skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iPad also had widespread predictions of failure.

Early that year pretty much everyone had introduced tablet PCs and convertible PCs at CES. Apple had announced the iPad but it wasn't going to ship until April.

Most major magazines, reviewers, bloggers, podcasters, and such had high praise for those tablets and convertibles, saying that they were going to change how we all worked with PCs, and said iPad was late to the party and was really just a bigger iPhone without the phone, and was fatally limited compared to the versatility of the PC tablets and especially the PC convertibles, and was sure to bomb.

One of the few major podcasters who said it would succeed was Leo LaPorte. On one of his podcasts he said it would sell about 5 million in its first year, and everyone else on the show told him he was insane.

It actually sold 5 million in around 4 months, and 20 million in its first year.
The thing about the mafia — and the Russian government today is more mafia than anything — is that you can’t continue to make empty threats. Even if everyone in your protection racket is paying up, and no one is squealing or making waves, you still need to remind people _why_ they keep paying you.

So it’s absolutely in Putin’s interests to keep assassinating his adversaries, and not to disclaim credit even if the deaths are not ordered by him. Random deaths reinforce Putin’s power just fine — it’s worse if you don’t know, if the threat of extrajudicial killing is random rather than predictable.
Do those kind of HMOs even exist anymore? Last time I had an option like that from work was 2009 or something. Everyone switched to offering PPOs and HDHPs.
Strava, the World's Sweetest Social Network
Yes, that is what was written. Would you like to say something about it?
> I'd like to see side-band ECC continue to exist, but I think it is going to be phased out entirely.

I doubt it will be phased out for servers. I haven't seen anyone reporting that on-die ECC in DDR5 has a reporting mechanism, and reporting on ram errors is important for server reliability.
This type of person needs to start a company, they never get paid a fair wage otherwise
It happens, but there's a way out: forking.

With proprietary software, the option of forking does not exist.
I happen to agree with many of your points, but I do agree with the points of your critics as well. Perhaps a way to reconcile these views is by means of an analogy, one that involves asymptotic analysis.

So suppose we have a mode of governance that is in opposition to western principles, let's call it f(n). Then through the perspective of your critics, they are focused on the worse case analysis, and going on about how the big-O of f(n) is bad. You can think of this as them making the case that if you take a mode of governance that violates western principles to its logical conclusion, it can only be <insert reason why it's bad>. I do not think they are wrong in that regard.

However, having a mode of governance that is in opposition to western principles doesn't mean that the worse case would (always) materialize. Think of it like quicksort, which in its worse case, is O(n^2). In practice however, we're more likely to get the average case, which is theta(nlogn). In this regard, you (and I) are looking at the average case of f(n), which happens to match the governance of Singapore more accurately.

Ultimately, anyone who has learnt about asymptotic analysis should know that it's a theoretical framework that aims to provide a qualitative assessment of the runtime of an algorithm. While it's useful, there are various factors in real life that could contribute to an end result that contradicts that assessment (processor speed, parallelism, being cache-oblivious etc). The dispute between the critics and their opponents is analogous to that, with critics who have never been to Singapore viewing the country as an authoritarian state (theoretical worse case analysis), while those who live there would struggle to reconcile their views (average case analysis) with that of their critics.

I hope this semi-shitty analogy does put things in perspective for various readers who are trying to make sense of the opposition between these two camps.
Inference with llama.cop is not trivial and I can’t summarise in one post all of them parameters. What I’m saying is that in my opinion. is wrong to assume that changing from one transport to the other is causing degradation.

Llamacpp underwent some major changes last few weeks. And following the commits it took few days to stabilise. Try now , works as bliss. And compared to other inference engines such as tinygrad - is much more versatile in options how to be run.
ING customer: I can't access my online shit on my desktop without going to my phone for verification
I was personally hoping to see an implementation of this concept on top of Matrix (in fact, I know someone who claims they are going to someday build a git hosting backend on top of Matrix).
Don't mislead yourself, that benefit comes exclusively from security. Age and seniority only contribution is some weak correlation to security.
You could call "craft" understanding and power gained from firsthand experience with a thing.

As opposed to experience with ideas about a thing, models and abstractions and stories and such.

The former is of course infinitely deeper.

The latter, you could make a whole world out of that. And live inside it like a house.
College students are struggling with basic math
If all they discover is hallucinogens, then we may be in for a hell of a feedback loop here
Do you think that's relevant in this case?
I was all ready with a rant about the premature optimization of worrying about the parsing speed of a configuration library with there's so many other important factors and the majority of use cases don't care about speed...

