skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>YouTube is free to make windows and Mac apps, and turn off their web views.

I have revanced which edits their binary to remove ads. I don't see what your point has to do with mine though. My point is this: adblock users are grazing from youtube's field. We are eating the grass that youtube has planted and watered. To expect that such a field exists and then to expect that it can be eaten from at will is entitlement. To say "but they put up no fence" (or, more accurately, a weak fence) is not a refutation of this point. In fact it is exactlty what defines it as being a tragedy of the commons.
> These PMs you hire have no vision, charisma, expertise, strong beliefs, or technical skills. So what do they do when you give them that kind of power? They play it safe, and they play politics.

I can relate with that.

I was working on an operation that has the incredible track record: 74% of reliability (in a daily batch), 2 Engineers to serve 12 Analysts, stack running an old version of Haddop and Spark (2 majors down at least) and the company hired a technical PM.

The first measure of this PM? Setup meetings with consulting behind our backs, plus tons of politics with upper management, and the cherry on the top was he thought that was a good idea to move the Data Engineering team to a Front End team since “it’s more or less the same and a developer is developer everywhere”.

Final result: everyone quited and he eventually was fired with 1 year of delay.
Makes sense. Is "monitor forest restoration" the new "search and rescue" euphemism for military applications?

"We're going to use this robot to find people inside of urban rubble... uhh.... after earthquakes of course.."
NewsGuesser: Using Curiosity to Reduce Selective Exposure [pdf]
Their strategy is selling the idea to people, actually producing it is tertiary goal.
The budget is how I know I’m being diligent with my money - but it’s just a means to a goal.

Every financial app I’ve tried fall short in several areas I’m interested in. That’s why I built what I was looking for. I use it in conjunction with personal capital and that gets me most of what I’m looking for.
I bought one for $92 on amazon

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BHP34TH1

basically for a background media player, mostly youtube. It works fine. It's also fine as a backup and programming arduinos.

It's not my main machine but I'm glad I have it.
Even if they did that there would be no guarantee the price would remain the same. Google has done unannounced price increases for premium at least 3 times in the last year or so.
I've not used Gateway, but I have felt the pain and confusion of Ingress. Hopefully this simplifies things for our Devops/SRE heroes.
The project lists several DIY options for building (more like buying and plugging in) the hardware yourself. You might be able to find an off-the-shelf VGA-to-HDMI adapter/converter that would then be downstream compatible with the rest of the stack. There is discussion about VGA support in the project's GitHub Issues and Discord.
That sounds more right to me than a memory of some random conversations from nearly 20 years ago.
Yes, Lit and webcomponents, got tired of React and its unnecessary complexity
As someone coming of age around the time of that movie, that was my first exposure to his work.
Human capacity and human will are, however, rarely aligned. Many great things we can do with collective efforts, but this is not our society.
Yes, I would like to use it more or things like it... Hoping the papercuts will get fixed over time :)
Of course knots aren't "money" because money also needs scarcity and a way to prevent forgery but we have plenty of other examples: Rai stones, cowrie shells, other rare things ...
Very excited to learn that 'brown' was special-cased. Back in my high-school Turbo Pascal days I always thought it felt a bit like the odd-one out
No, to know what past change would've made today much better.
I am torn between wanting to read something which seems genuinely interesting and not wanting to waste time on a crackpot wall of text.

Whenever content related to Wolfram comes up there are mixed opinions about his genius - I wonder how much more impactful he could have been if he had a smooth-talking PR person filtering and shaping his output into a more digestible form.
> One example is the big bang theory being proposed by a Catholic astronomer who didn't like the then prevaling idea that the universe did not have a beginning or end because it went against his religious beliefs.

This actually came from the skeptics [0]. They were unwilling to believe a Catholic priest proposing a scientific theory too similar to his religious beliefs, about God creating the whole universe in an instant.

