skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abuses of government power are generally boring facts, like civil asset forfeiture. “A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

So, when cops rob an armored car via civil asset forfeiture it’s just something that happened no conspiracy theory required because there isn’t some other example that fits. But, the moon landing was fake fits because there’s another explanation.

Occasionally what once was a conspiracy theory is now considered factual, but at that moment it stops being a conspiracy theory because it’s no longer fringe. As such this isn’t a pejorative definition as it doesn’t directly imply such theories are incorrect.
I feel that a line from this could be traced back to the era prior to ubiquitous social media, where the vast majority of sharing was happening over messengers like AIM, MSN, and Skype or via email, and if you go back Apple stuff at that point was fairly geared around sharing through iChat (AIM) or Mail.app.

There was a period earlier on where macOS and iOS had Facebook and Twitter posting built in where those got some airtime in promotions, but as the shine of social media wore off those integrations disappeared and their promotional material reverted to a world where sharing happened over the modern equivalent to iChat (iMessage) or maybe Mail.app.
Remember kids, breakfast is the most important meal of the day (TM)! So make sure you start it huge dose of sugar dressed up in funny colors! This will all but guarantee you'll have a blood glucose crash in the early hours of your day, which is a sure fire way to make your day worse, but look at that cute lion! Isn't he fun!?
Please write shorter paragraphs. Each paragraph here is a wall of text. It's unreadable.
> The entire world had a walkman

Absolutely not the case.

Wikipedia cites an article in Japanese saying that about 220 million Sony Walkman devices were produced before discontinuation in 2010. Even if you quadruple that for other brands, you're not even close to 1/4 of the world at the time they first came out.
I think this is mostly how human communication worked until the internet era. Those who aren’t plugged into social media still operate this way - sharing directly with others. In real life, when people interact, they begin by asking “how are you?” Which is the opposite of social media.
My life as an AI chatbot operator
https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pionee...

https://freedombox.org/
Presumably openly telling coal miners that they need to work harder, when you're a well connected writer was enough to get you cancelled even in those days, hence the need to be so oblique about it.
This sort of looks like the Japanese Kana keyboard on iOS
This is a case report of an individual that experienced lead poisoning from Ayurvedic supplements. It is from Canada’s public health system.

One of the linked studies which analyzed 193 supplements found that 39 of them were contaminated. That was funded in part by the US NIH, hospitals, and universities.

The only thing I can see that’s suspicious are the people pushing these harmful products.
> Before I decide to build or modify a tool myself, I thought I'd ask here:

if you do decide to, start with ggml/whisper
"We" don't have to do anything.

People are inventing new things all the time in every possible sphere of life. If something proves to be more popular than what's already out there, it will become successful

That's the whole point of evolution/capitalism - you don't need to have a big plan or pick the winners up front
Working in research, I have observed that one can't do everything alone, so many things effectively need a team because specializations matter and some tasks simply need a decent quantity of mundane effort. So me living cheaply wouldn't be sufficient because I still need funding to pay all the other people involved.
> What exactly is an NCG

New College Grad

> UMBC, MSU, UTenn, Clemson, SDSU and Cal Poly SLO

Those are all decent Eng schools which are hard to get into. Sure they ain't "Harvard" but they are still prestigious. CS@SLO was my target school actually (though ended up getting rejected).

> My starting TC was only $150k about 5 years ago so this is definitely not true.

That is higher than most Chiefs of Staff working in the House or Senate (aka 15-20 YoE); and factoring in Base+Stock Appreciation you would have broken $170k, especially factoring the fact that WA didn't have income tax back then, which DC does.
I don't know if there's any direct relation but this reminds me of:

http://conal.net/talks/denotational-design-lambdajam-2015.pd...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmKYiUOEo2A
FWIW, here's another case of toxic supplements in America. With neither heavy metals nor "Ayurvedic" involved:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7237a3.htm
If you want a pet, get a rabbit – they’re 20 per cent cheaper than other pets because they don’t attract sales tax, being edible.

Your first $2000 vet bill will dissuade you of the notion that rabbits are economical pets.

That aside, this is a seriously-great article.
My brother was almost denied clearance because he saw a therapist when he was mentally healthy yet personally struggling just to ensure that he didn't have any metal issues
It's much much too loud for air curtains.
> Saas [...] hasn't fully displaced individual computer ownership.

The writing is on the wall though, isn't it? Even companies that you'd expect to go all-in on user freedom and ownership have locked down their platforms and ratcheted up the service offerings. Not a single FAANG company is willing to take a definitive stand in defense of their users. They all just see a bottom line waiting to be butchered.

