skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Saying that schools considered calls for genocide against Jewish people's protected speech

That's the power of talking points. Once people internalize them, then the conclusions are inescapable. If you can frame the question, you've already won the debate. It's like calling abortion the murder of children - if you accept that, then the abortion debate is of course over for you.

The only protection is to question our premises. Did Gay say that? It would seem pretty odd ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848351
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Chatgpt is the brain damaged version of the internal product...
Sort of the same here. I've read about Spring and built some toy apps to learn more, but I always found myself asking why I would want something like that in my stack if it could possibly be avoided.
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Anything to do with the culture wars tends to get political.
Perhaps it's due to English being my second language, but I equate the situation of a call for genocide as a direct call to violence, or something extremely close to that.

There's examples in other parts of the world where this has led to actual deaths. When you speak those words, you're green-lighting the action. The target now has to hope that nobody is crazy enough to actually do it.

These are life or death matters.

I accept that freedom of speech is more generous in the US, but it still does not add up. If this is mere (extreme) bullying and not disallowed, it should apply to all. Meaning, you can call for the death of anyone, any group, and the consequences are the same: none.

We all know that's not the case, and that's what should be fixed in institutions.
> irrational bias

Then say it. :)
Nice to know Dillo still gets some love!
I've got a lot of dillo plugins stored up that I managed to get from scuttlebutt a while ago(dillo-adb, dillo-dat, dillo-finger, dillo-git, dillo-gopher, dillo-gemini, dillo-ipfs, dillo-ssb and dillo-ytdl), and if you're interested I can zip them up and send it to you to be forked and worked on the project
Funny timing on this question. Normally I'd say check out the MTEB leaderboard - https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

But the current leader is a Mistral model - https://huggingface.co/intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct

Based on this paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00368.pdf

Fun times.
Personally it’s led me to try out some contract work on the side for small businesses, eg building little websites and performing technical SEO work via https://www.divinatetech.com

Eager to improve my non-technical skills with this work.

I’m curious to see how the field fluctuates in these next years with the upheaval of cheap interest and split opinions on doom/boon of tech workers via LLM automation.
My read is that most people try to skip step 2. So we either stay with the kludge, or we double down on it, making it even more expensive to remove than if we had just left it.

The real revelation for me though is the reversible decision, to the point that for really reversible decisions, I can be very averse to us spending any significant meeting time on it at all. There are 6 of us here, let's not waste man-hours on something we could as easily decide with a random number generator. Move on to something more delicate.
Sent a few hundred CVs last spring/summer, got maybe 5 interviews, got burnout and disgust at the modern tech hiring practice.

Since then, with the help of a few sporadic clients, government help, and living like a pauper I decided to go all in in becoming an entrepreneur, instead of continuing my 17+ year career as a consultant or someone else's employee. Seems like stuff hasn't improved in the past 9 months.

Not having a stable job is very stressful, but the interview rat race these days is more akin to real life Squid Game than anything I've experienced before. It is dehumanising. I'd rather be penniless, stressed, and working on my product at this point. If you can afford to, do it. Even if you don't, tbh.
To date, Copilot and ChatGPT are just 'better' programming languages. Everything you describe could already be done using other languages, albeit languages that are more esoteric.

It is likely that these tools can make most everyone a programmer, like how improved elevator designs has made everyone an elevator operator. But how game changing is that, really? Tools like Excel have already made great strides in that direction, and with coding now standard fare in public school curriculums, everyone being a programmer is a game already well underway.
The area where Python is popular and end user mobile apps are two different things. I doubt there is much intersection.
Sasse was a political appointment, to force Republican politics on the students and faculty. That's a recent GOP tactic, and has happened in Florida too (and probably other places).
This would probably be pretty easy to do with swift and python processes running side by side with grpc.
> I used to use dillo on my main desktop too, for browsing documentation that wasn't too heavy on CSS - having 20 to 40 tabs open would gobble up a lot of RAM in Firefox, whereas dillo happily stayed around 100MB no matter what I threw at it. My current desktop has enough RAM this not a concern any more, but I have fond memories of using dillo on memory-deficient machines and am a current user still.

