skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument is the slippery slope not mine. Should we give Microsoft Word the right to vote since we can never be too sure we are infringing on a consciousness' rights? It is "just a computer program" after all.

Presenting these things as moral conundrums makes no sense whatsoever at this stage in the game. Sure, let's make sure the rights of tech oligarchs who've achieved immortality 300 years in the future are protected. We gotta lay the groundwork in the morality group think.
This is hollow advice. Your job as an engineering manager is to maintain the integrity of the team and deliver business results. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t preach trust and transparency if your definition is selective. By definition those things require authenticity and completeness.

Would you trust or accept as an answer someone who tells you “I can’t say” when asked a very direct question “Is my job safe? Should I start looking for another job?”

Especially when you’ve been ordered (and let’s face it, executives give orders, not suggestions when it comes to this stuff). They expect your loyalty is to them and they also have trust in you that will be violated if you don’t follow their “guidance”.

So what are your choices as an EM? No good ones, besides the obvious of don’t put yourself in that position if you like to think of yourself as a good person.
We never seemed to have a problem killing back when you had to do it face to face with a spear, so I don't think the drone really changes anything. Agree on the others though.
You probably wanted to make this a "Show HN: "
Me too! Set it up once and forget. I love their work and Unlike any other charity/nonprofit that I've donated to, they never bother me any further.
AFAICT Google Messages is simply encrypting the data sent over RCS, i.e. RCS is dumb pipes for the encrypted data, and the carries don't explicitly cooperate one way or another. The consequence would be that only users of Google Messages are able to send and receive encrypted messages to/from Google Messages, not other RCS compatible messaging apps. Pretty ironic given the context.
Yeah, metrics and logs, plus a few other things that depend on these (alerts, SLOs, metric-based dashboards, etc.).
1. Some people are so far to the left side of the bell curve that they're going to be screwed out of a human relationship no matter what they do, and it's unkind to withhold sex bots from them just to provide increased motivation to the segment of the population that's still salvageable.

2. Society seems to have collectively decided that romantic intimacy, unlike food and shelter, is optional and that experiencing an absence of it should not entitle you to sympathy or support. Therefore, the kindest thing they can do is leave the autists alone so they can cope as best they can in peace.

UPD:

3. Replacing productive activities with substitutes like video games is obviously bad both for individual survival and for society at large, but what are the negative effects of being in a relationship with a fictional partner instead of a real one? You could argue the AI companies would have an incentive to exploit their users, but this is a thing that happens in real relationships as well!

Fertility might be a concern, but my understanding is that the current mainstream view is that the world needs fewer children, not more of them.
There's a good article on the topic here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyzek/signal-new-pin-featur...

Note that the "solution" of disabling pins mentioned at the end of the article was later shown to not prevent the collection and storage of user data. It was just giving users a false sense of security. To this day there is no way to opt out of the data collection.

There's a lot more information about it in various places, but Signal went out of their way to be as confusing as possible in their communications so it caused a lot of people to get the wrong idea (see for example https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...)

The forums were in an uproar for months asking Signal to not start collecting data or at least give people a means to opt out. Here's a good thread with links to a bunch of the conversations people were having at the time: https://community.signalusers.org/t/mandatory-pin-is-signal-...
Definitely closer to what I mean. Intelligence agencies is probably closer to the reality though.

To those mystified by my crypticness, yes, my point is that the criminals are going to not be in the US and be where the US can't simply prosecute them, and this is not just a coincidence. They are in those places for that very reason. They may even be actively supported by their local government, so don't count on extradition or anything else like that. Even nominally friendly governments that we have treaties with are perfectly capable of 100% coincidentally simply not being able to find those guys, so sorry, we feel really bad for you though, if they want to. Paper is only worth the actions it produces.
The way the code looks is completely different and significantly cleaner and faster to write in Kotlin. Actual performance and final functionality is likely to be same.
Psychologists recognize that nearly all such folks also suffer from massive mental health issues, and that is where some of the danger is (in terms of irrational violent response).

Maybe these systems will be useful as a honeypot for finding these people and helping them?
https://css-tricks.com/apple-messages-color-contrast/
yes. Finetuning a whisper model on a RPi 5 is ~2x faster than on the RPi 4. Other stages involving data pre-processing with HF dataset is again 2x-3x faster.
I'll point out the Jews outside of Israel have as much say as you do. And really your government doesn't do anything material to stop the settlers from committing genocide either. Oh they complain and strongly condemn but who cares.

You're going down a dark road when you start trying to hold individuals personally accountable for what their government does.
> a free Canvas account on

apparently https://www.instructure.com/
What a fucking joke.
So 'year' refers to the Gregorian year and is equal to 365.243 days [1]. We also have 'julian_year' which is equal to '365.25 days'.

