skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article isn't that long, they kind of address your criticism in there.

They're lamenting the fact that no matter the person, every person whose ideas they find fascinating becomes less fascinating the longer they consume their content.

They blame it on the fact that every subsequent idea is less researched and thought out than the one before because there is simply not enough time for them to have thought it out properly.

And it reminds me of something I heard once: 'Your first book/song/album/painting is the result of your entire life up to that point, your next is done in significantly less time.' Basically, until you actually provide a result, you have all the time you want to craft it exactly how you want it. But once you have a following, they will demand more from you and now you have an implied deadline.
I would agree.

Peterson has helped me. That being said, Peterson is someone with a few good ideas that encompass a singular limited view of the world. It doesn't help with military maneuvers (or the world political theater at large), or dietary choices, or a host of other topics. It's not necessary for someone to have deep thinking applied to every topic, but that's an assumed, pre-requisite of an intellectual. Someone who is smart and has something valuable to say, primarily because it has been a focus in their lives, have repeatedly been asked to voice opinions. These opinions are inappropriately over-valued in the modern zeitgeist.

Asking Peterson about AI is silly. eg I wouldn't ask John Ousterhout, who is looking to formalize a process for creating "great programmers", about how to maximize my tax deductions.
Those two things are incredibly related.

The reason algorithmic feeds are they way they are etc. is so that they can optimise ad load and make more money. They want you be sucked into anything they possibly can to get you to scroll more, and see more ads.

If they move to a subscription model the incentives change significantly.
For some of these it also applies the other way, doesn't it:

Richer societies can afford to heat their homes with more sustainable solutions.

More educated societies are more likely to introduce nuclear power or build windmill parks.

War could worsen the greenhouse effect.
No, it is wayyyy worse. Although there is a lot of capital investment in a job. You are also investing the most valuable thing you own.
I agree with your logic that if they got surprisingly good efficacy results they would have reported it, but the Phase I participants received a much smaller dose than the planned actual treatment.

It would have been great if the treatment had clinical efficacy at even the safety dosing level, but it's also not especially disappointing that it didn't.
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PE could be "fixed" with one simple change, make them fiduciaries all the way down.

(I mean, it would likely also nuke the PE domain, but I consider that a feature not a bug).

PE is a pox that focuses on short-term, debt-riddled 3 card monty games, and should be annihilated. It's like the fecal byproduct of something Milken and Gekko would sire.
From the article -

> Dahl's disgust at beards was the inspiration for Mr. Twit. As he stated, he penned The Twits in an effort to "do something against beards"
// The idea that the only response to the violence of one political faction (Hamas) is greater amounts of retributive violence

This seems to be the crucial flaw in your analysis - I don't see a cycle of "retributive" violence. Israel asserts the goal is to "solve this threat" not "kill as many as possible." If they could remove the threat w/o affecting civilians, they would do that. This is a qualitatively different than the Hamas strategy of intentionally targeting kindergartners as happened in Oct 7.
"Keep your hands at 10 and 2" hasn't been a thing since airbags came out. Now it's 9 and 3 so the airbag doesn't play a game of "Stop hitting yourself!" if it goes off.
Usually stock investors don't like diversification within companies. It is harder to value.

I think that they realized that there is not so much in common between the HDD and flash business. No added value to own the 2 business compared to separated entities.

With that, the WD legacy HDD business can continue as a dividend stock dying slowly.
And the flash business can now pretend to crazy valuations based on a shinny future.
My GitLab server has at least beaten the GitHub down average so yes I'm feeling pretty good about it.
here is a 6 dollar expansion w/ ethernet for the pi zero2
We should be realign around "0.1x developer" terminology. Like assume many developers are in the 1x or 2x range, but then there are plenty of 0.1x developers writing scripts that start with 500 lines of comment.

Then job postings would have to be, "we're looking for competence and adequacy. We want to pay you a normal amount and get our money's worth."
I’m going to start having a seizure if I keep reading this thread because I agree so strongly.

It is painful looking at modern software development. They don’t know the basics and the whole Agile/TDD thing I think was the start of the end because table schema (and every other kind of planning) is not really compatible with agile.
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> I wish there was a tool like ReTool that was tied to our regular backend and ORM.

Hi from Retool! I'm working on an exact solution for this problem. We're building a backend & ORM integration that will enable you to connect your ORM with Retool directly to build admin dash & flexible tools on top of it. It's beta but please let me know if you would like to give it a try!
... only if the user is decoding video.
yeah, I saw those on amazon. Not sure how well they worked compared to the official PikVM board/kit. I might buy the CSI-HDMI adapter from Geekworm and try it out on a Pi4.
You appear to be making up your own narrative here.

In reality, climate science has gone from somewhat uncertain (around 1995: Kyoto) to progressively more certain as measurements have confirmed modellable outcomes.

