skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refugees are trying to flee to a developed country with healthcare, jobs and safety. Why would you want to go to Rwanda? I realize it has improved by leaps and bounds but very few people are going to want to emigrate to an African country.
Have you considered getting a virtual private server from someplace like digital ocean or MS Azure or whatever? You might find that preferable for something to RDP into.
> "A full desktop OS in iPad form factor is basically a holy grail."

A holy grail you've been able to buy for 7 years; Microsoft Surface Book with detatchable screen. High quality hardware, beautiful screen, best touchpad on a Windows laptop I've used, but the removable screen to make it a tablet just ... isn't very useful.
> With that setting there's no native way to distinguish between threads that are intended to be blockers and threads that are just comments. They all must be closed regardless of intention before merging can happen, and because there's no way for the commenter to signal their intent that process is error prone.

This may have merit if your default workflow mindset was all threads are non-blocking unless an explicit "request change" action is invoked.

GitLab's unresolved threads simply comes at it from the inverse perspective of all threads are blocking unless intent to move forward is explicitly conveyed by positively marking threads resolved. If the objective is to avoid unintended merges that manifest from inattentiveness and/or poor communication, then this is clearly the safer approach that preserves accountability.

In the case of just a comment, I see any friction created there as a direct result of poor communication between collaborators; if you can't unambiguously decide whether an in-thread comment is non-blocking/unactionable, then clarity of intent wasn't clearly conveyed to begin with.

Another thing that I thought was presumptive with this "requested changes" flag is that it signals that you want to see code change, but maybe your intent is to block a merge until the PR submitter is given an opportunity to more clearly defend an implementation decision, which may or may not result in a change.

Between draft marking, unresolved threads, and approval rules[1] to safeguard against unintended merges, I struggle to see how GitLab could possibly help me more.

There's a part of me that feels like differences in value perspective are driven by what's generally effective for open distributed collaborations v. the needs of closed enterprise teams.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/appro...
More correctly, the title could end "unless you only ever target Win32 on x86". Shipping software that's at all portable across operating systems and architectures, that's a different story.
Agreed. I feel like in the next year or so my travel bag is going to boil down to a MacBook Air and a paperback book.
Exactly right. If you could make it in 1980s/90s NY, you can make it here. If it isn’t for you, that’s fine.
> yet people make do in mobile homes.

Unless they don't, of course. Especially considering every year will be hotter than the previous.
One thing I’ve wondered about is how can I best perform query expansion to return vectors that answer my question rather than just looking like my question itself?
>> Stop when you get to the end of your time limit, preferably in the middle of something (a sentence, paragraph, argument).

Anyone know what the rational for this is? I understand the not-rushing aspect, but would have thought if your enjoying it and "in the zone" it would be good to see it through
That someone could be you!
I really enjoyed reading the article until this pop-up of “why we need your support” not only it blocked half my screen, but it also spoiled that attention I was giving to the article. These Jimmy Wales style of donations demand must be rethought, it’s too intrusive.
That's just more advanced indexing.

intelligence to me has to be based off initiative. In that sense, a dog or a cat have more intelligence than GPT.

I actually very much look forward silicon (or other non-biotic material) attaining intelligence, I consider that the only way that Earth civilization can colonize space. But this aint it.
A fitting punishment. It's about time.
Gross profit is what most people think of as revenue. What they start with after goods and shoppers less COGS.
...wait, didn't we have taxi's before computers? Rickshaw, Japan, 1860?
Labor is becoming a liability. Expect much more automation, outsourcing, and shipping jobs overseas.
Guy must be German: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1iWFaXyy83w

(btw, I love Jordan Prince's channel on German idiosyncrasies).
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The Web Environment Integrity (WEI) API also plays into FAANGX's capability to monopolize scraping and therefore create competing AI systems.
Before I begin: I own a first gen Surface Pro and have never purchased an iPad lol.

Now then, I think the problem with the Surface Pro was that it was perfect for that transitional period of time where the iPad made for a very awkward computer. Microsoft gave the Surface Pro USB ports, a slick magnetically attached keyboard, and the OS that let you run practically anything whether or not it made sense to do it on a tablet. Oh and you could draw on it!

The original iPad did NONE OF THAT. However, the current iPad does have a slick magnetic keyboard, a usb-c port, and you can draw on it with the apple pencil. Plus I think there are many more apps developed for iOS than there are for Windows - especially involving tablet use cases.

