skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do little exercising, eat what is on your mind, do alcohol and drugs, try to still sleep well after having fun partying, etc... life is too short to restrain yourself.
Splurge on things you never did, will bring some fresh breath and newfound hunger for life.
Brace Yourselves: 'ABBA' Does Not Mean 'Daddy'
Thanks! And happy to hear you're doing that!

I also asked for a 3-day work week from my last company when I wanted to try and make Lunar paid. It's incredible how much your life changes when you're not defined by your job anymore.

Because you spend more time (4 days) doing some other thing than your job (3 days), you really start seeing what's actually important, and the question "what's your job" no longer has a straightforward answer.
Personal anecdote, since day one me and my wife have been speaking to our baby girl like she is our best friend. For example in the mornings I’d never let my daughter just mong out in front of the TV while making breakfast. I bought a montessori step so she can climb up and stand next to me as I wash vegetables, cut bread, fry eggs, brew coffee, etc. and I talk to her non stop. I name everything I touch, I involve her by making her hold items, press buttons etc and her speech development is phenomenal for her age. She is 17 months now and speaks German to me, English to my wife and Gujarati to her grandmother. She can’t speak normally yet but she picked up in all three languages enough vocabulary already to say exactly what she wants or if something is not right. She counts beyond 10 in two languages and knows to say words in German to me and in English to my wife. We can point at an item in succession and she’d say it in the correct language depending on who pointed to it. It’s amazing, I see other kids at her age and they literally can barely say 5 words.
On the other hand, there are companies where devs are expected to wait for a Jira ticket to be assigned to them, code it, test it, merge it, goto 1. That's the reality of the job whatever they might claim externally.

"I just want to be left alone to program" seems like a perfect fit: will do the job, will not ask for anything.
Inmate, Staff Information Stolen in Rhode Island Prison Data Breach
I can't see battery pickup working except as a once per year kind of thing. And around me, there is a once per year electronics recycling pickup in my neighborhood.

Also, "take it somewhere" isn't that bad when "somewhere" is home depot, which has a battery disposal bin.
Thank you for reading it, and glad you liked it ^_^
Contrarily, I use it more and more in work contexts, as it's the most convenient second person plural you can use.
Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin
And when you're done either smiling or shaking your head,

Useful:
- https://github.com/marketplace/actions/create-my-awesome (needs maybe htmx and typsense?)
- https://github.com/python-eel/Eel

Cool:
- https://github.com/c3d/xl
- maybe smalltalk xstreams

Can't decide:
- https://github.com/Wanderson-Magalhaes/Modern_GUI_PyDracula_...

I''m going to bed.
Acclimatisation societies were part of European colonization efforts, often to make the rest of the world more Europe-like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclimatisation_society

> The appeal of acclimatisation societies in colonies, particularly Australia and New Zealand,[12] was the belief that the local fauna was in some way deficient or impoverished. There was also an element of nostalgia in the desire of European colonists to see familiar species.[13] An Australian settler, J. Martin, complained in 1830 that the "trees retained their leaves and shed their bark instead, the swans were black, the eagles white, the bees were stingless, some mammals had pockets, others laid eggs, it was warmest on the hills..." It was there that the desire to make the land feel more like England was strongest.

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Schieffelin

> Eugene Schieffelin ... became chairman of the American Acclimatization Society and joined their efforts to introduce non-native species to North America for economic and cultural reasons. His 1890 release of European starlings in Central Park resulted in the first successful starling nesting in North America to be observed by naturalists.

Here's more about his organization, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Acclimatization_Socie...

> In 1864 the commissioners of Central Park had introduced Java sparrows, house sparrows, chaffinches and blackbirds into the park. The European sparrows were reported to have "multiplied amazingly". They quickly became one of the most common birds in New York, though the others did not seem to do as well. After the society's founding, such efforts were redoubled. The group's annual meeting held at the Great New York Aquarium in 1877[4] reported that the release of 50 pairs of English skylarks into Central Park had only been a partial success, since most had flown across the East River to take up residence at Newtown and Canarsie in Brooklyn. At the meeting, the recent release of European starlings, Japanese finches and pheasants into the park were noted. The meeting adjourned with the group resolved to introduce more chaffinches, skylarks, European robins and tits—"birds which were useful to the farmer and contributed to the beauty of the groves and fields"—in the city.[5]
True. We all love the copyright protections of large corporations richer than god; it would genuinely just be so sad (so sad) if someone reverse engineered their stuff for fun in the privacy of their own home. Personally, I’d cry if I found that out.
[Stares in cow]
Logika: Programming Logics (2016)
Man that’s bleak.
That is quite understandable. I don't think you not wanting to waste your time finding sources is cynical. The part about not believing minds can be changed might be a bit cynical, but probably warranted given the state of online discourse today. I'd suggest tho not looking at it as trying to change anyone's mind so much as having just a productive discussion where all parties involved learn something, e.g. with sources being explicit there's prly details that would be learned on both sides. Anyway, happy holidays
OPEC Influence Wavers as U.S. Shale Roars Back
I agree largely with all of the posts here, but the nagging concern in the back of my mind is always: isn't social media still valuable for businesses? Or rather, are you leaving customers "on the table" by ignoring it?

