skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason people like her is that she gets them interested in the guest. Not many interviewers can do that. She'll interview some blues artist you've never heard of and the next thing you know you're looking them up on Youtube.
Ironic that a good chunk of your comment history is evaluating this or that news story, conspiracy, or talking point from this or that social media outlet. What a miserable way to live.
They live on the extremes of the physical conditions under which life is found on earth, that's not anthropocentric.
Censorship and Conformity
If you don't believe in free will, you become fatalist, and that's harmful for decision making. Hard determinists also often think in absurdist way, and losing ability into logic is very dangerous. The popular take how to use free will to punish everyone in most cruel way or how to evade such punishment by pretending to be a piece of inert matter is very dumb if not outright malicious and ignores the whole point that free will is primarily needed for the agent himself for survival and isn't needed for most cruel punishments at all. If you really want to cruel, just be cruel for no reason.
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> What do you think about the notion that many/most people who claim they are neither left nor right end up demonstrating that they are actually pretty right-wing?

I'm not even sure how to respond to that. Maybe this is true for the US, but in other places of the world, societies aren't yet as polarised (although, sadly, it looks as though we're copying the American model more and more).

Maybe you should make it more precise what you mean by left and right, otherwise it's always easy to call something "right-wing" just because it's more to the right than whichever positions you espouse.

(For the record, I always considered myself to be rather center-left, and I still hold many positions that are broadly left-wing, but recent events have made me realise that there's also a huge part of leftism with which I fundamentally disagree, so I'm not sure if I want to call myself that any more.)
Lebanon never got communism and the country was founded as largely a Catholic and Orthodox project, but it still has considerable corruption. (Not defending the OP's claim, just offering another data point.)
Advent of Technical Writing: How-To Outline
Yea, maybe. Though you can put me on youtube and ill scoll for maybe 15 secondsbefore leaving or searching for the specific content I want. Twitter, facebook, instagram, whatever it is I dont have the interest.
Commercial pilot here. The Lufthansa prohibition on night visuals isn’t a new thing. Proper flow control when that airplane entered US airspace could have ensured correct spacing long before the aircraft entered ZOA (Oakland ARTCC) airspace. That NorCal approach expected to give the Lufthansa a night visual is puzzling because anyone that has worked in an approach control at night would know that it’s common for many operators especially biz jet operators and Lufthansa to have a operational prohibition on night visuals (many operators also have prohibitions on night circling approaches, but these aren’t common in large airliner airports.)

Flow Control is also part of the problem: they knew that aircraft was en route many hours before, they should have sequenced the airplane correctly. But this is also a result of staffing and priorities at the FAA. Buttigeg is essentially incompetent. A small town mayor of debatable accomplishment in even getting road potholes repaired being elevated to lead the U.S. Dept of Transportation was mind-blowing. If he deserved any cabinet role, HUD would have been the closest fit, but we all know that all presidents have a tendency to appoint people as political favors rather than subject-matter excellence.

Ask controllers and pilots who have been in this business for more than a few years and the giant belly-flop of the FAA is profound. Controllers are far less experienced and greatly overworked than they were pre-2020.

And interestingly, the FAA does not follow ICAO rules for visual approaches — the international standard requires consent of both the pilot and ATC — it’s not something that ATC initiates unilaterally. For those interested, here is a helpful document on the consequences of the FAA/ICAO differences: https://ops.group/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/21atsbl04-...

And here is an article that is significantly more informed on this incident than some frequent flyer blog written by backseaters rather than aviation professionals:

https://ops.group/blog/us-visual-approaches-lh458/
AMD AMF is not open-source; only the SDK part of it is. The runtime part is closed, bundled with the "pro" drivers.

It is also intended as a multi-platform abstraction.

This makes it a no-go as a platform API. The open drivers for AMD use VA-API.
They didn't loose those years. How do you even know it wasn't better for some at home than it was in school? Aren't you learning your whole life? Do you use everything you learned in school?
I can think of two rails-to-trails projects in my area. The first is the old Georgetown Spur, running from about the Silver Spring Metro station to the old C&O Canal towpath. That right of way was never used for passenger trains, it served two trains per week taking coal to a power plant in Georgetown. It was unprofitable for the railroad which gladly stopped the service as soon as the power plant got permission for deliveries by truck.

The second is the Washington and Old Dominion trail in Arlington and Fairfax Counties, which runs from Rosslyn to I don't know where--I've never been on it past Falls Church. That commuter line was shut down for many years before the bike path opened.