When the cosmic background radiation was discovered in 1964, the Big Bang was accepted by (mostly) everyone.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Development
That is actually a really good point. I must be tired. Didn't even think of that.
You could probably do it in theory with extreme risk aversion and light eugenics, but I'm pessimistic.
I’ve been using Mini PC’s instead of a laptop for travel. I started with used HP EliteDesks from eBay. I use the TV in my hotel room and Bluetooth peripherals. Mostly for gaming on the go.

MINISFORUM has some great specs at reasonable prices.

Today I travel with a custom 5L SFF build that has an 5700x and 3060 12GB. My build is much more powerful than your typical laptop in the same price point.
I only know about this because of Rimworld :)
Sorry, what is ZF?
It isnt anti the concept of profit, it just had the effect of chewing through a lot of profit margins. The GPL was responsible for breaking Microsoft's desktop OS monopoly, for instance.

A watered down FSF run by an inoffensive do-nothing would be a better outcome for big tech than leaving him in charge. Hence the all the attempts to cancel him, including via cynically hijacking #metoo.
I don't have anything that I'd call a system. I use a text file for the tasks that I need to do during the week, broken down by day. If I can't finish a task that day, I move it to the next day's set of tasks with a note about where I left off.

Doing that is simple, easy to maintain, and it works for me.
>What's wrong with that?

Functioning as a server is a use case. Labelling the desktop / embedded grade hardware as server grade is false marketing in my my opinion. Celeron is a desktop or embedded grade CPU (as per Intel's own classification).

>A server can have any kind of CPU.

You can use any kind of CPU to "serve." From a hardware point of view, there are categories of CPUs that are classified as server grade with specific feature sets. Intel Atom (C series) and Xeon are server grade (again per Intel's classification). The lines between Intel's server and desktop grade CPUs used to be very clear, however they are blurring over time. For example, new Core series CPUs support ECC memory which used to be a server specific feature however they still lack RAS features.

Xeons have support much more memory, have higher core counts, have ECC and RAS, support multi sockets, etc.
Someone has to actually maintain the driver in the tree. Drivers that don't have maintainers end up being removed from the kernel.
That's a huge stretch, it's some IMAGINARY losses of SOCIETY since it's impossible to know which software I would buy.

In fact, I would use open source software instead, since I'm not in the mood for paying. I use Krita now because I don't need the extra Photoshop features
They’re not the same though. YouTube doesn’t make the content.
Life lessons from the death bed
I'm curious what country you're from and what's your connection to the conflict if any. For what it's worth I live in Canada (you might call me a refugee from this conflict which isn't far from the truth) and I have family in that region.

I agree random cherry picking leads nowhere.

Violence on one side doesn't justify the violence on the other is a bit of a tricky statement. Sometimes violence is justified so context matters. What Hamas did on Oct 7th is never justified. There are possibly (EDIT: actually likely) some examples of Israeli violence that is also unjustified. Rocks kill by the way. What would be your proposal of how Israel should respond to Hamas's attack? If such an attack was conducted on your community, how do you think your country would/should respond?

Under international law hospitals cease to be protected if they are used by enemy combatants and if ample warning is given (which Israel has definitely given, the combatant use I'm not sure). The population of Gaza is also not starving. If Israel were to attack hospitals that are not involved or used in any way by enemy combatants or if the population of Gaza indeed ends up starving then those would be war crimes. There is still food in Gaza. I've heard there is agreement to increase the amount of aid flowing into Gaza significantly. At the same time Israel isn't responsible for feeding Hamas fighters or for how Hamas distribute their provisions in Gaza or does not. I don't think Israel benefits from violating international law (many other countries don't even blink at doing that, but that's beside the point) and should not.

I also disagree that either rights apply to both sides or apply to none. Right always apply to both sides.