And for most users, I'd wager SaaS has displaced computer ownership. Stuff like the App Store, Play Store and even game consoles are ultimately a service unto themselves. Even disregarding that, the "happy path" of modern software is paved far away from user empowerment. People are generally more willing to pay for a subscription than to switch to a more convenient hardware platform.
So Size Does Matter, as Carrefour Calls Out Shrinkflation in Stores
Survival is inherently selfish. Something has to die for you to live.

That something might be a plant or animal. As long as you _attempt_ to minimize the suffering of what you're consuming, then eating plants over animals isn't morally superior.

It also doesn't really matter if it's a cow, chicken or frog, as long as you're not making the animal suffer pointlessly.
I didn't say that we should give up medical privacy at all. Simply that there is, in fact, a trade off, and that the current regime looks to me both overly restrictive and poorly implemented.

Wholly getting rid of medical privacy is obviously a bad idea. But perhaps we could agree that there are research purposes where greater access to data would be helpful, and that creating exemptions under certain circumstances could help on the research side. (Eg, the data is securely silo'ed and access restricted, and stays inside the research org only.)

(It's mind boggling to me that people have such poor ability to think in anything but stark binaries. It's a total failure of critical thought which degrades the quality of policy discussion. How do we even approach it?)
In addition to your block's list, from the article:

> Does the Dimension Apple exist?

> For a long time I have enjoyed the stilted, improbable cheeriness of fake Apple texts for their extreme distance from my own texting habits and experiences. (As my friend Emma put it to our group chat “if any of you texted me like this I would immediately call your significant others to make sure you hadn’t been kidnapped.”) But in the last year or so I have realized that Dimension Apple does exist--or at least overlaps with our own--in one very specific place: The WhatsApp groups that the parents at my son’s daycare/school create to share information or set up play dates. In these groups, and only in these groups, do I encounter the same kind of earnest helpfulness and baffling ebullience that exists in the Dimension Apple. Naturally, I find them totally alienating.
Suitably anonymized, I'd say "Yes." You can't make progress in any field without data. Usually, the more data the better, as long as it's good data. If archaic, misguided laws have to be broken to save lives, well... so be it.

The real trick is keeping personally-identifiable data out of the hands of insurance companies.
> why not at least start with the tax code

There have been many such attempts (e.g. NKRL by Zarri et al., also funded by EU). There are even societies that have been dealing with such issues for many decades (e.g. http://www.iaail.org). The formalization of law and language is only one of the issues. Like many previous attempts, this one suffers from the fuzziness of human language (even in the case of tax code). Fuzziness is not a drawback; it is what makes it possible to communicate efficiently in the first place. In order for us to communicate effectively, we need an enormous amount of tacit knowledge about our environment that our culture and life experience brings. If one tries to formalize the language, as in the present approach, one must also take this knowledge into account, down to the last detail (an "upper ontology" is by far not sufficient for this, and Cyc after decades is still not finished). And the tacit knowledge and also the moral valuation of the same change over time. And there are things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox which stand in the way of a complete formalization. Lenat's 1990 book addressed many of the issues, but also his more recent talks are very informative where he demonstrates how they had to extend the Cyc representation language to cope with the problem, and why e.g. RDF triples are not enough.
Yes all that, and also it's worth considering Magick from the psychological perspective, rather than the "magic missile" idea that lots of folks have.

Here is a link[0] to Crowley's definitions of Magick, in his view:

[0] https://sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/defs.htm
https://archive.is/NKoNa
UAW president rejects Stellantis’ 21% wage increase offer
Yes it is, if half the images load only partialy or not at all.
> Canola is primarily monounsaturated.

It is 35% polyunsaturated and whatever monounsaturated fat it contains is inferior quality for human needs. Rancid toxic trash.

> You're spouting dangerous, pseudoscientific nonsense.

You're a boomer living 50 years in the past with outdated fraudulent industry "research".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317118

My relatives eat huge amounts of saturated fat and animal products many have lived to 100 years old (not a western diet). We don't have heart disease in my family. I've been mostly animal based for the past 20 years, eating multiple times the recommended daily allowance of saturated fat and cholesterol, and latest blood checks / blood pressure are perfect. Also cut excess sugar/carbs out of my diet 20 years ago. I am living proof for myself. Whenever I eat a meal high in canola oil I instantly feel like absolute shit, but I feel good after eating fatty red meat (burgers only with no fries or sugar drinks). The vegetable oil fries and soft drinks are what kills you. Not the burger.
Pretty much everything in the UK is owned by India, China, France or Germany. Or the UAE/Middle Eastern countries.
https://archive.is/kjZjx
You’re making a big assumption here which is that Google are not paying for a license permitting this usage.

