skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone see/hear this quote without thinking of Jack Donaghy using it in 30 Rock -- where he specifically cites "Hans Gruber, Die Hard" as the source?
You can refi your low-principal, high-interest mortgage later, if interest rates ever come down.

You can't renegotiate your high-principal, low-interest mortgage later. (Well, you can, if rates go up, but why would you want to?)
You can trace it pretty easily in a local neural net which takes a couple of minutes to train. The only reason we can't trace it in GPT is it's a closed model so we don't have access to do so.

Largely two things come into play: 1) Some part of the neural net is emulating more traditional logic, but it may not always be the most activated part or tuned to be perfect in the answers 2) There isn't really a "jmp" equivalent in a single iteration, so the neural net has to learn to not only do decimal division but do it based on iterating output tokens, continuing perfectly each token output, and choosing to put the right stuff into context and keep that context activated at the right time.

"Activated" in this case means, more or less, the group of neurons specializing on this task are being both fed and listened to.

You can even train a neural net to emulate a traditional addition circuit directly, it's just less efficient than one would think if you're trying to build a general purpose model instead of a specialized one.
The documentation linked for torture on that press release (SUMMARY OF VIOLATIONS OF THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE) says:

"Most frequently such torture or other ill-treatment
takes the form of beatings: many detainees have described being beaten with gun butts
immediately after arrest and then thrown on the floor of a jeep, where they lie during the
journey under the boots of soldiers. It may also involve the use of dogs in an aggressive manner,
painful shackling (if related to an arrest) or humiliating or degrading treatment."

Having been to Brazilian prison (and being under Brazil's jurisdiction) I wouldn't classify this as torture, otherwise my brother was also tortured when arrested for drug trafficking.

I wouldn't say this type of violence is as shocking as Hamas is, too.
My galaxy s10 rocks. I guess the battery has had almost 1000 charging cycles and is still performing good enough. I like the smaller than average size and weight, the smooth and snappy scratch resistant screen. Speaker sound is quite decent.

I don't see how I would benefit from things like 100Hz or more screen refresh rate or even tinier pixels. 5G, I would not use since that would increase the amount of wireless data so much that i'd need a more expensive plan.

I guess a lot of phones in use are sitting on a 'more than decent' plateau. It's a good thing.
There are quite a few veggies that are low calorie, filling, and are tasty enough to snack on without dip. The ones I eat when I just want to feel full without a bunch of calories are carrots (45 cal/100g), cucumbers (14 cal/100g), sugar snap peas ( 42 cal/100g), and yellow bell pepper (27 cal/100g).
> The activists aren't pro gay people, or pro black, or pro transpeople. They don't want me listening to Douglas Murray, or Gays Against Groomers, or Thomas Sowell.

I think you're committing the error of treating social categories as set-theoretic absolutes when humans are far more multidimensional.

It's like "Well they're not really patriots; they tell me Americans are great but they don't want me talking to Benedict Arnold or Aaron Burr." No, they don't, because those Americans were traitors who hurt their fellow countrymen. "Listen to more LGBTQ voices" and "Don't listen to Gays Against Groomers" aren't actually contradictory concepts; 'listen to' doesn't mean 'give equal, uncritical weight to every'.

The missing sociological tool you may want to dive in on is 'Intersectionality,' which is the concept of how one's privilege is contextual and multidimensional factor; a person can be both oppressed and oppressor.
eh good point, I was thinking big tech, but you're right, possible that applying to some average boring bigco it might matter (for a few more years at least...)
> But can you use the TV as a dumb monitor and just supply HDMI input from some other device

Most "other devices" are also filled with ads
Talos Principle is a slept on masterpiece, its shocking it isn't more widely known about. I've been engrossed in the second game all week and the photo mode is a very welcome addition.
I'm not suggesting that we banish numbers from the entire stack. I'm asking why they are absolutely necessary for a textual interface in this domain -- to the point that, as someone says below, it is a "contradiction" to suggest otherwise. As if there's some sort of impassable gulf between csound and VCV Rack.

