skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On iPhone, there's an "Emergency Bypass" toggle for each contact which I think would solve this.
Isn't that already an issue? I've definitely needed specific versions of excel to open particular workbooks before.
“Who cares about performance, if our users cared about performance they’d tell us” - PM’s everywhere.
Just be aware of everything, without resistance.
Lets take this one step farther, call it identity fraud and not just fraud; otherwise, identity theft will probably be with us.
I have just purchased 1500 brand new but broken panels (660 kilowatts)

The reason is a little different though... By being broken they are classified as scrap electronics rather than solar panels as far as import taxes go. That makes them half the price.

It makes good business sense when they still have a 25 year manufacturer's power output guarantee. The only element of the guarantee that is lost is that they no longer will be electrically isolated from rainwater. That means I need to install them inside barbed wire fences and extra signage to prevent trespassers and thieves getting electrocuted.
There are a few good points here but the author doesn't help their case by suggesting that ringing phones should be illegal. That's ridiculous on multiple levels.

I prefer to have my phone on silent, and I often leave my home without my phone if I don't have any on-call commitments or whatever. I don't like being constantly connected, but that's a small problem for me to work through and not anyone else.
I quit using emoji entirely almost 5 years ago, though I do continue to use a few simple emoticons. https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/104722329811389645...

My reasons: "There's a method to my madness. You see, gifs are trivially infinitely extensible and backward compatible. Whereas each new emoji requires an addition to Unicode and software updates. And the demand for more emoji is insatiable. That system is not practical or scalable." (I mentioned gifs there because I was known to frequently post gifs.) https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/105276966084695244...
> To attempt to convert someone to one's own religious faith.

About 175 occurrences per billion words at its peak in 2000, according to wolframalpha.
Just skimming the article, seems like the author wants us to shake our fists at these zillenials/zoomers
I’ve had my phone this way for years. The only exceptions are people in my favorites, which is only my immediate family in case of emergency.

It’s quite relaxing, to be in control of when I do specific tasks like check notifications and call people back. If you find yourself overwhelmed I recommend trying this out.
It's laziness.
I think the biggest issue with (modern, unicode) emoji has been the different art used between OS/platform. It seems like everyone is kind of converging on making their emojis convey the same emotion as Apple's (which is probably the right move since Apple popularized them, and they're baked into a ton of images that have been circulating for years)

Samsung had some rough emojis for a while. Look at their old "grimacing" face. Or the old cookies emoji that they made saltine crackers. Or their eye roll emoji which was a sarcastic eye roll on Apple, but Samsung had it as a cute smile. I'm sure that caused many a communication issue.
Yeah, I've been seeing tech contracting jobs paying in the $60 to $70/hour range that are very similar to what I was doing last year making $100+/hour.
They make sense as reactions but are absolutely awful in prose. Emoji spam (specially rocket) is the litmus test for “people i dont want to work with”
Thanks, glad I asked - I genuinely was not sure.
> What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition?

…

> Did you use all the data? Did you use the whole condition? Have you taken into account all essential notions involved in the problem?

What sort of problems are they solving, that they can somehow identify the relevant data to the point that they know once they’ve chomped their way through the data, the problem is done? It seems oddly constructed (I can only imagine that I know I’ve only been given relevant data if I’m working a textbook problem or playing a video game; somebody has set the problem up for me, but clearly this was written by somebody prestigious, so that isn’t it).
Quite a few ways, whether through device/session fingerprinting [1], in-app browser keystroke tracking [2], frequent third-party post requests [3], individiual app usage patterns [4], geo-tracking [5], dark-patterned user onboarding [6] and continual facial recognition [7].

A canary blog series kicked off by the company itself is worth keeping an eye on to see the 'myths' they want to debunk most scrupously (such as keytracking)[8].

[1]: https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1

[2]: https://krausefx.com/blog/announcing-inappbrowsercom-see-wha...

[3]: https://app.urlgeni.us/blog/new-research-across-200-ios-apps...

[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/business/media/tiktok-alg...

[5]: https://www.afr.com/technology/tiktok-admits-collecting-loca...

[6]: https://au.reset.tech/uploads/resettechaustralia_policymemo_...

[7]: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/971460327/tiktok-to-pay-92-mi...

[8]: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-truths-a-new-series...
I'm not sure what that has to do with whether the charts on this page are in nominal or constant dollars, or compare 1950s shoeboxes to 2000s McMansions, or capture the introduction of women into the workforce, or measure total compensation vs. wages, or properly indicate the actual time inequality started growing, or are premised on the idea that the absolute value of the S&P is meaningful across the whole economy.

