skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, imagine a world where counsellors could use their position with a constant roster of vulnerable people to, for instance, tell them to go to church.

It's definitely potentially problematic. So psychologists have in some way developed an idea that their role is to facillitate people's mental well-being within whichever lifestyle they lead.

This can be very effective for some things. For instance CBT can help you rewire your brain to work more the way you want. If you come to a counselor and say "I have anxiety with public speaking and want to get rid of it" then they have some tools that can help.

But on more fundamental issues like "I live in a sick society", these tools can help you get through your day, maybe, but the actual remedy is more fundamental.

This is why people need serious Liberal Arts and Humanities, but we as a society scoff at that more and more. Wonder if that has anything to do with our abject misery, hmmm.
The things that increase people's mental well-being are well researched and often obvious: lose weight, find a church, get a girlfriend, make more money, call your mom, join the Army.

Hilarious to imagine a ton of highly-trained psychologists complaining together about how the data shows that all they really need to do is tell people to go to church and join the Army, but they can't because of the rules of their professional associations.
I have played with this idea on and off over the last few years. For c++ mind you. I have started a few times writing such a thing and each time ended up concluding I was making it way too complex. I wholehartedly agree with the idea/concept, but the implementation feels to complex for my taste.
Worldwide taxation is practically an operational necessity for the worldwide reserve currency issuer.
Severn Suzuki: 1992 Speech at U.N. Conference on Environment and Development
This ruling seems to be decent: The judge concludes that the current legislation is valid and stands up to legal challenge, but points out that the legislation may be worth reconsidering as the world has moved in the past 50 years.

The venue for changing the law is the parliament, not the courtroom.
Interesting anecdote.

If you click through the article to the actual study[0] the article actually references, the data is broken down into the changes in each population.

The lowest growth population is Religious communities but it also has one of the higher decreases in population, which means it was one of the ones that changed the least over the past 12 months.

However, Religious communities is closest to Rural communities and Veterans.

[0]https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/practitioner/2023-psycholog...
> be required to pay income tax to the US regardless of where you live/work.

While technically true, you are only really required to file, and then exempt your income via the foreign earned income exemption or the foreign tax credit. This one simple trick means 95% of all Americans working abroad pay no US tax.
> Are any OSS models producing JSON with specific keys as reliably as OpenAI models do with function calling?

Yes, OSS models -- from my understanding, this is true in theory of any model over which you have fine-grained control of inference, which you do if the inference code isn't a black box, but this has been generally implemented in the frameworks for running OSS models -- can be constrained to generate according to a grammar of arbitrary specificity.
The church things seems pretty difficult if you're unable to believe in god though. Also the army one seems problematic; I know a guy living on mental health disability from the army and it doesn't look all that rosy to me.
Tell HN: I hate contemporary "predictive tile" UI design so much
I open Spotify. One day many moons ago, Spotify was a tool for listening to music. Now I'm not sure what it is. It presents me with eight tiles, all unlabeled, all with an identical sleek black appearance. One of the tiles is an auto-generated playlist Spotify made "for me". Two of the tiles are playlists I made myself. One of the tiles is an artist I often listen to. Every time I open the application the tiles are arranged in a different order. It is difficult to find where Spotify has stored my playlists, or to sort my library by artist, because every single screen and command button is presented as a series of auto-generated tiles.

I open Google Search. One day many moons ago, it was a tool for searching for online content. Now I'm not sure what it is. It presents me with five advertisements, and then above the advertisements it presents me with a random number of tiles running off of my phone screen. A link to "Images" used to be right above the search results, and pressing it always did the same thing. Now some of the tiles appear to be different queries I could search for instead of my query. Some of the tiles are auto-harvesting information out of a random website, which I did not ask for. Every time I make a Google search the tiles are arranged in a different order.

I open YouTube. One day many moons ago, it was a tool for locating videos. Now I'm not sure what it is. It presents me with six tiles, all unlabeled...

Every new software design trend in my lifetime has been met with a wave of resistance. People like what they're used to, and I understand that contemporary tastes won't always match up with my preferred software design methodology. (My preferences happen to line up with the UI conventions used right around the time I became proficient with computers. No doubt I have objectively perfect taste.)

But this is something new. Software isn't "designed" any more, it re-renders itself to try and predict how I want to use it. It's like if my car automatically rearranged the dashboard based on my driving behavior. "Well, you didn't use the windshield wipers for a while, so I put the wiper button button in the space where the radio usually goes." Yes, but now it's raining. Where is the wiper button?