Let's talk about LaTeX this way. Suppose LaTeX required everything to be specified in explicitly numeric terms. I find this sort of tedious, and I start asking why we can't just express the idea that things be "centered," or "justified," or "kerned" or "Large(r)," or "ragged right."

Would you really say that I am speaking in terms of contradictions? That what I really need is Word, that I must not understand the difference between a textual language and a gestural one, and that the only reason to use a textual language is precisely so that I can have precise control over these matters?

What I'm really asking here is whether we are really talking about the hard limits of programming languages, or if we are instead talking about a certain lack of imagination among programming language designers in this space?
> What's the blocker here?

It's an open source project. Stuff generally gets worked on by people who care about features. You seem to care about this. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io
You'll be happy to know we're not wasting it. We use that TV frequently.
> Is it sexist to say that women seek out conflict less than men?

Inherently? No. In practice, generally.

> Isn't it sexist, or just weird, to suggest that testosterone has no effect on mens' behavior?

It is erroneous to conflate the positive claim that "testosterone has no effect on mens' behavior" with not making the claim "women seek out conflict less than men", and that is particularly true in the context where "conflict" is specifically online debate.
You could argue ML is at step 4, but LLMs (called "AI" for some reason) are most definitely in the major hype/dumb money being chucked at it step.
Why? What is going to happen next year, that makes waiting good?
https://archive.li/2023.11.08-114113/https://www.economist.c...
And that's OK. It's not expensive, and it's useful to have a place for off-the-wall notions that probably won't pay off.

It's always going to be contentious, because even that small pot of money will attract many different grasping hands. But it seems a worthwhile tradeoff, Just In Case. At least as much as, say, the more abstruse areas of theoretical physics and mathematics.
Absolutely. My comment was more pertaining to patent's being partially suspended, which is not the same as generic fully regulated drugs being available.
what engine do you use? yamagi?
A fifth of a pint would be superhuman self-restraint for me!
A lot of startups in general are just wrappers over something. The reason for that is that people on average (not "an average person", it includes all of us) have many out-of-their-scope issues and aren't even aware of something generic that could help solving it. Dividing a common [al]mighty resource into hundreds of packaged solutions and marketing them separately is how people get hold of the unknown. They then can choose to migrate to a root tech/resource, or to stay where they are for various reasons.
Seagate's HAMR Update: 32 TB in Early 2024, 40 TB Two Years Later
Or, for a typical software company:

Green - Situation normal

Yellow - An outage more severe than usual

Orange, Red - would trigger SLAs, so not possible and therefore not implemented

Black - Status page down too, served from cache, renders as Green
Fortune is engagement farming.

Still not building enough, and the market always cools in winter.

Big Tech isn’t killing the internet. All the Ferengi that went into engagement farming are with their clickbait.
Cool stuff!

What do you suggest is the sweet spot for document size and "hotness"? Your cookbook [0] says "We suspect that an Automerge document is best suited to being a unit of collaboration between two people or a small group." Does that mean tens of kilobytes? Hundreds? More? And how much concurrent contention is viable? And is the "atom of contention" the document as a whole, or do you have any plans for merging of sub-parts?

Also, do you have support for juggling multiple transports, either concurrently or back-to-back? In particular, I'm thinking about synchronizing via the cloud when connected, and falling back to peer-to-peer when offline. In that peer-to-peer case, how many peers can I have, and can my peer network behave as a mesh, or must it stick together to some degree?

And finally, it looks like your tutorial [1] doesn't actually exist! You refer to it in a blog post [2], but it's a dead link.

[0] https://automerge.org/docs/cookbook/modeling-data/

[1] https://automerge.org/docs/tutorial/introduction/

[2] https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-2/
Surely if it's that big of an issue they could call the police station and arrange a more discrete venue?