So I don't think the Surface Pro is really needed anymore. I'm not sure Microsoft is even interested in continuing to make them in the long run (but I may be wrong!)

The other thing - I keep saying this: MS isn't interested in consumers. They just aren't. Their primary interest is selling Office 365, Azure 365, AD hosting, etc to businesses. Windows and almost every other product they make seems to get more love and attention in controlling the users/administering the users/giving sysadmins the keys to control their loyal servants... than anything else... It really shows in the way they produce their products.
China has shown how hostile and vicious it can be, and damaged its reputations as a safe business environment.

No one can sleep well at night, knowing that they're completely reliant on a foreign
country with such aggressive and hostile policy. Which is why many countries all over the world are starting programs to diversify and promote local manufacturing to cut back on reliance on China, one step at a time.

So, don't worry about future jobs, for me, I'm betting it's downhill from here for China. They played their card too early.

It's not China vs US. It's China vs the whole world, china has literally no friends that share its interests because it's so self-centered and intolerable, not even many of it's own oppressed people.

In short, china reputation as a safe business environment/partner is already damaged, and if it continues with the same policy and overplay its hand, then in the next two decades its role will diminish and it'll be isolated, even if it was still super power by then.
Reasons to replace advanced search with filters
this trick helps https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...

alternative one https://web.archive.org/web/20230825073946/https://aeon.co/e...
Okay granted; my intent wasn't to justify astrology either, but merely to encourage prudence when dismissing "old ideas." To be clear, I'm not talking about modern astrology, but really about old beliefs that could have been built on repeated observations, but weirdly/poorly phrased.

In The Republic of Plato, there's this idea of rotation between political regimes[0], and it's explained by the way each generation treats the next one. Down to Earth example: think of overprotecting parents making their child unprepared for an ordinary adult life.

Now of course, this is again distant from the discourse of our favorite astrologers, but if you squint a little, there are conceptual similarities.

Thinking about it a little more, and on point to your original remark, I wonder if the fact that a considerable amount of people like to believe in astrology isn't tied to the same instinct that made old people personify everything and anything as Gods: a strong tendency to see order and intelligence in chaos.

After all, science is still about doing just this, minus the anthropomorphism. So, not so shocking: just human nature at works.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)#Book_VIII%E2%...
Whatever things are morphing into, it isn’t a “Wild West”.

Unless you think of feudalism or indentured servitude as Wild or Western.

It’s a place of a few royal palaces, with walls & moats, surrounded by the masses who submit the value of their creative & social efforts through little slots, for the right to receive in kind from others, but filtered & diluted with whatever the royalty wants you to see and hear.

The evolution of aggregation sites is not on a path that enhances or maintains individual freedoms or independence.

Amazon charging suppliers a fee for NOT using its services ought to be an Onion article. [0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834653/amazon-seller-fe...
The ridiculous zoom/tilt effects are added in post-production for dramatic effect, or whatever. You can tell it very clearly as the zooming/tilting/"WOW!" crap is far higher framerate than the source footage (watch the pieces of debris falling and how "stuttery" their movement looks, to get a sense of the framerate of the original footage). Now the question is: who added the stupid cinematic effects?
Of course you can. It's not a unique tendency uncorrelated with all other aspects of personality/temperament/anxiety. There are expecially emotional people, especially neurotic people, especially gloomy people – and their opposites, who remain cold in the same situations that freak others out. And it's largely, though not perfectly, predictable.

Many people will have enough of a self-conception – like the author of the post to which I replied – that they will have a fairly accurate idea of how they'll react.

Any many "in the middle" might, by considering, rehearsing, & precommitting to moods/strategies beforehand, helpfully prep/prime themselves to more-calmly handle whatever probabilistic results come back.

Those too concerned, by their own self-knowledge or that of experts/pretests, can skip the risk of "knowing too much" via an elective test, while others can proceed, knowing the risks, with informed consent.
So does that mean the conclusion is that scraping is bad? Or did the 9th circuit establish that scraping is OK and hiQ suffered defeat on some other basis?
wildy pedantic? I found it enlightening that without the properties of the quantum waves / particle clouds a molecule could not be. So it seems pretty crucial then to consider the perspective of particles as quantum waves. Which is not something I'm very familiar with. So I really enjoyed this article.
I admit I just don't understand how unions are formed or how they work. Once I saw picketing (not sure if I'm using the term properly) outside of a grocery store. When I asked what their complaint was, I found out they didn't work there and I got confused.