Maybe less so for B2B or "serious" things like WSJ, but for B2C it still sounds like a serious contender. For your dropshipping doohickies or crafted niche fandom doodads, where else do you go? Etsy and Pinterest aren't the norm everywhere. Then there's always the hope of "building a following" around either yourself or your product, or perhaps hitting a viral moment ("use this app to help you ABC 2x faster" by some influencer). Does one just SEO their way around and hope someone with a following gives you a boost or asks for an affiliate program?
Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript 50K online banking sessions
I don't know whether you're correct, but I'm not sure I followed your intuition for why the LLM could access the second order relationship during inference, and yet it wouldn't appear in the distance threshold on a vector search during retrieval. Any pointers to writing explaining that?
The English T-V distinction seems to have originated after the Norman Conquest, where French became the language of the aristocracy; wouldn't be surprised if that was exactly the source.
I wouldn't trust syncthing if it were only running on my "end-devices". I have an instance on my server running as a sort of master. Else you can end up in situations where, for example your laptop is the only device online with no sync partners, and then you turn it off before it could sync properly.
Crops are domesticated by definition -- hard to call them natural in the first place.
I don’t think enshittification entirely explains it.

At least for me, social is exhausting because rage bait drives engagement and I’m tired of being angry all the time. It’s 1984 and the Two Minutes Hate. Instagram was a lot more fun when it was just food and travel. Even without algorithmic feeds, the introduction of revenue sharing and sponsorships means that creators would eventually make the same hateful content to increase clicks and revenue.

Unless of course, you consider revenue sharing enshittification.
If you suddenly have thousands of L of He gas on your hands, venting is better than exploding.
The Apple app store is a disaster for making a living as an indie. People can't find the apps so sales are low, market rate prices are also low. The only way to make a living is to rip-off users with misleading subscriptions, which I won't do. I made much more money writing $20 shareware in the 90s.

That's why I write apps for a corporation now.
The temperatures are approaching boiling and are melting the PVC embedded in the landfill for gas removal. Unless it’s some really crazy new extremophile we’ve never seen before (which is definitely possible), it’s unlikely to be biological. CalRecycle said they’ve been seeing elevated oxygen in gas wells in the area for years and now are seeing elevated carbon monoxide levels that implies something is burning.

The other dump with the water intrusion has that biological problem, but the one that’s almost burning probably isn’t.
Yeah I saw that, but I'd say if that makes sense, that they're attributing the introduction of "Voi" within the roman era and not in the medieval times, right? The second one instead attributes it to "Roma Cesarea", to be fair, it is not the encyclopaedia that attributes it to "Roma Cesarea" but the article that influenced Mussolini quoted on the article on the encyclopaedia, so they're probably only quoting, but I don't know enough, so I'd trust you're right, thank you
I think being hailed forever as the genius who predicted some cataclysm before it happens is a pretty big reward, especially for an academic.

But anyway, the whole idea that scientists can predict the collapse of civilization is wrong. At some level this is a question of optimism vs. pessimism. That's not a question of models, it's a question of taste or, as the kids say, "vibes".
In my experience conservation biologists are really good at finding animals in the wild. Much better than a typical SWE or typical business person.
I don't disagree and believe Israel's response is a mistake that is going to backfire, but would like to point out this numbers game people play is not actually that strong argument at all. When the allies invaded Germany a LOT of innocent civilians were killed. It was flattened to destroy the Nazi regime.

You don't see moral outcry over the numbers of German civilians killed. Let's not forget: about 30k Palestinian civilians have been killed in the past 2 decades. During WW2 - a much shorter time period - about half a million (350-500 fucking thousand) civilian Germans were killed, mostly by bombs.

Why is that? Because how murders occur and what kind of evil you're dealing with matters. Not just numbers. I'm nonetheless sympathetic to the view that without the deaths in WW2 we would have seen more deaths because the Nazis were just that evil. Same goes for Hamas. So even if we are just talking numbers consider how many Palestinians (who mostly hate Hamas I might add) we would save long-term if Hamas were eradicated.

That's one thing. Other thing:

I'd pick being an oppressed Palestinian fearing for my life from bombs any day of the week than a hippy that is going about my ordinary day all of a sudden to have jihadists murder my whole family in front of me in my home with their own hands.