Maybe in the best of times this would seem a bigger concern, but in the present day it definitely seems like there needs to be more pressure on police to meet minimum standards.
There are some TVs with FireOS built in, but this article is mainly talking about the FireTV sticks and such. That's your primary content device, you cannot bypass the ads no matter your TV.
There is often no better feeling of leaving a job where spaghetti code is a constant problem. I've worked on projects where co-workers took numerous short cuts that I'd regularly have to fix months later after they ditched their role. There is no real way to fix the problems of that kind because companies that emphasize proper testing and clean code simply don't weather tight deadlines and cost cutting that the rest of the industry imposes on everything, that's why there is often no better feeling of leaving a job where spaghetti code is a constant problem, :P
This was so exciting to see, back in the day. This was one of the earliest classes in Rust taught at a university.

https://rust-class.org/0/pages/using-rust-for-an-undergradua... was particularly interesting and valuable to read at the time. Remember, this class used Rust 0.7!
Thanks for the recommendation, this looks great. And it's FREE.
Any kind of caloric restriction lowers it temporarily.
There is some evidence that testosterone levels can be even higher after the fasting https://josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/how-fasting-changes-...
> I also made a bit of a splash because I came to the conference with a MacBook

That reminds me of going to a .NET meetup kind of thing at the Microsoft office in Dallas once many years ago, and I came in my Mono t-shirt and my Thinkpad with GNOME and Mono stickers on it. Joseph Hill spots me and comes over to introduce himself. His first words were, "You look like a man on a mission!" :)

Joseph was so cool. There was some guy at Microsoft who was hosting the event, and he was kind of a dick. He kept trying to make jokes about Mono, but most of the people at the event didn't have any idea what Mono was so the only people who knew what he was talking about were me and Joseph.
And good for the banks for doing their due diligence.
> And an entry level option exists for the cards. Plus programming fee. Handling fee. Local taxes. Processing fee. Etc :-)

Cards are $20. No programming fee, no handling fee, no processing fee. Yes, there are taxes and yes shipping things generally costs money. Users program keys themselves.

> As an aside, I find the fob useful for booting the car up prior to getting in, rather than waiting 40 seconds before the fly-by-wire shifter starts responding to commands to put it in gear.

Keys are for valet and I keep mine in my glove box. The car boots up almost instantly.
Consensus-seeking reduces variance. This is the approach to take when failure is expensive. Blindly applying this approach leads to design by committee and wasted productivity.
I don't recall seeing HTTP traffic in the trace during TV startup and update check, so it's got to be a tunnel or internal.

I'd read reports of some smart TV's having internal resolvers, hence my guess at that.

I'll have to take another look though. If there's a DoH host I could block, that'd be nice.
Meanwhile, it is quite stunning to me that European carriers would intentionally mis-deliver (i.e. leave with a neighbor) packages rather than just leaving them on the porch! Over many years and many neighbors, I've had plenty who I would be happy to let receive my packages and plenty I would very much not. Likewise, I would be quite peeved as a permanent WFH-er to be the neighborhood final delivery guy.

There are plenty of places in the US where packages left on the porch aren't secure, but there are also plenty of places where it's completely fine and saves everyone time. I've never once had a package stolen off my porch anywhere from an apartment in the Bay Area to a house on 10 acres in rural Oregon. I really think that the places where package theft is rampant are the exception, not the rule.
With DNS over HTTPS (DOH) gaining traction, it will eventually become impossible to block.
Because GRUB still ships with the vast majority of Linux distros, and not every UEFI implementation is good about asking which image you want to load every time you boot.
> same old story from Apple: expensive but it consistently just works.

Not to mention at least you know where they're hitting you - up front, on the hardware. It's like the people that complain about a Macbook being 20% more (or whatever), buying a PC-something, and then coming back complaining that Windows is loaded with ads or Linux has all kinds of issues on it.