Our need to change our behaviors has been increasingly important for the past few decades, it's only become an all-out emergency more recently as it's become painfully more obvious that large amounts of humanity are unwilling to change our economic preferences even when faced with obliberation.
https://archive.ph/wDUF8
You have no idea what my attitude towards code-review is.
Some of This Year's Biggest Video Games Were Made from Home
That is what skunkworks are for. You just deliver on time and you are fine.
Your comment does not add to this conversation. If you're trying to make a point, please make the point and avoid unnecessary snark
You should memorize things by using them, not by specifically sitting down to memorize them.
they had a whole series that would irretrievably die after 1700 idle hours due to a firmware bug.
Old people work in low wage in person jobs too.
This summer I bought two Intel 2TB nvme drives for $65 each. Not the newest tech but I've also never had a problem with an Intel SSD. I still have my original 40GB from 2012 in an old laptop and it works just like new.

The company that bought their SSD division (Solidigm) supports the Intel branded drives, and their utility had firmware updates ready to go for the ones I bought.

I'd probably buy a Solidigm if I needed a new drive and these firesale Intel drives are gone.
This a typical what about-ism. The fact that there are other problems in the world doesn't invalidate the global warming/climate crisis.

Interestingly, lot of those things are connected:

Global warming is making droughts and floods more likely, thereby directly increasing the chance of starvation by threatening global food supply

Global warming is making warmer some parts of Europe, making ideal habitats for mosquitoes where they were not thriving before. Just this year Paris had to fumigate (first time in history) against a new invasive type of mosquito, known to be a malaria spreader. Additionally, Zika virus, once confined to parts of Africa, is now present in Greece, Turkey and other Balkan countries.

Global warming is likely to create a large societal collapse. When societies collapse, education and women's rights get thrown out of the window, so does the rule of law. Conversely, educated people and women are shown to care and do more about climate change.

Based on that, I think it's easy enough to prioritize...
Python, C, Assembly – Faster Cosine Similarity
As a software developer I want to be able to designate certain code to run inside the GPU so it can execute in parallel. Specifically this post demonstrates how to use Python 3.9 to run code on a GPU using a MacBook Pro with the Apple M1 Pro chip.
Problem is that some registers have non-zero default values (swd debug pin functions for example) so the set() function would still need to do a read modify write operation which isn't the theoretically optimal code gen.
"Threads" always seemed like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Part of the brilliance of Twitter was the name, and part of the insanity is that Musk gave that up for the most generic of generic names that might seem cool to a 5 year old.
My point was that scientist have known and have been warning about this for decades. They are not saying anything new "now".
Thanks for the correction, my understanding of electricity is shaky, and I was assuming everything connected to a wall outlet is AC-driven, unless there's a boxy inverter along the cord like a laptop, but you're correct, that's not neccessarily correct and monitors are DC-driven.
You are confusing two different things. Most of the models show that the worst of the worst impacts are a few decades down the road, at which point most commentators on this site will either be very old or dead. But there is active debate about how soon we need to act to prevent those bad things from happening. Some people seem to think we have time, and that a gradual reduction in emissions will be sufficient. But more recently, concerns about tipping points and feedback loops is pointing to a scenario where we may have little time left or may have even passed the point of no return, to prevent some worst case scenarios.

So yeah, saying that climate change will be really bad in 30-50 years, and also saying that we have less than 5-10 years to prevent it are not incompatible with each other. I hope that clarifies it for you.

Moreover, climate modeling is hard. While most scientists agree that climate change is caused by man made emissions, there is still a lot of debate as to how much time we have and how bad it will be. So if you are seeing contradictory headlines, that's because the science is a work in progress. If that bothers you, maybe just ignore the headlines for now and understand that we will never have 100% certainty about how long or how bad or when things will happen, but we do know the general direction of where things are headed and we do know that we need to act soon.
> why are very smart people buying islands

It is a very common error of thinking, especially in people obsessed with what Douglas Adams called "the movements of small green pieces of paper", to think that people with lots of money are very smart.

This is mediaeval superstitious thinking: "he is better off than me, therefore he is more fortunate. He has been given good fortune by god. He must be holier than me, and if I become more holy, I will receive god's favour too."

It's nonsense.

Smart people are not doing this. Rich idiots are.
I mean if they were lying about that, what else might they be lying about? Maybe giving huge tax breaks to the 0.1% isn't going to result in me getting more income? Maybe it is in fact possible to acquire a CEO just as good or better than your current one that doesn't need half a billion dollar compensation package and an enormous golden parachute to do their job? I'm starting to wonder if billionaires are trustworthy at all.
UK Frontier AI Taskforce: second progress report
Luckily anybody not already a millionaire or billionaire doesn't make the cut for "humanity" [phew]
I don't know. But they will likely need equity to incentivise others. Your remaining stock could be more valuable with the apparently unpleasant path now.
It's greater utility in the sense that there's other mechanisms in place to report malware that are more effective at getting that changed than just the review section.

