skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed very half-baked.

This must be quite an insult to the inventor of fully decentralised AI. In 2012 Prof. Jelasity invented gradient mining with SGD, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.1396
Works reasonably well, you probably also need a ledger like Trustchain for accountability and Sybil protection. Consensus is too costly. This problem is unsolved and actively worked on academia for decades.
Ever thought about trying out NYXT?
So all these years my hat has been doing the opposite of its intended purpose??
This bloody table... it's everywhere and it chips and disintegrates under slightest stress. One expects to be able to sit on a table at least. Be careful what you wish for when asking for a "furnished apartment".
I think more correct would be, they want the same lifestyle that they think their parents had growing up.

I know an older couple, same age as my parents, they take their entire family on vacations and have a very nice house. They talk about how when they started out they made their own furniture out of paper mache.

My parents had a similar lifestyle, things were not easy then either.
Ahahah!!!

Good point!!!

Well said!!!
> potassium permanganate

What !

Are you sure?

That would be deadly.
But isn't 3M the normal SV FAANG salary?
Fashion and trends followed by new hires, most likely.
> Another alternative is forcing these devices to be designed in such a way that installing unauthorized crypto tools isn't possible.

On the plus side, this does mean no more JavaScript and no more Excel spreadsheets. Unfortunately we'd have to ban nice things too, as those are only two of the things you'd have to ban to make this happen.

Don't get me wrong, the government behaviour you describe is plausible — turning those screws to make it harder is highly likely IMO — I'm just saying such limited things will never actually allow them to achieve their goals, and that unless they want to outlaw possession of computers at least as advanced as the Z1 from 87 years ago[0], they need to do their surveillance in a different way that doesn't break crypto.

(And that everyone else being able to do that surveillance necessitates substantial social change, but that's a different topic).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer)
No upper bound since it also is often used as understatement.
meant strictly as feedback, not as judgement.

your comment is still radiating “sales pitch” so strongly that it takes a suspension of disbelief to consider clicking through. this doesn’t serve your goals. especially if your fantastical claims are to be believed. with performance claims like that, assuming them to be true, you don’t need to sell so hard.

and if not, well, it won’t be a surprise.
That's a lot more than I can do. I can't see anything at all. No color, no shape. The most I can do is remember if something is taller or wider.
>“There are lots of places that this would be useful that wouldn’t be right next to a person,” he says. “I do actually think this would be a solution to search and rescue"

Someone smarter than me tell me how this would be at all useful for search and rescue. I can't see it. If this thing, at a large scale, could be used, then so could a helicopter?
Don't you lose all the fiber grinding it up like that? Like when you make a smoothie instead of eating fresh whole pieces of fruit?
Well, it used to be same for Cloudflare R2 , which was just fixed less than two months ago [1]. This was an unexpected showstopper for me.

I honestly find it hard to understand why this kind of basic security feature wasn't in GA.

[1]: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/r2-token-per-bucket/38906...
> Many people across Asia reject the Aryan invasion theory

Really? Does anyone outside India reject it?

It's true that there are many people inside India who reject it, but they are doing that for the most transparent, and stupid, ideological reasons. No one is proud of the Catholic rejection of heliocentrism today.
Gamers, 1 CPU, NO Virtualization (2022)
Well, this is not universal - my great grandfather came from undivided Punjab in the 1920s as a merchant sailor and I think had about seven kids in USA.
In situations where I'm doing PR reviews seriously in a multi-developer environment I'm usually on Gitlab. Gitlab definitely has some features for this sort of thing, but I've never been able to use them seamlessly or quickly.

I was at one point considering writing a tool which would checkout an MR, then let you just edit it as per normal, and then would submit the whole thing back to a Gitlab MR as a set of proposed changes. The point was to ensure that you could easily expand the MR beyond the diff of changed lines, which was frequently inadequate to review a patch properly since it omitted context.
The answer is always going to be “it’s complicated.” Your mental model is vaguely correct but hinges on a lot of semantics and nuance - the timing does actually matter to get a full appreciation.

The oldest evidence* of modern humans (Homo sapiens) is about 300,000 years old. “Archaic humans” generally refers to a group that includes neanderthals and some other species, the oldest evidence being maybe half a million years old. First evidence of fire use is over a million years old. The first stone tools are over three million years old and predate the Homo family of species altogether. However the point where our ancestors diverged from chimpanzees was over eight million years ago so “primitive humans” if you will have a very long history.

In that time, primitive humans spread everywhere in the old world. Earliest evidence of tool use in Indonesia, for example, is on the order of 1.8 million years old. At that point the world was in the middle of an ice age and sea levels were much lower so Indonesia was part of the supercontinent and not an island. The oldest evidence of migration to colder climates is 800,000 years old. Our ancestors had already colonized the Old world several times over by the time “humans” left Africa.