I'm with you - I went from being a die-hard Linux desktop, Kodi, Android, etc, etc user to just saying "the hell with it" and plunking down for Apple products.

They're expensive and they're not perfect either but my life is much less stressing and annoying as a result.
False,

you meaning all of us do want a government that takes active measures to prevent weaponized speech.

That we don't have a Constitutional framework for distinguishing this is the same sort of catastrophic zero day in our democracy that the comically shitty second amendment language is.

That these are unpatchable is a consequence of and overwhelmingly serves bad actors, specifically, right wing antidemocratic bad faith actors, and operates in no small part over the "free speech" being mechanically reproduced by they and their allies in such lovely institutions as the GRU and other centers of literally anti-American memetic warfare.
I would say upper class is about net worth, not income, and probably top 1% or so would qualify
And I went to an open house and the home had already sold.
Yes I am - you don't seem to know that all a double-blind controlled trial produces is (at best) a very strong correlation. I'm not claiming that a correlational study implies causation. I'm claiming that ALL statistical analyses can only prove correlation, and never causation. You're wrong about double-blind controlled trials proving causation.
Expand card processors to payment processors. There is constantly sites that get unjustly restricted or banned from payment processor like PayPal and Stripe. Even Minecraft, one of the most popular games of all time, had issues with PayPal.
Links:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c72lb/starwar...

- http://starlogs.net/
+1, Spring is the real test, every winter prices go down
The evidence presented in the article does not match the claims.

The emails they include show that there were meetings between DHS and Twitter and between DHS and Stanford, on the topic of election integrity. And that there was a Signal chat (I guess this is kind of sketchy).

But there's no evidence of censorship or anything politically-motivated that I can discern.
Chamberlain owns like 80% of the garage door market in the US. They don't need any help.
The Coffee Futures Got Stale
i think there is a "cabal" everywhere where moderation is involved. i have hit the wall on various platforms. i just try to move on, there are things that are more important in life than who is right on the internet.
My bad, I only quickly skimmed TFA, didn't think these were actual TVs since they're not available where I live last time I checked.
I suspect a return to the family home values of the 90s and before, somewhere around 3x the average income, would be more effective than family values in the abstract.
I’m sure we’ll see TVs with built-in AI tools to create new generative ads. Maybe they could include little cameras, so they could keep an eye out for any Amazon products in their house. This would help achieve Amazon’s apparent goal of advertising things I’ve already bought from them to me.

Or, they could just include a little cellphone radio. Probably only need to phone home once every couple months to get the new ads.

And remember: hard drive space is cheap nowadays. You might not ever connect your TV to the internet, but it can at least record fingerprints for everything you watch. Maybe your kids will connect it to the internet some day, or you’ll hand it down to somebody else, and then that poor trapped taste-profile information can finally make the trip back to Amazon’s servers.
AEI is a propaganda arm of the oil industry, and that article cites not a single climatologist; indeed most of the claims are wholly unrelated.
My Sony, which comes with Google TV, is no worse than Apple TV in its default configuration, and I've read about other people installing alternate home pages with no ads.
All forms of contraception are also solving a "willpower problem". Food is even more of a basic need compared to sex, so evolution has it made it so that it's really hard to eat less.
Orca is explicitly mentioned in the comment to which you are responding.
$200M gift propels scientific research in the search for life beyond Earth
I think slashdot did something like that, but limited the amount of total votes you have per day. But that site's a little before my time. Would be nice if you could set the weights on voting yourself, along with other aspects of site moderation/ranking.
Seeing as most forms work this way...shouldn't the screen reader understand this? You are in a form, the button is the submit button. It went to disabled after form submit. Save that ref, fake the tab index so tabbing takes you to the next item, if the button becomes enabled again, highlight it. This feels like an easy win.
Patreon is more like a frontend for payment companies. The backend is either Stripe, PayPal or Payoneer. https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/208656246-How-...

