skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds of the GitHub issue for hosting Gitea on Gitea, it's... a read to be sure: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
I wonder if it's like any technology and trade offs between helping/hurting people. If religions help 95% of people be more loving and 5% be more hateful, would it be a net benefit? Does it depend what those 5% do with the hate or the 95% with the love? What if the percentages were different?

Obviously an overly simplistic thought experiment, yet I wonder if we have any way, that isn't arbitrary, to say if a tool is net beneficial.

Side note...I've often played with the idea in the past of what I called the case for moral superposition: nothing is good or bad, everything is good AND bad, but thinking makes it good OR bad.
> Feels like the stock market is just a bunch of jargon, subterfuge and financial sleight of hand.

Here, what they're doing is establishing a position which will make money if the stock moves either direction out of a narrow band. If you believe there's going to be a big industry upset, but don't know whether it will hurt or harm a specific player, you might enter this position. In turn, the overall market volatility is reduced and liquidity is added by your information being added to the market.

> Stock shorting has got to be one of the most pants-on-head stupid things I've ever heard.

All kinds of simple, legitimate reasons to short stocks. E.g. you are excessively exposed to that company's welfare for some reason (stock options, they're an important vendor, they're a big component in a mutual fund you own but you'd rather not own their stock, etc)-- you can take an opposite position by shorting. Or, here, you can use it to offset an option that moves in the opposite direction.

> Like we learned nothing from 2008, and just created financial 'products' mechanisms and gambits out of thin air.

This isn't too much like the house of cards from 2008. These types of strategies are not new; offsetting short positions by writing or buying options was in frequent use in the 1970s, if not before. Option use to profit from volatility (or hedge volatility) dates back more than 2000 years.

I'm not a big fan of esoteric, complicated financial schemes, or in creating options and financialized products for everything (e.g. cap and trade)... or situations where market players profit from privileged access to marketplaces (e.g. HFT). But the things you name are not any of these.
I've been on Google phones since the first nexus, with the exception of a single Samsung before swearing them off due to bloatware and awful performance degradation, despite being twice the price of the nexus, and am finally tempted to switch to an iPhone as well.

The main things drawing me to the iPhone are:

Live voicemail - don't have to deal with my carriers awful voicemail anymore, and it's way more practical than Android's Call Screen, because the Call Screen prompt is way too tedious to sit through, unprofessional if you're being called for an interview, and they know you're there. Live voicemail I can see it, optionally answer in the middle, it gets saved after, and the other party has no idea if I'm available or not.

Apple Photo Memories - My girlfriend shows me them on her iPhone, they're cohesive and actually really enjoyable to watch, they look like they were professionally done, like what you'd pay someone to make or see an social media influencer post. Google Photo Memories look like random assortments of photos in a powerpoint presentation you made back when you were only 8.

The apple watch is also better than the google watch.

I still have to see what features I care about that I'll be losing before making the switch though. I still remember having to fight my iPod where the internal music db would always get corrupted and need to reset because I used MediaMonkey instead of iTunes since it was faster and had better transcoding and library management features.
Easily the worst thing to come out of Australia. I'm ashamed to share a country with him. This monster has done more damage to our society and planet with his propaganda than possibly anyone else alive today other than actual warmongers like Putin.
Right, forgot to list that one
> Forgejo in particular has self-hosted actions runners that can be registered offline, and the runners themselves can be given labels and execute most existing GitHub actions (in fact, the yaml format they use is intentionally meant to be compatible with GitHub actions).

This is also part of Gitea. Which makes since because Forgejo is a soft-fork of Gitea.
It's more complicated than that. Open Source platforms win, Open Source products don't - but there are exceptions to both.

I guess there's a point between pain to use and pain to pay and pain to comply with the restrictions and whatever product or platform gravitates to the lowest of the sum of those for each use case wins. Obviously, this assumes good enough outputs.