In general, the old rail transit lines around here have been long disused, unless they share the tracks with Amtrak and freight.
Recommendation for a local LLM server, budget 100k
The FAA deviating from ICAO standards for visual approaches is more bonkers.
So they have there a free natural vapor machine and nobody is using it??
I see this line with an arrow function:

fetch(url + next).then(r => r.json()).then(newstory);

It's not supported before Edge 12 [1], it probably causes a parse error on Edge 11 and IE 11, neutralizing the whole Javascript file.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Nice weasel word. So is it "most" of the world or just not the US?
> People in the UK get arrested for expressing an opinion on Twitter that they wouldn't if they were talking to a friend.

That's obviously because a tweet is more public.

Again, there are lots of countries where you can get arrested for publicly saying something that's 'harmless' as far as the First Ammendment is concerned. There's nothing particularly notable about the UK in this respect.

A simple Google search will turn up examples of people being arrested and detained in the US for similarly silly reasons, e.g.: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/01/british_touri...
I partially agree.
But I also think tech is convenient.

My personal solution is to avoid cities. Live far enough you don't get the cons, not too far so you can experience the benefits every once and then.
Not working with RPi 5 yet - wait on hardware documentation.
Nuclear is already a challenging investment, as the plants are very expensive and only start producing after several years. I think it's reasonable to assume that the state would cover majority of the costs, and consider nuclear as an infrastructure investment, rather than get-rich-quick scheme.
London still wants you! The city as a whole voted 60% to Remain. Every single borough except Sutton (arguably more culturally Surrey than London) was majority remain. City of London was 75% Remain, Westminster was 69% Remain.

Source: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-reports-and-...
So much this. Among other causes: Poland has a population of more than 35million people, so they were able to export a lot of workforce - which then generated significant remittance income, a fundamental driver of capital creation in poor economies. Bulgaria is less than 7 million, they obviously could not do it on the same scale; they also suffered from blocks on free circulation of workers, imposed on Romania and Bulgaria on accession precisely on the back of the experience with Poland. These blocks were only lifted about 10 years ago - and significantly increased the lag they already had versus the Baltic states (which were allowed to join much earlier, largely because of strategic German interests that did not apply to Romania and Bulgaria).
i interpret it that the VideoPoet has not seen the things prompted.
One shot means you show it one example of something and it generates equivalents.

However i find it very misleading, as the training data is most likely gigantic. So it is not very accurate calling it zero shot
Oh they know. But that knowledge is power and they'd rather keep that power for themselves.
I am a Bulgarian, born in 1986 and immigrated to Austria in 1997. But it pains and scares me that an exiled Bulgarian now wants to take on the Bulgarian collective with postmodern, cosmopolitan and American ideas.
The cycles he describes exist mostly in the minds of postmodern cosmopolitans. And these arise because cosmopolitans in reality cannot produce anything other than ideology and services. Yet the terrible and boring every day bread still comes from the bakery! And since you can't invent a new ideology or service or produce a new work of art every day (except for journalists of course, who mastered the producing of "nothingness" every single day), at some point you get lost in pondering and start looking for the culprit. Of course, the first scapegoat is politics, society, people - always the others. Just because you can't free yourself from your nihilistic mental wheel, you have to conjure up and condemn the entire collective. Herein lies the birth of all 'structural arguments', I claim, ad hoc. 'My dissatisfaction must have structural reasons, otherwise I wouldn't be dissatisfied.' The eternal lamentation of the upper-urban-class cosmopolitans.

No, I know and admire people for whom such complaints are distant, even annoying. People who don't have time for it. And you can just as freely and willingly decide to lead a calm and regulated life. This life is not a danger to humanity, as the postmodernists and cosmopolitans have always wanted to tell us, and I do not want Bulgaria to be 'Americanized' that way. I would rather listen to a Kaba Gaida in the mountains than have to read through a capitalist-cosmopolitan lament. The former gives me power and strength, a connection to the world, the latter just makes me sick and weak.

I know Bulgaria has its issues, but losing its uniqueness to solve them, is for me the bigger issue.
It is weird though.

I’m British, but coming back to the UK after some time living abroad was a shock: how many cameras there are monitoring every moment of your life and how many signs there are telling you what to do, what not to do, how to behave, keep off the grass, stand to the right, report all wrongdoings, no loitering, no waiting, wait here (1 hour max).

When first encountering it it feels dystopian, oppressive. You get used to it living here, to the point you don’t notice it, but it’s not normal.
If you know that your search queries will be actual questions (like in the example you listed), you can possibly use the HyDE[0] to create a hypothetical answer which will usually have an embedding that's closer to the RAG chunks you are looking for.