It really depends on where you draw the line between “humans” and “hairless monkeys”

* Archaeological evidence survives and is discovered completely by random chance so we could be off by hundreds of thousands of years without straining credulity
That's the point. They are by far the largest player in the game, and can ( and do) use their size to squash competition. You don't have to use their marketplace but as a small business you don't have many options that can compete.

Hell, they're even extremely anti-competitive with their employees. Their NDAs are very restrictive and have threatened non-senior employees with them, even ones that they let go.
Chrome's adblocking capabilities, introduced in Manifest v3, are (1) inspired by Safari and (2) more capable than what Safari provides.

You can track this uBlock Origin Lite issue: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52
Those "average" PhD researchers are in reality all very smart and hard working people. If you want big salaries, people who get them often have PhD degree from top20 universities in the world. They will be your competition when interviewing.

In general, if you want to maximize money, it does not make sense to go into any hard and niche fields (graphics, machine learning research etc.) because they're filled with very talented enthusiasts, and if you're not that, you will have a very hard time even being average in such fields. Not to mention that such fields often (but not always) pay less that your run of the mill backend development job, and have 1000x less open positions, which means it's harder to apply for jobs, you may have to move more often etc. It's basically all downsides pretty much, and the only upside is being able to work on your passion - which is what motivates people who get into those fields.
I'll take the compliment, thank you :).
Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Here to Pump You Up (Emotionally)
Another minister who talked too much before being brief on ongoing operations...

"Up to 50 UK special forces present in Ukraine this year, US leak suggests" - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/11/up-to-50-uk-....
> It will be amazing

No, it won't. It will be Atlantic salmon, probably farm-raised, and it will suck.
Yes, but that is a different problem than immediate water availability for crop use.
>Carbs do not stimulate any of that signaling afaik. A pure carb snack would stimulate zero leptin, for example.

Source? That seems doubtful, given how much of the developing world lives on carb heavy diets.
But there is a chain: 1) the mail provider only allows outgoing mail with a particular Return-Path / Envelope Sender / From header if it has done authorisation checks to ensure the sender is allowed to use that address, 2) the mail provider DKIM-signs their outgoing mail.

The combination of 1 and 2 work together. Yes, the mail provider could impersonate you, or could fail to do (1) correctly, but that is a different threat model to one where having no verification at all is okay.
This story also appears in _Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories_, a brilliant collection of short stories.

Anything by Qntm is awesome, to be honest. _Antimemetics_ is my favourite.
Step by step:

>There is very little opportunity today for any team (let alone individual person) to push the boundaries of the technology in a meaningful way.

This is what he said. The post is about succeeding in the market as an indie developer, so pushing the boundaries of technology is not very relevant, as that's not the only way to succeed with making indie games.

>You cannot make a game as radical and captivating as DOOM was.

OK, maybe true, maybe false, still irrelevant as succeeding in the market today doesn't require DOOM-level success.

>You will not attract players to your (now generic) platformer by getting it to run at 60Hz.

Again, irrelevant, because the post is about succeeding in the market, and there are multiple ways to succeed in the market, most of which do not involve technological boundary pushing.

Do you now see my point or not? The issue in contention is that he is fixating on the example of id in the past to make factual statements about reality today ("There is very little opportunity today for any team") without looking at the current market and the evidence that exists in it to the contrary. He makes multiple such wrong statements, which I quoted in the post you replied to.
https://archive.ph/80ILo
I have observed this personally in my extended family. My paternal grandmother has 3 daughters. GM and Daughter 1's pickles would last long and were delicious. Daughter 2 and 3's pickles would not be good and spoil.

But, the process, and I mean, like an industrial quality detailed process of pages and pages of notes and quantities, etc would be absolutely same.

My GM always said 2 & 3 dont have the 'hand' for a pickle.

Fun Memory : One of my grandmother most precious possessions was not gold or money, but a 40 year old aluminum tumbler, passed on to her by her mother-in-law, that was used to measure items for the pickle (x tumblers of mustard powder, Y tumblers of chilli powder..)
Man, I want to be able to work for the Mozilla of yore too. But it simply just isn't what it was, and over the years its true purpose has become more and more clear.

After their alarming treatment of security researchers documented here [0], I've been doubting whether to continue using Firefox at all. For what it's worth I still do, because I think not using Chrome is a fight worth fighting and that alarming behaviour was just from the VPN team, but if any similar behaviour happens with the Firefox team I'm just going to drop it altogether.

I want Mozilla and Firefox to succeed. I want diversity in browser engines. I want to see the culture change happen. It still can! But the debt created with each passing year and each percentage point of market share lost makes it harder and harder.