But this is a great post that covers the relative behaviors of the different parsing libraries and helps you evaluate the best _functional_ choice for your needs. Bravo!
Have you had Covid? Long-Covid can manifest as brain fog or the inability to focus, get frustrated, or become panic about it. I’ve known a few people who had Covid and the following year suffer from undiagnosed long-covid brain fog and anhedonia.
Other applications are vastly more valuable. 'Curing' colorblindness has to be one of the least useful applications of this new, expensive, and mostly untested tech.
I live in such a lexical area, and you'd be surprised how often we have to explain to DPD 'no, it says <X> Court, not <X> Street, not <X> Rise, those are other addresses and we don't live there, what is printed on the label? Oh, it's '<X> Court'? How surprising'
Oh yeah, when I was in Jotunheimen last year it was an absolute godsend due to the unpredictable rains, even if it was not perfect (it might rain in one valley out there and not the next one over). I ended up spending a little more there because I was fetching it twice a day instead of once every two days, because it was so rainy I needed to know if I could even venture out on a walk without gear.
Only if one forgets XENIX. And yes, this is pride, not necessarily success.
And you can get reasonably priced notebook with ECC by...?
Perhaps I read it when I was too old, but I didn’t find it particularly insightful. Just a good beginner’s programming book…
Those same conservatives happily supported the Southern Strategy which is what this sentence references. One political party made this a basis for their platform for decades. These are the results of that strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#:~:text=In%2....
The problem is that you have uncomposted manure in large quantities that can runoff leading to water supply contamination.

Feedlots are destructive to the environment in a way that rotational grazing is not. Grass fed beef with rotational grazing is good for the environment, reducing fertilizer requirements without causing food contamination or wasting resources trucking cows and grain around. It's not good for big-ag, because they need a market for their subsidized corn/soybeans and it's not good for national beef producers because they want to co-locate and integrate everything for cost savings, but it'd be good for the cows, the environment and local businesses that are being undercut by the national players.
The link is currently timing out. Here's an alternate link that is currently working:

https://www.theregister.com/2006/12/23/iphone_will_fail/
It is my understand that once an aquifer is depleted, there is no going back. The relevant strata collapse and become unable to carry water. So there is probably no way the situation can improve.
It's perhaps also worth a mention that embracing the internal characteristics of SSD throughout the software stack looks like the inevitable direction we're headed (short of another major breakthrough in storage tech) - e.g. see "A Survey on the Integration of NAND Flash Storage in the Design of File Systems and the Host Storage Software Stack" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.11866.pdf
Counterpoint: https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/wp-content/uploads/TCG_TPM...
Frankly it sounds like you need to make this happen. I don't know your company culture but at places I've worked Staff+ engineers aren't meant to wait around for permission to be catalysts and mentor other engineers.
Ah, your cherry picked definition of authoritarian police state. And custom definition of abuse as freedom from having your nose thumbed into cognitive dissonances.

No, I need to do no such things as to address the vapid statements you make more than pointing your the internal inconsistency and massive cognitive dissonance of Americans and Brits trying to define true freedom.

By all means, let’s glance over the National Security Letters, Family Separation at Borders, the Snowden and Assange clown shows, Guantanamo, Black Sites, Texas or North Carolina travesty of governance but mention at any random thread about Singapore (colors!) that it’s authoritarian because … princeton study says it is. What is the thought process behind this urge? You avoided this question at every step, yet you demand engagement and protest abuse.

No, I don’t need to refute your arguments. Because they are none, but shifting strawmen. They are massive blinders of cognitive dissonance. Spare us your judgement over here, all you have is books and definitions and colonial mansplaining.

May you one day travel the world and get cured from your indoctrination.
Some additional ressources on tensors I've found useful:

1) A video[0] by Michael Penn exposing this idea of "tensor product of vector spaces." It's close to what is presented in this blog post, but more rigorous/complete.

2) Two videos[1][2] by Frederic Schuller. They are each from of bigger courses (resp. ~Differential Geometry for Physics and Quantum Mechanics), but I think they are self-contained enough to be intelligible. They both present tensors in different settings, so one will have to work a little to unify all this. I like in particular how in [1] he really takes the time to first distinguish between all the different tensor product (of space, of vectors, of operators): the usual notation/terminology can be needlessly confusing for beginners.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7f2pCQ3p3U

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ1WCyJmjgo

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-qzZOZt50
> Today I wanted to really knuckle down and make some real progress on my side project. I've updated my iPad, fixed the leg on a tripod, cut the grass, cleaned the mower, scrubbed the driveway. Guess how much progress I made on the side project?

It seems to me that, instead of working on a side project, you did many things you still had to do anyway. This could be an issue if you have an hard deadline approaching, but if you don't have one, is it really that bad? If it also significantly affects your work then sure, maybe you have to do something about it, but if you just procrastinate side projects by doing chores, then I don't see much of an issue. Doing other useful things instead of working on your main task is what I heard called "productive procrastination". I would say this can be an issue only if it really prevents you from working on what you would like to work on, but if you're just procrastinating every now and then by giving priority to other tasks on your to-do list, maybe it's a non-issue.
GitHub started using the company's official Mastodon account
Doesn't seem to work on mobile...