Both terrible, one is clearly worse and would continue to be worse even if it were Zionists doing it to Palestinians. This is why Netanyahu admiring a Zionist terrorist is so terrifying. It isn't how many Palestinians he killed, it is how he did it and what motivated him that makes Netanyahu appear so obviously morally monstrous because of his admiration.
asshole is a very euphemistic translation
I would toss it in the trash. I don't want to go to Home Depot. Lol

There are only two ways to prevent this:

1. The waste management system should put everything on a big conveyor belt and filter out toxic/dangerous waste so that the consumer doesn't have to care about special handling.

2. Those materials should be outlawed from being used in consumer tech.
I had, of course, heard ofAbū ʾAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā, or Avicenna for friends, but I had never read what he contributed to philosophy.

Thanks for sharing this nugget.
I believe further work on this path includes the Gods of Spinoza and Einstein, which are unfortunately not only heretical according to both Rome and those who excommunicated Spinoza, but even have a named heresy (however it escapes me at the moment...).

Edit: found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism (not to be confused with Panentheism, obviously!)
I'm just stating that the justification is not "because everyone else does it," because you could say the same about stores. That is why I mentioned that they are not "clearly very different situations" as you said, they are the same situation; one is going to a place that is not theirs so they have no expectation of privacy. Just because one is in cyberspace and the other is in meatspace doesn't mean that they are necessarily different in analogy.

That people know about this type of tracking with stores and do not with websites is not my problem, and at best, they should be educated about that, and indeed we have laws against this exact thing, such as CFAA, and no judge will let you off the hook just because you said it was in cyberspace and not meatspace that you invaded someone else's servers. Therefore, both are analogously the same.
Finetune LLaMa2 for Any Language
We've released convenience scripts to fine-tune LLaMa2 to any language (that isn't English) using (Q)LoRA. Total training cost per language is under $1. We've already released a few datasets and models to play around with, more to come.

https://github.com/UnderstandLingBV/LLaMa2lang

Few results from the Dutch 7B one:

Q: Wat is de hoofdstad van Nederland?

A: Amsterdam

Q: In welke provincie ligt die stad?

A: In de provincie Noord-Holland.

Q: Wie is de minister-president van Nederland?

A: Mark Rutte is sinds 2010 minister-president van Nederland. Hij is meerdere keren herkozen.
That's a confusion on my part, sorry about that. You are right, the expenses are deducted before profits.

In my case, the expenses are so small (<$1k) that they would not significantly affect the final tax to be paid, so I just left it at the end as an aside.
Not by HNs long-standing rules of titlery, as I’ve explained and you can also see from the years of mod commentary linked above.
The subject of the book is how those three laws are fallible. In almost every story, something goes wrong with a robot that causes a big issue but doesn’t violate the three laws.
The great logging off and the cozy web.
it is depressing to some, others in a different stage of life might experience gratitude, others hope and clarity, etc. in all aspects of the human condition, there's probably a similar dynamic to the 5 stages of grieving.

tho I agree the popular notion is to
> fill each moment/cell with something "meaningful" or "worthwhile".

and I would add, there is pressure to achieve something "unique"
> They do not pay into social security if they are completely undocumented because they can’t get a traditional paycheck.

This isn't true.

Some use fake/borrowed/stolen SSNs. Others do 1099 work on-the-books with an EIN.

https://www.marketplace.org/2019/01/28/undocumented-immigran...

> According to New American Economy, undocumented immigrants contributed $13 billion into the Social Security funds in 2016 and $3 billion to Medicare. Three years prior, the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration, Stephen Goss, wrote a report that estimated undocumented immigrants contributed $12 billion into Social Security.
> How this is different from Meta's "reduction" of pro-Palestinian posts exposure and preventing it from spreading too far?

Presumably because Palestine is one salient issue, being moderated at a time of extreme engagement, while the linked article asserts a pattern of such moderation across the site.

It's the difference between "This subreddit doesn't allow political discussion" and "conservative topics are banned on Reddit".
A brief perusal of Finnish history will show you a series of mass deportations and concentration camps by both sides.
I really don’t think that is the case. Here, I think, is an article about the work: https://phys.org/news/2021-12-octopus-crabs-lobsters-pain.am...

And that has a link to a paper: https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/News-Assets/PDFs/2021/Sentience-i...

Edit: but, you may be right; I cannot find any other source for this NZ news.
1. A nonexistent god able to conceive, create, and maintain all that exists is greater by far than a god unable to accomplish anything unless it exists.

2. A god which necessarily exists is perforce an inferior being, from 1.

3. Ergo God does not exist.
I wonder what models are affected. I bought a Hijet at an auction that is waiting to board a ship in Japan. Not that I expect any sort of safety in a crash to begin with with a kei truck, but I am curious if they're included in the scam. Hopefully this also frees up some ro-ro space so it finally gets a spot on board. It's been a very long 3 month wait so far.
This is an interview with the author of Opal, here's the project:

https://github.com/opal/opal
https://archive.ph/6l9Ei
I looked at the photos on the article and I'm hard pressed to call that mimicry. The leaves of the vine could just have a ragged and smooth configuration.

