skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is generally my approach to data ingress/egress (ETL)... I'd rather have a hundred similar, small scripts for each data source than try to create one complex (monstrosity) application to handle them all.
I'm sure it wont be too long before commercial products are available, but I won't be buying them since I have no doubt that they'll be recording every sound with ultra sensitive microphones and collecting video of everyone and everything in my home and continuously sending that data back to multiple companies who will use and sell that data so that ultimately it gets used against me.

Basically robots won't be doing my chores until there's a version that I can reasonably verify isn't going to be used against me. That means fully open and modifiable source code that doesn't depend on anything in the cloud and hardware that can be audited to make sure data isn't leaking. Unless someone can give me a robot that works fully offline, doesn't send any data to anyone else, and only does what I want it to no matter how anyone else feels about it I'm not interested. I have a feeling there won't be any widely available commercial product that meets that criteria for a very very long time.
Living with less is exactly being more efficient. Wasting less, replacing stuff less often is using real goods more efficiently.
Yep, unironic taking is what I do.
Also many interviews are structured so there simply won't be time to finish the exercise if you're going slow.
Anker/Eufy 11S is a fully-offline robovac.

Internet-connected vacuums could represent peak Silicon Valley extravagance. There is no shortage of new dumb ideas every day but they don't get anywhere close to this.

Get your cloud-powered AI bullshit out of my vacuum cleaner.

Amazingly they have succeeded in normalizing the concept that you need an always-on internet connection and a smartphone app to run a vacuum. To clean my floor.

The ghost of Juicero weeps in the corner, wondering how today's companies were more successful in marketing something equally useless.
Electric vehicles must produce sound by law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sound...
A small Brazilian network yesterday hijacked half the internet too, including several of my own prefixes, all of whom have IRR and RPKI set up.

https://bgp.tools/as/266970?show-low-vis#prefixes

[bgp.tools Alert] for AS200676
A hijack on 2a06:a005:2730::/44 from AS266970 (NET WAY PROVEDOR DE INTERNET DE CACOAL LTDA) has been detected (based on your address policy you have configured)

[bgp.tools Alert] for AS200676
A hijack on 2a0a:6040:b1f4::/48 from AS266970 (NET WAY PROVEDOR DE INTERNET DE CACOAL LTDA) has been detected (based on your address policy you have configured)

[bgp.tools Alert] for AS200676
A hijack on 2a0a:6040:b1f1::/48 from AS266970 (NET WAY PROVEDOR DE INTERNET DE CACOAL LTDA) has been detected (based on your address policy you have configured)

[bgp.tools Alert] for AS200676
A hijack on 2a0a:6040:b1f0::/48 from AS266970 (NET WAY PROVEDOR DE INTERNET DE CACOAL LTDA) has been detected (based on your address policy you have configured)

BGP is a complete mess.
Don't misinterpret me. I'm not claiming superiority in any sense, I'm describing that my type of work is conceptual.
Nice points! Thank you, I'll dig into ARM RME because it seems pretty interesting
> We haven't all been there. This is not a common use case at all.

I'll speak anecdotally for myself here: I have seen - and experienced - this enough times in my almost 30 years, and I have heard from plenty of colleagues who have also seen or experienced this. These stories come from somewhere.

Times are changing, office toxicity is (relatively) on the decline but you don't have to go back too far - less than 10 years - where this kind of subordinate abuse was relatively common, and it still happens to this day.

I 100% agree with you that it shouldn't be normalized or made light of as part of a sales pitch like Duet AI is doing.

But to say this isn't common (we can argue the definition of "common" perhaps) is just inaccurate in my experience.
Gaming PCs are actually getting close to the safe limits for low voltage.
In many places (but not the US because of thermostat standards) HVAC systems are now typically inverter driven as well so that does remove some of the advantages of three-phase since any individual load is single-phase anyway.
Did you miss the part where I was talking about sintering and diffusion of atoms in materials in their solid phase? A quick search in the article you linked shows zero results for either "sintering", "diffusion" or related terms.

