skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OP wasn't talking about cell service out in the boonies

Every location in Wyoming is what a lot of the country would consider "the boonies". That's kind of my point. Its a massive outlier compared to where the majority of the US population lives and not really a good place to point to when saying "see, cellular internet often doesn't work, it doesn't work in Wyoming!"
How do you look at hiring "experienced people" vs. "enthusiastic interns" on something like this? More generally, how quickly do you think the team will grow, and what the ratio should be between the "old" and the "young"?
You said "The DNA we are leaking is impossible to copy unlike the DNA we are sending to 23andme."

I said it was wrong because if people collect environmental human DNA samples and "copy" them (amplify with PCR).

Not sure what you mean about destroying the sample- you typically take part of the sample and amplify it without destroying the whole thing.

I'm just unsure of what you are trying to say here; I'm responding with purely factual answers based on modern DNA technology.
I know these laws exist. I have no idea how they are constitutional but the supreme court has decided that they are. I have to then wonder if instead of a child's head they use the head of a frog and a childs body in the depiction. Is that still against the law? What if it is the body of a frog and the head of a child? Thats why these laws are ridiculous. There is no line that makes any sense.
It looks fantastic! Good work!
Oh, printers, inexhaustible source of fun.

My approach for over a decade now has been, before any "manual duplex" printing, to start by marking the top page in the tray with a little arrow pointing upwards, drawn with pencil or pen, in the bottom right corner of the page. I'd then print one page (and/or print a test page), and check the position of the arrow, to learn how the particular printer behaves.

To date, I've probably seen every possible orientation of the arrow on the output. Some printers do insane things to paper.
Oooh. Yes, very interested in MusicGen. I played with MusicGen for the first time the other week and created a little script that uses GPT to create the prompt and params which is stored to a text file along with the output. Let it loop for a few hours to get a few 100 output files that allowed me to learn a bit more about what kind of prompts that gave reasonable output (it was all bad, lol!)
I always thought it was a bad visual metaphor for open vs closed circuit
Postmark's Recommendations for Google and Yahoo email changes in 2024
In 2024, the email landscape is set for a major overhaul with Google and Yahoo enforcing new requirements for email senders. The requirements are technically for bulk senders (>5000 emails/day) but this is a big deal for anyone who sends email, since it will likely become a requirement for all senders in the future.

Overview of what's coming:

Starting in February 2024, high-volume senders (5k+ messages/day) will need to authenticate messages with SPF and DKIM using your domain and to ensure a DMARC policy.

Lower-volume senders: Authentication is required, though domain alignment is flexible.

Universal must-do’s:

All senders need to set up FCrDNS

Avoid freemail domains for sending

Include ARC headers in forwarded emails

Implement one-click unsubscribe features

Here's our recommendation to get ready:

Understand what domains you use for email sending today (and whether they’re already authenticated)

Authenticate your mail with custom DKIM

Authenticate your mail with custom SPF

Set up DMARC (and monitor who's sending on your domain using tools like DMARC Digests)

Register your domain for Google Postmaster Tools and keep your spam complaint rates under 0.3%
I'm about 2/3 the way through it actually! It's a good read.

That said, what do they say when you point this stuff out? I've been attending local city meetings for a bit now, and when confronted with this stuff, they don't change their minds, they just double and triple down, get even angrier, and screech even louder about MUH FREEDOM.

I don't even get angry, I'm just like, explaining how society works (pooling of resources so people can get what they need) and they absolutely melt the fuck down! It's crazy!
I had no notion that this sort of behavior had been so normalized that it had an audience worth advertising to. I didn't even know that people did this sort of mad nonsense. This is so incredibly unethical as a business model, even if you don't care about the adults in the situation, think of how this might impact a child conceived through deception.

Truly vile.
It's often not pursued by a company unless there are literal damages. Morality, sadly, has nothing do to with the decisions corporations make.

I'm glad to know you didn't suffer for this. It happens so much in the tech world that most of us have installed creature comforts in the space under the bus. I've installed a nice recliner, a small, but tasteful lamp and a few good books to read, during my time under it.
What's the implication here, that tech people should know better? I just don't care a ton about my privacy. At least that makes me not a hypocrite for working at a company that profits from user data (like many tech ones do).
I think we could call this e13n in the sense that a current product offering, with some degree of stickiness, is being made worse for the benefit of the seller.
Cell type directed design of synthetic enhancers
Score voting or proportional representation are the real fixes. We need to be able to vote for a different candidate without it being equivalent to burning the ballot.

Right now one can case a meaningful vote only for legislators who serve corporations and the wealthy, or legislators who serve corporations and the wealthy even at the expense of democracy and human rights. Of the two, I think it is obvious one should choose the group that isn't supporting the leader of an actual insurrection. But the fact that's a controversial suggestion gives me no hope that we'll ever have a sane voting system.
My experience: There are some people who are distrusting or hostile enough toward "socialism"/"politicians"/"the gov'ment" that they'll eagerly pay more for worse service.