What does "a majority of the workers" mean? Is that a majority in a particular establishment, or employees of a company (across many locations) or an industry?

And if they vote Yes, do they then choose what kind of union to be (Teamsters, etc.) and doesn't it get kind of complicated? What happens to the people that vote No?
They’d have to do something more than just throw XCode on it for it to be in any way usable without full on keyboard and mouse, which would cut against what they’re trying to do. So there is some justification beyond just market segmentation.
The probability thing is misleading though, it's really all about energy. Matter is just highly concentrated energy and just because the nucleus happens to be much more concentrated energy, does that make the energy of the electron cloud non-existent?

As a thought experiment: If you have a peach, would you declare the fleshy part non-existent once the pit achieves a certain mass density?
Has there ever been a successful city built from scratch? I feel like organic growth is the only way, unless you can force people to move there.

This example always jumps to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California
> Company must .. voluntarily.

It's not merely semantics to point out: if a someone must do something, then it's not voluntary anymore.
Its Not Working from Home
To further emphasize the point that a mail server being authorized often isn't worth much, or can be counterproductive even: shocking numbers of SMTP providers don't verify anything beyond the login. As a result, each and every one who manages to get an account can send legitimate looking messages for whatever domain allowing that host, e.g. another tenant. Microsoft and Google do perform sender address checks, as well as TransIP that I know of. Apart from them, though...

For reference: in Postfix this can be configured with smtpd_sender_restrictions.
This is interesting, but I think there are a lot of caveats. 800G Ethernet NICs are very expensive, and PCI 5.0 SSDs are much more pricey than PCI 4.0 SSDs. Also they used DDR5 4800 in their comparison instead of DDR5 6400. All of this is just to say than on a "typical" server/workstation, the relative speeds of Ethernet, RAM, and dusk might look very different than what the authors suggest.
Don't forget people like me who have to travel with my locked-down work laptop as well as my personal laptop. I used to bring my Switch on long trips too but I've honestly stopped because I would take up like 4 bins at the TSA scan and it's awkward. They always tell me to put each piece of electronics in a separate bin. Now it's laptop, laptop, ipad+shoes+belt+phone.
Because what we call "general purpose" programming languages are really domain-specific languages for the domain of algorithms.

See also: ALGOL, the ALGOrithmic Language.
Except Hashicorp has already done something similar recently i.e. https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/plugin/framework/m...

So they can always do it again...
Thanks, I don’t think I am willing to trade that pop-up inconvenience with my privacy offered to Googles by going through their cache. But yes I more than happy to use Archive.org. Did you have to copy the url, submitted it to archive.org to get the free access version? Or is there another secret flow I am missing?
In other words it is super flammable and an environment in which fire travels quickly?
They're not required to voluntarily recognize a union though, are they?

Companies have the option to allow workers to hold an election to recognize or reject a union.
Oh, they are down to a half century now? Switzerland took 700 years to make. Progress!
If it looks bad enough that you'd risk starting cancer treatment right away (!) with no further confirmation, it's definitionally something they'll have been glad to detect early.

But for most things, the advice would be: watch & maybe run some other tests, if cheap & low-risk, if and only if the preponderance of the data implies it's a net-gain.

If the MRIs become cheap enough, high-resolution enough, and the ML/stats-assisted classification becomes good enough – possible with more imaging/progression data – the most common thing might be: reimage in a month or two, compare results. Do more if and only if that calcs out for maximum welfare.

These are ultimately probabilistic equations, not things you can hand-wave off based on old anecdotes and mere hunches about what's net worthwhile, and what's not. You have to run the tests, run the numbers, and reach a data-driven answer.

On the other hand, people who don't trust the numbers, or their own ability to dispassionately follow the numbers if more data arrives, should absolutely be free to remain in blissful non-knowing.

Many people can – and many more with proper coachin should be able to – use new info only if it improves their welfare. They don't have to follow automated scripts from a less-informed era.
They already did do a Terraform, SDKv2 to plugin framework migration thing earlier [0] so why not again?