Also try out my reader: https://catnip.vip
Concentrating the population in a few areas is actually pretty good for the environment. It leaves room for nature and infrastructure becomes cheaper to build and more efficient to run.
FYI: YouTube Kids does have ads, although a lot less so than YouTube. It also mainly shows an ad at the start, and often only after one episode (for me at least).
Yes very similar. It makes me very happy when I'm called over by a junior proactively. Not mainly because I'm able to help them, the real reason is that they sensed something about the problem that needed a second pair of eyes, and they didn't waste time. That's them gaining intuition and experience and I get really happy for them.

I don't actually say it though because I don't know how to express it.
I’m begging for a 1969 SL180 converted to electric. How do we do it?
>Managers always love a developer who can consistently write 5000+ lines per code per week

What managers care about this at all?
It also doesn't get people promoted to that position just because that's what they're doing. Because politics.
Small farmer here. Big farms are the problem.

If regulations under discussion were applied equally to all farms, then most small farms would cease to exist, because our neighbors would sue us into oblivion.

Not because we are doing anything as egregiously wrong as CAFOs, but because we cannot afford to defend against spurious lawsuits from city folks that have moved to the country.
Just today I went into a Xiaomi only store, branded as Mi store something.

After spending a few minutes looking around, I finally asked the guy if there's ANY product that works without an app. Surprisingly, there was - an electric shaving device (razors?). I couldn't stop laughing. Even things as simple of cheap pole/standing fan require apps.
> But why the tensor product? Why is it that this construction—out of all things—describes the interactions within a quantum system so well, so naturally? I don’t know the answer

That's an odd thing for the author to say, because s/he gives the answer later in the very same passage:

> but perhaps the appropriateness of tensor products shouldn't be too surprising. The tensor product itself captures all ways that basic things can "interact" with each other!

That is the answer. It's the tensor product because there are logically no other possibilities. The tensor product says everything you can possibly say about the interactions of two systems whose states are described by a (possibly infinite) set of numbers and whose interactions correspond to some basic constraints, like being time-reversible. It just so happens that nature behaves according to those constraints, and that is why the tensor product describes the behavior of nature.
Don’t you dare rake your leaves this fall – mosquitoes and biodiversity collapse
Yeah, getting quarters is a real problem, especially when all of the banks in your area are only open during business hours and not on weekends. That said, I'd personally prefer quarters over an app, since quarters are much more fail-safe. The system that I'd prefer overall though would be some kind of prepaid account and an NFC card. UCLA had this system when I was a grad student there and it was really easy to use. You just tap your card on the reader by the door and select what machine to use. Everything ran smoothly.
Their first point is that saying the values are already there. The most obvious value of science is truth, which can be reached by the scientific method, which allows paradigms to change. Giving so much importance to truth is a matter of faith, you don't derive that from somewhere. It's interesting that they're going further than that and apparently find awe and meaning even just from the scientific method. Awe and meaning are in short supply in this world, so it's worth asking if we can get more of it from science, instead of pretending it's not there.
"If you collect mushrooms for eating, you should always take 3 samples: one for the pot, one for the doctor and one for the coroner"

Advice given on a fungus identification forum.
Well that software you sell them is fundamentally better and more maintanble because a person like Bob is around to give directions.

> The people that can do this without needing Bobs around are the people that will be rewarded.

Unicorns are few and far between, but sure, you do you.
In 1987 my grandparents bought me a commodore 128d with a 1200 baud modem at Toys-R-Us. I got online with Q-Link and then discovered BBSes and then quickly discovered underground BBSes.

Around 1990 I started getting on the Internet via a hacked dial-in of a local UC school for which I was eventually caught, charged and did probation for (along with other computer crimes). I had 3(or 3 1/2, I forget) years probation where I was supposed to avoid computers but eventually violated it with a dumb terminal and modem I got cheap(my computers were confiscated when my parents' home was raided).
units that manage large jammers afraid to stay near front line. so they usually positioned somewhat behind and jam the hell out of everything, including their own radio communications and drones. "would be possible" implies that there is some kind of coordination. in reality most of russian drones on frontline are diy as well.

for Ukrainians when jamming stops it's a tale sign that russians are going to attack
Huberman has an episode explaining the brain workings of procrastination. Give it a watch/listen to pick up a few tips.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=K-TW2Chpz4k

Edit: here are some summaries:

https://podcastnotes.org/huberman-lab/leverage-dopamine-to-o...