Or, just think of how many people keep buying bottles of drinking water.
Delta operates nearly 200 of the 75s & 76s. (They are the largest operator of both, I'm pretty sure.)
Some people get significance from their ability to write code. To them, admitting an LLM can (or will soon be able to) do their work inflicts cognitive dissonance, so they refuse to believe it. Some refuse to even try it—not realizing that refusing to engage does nothing to hinder the advancement of the tool they fear.
That would be a good use of LLM AI, imo. Good idea.
My brain read midjourney until I clicked on the GH link. What a great name, MIDIjourney!
Why is this article 85% about some dissertation, and basically nothing about the antisemitism in Harvard? First that horrible letter at the start of the war (basically blaming Israel for Hamas killing women and children), and then her testimony?

I'd like to hear why people thought she should stay after her poor handling of both events, but the article simply doesn't talk about it.
Write back "you agree to pay me $10M in compensation unless you reply in 30 days" ...
Original source (no Javascript required):

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/06/even-if-you-hate-both-ai...

https://ct.captcha-delivery.com/c.js <-- The Javascript required by dealbreaker.com
The await event horizon in JavaScript
'long term premise'
We do have a really strong social safety net. (as I said, Ms Perry's culture and mine are probably very opposed on this point)
Yeah. I kind of associated I as a continuous line and O a loop which never works (something like infinite loop).

But not he says it conveys 1 and 0... so simple... true or false. That would have been easier on my brains :)
The industry did not abandon C and C++ for Ada in the past, likely it will do the same to Rust. Not to mention C and C++ are both evolving and their toolchains are getting much better nowadays.

After using Rust for a while, I actually decided to stay with to c/c++ for the rest of my career.
Turbo your svelte apps.
There's no day I go without a phishing attempt by ad on Twitter. The only time I've seen community note on ad is about some game that is apparently quite different from what it is on the ad. IIRC that game is notorious for this and has become a meme.
Or go vendor independent with pacemaker + drbd + libvirt. For that stack you can get support from SUSE, Redhat and Linbit and maybe even Ubuntu. Or just go with Debian if you don't need support.
I often create wiki pages to save myself the work of explaining it multiple times to different people. Ultimately, it's win-win. I don't have to put in more effort to explain something, and the requestor has the necessary information.

If other people don't contribute to the wiki then it's likely that there's nothing incentivizing it. It's not like management is handing out bonuses to people contributing to the wiki. Heck, even my contributions are self-serving.
You are correct that if you call C from Python, you can run into problems. But the fault there lies with the C, not the Python. Pure Python itself is memory safe.

Because memory safety is built on top of memory unsafety, it is generally understood that when discussing things at this sort of level, that we are speaking about the Python-only subset. (Same as any other memory safe language.)
Currently imagining my productivity while waiting 10 seconds for the results of the `ls` command.
Nice article and good points, but perhaps the author wasn't aware that "tacit knowledge" is a term already used for something else.

https://commoncog.com/the-tacit-knowledge-series/

Tacit knowledge is undocumentable because it's knowledge borne out of experience. It's tacit because articulating it would be too tedious, impractical, and most probably incomplete. Think learning to play a sport by simply watching videos or reading instructions. Michael Jordan famously explained that although all players are taught the same theory, there's a point in a veteran's career where they can read the game at a different level. Closer to programming, it's the reason we see more articles repudiating well packaged ideas, such as "Clean Code" (capitalization intended), as past beginners who bought into them, are becoming experienced enough to recognize them as leaky abstractions.
They are, but what does that have to do with anything? This is a row over threats of violence, and double standards where threats against Jews are OK, but threats against other groups are not.
12 Days of Curtsmas
> When I described what I get from my local city fiber service, they acted like "price" and "reliability" and "decent customer service" were all impossible requests — as if EPB didn't exist. I'm not sure if feigned, or actual, ignorance was at play.

I mean, I'm sure the calls are monitored and them openly acknowledging that their service sucks ass and is more expensive than their competitors would have them fired more or less immediately, but I am shocked they were ready to even send one of their reps your way knowing damn well they had no leg to stand on to actually make a sale. Like why even waste the time?

Idk man, these dinosaur companies are a trip and their internal machinations are endlessly fascinating. Corporate bureaucracy (at least when it isn't actively making my life worse) is always an interesting topic to discuss.
Has OpenStack as an organization solved the problem where there’s not really such a thing as OpenStack? In terms of e.g. what APIs will be available and so on?