Apparently widescale software proficiency peaked in early Gen Y. Reports now say that Gen Z and Gen A children are worse with computers than their predecessors. Many apparently have little understanding of what "files" are or what it means to download software. I'm not surprised. Software tools are no longer tools, they're lifestyle platforms that try to redesign themselves to meet the predicted behavior of the user. Every button click is reported back to HQ to help set up a promotion for some godless product manager.

Can anything be done about this garbage?
Amazon S3 Glacier
I like how they launch hard before end of the year performance review.
Still waiting for an AI.
If Twitter leaves Twitter. That's the nail in the coffin.

But maybe there are more nails, any will do
Hi, could you please roughly explain how do you verify that transformation successful and correct?
Except this is the first time we have a new "generalist" technology. When Photoshop was released, it didn't reduce employment opportunities for writers, coders, 3D designers, etc.

We're in truly unprecedented territory and don't really have an historical analogue to learn from.
thanks for shining a light on this scummy industry and I hope your in-laws come to their senses or you can insulate yourself and loved ones from their inevitable downfall.
Yeah, the comfort levels affect this hugely.

I'd rather do a 45 minute commute via a clean air conditioned train with few and well behaved passengers than a 30 minute one on a crowded dirty bus.
What's the issue with hexagonal architecture?
While I agree with some of the article, I can't agree with all of it.

A lot of this argument is "This software isn't catered to the 10% I use, they should make it simpler", but the problem is we all have a differing set of needs, so the interfaces explode with options. This said, the needs advertising do make this worse by demanding eyeball attention over usablity.
> Both countries require the choice when the child becomes a legal adult,

What do you mean? The USA is perfectly happy with dual citizenship even if Japan is not.
It wouldn't be possible for unions to do it without the supporting framework provide by legislation.
Smooth 60 Hz scrolling was still a challenge on VGA.
PostgreSQL temporal_tables extension in PL/pgSQL
You are correct, I agree.
Lowering barrier affects contribution positively.

But I would argue, that it affects quantity and quality in significantly different ways. Meaning that quantity is increased vastly more of the two. Average quality most probably decreases. I.e. given high barrier only the most dedicated are donating, which affects quality positively.

Wikipedia wants to strike some balance between quality and quantity. (At this moment probably push towards quality)

Edit:
Where wikipedia clearly fails, is effectively communicating which contributions are desired, ahead of time.

People spending time with good intentions only to finally get rejected, is definitely suboptimal outcome for both sides. (Negative emotions, wasted time, decreased chance of further contributions, bad publicity)
Come to think of it, the UK doesn't check passports on the way out either.
I recently found and got digitized an amazing documentary about the Savannah: https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2023-07-12-the-nuclear-ship-s...

Also, she's currently for sale if you're interested. If they don't find a buyer it'll be scrapped.
> I’m bearish on LLMs in the next 1 year but bullish over the next 5 years.

I find this sentence particuarly interesting.
Why? Shrinking population reliably leads to greater quality of life for the masses. The mass deaths of the plague catapulted the surviving Europeans into an affluent middle class. Japan has the benefit of a much more controlled population decline plus the technological sophistication to massively increase automation. Between robotics and AI they’re extremely well positioned. As things stand the next generation of Japanese are facing very pleasant lives.
Interactive Gaussian Splats by Luma
you're right--thank you for catching that.

I think the idea is still sound though. there is so much loss (4m waves ≠ 3m height change; rocking motion is not up-down motion) that these wattage numbers would in practice reduced by orders of magnitude.
Then, as science goes, an enlightening thread on Twitter about what Science they actually did: https://x.com/Robert_Palgrave/status/1730358675523424344?s=2...
It's less of an issue since the US, Japan, and parts of Europe stopped having a military draft. That was the big obligation of citizenship. At the beginning of WWII, there were people who got draft notices from both sides. To fight for either side was treason to the other.
> we pleb can enjoy some of your sacred knowledge.

Please don't cross into personal attack or name-calling. Regardless of how frustrating someone else's comments are or you feel they are, it just makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> For some unknown number of weeks I will be in limbo, unable to legally leave the country, at the whims of the mail and some unknown bureaucrat who may or may not decide to grant my renewal or decide that the photo I've submitted is not quite the right size or whatever.

Agreed that the system sucks and is generally antiquated. That being said, if you travel frequently and need to avoid that limbo state, you may be able to maintain a second US passport: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-pa...
There’s a shortage of network providers because the network tends to pay peanuts, they mandate the usage of only a few treatment methods that may not be effective for the client, and make actually getting reimbursed a massive administrative headache (think many hours a week writing billing appeals instead of seeing clients). Medicaid is even worse and pays bottom of the barrel. The restrictions and complications that come with insurance repayment have lead a huge amount of providers to not bill the medical system, for simple personal economic reasons - they can’t afford to feed and house themselves if they have to deal with the lower rates and overhead of dealing with insurance.
> its insanely low attention span. It frequently releases innovative and well built products, but seems to quickly lose interest quickly. Google has become somewhat notorious for killing off popular products.

