skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we sure all the examples cited were manufactured? Isn’t it possible that in a lot of the examples, someone had a bad day and other people responded with kindness?
Google Reader used to have that. Then Google shut it down, probably because they wanted people to use Google+ instead.
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> The point is that there’s no reasonable - folks doing this have deeply expressed beliefs and if you disagree you’re evil. They only sound reasonable when speaking in general terms.

This is such good point about why this conversation is so frustrating.

Because in the abstract, if good faith could be assumed, there's a discussion to be had here. GP responded to me here being like "well what if they were Russian or Chinese schools" -- which does make you have to acknowledge "ok fine, if my kid were in North Korea maybe I would be really worried about what the local public school was teaching."

And so you get duped into engaging on the merits. And then you dig just a tad deeper and find out that it's never a high-minded debate about pedagogy or state imposed perspective on like the role of the Federal Reserve or treatment of the Native Americans, it's always bat-shit stupid stuff about Creationism, banning woke books, and demagoguing over gays and trans people.

It's so depressing.
I worked on eye tracking hardware for Microsoft HoloLens. Several AR headsets offer decent eye tracking, including Hololens 2 and Magic Leap's ML2. I think Tobii's eye tracking glasses are probably better as a stand-alone solution though: https://www.tobii.com/products/eye-trackers/wearables/tobii-...
If anything those are often considered valuable resources to be exploited or destroyed.
Plebeians go for diamonds. The rich and wealthy go for platinum, rubies, emeralds and sapphires.
I'm not sure this will fly, or at least I think it depends on the issuer and the law in the particular jurisdiction of the buyer.
I remember reading in the fine print of one issuer of BNPL in my country a statement that the buyer does not have full ownership of the product until after payment of the final installment of the loan has been received and confirmed by the issuer, implying that the product cannot be sold to a third party until the loan has been repaid in full. I am unsure if such a statement has any legal force but buyer beware.
Musk has a track record of working on what he considers (among) the most important problems, and he supposedly set that course in college.
Nothing gets past your professor.

There, fixed it for ya
That's an interesting idea. How do you see it being beneficial to machine learning models, other than (I assume) it could work more efficiently within less foveal regions? Perhaps cases where you want the vision to emulate human vision?
I'm a senior full stack dev, freelancer. I'm switching to AI consulting and bot development and building sites using tools like framer because it feels like a lot of the time we over engineer things and the future is embracing AI especially for lead based business like real estate, insurance, home service pros, etc.
Not sure if PG fits a billionaire stereotype.

YC was investing in ways the traditional VCs weren’t when it started, and coding HN was a part of it. I doubt I’m the only one who had having a few HN tech support emails from PG.
I'd say that the core of your point is legally correct, but you are ethically arguing over what is, at best, a grey area. I mean, if the author is explicitly (by you) "allowed to be an ego maniac", then why isn't the user you are replying to allowed to judge them for it? The options available here are not merely to use it or to fork it: people being afforded the same freedoms you believe this maintainer should have also have the option to call them out over the result, no?
Murder isn't a solution.
As a non-software engineer, I often come across software whose ontology does not match the ontology of the world. This often introduces friction for both the user and for the development of the software.

What techniques do good software engineers employ to ensure this match?
> The orphan rule isn't a problem that needs solving, it is itself a solution to a problem.

It is both.

The Orphan Rule was indeed chosen as a solution because other choices were dramatically more difficult to implement.

However, the Orphan Rule also has tradeoffs that make certain things problematic.

Engineering is tradeoffs. There are only two types of programming languages: those you bitch about and those you don't use. YMMV. etc.
Wonderful project. I've got a couple different configs set up with my old period appropriate hardware. Makes me feel like I'm 5 again instead of 30...
Clearly the solution is to implement a larger scale. /s
4chan isn't your typical forum though. Especially not circa 2014, though I would guess that Twitter might have a worse effect now.
Maybe you did something dodgy. Stripe bans accounts for fraudulent activity. Its quite often from their banking partners
> they believe to be the cause of declining fish population.

Yes a few dozen animals are the reason there are less fish, not the trawlers collecting literal tons of fish nor the degrading enviroment. Some peoples attitude to the world around them is just confusing
This reminds me of those cases where creators have faked illnesses to market their work and get attention through sympathy, which usually goes horribly wrong. For instance, folks like Belle Gibson here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-32420070

Or the folks documented here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03...

Or the example that reminded me of this, when a Super Mario World modder faked having cancer so famous YouTubers like ProtonJon and Raocow would play his ROM hack on their channels.

I guess that would be the logical extreme of this behaviour. Just flat out making up a sob story to get attention for your work if you don't have an actual one to market.
Same issue as all those so-bad-its-good movies.