We also have 'sidereal_day' equal to '23.9345 hours', and if you believe it is useful, we can also add 'sidereal_years'.

[1] https://numbat.dev/doc/list-units.html
It’s not that they would reject you if they already had some sort of a connection formed with you or that they consider having “green bubbles”to be an absolute dealbreaker. But if you have 5 similarly good on paper dating candidates, you are in the very initial stage of the process with them, and you need to narrow down the list, I don’t think it is that unreasonable to do so based on “the ease of texting.” You gotta narrow down somehow, and if doing so based on “green bubbles” eliminates 1-2 max out of 5 in the very initial stage, it is kind of a not that terrible of a metric. If it was eliminating half or more, it would be a bit more questionable.

Of course, eliminating someone for “green bubbles” after you had already developed some interest in is way too much and is indeed a trait that would make one not worth pursuing.
The survivors adapt.
OP didn't mentioned to slash salaries just by half not by 75%. Most IT people in western countries in Europe are not making even 200k per year. Even in London is hard to get 120k unless you maybe working as a contractor.

A lot of those SV talents are not american but migrated from europe or elsewhere - there are still talented people in EU who just simply don't want to move to USA these days even if salaries are at least 2x. You wouldn't have a problem finding real talent in eastern europe for 150k.
Doing that takes a lot of time. It would help the article to spell it out somewhat better.

Or at least copy a couple slides from the video.
Why is multiple method exits hell to get through with a debugger? I use a debugger for my C++ code all the time and I’ve never run into an issue because of multiple returns.
Carbon arc was definitely a whole different ball game. I'd think the fixtures were filtering at least most of it, or else everyone on set would have pretty much the same problems as someone doing arc welding without a mask and sleeves in short order.
I had an old Apple Store & iTunes gift card laying around so I redeemed it and attempted to use it to donate via Apple Pay, but get "Apple Account - Not enabled for in app payments". Google isn't very helpful about exactly why. Am I missing some KYC somewhere or are payments of this type prohibited from "Apple Account" balances?
From someone else describing it, just as you did?
It's not really about the law either, it's just a total dick move. They could've approached the OP about being co maintainers, or simply say that it's a forked version with improvements, or whatever. No need to steal credit and impersonate the OP.
> The applied heuristic in this case apparently being "join tables by order of lower row count".

Not really - it's all cost based analysis. There are a few main culprits that might be at work:

1) Selectivity estimates can get very off if you have cross-column correlations or your joins are over multiple aggregations / DISTINCT or such.

2) Join order planning is exponential in the number of joins. Once there are more than geqo_threshold (default = 12) joins, we don't explore the whole space anymore.

3) If you have more than join_collapse_limit / from_collapse_limit joins, subqueries in the from list, we'll not flatten them anymore, to prevent the join ordering problem to become even harder. It might be worth trying to just increase them with your query.
Or hell, even if it's not "fun" (since what is fun is ultimately subjective as well), as long as it is not harming anyone else, what is really the problem?

I did a lot of psychedelics, I don't know if fun was ever the word I'd use to describe most of it, but I don't regret any of it. It opened up a lot of the back of my brain in a way I never could conceive and really allowed me to think and analyze things in ways that I wouldn't have access to without. That in itself is well worth the experience, in my subjective reckoning. When I no longer felt that psychedelics were able to provide me with what it once did, I stopped. That was that. That surely is enough, right?
I don't understand how starting to build nuclear reactors at this point in time makes sense when it takes over 10 years for them to become productive and they are now already more expensive energy sources when compared to solar and wind.
How do you handle getting the changes that one client makes onto the other clients? Are you pushing it from the server to the clients with websockets, or waiting for the clients to ask for new info, or waiting for the conflict to happen when someone else tries to make a change, or something else?

I'm thinking a lot about keeping server and client data in sync while working on our hopefully-soon-to-be-released LiveSync product[1]

[1] https://ably.com/livesync
How is your point 2) a response to any of the earlier points? Hard realtime systems don't care about variation, only the worst case. If your code does a single multiply-add most of the time but calls `log` every now and then, hard realtime requirement is perfectly satisfied if the bound on the worst-case runtime of `log` is small enough.
Yeah I'm getting tired of "Show HN: I built a wrapper for ChatGPT and wrote a prompt that probably isn't very good" posts.

EDIT: Just want to add, this write-up was interesting and was not something I considered to be the above.
Are you the same kind of people that think that NGO workers should work for free or for a small wage that is not representative of the market wage for their positions?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082 (more comments on other)
This is SV tech logic that I mentioned. I’m just not usually of the opinion it’s necessary. There’s a lot of talent around the world. And I’d guess only a few really “top talent” folks are needed to build the unusual problems/cryptographic parts of their app. A lot of it could likely be build by an average dev with some oversight.