It has the downside that an LLM (rather than just a embedding model) is used in the query path, but it has helped me multiple times in the past to strongly reduce problems with RAG like the ones you outlined, where it likes to latch onto individual words.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496
You might be interested to know that the FAA doesn’t follow standard ICAO procedures for visual approach clearance. So when SFO “rules” are in conflict with how the entire rest of the world handles visual approach clearances, perhaps the FAA is the one that needs to get their act together.
The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism
The story is called What’s Expected of Us, and it’s an excellent piece.

Link for those who haven’t read it (it’s short):

https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
> In Germany for example at the height of the so called student revolution in 1968 a maximum of 10% was actively engaging in protest activities.

I am curious to find out how many people voted and correlate them with protestors.
Millenia will pass before the cheapest monitors and Windows laptops people buy have HDR screens.

And by HDR I don't mean "LCD screens that have huge segments of backlighting that are made to shine more". I mean actual HDR like iPhones have.
As an aside, this is the first video where I can't tell if it's a human speaking or an AI generated voice. The phenomenon of AI voices _and_ American voices choosing to be in a "presentation mode" / "telephone voice" is disconcerting, it weirdly means I trust US voices less.

I recall hearing that Irish voices are the most trusted in Western countries, and now I wonder whether that's something to do with the high degree of authenticity in the voice.

Edit: I tried to find a source for the Irish voice thing, but it turns out that every country lists a different accent as most trusted, in India it was British, in the UK it's Northern Irish, YMMV so it is probably irrelevant which voice is most trusted. The gist that the US voice being so present in voice assistants, devices, AI voice bots, etc still directionally may indicate a lessening in trust in those accents where it's not obviously tied to a speaker on screen being obviously human.

Edit 2: Now I think future demand for video conferencing for support will increase, as people will not trust voice calls at all.
What you talk about applies to driving features, not entertainment features or seat warmers. Everything driving related usually has physical buttons.

And providing software updates doesn't mean you have to ship untested products, that's just dishonest.
A proper citation credits the author of the image as well as the source, and ideally a direct link.
This is specifically Japanese management styles and social culture at play. The meme of "western short-term corporate thinking" doesn't apply here.

Kioxia, formerly Toshiba Memory, is flourishing under new western management after they were freed from Toshiba and Japan's ineptitude.
Maybe indexing starts at 1 ?
Speculation only works when the asset is supply constrained. China's problem is that they've moved 600 million people from rural areas to urban in the last 70 years.
my Google Fu has failed me but isn't there a simple way to compile rust or go to a Linux os that boots to a gui? lots of embedded talks about tiny hardware and framebuffers etc. I can throw hardware around, it's UX/dx I just want ssh in the background and a UI Infront.
I think you're missing the point. This issue is not the mere existence of information signs, but their relationship with major commercial interests. And even if it's not novel, it can be perceived as a novel experience by someone who has lived elsewhere for a while.
That's why I want to be PM. No actual work, no deadlines, no hard interviews, no leetcode grind, no system design. And get paid the same
There are good chromium based browers which also benefit from this extension.
Much of this reads as a a but condescending, and maybe a little pompous.

However, one thing touched on that drives me mad travelling in the UK now is that stupid slogan:

See it. Say it. Sorted*

It feels like we are being treated like children, stop infantilising the population. Safety is important but it’s not important above everything else.

I personally don’t think it’s part of some grand plan of control and brain washing. It’s just part of this “nothing bad must ever happen ever ever ever” culture we’ve got now and it’s awful.

* until today I always thought it it was “See it. Say it. Sort it” as I’ve only ever heard it.
Admittedly the title is 'what seven hours in London teach...' rather than 'what seven hours in every city of the world teaches' There's nothing in the piece that says 'this only happens in London'
Where do you learn about these things? Having grown and living in France, I was never given a word about it, not even at university. We are supposed to have state managed retirement plans, but given the shady future of France, I’m starting to wonder what I should do to ensure I can either reach a retirement that also take into account being able to backup my two kids as they grow up.
SOGo: Open-source groupware solution to Share calendars, address books and mails
We don't need a repeat of the '90s (this is incredibly trivial to implement, especially with modern js).
Copilot is a 2-year-old product, it's expected that many people use it. I agree it currently may be better than AI Assistant. But LLM functionality is here to stay in IDEs, and most people will use it in one way or another.

Nobody forces stuff onto you. You can disable everything with just one checkbox.
Early stages of a police state or totalitarian regime. Consider the mass surveillance of all our communications, that's an absolute hallmark[1] of a police state. And getting people to rat each other out as well, that's shocking. Even worse is how people have accepted this as "normal" and necessary for their safety.