At first, there was legitimately bad movies being made by honest crews trying to make something.

Then, once cringe got popular, a hundred made-to-be-bad movies popped up immediately which were actually just bad because they lacked authenticity.
> A friend of mine has ALS and can only move his eyes. He has an eye-controlled keyboard, but it's not very good. Can you make him a better one?

When I worked for one of the big game engines I got contacted by the makers of the tech that Stephen Hawking used to communicate, which includes an eye tracker:

https://www.businessinsider.com/an-eye-tracking-interface-he...
Thanks for clarifying. One problem with this approach is that it is purely additive. What if people want to avoid something being taught? Prior to a certain age, children don’t really understand things in a cold and analytic way. The things they are told shape their moral beliefs and personality (which is why religions are always very controlling of schooling). So, they aren’t really “choosing” in the adult sense, it becomes more of a RNG for whether they will pick up the state selected value system or yours. Of course once a person is old enough they can and should be exposed to everything, to build context.
I understand that your objection is that Naur is using the term "theory" for something different than you think it should be used for.

Let's replace Naur's use of the word "theory" (which he borrows from Ryle, a behaviourist) with "knowhow". Naur argues that the activity of programming is about building knowhow in a particular context. The knowhow consists of 3 behaviours:

1. The programmer having the knowhow of the program can explain how the solution relates to the affairs of the world that it helps to handle.

2. The programmer having the knowhow of the program can explain why each part of the program is what it is, in other words is able to support the actual program text with a justification of some sort.

3. The programmer having the knowhow of the program is able to respond constructively to any demand for a modification of the program so as to support the affairs of the world in a new manner.

I think this is a very succinct and sensible way of viewing programming, because it explains a lot of observations about what happens when people try to make, modify, and manage software.

I don't think the word "theory" itself is important to the paper, and I really don't care about "legitimating" anything to do with programming. My customers do that. I'm interested in Naur's arguments because they largely agree with the reality I observe, and provide a useful mental model.
I see your "how about" and raise you a [citation needed].
> So no matter how similar homeschooling will look to government-controlled schooling, people with power will never stop attacking it because of that crucial nuisance.

Just like in Florida, where teachers now face felony charges for having the wrong book in the classroom (not as required reading, just having it in the classroom). Yup, that's people with power attacking home-schooling for sure.
I still have my OG backlit kindle. It's showing its age with a tiny tear that lets backlight through, but I'm still pushing through books on it. I'd be curious how these newer E-ink displays have improved, wonder what the refresh rate (hz?) is on them.
From the readme[0], it's pronounced nodemation.

[0] https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/packages/cli/READM...
The language isn't hard, getting new devs that stay 15+ years to learn the ins and outs of systems that large is.

We're making a push to get our cobol devs some kind of bonus foe sticking around because we can hire a ton of junior devs but after a few years only the ones nearing retirement are left.
It's not just Cobol that gets moved to India almost all dev is being moved there. When you get decent Devs for 45 buck's a day, there's no need in others.
I wonder if the Common Lisp implementations can get together and create one of those CDRs about always-on macros (and how to order them etc etc). Not sure how else one would solve this issue, but I'm surprised that isn't available.
Check that you have installed one module, or two modules, one per each memory channel. If two modules are installed in wrong slots, they can use the same channel and this can result in a slowdown.

One a 13900 core, with default clock, should be able to read at max. rate 89.2/2 = 44.8 GB/s (small gigabytes = 10^9). One DDR5 module running at 6000 MT/s has maximum throughput 48 GB/s. Granting some unknown slowdowns due to error corrections and other things I would be expecting to see at least above 40 GB/s. With two RAM modules and two or more cores working, one should be able to get above 80GB/s.

Perhaps memtest does something that limits its memory performance (maybe it uses old less-efficient instructions for reading memory instead of SSE/AVX) or maybe it makes a factor 2 error in calculation of the speed.
It's been obnoxious enough that I wondered if it could be false flag, but they dkim pass pelosiforcongress.org which the library of congress seems to regard as her site: https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0017531/
Factory workers could have higher output, housekeeping staff could be more efficient, retail workers could make more sales.

No, they couldn't. Factory workers don't control the speed of the line, so it doesn't help if one individual on a line is faster if that speed isn't replicated throughout the line. They'll end up with extra downtime, or with a backlog somewhere else. Similarly, the speed at which housekeeping staff clean depends on the cleanliness of the room before they start cleaning, and many guests, especially post-COVID, are absolutely disgusting pigs. And retail workers don't generally make sales, which is why they're classified as retail workers and not as salespeople.