The ideal gas law is very nice but hardly applicable to describe things like creep in metals under stress, let alone things like the grain boundary diffusion mechanism for sintering metal particles together.
How long do you think it will be reasonable to continue requiring ineffective cloth masks to visit a doctor's office? Should this new requirement remain in effect indefinitely? Were we just failing to institute "basic healthcare precautions" pre-2020?
Friend of mine works for amazon and is worried about their team, because they have people from all over the country on the team, so if half the people quit instead of going into the LOCAL office, it'll catastrophic for the whole team.
> maybe it’s some software I install on my local network that intercepts traffic and helps the robot keep running none-the-wiser that it’s not actually phoning home anymore

Yeah all my IoT devices connect to my pi-hole[0] and I manually disable connecting to various hosts. If there was some pre-made IoT filter list that would be great and would save me from manually disabling all the phoning home.

[0] https://pi-hole.net/
That's correct, but we're pretty efficient - from 75 to 99%. This is typically around 90% except for fiber, which is marked down in calorie labels already. It also depends on what exactly you're doing with the energy, if you're in a calorie surplus then protein to tryglyceride metabolism is less efficient than, say, dietary fat to tryglyceride, but this can just be neglected.

But yeah, human digestion is pretty efficient. Muscles are far less efficient though, around 30%, which is a neat fact.
“The ability to directly plug most appliances without needing to buy extra adapters was amazing” unless you live in Italy, Switzerland, France (they have a socket with the ground sticking out I think), Poland, the UK, Denmark… it’s getting better and better due to the use of DC and the reduced need for grounding, though
I don't think comparing sales to engineering is a good way to approach this. While sales is input, engineering is output. Sales is profit center, engineering is cost center.
> there are plenty of middle class living pay check to pay check and do not own things

And there are plenty of the very rich who go bankrupt and die penniless.

Someone relying solely on income from labour to sustain their standard of living may live as the middle class do, just as a poor person accumulating debt may sustain a middle-class lifestyle, but that doesn’t change their fundamental economic situation.

Also: When middle class folk talk about living paycheck to paycheck, they’re usually ignoring retirement assets. But I don’t deny that plenty of people consume their economic security because they, and many times rightly, don’t believe they need it.
It’s also likely strong evidence in court that you can’t acquire a copy of protected content without activity that is clearly circumvention.
Not always - I live in the countryside in the UK and we seem to have single phase sadly.
Internet snow day!
Although Apple holds a <10% of total market share when it comes to computers, so not sure how helpful it is.
No discussion of fatigue or nausea?
Watch the Special Apple Event
External aid can't, but external investment can. The greatest reduction in extreme poverty in human history happened in China starting in the second half of last century continuing to the present. It was a result of the West building factories and outsourcing labor there.

Unfortunately a prerequisite for foreign investment is political stability. Nobody is going to build a factory in a war zone, which is why Sudan Somalia and Ethiopia look the way they do.

It's a delicate situation and I don't think anyone really knows the best way to help.
I have a current example where this bit my team.

A fairly common pattern that I've seen over and over in multiple domains is this:

Given a group of of "things" with a start and stop date, list all the things that are "active" during a given date range.

Some one abstracted it because we have several "things" that use this logic.

Then it had a bug because some of the things are inclusive and some are exclusive.

Then it had a bug because some of the things use dates and some timestamps.

Then it had a bug because some of the things are timezone aware and some are not.