Reviews are much more useful for applications that stick around on the app store, or chrome web store, or whatever else, because well, they're still there.
I detest Meta as much as the next guy but I can't bring myself to feel bad for Threads Software Limited here. This is what you get when you pick your company name out of a dictionary in an attempt to be trendy/minimalist.
"a measly 180k" is a wild statement on an absolute scale, but i do see what you're saying relatively.
At that price point it is not a serious attempt at gathering subscribers.

It’s to show law makers that there is an alternative to ads and probably that “users aren’t interested”.
I think there are actual existential and “semi-existential” risks, especially with going after an actual AGI.

Separately, I think Ng is right - big corp AI has a massive incentive to promote doom narratives to cement themselves as the only safe caretakers of the technology.

I haven’t yet succeeded in squaring these two into a course of action that clearly favors human freedom and flourishing.
AI guided step-by-steps can fill in for a lack of rudimentary knowledge, as long as one can follow instructions.

Conversational interfaces definitely increase the accessibility of knowledge.

And critically, SaaS AI platforms increase the availability of AI. E.g. the person who wouldn't be able to set up and run a local model, but can click a button on a website.

It seems reasonable to preclude SaaS platforms from making it trivial to produce the worse societal harms. E.g. prevent stable diffusion services from returning celebrities or politicians, or LLMs from producing political content.

Sure, it's still possible. But a knee high barrier at least keeps out those who aren't smart enough to step over it.
Encode is always a bit messier; perhaps you need a tool which is not GPU aware, maybe your needs go beyond what the encoder can do.

But dropping the hardware h.264 decoder is a horrible thing to do. H.264 might as well be the lingua franca of online videos. Think of all the kids in classrooms loading videos on Youtube now constantly hammering the CPU for decode. It's such a weird decision that it can only be caused by business issues.
To be fair, I would love a curated version of Wikipedia periodically exported as a self contained reference application. I thought this would be a good use of the Internet Archive capabilities too.

At Blekko we, of course, crawled all of Wikipedia. One of the more interesting aspects was how many dead links it had to references (which presumably at one time were not dead). Sometimes you could find those references in the wayback machine and sometimes they were just "poof" gone. This is the nature of the web, information isn't persistent. Hence I think periodically pulling it into static storage would be a good thing for longevity.
Word. BTDT, all services getting out of sync etc. Not worth it.
Can't wait for it to be complete trash in Windows and continue to suffer the same issues I've had with every snap dragon powered windows machine including the devbox 2023. GPU driver will crash under heavy web rendering loads (twitter gif heavy threads), It will probably be undercooled causing P cores to be kneecapped push applications to the E cores as soon as it warms up, and never let them go back. Although I will note the MS ARM devbox at least was adequately cooled, if poorly vented so this was a rare occasion.

On top of that linux support will be non-existent leaving you to struggle as microsoft's most underserved user population.

Good luck anyone who makes the dive, even as an ARM enthusiast I gave up on qualcomm products as a whole.
Oh yea. They try to take away root, put crazy network monitors in place and push all my development into the cloud.

Funny how much some shitty employers like to get in the way of developers getting things done.

Though to be fair, a lot of you guys can’t be trusted, and data breaches are a major liability, soooo… here we are.
No, it's mere speculation on my part. I doubt such proof would exist anyway, as the entire data broker market is intentionally obscured from the public. But it would be foolish not to think that the adtech giants are not major players of its $300bn worth.

A couple lines of thinking lead me to believe this:

- Why would they collect data from people who are not their users, i.e. shadow profiles? Is it really so that when people sign-up they have a better UX, or is it so they can still sell this lower quality data to whoever might find it useful?

- Showing ads to users is only profitable if the user is part of an ad campaign. Meanwhile, user data can be sold perpetually many times, even if they're not directly advertised to on FB. Why _wouldn't_ FB want to be part of this highly unregulated and lucrative market?

Believing anything these companies say publicly is too naive, given their track record of deception. So I don't mind all this being dismissed as FUD. :)
the bottom line is that you NEED to prioritise your health. You NEED to make the time to workout, cook healthy food, etc...

It's not easy and life (and work) does get in the way, but ultimately you will need some form of lifestyle change to achieve better health.

Best thing about being a dev is that you can chuck your laptop in your bag and work from anywhere - lean into that. Try working from the gym some days, that way you can commute there early, setup and get a workout done during lunch hour.

Let me know if helpful and can keep elaborating
> Most of the models show that the worst of the worst impacts are a few decades down the road

You're out of date.