If there was genuinely no way to do a better job than anyone else then what excuse is there for seniority-based rewards or anything other than perfectly uniform compensation?

That's your strawman. Merit being a meaningless measure doesn't mean that one employee can't do a better job than another, or that experience is irrelevant. It means that attempting to objectively measure merit is meaningless because the factors affecting that measure aren't within the employees' control.

In which case the union becomes a gatekeeper excluding new entrants, because it benefits existing union members to keep out anyone who might displace them in well-paying jobs, and the prospective entrants don't get a vote.

Ironically, that's what people outside of the tech community say about the leet code interviews that are specifically intended to gatekeep.
Maybe there’s just nothing interesting or dark about them no matter how badly people want there to be for controversy sake.

That or all the employees who work on the core algorithm are sworn to secrecy in a blood rite cabal with embedded cranial explosive traps if they ever speak or write anything outside of corporate SCIF’s.
I hope this effort bears fruit. My uncle passed from ALS eight years ago.
> they are cheaper

Time will tell, but I suspect it'll be economically unviable once the lawsuits start flowing
The distro maintainers definitely had been in contact with the maintainer about the binary change, and I'm very thankful for them to have done that.
I don't think this will be very effective in the long run as a way to stop driverless cars, which promise to help all kinds of people currently unable or unwilling to drive to get around.

Likely Scenario:
The driver behind notices the driverless car is immobilized by the traffic cone.

They get out, remove the traffic cone, get back in their car and then they and the driverless car go on their way.

Sounds alot easier than helping push a broken down human driven car out of the way.
Glad to see you still lurk around here. How do you think about going up against a company like Apple when it comes to patents in this space?

I think that would be my major hesitation but I don't have a lot of experience evaluating patents.

Apples Eye Tracking Patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180113508A1/en
The Depth of the Arabic Language
The mighty KERNAL is how us mere mortals can JSR FFD2. (I think that's right)
I've been exploring local, cross-project caching for cargo and my biggest concern is users won't get enough cache hits. With maximal versions and a arbitrary set of dependencies being updated when adding a new dependency. all projects on a system can end up in very different states.
$40k can build legacies much larger than a blog website. If one wants to buy legacy, this is a waste of money.
That’s untrue:

https://pnhp.org/a-brief-history-universal-health-care-effor...

There have been meaningful efforts that keep reverting to insurance schemes since the late 1800s, with the first real legislative passage in 1915.

Universal healthcare has actually been pretty popular and enjoyed broad support. Most people are acutely aware of health care and the lack of it. In fact it typically ranks near the top in the concerns for most Americans:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/06/21/inflation-he...

The issue is more the business lobby against expansion of health care and the insurance lobby against expansion of universal solutions like single payer and Medicare / VA expansion to everyone. In fact the concerns aren’t false - insurance and the billing industry are huge employers of relatively low skilled but well paid workers.
I once built a little clock display which displayed "A LITTLE AFTER THREE" and similar messages. I wanted to do it with an e-ink display so it would run for a year or so on battery, but settled for a plug-in version.

The idea came from an old New Yorker cartoon.
when I think humanoid, I think something like the evolved robots from bicentennial man. When they basically resembled humans very well. Japan is leading here but probably mostly with sex dolls but those seem really life like, if so uncanny valley. Just because it walks on two feet and can do tasks isn't enough for me to consider it humanoid it needs to at least check off more boxes in resembling how a human looks, walks, and talks.

Amica on those YouTube videos is much more humanoid than this thing.
This article is well-written and interesting. The port on the Plus/4 looks amazing. Great work!
AV cars could be programmed to never stop in bike lanes or bus lanes or do anything else to disrupt transit. They could automatically get out of the way of buses. AV buses and AV cars could coordinate to move people around faster making the public transit more efficient. And all the emotional stress and conflict between buses and cars could be eliminated.
I am willing to bet $1m that fewer than 100 iOS or Android devs use generic views instead of buttons.
I don't see it as social welfare, I see it as more "ensure everyone, ESPECIALLY the elite, are bought into the system". Otherwise we get conversations like we do today where "do we defund the education system" is a real convo. If those same people would have no choice but to send their kids to a defunded education system... we'll see change.

To add a bit more incentive, I'd say the children of any senator / congressman / local state legislature / governor / mayor / etc must attend school of that state. This will again ensure that people who make decisions and influence decisions are actually committed to the solution.

Again, not thinking about "how to rely on the government" but more along the lines of, "how do we make sure those in power / influence are as bought into the system and the solution of the system as the rest of us"
Yes, in research. But once they can see what real-world users are looking at in context, in realtime, it's a different ballgame.
Just find the most negative weight and add that to all of the weights?