IMHO, Open Source AI will win because the restrictions of closed source one are too high and their lower price point through deep pockets doesn't compensate enough for that. The UX is not that different.
I think most people in psychiatry don't want to admit the patients are typically victims and society has to be the one to change. In my opinion most psychological techniques induce the behaviors they are attempting to suppress effectively bullying the people who are seeking help.
The EU and the US are a bit bigger than Singapore.

And yes, EU's bureaucracy is vastly simpler than that of "the combined rest of the world"
esm.sh kind of does this for livecoding environments (e.g. Codepen/Colab) where you're using <script type=importmap> instead of a bundler.
> licensing won't help because no one knows how you'd keep it under control yet

That's a very good argument for not making it more powerful until we can reliably align it.
But that’s easy to solve for to get to the crux of the issue: what if you realized it and then, on behalf of and with the blessing of your employer traded on the information?
> Or is it judges who interpret laws literally instead of using the intent?

It's hard to interpret intent in a way that is consistent and fair. A ruling that does not go by what is written down is open to be criticized, while a ruling that adheres to the letter is almost never overturned.
In India, even before we get to cousins, we have distinct terms for father/mother's siblings of same and opposite genders. Same gender elder/younger siblings of your parents have different pronouns that translate this way in Kannada (Language of Karnataka state):

senior-father - ದೊಡ್ಡಪ್ಪ (doddaappa) for elder brother of father,

senior-mother - ದೊಡ್ಡಮ್ಮ (doddammA) for elder sister of mother,

junior-father – ಚಿಕ್ಕಪ್ಪ (chikkappa) for younger brother of father,

junior-mother - ಚಿಕ್ಕಮ್ಮ (chikkammA) for younger sister of mother.

Their spouses get the same seniority title with appropriate gender.

Then, opposite gender siblings of your parents get pronouns that are more conceptually closer to uncle/aunt. But here, there's no seniority distinction.
What does "offical" mean in this context?

The US does not have an "official" language, but English is the de facto language of government for the national government.
Being a user of E2EE video chat tools and calling apps, - I've been following this, especially more closely ever since Jitsi disabled anonymous video calling on thier main instance /Jitsi Meet

(Yes, there is a the Jitsi Meet Community Instances that are still with the original full functionality that people can access- If they search for Jitsi alternative community instances on a search engine, which isn't something most will be aware of for your average user...)

Having been a user of the Jitsi Meet Electron App even on Linux and Windows(along with the web accessible variant)- and having followed closely the efforts by Firefox on RTCRtpScriptTransform (formerly webrtc insertable streams) mainly to support Jitsi E2EE calls- has been interesting to watch.

Though now with the new Google/Meta/Microsoft account requirement/non anonymous aspect, all of that minus the community instances web interface sites are of use to me now.

If i follow fully, Element Call in a way replaces Jitsi Meet's original capability- though E2EE encryption doesn't have to be "Turned On " in a Chromium based browser - and Element Call isn't yet something that can be launched from a desktop app on Windows or Linux in a similar user-friendly way (I see the Vector IM client is a thing)

- The main difference being for using Element/Element X, one new from the Jitsi Meet ecosystem /usecases i've mentioned, will have to make an account- and for your average user who cannot easily learn about and deploy a server and how to host that on their own- but is looking for privacy- it is trickier to judge and will be more steps , to achieve anonymity from a privacy perspective.

I see the P2P effort is another step towards this as well

I'll likely try to use Element Call and point those I know who use tools like this towards it due to Jitsi's recent changes - as Element Call's web interface is user-friendly enough, and that is the main challenge. What Element is outside of that- and how it integrates into everything and how to use it in the same way in it's other forms- will be interesting to introduce, as those are developed further.
Yes.

In four ways for me:

- it actually respects my search. If I search for "<some word or phrase that doesn't exist>" I get no result. It doesn't silently twist my search until it gets something it can show me a million utterly irrelevant results for. This is a huge time saver for me.

