skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone else find themselves focusing on the eyes?

Pupil diameter in most humans is affected by autonomic arousal, e.g. in conversation it provides an often unconscious signal to the listener/observer. I didn't detect any dilation or constriction of the pupils in either head image; and for me it introduced some uncanny valley-ness.

The contrast between Mark's lighter iris color and both the blackness and relative smallness of his pupils drew my attention repeatedly. The middle image of the sampled video shows some contrast between iris and pupil but that might have been too noisy for their use. Anyway, I'd be curious, what they tried here. It seems they're rendering the pupil, I wonder if they'd tried playing with the diameter as a fixed proportion of the iris diameter, or whether they tested edge blurring for lighter-colored eyed individuals to reduce contrast.

I'd be curious to learn, but suspect that sending the "wrong" eye dilation information may be worse (e.g. sending a "beady" eyed signal triggering unconscious emotional responses) than just sending a static pupil size too.

Still a very impressive demo.
Charity is not individualism. You’re making a false equivalence between collectivism and the government. There are huge collectivist communities in the US (generally centered around religions) that have very structured and organized ways of helping those in need.

It is peak collectivism to accomplish this without requiring the monopoly on violence and the taxation that comes with it.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content
Since titanium covers the whole back and sides, wouldn't it act as a "thermal bottleneck" regardless of the aluminum?
MS is still probably somewhere in the supply chain of software you use.

They have contributed to the Linux Kernel, they own GitHub and NPM, they make an extremely popular editor, among other things.

It’s a different set of risks than depending on them directly, but they’re still there.
I think ours have macs
I would buy the books by the foot for the look. I love the color ramp!
One on that list is not like the others.
Me:
Why is the company cutting my food supply again?

GPT:
Due to the global food shortage, many companies are forced to cut back on food supplies. But don't worry, you can still enjoy delicious meals with Soylent. Soylent is a meal replacement drink that provides all the nutrients your body needs to function at its best. Soylent. The future of food.

Love it. Very fun project!
I'm suspecting this other user has some naive / ideological-ish belief in the reddit community or something.
Lightspeed's 2023 GTM and Sales Benchmark Report
azerothcore is probably the best and most polished, if you don't mind wotlk
The GLX, which is the part in question, is brand new. It definitely should not show.
80 years should be the absolute upper limit. After that one should really look at relaxing in their final decade.
> that gross guy who likes free software

He founded the idea of Free software. Him being "gross" is completely orthogonal. "I would have agreed with the guy who fought against slavery if he didn't pick his nose in public."
> while outside in the sun on a hot day, you'll know what I mean, the performance is much worse.

Once I've had it outright shut down and show a black screen with a pretty thermometer, how's that for "performance is much worse"? ;)

(to be fair it was a spectacularly hot and sunny day, definitely in the "out of spec" range)
You can do JAX->TF->ONNX I believe: https://github.com/patrick-kidger/equinox/blob/main/equinox/...
One example that came to mind was Apollo app where their users came to bat for them during that whole third-party apps fiasco.
From what I've heard from cloud consultants in Scandinavia (which is going through a huge move to the cloud as many places) the Microsoft Azure sales machine is on another level compared to competitors.

Microsoft will show up with 10 sales engineer, while others might just be a contractor or a zoom call.

They present themself as the authority for non-technical business and is winning a lot on that.

They're good at capturing market share, no doubt about it.
The amount of titanium in the iPhone is about a 1-2mm band around the outside. The inner chassis is still aluminum, and they are diffusion bonded together. While that Ti is at the primary thermal boundary for the metals in the phone, I would guess (judging from experience with both stainless steel and titanium banded phones) that most heat escapes through the glass front and back of the phone, even though they have poor conductivity.
Layoffs always suck, and the things and people Epic are getting rid of will hurt everyone, but credit is due for allocating the budget to take care of everyone, including accelerating the vesting schedule.

The communication around the layoffs, the "why" and "what now" make sense. If you have to pivot, learn from this communique.
Not the bend. Just that it hurts if you hold it like that for too long :(
It's normal for a badge-checking system, but it's still an erosion of white-collar norms (autonomy being the key one) to be so proscriptive about how knowledge workers complete their work.

Side note, but when I worked somewhere with badged entrances, one person would badge the whole group. So this data wouldn't mean employees aren't there if there is no swipe.
Having a lifetime of experience does not necessarily make someone smart, rational, or even coherent. It especially does not make someone interested in voting for changes that will improve the lives of people younger than them.
So attending a KKK food drive would be acceptable if they aren't actively being racist at it?

Pretending they haven't said abhorrent things is arguably just as dangerous.
A delivery driver shot YouTuber prankster, claims self-defense –a jury agreed
OSS pre-dates GNU, sure.

But has any other license had the same impact as GPL?