I understood this problem to be "how it manages its org chart and maps that onto the customer experience."
that really brings back the memories of how things 'used to be'.

i like the mail-in coupon for a Relational Database that ran on a PC, and it cost inflation-adjusted $1,400 but you could get it over half off with two games.
Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares
No, it’s just an odd call-out given the context. And broadly speaking, Apple’s products are more reliable than the competition for most users.
Serving the widget from the sidecar would work great for me, then I only have to run one thing.
> There are ECS frameworks in JavaScript, which gives you absolutely no control over memory layout and thus completely defeats one of the primary purposes of the pattern.

It doesn't give you direct control over the memory layout, but it's still fairly safe to assume that arrays are going to end up in relatively contiguous memory, which the relevant part for the performance difference between structs of arrays and arrays of structs.

I don't recall explicitly telling many compiled languages to stick all the items in an array together in memory either - it just happens by default, same as in JS.
Not true in my experience, none of my therapists have ever being absolutely and completely neutral. They might explore more a feeling with me, try to let me see a different perspective by myself but have never abstained from giving me their own opinions, and advice, when they thought it'd be helpful for my treatment.

Perhaps it varies by culture/country? Because it's really way off experiences I know about (personal, friends, etc.).
DOD also has a non-architectural component (i.e. not just "use ECS" which is how it's often pitched), which can be summed up as: Represent your data in a way that's efficient to compute with, not a way that models "the real world" (increasingly irrelevant to most business processes anyway!) in your language du jour.
They're both redundant. There's no such thing as a small large model. It's a small model or a medium model or a large model.
I’m sorry I replied on twitter a couple months ago and they’ve deleted the posts. I followed them and could find that way maybe but don’t want to dox them now that they’ve taken it down. They couldn’t find journalist interest and I tried to refer one. I have no affiliation / authority over this second hand info of course.

To clarify, they were not a factory worker, they were corporate (not that it makes it better but it means that exposure to stuff wouldn't have been a part of their employment agreement) and the root cause was that it saved money
> as long as it is not preloaded when manufacturing

which is exactly what happens
Great question. We focus on embedding in your data pipelines themselves. So, our AI automatically maps data, and can be used as a data pipeline indefinitely. Indeed, it can connect to APIs and handle dynamic output or edge cases you did not expect. Also, we work on handling any complexity of transformations (1-1 mappings, all the way to string manipulation, classification, aggregrations, etc).
It's very much designed for and around Wikidata.

> Wikifunctions will allow easy access to large knowledge bases such as Wikidata, but also to binary input and output files

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/07/wikifunctions-is-start...

> Using the simple facts housed in Wikidata, you will be able to write functions that make calculations, provide a person’s age, estimate population densities, and more, and integrate the results into Wikipedia.

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:FAQ

> In the future:

> - It will be possible to call Wikifunctions functions from other Wikimedia projects, and integrate their results in the output of the page.

> - It will be possible to use data from Wikidata in functions.
"How often do you try (deliberately) to use something so newly registered?"

Often when myself or one of my friends launches a new web project!
True enough. But that was the consensus back in March 2020.

The consensus now is quite different.

Maybe you were referring to March 2020, in which case I agree that it did humanity very little good, at least in regard of its application to children.
A timely topic, for me in particular, as I'm currently in the throes of a developing woodwork hobby. Specifically, I've spent a bit of time (and money) in recent days and weeks going down the extensive rabbit-hole of tool sharpening.

One could say there are many lessons analogous to life, and digital work, in the process (and probably even more that aren't).

I think one of the key principles is that sharpening symbolises the leveraging of past-developed wisdom - similar to the 'standing on the shoulders of giants' idea. It's not me who discovered that rubbing my blade over a succession of grits [no, not the eating kind, USA-ians!] gives me the means to get a lot more done with my time. But it'd be my peril, my loss, were I to ignore or trivialise that key wisdom provided by others.
Even if the benchmarks are accurate - or even overly conservative - it's possible that these are the "uncensored" versions of the models, and what the public gets access to in the end is far less capable.
I thought that had been established :thinking:
In the case of viewnior, it said that the resulting image has zero size and displayed nothing. That statement of it not being used seems false.
A year on, CISA realizes debunked vuln is a dud, removes it from must-patch list
unannounced upcoming region launches...
Launching anything as a big tech company in Europe is an absolute nightmare. Between GDPR, DSA, DMA and in Google's case, several EC remedies, it takes months to years to get anything launched.
100%. for this reason it can be ideal to go with a company that only does testing, not remediation. In smaller markets, though, you might be forced to go through a company that does remediation as well. Had to do it recently but they were honest and helpful, gave us a clean rating
> The venue for changing the law is the parliament, not the courtroom.