That’s basically what stopped it back in ‘14 or so. It was too hard to provide software that could run on an OpenStack because it was such a choose-your-own-adventure.
I don't think I've ever seen the ⏼ symbol, only ⏻, but maybe I'm weird.
You replied to a comment stating "Cell-based internet in the US often doesn't work well in practice", and your proof of why it often doesn't work was Wyoming and Idaho. Most of the country (population-weighted, at least) in practice does not look like Wyoming and Idaho. You might as well argue cattle ranching is entirely impractical, just look at downtown San Francisco and NYC. How are herds of cattle supposed to graze there?

Also my comment completely acknowledged I don't know you. It literally states "I don't know if you've looked out a window", so its entirely open to the idea that you have indeed. But then it really makes one wonder why you think Wyoming and Idaho are good examples as to why most US consumers wouldn't be able to get cellular home internet despite knowing the massive geographic and population differences and the challenges those would pose.
The RedMonk re:Invent 2023 Recap
As someone living in the EU, these kind of things puzzle me a lot.

How can a legal system exist, where it's possible to deny a (consumer) contract party access to the legal system and law of the land?

(In the EU we do have arbitrations clauses, but they are only legal between businesses and tightly regulated. Arbitration "courts" must be neutral. And you can not put them into ToS.)

Also, I was under the impression that all sane legal systems on this planet are based on the broad principle of "pacta sunt servanda" = "agreements must be kept". One party of a contract never can change the contract without consent from the other party.

We do have the concept of "silent approval" for consumers over here, too, but that only applies to minor changes to terms that are not a "surprising" change to the consumer. It recently was ruled that for example Netflix increasing prices without active consent is not legal in the EU. There is not much that is not regarded as "surprising" by courts here. "You are not allowed to sue us after having lost your personal data, then lying about it" clearly would be regarded as surprising.

Im summary: Every aspect of that whole 23andMe story would be impossible in the EU. The amount of data they collected, the way they stored it, the way they tried to hide the breach, and them trying to prevent their customers to get access to the law.

I wonder how on earth the US legal system could deteriorate so much that such a story becomes possible.

[Disclaimer: I am not bragging about living in the EU. I did not have any influence on my place of birth. I do not wish to imply that the EU is "superior" to the US. I am just trying to give an outside perspective.]
as someone guilty of the same - it makes your startup grander than it seems by tracing lineage from greater historical figures to yourself. of course most of these comparisons are overinflated... but you need to be a little ambitious to try to start something. if you live your life without trying to be a part of history you have a much lower chance of affecting it
Well, firstly, we should acknowledge that municipal broadband isn't a story of completely unmitigated success - there are cases of tremendous failure as well.

I'm also fairly sure that most Republicans would not mind if municipal broadband were run - and competed on - commercial terms.

However, if it's funded by municipal bonds that are backed by general obligation (i.e. all taxpayers subsidize, whether they use the service or not) then that seems obviously a problem to me. Even if they're revenue bonds, they're still implicitly subsidized by tax treatment.
More-or-less the standard stuff. When fighting for right-to-repair in my state, the major opposition was an Apple lobbyist. You can also look at DRM, worker rights in the hellholes electronics equipment gets made, etc. Not all of this even makes sense; better workers' rights would probably benefit Apple on the net, since they would hurt cut-rate vendors more, but c'est la vie.
it kind of blows me away how many people on these forums don't know what tacit knowledge is.

tacit knowledge is being able to ride a bicycle.

You'll never describe it well enough that a child can hop on the bicycle and ride it the first time.

the knowledge that enables someone to successfully ride a bicycle is tacit knowledge.
Have you thought about integrating the macOS accessibility API for either reading text or performing actions?
I'm disappointed there was any doubt that my question was asked in good faith! I do regret the obsession I had with video games when younger because of the huge time sink I put in, but I only see that as a me-problem (others likely have a healthier relationship with it).

Thanks for sharing your experience though. That's interesting news to me. I talk with coworkers occassionally, but games don't come up (and neither do other interests outside of work).
What will enter the public domain in 2024?
Can the NY Post do something more on the paragraph scale?
Most people concerned about encoding performance are doing livestreaming and so they can't accept any additional latency. Splitting a frame into independent segments (called "slices") doesn't add latency / can even reduce it, and it recovers from data corruption a bit better, so that's usually done at the cost of some compression efficiency.
While Faraday discovered induction, wasn't it Maxwell that unified electricity and magnetism? Given what answer.ai is attempting to do, Edison seems like a great example since he was both a brilliant inventor and an absolutely shrewd businessman.

I am excited for more research in this area, since there is currently a huge gap between foundational model research and practical applications of AI.
> This whole green bubble equal shame thing is 100% on people.

Easy, then! Let's just fix people
>False dichotomy: you can have this and have small independent households (and have a high GNP). It just takes a culture (as opposed to Ms Perry's?) where people are, generally, considerate.