Has any other set of OSS tools enabled so much as the GNU command line tools which were (and are) the foundation of Linux?

I put him up for the night once. I'm a BSD guy, ran the local FreeBSD society. He was pleasant enough about BSD we could hang out a bit. I know what my preferences are, but I'm not so arrogant as to believe I'm anywhere near in a majority, and his influence through his work (including GNU), is completely obvious. Without him, we'd all be paying Microsoft, Sun, IBM or HP through the nose for licenses to much worse technology than we have today.
Dude, this is awesome! I want to play it at work
I assume they are converted Muslims who observe the Quran.
This is more or less correct. The idea was that all states were to have equal amounts of sovereignty, regardless of population. Bodies like the UN only have 1 delegate at a time. Well, the US allows them to have a backup in the Senate.

Also, the intended function of the Senate was to oversee process and senators were selected by state legislators. They are not supposed to originate legislation. But it got a bit twisted up since then.
The "don't harm others" is very complex, multi layered, contextual and so on. This is why looser restrictions on the discussion, debate and even thought are needed.

Note, I said "others", I think there should be the ability to make choices that harm ourselves. We benefit from taking bad paths and learning from them. I don't know how else one can truly grow.
Presumably they are more interested in information like which room someone is in than their position on Earth. I doubt that indoors the location accuracy of phone GPS would be accurate enough to be useful, particularly in buildings where many locations are designed to be secure both from physical attacks and espionage (probably a lot of thick metal plates in random walls). And even without interference issues, GPS elevation accuracy is pretty bad. Finally, you're only tracking the location of the person's phone, which in an emergency could easily get left behind somewhere.

None of this is to say an email chain is the optimal solution though.
Bobby Bowden said, "I don't want to retire. After retirement, there's really only one big event left."
I don't understand it either but my theory is this.

This is their life. It is literally the only thing they have ever one in one form or another.

For many of us this would be like never touching a computer again after turning 65.
While I agree nils are a problem with this: as long as they have access to the type at all, they can create zero values. E.g.

var c color.Color

That's a valid color whether it's a nil interface value or an empty typed string.

You can return a private type to prevent this, but that also means they can't refer to it as an argument or return value anywhere outside the implementing package, which is a rather severe limit in many cases.

Sometimes* I really miss constructors.

*: all the time
> I still feel as though languages without sum types are missing an important data and state modelling tool.

That's because they are. jerf subtly shifts the point to one they can criticise, but it does not change the basic fact that sum types are a critical tool which is just... missing.

There's probably no tool which can't be misused, even the humble boolean, that's not an issue with the tool, and pointing that out is at best irrelevant. It does not change the fact of the matter: you're missing a critical axis of composition. It's like saying screwdrivers are useful but you can misuse them to hammer nails as if that justified trying to screw with a hammer.
And the tenure was not renewed which I think amounts to the same—the UK, by choice, no longer has an independent AI advisory board.
One of the problems is that it is hardly possible to differentiate connections without gathering PII.

Even an IP address is PII, your may be lucky with some fingerprinting, but this won't be unique.
What kind of business license to I need to pretend to own to buy those bead bugs? I have several people I would really like to infest with bed bugs.
Ask HN: Why don't VR headsets rest on your shoulders so they would feel lighter?
The shoulder part could also include the battery and perhaps even help with cooling the headset.
If the single supplier supplied the correct medicine, and it works, why worry?
Moving forward I hope policy decisions are made with an eye towards truly making the internet faster. https://blog.cloudflare.com/making-home-internet-faster/
> That's something I can do easily today if I wanted regardless of the country I'm in so long as I have the Internet and an ATM.

That's not the case for most people in most countries. There are billions of people who are not even able to open a bank account, let alone a US stock brokerage account. Bitcoin and gold are way more accessible to the average person.

I agree that every instrument has a different set of tradeoffs though.
Yes, so you conclude that theoretical communism leads to these horrible regimes.

It's a reasonable hypothesis, just not the only one.

This week I only saw white people in the streets. I could conclude all people walking in my city are white. But that's false.
"Adolescence" was a made-up term to remove personal sovereignty over younger people who know full well, and would do, but aren't legally permitted to do so. They're also subject to our laws. They should have their say as well.

And then we see under-18 routinely be charged as adults.

And yes, if 15 year olds could vote and run for office, I do think we'd see more issues aimed at the younger generations ALONG WITH longer views of how our government is run. And we're seeing the judicial side of this with youngsters suing for climate devastation, like https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/1...
> Ming-Chi Kuo, an Apple analyst at TF International Securities, said any overheating issue was probably due to “compromises” in the phone’s design as the company attempted to reduce the product’s weight.

