used concurrently, the leftmost column has garbage data. Most developers would hide this column with a black bar (as seen in Batman and Robin).

Some more examples can be seen towards the bottom here:

https://rasterscroll.com/mdgraphics/graphical-effects/tiltin...
Steepest funicular rail line to open in Switzerland (2017)
If an independent repair man a la Louis Rossman can make a living doing component level repair on macs, then I'd expect the margin to be good enough that the original company could do it as well. However, the economic sense to Apple is about selling new products, and an actual repair program would cut into product sales.
Nanomachines within living organisms: Cytochromes P450 as a living soft robot
Generative AI is excellent at churning out prose good enough for targeted scams, fake news and search engine optimization, and there is plenty of commercial value in all three of those. However, none of those three will transform humanity as we know it, they'll just make life a bit worse for everybody.
"I think tech should probably pay it's fair share."

What does this mean exactly? Are some tech companies and employees dodging taxes?

California has one of the highest corporate and income tax rates in the nation.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/state-income-tax-ra...
I like using this little trick to change the directory to the one in which the script resides...

#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
What's the purpose of copyright again?
> ...a hundred Chromebooks were set up...

I haven't been to any DEF CON events. Is hacking from a Chromebook normal? What's the reason they don't let you use your own device?
Great Founder Theory (2020)
And, lest anybody be misled by the title you quoted,

> No, I'm not switching sides. IPv6 is just as far away from universal adoption, or being a "good design" for our world, as it was three years ago.
You made the exaggerated claim with the thousands. Ridiculous.
You're confusing the actual campaign with twitter trolls. The actual campaign is registered, and is required to obey a variety of laws.
Yeah, the article is ridiculous. In the past 15 years I've never seen it this bad for me or anyone else I know.
Yep, as a relatively recent (2.5 years ago) convert from HP to Brother because HP was pulling all this crap with with 3rd party toner cartridges.

The Brother has proved to be just as bad, and in some ways even worse.

Once it decides the (genuine) toner must be empty it basically refuses to print without some complex reset procedures. At least the HP would just happily print faded pages all day long.
Probably the fact their printer is now bricked after attempting to use third party ink …

(Sorry couldn’t resist)
Call me paranoid but I would want bring my own device to defcon.
I mean, I make an earnest call for us to put politics aside and the response is a yahoo news story about AOC? C'mon, this is what I'm saying – let's make an honest attempt to focus on solutions we can agree on.

Politicians are going to be politicians – but most of us are citizens. And there are a lot of possible solutions we can come together and support.

+ Massive reforestation efforts. While we're at it, I'd suggest whatever we're paying countries sitting on massive natural forests to not cut them down, we should up it by an order of magnitude.

+ Let's once-and-for-all modernize our electrical grid. We've been close before, and it's actually doable. And there's national security reasons to do it, and you don't even have to believe in Climate Change to know that downed power lines happen all the time from extreme weather events. Places like Arizona can't risk losing AC, etc.

+ Invest in a Manhattan style project to advance carbon sequestration technologies. Perhaps it'll never work. Maybe it's true that it just gives fossil fuel companies license to continue on as normal. But I think it's worth a shot, and might appeal to centrists and people further to the right. So I think people on the left and hardcore environmentalists should compromise here and accept that there might be a way to solve this problem that doesn't remake all of society.

Last one is the most controversial, and probably politically impossible because nobody likes a tax, but I think a Carbon Tax is a no-brainer. Look: the tax payer is already paying for the negative externalities of fossil fuel emissions. But the fossil fuel companies are not. We solved the ozone issue this way in the 90s, it allows 'the market' to have a hand in the process, and could lead to both innovation and consumers adapting and choosing the aspects of their life they don't mind compromising on. It's better in my opinion than dictating that everyone ration x, y, or z. Let people decide with their wallets.
Fair question.

If you're talking about actual laborers, most of them aren't even citizens and this is not a priority for them.

If you're talking about the corporate boards who run the agriculture industry, this increases cost without increasing profit so this is not a priority for them.

I just can't think of how the agriculture industry could possibly get behind this.
Look at the number of projects that offer a Flutter sdk, that'll give you an idea how popular it is

https://github.com/search?q=flutter%20sdk&type=repositories
We're living in a golden age of burgeoning counter cultures. It's just never easy to see in the moment.
I worked at MS for 3 years after undergrad, My first year was 221k, 180k, 191k and would've been ~185k for Y4 then 160k after cliff.

SSA is Special Stock Award given arbitrarily (M2s are not sure or have any say in who/how much to be given) but believed to be used for retention by HR. Annual stock refreshers for <L63 at Microsoft are in the range of 0-20k vesting over 5 years.

I chose to move to Amazon then recently Apple.