We got used to the courts doing it in America because of how dysfunctional our legislature tends to be.
The lighthill report did affect SERC funding decisions. If the reach was limited to the UK it still remained a potent force on the pace of work.

Maybe it was more AI brief autumnal muddy rain.
My mistake; I lived in the classified world for so long I generalized the requirement there.

So we only have to worry about Japan, which in all honesty was the only one we were worrying about.
Agreed - and ultimately, you start removing the need to have a git app and git knowledge to pull and compile... it's not just 5 minutes, but you open up the market to way more people. Now, ideally it should just be as installing an app, but it's a good step in that direction.
> But this is something new. Software isn't "designed" any more, it re-renders itself to try and predict how I want to use it. It's like if my car rearranged the dashboard based on my driving behavior. "Well, you didn't use the windshield wipers for a while, so I put the wiper button button in the space where the radio usually goes." Yes, but now it's raining. Where is the wiper button?

Consider that for "UI designers" to justify to their employer their continued salary, they need to "produce" something (because if they produce nothing, their employer rightfully can ask "why am I continuing to pay you a salary?").

Therefore, "UI designers", in order to justify their continued employment, must make changes to the UI, with the result that 99.99% of the changes seem to exist for no other reason than "to change it".
I've thought for decades that everybody would eventually come to their senses and realize that censorship in general is impossible to achieve, but they're still trying as hard as they ever were, and I've come to doubt that they'll ever give up on it.
I'm in nuclear and I'm super annoyed at the mass hysteria around announcing projects like this using totally unproven reactors.

Just start with a time-honed PWR to decarbonize now and deal with the uncertainty and challenge of MSR development as a potential upgrade for later.

MSRs need tons of development. See ORNL-5018 https://doi.org/10.2172/4227904
YouTube is the best monetized platform for videos. TikTok is notorious for paying terribly. I don't think Facebook pays much either. You pay Vimeo to host videos on their platform.

The other alternatives like Nebula and Floatplane paywall all viewers, and doesn't seem open to new creators without a viewerbase.
uBlock Origin on Firefox still seems to be working fine for me.
can you take sample and look at it under a microscope maybe?
Once and only once delivery
you're right.... The CIA and, by extension, the US government as a whole (or any subgroup thereof) have never altered the outcome of elections anywhere for regime change, and have never instigated color revolutions for regime change.
Is it though? I thought so too but then tried it with Chrome and I think it's broken in the same way.
Until I see an actual hands on from an outside source I am not buying it. It is not clear at all how cherrypicked / conveniently edited these examples are.
In practical terms for most people most of the time this is going to be a purely moral question; you're not going to face any consequences so it's just down to what you consider legitimate.

Legally, "owning" an episode of a TV show on Playstation Network (to take the current example) doesn't give you any right to download a copy from elsewhere. Same for owning (this time in a more real sense) a copy on disc. Maybe you could make a fair use argument fly; I'm skeptical.
Apps can still do what they want in the content of the notification. This includes encrypting the content however they'd like. By default, though, apps don't encrypt the content. And the metadata (what appleID is receiving notifications from what app) is still known to Apple.
Clojure spits out Java stack trace if you make syntax error. It's equivalent of Python barfing segfault when you put tab in the wrong place.
There is also a large difference between FIPS compliant and FIPS certified. The former is running in FIPS mode and the latter is running a cryptographic module that has been inspected and verified by the CMVP.

And then the whole thing is really terrible security theater as you are technically out of certification if you apply any non-inspected updates.
If your colleagues are not applying basic engineering rules to views and stored procedures, it's not fair to say that this is a problem with views and sprocs.

They can and should most definitely be testable, documentable, trackable and version controlled.

Should one also judge all backend programming by PHP standards circa 1998?
> What was the website that showed two movie posters and you picked the one you liked more?

Google Bard now answers this with the first suggestion being Flickchart

I also got a clean list of release dates for the console question: https://g.co/bard/share/ceb0eac6c69f
My partner is now in private practice, but started in community mental health coming out of her social work program. Unsurprisingly, for those most in need, like the children with severe mental illnesses and traumatic family histories she worked with, the resources and funding available are woefully inadequate to meet the need. High caseloads, terrible pay, and a model that churns through new grads until they burn out and move on.

As much as she cared about the kids she worked with, private practice has been much better for her own mental health and allowed her to have a decent income. And even then, it seems extremely emotionally taxing to provide 4-6 hours of effective therapy per day.