> The iPhone Pro model has a frame made from titanium, a poor conductor of heat, which could hamper the handset’s ability to disperse heat. Previously, Apple has used stainless steel for its high-end phones.
I think the inherent suckiness with visual programming is...

Imagine I was a consultant who offered to sit and watch over your shoulder and comment only on syntax issues. If you make a syntax mistake, I will help you fix it; "you need a closing paren here". I will also offer syntax tips constantly while you work; "looks like your going to create a list, first choose what you want the first item in the list to be". You should expect to be a little slower in exchange for these consultations I offer. Would you hire me?

These are essentially the tradeoffs offered by visual programming. Slower work for syntax level help. And visual languages often have some premium cost to them.

People doing significant programming don't need syntax level help.
The site mentions owl poop, but it is really owl pellets which are coughed up fur and bones of the owl's food.
I think it is likely this is a major cause of the issues, or at the very least is influencing the prevalence of them.
To me, this seems like Canute demanding the sea doesn't rise, because he doesn't like wet feet.

OK, you want truth, eloquence, and public interest (dry feet)? Great: you need that for which higher ground, or a dyke, is an apt metaphor.

In particular:

> at their best, journalism’s words emerge out of public service, unimpeachable reporting, self-reflexive news judgment, eloquent storytelling, rigorous editing, and timely publication.

"[P]ublic service, unimpeachable reporting, self-reflexive news judgment": these are things many of us already doubt in the media. Rightly or wrongly, and for long before the phrase "fake news" was coined.

"[E]loquent storytelling, rigorous editing, and timely publication": all the things that GenAI is really good at. At least, on the "news article" scale — don't bother trying to use it to make a novel, it's not eloquent on long-form content, at least not yet.

Worse, the first proposed solution:

> First, taking a page from the Writers and Screen Actors Guilds, and aligning with some newsroom unions, journalists could find their collective voice on GenAI. Indeed, we’ve started to see some halting but hopeful efforts at collective action.

To the extent that it's capable of timely publication of eloquent storytelling, it's already an enormous megaphone for any and all propaganda. It doesn't need any trained human journalists who care about the craft. By the volume, it is the ocean and striking unions are Canute (yes, I did have this mental image first and then fit everything else in my comment around it).

WGA has a slightly easier time of this, for now, but only because it's not great at coherent film-length plots. Yet.

The second point is more valid. In particular:

> Hidden beneath GenAI outputs is a vast ocean of data with histories and politics that make GenAI anything but neutral or objective. Who categorized and labeled the dataset, what is overrepresented in or absent from a dataset, how often does the system fail and who suffers most from those mistakes?

This is all 100% true and completely valid.

It's not limited to AI though, rather it sounds like my GCSE history teacher 24 years ago explaining the value and limits of both primary and secondary sources when researching the past, and is even starting to touch upon the fundamental issues of the philosophy of knowledge c.f. the Münchhausen trilemma.
The discussion is why isn’t it more mainstream not is it good.

Like you said it’s mostly senior expensive engineers. They are really good, but is it worth it? Do 90% of startups need it? I have had success hiring younger inquiring Elixir engineers also, but the question is about why isn’t it mainstream not how to find a diamond in the rough.

If you are running a company today the fact of the matter is Elixir a a executional Risk and the Reward the risk gives clearly isn’t worth it for most startups or else it would have higher adoption.
Pretty funny coming from a buttes chatter.
One of a hundred ways buses tend to be the better choice for public transit. No specialized tracks, flexible routes, flexible capacity, etc.
Do not upvote it then? It is mostly mob rule, just accept that some "normie-gossip" is relevant to many readers here.
I love using FS and RS in my shell scripts, esp. when I'm processing text data export from a database. As long as the data doesn't include binary data (such as images), I can be pretty certain that the data doesn't include FS and RS characters since they don't appear on a keyboard -- therefore I can preserve things like line breaks in text fields, and don't have worry about if someone inserted a " | " character in the contents of the data.

Of course a pre-pass is to strip out FS / RS just to make sure in case it got in accidentally, and to also know the purpose of the data to ensure that they shouldn't be in the text. But so far that has made my scripts a lot more reliable. The other alternative is to do the light-weight processing using a heaver scripting language that can deal with structured data natively, but setting FS and RS is often times a bit more expedient for me.
I think "they have yet to update their training articles" is a great summary of the introductory Android documentation.

They give you the basics in the form of useful guides, then tell you to use the more modern API (Jetpack and such). The Jetpack documentation often comes down to Javadocs and one or two bits of example code of very specific use cases.

This is especially annoying when there are multiple "new" libraries. Last time I tried to relearn native Android development, I got halfway through the "new" way to do things before Android Studio told me the stuff I was doing was deprecated and referred me to a whole different library without any useful training materials.