The AskEconomics thread there is a litany of issues with these charts. Ironically, this seems like a pretty good illustration of what the article author is saying.
A mix of personal and public policies. I don't care which calls this person answers, personally I have stopped answering unknown numbers except if I expect a call. But out in public, I don't have much of a problem if a phone rings with a ringtone, if it is not annoyingly loud. Sometimes you put your phone somewhere else than in your pocket, and I think it is good if it rings so I can hear it from a distance.

The problem I see that spam calls goes directly to phone. I would like them never to even reach my phone. Like a spam filter on a server, rather than on the client. I would want more control over this.
But I think you made my point. “Exercising control” (your words) is needed because there is a biological drive in play. Bared breasts triggers that drive to some degree. To pretend otherwise isn’t being honest.
Amazon getting hardcore about RTO.
iChat stored every conversation (if you enabled history) in HTML files the user could find in their Documents folder and read. Messages history is stored in an undocumented SQLite database that you’re not meant to touch. I’m not saying they’re completely proprietary in every way, but you can see the progression from wide open to “keep your hands off.”

For another example, Apple Notes was actually just mail messages stored in IMAP, until they decided to deprecate that in favor of another iCloud-backed black box in order to add more features.
You think 2017 to 2021 was a better span than, say, 1990 to 1995 or 1950 to 1955? That's beyond preposterous, bordering on mental illness. I also don't recall the "establishment" ceding control at any point. Most of Congress and the judiciary existed before that short presidency and continued to wield power after it.
Offtopic... does anybody have a good link to find papers that have been written after sci-hub stopped adding papers?

My desire to read papers like this outstrip my funds to do so.
This likelihood ratio approach highlights the fact that KL divergence is a member of the family of Csiszár F-divergences. These are measures of "distance" between distributions of the form E_Q[ F(p(x)/q(x)) ] where F is any convex function with F(1) = 0. This is kind of a generalization of log-likelihood where F kind of "weights" the badness of ratios different to 1. When F is -log you get KL divergence.

Another curious fact about KL divergences is they are also a Bregman divergence: take a convex function H and define B_H(P, Q) = \sum_x H(p(x)) - H(q(x)) - <∇H(q(x)), p(x) - q(x)>. These generalize pointwise square Euclidean distance. KL is obtained when H(P) is negative entropy \sum_x p(x) log p(x).

I spent a bunch of time studying divergences over distributions (e.g., see my blog post[1]) and in particular these two classes and the really neat fact about KL divergence is that it is essentially the only divergence that is both an F-divergence and a Bregman divergence. This is basically due to the property of log that turns logs of products into sums.

[1]: https://mark.reid.name/blog/meet-the-bregman-divergences.htm...
If every one does this and sets their phones to DND, I'm not sure it will work to just call people back when you see they called. No one is ever going to be able to answer the phone unless they are sitting there staring at it.
Curious on how is it making the views?
I don't know where I read it, but apparently older people use emojis to feel 'with it' and cool, whereas the younger crowd barely use them. (I could be wrong, and I have no source, so don't quote me on this).

Also emojis are yet another data point to do things like sentiment analysis, and have been weaponized by social media companies to target more relevant ADs at you. Tweeted/X'd the beer emoji? Get ready for Heineken ADs.
I mean, it was only four days, so it's possible that I would have grown to like it, and it's entirely possible that my experience would be different if I were employed, because it's possible it would be nice to be able to not look at work Slack every thirty seconds while I'm out.

But all that being said, it just wasn't for me. I didn't enjoy it, and even though I hate my Pixel, it's still better than being without a smartphone.
Waiting for ability to run machine learning models on Linux instead of MacOS on M1
I think it's worth pointing out that the 2008 financial crisis came on the heels of another event that had already done much to discredit elites and elite-adjacent "experts": the Iraq War. More specifically, the discrediting was caused by a combination of the deliberately dishonest or at best wildly inaccurate intel, the sense that pro-war elites in government and media were manufacturing consent for the war, and wrong predictions about how the war would go.

The Snowden revelations of a few years later did not have as great of an impact as I would have wished, but I think that they too played some role in further discrediting elites. Given how much Trump's criticism of the Iraq War did to make criticism of that war a bi-partisan phenomenon, I find it unfortunate that he was too authoritarian to pair his criticism of that war with criticism of the NSA and that instead, he hinted that Snowden should be executed as a traitor.
You said "yes" and then a series of words that were more reasonably related to what Neil Peart says in Rush lyrics than anything I said.
This has been a constant bit of friction between my wife and I. To me, the norms are:

- Unscheduled calls are if it's an emergency or something that you need an answer to right now

- Calling twice in a row is an emergency

- SMS if it's important but not urgent

- Discord chat if it's just casual messaging or pics

This is how my family and everyone else I know communicate, but my wife. My wife will call me repeatedly to tell me that they just got out of work and are going to the store. It really doesn't help that the bluetooth in their car is trash too, so answering the call is rewards you with feedback hell. It gets me in the habit of not dropping everything to answer their calls if it's around when they get out of work, which has bitten us twice when they couldn't get a hold of me for a bit when they had car trouble and needed a rescue.