This is precisely the objective Jorge had in mind, so people on other parts of the world with less capable machines where still able to access the web.

While I was in university, I was using an old Pentium 4 at home (which I still use) which couldn't open a single tab unless you wait around 30 seconds for it to load. So I was mostly using Dillo and failing back to Google cache and then Firefox to read something that required Javascript.

I used it for years and it always was super fast. Also, my network connection was not very fast, so loading only the HTML helped a lot.

> So thanks to everyone who continues to work on this, I really appreciate the work you do! Dillo is a fine piece of software that I have enjoyed using for at least 15 years now, and I hope it will be around for many years to come! <3

Thanks :-)
The point I’m making is that we should choose tech that is relevant to the job in hand, not just because it’s the latest cool thing.

When I first started doing web stuff, ColdFusion, Perl, Flash and WAP were The Big Things at the time.

Not so much now.

It may seem like no-one can build anything on the web without having js through and through the stack - but actually you can, and sometimes you should. Even JavaScript will probably one day be relegated to the dustbin of a good idea we all once had…

Btw - this might be the wrong forum to diss RSS ;-)
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Yeah but it's on an app-by-app basis. Just disable push on the noisy/spammy ones and keep it on for well-behaved apps.
Yeah I have the same question.

My understanding is they had to bring more coal online to offset shutting down nuclear. What gives?
Not clear if they had asked for "butterfly" instead of "cat" if 50/50 would have been the result. Similarly, if random perturbations influence choice, the baseline should include the noise from that.
And by "record low", we mean "nearly six times that of neighboring France."

Compare: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...
Hm. As far as i know, buildings in Japan are made to whitstand such earthquakes (7.5). But the pictures show colapsed buildings and i saw in the news broken roads. What was the real magnitude of the earthquake ?
>> Dillo requires FLTK-1.3

Nice, lean & mean! I'm interested.
AT&T PC 6300 also had this level of detail-

https://www.pcjs.org/machines/pcx86/att/6300/

https://www.amazon.com/Model-6300-Computer-SAMS-Computerfact...

For IBM, service parts and information were available due to the famous 1956 consent decree:

https://www.gadgetreview.com/ibm-1956-consent-decree#what-di...
Most places a VAT is not instead of income tax but instead of sales tax. Do you know of anywhere with VAT but no income tax?
>But this conversation is about the use of publicly posted information that's already out on the internet.

This is a common fallacy, that having access to the source gives you the legal right to do what you want with it, and that is not correct. The license must be followed regardless of whether it's accessible to the public.

Having access to or viewing Windows source code and pirated content isn't disallowed. The thing that isn't allowed is copying it. That's what copyright laws are about.

The same laws that make it illegal to copy Windows source code are exactly what the GPL are based on, copyright laws.

So why do copyright laws only apply to one side here?

I think there is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about how copyright and software licenses work here. Windows is able to state that the Windows source code is proprietary because it is their IP, my software is also my IP, so my terms must also be followed in order to legally use my software.

>can't legally use proprietary or pirated data in AI training for the same reasons why you can't use it anywhere else.

This is the same reason why you can't use GPL code in proprietary projects!

The mechanisms that allow something to be proprietary are the same mechanisms that the GPL are based on, this is why it's sometimes called "copyleft".
I've been using FreshRSS for a couple years. While it was fine, I found CommaFeed's display view mode options a lot better. It's right there under the user menu dropdown and allows for easy toggling between Compact, Detailed or Expanded view modes without going into a configuration screen or switch pages. I know all of that is possible in FreshRSS using third-party community extensions. But I just find it easy to use and closely resembles from what I remember about Google Reader. Maybe because its new and a change to what I've been using.
Is there any benchmarks on speed/compute/accuracy anywhere comparing to tesseract v5?
Could you provide some info so I can find it?
>depths of a serious tech recession?