They aren’t a stupid organization, and will not risk litigation over things like this.
> while everyone (including presumably OP) looks down on me

I ain't looking down on you for your educational background. I'm just pointing out the bitter elitist truth outside the tech and accounting industries.

> I live my life but then I wake up realizing I have accomplished nothing

That's bullshit. You worked at AMAZON - one of the largest companies and brands in the world. Even kids at MIT and UCB and Stanford aren't getting new grad offers there anymore in 2023. Most freshman CS students would look up to you.

Pat yourself on the back, you worked at a S tier company. It sounds like you're in a mid-20s rut. Take a deep breath, go backpack for a bit, go live your bliss, and stop giving a fuck about external validation. Do what makes you happy. In 10 years you'll look back and see how much you have accomplished.
The Walkman was a hugely successful product, but I don't think that everyone owned one. It was popular with teenagers, exercise/fitness enthusiasts, and a few other categories. It wasn't something that a businessman would have owned, or an elderly person, or a poor person. Today, however, all of those people own smartphones.

I really think it was the iPhone that changed Apple.
Social networks work a lot like mass-mailing your friends and relatives with postcards / greeting cards.

Also, the lack of gossip in "Dimension Apple" is a crucial distinction. You don't need a social network to spread news, if you know that everything you tell that one aunt is going to be repeated on every phone call she makes for the next two weeks. (And she makes a lot of phone calls.)
Capitalism is already the perfect Regret Maximization Framework. The most number of people get to regret every major decision of their lives when compared to an extremely wealthy few who get to dictate social trends and opinions.
Chasing mythical creatures – A (not-so-sympathetic) critique of unicorn startups
I understand your point, but tbh:

"Take for example genshin impact: it's made in unity, has a high production value, is f2p with a in-game currency that can be purchased, and meets the threshold for the change requirements. The same company has several other similarly modeled games released across multiple platforms (PC and PlayStation)."

From what I can tell, if you were to sell a $5 game made with Unity and made $200,000 per year, the total charge would be $8,000. But that charge would be $40k if your game was only $1 and $800 if your game sold for $50. For Unity Pro if you made $10 million selling 1 million copies you would be charged $60,000. That same studio making $10 million on a game written with Unreal Engine would be charged $500,000 in royalties. That is far more than $60k for Unity. It still appears that Unity is the budget option, it just isn't quite as cheap as it used to be.

Considering Unity has a negative operating margin of around 50%, it seems clear they need to start making more money. Customer acquisition and R&D costs have been growing much faster than revenue so they need to start making more money somewhere. R&D costs have risen by 275% over the past 3 years, and sales/marketing costs have increased 175%. Revenue has only increased 150% over the same period.
There was once a big StarCraft 2 tournament where one of the contestants walked out mid-event because he couldn't pull off any cheeky tricks due to the audience giving him away.
https://github.com/stevinz/awesome-game-engine-dev
I think it comes from a place of frustration. Apple makes this amazing hardware with great software that just oozes with great UX design, but they arbitrarily limit what you can do with them.
When reporting SSPR Abuse vulnerabilities, I've been assured that SIM swaps are only in the domain of Sophisticated Threat Actors, and not in the threat model for the Ordinary Joe. Whew, glad to know we're all safe.

/s
Wong Chong Wen sets world record FMC average of 20
> GGUF is a new format introduced by the llama.cpp team on August 21st 2023. It is a replacement for GGML, which is no longer supported by llama.cpp. GGUF offers numerous advantages over GGML, such as better tokenisation, and support for special tokens. It is also supports metadata, and is designed to be extensible

is there a more canonical blogpost or link to learn more about the technical decisions here?
We did and it was grim.

https://i.imgur.com/oN3wtxA.png
Hot summer air turns into drinking water with new gel device
I'm on no social media (besides this site). The number of times a day I have to say, "no, I didn't see [insert random event here]." Would honestly surprise you.

There is just an expectation in society today that you know everything that's going on in everyone's life. It's very, very strange to me. It's hard to explain why, but I get serious black mirror sort of vibes from it.
'Straight down' is how the UK gameshow 'Countdown' finishes its iconic period, perhaps this is an influence.
There's a HN link to https://pineapple-one.github.io/ on the front-page now. Is that of interest?
You know that article took:

*We have this unprecedented 50x rise in manual work productivity between 1870 and 1970. Then, at the exact time you’d expect things to have another 50x boost because of the computer revolution, things start slowing down.*

Then run away with it "manual work productivity" - my question was also "what are productive ends" which was not addressed.

