skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever watch CSI? Lots of organic fluid will fluoresce under a strong UV / blacklight.

Very, very different than bioluminescence. It is mildly interesting, but the comparison is really misleading.
I just want to follow my peeps. And maybe some hashtag "news" feeds.

A RSS reader like UI would suffice. Make it fancy if you have to.

I wouldn't even mind inline contextual ads. Or subscriptions. Or paid apps.

And, hot damn, dedupe the noise. All those @#$%^ retweets. Once is enough. FFS.

And I only to see the "pinned" post once. Not every single time I visit.

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PS, FWIW, nitter hasn't musked up the links. https://nitter.net/drvolts
That's possibly true, but I wasn't really talking about Android (native Android apps are pretty inefficient anyway), I was talking about desktop.
Yeah, I don't actually use spotify, but I've seen this behavior with a combination of Audible, Libby, Smart AudioBook Player, Youtube, Nebula, and Plexamp.

Smart AudioBooks Player is by far the best behaved of the bunch. I think it's partially because it's entirely offline, and partially because it's not trying to sell me anything. It's so much better that I will sometimes extract my audiobooks from other platforms (Audible, Chirp, Libro.fm, etc.), reformat/de-DRM as necessary, and then move them over to SABP to actually listen to them.

Plexamp is probably second best. I find the UI a little confusing, but it mostly just does what I want when I want to listen to my music.

In the past, I used Podcast Addict to listen to a lot of podcasts. It was pretty well behaved also. But I got tired of all the adds and filler in the podcasts themselves and mostly switched over to audiobooks. When I do want to listen to a podcast, I've found that, with sponsorblock, youtube is actually the least annoying option these days But even with that I no longer consistently listen to any podcasts.
So the word "diverse" is another word for "not white"? Is this a subtle way to state that "non-white" has big effect for overall productivity?
It might be that, or they might know exactly where to go from here, just need the hardware.
Basic-DOS – What could have been created for the IBM PC (2020)
> I disagree that Google sets a good example with their "clings" that pop up and point out UI changes.

I strongly agree with you. When I open an app I'm very familiar with, I'm usually on "autopilot" so I just muscle-memory mash whatever it is I wanted to accomplish by opening the app. Often I'll see one of those little popup things appear and then disappear since I already hit the button I wanted to do. I wonder if the popup thing had something important to say? Who knows! It's gone now.

Additionally, when I open an app, my goal is to accomplish a task, not fiddle around with your shiny new UI. I'm here to do a thing, please stop getting in my way.

Garbage UI paradigm.
Adsense, had a couple of websites in the 2000s that helped me fund my studies and eventually buy my first used macbook
you're very correct, thank you for pointing that out ^_^
What Unions are working on this and what progress has been made?
In the early 2000s, I had a gig at AccuWeather rewriting from the ground up a non-weather web application. My work was on Windows 2000. They bought me a new Dell server for that purpose had let me have at it. But at that time, all of their main machines were VAX VMS - including their weather web servers.

Even then it caused me to reminisce on time spent on DEC VT100 and VT220s in the graduate terminal room at CMU.

Anyone remember the DEC Rainbow? My local university where I took classes during high school had some. Great keyboards just like the VT terminals.

DEC keyboards where the benchmark against which I compared all other since - most came up wanting.
I’ve written services like this, and I would never have called them IO bound. They’re not throughput-bound at all. They mostly sit idle, then they do work and try to get it done quickly to minimize use of system resources. Unless they sometimes get huge bursts of work and something else cares quite a lot about latency during those bursts, using more than one thread adds complexity and overhead for no gain.
This has to be the Air, because that one is passively cooled. I also use it and in the hot summer I've got 2 fans. One to cool me down, and one to cool my laptop down.

Still love the thing, so small, light and convenient while traveling. The few days it is hot here I can run another fan :-)
I suspect we're all talking about the same tool.
I bet that sounded good in your head, but if your country is +80% people who have lived there for generations you are lacking in diversity.
Are you seriously comparing the speed of changes in Rails with React/Vue/Svelte?
I'm so tired of all this vertical integration.

Can't we have hardware companies that make hardware, software (AI) companies that make software, and data companies (or government institutions) that run the software on the hardware and deal with our data?
Anyone know where we plebs can follow along with constitutions development? I have a feeling they're just going to be a fancy PR, we-care-a-lot -type section on their website.
That's not it at all. The problem is that Voleon is being dishonest around their non-compete agreements.

A Voleon spokesman:

> Those who sign it will receive a paid garden leave.