So we started down the path of a rather simple query construction becoming a complex thing with flags for inclusive/exclusive for start and end, timezone settings ...
A business with stakeholders who aren't employees is not a co-op.
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If you don't care, why are you confidently asserting things you're not even interested in examining? It just drowns out useful comments.
Legionella

I kid, but there's something about "fresh" water probably?
Our Ryanair flight was delayed by about eight hours the other day (unrelated to yesterday's outage), and they didn't even bother to apologise. I find that unacceptable, but they're monopolists, so we don't get to choose who to fly with. Perhaps the government should step in.
Worked on this. Contrast does change non linearly. You can apply simulations quite easily. The Machado at al simulations are just a matrix transform.
If this (or a similar policy) affects you and you suspect that it is an attempt by your employer to get you (and others) to quit in order to avoid having to pay severance, unemployment, etc... Understand what "constructive dismissal" is. It may help if you need to file unemployment claims.
https://archive.is/p9TPo
I have backup local LLMs which I used during the outage. This doesn't prevent the fact that for now, ChatGPT-4 wins out in output quality.

This won't remain true for long and so it is actually harmful to my career to not invest time learning how to use these tools now, instead of waiting for the time when they are perfect.
> I'm not sure I've understood this part. So, if Apple implements remote attestation, would it be more difficult for attackers to reverse engineering the application? I am probably missing a point, would you mind if I ask you to expand that?

It's not to prevent RE. Apple can detect tamper so it's no concern if you RE it or not. Anything you learn from that RE work will almost certainly mean tampering with the system...
I enjoy the attitude, but sometimes people like to read someone else’s view on something, or to gain insights on something they don’t know anything about.

Writing authoritatively might be the only way people can get people to read some things. I’m ok with that.
something-you-know auth is generally less work than something-you-have auth, since you need to ensure you always have the key handy whenever you would want to log on.
Come on. She was already aware that it is not literally ("kind of") a scam, but pointing out that there is a parallel ("if you sell someone the moon and give them a block of cheese", I believe advertisements were not yet fulfilled in 2021). If she was meant to mercilessly bash V why did she rather mention "there are good ideas there" and give suggestions for improvement?
It's the reason I insta-backed in October of 2012 but I haven't heard a status update in years.
Catholic guilt.
First step is to forgive yourself. You might feel a lot of shame and blame yourself for being in this situation and that shame is counter productive. So first thing you do is wipe the slate clean emotionally and mentally. Without this step, you will keep getting off track. Accept the situation you're in mentally, but know that hard work can get you out of most situations.

Next step is set goals and do whatever it takes to meet those goals, no matter how small they are. The more goals you accomplish, the more you'll realize you can do it. Then set larger and larger goals, but make sure they're going in the right direction. Also understand that all you can do is put in the effort, and the outcome is out of your control. Sometimes the outcomes are great, sometimes the outcomes are not, but don't kick yourself over the outcomes as long as you put in the effort.

For me, it was in my early 30s. I had a shitty job, I went through a divorce, I was so fat I couldn't walk up stairs without losing my breath. I thought that being in my 30s there's no way I could recover by finding a girlfriend/wife because all of the good ones were taken. I spent about one month feeling sorry for myself, playing video games all day and then I decided that was it. I found a new job, I lost weight, I went to school and changed the trajectory of my life. I accepted that I was at fault for my part in the divorce, I said I would be a better person and forgave myself and moved on. I left the past in the past, and just looked forward to the future. Over the next ~20 years, I got better jobs, got married, had kids, etc.

One step at a time, and if you put in an honest effort, then learn to celebrate each win no matter how small, and move forward. You can do it!
Transformers sure, but theres evidence that LLMs will continue to outperform models trained for specific tasks. In the past you needed:

1. a model for sentiment analysis

2. a model for summarization

3. ...other NLP tasks

other tasks:

4. a model for object detection in images

5. a model for face recognition in images

Whereas now the LLM does all of the above better than the previous state of the art. This will continue and eat more fields of machine learning. It will happen for images and video. I argue that it will even extend to things like time series analysis
>the healthcare I had access to in the US was far better than the healthcare I had access to in New Zealand

No, it wasn't.

Factually, your sister is 4.7 times more likely to die giving birth in the US than in New Zealand.