I find everything going on right now very deeply disturbing on many levels. Whenever there's any glimmer of hope that something better can happen in the middle east there's always some player that's going to literally blow everything up. I do think the truth matters (vs. the untruthful narratives from almost everyone) as there's no path forward on top of lies. Too many people are just brainwashed. So yes, the truthful events of 1948 (mostly discussed by Israeli historians that Palestinians are happy to quote) are important but so is the Jewish history of the region in modern and ancient times.

EDIT: btw I watched the images on that Twitter video. There is war going on outside and so yes- there is very likely some impact on the hospital. At least the video itself seems to show that it's not a place I'd want to be but also people are still alive and uninjured there.
Yeah I was also disappointed to hear that. Afaik (I asked someone who previously worked in an adjacent field), it sounds like there’s no central system for publishing the judgements, it’s all published by each individual courthouse in a way that suits them, so lots of tedious individual scraping would be involved I’d imagine.
Just because something's old doesn't mean it's not relevant, yes might not've been the best language to suggest - the more modern BQN, Uiua and Singeli exist too - but it's still a fairly niche paradigm. Ideas tend to come in cycles too - look at the 1980s ideas of the transputer or connection machine.

I wanted to point towards a programming paradigm that's approach enables you to take advantage of the parallel execution possible within chips today due to the notation being both precise in intent yet vague in execution. Take summing an array (`+/vector`) or selecting values given a boolean mask (`mask/values`) - both these very simple expressions are expressible directly in SIMD instructions, as there's no for loop index enforcing an order.
Well, couldn't the same question be asked about using Python or Ruby within a server? It's scriptable, easier and faster to iterate with. Dynamic. You can execute Lua scripts in Redis. LuaJIT and other implementations can be incredibly fast and pretty fun to code in.
Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Orlando are under a 4. But under a 4 is guaranteed bad? LOLWUT.

And that’s just the first author I checked.

Vonnegut’s Deadeye Dick (less of a crowd pleaser than his handful of biggest books, but certainly not in the bottom tier of his works) is under a 4. The A Man Without a Country collection, which is more of interest as a curiosity than because much of it’s good, is over a 4.

Yeah, you may as well flip a coin.
Just bought one recently. Waiting for it to arrive and replace a giant desktop tower with a passive cooled 6w tiny thing.
I've been learning korean for a while now. I'll give my 2 cents.

It's not just a dictionary but a grammar parser, see also mirinae (https://mirinae.io/), the grammar parsing tool for Korean. Korean and English are so distant that a good grammatical parsing is infinitely more helpful than a dictionary and/or translator alone.

There actually isn't any other option, free or otherwise that combines all this "easy reading and watching" tools with a good parser.

Mirinae is great and better than the tool used here but is standalone and no longer lets you view grammar explanations for free.

GPT-4 also gives good parsings but it's even more cumbersome to use individually at scale (copy/paste, ask etc)

2. another big thing here is convenience. I'm not exaggerating when i say you can cut studying time in half at least having everything in one place.
Thanks for sharing this. I am always fascinated by projects that use C++ for low-level or OS stuff and some how, I've never come across this project.
Love what you're doing! Being able to more easily bring LLMs and other AI in will democratise the law quite a bit. Agreed that even though Austlii exists, it needs to be under a creative commons license, and it takes doing the legwork and dealing with bureaucrats to get it there
That's not what metaphysics is about.

Metaphysics is the study of "being qua being".

"[Aristotle] claims that each science studies a unified genus, but denies that there is a single genus for all beings". You're applying tautology without really understanding the construction of your own question.

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28232/chapter-abstrac...

ELI5: asking about science isn't science. Like reading about painting isn't painting. Or more poetically, "Ce n'est pas une pipe"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
The part I don't get is where he says "Why" is an arrogant question. I think "Why" is usually the most important question. What about it is arrogant? Am I just too arrogant to see it?
I like this project but the hardware seems quite overpriced at $300+. Similar for tinypilotkvm.com.