Voleon ex-employees:

> Voleon ex-employees who spoke to Insider said their noncompete agreements did not provide paid leave. Ex-employees and other sources close to the firm said the unpaid noncompetes have been applied broadly — including to people who say they had little exposure to the firm's secret sauce.

According to a Voleon ex-employee, which also matches my understanding of this industry:

> They will defend that noncompete by saying more and more firms have two years. The trick is: And yes, they pay you something when they make you sit out of your career.
Now that's a phrase I haven't heard for a while.

I wonder what the 2023 equivalent is.
> In reality, 95 percent of those diagnosed with a penicillin allergy aren’t actually allergic.

I have an anecdote on how people get falsely labeled as having a penicillin allergy: My grandad with a “penicillin allergy” was treated a few years ago with a high dose of penicillin for 4 days without any problem. The hospital didn’t have access to his medical records and also overlooked what we wrote on the admission forms, and went ahead with penicillin as the best treatment. I asked my grandad about this allergy. He said that 40 years ago he had an upset stomach after taking penicillin and the doctor told him he was allergic. He’s been repeating that information to doctors and pharmacists for 40 years.

Another person quipped that the two medical errors--false allergy and treatment despite "allergy"--cancelled each other out!
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Well, serves me right for clicking on anything with the name vim in it. Now I am making a point of reading the whole article.
Who is this and why should I care what they think? It's a fact these criminals use crypto currencies. Why do they use them?
I forgot that one - drives me round the twist.
Should they instead invest time and public money into solving simple product problems (“how many times was this thing looked at?”) in a way that can be understood by the average desk worker? When that problem is well met by the private sector?
This is always the problem when interacting with the corporate internet. I have a Shopify store on my website where my readers can buy mugs and t-shirts to support me(not that anyone is lol). Lord knows what goes on in there.

I hope someone reinvents the services we take for granted with a focus on privacy.
Great, we finally have DRM for refueling cars. EVs are becoming such a disgusting anti-consumer power grab.
https://media.tenor.com/zzxhtiVQDYAAAAAC/fennec-fox-why.gif
Absolubtely. Im involved in writing right now and i've caught people using its output. It's hard to make an outright ban, heck ive used it myself for things like tricky LaTeX formatting (make this stuff into a nice table with color boxes corresponding to the rgb values).

But as with all papers the issue is just a lack of dilligence, be it people straight up using hallucinated sources or the paper bizzarely fawning over every aspect of the project, even things that are objectively rubbish and author knows that when questioned (such as a paragraph praising the high quality of servo motors used when they are blamed for test failure in a later section). Someone taking the time to use it well will use it well, someone lazy will still be lazy.
There was no written contract.
> It's worth noting that if you depreciate like this, it counts against the basis of your property.

It's also worth noting that if depreciation was allowable and you didn't take it, it still decreases the basis.

Your basis is reduced by depreciation deductions allowed or allowable.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p551#idm140622807378608

If you don't want to take depreciation (for whatever reason), you need to change the facts and circumstances such that depreciation would not be allowable under the facts.
> With "plane as a service" however, should politicians decide to cut delivery of more planes, they can at least recoup their cost with the license fees that apply during the plane's usable life time - it's not like the US government will suddenly go to Eurofighter, and it's not like that there will be much US-based competition in building fighter planes.

How does that solve it? If they can charge high enough service fees against 200 planes to recoup their costs then either the license fees aren't fixed per-plane -- in which case the government is effectively prepaying for the lot of them regardless of whether they're any good -- or they are, and then the government is getting soaked in both cases.

> the one being that the US government has gone down the drain regarding reliability with multiple shutdowns and a barely avoided default in the last decades

This was never an actual problem, it's just political posturing. They're not going to default. They just find it politically useful hold out until the last minute. And when a budget ultimately gets passed the contractors get paid.

> the other being that there's zero competition to Boeing and Lockheed left so these two companies can milk the government at will.