To me, personal calls operate on a reputation system since you don't know what they will be about until you're already answering them. If you burn that rep on calls that don't matter, all someone will think the next time they see you on caller id is that it can wait.
Here's a more quantitative analysis of bias in academic economics. It should be slightly more difficult to dismiss with cries of "entitlement! entitlement!"

https://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/lweab/Doucougliagos%20&%20Stan...
Thank you. Jon Kabat-Zinn is a con artist and wanna be guru. It is easy to be calm when you are not homeless and disabled living with a chronic illness.
You can keep the whitelist on for ads but still block filler content, if you want.
This is clearly missing mention of their lawn, and instructions to get off of said lawn =)
Make more money generational wealth and don’t worry about it. Climate change basically just means it will cost more to buy your way out of societies problems.

Like the fire on Maui, you need to be prepared and pay more for the metal roof, backup power and keep growth away from your house. That’s how you prepare for climate change there. In Florida you hurricane proof your house and make sure your builder doesn’t cheat you. In Arizona you might need to store water during the dry season. In California you generate your own power for brownouts. Every Region has a different threat from climate change that you can buy your way out of it just costs more than some people will be able to afford
In 2013, TechReport did an SSD endurance test: for months, it ran non-stop write operations, a much more strenuous use case than what a regular laptop would experience, which will be primarily read operations. 4 months in, after writing 300TB, all the tested devices were still working without issue.

If the characteristics of the SSD in an M1 are sufficiently similar to the SSDs that were used back then (I have no clue if that's the case), wear out will be a non-issue.
20+ years under rock.
I don't see Flakes as a decision that's impossible to work past more or less than traditional nix, given that you can use flakes from traditional nix (not as easily as overlays, I will give you that), and frankly refusing to take a real improvement for end users over a hypothetical better one that no one has managed to produce yet seems counter productive.
How to do transactions in a microservices world: change world.
American cycling culture is very different from Dutch cycling culture. To the point where me and many of my friends do not consider ourselves cyclists, despite:

- Owning bicycles
- Using bicycles for recreation and practical uses
- Repairing our own bicycles

Because we do not wear spandex or own racing/mountain bikes.

See Casually Explained's video about this: https://youtu.be/5EE8m8mmq1k
> That is, since generators are primarily used to simplify the writing of iterators, the yield statement in a generator does not specify a coroutine to jump to, but rather passes a value back to a parent routine.

Another term for this asymmetric coroutine, as opposed to symmetric coroutine. Coroutines in Lua are asymmetric, but they're not generally referred to as generators as they're much more capable than what are called generators in other languages, like Python. This is largely because Lua's coroutines are stackful rather than stackless, which is an orthogonal, more pertinent dimension when implementing concurrency frameworks.

You can implement symmetric coroutines using asymmetric coroutines, and vice versa, by implementing a higher-level library that implements one using the other. So in principle they have equivalent expressive power, formally speaking. Ultimately the distinction between these terms, including generator, comes down to implementation details and your objective. And just because a language name-drops one of these terms doesn't mean what they provide will be as useful or convenient in practice as a similarly named feature in another language. Other dimensions--stack semantics, type system integration, etc--can easily prove the determining factor in how useful they are.
I think there’s a lot of generational mismatch around this stuff, which I guess is to be expected when a sizeable portion of the people alive today grew up with nothing but a landline.

The biggest things I struggle with in my family is the older folks not seeing SMS as asynchronous communication. Just because I’ve had time to send a text, it doesn’t mean I’m free for a call, and it doesn’t mean that I’m going to be able to hold an ongoing conversation right this second.

At the risk of sounding misanthropic, I struggle with phone calls in general and find them to be a terrible distraction; not just for me but also for whoever I happen to be with at the time, as a shared activity means we both have to stop what we’re doing.

Sure I could just ignore the call, but at this point there are several members of my family who are at the age where an unprompted phone call could well be bad news. Then when I turns out to be for idle chit-chat in the middle of my work day I just end up feeling both irritated and guilty for feeling irritated.
I had a work companion that was using Chrome rendering the text in a really ugly way on Windows. We never discovered why it was doing that. It only got fixed when the sys admin updated to Windows 10.
The "Twitter-scale Mastodon" is separate from this OP article, which seems to be a small beginner tutorial that's more of a Facebook clone tbh (it has friend requests [0]).

In any case, this title is very misleading: Rama itself is not open source [1].