I say this as a person that regularly and successfully hires devs from low COL areas. I know the common pitfalls of it and know it’s completely possible to manage and get high quality outcomes. It requires a management approach that’s slightly different than having 100% top tier talent from high COL areas but it’s possible all the same.
> But you wouldn't think of the latter group of humans as the next big thing for many important tasks.

I consider them the target audience for upgrades, I think the ROI could be massive.
I can't help but think of those beetles that preferred a beer bottle over the bumpy carapace of an appropriate mate.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/t...
Much like in music, I find this hyper-specific genre-mania is ultimately just tiring. Regressive retromania that leads to pastiche and revivalism at best.
Ah ok I didn't know those still existed. In fact even the named checks are long gone here in Europe lol.
Yeah. Text based OT is pretty simple to implement, too. It’s about 200 lines of code, plus a simple network protocol. It’s fast and relatively straightforward to code up, and unlike text CRDTs it’s pretty fast by default.

I use it as my standard test when trying out a new programming language. It was unexpectedly ugly in go because of go’s lack of enums & unions, and that’s one of the big reasons I never got in to programming Go.
This is not even among the top five weirdest things I have heard some base a dating decision on. People are complicated.
Won't the github timestamps show which came first?
I agree. I've almost exclusively been working with Kotlin (and a little Go) for the past 5 years, writing backend code. Recently our team got the responsibility to take over an other project where the repos are written in Java. The difference is clear, it's like coding with one of my arms tied to my back.
No, it's a result of them wanting a steady revenue stream. Why sell software when you can rent it out?
Yes. The example uses Whisper-tiny which is 39M, a perfect match for the downstream task of keyword spotting. Just one line needs to be changed in the code to run a larger Whisper model :)
Yes, if you redefine the meaning of words.
So you donated to Apple too in the process?
> This lets extensions modify network requests without intercepting them and viewing their content, thus providing more privacy.

Doesn't uBlock currently block youtube ads by blocking requests based on XHR content? This will kill that.
That would be an interesting chance: buy an iPhone and get it with the hardware, or download and app and pay Apple a subscription. I wonder how many Android users would be willing to pay the subscription?
Huh, guy accused of securities fraud wants to eliminate the SEC and go with crypto. Yeah, that tracks.
I'm not saying they are not wrong - it's unfortunate that there is a second hand market for fundraising consulting. It doesn't accomplish anything productive, yet here we are. The key point is to understand that this is caused by Wikipedia having too much funding, not too little. As internet denizens, we can be proud that an open source store of knowledge has money to blow on wasteful consulting, and then proceed to create our ublock filters worry free.

This is different than what is currently going on with venture backed services like reddit and youtube. I would argue that we should block ads there too, but there it is an arms race where we have to consider ways to protect ourselves from encroaching privacy violations. It's much ruder, and that is something we should actually be mad at.
Great.

And give us a way to disable this "feature" and never be bothered again.
Think from the perspective of the non profit. $19m/year is a lot of money to raise year after year from donations.

What’s the game plan if the donations stops coming in ?
How? Seems like they would’ve have gone through the effort if they knew.
No one was willing to keep supporting XUL.
Yes, but it is quite hard to define it precisely — which is partly why it was so astonishing then and now.

For instance, to say: “a machine that operates indefinitely without the addition of fuel or energy” well, neither fuel nor energy is added to this machine, not in any apparent way. Instead, it absorbs the natural fluctuations of the surrounding environment and translates that to motive power. Now imagine that some huckster claimed to do that with “quantum zero point energy” or something, I think we’d treat the device like a perpetual motion machine — and look under the table for the trick.

You’ll need to translate the page. It’s a fascinating story. Drebbel isn’t well known in the English speaking world — but he also designed the first cybernetic system, a thermostat.

https://historiek.net/perpetuum-mobile-cornelis-drebbel/1505...
> If you socially exclude someone because they care about the color of text message bubbles, don't you care at least as much as they do?

The grandparent comment is talking about excluding people for wasting their time going on rants about message bubble colors, not about excluding those with a “wrong” message bubble color.

And no, caring about not having to waste time on listening to someone who cares entirely too much about message bubble colors doesn’t mean that you care as much as they do about it.
At this point, given the maturity of libraries (I was exploring this recently), I think you'd have to make the case that CRDTs are bad not just "too much".

Interfacing with the 'blob' is a real thing (y-js is solving some of this with a rust implementation that has cross language binding) but generally the things they noted (e.g. a Figma canvas) aren't things you commonly do joins across and if you did you'd have an independent indexing store for that functionality.

With tools like SyncedStore [1] and HocusPocus [2] you end up with a pretty good, we'll tested, easy to implement base for good collaboration.