[0]: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/plugin/framework/m...
What is empty or not is a concept at human scales. It loses nearly all meaning at the scale of atoms.
Did you know you could type [[## in Obsidian and it will autocomplete all headings available in the current vault instead of just the current note with [[#?

It's barely mentioned and I don't even remember what post I saw this in on the Obsidian forum.
Kind of, but not precisely?

Hormesis is that idea that the same compound can have opposite effect at different doses.

But a dose difference is not strictly necessary for what I am talking about
The Arab Dagger
The first (mechanical) computer was made in 1822, and the computer has origins dating back to the 17th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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You should be 100 times more worried about fertilizer runoff into storm drains than some random farmer drilling a well and then ruining it by pouring used motor oil into it.
Saying it behaves as a particle is wildly misleading, we should really remove it from the curriculum. If electrons ever behaved as particles or even if the wave function 'collapsed' into particles, they would immediately crash into the nucleus and the universe as we know it would cease to exist.

Quantized fields is a much better term. Also collapse of the wave function never happens, only increased entanglement.
Preamble Collaborates with Nvidia to Enhance AI Safety Solutions for Enterprises
That is also true.

And it turns out that the opinion "we can do anything we want" is based on the non-normativity of the section we were debating about, not on misinterpreting it.
It absolutely is one of the purposes of a physical search.

They can search your physical property to see if there is evidence you plan to work in the US or are lying about your intentions for entering the US (all countries do this).

People have been denied entry because they bring work documents while saying they are entering the US for tourist purposes.

I don’t disagree that search of electronic devices should be a higher bar, but physical searches to determine intent to enter has always been in immigrations remit.
Yes which costs money...maybe a lot of money depending on how the market looks elsewhere.
Oliver Burkeman explained this in his book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals:

“One critical aspect of the radical incrementalist approach, which runs counter to much mainstream advice on productivity, is thus to be willing to stop when your daily time is up, even when you’re bursting with energy and feel as though you could get much more done. If you’ve decided to work on a given project for fifty minutes, then once fifty minutes have elapsed, get up and walk away from it. Why? Because as Boice explained, the urge to push onward beyond that point ‘includes a big component of impatience about not being finished, about not being productive enough, about never again finding such an ideal time’ for work. Stopping helps strengthen the muscle of patience that will permit you to return to the project again and again, and thus to sustain your productivity over an entire career.”
From the explanations I've read, it is meant to get you "in the zone" quickly when you start your next writing time. Additionally, you will be (perhaps unconsciously) mulling over the completion of the segment and perhaps its continuation between sessions.

A shirked task eats at you in the way the dishes you cleaned last night never do.
Homeopathy is an alternative medicine based on the theory of treating ‘like with like’.

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtrea...

For the record, I am not a practitioner of homeopathy. I just know from talking to people that this is the idea behind it.
96 x A100 hours for a finetune according to the article.

The cost of the dataset curation for a given language is hard to quantify as there are many unknowns. However, it seems perfectly crowdsourcable to volunteers.
> Stop when you get to the end of your time limit

I understand this as a recommendation related to maintaining a consistent writing habit. Also, stopping in the middle of a thought provides a place to resume.
I don't want to be a part of your team. I don't want to be a part of any team. Being a part of a team is used as leverage to make me willing to do shit that I'm not paid for. I don't care about you, your kids, your parents, your spouse. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow I wouldn't care. So and so died? Whatever. Why should I care? Let's say we all come together as a team and knock it out what happens? Layoffs and one or more of us have to go. We get a $25 gift card to Starbucks?

If you want me to be a part of the team you have to make that team have meaning and benefit. That I work with you is neither. Those I work with are no more important to me than the shit stain I power washed off the toilet bowl.

If we miss goals? What happens. Nothing. If we hit goals what happens? Maybe the PM and EM will get a small bonus and we're all made to work hard to achieve that level of productivity with no benefit. So, sorry, no, I don't want to be a part of your team.
Get TSA PreCheck. Just the fact that I don't have to pull my devices out of my bags makes it worth the cost.
My approach is just to close the tab at that point. There are already more articles on the web and in print than I'll ever manage to read, and the content will probably be available elsewhere anyway.

Maybe it's a pipe dream, but my hope is that if enough people close browser tabs in reaction to rude behaviour, it'll start to show up on analytics.