- there are no ads. I usually didn't notice ads in the search results anyway as they were always irrelevant, but recently there has been so many of them that it took away space from the search results. Going back now feels weird.

- as others have already mentioned a lot of low quality pages just doesn't show up, leaving room for other, more relevant and/or high quality pages.

- built in tooling to deal with pages I don't care about and that Kagi hasn't already dealt with.
> operating computer controlled heavy equipment that does a huge amount of the calculations for them

They're also measuring soil nutrient and nitrogen content, integrating global price signals into their sourcing and supply chain, and paying attention to the genetic characteristics of their cultivars. I'd wager American farmers, today, are vastly more knowledgeable about their craft, at a fundamental level, than farmers in the 1930s.
Nuclear will be fine if the economics work. So far there appears little chance of that.

Also, this is misleading:-

> Did you know you can use the heat produced in Nuclear power reactors directly for things like turning Iron Ore to steel. No natural gas or conversion to Electricity required: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspa.1974... .

The abstract of the reference given says "With nuclear heat, the fossil fuel--re-formed to a suitable reductant--is confined to the chemical role and not used as a source of heat."

So, still using coal.

In contrast to more modern methods that avoid coal altogether, by using hydrogen as the reducer, or by direct electrolysis of molten ore.
Unfortunately, people with reduced access to transportation are less likely to vote. It is too expensive and time-consuming to get to the polls.
F-35A Has Flown from a Highway for the First Time
Suppose, despite your clear belief to the contrary, that it were factually correct that AI is incredibly dangerous. Embody that viewpoint for a moment. What action would you propose in that circumstance that would be more effective?
Gitea Hosted Gitea
I thought this was well known in the Anglosphere.

Anyway, I have heard that this is why the words for cooked version of the meat and the name of the animal is different in English.

For example, cow meat when cooked becomes beef. Sheep meat when cooked becomes mutton.

The Norman French elites referred to the cooked version by its French names but the English servants who dealt with the animals used the English words.
T5 family is awesome. FastChat-T5 has amazing text generation quality (eg for RAG chatbots) and it can easily run on CPU fast enough to do a live conversation.
I sure am wondering how much of the late 20th century Flynn effect was due to diminishing lead poisoning

Given that the Flynn effect seemed to be strongest in the era of high-lead petrol and has dropped off, I can't see how it could have had an effect
I do the NYT crossword on my iPhone. Not uncommonly, someone will start kibitzing over my shoulder. If there's a TV nearby, I throw the app up there, either with AirPlay or an HDMI cable. Because it's an iPhone, the app can detect that it's mirrored to a big screen and give an alternate layout for that screen; the NYT crossword app does an average job of this, giving a layout optimized for large 16:9 landscape displays. Makes two people (or ten) working on a crossword together much more pleasant.

I'm not sure if this is a weird use case or not, but given the number of iPhone apps that I have both used and written that have special handling for TV mirroring to improve user experience... it can't be /that/ rare.
I, like any person in 2023 should, use unlock origin so I never see ads on Google.
>As millenials age into the system, the government will start to more closely reflect their world views.

By what mechanism?

The reason those in government fail to represent the views of their constituents is due to class warfare and wealth.

Millennials are already reaching 40, yet the wealth of the Millennial generation is a tiny fraction of what Baby Boomers had in their 20s. To put it bluntly: it's too damn late!

It's not that those in power are simply out of touch, it's that they intentionally pulled the ladder up behind them.

So far the USA has robbed 3 generations in order to feed the capitalist class, and Boomers cheered it on because they also reap the rewards of this large-scale sacrifice.