The outcomes in US healthcare are terrible, and it's extremely expensive.
How many accidental burn injuries you or your guests have?
Her share for blowing the whistle is $40M. I think she’s set for life unless your implying retaliation in the form of harassment.
Huh, neat. It never really bothered me enough/was important enough to spend specifically time on it since i was able to just hit a button to send them back for fixing but that's good to see the extra passes aren't explicitly needed.
120V-5% is still greater than 110V.

Power supplies are rated for 100V because that's the voltage in Japan. Though the tolerance would probably be useful for running a really long US extension cord.
That's a fairly recent development, mainly limited to switchmode power supplies.
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For one thing, AU 2-prong plugs have a much more physically secure connection than equivalent US plugs. The angled prongs mean there’s no rotational axis about which the plug can fall out. Of course it also means the prongs can’t really fold away for storage.
People often plant more male than female trees in cities to avoid having to pick up fruit, which perhaps doubles the pollen load. So it's a cultural problem that overlaps with the homelessness crisis, because the status quo applies pressure to keep everyone working within the system to feed themselves rather than adopting stuff like permaculture and no-till agriculture.

Also the immune system can get confused by two or more simultaneous stressors. So maybe a child has a cold while pollen is present, and develops too many antibodies to the pollen. I saw an animation once showing a normal immune system destroying cells covered in viruses. Then it showed a confused immune system destroying cells covered in allergen molecules. Which releases histamine and triggers a positive feedback loop. Multiple triggers may also be a root cause of many cancers, which can be thought of as autoimmune disease in the extreme. So for example, rheumatoid arthritis responds to methotrexate the way cancer does. Western medicine is often blind to this because it's too hard to do root cause analysis without large epidemiological studies, which are funded through the government and vulnerable to anti-government spending sentiment. Nobody wants to pay for it so we self-medicate rather than solving the underlying mystery.

In my case, I never had seasonal allergies until I was about 11-12, when my elementary school sprayed broadleaf herbicide to kill the dandelions. By coincidence, a family friend had me mow a lawn overtaken by dry cheatgrass, and all I had was a weed eater, so I was out for hours breathing the dust. From that day forward, I had flu-like symptoms for the entire month of May in my hometown, until I reached about 40 and grew out of it. I believe that the herbicide was the second stressor. So my quality of life was impacted by someone else's judgment call which categorized dandelions as weeds instead of, say, bee food. I finally found peace with this when I realized that saving the life of a child who is deathly allergic to bee stings is worth the other students suffering a lifetime of allergies.

I feel now that all questions that seem unanswerable, even with our considerable economic advantage, speak more about our cultural failings than our technological limitations.
That desire to "do their own thing" moved to infect application layer, and today I have to have multiple different video chat clients installed to talk to ensure I can meet with anyone.
Thank you for sharing this, great resource and inspiring
I think I would want to look for an accurate "representation" and expression of the right problem, not any particular abstraction technique or mechanical refactoring.

Refactoring code to your understanding helps you understand the code but leaves the code in a different organisation to how it was, adapted for your mental model of the problem.

If programming languages were expressive enough, we could represent things how they are and replicate that base pattern to different cases or scenarios and that would be enough but unfortunately our languages are not expressive of our high level intent and invariants we want to maintain. (Such as extensibility or hookability)

In other words, get the mental model for the problem right and the abstraction will be invisible and the solution shall be obvious.

Abstraction impedance mismatch is when people introduce a design pattern or a strategy that is harder to understand than the problem that was being solved and obfuscates it.
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carrots and sticks
I don't know how much Middle East blood is on our hands as Europeans were totally against the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq. 36 million people protested. In Rome itself, 3 million people. No other event has managed to put that many people on the streets.

And Bush haven't managed to build a great coalition for his stupid war. His famous "you forgot Poland" will be laughed at for many years. These two wars were stupid before they ever begun, and Europeans knew about this from the very beginning and they did what they could to stop them.