This is the actual problem. They should both break these companies up and make it easier for other companies to bid on government contracts.
That's just their problem. The paying is good enough for the ones that are willing to sell themselves to create those soul-sucking algorithms used by the mentioned companies. One thing none of them deserve is empathy - as they have none for the whole world.
They stumbled upon a mass market product while releasing a rough research poc…

If anything it vindicates even more their initial thesis about pursuing AGI as a business goal.
Reminds me of when teachers told students not to use Wikipedia for research purposes.
We do have those. It sounds more like you're saying that we shouldn't have vertically integrated companies.
I think the argument against thread-per-core as the default can be made simply:

- if you are CPU bound, work stealing will be better for most cases

- if you are IO bound, thread-per-core might work better, but again, you have enough CPU headroom that the performance doesn't really matter

IMO, work stealing is a better default to encode into language API
We will have yet a another solution for this. Brick by brick :-)
But that's exactly the difference. In Europe, the idea that a white Spaniard or white Costa Rican is not white is considered laughable. In the US we don't count them in that stat you gave. That's how we do things and that's fine. But they do count them as white in Europe. So the white population seems larger, because in Europe it is not segmented the way we do in the US.
I'm not even sure why Windows 11 exists, I can't see any real difference over Windows 10 (once I move the start menu back to the left)

Hell, I don't even know what's the difference between Windows 7 and 11
> Or the fun we had where in old system user needed to come to admins to type their first password (that then they are supposed to change after) on account creation

Been there, done that.

> and one of admins had blank keycaps keyboard

That's just plain evil, even at BOFH scale
> I'm sure there's something similar to vmsplice on every relevant OS.

There isn't.
What Linux needs is a easier cross over layer.. Less loke dual boot and more vm alt tab into and out..
You should repost this above its super interesting and a lot of people aren't going to see it because this subthread is dead.
It all depends on if you think the operating systems scheduler is better than your async framework's.

There's a long tradition of not wanting to "waste" threads by blocking on I/O.
But what does "majority of people also got their second shot" even mean now? - my last one was in late 2021 and my mom (a senior) has gotten like 5 overall.

Also I've not even seen anything in the news lately, so maybe I'm just not looking at the right places but right now I am honestly not even sure if I should be getting more shots, or other ones, based on how the situation has developed in... about 22 months.

My point being: I am simply not sure if these last 2 years haven't changed how we looked at the vaccination numbers back then, because e.g. omicron even came after people were still pushing for this "basic immunization".
+ you gain a portable friend

- you will get tinnitus
Diverse in comparison to the upper Midwest is a very low bar. France is a monoculture.
Don't forget the nice Lucasarts Code-wheels.
I think diversity is much more than just the color of someone's skin. People from Sweden and Spain are very different even if both would be considered white, and if you have a 25%/25%/25%/25% group of Swedes/Spanish/Ukrainian/Icelandic, I'd still consider the group diverse even though all of them would probably be called "white".
That did not need to be a 12-minute video.

I don't know if it would stop it, but without cryptocurrencies, it would certainly be much less. Laundering USD is significantly harder than laundering Bitcoin.
> It’s sort of unthinkable in the US but lots of people sat in the cold last winter.

It's weird, but the US _does_ have assistance for heating for low income families. This is not to say that it's always adequate, but it does exist. Do Europeans have similar programs? Are they just underfunded relative to need in times when fuel prices spike? Or are they too hard to get into?
The vertical integration allows them to corner the market and destroy the competition or prevent them from entering the market, which is bad for the consumer and bad for society, eventually.
I guess they are trying to find a path to profitability and scalability: the current setup will not to scale much further, and they need some more energy efficient solution.
I suppose, but these are things that I've never actually encountered in any machines I've purchased.
Shortest answer is they're put in charge by someone who doesn't know that the appointee doesn't know. Either they don't know they're supposed to know that, or (ime) more often they don't know how to judge. As someone else replied, passing leetcode-style tests is taken as a mark of technical skill well beyond what it's intended to indicate.

Glad to hear you've been part of well functioning competent teams of professionals. I know they exist - I've been there a couple times myself over the years, but it's not a given. I would probably say it's not even the norm if you include a wider range of places where tech/developer folks may be employed.

A 'team lead' role is filled by someone who is dating the department manager's family member? Seen that happen.

"Joe's been here longer, so he gets to make the final decision on things". OK, but Joe graduated high school last year, and he's cutting in to systems built by people with 20+ years of experience (both in software and in this domain), and Joe is replacing it with some cut/paste stuff he found on stackoverflow last week.

I was going to produce a larger litany of dumb scenarios I've had to wrestle with, in painful detail, but unsure that would do much to convince you of anything. (venting does help me occasionally, but won't ATM).
Chademo is a failed connector in the US that basically only exists for two reasons:

* Nissan leafs still stubbornly only use Chademo for fast charging. Even for the 2024 model!

* Before the CCS1 -> NACS adapter that Tesla made, the only option for Teslas to fast charge was to use the (very expensive) Chademo -> NACS adapter.