https://healthnews.com/family-health/healthy-living/andrew-h...
I lived almost 40 years with undiagnosed ADHD inattentive type. I had terrible grades, I couldn't organize anything in my life, terrible rejection sensitive dysphoria. Luckily, programming and computers have always been a consistent source of dopamine for me to hyperfocus on so I've done reasonably well in my career. It started impacting my marriage so I recently decided to talk to a mental health professional and got a diagnosis. I started a low dose of adderall which has helped a bit with some of those things, but it also sometimes has the side effect of making me hyperfocus on the wrong things. My diagnosis took one visit, maybe the laws are different in your state
My case was made difficult by the fact that I was only open to 3 days / week contracts. And maybe also because I'm trying to find something outside of full stack development, while at the same time being decently paid.
> Let me remind you again that you need to address my arguments to refute it.

It's getting hilarious at this point. It's like you think you had a valid argument and expected others to engage with you on your level.

You had empty assertions. GP explained why Singapore is not a "police state". Now you admit Singapore might not be a "police state" effectively agreeing with them, then finally follow up with substantial arguments, and accuse the GP of not engaging with them.

I'm not sure whether you're aware, your "arguments" are like so tired that I might have seen them hundreds of times. Why even bother to engage with an evangelist who's not interested in constructive discussion but rather in some toxic "refutation" of one's arguments?
Site owner blocked the site for Ukrainians. :-/

Error 1009 Ray ID: 80075b57bf1f2301 • 2023-09-02 17:08:45 UTC

Access denied

What happened?

The owner of this website (www.ucsf.edu) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (UA) from accessing this website.

Use this link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230829172126/https://www.ucsf....
Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs
> I've updated my iPad, fixed the leg on a tripod, cut the grass, cleaned the mower, scrubbed the driveway. Guess how much progress I made on the side project?

Hal fixes a light bulb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

a huge cold brew with extra espresso helps me focus

i guess the focus comes about because the caffeine helps me realize that the little 'side-side quests' are actually meaningless, making the 'real quest' actually attainable (since now there's no 'worthless' things to occupy my time)
Could you tell more about the companies, the roles and the salary ranges? Those are very interesting data points.
There's a curious one lane bridge[1] over I-40 outside of Raleigh that leads to a gravel road that serves about 4 houses, and then leads into the back side of Umstead State Park. We always joke about it being the "bridge to nowhere" and ponder "who had the political connections to make that happen?"

But I imagine it's something like you were saying: probably when I-40 was built, the land acquisition process resulted in those homes being cut off from everywhere else, unless that bridge was built. And probably it was cheaper / easier / more politically viable to build the bridge than buy out the remaining land-owners.

Or maybe there was more to it. This area is also adjacent to RDU airport: a lot of the land you can see near "Old Reedy Creek Road" on the map, north of I-40, belongs to the airport, even though it is undeveloped (aside from bandit MTB trails). I suppose the argument for the bridge might have involved providing better access to the airport, then or in the future, for emergency crews or something of that nature. The additional access to Umstead Park I wouldn't expect to be a big factor, because the next exit down on I-40 is already one of the two major entrances to the park.

Anyway it's always interesting to look at stuff like this and wonder how/why certain decisions were made.

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8400772,-78.7819125,75m/data...
Motivation. You are aiming to money or productivity, instead of what is moving you forward.

MVP is a term from a decanter Western world that is only governed by production and mercantile values, completely forgetting its spiritual part. Then you will wonder why you are lost and you will have to resort to drugs because no sentient being could be subjected to such torture organically.
The point of providing a link here is to outsource the explanation to someone who does it better. If you take issue with that, you could always get chatGPT to summarize for you.
As someone totally unqualified to make an assessment about this, I feel selectively forgetting is much harder than generalized forgetting. This would make the person vulnerable to multitudes of vectors.
Lol, let me clarify, imitate nice things, not dreck
I've heard people have gotten access to the language but I've not seen many games built with it. What have people shipped with this?
Seems like the fourth estate is being formalized and exercising taxation power. How likely will they be to want to anger government now, if government can cut them off?

That was always a risk with state supported media, but now that it will apply to all commercial media that appears on Facebook or Google news..
What is recommended reading for getting started with mushroom foraging?

It seems like such an interesting activity.
Do they think dangerous advice on mushroom foraging is relevant to the topic of someone maybe having died from eating the wrong mushroom sourced from mushroom foraging? Do you think it's not relevant? It might not be that interesting, but you and I already made an off-the-cuff remark into way more of a thing than it deserved.

Just downvote if you don't like the comment.
“Just try and then handle the exception” is a pretty weird paradigm for this sort of thing, to those of us who come from more typical languages. So I suspect they just included hasattr to make us more comfortable.