In the past I've considered making and selling a cheaper version. Aside from lack of time (or motivation), one thing which discouraged me is that I would feel bad "undercutting" someone selling open hardware.
theres a line between giving a shit and not giving a shit eh
Because the funding comes from Medicare and when you talk about that in Congress everyone loses their minds.

Past lobbying by the AMA gets some blame. Current government inability to fund public healthcare gets some to.
Do you remember which article? Would like to read it.
> Edge functions are cost-effective as you only pay for the actual CPU execution.

> We have over 1000 monitors, and the monthly cost to run them would be $150.

> While on fly we only have 6 servers with 2vcpu/512Mb It cost us $23.34 monthly ($3.89*6).

So edge functions are in no way cost-effective right? People using lambda functions are getting ripped off, they could just buy a couple of VPS.
Sweden certainly isn't historically neutral at all.
I've had two experiences in the last 10 years or so involving two "significant" conditions — not necessarily in the standard sense of threat to life, but in the sense of nonroutine and potentially becoming something more problematic, involving multiple significant testing procedures and several different teams of providers. The two things were totally unrelated issues.

Both of them just reinforced my sense that the degree pretty much doesn't matter anymore. In one case I saw several physicians of different specialties, and none of them had any idea what was going on. My own initial hunch ended up being correct, and I kind of ended up fixing it myself (complicated to explain, nothing illegal or inappropriate; ironically the first physican I saw was also correct, the only one who got it right, but he dismissed it and convinced himself it was wrong). In the other case, the best care we got was from a PA. The physicians were all specialists who were financially motivated to give care that was totally useless but very expensive (we figured this out by looking in the primary scientific literature and realizing that all the procedures they were heavily pushing were no better than waitlist controls). The PA was the only one recommending things that were actually useful.

I've seen useful MDs as well, especially with pediatricians and radiologists. I'm not saying MDs are bad or useless. But I'm increasingly convinced that different educational and training paths do not necessarily mean inferior or superior care; that a lot of services could be provided through different providers or mechanisms; and a lot of what people see providers for could be obtained without any provider as a middleman.
You under estimate the lasting power of a good ghost story.

You need a good example? Edgar Allan Poe.
Interesting. I'll take your word for it. I'm glad I haven't seen that.
Did you do anything to directly address the autoimmune problems etc, or simply managed your chronic conditions and everything eventually cleared up?
Same experience, but I have one hypothesis: in B2C the “client” after some point become some abstract entity where people ship code/product to. A great PM can talk with those masses and extract exactly what needs to be done. This is a very hard skill.

In B2C the customer is way clearer and the relationship is everything and it’s quite hard a bad professional hide for long.
You're Invited to Test My Hotel Booking Engine
A couple of years ago this coder started an old-school travel agency. Don't laugh. LOL :) It was my way of decompressing from the stress of Silicon Valley startup culture.

Turns out our revenue run rate is now $5MM annually. And contrary to all predictions on travel advisors' imminent demise, they are flourishing post-pandemic as people are less trusting of the online travel monopolies.

I have an amazing team that gives 1000% when it comes to customer service. During the pandemic we helped over 500 people get home when sites like Expedia and almost all Airlines left people stranded. We went as far as chartering our own aircraft and getting permission from various governments to land in far off places like South Africa.

What really pains me is that we are using Expedia's travel agency portal to book things. But Expedia in their greed keeps 60% of my teams commission. I find that truly unfair. And I want them to be able to earn the income they deserve. And you can help me change the lives of these amazing, fun loving people.

I decided to build us our own hotel booking engine. Leveraging the inventories of multiple GDS services, bed banks and even booking.com. Almost 3.5 million accommodation options.

Wanna help me test it? Add yourself to the waitlist, get some cool rewards in return. Like book now, pay later and 10X rewards points as a big thank you!

I'll let you know when I put it into production.