It's much, much worse than that now.
I've seen this over and over with cloud projects. People absolutely get promoted/raises based on optimising/cutting cloud budget. So there's no incentive in doing things efficiently from the start. You're much better off to build a vastly (but maybe not obviously) inefficient first version and then go back later and show how you "saved" the company tons of money by turning off a bunch of unused services etc. It's harder to hide racks of powered off servers which is why this is so prevalent in the cloud.
I miss tKC (The Keyboard Caper) and Phrozen Crew.

FAiRLiGHT was popular during the game CD / SecurROM days iirc.

PARADOX, CLASS, SKIDROW and RELOADED I remember as well.

Reading .nfo files was fun, the artwork was great too.
GitHub Octokit: replace TS with plain JavaScript and d.ts for faster dev
I remember want a DEC Alpha workstation and just really hoping that would give WinTel some competition. But alas...
Fair enough, I'm just generally frustrated at the doom and gloom. I don't think putting everyone into a constant state of panic is the right approach at all, we need to be inspired to build and be creative, not fearful and depressed that the world is going to end.
Famously the devices have been difficult to acquire because RPi was putting all their manufacturing output into fulfilling commercial market needs (1,2,3). Filling a market need -- well-specced hardware with long support horizons -- is perfectly fine, but Upton et al. have made it very clear that this is the priority and pretending otherwise is weird. Mass producing generic USB keyboards in corporate livery does not meaningfully communicate corporate ethics here.

Meanwhile, most of the competition focuses on beating the Pi on specs, availability, or price -- and none of them seem to have noticed that long support life as being the differentiator which leads to business adoption of the Pi hardware. So I suspect the status quo will persist for the foreseeable future.

1 - https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/you-cant-buy-raspberr...
2 - https://www.elecrow.com/blog/why-is-it-so-hard-to-buy-raspbe...
3 - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-ceo-eben-upto...
You need slightly more than being a ring. It's possible to make a ring (even a field) over R^n provided you don't care about interactions with scalars. For example: Just take any one-to-one map from R^n to R and then apply the operations in R before mapping the results back. It won't make any geometric sense, but it will be a ring.

I've been blanking on what exactly the interactions with scalars that we need to preserve are...
In this case they do create moral hazards though. The regulation means investors are less likely to consider a ponzi scheme as an outcome of their investment, so they don't conduct due diligence as thoroughly.

The original Ponzi was brought down by the free markets: a journalist caught wind of unbelievable returns and tracked down why.
I wonder if any psychologist or mental health professional has done an analysis of Musk's `X` obsession... I wonder if its in reference to the variable x since it can be anything he assigns it? Its definitely a common narcissistic trait. Let it be so, lol
Ad-free Instagram and Facebook are now a thing in the EU
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Evaluating the truthiness of journalism today forces me to distrust history as a whole.

Whatever the history books say happened is what didn't happen.
http://www.textfiles.com/piracy/anatomy.txt
The trouble is that notably cutting personal carbon emissions comes at a fairly high individual cost, but has basically no effect unless a whole lot of other people do it, too. If they don’t, you’ve harmed yourself significantly for effectively no reason—no meaningful good was accomplished.

The greater direct effect at much lower real personal cost, for billionaires, plus the greater likelihood of their influencing others to follow suit, makes the calculus a bit different for them.

The tragedy of the commons is a real sonofabitch.
You’re not wrong here but usually this comes down to having one or a small number of version specific container processors (and I do not mean container in the docker sense) to host those functions. Not microservices.

That said, almost always, if you are seriously trying to keep old unsupported dependencies running, you’re violating any reasonable security stance.

I’m not saying it never happens, but often the issues that the code is not understood, and no one is capable of supporting it, and so you are deep in the shit already.
Unsure how successful the plaintiffs will be here. The Incognito Mode splash page (screenshotted in the article) explicitly notes:

> Your activity might still be visible to:

> * Websites you visit

> * Your employer or school

> * Your internet service provider

Which to me, at least, makes clear that Incognito Mode is not a catch-all privacy-preserving mode.

Additionally, the "Block third-party cookies" toggle implies that websites can/will use third-party cookies when the toggle isn't selected.

(I have mixed feelings on some of these anti-Google suits... considering how many rock-solid cases there are to bring against Google, chasing the ones that are founded on shaky premises feels like a waste of time at best and actively detrimental to the other cases at worst.)
I'm from Retool and I agree with you a lot of things we can do better. IMO Retool is best as a simple way to build UI with drag-n-drop. For actual business logic, it should be left written in your own backend, and we can do better in connecting the two. We're working on a solution for this, which will allow you to connect Retool UI to your backend & ORM directly. LMK if you're interested in trying it out!
"wow our software is so powerful, it's going to take over the world!"
A lot of those jobs aren’t really AI/ML related too just reading the descriptions. They seem like generic software/IT positions