Edit: Oops, as another commenter points out above, this penalizes paths with more steps. I knew it was too easy. :P
These aren't "algorithms" in the traditional sense of that word. They are complex, convoluted systems with hundreds of moving parts/services owned by dozens to hundreds of teams. There's no one individual who has a total understanding of the whole thing, and only a few that could speak to it at a high level. Most folks are busy optimizing and improving the microservices their team owns and such. The few folks with the high-level understanding are typically senior enough where divulging this info is neither particularly thrilling nor worth any potential risk.

And yes, recommendation engines are not nearly as exciting as the conspiracy theories around them.
"Your Google account has been terminated due to a terms of service violation."

Those cars do know about anything near them that talks WiFi or Bluetooth.
The obvious model of that to me would involve all positive weights representing the exchange ratio, but a path through a graph like that wouldn't be summing the edge weights. I guess the idea is that you weight the edges with the log of the exchange ratio?
I hope you are correct about predictions because I really want to see the day that C++ gets a spike put through it because something better exists.

I really don't want to see something like Carbon take off. It's not really that much "better" than C++, and it will take up the oxygen from something that could be a genuine replacement.
When they finally catch the killers they should be removed from polite society for at least a couple of decades and their face plastered as to what happens when you think you're a cool guy shooting endangered animals.
A bit of the two. The blade isn't the full length of the scabbard, but reaches a good length of it (usually four-fifths of it). But it's also reasonably curved enough.
That's not the steel man, that's a straw man where you just flipped the politics of the scenario.

Letting kids feel safe to introspect and question their gender expression is a good thing.

The implication that kids will be _systematically_ forced to delay puberty or undergo a transition they don't want is absurd and not a valid "chain of reasoning". Yes, I'm sure it has happened and could continue in rare instances because a) there are lots of crazy parents; b) it is a new, trending concept and people like fads. But that is really no different than other types of trauma parents and teachers give to kids across the political spectrum. You're going to have to do a lot more work to prove this is something likely to happen on a broad scale.

The fact that gender identity is now something kids are allowed to have means people will interrogate them about it. People may even attempt to coerce them (just like any other beliefs) and kids will likely change their minds over time. The ability to defend their beliefs, resist influence, have role models, receive reliable advice and mentorship, manage their relationships, make serious medical decisions, etc etc is all part of the equation. It's also not that big of a deal or the end of society.
Can’t both statements be true?

If I had to guess, most of the original homeschoolers did it because they had strong, fringe religious beliefs. Then in your generations more secular parents started homeschooling but it was still a pretty highly self-selective group (a stay at home parent who didn’t mind staying at home most of the day teaching their kids, a belief they could do better at educating their kids even without the resources we have on the internet now to make it easier or the ability to use the internet to organize with other homeschooling parents, anecdotally a lot of either super-weirdo parents or hippy granola parents (more in unschooling)).

Now with the internet and WFH homeschooling is possible for many more parents than just those that don’t work fulltime and want to teach their kids full time, and it’s easier to create curricula, and easier to network and schedule things with other parents.

I do think there is probably a general problem of some pathologically bad parenting traits self-selecting much more than “normal” parents to homeschool: parents with control freak/micromanagement issues they subject their kids to, socially anxious parents who want to spend all their time at home with their family, parents with fringe/paranoid/extreme beliefs, having some kind of weird attachment or smothering issues they subject their kids to. Which isn’t a problem with homeschooling per se as much as it is selection bias in who chooses to homeschool.
Yep, average COBOL salaries don’t touch modern SWE salaries. The crazy money is limited to a few expert consultants as you point out.

> A lot of new COBOL work just gets shipped off to India to be done cheaply.

This is becoming less true for the reason I mentioned above: the pay is much higher for modern languages and tools, which means that the big Indian contracting firms are now training Java/AWS platform devs instead of COBOL. This is creating a growing shortage of COBOL talent that is beginning to impact onshore COBOL dev shops.
May I ask why you feel compelled to point stuff like this out ? Do you just feel the need to call our ignorance ? Lack empathy in understanding why people might want the goalposts changed ?

Not an attack, just curious why you might need to bring this up ?
This is not altruistic. He is looking to make an investment which he assumes would have an upside.
I mean the same can be said of anything. This is why the fight for for liberty never ends, because every day is a day some jackass can get into power and start claiming elections are rigged.
I should clarify that is not my repo. I just received the Mind Trainers and am in the process of finding suitable EEG pads.
most of these people don't have more than an "n=1 statistical concept" level of understanding of reality.
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You're making an "it worked for me" argument, which doesn't mean much.

There are plenty of illiterate people in the US. Evidently teaching kids is, in fact, easy to mess up.