[0]: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/03/1
Modern Operating System and Vertical Space Efficiency
Isn't that how the big name consultants work? Price it out like you're getting experts from a famous firm and then send in a green team to do the work?
The typical browser user doesn't even know what plugins/extensions are, much less use any.
I second your review of "The Peregrine." Wonderful, sui generis.
I missed the "un" on "unpopular". Dyslexia is a real turd sometimes. Thank you for the explanation.
If the scenario other posters are concerned about where most sites become chrome-only I wonder if something like that will substitute the market niche that Firefox currently occupies. Or will we just have Firefox on Blink like Microsoft moved Edge to Blink.
I feel like RDF/TripleStores and ECS both offer nice solutions to this problem.

With both you kinda separate your application into a control-plane (functions and other code) and a data-plane (in-memory database). With the control-plane referencing entities from the data-plane via opaque identifiers.

Conjunctive queries over the database are then equivalent to a structural type system with literal types, and allow for accepting potentially every entity in the system at every point in the system so long as the types match.
Spot on. It's telling that most DAW UIs are based on archaic ideas (like mixers/tracks and MIDI/step-sequencer grids). Even BuzzTracker (2009) outshines many of the current DAWs with DAG instrument/effects-chaining and arrow-key/cursor navigation.

My post-graduate research concerned signal-rather-than-event-based generation/transformation of compositional data, integrated with textural/timbral synthesis.

My current focus is building a DSP framework for this purpose in C++20 [1].

In any case I'm interested in following your progress, and happy to contribute code/ideas if you feel like collaborating (links in profile).

[1] https://github.com/synthetic-methods/xtal
Yeah I’m always surprised by the why anyone would risk having their personal email/life dragged into a corporate dispute because they are emailing stuff between their work and personal accounts etc.
The other thing I wanted to mention, aside from opportunity cost, is risk. I'm not suggesting never leave your sweet spot. That would be stupid on my part :)

However, as you leave your sweet spot, be aware (read: beware) of what you don't know. Be aware of the fact that bad decisions are very similar to trust...one slip and you've lost 10x more than you anticipated. If you're going to leave your sweet spot be sure you're prepared for the worse. It can and does happen.

Put in real terms, over the years I've worked as a contractor for a number of marketing / web dev agencies. The more successful ones didn't get there from yes, they got there because of no. No to projects beyond them. No to clients with expectations out of proportion to budget. No for the win, so to speak.

I've also seen those same agencies start to drink their own Kool Aid. They get in a financial pinch and take on work / clients they're not tuned for. For example, they don't have the in house expertise in the technology / solution required. Eventually the project costs more than it brings in *and* the team is miserable, has lost faith, leaves the conpany, etc.

If you're leaving your sweet spot and you're not concerned, you're probably doing it all wrong.
If you think it looks so easy, I urge you to start writing it! It's one of my favorite genres of fiction and I think that effective horror can be harder to write than it might seem.
Economically, Mozilla is a subsidiary of Google. Honestly, they keep arguing it is not the case, but they excellently serve as non-threatening competition.
I’m an outlier here probably, I’d support the child in doing almost whatever they wanted to do, including euthanasia.
The same author Tri Dao, released FlashAttention 2 in July.

https://together.ai/blog/tri-dao-flash-attention
> Would you mind waiting a couple of minutes

This is a bad example, since "Would you mind waiting two seconds" might mean 90 seconds. But that doesn't mean you can say 2 instead of 90 in the general case.
As someone who grew up in a poor family as an unplanned child I have to agree.
Do you mean Ceph Object gateway? I am not familiar with Ceph but does it have serious limitations?
Good news is, it's a time of change and goldrush, and salaries have significantly increased since 8 years ago.

Bad news is, what you have learned seems to represent what is now in declining state, the technology that was more useful before ChatGPT (this may be subjective). Python, sci-kit learn, numpy have been made more and more obsolete by ChatGPT itself taking over many custom model roles (that sci-kit learn, pytorch or spacy would have helped you do), and chatgpt can simply code stats tasks/dashboards so rapidly there is much less employment focused on this than a few years ago. Lots of data engineering is useful, but for analytics rather than predictive (machine learning tasks), since the predictive stuff, you'll probably find you don't need things like feature detection, normalisation etc for depending on how willing you are to try the cutting edge tools coming out.

Why don't you considering combining the two at the twine to your advantage - Have a look at ChatGPT and using add ons or other recent technology (e.g. Code Interpreter) - you could be in the prime and ideal position to take advantage of this shift, without preconceptions about exactly what should be the "next generation app".
That's weird, why did she stop asking you for help? I'm on Windows and my wife is on macOS and she still hits me up for tech support problems.
There seems to be a certain sort of celebrity who feels the need to use their megaphone for awful takes on complex subjects of which they have only the most basic understanding. Musk is a particularly prolific example, but it’s a bit of an epidemic lately.