At some point Google should really just redo their documentation to get everything in sync.
Being prepared for a robbery has zero relationship with how you treat people in general.
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At the same time, they are probably losing a lot of talented engineers because other companies have much less effort in their hiring process.

Is the compensation at Canical that much better than other companies that makes the extra effort worth it?
Classic website, one of the all-time greats.
For sure you could make an analogue between Luther with his princely backers and the fact that generative AI is currently dominated by a handful of corporations that (mostly) want to remove the power of traditional media. But just as the printing press was a global event that went way beyond the Reformation, I think generative AI will eventually be too big and widespread to be contained by a small number of organizations.

Edit: just to add another point, I don’t think the loss of trust in media has come from “the other side” attacking it. It’s come from the media’s own actions.
If you like PyTorch then you might like Equinox, by the way. (https://github.com/patrick-kidger/equinox ; 1.4k GitHub stars now!)
Basically designed to offer PyTorch-like syntax for working with JAX. The latter is excellent for the reasons the sibling replies have stated, but PyTorch absolutely got the usability story correct.
Can AI predict who will win a Nobel Prize?
You are right, except it's called freedom to produce, and disseminate information. "Press" word being a mere technicality of bygone era is used now to manipulate society to believe that it's media business, or journos profession which are crucial for democracy, and not actual freedom.
You must have very thin pockets! In mine the difference between 8mm and 9mm is undetectable.
We trained a Semantic Segmentation model for cracks using ONLY synthetically generated training data - look what we've achieved!
From chatGPT: "What is the mom test?"

The "Mom Test" is a term from a book by Rob Fitzpatrick titled "The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you". It is about customer development and strategies for entrepreneurs to properly validate their business ideas.

The title refers to the notion that even your mom, who generally loves you unconditionally, would lie to you to spare your feelings if your business idea wasn’t good. So, the "Mom Test" suggests a method of asking the right questions to get honest and useful feedback from people, including those who might be predisposed to be nice to you.

The key principles of the Mom Test are:

Talk about their life instead of your idea: Ask about specific behaviors and thoughts in their past and present, not about hypothetical futures. Avoid asking whether they think your business idea is good. Instead, focus on their problems, pains, and needs related to the area your business is focused on.

Ask for specifics in the past instead of generics or opinions about the future: People's predictions about their future behaviors are typically inaccurate. By asking about their past actions, you can gather more reliable information.

Talk less and listen more: This is about them, not about you or your idea. The goal is to gather insights, so avoid leading questions and let them do the talking.

By following these principles, entrepreneurs can gather real insights into customer needs and challenges, which is crucial for validating and improving business ideas.
This is just the new green line extension, which for a brand new multi-billion dollar line extension, is bad enough.

Take the Red Line? You might be seeing 56-88 minutes of delays (compared to years ago) compared to years prior, per data published by Transit Matters (https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/red/). Long distance trips (as in, much of the entire line) that took 40 minutes taking more than twice as long now.

In 2019 a train derailed taking out a signal house (https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2019/09/16/red-line-dera...). Per the TransitMatters chart, immediately after the derailment the average delays were about a half hour, but it’s since grown to twice to triple that!

The result is Red Line service is now under 60% of pre-pandemic service levels, with only about 45-50% of its previous ridership. (https://recovery.transitmatters.org/)
Hmph. Makes me slightly nervous of RC24.
"In Go parlance, if each of my states has a method with its receiver set to the state type, then I can only access that data, so for example I'd need to pass something in or out to handle state transitions."

I am not clear what you mean by that, exactly, but generally I model a state machine as a type that composes a state:

type State interface {
isState()
}

// a whole bunch of state types here

type StateMachine struct {
State // exported or not exported, depending on local needs
// additional data
}

func (sm *StateMachine) Event1(args...) error {
// can call current state and change it here
}

You can add an "Execute" method on to the State and have it return an entire state if that's how you want to do it. The state machine can pass in any cross-state data. There's a number of options. You aren't obligated to do exactly, only, and precisely what you'd do in another language, and program X in Y. For some reason, that's common wisdom in the programming world... except for functional programming. I say "don't program X in Y" is simply true and there is no carveout for functional programming in non-FP languages any more than there is the other way around for OO in FP languages.
Indeed, you remember the brand, but forget how you got to know it. So even though you learned about something through ads, and you hate ads, eventually you'll forget that it was ads that put it in your brain, but you'll still remember the brand.

That's why I call ads psychological violence. They force themselves in your brain and there's nothing you can do against it
I've had that experience with some of my testing devices. For the jailbroken one, I can SSH in and see what's happening, and I recall that in at least one case it was an apple process that was sitting at 100% (I think it was springboard, but it's been a while). I killed it and it restarted automatically at a more reasonable 0-3% CPU load.

For the non-jailbroken devices, I just reboot them if I notice something is off.