This is a prescriptive statement masquerading as a descriptive one. Saying a considerate society is high trust does not will into reality either considerateness or a high-trust social fabric, neither of which you've demonstrated to be mutually dependent.
Which part is incorrect? The violence or the division of labor?

Violence has been attested to in many of the remains that made it to modern people for study.

Division of labor in hunter gatherers is the only real way to explain Gobekli.
CogVLM blows LLaVA out of the water, although it needs a beefier machine (quantized low-res version barely fits into 12GB VRAM, not sure about the accuracy of that).
What else is in your readings recommended to your kids?
Traditional family connections and community is not the result of poverty.

The correlation the author bases this on is tenuous at best. The correlation she presents is that with time incomes rose and communities fractured and family structure shrunk.

The counterpoint is that in the past the people with the greatest amount of wealth, were very keen on maintaining family and community relationships. Modern royalty still invites all the royals in the entire world when they have a function.

The whole article views the past and "traditional" structures through very rose tinted glasses.
https://archive.is/wCrxt
I honestly don't think this subject should be on here. I don't think it's possible for a coherent or respectful or even useful conversation to happen here. I haven't seen any conversation about this topic that hadn't gone to hell.
This will hopefully improve the startup times for FFmpeg when streaming from virtual display buffers. We use FFmpeg in LLMStack (low-code framework to build and run LLM agents) to stream browser video. We use playwright to automate browser interactions and provide that as tool to the LLM. When this tool is invoked, we stream the video of these browser interactions with FFmpeg by streaming the virtual display buffer the browser is using.

There is a noticeable delay booting up this pipeline for each tool invoke right now. We are working on putting in some optimizations but improvements in FFmpeg will definitely help. https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack is the project repo for the curious.
IIUC - International Islamic University Chittagong?
This is how traditional Emacs undo is implemented as well. I like it but it seems to be not the norm; it does take a little bit to get used to. (There's plenty of packages to transform Emacs undo into something more like a tree structure, though I don't personally use them because I'm used to the above behavior.)
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/12/ios-17-3-stolen-device-...

For those who don't want to pay. Goes over the WSJ in depth lol.
Teach it to press the skip ad button
> they cannot hold onto housing and they cause incredible damage in the cities where they congregate

You are right, on average they cannot maintain housing, which is why I said "subsidized" - which ensures they don't become homeless (aka publicly visible).

> We lack single unit subsidized housing in Portland

What that doesn't solve is the substance abuse, which is a mental health problem. If your intent is to solve both then you need to spend on mental healthcare and subsidized single unit housing. If you just want them off the street and concentrated to certain areas (eg: where I live in Portland) then you just need subsidized housing.
Presumably because it was a cost saving measure and they agreed with the cost savings, but I wasn't in the room where it happened. So all I can do is speculate unfortunately.
I'm considering some kind of combination of autoloader feeding either Exact Audio Copy (which isn't set up for them) or dbpoweramp (which apparently is set up for them) to get metadata, then I guess I will have to pirate or rebuy discs when the AccurateRip indicates that there's some damage to the disc.

I've avoided iTunes and its descendants due to all of the horror stories about destroyed music libraries and music "helpfully" replaced in error. Similarly, I haven't signed up for any streaming music since I have an el-cheapo plan and these services sound like they tell you what to listen to.

I think having somewhat weird tastes in music and being particular about it has some overlap with having to seek technical solutions which are also not-mainsteam. I am reminded of Pictures for Sad Children, wherein a character's musical preference is "Whatever is on the radio, played a reasonable volume." and realize I am at the other end of that spectrum.
Show HN: Shorts Generator – Go from idea to video in minutes
Unbounded/large offsets are the critical part. Minimum unit where memory protection can be set is one page (4096 bytes on x86), so compiler could reasonably assume that offsets 0-4095 are always safe to dereference (in the sense that SIGSEGV is guaranteed, which can be then turned into a NullPointerException in the SIGSEGV signal handler) without a NULL check. For anything larger or array accesses, add a explicit check for NULL before dereference.
There are challenges inherent in creating a set of visual symbols to communicate. We have crossed that bridge before and we call them "words".

I wish designers might fall back on that more for ease of use instead of creating generation after generation of arcane, fleetingly extant symbols.
My brain still has advertising campaigns from 40+ years go in my head. That junk sticks.
I've not searched for full films but have had purported full films come up when search for reviews of or reaction videos for films I've recently watched.

Most of these were (1) a full film, but not the film the title claimed, (2) looked like they were non-HD broadcast TV quality, (3) were not in English, and (4) had a URL overlaying the video which I would guess was to a site where the movie given in the title could be found.
iOS 17.3 Beta Adds New Stolen Device Protection Feature to iPhone
Sadly it's gotten to the point where these guys are too big for the bank to be concerned with whether they do something unethical like default.

The bank takes the knock,carries on as if it's business as usual in an effort to prop up their own revenue.

Too big to fail I guess.