He might do better to stick with the imaginary car tunnels, when he feels the urge for some nonsense.
Not even necessarily a coup and no need to look to far away. In 1999, Serbian troupes eventually accepted to leave Kosovo because the economic elites was being hurt by NATO bombardment of critical infrastructures [1].

[1]: https://nitter.net/mewalters101/status/1579936624703868928#m
Humans are animals. We are not rational beings divorced from the instincts of all life. When people don't want to reproduce, it is the same as it is with other animals: there is something deeply wrong with the social or natural environment. Things like "housing is too expensive" or "the future is bleak" are rationalizations. You don't want to because our social environment in most of the western world is totally broken. Natural selection will solve the problem in enough time, as societies that lead to these conditions fall apart or die out.
Fascinating intersections between people wanting to change the world and grifters and conspiracy theorists.

How we so easily 'worldbuild' our way into a different reality in which up is down and literally accidentally tweeting a single letter is some kind of hidden mesage.

Well worth the watch.
You’re very behind the times if you think it is Firefox that is between Chrome and complete browser dominance.

That spot has been filled by safari on the iPhone a long time ago.

Firefox is my favorite desktop browser, but the desktop market is not the big deal when it comes to browsers.

Even edge has higher usage than Firefox across devices.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
The Future of the DAW is DAW-less.

A Synthstrom Deluge, a humble Eurorack (morphagene!) and a microFreak ..

A Zynthian! Holy molies, live Zynthian compositions are binoculars!

1010music Bluebox+Blackbox.

SonicWARE SmplTek.

Monome. Oh dear, monome is a hell of a platform for next-generation DAW tomfoolery!

Notice a pattern? Its the hardware. You can no longer call it a workstation when, after all, it behaves like an instrument.
A bit further upthread an Exim dev has a different account:

"The ZDI contacted us in June 2022. We asked about details but didn't get
answers we were able to work with. [..] Next contact with ZDI was in May 2023. [..] The remaining issues are debatable or miss information we need to fix them."

I have no experience with anyone involved and don't really know anything more than this; just pointing out there are differing accounts here.
In primary school (grade 6), I was explicitly taught in grammar class that

* single = one

* couple = two

* few = three or four

* many = five or more

Both single and couple seem very well cemented to me, people say "he's single" or "they're a couple", and there is no confusion there.

But few and many were hammered into my head with equal certainty.
FYI incitement to genocide is a crime under international law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_genocide
I wonder how aphantasia and synesthesia are related. Are there many people who have both?
Interesting, maybe it wasn’t ready for unlimited usage? I distinctly recall, pre iPhone, using data racked up huge charges.
> whole left brain, right brain thing is disappointing bollocks too

Left brain right brain is a neuromyth myth. As in, there is extensive evidence for hemispheric lateralization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Record_(autobiograph...
Caring parents would feed their kids healthy stuff almost exclusively.

And make 'm go out & buy the unhealthy stuff like candy, cookies, sugary soft drinks, chips etc themselves. Using their own pocket money.

Bottom line: both parents & their kids are lazy (or don't care) in various ways.
Your talk about gold being “up against the dollar” shows that you simply don’t understand what a currency is.

But don’t worry, there’s an entire scam industry (the other thing you mention) built almost entirely on people not understanding the difference between an asset and a currency and the almost diametrically opposite roles and purposes of the two.
> But time and time again the outcome of such actions (when left un-countered) does seem to end up with more spying on civilians.

A good example of this in the UK is the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act [0] that constrains anti-terrorist surveillance and investigation, but which ended up, amongst other things, being used by local councils to track whether children lived in particular school catchment areas, tracking fly-tippers, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...
Inflation calculators aren't the whole story for specific comparisons. $40K was probably a pretty good salary for an engineer /software developer with the (mostly) necessary credentials and some level of experience in 1986. (That's about what I earned as a product manager for a computer company with prior work experience and two grad degrees at that time.) Software developer salaries in the US, especially on the West Coast, have largely outpaced other engineering salaries as well as professional compensation more broadly.
Contrary anecdata:

US citizen, parents from two different dialectal regions in the US.

I was corrected as a child for using "couple" to mean an indeterminate small number and instructed that it means precisely two.
But if Google changes what's in Chromium, those other browsers would get those anti-features downstream.
> "Antienne" is regular and pronounced the same way all other -tienne words are as far as I know (like, say, Étienne).

There is nothing regular here, since most dictionaries have no other common noun with the same ending. For instance the famous Littré only has "antienne" and "laurentienne", the latter with a "s" pronunciation.

As for the rare words ending in "-tien" (and "-tienne" for feminine adjectives), roughly half of them are pronounced "t" and the others "s". E.g. "chrétien", "tien" (and derivatives like "entretien", "maintien"), against "béotien", "capétien", "égyptien".

So, in French, in the words "chrétienne" and "égyptienne", the "t" is pronounced "t" only with the former word, even if both words have their origin in Greek through Latin.