[0] https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/tutorial6.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37138019
This comment comes off as claiming that being neurodivergent and being well-adjusted are incompatible ideas.
Clickbait title but makes sense. Yearly versioning.

Edit: -4. Touchy HN lately. You can diss Unix with toxicity but suggesting a clearly clickbait (hide the actual summarizing headline in favor of "you will be surprised by this big change") is a big no-no.
Using gghalves
I think I have seen a setting like that on my phone, but now I can't find it. Two calls in a row should break through, I think. At least for numbers in my phonebook
Well I can't play the drums. And even if I could, HN doesn't support MIDI.
There really is an elite consensus. The trouble is that you can't build an economic policy around that idea. Some things "elites" (of any stripe) believe are wrong, but some of them are right.
Cutting them off from world supplies is a pain in the arse for China in the short term, but a huge boon for them in the medium/long term. Now there is a huge market and motivated government. There is nothing magic about silicon that means China won't master it given the time and motivation...

And given that the west either really needs AI to be worth a damn (and a defendable advantage) or we're one step closer to the Chinese century or whatever dramatic thing were calling it...
Similarly, any email with an emoji in the subject line is an email I'm not going to read

EDIT - guilty party in my inbox today is Newegg, twice. I should unsubscribe from those.
Just silence your phone and get on with your life.
I have a related anecdote. I generated a pattern matching system for Unicode grapheme cluster breaks once (using OCaml which is similar to F#), and it turned out to be very slow due to the branch mispredictions introduced by pattern matching.

Later, I borrowed a trick learned from someone else and used a hashtable to store the relevant data (written to only once when the program starts) instead. At this point, the performance cost was so small that I couldn't tell any difference compared to before I introduced pattern matching.

For what it's worth, there are about 18000 characters specified by Unicode for special handling with grapheme breaks[0] so I don't know how noticeable the difference would be with the pattern matching tables you're likely to encounter in real life.

[0] https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/auxiliary/Grap...
It'd be foolish for FAIR to donate preconfigured homing-missiles to OpenAI and others via one-way tech transfer.

No, they could GPL it, and I don't think they're worried about competition taking the models anyway, there's nothing particularly special about the weights or training data, just the compute. I think part of it is pressure from AI "safety" hangers-on who pretend that AI is dangerous so only those who don't want to abide by license terms should have unfettered access. The other commercial reasons are harder to understand. With pytorch they became the standard that everyone builds off of, they could do that with their recent AI, particularly LLaMA but they chose this silly route.

Also, LLaMA has a more permissive license than this translation one, and is a more powerful model, so I don't really see the "homing missiles to open AI" angle.
We have something similar in the US, actually. It's a Federal standard that states have been asked (told) to adhere to called REAL ID [0]. Hysterically, it was conceived by and pushed by the Ministry of Peace.

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/real-id
That's not a "substantive" argument, that's vague and meaningless rhetoric.
Not sure the linked project is the up to date one.

I regularly use the 'cryptography' package that has a 'Fernet' object in 'cryptography.fernet'.

And it is in cryptography so I trust they maintain it at least a bare minimum.

It is an amazing blackbox that assures me I can just provide a key and a ciphertext and rest easy that my data is correctly decrypted and autehnticated !
Amazon employees are quitting after they were told to relocate states
There's a big generational gap here, I think, between people who did and did not come of age during a time where telemarketing was a nascent industry and–when then the phone rang–you had no idea who it was, and they couldn't leave a message. Missing an important call in a situation where the person calling couldn't leave a message, and couldn't necessarily be reached if they were heading out, was a much bigger deal!

I'm 35 and grew up with answering machines, then email, texts, cell phones, and voicemail soon after. Phone calls have always sort of bugged me. My parents did not, and for them the phone ringing has always been kind of an urgent matter. Letting it ring, even in the middle of something, and despite the fact they'll get a message and be able to deal with it easily later, clearly bothers them.
> Discord chat if it's just casual messaging or pics

It's interesting to me that discord has become a "default" for you. For my social group, discord is only used for people I only have an online presence with. If I want to do something IRL, I send an SMS or something.
Right, it is a myth.

There's a lot of misinformation floating around about the subject.

Basically, any activity can be a meditation. So can no activity, e.g. zazen.
Or you can just be like von Neumann

From: https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/columnists/teachabl...

>George Pólya, one of his university teachers, said, “I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn’t say anything but after five minutes he raised his hand. When I called on him, he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof. After that I was afraid of von Neumann.”
I gave up my subscription to the New Yorker years ago due in large part to this 'sophisticates' problem
I don't know. An entire dedicated domain and GitHub project just for a paragraph and a couple of lists seems excessive. I'm surprised that the author didn't just post this on his blog [1]

[1] https://brajeshwar.com/blog/