If you create a better payments system but ignore the business logic that makes people want a frontend, you can maybe compete with Stripe, PayPal and Payoneer, but not with Patreon.
The same thing can be said about having bulletproof cars, wearing a helmet anytime when you are outside, carrying a lifejacket with you all the time. Those are things that cater to specific threat models. And those are not the threat models of average, every day people.
Have you tried using the playground?
Oh totally there are lots of parallels, but we still tend to anthropomorphize AI and exaggerate its ability to think. In the case of humans, there are deeper reasons we don’t admit to not knowing, especially in a job interview, so we can’t conclude it’s the same thing as the hallucinations of a neural network, right?
Luckily we've reached a point where market forces will push the energy transition forward.

That will achieve what policies failed to do.
The 2010s were also a bit of a lost decade in PC CPU innovation given AMD's floundering keeping up with Intel, and Intel's consequent permisson to rest on their laurels.
recently realized you cant even start vlc if the fire cant connect to the internet. Bummer if your link is down
Yes, we built bindings for LynxOS 178 a while ago and demonstrated Rust on QNX at embedded world.

https://www.lynx.com/press-releases/rust-compiler-support
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/how-we-built-our-embedded-w...

Porting Rust to RTOSes is reasonably easy.
I was in your shoes about 4 years ago (will be on Feb 5th)

Best investment I have ever made for myself. Very challenging; especially socially. I eventually found social groups who share similar interests. First few months will be brutal; you can do it, it’s worth the struggle, good luck
I've seen the benefits of these drugs for people close to me but this whole concept still feels a bit dystopian.

Companies selling $500-$1,000/mo drugs to counteract the garbage food and "food products" other companies are producing and marketing to us.
Dumb TVs are still a thing

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1629173-REG/nec_e658_...
I can second this. I literally just completed my first playthrough of the game over the weekend (backlog pain is real).

The architecture and design in the game is the best brutalist work I've seen in a game.
Looking at my shelf, I feel personally attacked.
> Another view is the "loss" factor. Nobody, thus far, has has had their funds stolen or lost using ML products

Most of "AI startups" are close to scams, i.e. they are oftentimes just interfaces to proprietary APIs that monetize on impressiveness of LLMs.
> ... service called Zapple Pay (which we covered here back in July), which initial goal was to help iOS users escape Apple's censorship on Zaps. You could then connect your Lightning wallet to Zapple Pay through NWC, paste your Nostr public key (a.k.a npub), and from then on the Zapple Pay service would watch your Nostr notes and, any time you responded to a note with a specific emoji, trigger a notification to your Lightning wallet over NWC, telling to zap the note you were responding too.

Zapple Pay, Zaps, Lightning, NWC, Nostr, npub, zap the note etc etc - truly a technology simple enough and ready for adoption by your average joe
Xi to Meet US Business Leaders for Dinner in San Francisco
Boy howdy, I'd like to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.
This biz have basically driven me insane.

Some comments.

The problem with time estimates is that you often have to estimate not what to do but a vague vision of something. We want it to be easier to do X. How many hours?

I agree with what to promise. The problem here is that you will get pressured into bad decisions. Somebody might say that it's just a new button. It is never just a new button.

The joke, junior devs work with coding, senior devs with people is true. Many coders quit coding after some years and go full time into management positions. At some companies that is expected and you are being looked down upon if you are "still" coding.

Clean code does not really tell if a solution has good architecture. I have seen horrible solutions that use clean code and great solutions that have mediocre code.

Management typical just want new features. Prepare to be called in to help resolve issues related to bugs that has been known for months but not been prioritized.

Third-party companies are not your friends. Be prepare to work with people that will straight up lie about things. Also be prepare to work with colleagues that does the same thing.

People will try to take credit for your work. Management people are experts in this field.

But the worst thing is also the best thing about being a coder. You have to to keep up and learn new things. The biz is crazy fast. It is easy to challenge yourself. The amount of new cool stuff coming out is just amazing.