Get on the list here: https://www.bonvago.com

Cheers,
Thomas
I think it's an apt plot twist. Have you killed your children lately? Reaped any zombies? Deployed a slave and/or master? Killed a slave? Promoted a slave to master? Found hung children? What about a hung slave? It really sucks when the master gets hung... gotta promote a slave, make sure all the children are dead from the master and there aren't any zombies. Then, when you're designing, you don't want any anemic models, and everyone seems to be against inheritance these days...

Yeah...... taken out of context, it sounds pretty bad.
Hey Umar,

Fantastic work here! I was griping to my team just last night how painful developing a chunking strategy for Australian Legislation is that while there's (generally) layout consistency within a piece of legislation, that's not true across pieces of legislation... so I can imagine the pain of trying to collate legislation across jurisdictions.

I've reach out via your LinkedIn profile - would be great if there was an opportunity to collaborate.
Digital data still requires hardware that needs maintenance. Besides what is going to be archived over time will be things people consider significant in some way, not joe shmoes harddrive.
"Correct" does not mean "reproducible" just because you think lowly of irreproducible builds.

A binary consisting of foo.o and bar.o is correct whether foo.o was linked before bar.o or vice versa, provided that both foo.o and bar.o were compiled correctly.
Is there one of those breakdown of a frame article? I'd be curious to understand the sauce.
My dream job wasn't worth it: Former employees (Meta, McKinsey, JP Morgan) share
> uBlock+FF inside of a container without being logged in on my laptop

Would love to see more newbie guides (perhaps videos hehe) on how to set this up.

> couldn't believe how many ads there were. It was unwatchable.

I'd go further, a single ad makes it unwatchable for me. That includes on work computers where I'm not (and can't) logged into my google account to access paid youtube without ads.
Sorry - what counts as "practice" then?
Are people really that invested into raytracing hype being so necessary for visuals?

From what I was unless you're comparing RTX ON vs OFF side by side it's not noticeable enough to make a difference.
Is Cammy Consistent?
We need to somehow get it to Mars.
I think what I described is system where PMs have huge influence on what gets built. But also a system where engineering and strategic leadership also do. Personally that seems like the the balance to me. I think all three things - tactical product decisions, execution decisions, and strategic decisions - are important and separate.
Just because something lasts 50 years doesn't say anything about 2000
I keep getting the error "Something went wrong. Please make sure your internet is working and try again" for the past two days.

Any ideas how to fix this?
Wow, they really invented tweets that are too long for me to care about reading.
I think it looks pretty good. One thing that would be good is a selectable romanization option (partial to MR myself).
If you're bursty and only run 1000 invocations every few days or weeks and otherwise you run it 0 or 1 times per increment then you can end up spending a lot less than that estimated server cost with fly.io no?
One of the manifestations of "I don't care about maintenance" is taking a car to the dealer/whoever on a regular schedule without understanding what they need to actually do to the car -- which is not caring about maintenance by having someone else care.

Having a report that's quickly spit out to the mechanic about issues over the past X,000 miles so they can quickly quote to the customer before it becomes a bigger issue would be nice.
Both are free for business,
Sure, whatever. Call it religion if you like, but try and define something existing or being true in a way that doesn't involve making testable predictions.
Every day I need to add a new feature to my app, I am grateful I picked fly (serverful) rather than Vercel. The fact that as far as I'm concerned, it's just a computer, is incredibly useful. We've added long-running tasks, background jobs, scheduled tasks, side-car processes, custom-code execution, etc etc. Then, the fact that I can run something like Redis or Metabase within the same VPN with just a dockerfile is incredibly empowering. And just giving up basic things like SSH access to your server seems like an incredibly short-sighted thing to do. Maybe I'm too old, I just don't get it.
The purveyors of this kind of reporting want you to blame your aging neighbours, not the exploiting classes who actually legislate the system.
Thanks for the share. The rant is justified, and I keep thinking about that log4j at the base of the playing card’s pyramid that is our SW panorama these days…