Moloch smiles on the Baby Boomer generation.

https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c...
My main pains with flying are completely unrelated to the airline, like waking up early, packing, taxis, layovers, delays and endless dead waiting time in the most sterile environment imaginable. Any flight under ~4h all I care about is reducing the amount of time, not increasing the amount of comfort. Drinking while sitting down alone to the pleasurable tunes of 80db ambient noise, really? Do these people think it’s luxury to sit on the couch with their laptop at 11am on a Tuesday with construction workers outside? I cannot wrap my head around how that mediocrity is thousands of dollars worth of luxury when you can get a better experience for $20-$50 on the outside, with minuscule effort. I’m convinced a large appeal is simply the flex that others can see you in first- or business class.
> if you made a black box at a certain place, that form would be interpreted as the answer key and would screw up a whole pile of scanning

Out of curiosity, where?
Now add some multi-line strings.

None of them handles it well. YAML has 7 different modes to do it so you will inevitable mix up and use the wrong one, otherwise it's actually the only option that supports it. Json requires inlining \n. Xml only does it with whitespace indentation.
This is just a standard demand for preservation of evidence. They’re letting you know that although you’re not a party to the lawsuit, you may be called to produce information as a witness. They are informing you that certain classes of information are relevant to the litigation, and that you have a legal duty to preserve that information in case it is later subpoenaed.

Caveat: I am not your lawyer.
Visual Studio Code has a huge realtime problem. I find myself typing ahead by ten or 15 characters most of the time before changes show up in the UI. At which point either my brain-typeahead buffer overflows, or keystrokes start getting dropped (I'm not sure which).

Not sure if this is a problem specifically on Linux or not. I like to think that on Windows, UI-thread/process priority boosts take care of this problem, but I suspect not entirely.

I've been meaning to turn off Intellisense to see if my productivity will increase. What I know for sure: my productivity in VSCode/C++ is hugely tanked compared to Android Studio/java.
I have to agree on this. But also anyone who calls anyone else an "idiot" for how they code is doing it wrong™. We can learn from what eachother thrive in. For backend, it's usually data structures, databases, performance, etc. while on the frontend it's creating visually appealing UIs that feel good to interact with and both of those sides of web dev act to bring people into what we create time and time again. So when backend devs get mad when frontend devs say "Hey, maybe backend isn't so bad after all", that feels backwards.
Metabolism converts sugars and oxygen to carbon dioxide and water. Fire has the same inputs and outputs too! You can think of metabolism as releasing the same energy as fire but with more steps so our bodies can harness and use the energy via various other chemical reactions.

Most of the water from metabolism is released in your breath. Water you pee is mostly water you ingested via drinking and eating.
This is not taught in the US and we blend hot and cold together. Why are the lines blended at the faucet if that’s the case?
Audio has come a long way, pipewire just works in my experience. And Wayland is in daily driver territory, so X11 is only needed if you have some specific requirements. Steamdeck/proton has massively improved gaming.

That’s not to say it’s not still Linux, there will be some tinkering. But compared to a decade ago there’s way less banging my head against the wall.

If you’re already competent in administration Linux you might find it’s time to revisit the desktop.
Will scrcpy work on Alpine Linux.
Modifying global scope is the whole point of a polyfill though. And polyfills check themselves whether they were already applied or not.

Maybe a step to a more sane situation would be reducing redundancies between polyfill libraries to ensure they don't step on each other's toes.
Modern JavaScript frameworks always make me think of this essay.
The young woman in your anecdote is an extreme outlier. First, her family and all families she knew well only had a single child for generations; if that’s the case for most people, the population would shrink rapidly, so obviously most families aren’t like that. Secondly, to be unfamiliar with the concept at all, she had to be unfamiliar with some household names from cornerstones of Chinese literature, taught in grade school; very unlikely for a literate person. She also had to distance herself from television and the like, which was achievable twenty years ago.
That’s what the fine tuning is about. It learns the language, concepts etc. from the main dataset and is then tweaked by continuing to train on a smaller, high quality, hand curated dataset. That’s how it learns to generate conversational responses by default instead of needing a complicated prompt.
I've always been kind of surprised that original sources aren't part of the NPM culture. For a long time, I included "typescript:main" in my package.jsons and configured my tools to prefer that to "main" (and now "module").
The space makes the difference between "word exists" and "word doesn't exist".
Sarah Silverman is almost certainly going to be crushed in court. The lawsuit is totally without merit.
> One of the few directors to overcome these obstacles and create a concert movie artistically equal to his fiction features is the late Jonathan Demme—with “Stop Making Sense,” his 1984 film of the band Talking Heads in performance.