The Wikipedia entry for this plant just seems to repeat the same source as the article. So colour me skeptical for the moment.
One other thing. If the house is passively cooled and heated, you will want to leave the windows open when you are not home. European style tilt and turn windows are perfect for this, since they are secure when open in tilt mode:

https://www.vetrinawindows.com/styles/tilt-and-turn-windows

(I’ve never heard of that brand, but their webpage has a nice animation explaining the product.)
It really makes me think about the increase in use of disposable vapes, the younger demographic that uses them, and how they are even labelled as “disposable” in the first place. I know people who go through one a day and once they are done, they just dispose of them in their garbage can as they think they can simply be disposed of. I think a reward system would be the only way to incentivize proper recycling of these sadly.
I worked in x ray imaging software in a company that assembled them.

Risk assessment and traceability are not fun, but it's interesting to see how to make safe things.

I wish general software had similar constraints or designs, or at least insurance companies would lobby the government to force software companies to proof read their code.

I don't want rust everywhere, but it should still be possible too approach what rust is doing by other means.
I'm not disinclined to believe that TikTok promotes pro-China sentiment, but this report is far from academically rigorous and has gaping holes in its methodology that would not pass peer review.

* Most notable is that the baseline for determining whether a hashtag has been boosted or deboosted on TikTok comes from Instagram---hardly an unbiased source of ground truth, especially in light of the recent allegations that Meta deboosts pro-Palestinian content and other controversial political content.

* Worse is that there's no statistical analysis showing that generic political hashtags are significantly different from China-sensitive political hashtags between TikTok and Instagram. There is large variance within categories, and even some of the generic political hashtags show a bigger difference between platforms than the China-sensitive political hashtags. Statistics would help determine whether a real difference exists beyond sampling error, but none are to be found in this report.

* No explanation of how the hashtags were determined. They were apparently chosen a priori by the authors, but no criteria for inclusion or exclusion are mentioned.

* Other small details like discrepencies between Fig 2. and Fig 3. in describing TikTok as having half the hashtags as Instagram and Instagram has having double the hashtags as TikTok.

Overall, this report just seems like fodder for the anti-TikTok crowd, not a dispassionate inquiry into how TikTok trends relfect CCP narrative building.
TanStack Router v1
Announcement: https://x.com/tannerlinsley/status/1738709130213560497?s=46&...
Wow, 9x vs 13x. What a difference. You didn’t get my point but you’re fast to tell me I’m lazy.
>Few games inspired the unexpected wonder and scale that FF7 did. 8 did a little. 9 hit the mark. So did X. Everything after was kinda of numb

The FF games you loved were created by the two talents at the heart of FF: series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and legendary composer Nobuo Uematsu. They left after X. I think the soul of the franchise left when these two did.

I played FF12 about 12 years ago and I couldn't name you a single character (or remember their personality/story) or hum a single music track. I played FF7 25 years ago and there's a few music tracks I still remember, and I can name most of the characters (though it helps that they're popular in gaming culture).
> 5. Landing page is the least important thing in a startup.

> 8. Do SEO from day 2. As early as you can. I ignored this for 14 years. It's my biggest regret.

Those seem pretty directly in conflict. (I suspect that #5 is the one that's in error.)
Sufficiently advanced gathering places for unpopular opinions are indistinguishable from government propaganda outlets.
“… The problems were found in 64 models and three vehicle engines, including 22 models and an engine sold by Toyota, Daihatsu said in a statement. The investigation also found the problems affected some models of Mazda Motor Corp. and Subaru Corp. sold in Japan, and Toyota and Daihatsu models sold abroad. …” [1]

https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2023-12-20/toy...

Does anybody know the exact list of models impacted? I am not familiar with “Daihatsu” and Toyota relationship.

Neither US News or CNBC article mention exact manufacturer and model names
No. The comment you're replying to explicitly calls out the poor methodology this report is based on and the lack of subject matter expertise shown by the authors. The Wikipedia article is supplementary information that situates this critique within a wider context. They are not saying you should dismiss the report simply because of the Wikipedia article.
Oh. I missed that. In that case wouldn't Confucius grandson (子思) be higher up? After all he supposedly taught Mencius and wrote the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, and that work is considered standard reading, while reading Xunzi would have been probably only read when you're already a scholar and mastered pretty much everything else.

That said, perhaps the Doctrine of the Mean wasn't considered all that important despite being part of the Book of Rites (礼记), or rather it wasn't considered prominent until around the Song dynasty.
They are a third sort, European chestnuts. They are generally held to be better flavor than the Asian varieties, but not as good as the nearly extinct (but not quite) American Chestnuts.