[1] syncedstore.org

[2] github.com/ueberdosis/hocuspocus
Animals' Perception of Time
But you still need to implement the validation test to prove that the RTOS has these requirements…
The swiss Sonderbund war (an 1847 declared protestant/catholic civil war), with ~100 deaths, was resolved much less[0] bloodily than the 1861 US civil war (hundreds of thousands dead). I was rating "squabble" because unless I am miscounting, the total number of partisan deaths directly[1] attributable to current US divisions are still only ~10.

[0] come to think of it, less even than the "Alamo": like the US civil war, also in defense of slavery.

[1] NB possible "stochastic terrorism" not included; excess deaths due to fear of vaccination definitely not included.
Interesting. I've never seen this though. I guess that only happens for simple cases?
Galley vs. Sailing Ship in Combat
On the flipside, unless you're specifically referring to the newer Max model, getting away from earpods and using around-ear headphones led to a MASSIVE boost in my comfort level after a day of work.
DNR is better than at launch, but still full of feature gaps. How do you match a redirect response? How do you robustly rewrite URLs based on query parameters?[1]

The fundamental problem is that DNR is not an adequate replacement for webRequest. From something I wrote[2] a couple of years ago:

> [R]emoving blocking webRequest won’t stop abusive extensions, but will harm privacy and security extensions. If Manifest V3 is merely a step on the way towards a more "safe" (i.e., limited) extensions experience, what will Manifest V4 look like? If the answer is fewer, less-powerful APIs in service of “safety”, users will ultimately suffer. The universe of possible extensions will be limited to what Google explicitly chooses to allow, and creative developers will find they lack the tools to innovate. Meanwhile, extensions that defend user privacy and safety against various threats on the Web will be stuck in the past, unable to adapt as the threats evolve.

[1] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-st...
I think that's half the fun of it? There's this sort of squeaky clean optimism and hopefulness to it that's just absolutely gone in today's universal design language
> Those are just non-profit fundraiser consulting tactics. Don't take them personally, just ignore them.

I don't take them personally, of course, but they do encourage me to avoid forking over any money.
I’d pay $100 hands down if they could simply get it to the speed of GPT3.5 Turbo. Right now ChatGPT Plus is slow and buggy I’ll end up not using it.
You know, that’s a great point! Both the negative and positive outliers can be cherry-picked to misrepresent what working with AI is really like in practice. Some want to pretend it’s much further along than it actually is, while some want to pretend it’s all just a flash-in-the-pan. The truth lies, predictably, in between: it’s useful and it’s real, but it’s not consistent or reliable… yet.
SMS has become a kind of real-world PoW (proof of work) mechanism. A phone number typically has a recurring fee to keep it working. So a live number indicates that someone is spending money (a proxy for effort) to maintain it.*

It still seems like a lot of money to spend on simple, old technology, but from the PoW perspective, making it cheaper would defeat its purpose.

*Which is why many sites reject Google Voice numbers, for example, for SMS verification.
FYI, Ohio just put Abortion into their constitution and legalized weed weeks ago. So I wouldn't count it as 'Fully republican" just yet. Although if that +8 holds for the 2024 election, I would concede this point.
It's such an interesting system I never even considered. Does this mean most of the tomatoes are all planted and harvested on roughly the same days? I thought it would've been like a farm by farm, rolling harvest kinda situation.
Couldn't they modify the fork in a way to not implement v3?
They also need to nail the user experience of buying a Land Rover and receiving a LAND RONER. Having an extra middleman to the transaction in addition to the dealerships is a valuable first step though!
iMessage is not really a gatekeeper in the EU, because the number of friend groups that are close enough to iPhone exclusive isn't that big. Instead we use any combination of Whatchapp, FB messenger, Snapchat and Signal.
The surgery they were going to do on the right one...
They want chatgpt in schools to own the next gen of workers.
Because it takes energy? This is pretty well observed in high level chess[1].

[1] https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmaste...
These are great tips thanks. I particularly like "Letting others be free" - it's such a healthy mindset.

Just curious, do you use any apps or tools to help stick with these habits, or is it more of a mental note thing for you? And how do you figure out if these practices are actually making a dent in your stress levels or boosting your productivity?

Thanks again!
> I'm happy to be left out of those, groupchat via MMS is awful

So are most people who prefer iMessage over MMS (aka “green bubbles”), which is kind of the point.
At the point why would anyone buy things from a Google product?

Refunds are great (and bare minimum) but now you have to figure out a new way to get (if possible) the content or organize the downloads.
We'll see. I expect youth vernacular (and its mutation rate) will prove an extremely challenging domain for AI.

But maybe someone will crack it! God knows it's worth enough money.
> watching letters appear on a computer screen every 1.6 seconds and documenting when one matched a letter that had appeared three letters ago. The other 16 participants were asked to perform a similar, but easier task. Both teams worked for just over six hours

This is torture