It is irrelevant and essentially does not matter or exist.
Bit more complex than reflection. Reflection preserves the wavelength. Fluorescence is where light is absorbed, some energy is transformed to heat/motion, and then photon is re emitted at a lower energy. In UV fluorescence the initial wavelength is invisible and the final one is visible. Technically you can visible to visible fluorescence also, but it’s less impressive to us.
What? Say you bought some pants last year for $60. Do you think you paid a $5/month subscription for that? What have you ever purchased that's not a subscription then?
I'm pleased with it too. Seriously. When I learned it it took me a bit to get lifetimes and borrows and stuff but once I did I got it and I rarely have to "fight" it.

Running in an IDE hooked to rust-analyzer helps a lot too since you get pretty instant feedback if you get something wrong most of the time. I have this suspicion that at least a few of the people who hate a lot of languages with more complex type systems or large stdlibs (e.g. Go, Java, C#) are trying to edit them in a plain vanilla text editor without these features. This would require you to memorize way too much shit. Why? Modern machines have gigabytes of RAM. Run a language server.
Things like apartments are not even so consistent. Building codes in America are highly ineffective, whether for content or enforcement I don't know. But the last three apartments I lived in were just awful. Noisy and falling apart at the seams. The one before that was a 1000-unit complex in San Francisco which was of generally decent quality although we faced two evacuations in five years due to residents starting fires (a low probability times 1000 is a much larger probability) and I had to kill at least six mice.

I stayed in apartments in China and Italy where things worked and I never heard my neighbors. I could live with that. But now I live in a house in the US and I'm much happier for it.
He stopped WannaCry worldwide
Food worth eating is not much cheaper in the US than in most of Europe and much harder to find. I remember my wife being very disappointed with the quality of the produce in supermarkets like Harris Teeter in Cary NC when we were there for a few months some years ago. And that was the best supermarket in the area. And when it comes to basics like bread it seems that most of what the US eats would qualify as cake in Europe because of the sugar content.
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A little concept I've been toying with for some time and I just had the itch to get out there

The main worry is of course there is no moat again, nothing stopping OpenAI to do this themselves as a base feature of chatGPT for instance. But until then, i've found it useful for my own needs
> doing really cutting edge things that almost noone else can do

like what, adding more ads in the already ad-covered search page?
It doesn't need tens of thousands of engineers for that and it is not rocket science. It is gone the time that working at google and being a worker at google means something amazing. Lots of normal low achieving people at big tech nowadays which the only achievement is getting to Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Uber/whatever and then benefiting from it.
Does this make their entire employment contract unenforceable? And invalidate any claims of IP against their employees (past/present)?

Like, in Silicon Valley? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOmbOfJLTKc
The fact that the bot will answer in a kink-friendly way and then censor itself tells me two things.

One, that there are at least two layers -- an answers layer that is probably a typical LLM trained on real-world text, and a censor layer whose job it is to not get Meta in trouble. The censor layer is overzealous because of corporate incentives.

Two, Meta has done an awful job architecting this. Like, really, you're going to have the answer bot push its response before the censor bot even looks at it? And if something needs to change, you delete the original answer and push the censored one? I can only imagine this was done to reduce answer latency, but God what awful UX that creates.
I bet OpenAI is trying to figure out how to have self-improving AI which suggests modifications to the hardware that runs it. You’d need some hardware expertise in-house for that (in addition to software of course), though not necessarily a big chip company.
>the Rainbow 100 ran MS-DOS but was not PC compatible

Compatibility with computer systems from other manufacturers was such an alien concept to the minicomputer makers that they all pretty much genuinely thought they were doing a great job by being mostly MS/PC-DOS compatible. A common compatibility test was whether a system could run unmodified Microsoft Flight Simulator out of the box. Most couldn't.
I wonder if we (United States ) could get a risc v in a supercomputer .
> how deep do you go?

As far as gives you a competitive edge! For AI, to win you need better data and compute than your competitors.

Going up the stack to consumer devices seems like a somewhat speculative move, though I understand the underlying desire to secure a data moat.

Going down the stack to chips makes a lot of sense; if you can secure an edge in compute efficiency then you will beat anybody that doesn't have substantially more data than you do.
Think of it like those in favour of communism. They find it easy to demand that other people share the output of their work for free so they can benefit from it. Similarily, programmers that produce insignificant code are happy to use the valued work of others for free. For instance, corporations have no issue in using the enormously valuable work of open source developers and neither do some of their mediocre workers. Essentially this is what we are witnessing with demands from workers that folk's work is made available to them so they too can be productive.