An yet, Kremlin loves to say Russians are just doing the same things as European did. We are not the same.
What we do instead if to install poetry using pip in the local/builder stage and use the virtualenvs.in-project option: https://python-poetry.org/docs/configuration/#virtualenvsin-...

Then in the final stage we copy the virtualenv folder from the builder stage. So in the final image poetry is not installed and everything is still in a virtualenv.

It's definitely more complex than a requirements.txt, but this way we can have everything in the container, skip generating a requirements.txt and also not mix our application dependencies with the system ones.

Note that poetry now has recommendations for CI which also apply to docker builds. https://python-poetry.org/docs/#ci-recommendations
ELI5: Forests retain rainwater in the soil, replenish aquifers, cool the soil, nourish soil biodiversity, contribute to the formation of new rainfall, distribute it inland, alter local microclimates, and sustain biodiversity.

With pastures, none of that applies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_pump
> Not everyone does but it's not something restricted to the rich like you said in your first comment.

Very well; I grant it. Now, does that invalidate the rest of my point in any way? Some kids are still going to have a large advantage over other kids, whatever the cause. If teachers are aware of this, would this be a reasonable way for a teacher to handle education? To just dole out homework, and leave any help or not to the vagaries of chance depending on that kid’s home situation? And any kids getting help would probably getting this consistently over other kids, giving some a huge permanent advantage over a long period of time. Why would teachers do this? I chose, instead, to charitably assume that teachers meant for homework not to be done with assistance by parents or tutors. In which case “helping” would indeed be cheating.
Did you read my comment? I'm not saying I'm bored, I'm saying I wasn't initially sure how to best proceed with my day, which involves a lot of fast-paced knowledge acquisition which generalized LLMs make possible.
The site will degrade because the nested sections will be invalid selectors, so they won't do anything.
> Sounds like it was just what was needed at the time

The problem I've seen often in codebases is that as an abstraction or pattern grows more unwieldy, they don't take the time to update it.

They often don't get revisited until they're so bad that they can't be ignored.

Handling a something with a switch or if/else is fine if there's only 2 or 3 options, but people will often just keep piling on. When it's 10 things, changing it becomes much more work so people will continue to add to it. Then when it breaks at 20 things, someone will come in and say "Why did we write it this way in the first place? It doesn't make any sense!"

I'm often torn between pragmatically writing the simplest code possible and being proactive about abstracting early to prevent an eventual breakdown of the pattern.
There are regional differences that are probably causing some confusion. In the US, breakers have a nameplate rating 25% higher than their continuous load capacity. Go to Australia, for example, and the identical breaker will have a nameplate rating 80% of what it would in the US.

So you can run indefinitely at the nameplate rating in Australia, but only 3 hours in the US. And the startup current (inrush) can be much higher than the rating. Most breakers are thermo-magnetic. The magnetic part has a much higher tripping point and allows for inrush current. The thermo part trips when it gets too hot, and that'll be the current printed on the breaker.
Or maybe people are dumping junk food tier information into their heads because their IQs are lower.
> BGP isn’t perfect but we made it this far and I think it does a pretty good job for handling ~75K autonomous systems.

Absolutely not. To me, it's a miracle that the internet even works.
C.f. Executive Function Theft

https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-...
Yeah, but Google's LLMs are notoriously bad compared to even the free tier of ChatGPT, unless I've missed something.
In addition to being used in microwaves, magnetrons are also used in radiation therapy for cancer, to power the linacs.
> Justice Department officials disagree, saying they got the best settlement they could. They noted in a statement to NBC News that Feinberg signed off on it, agreeing in writing that it was “fair, adequate and reasonable.”

Well sure, when there’s 40M (her share of the 300M fine paid) on the line, there’s a lot of incentive to sign and be done with things.
What is dystopian about my mindset? Are you sure you correctly understood my post?