Well, if they will imprison you for the act of reading certain texts and/or web sites here in the UK, then what do you expect, that's a de facto police state, and if the public finds it acceptable or necessary, it shows how much the frog has slowly boiled over the decades.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance
"It is the single most indicative distinguishing trait of totalitarian regimes."
Another (flagged/dead now) comment also asked this. It's helpful to continue reading that line until the end of it.

> > it's one of the first games that is using ECS and that I also have a deep interest into

> Both, at the same time :)

> ECS probably been around since at least early 2000s if not even in the 90s.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38703926

I guess if at least two people asked this question, my initial description wasn't clear enough that it was supposed to be a AND statement.
SIMD parallelism has been improving on the CPU too – although the number of lanes hasn’t increased that much since the MMX days (128 to 512 bits), the spectrum of available vector instructions has grown a lot. And being able to do eight or sixteen operations at the price of one is certainly nothing to scoff at. Autovectorization is a really hard problem, though, and manual vectorization is still something of a dark art, especially due to the scarcity of good abstractions. Programming with cryptically named, architecture-specific intrinsics and doing manual feature detection is not fun.
Many companies acknowledge the reality of burnout, and with a scarcity of talent in certain professions, they believe that offering 4 day workweeks is a step in the right direction. A bit of self-promotion here, but I curate a list of companies that offer shorter weeks for those who are interested: https://okjob.io/companies.
Perhaps a difference in what people are looking for. I don't listen to interviews for content discovery -- there is already a glut of content. Rather, I expect interviews to tell me substantially more about a figure I am already familiar with.
> We've put a dedicated section called Media in about:support, it has decoding capabilities

I see, I hadn't found it when searching for the codec name because it only said something like "Information not available. Try again after playing a video." After opening a random YouTube video and refreshing about:support, it did show the hardware decoding information, and it was as I had expected given the hardware on this computer.
One simply UI/UX fix this site could use is listening to its own advice on contrast.
Therapy is great, but arguably the people who don't seem to notice all the surveillance and inauthenticity of corporate capitalism need it just as much
It's generally good etiquette around here to disclose your affiliation if you post comments that advertise the products of your employer.
At least for the lighting related concern, I personally use both Zigbee bulbs and switches. These can be bound together so the switch will directly tell the bulb to turn off/on without intervention of anything else. This results in a faster response and working light switches even when home assistant is down.
Busted is a stretch. You can long click on the previous button and skip the problematic page, if there's one.

In any case, an SPA is not the solution for this problem.
It is more lightweight than PySide, PyQT and was easier to bundle as one click pkg for ubuntu-touch
Very disturbing to read this, the author's article is in no way paranoid. That's what they did in the Soviet Union, if you went against the state ideology they would accuse you of having mental health problems [1]. It's the standard technique abusers use, whether it's a totalitarian government or an abusive parent or spouse.

In many cases psychiatry itself can and is a tool of the state, except for obvious things like psychosis and other severe disorders, the diagnostic criteria are often arbitrary and many of the behaviors can be explained by individuals having gone through extreme hardship, abuse or poverty instead.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia
AI cannot be patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules in landmark case
I think the closest to this is https://doc.qt.io/Boot2Qt/.
Floating point values are definitely perfectly representable as strings - worst case, you just output the binary as a string - but what you may refer to is that many exact fractions can't be represented exactly as floats and/or that floating-point arithmetic doesn't obey "normal" rules of arithmetic (e.g. addition isn't associative).
I think it also needs analytics (including cursor tracking) and a bit of A/B testing.
> Seeing this 700 nodes graph with all the dependencies screams technical debt and domino effect

Imagine all the various features of the game, it's a city simulation game that currently scales up to a population about 1 million before even 32-core CPUs start to suffer.

You'd have a large code base creating this, no matter the approach.

The game also relies a lot on modding to add additional content from the community. This used to be a big hassle when the first game relied a lot on inheritance. Mods broke each other frequently.

With ECS and this (relatively) decoupled design, modding becomes a lot easier as it almost provides hooks out-of-the-box for you to add your own functionality.

> Not sure if there's anything better right now, but seeing everyone copy what Unity did feels like there isn't a ton of innovation in how to build gameplay systems

ECS isn't really a Unity innovation at all, it has existed for longer than Unity Engine.

Personally, even if ECS had similar performance as the more traditional approaches, I'd still use ECS for my own games as it's just easier to write and reason about a decoupled ECS design, compared to the alternatives.

But then I've mostly used ECS via Bevy, rather than Unity ECS, maybe Unity ECS is a bit more verbose and gets in your way, compared to Bevy ECS.