I call total BS on article and "productivity", because big scale construction might take more time and have higher cost but are we comparing the same things. Like bridges built 50 years ago are not the same built nowadays, processes are more complicated but we get better buildings with new materials and new ways of building.
In general, denser materials are better (and faster) at transmitting physical waves sound and worse (and slower) at transmitting electric waves like heat.
The cloud is that but with TerraForm, or god forbid, CloudFormation.
Your linked source says Snapchat has been using CoreML for neural network acceleration since 2022, which is not "since the early days" as you had originally claimed.
opening your feedback system to users == asking users for feedback
We don't live in a "language space." We live in a material world where objective truth -- the kind that remains after you stop believing in it -- indisputably exists.
so given that GGML can serve like 100 tok/s on an M2 Max, and this thing advertises 6 tok/s distributed, is this basically for people with lower end devices?
I mean, I can sell you Eve or Runescape currency but we don't need any crypto to execute on it. "Gold sellers" existed well before crypto.
Especially when you talk about how you are a professional writer.

More info here:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/
1. privacy: this does not solve the server problem. You have no privacy because the server has your data unencrypted. to protect passwords use this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289

2. integrity: if you need integrity, like for a bank transaction HTTPS is great, but you don't need HTTPS for all sites. for simple tampering control hashing is way more efficient.

3. identity: "This SSL certificate is valid and has been issued by a legitimate Certificate Authority." Who is the authority. If they have the power to pre-install root certificates on all hardware on the planet does that mean they are to be trusted?

None of these arguments make any sense if you know how cryptography works, HTTPS is a waste of time, electricity, "money" and freedom for 99% of uses.

Everyday I go to URLs with expired certificates. Just use HTTP!

From the folks at "DNS"imple, great another centralized protocol.
US in first place both by wreckage caused and ability to fund a clean energy transition. Why am I not surprised?
https://archive.is/sgwkc
Do you have examples?

I think in many ways Rust is doing a better job of tying down the tricky details than C++ has.

There is no effort to explain how pointer provenance works in C++ at all. The state of the art is if you write a provenance bug, someone from a compiler vendor will gesture at DR/260 which says provenance exists but WG14 (so C, not even C++) declines to explain how it works, and that's all you get. In contrast Aria's "Experiment" (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/index.html#strict-provenan...) has gone rather well. The vast majority of people who want to do acrobatics with pointers can do what Aria says you have to do to get coherent behaviour, and by following her rules they can make code which works in Rust.
> The game is also often review bombed by rival games. What would stop a rival company from setting up a bot that just mass installs on VMs to try and charge up their bill?

This is FUD, but its covered by Unity FAQ. Either way, I would like to see "rivals", aka game studios, developing such amazing technology.. it would show even more that such "indie studios", developing high addictive, full of ads and "in game currency" are just bad for the whole game ecosystem and society.
no. literally conservation of energy. humans cannot beak the laws of nature. calories in > calories out
Afaik this is so that you can go back in time before epoch (less than 0)
The RFC was driven by Vercel. Vercel announced RSC landing in experimental on stage before the React team even updated their docs

I'm not even going to get into how ridiculous it is that the default config chosen was to break people's builds for a feature that isn't mature enough to have anything more than a single reference implementation from Vercel.
Why didn’t past generations consider these ramifications for future generations? 2038 must have seemed so far away, but now it’s so close I bet even in 2038 and beyond people will still be reading this comment. Maybe they will be cursing us for the tech debt they inherited!
Nonsense, there is no way my company that is a simple mid size tech company could ever hope to fill most roles with personal connections. They try though, cash rewards for recommending someone that gets hired and passes probation.

Even with that incentive most hiring comes through a couple of in-house people that filter out the noise from the various recruiters they interact with.

Maybe with small shops < 50 poeple it might be possible.
"ff" can be a ligature,ﬀ. It is possible their system doesn't like the Unicode character. Even if isn't ligature character in PDF, the renderer could make it. Decomposition errors are common, as are not handling Unicode.
Some people are aware about various concepts/paradigms and are able to put each to good use where appropriate.

Other follow fashion and if some dick looking for fame declares A as obsolete and B as the new and shiny one (to be replaced soon anyways) then the lemmings would follow and sing the gospel.
When I lived in the rural midwest there were prodigious quantities of large frogs that the locals would sometimes catch for food. They taste fine just seasoned and lightly fried, no need to sauce them. I find the flavor to be good but not very distinctive. Learning how to fish for frogs was pretty interesting though, never would have guessed.
Blame your restaurants. Burger king has figured out how to sell you two impossible kings for $7. The only reason why people still ask for another $4 to swap out the sysco patty on your $12 brewpub burger is because they can and you are used to it.