Not mentioning The Lsst Waltz is pretty unpardonable. But this IS a great movie, and so is that.

> The oversized boxy suit that Byrne wears for several numbers in the film has become iconic, but it’s also superfluous: he’s already expressing its essence in performance throughout the concert

and what, one wonders, is the "essence" of the big suit?
How can someone who is broke buy a vehicle? If they can afford a large purchase, they are by definition not broke.
I am not sure that holds because the same split is observed in other languages, too. See el pez vs pescado in Spanish, for example.
Your cold water carries the same junk into your tea. It’s just missing the settling tank that would separate it out.
> TypeScript just hits it out of the park here

but the type system isn't sound :( whats the point of a type system? if it's not sound?
So, there's a great government (+) agency clearly capable of providing you with excellent service, but chronically understaffed. I wonder why that is?

(+) yes, yes, we all know that the "government" part of USPS is a bit strange, albeit not as strange as Amtrak.
I agree that multimodal seems like the way to go, but it's not at all intuitive why we should expect the curriculum needing to be carefully tailored. Compare https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis
Now even reading ML and compiling in the title is not a guarantee for ML the language. I hate overloading.
> Hell, I bet Drew could pick up some of the UX folks that GitHub laid off.

Drew would never.
In the left margin, about 2/3 of the way down... between a couple of alignment marks. But that was 35 years ago... I could be wrong. I always felt like I held an immense power with that knowledge, but never used it!!!
uncle/aunt is wildcard relation and means little. Actually in Russian for example it is the same word you use to describe a random person whom you may not even have any relation to
Also keep in mind that YouTube was an acquisition.
You misunderstood. In the scenario you replied to, you give a piece of cake, to someone who then sold it to someone else. They are the vendor, not you.
I dunno, my elementary school kids have never done a multiple choice test on paper. It does require that the schools have enough computers, but these days most schools seem to.
Never heard of Rumble before you mentioned them so I didn't take your answer seriously. I mean, I still don't.

But you'll be glad to know the UK govt is pressuring Rumble to demonetize him: https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1704808395658727715
> MGM Grand is hiring a RHEL sysadmin contractor for $110 per hour 70 hours a week

A week has 5 or 7 days. This amounts to 14 hours or 10 hours per day.

I thought the normal working time is 8 hours per day ? Or do i miss something ?
Is this after you've done a lot of blocking (or other customisation)? For me the top Kagi results are mostly similar to the Google ones, and when I scroll down a bit Kagi doesn't save me from articles with openings like

> Time is an important part of our life and we cannot avoid it. In our daily routine, we need to know the current date or time frequently.

and

> Time, a measure of the passing of moments.
One day I will write an SML compiler but today is not that day
> Strong type systems can give provably correct code.

"Sound" [1] type systems only guarantee the absence of some class of bugs as well. There are a lot of bug classes that remain exploitable. Memory safety happens to be a low-hanging fruit because many existing softwares are not even written in such languages.

[1] "Strong" type systems generally refer to the intolerance towards implicit type conversions or memory unsafety, and that alone doesn't make type systems provably safe in some sense.
That’s the literal definition of credibility firstly, and secondly if 120 people and covid were properly controlled for, neither of these facts invalidates the study. You can find statistically valid conclusions from 120 people, for sure.

Just read the damn paper, rather than presume it’s credible or dismiss it because they couldn’t run it on 100,000 people over the course of 30 years.
There's a follow-up fix, according to Debian[0]: https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/commit/95ea5226c87044...

[0]: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-4863