Are we?

Who wants to be hired? (2023)

Oct: 547

Nov: 431

Dec: 461

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Who wants to be hired? (2022)

Oct: 272

Nov: 307

Dec: 200
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What do you actually expect to be on a university president's CV? The last two chancellors of UC Berkeley have been not-very-notable professors who worked their way up the administration ranks; the presidents of most Catholic universities are priests. It matters that you're a good manager, not that you've won the Nobel Prize.
Very well said. Drugs are tools like anything else and can be used or abused by the user.
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> a slow, dated browser

I agree with your overall point, but this really isn’t a fair categorisation of Safari. It’s a fast, modern, efficient browser, and a lot of the stuff it doesn’t support is only supported in Chrome.

I concede it does lag behind Firefox in terms of supported web features, but only very slightly, and if you compare pre-release versions, that gap narrows even more (using the Caniuse browser scores as a rudimentary measure).
First full color I saw on low end PC was 1987 demo on IBM Model 30. 8086 CPU.
It used 128 out of 256 colors to hide the palette switch flash. It was a clip from National Geographic mammals and a classroom video. It was digitized using a laserdisc and at&t Targa16 to get one frame at a time. Was captured on a compaq 386/20 because IBM didn't have any micro channel capture cards. So IBM paid for the compaq.
Video was in 320x200 mode since no higher 256 color modes on M30. It took SVGA cards to commonly see higher res 256 color modes.
This wasn't dithered video, so looked pretty good.
I didn't realize radare2 had been forked to rizin.
Haven't played around with it for a while.
To quote the exchange (taken from https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/gay-apology-con...):

“At Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment?” Stefanik asked.

“It can be, depending on the context,” Gay responded.

But Stefanik pressed Gay to give a yes or no answer to the question about whether calls for the genocide of Jews constitute a violation of Harvard’s policies.

“Antisemitic speech when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation — that is actionable conduct and we do take action,” Gay said.

Stefanik tried again.

“So the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard code of conduct, correct?” Stefanik asked.

“Again, it depends on the context,” Gay said.

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The middle part with its "that is actionable conduct and we do take action" could mean that she understood the question as "does the university take action?", and that truly depends on the context: There are situations that aren't the university's business but law enforcement's. (even though I'm not saying that she took it that way, I don't know what she thought at that moment, but it seems like it wasn't a lot.)

Even with such a 'most charitable' interpretation her communication sucks though, which makes her unsuitable for a role that's to a larger part that of a figure head. And with any other interpretation, she's even less suitable for basic decency reasons.
> blocks the memory out.

Not sure if this is happening with you, but please all be aware that "repressed memory" is a controversial topic and one prevailing view on this is that recalling memories that are inaccessible is actually more like injecting false memories.

I wish I knew this 5 years ago when someone close to me was accusing dozens of people of abuse, which I believed ... But they turned out to be suffering psychosis, paranoia and false memories.
Seems like a misleading headline. Total energy used is at a record low:

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...

Much of the decline came from gas, presumably because they stopped buying so much from Russia.
> Yikes. What about the other 99.9% of phone users?

Those people can discover web apps on other websites.
This is no news. Tesla was always a "luxury" car maker (at least by price). It was natural that one day, some experience car maker, will over take it.
Is the upside down A supposed to be a bird's beak?
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You are assuming git's design is good. Being a first class feature does not mean much if the feature doesn't work towards the user's goals.
I think the both-sides-equal analysis is not only simplistic (and very unlikely), but just serves the far more corrupt side. Yes, we can make endless arguments based on relativism, but I don't think the level of corruption is comparable. For one thing, brazenly corrupt reactionary right figures remain very popular and stay in power - they embrace and flaunt corruption.
it's a campus you get fired/rescinded/expelled for micro-aggressions and the slightlest transgression to political correctness. So the "it depends" could only be interpreted that way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/us/jews-harvard-antisemit...
https://archive.ph/QZKXk
So when they say "more than half the time," they could very well be 9 and 7 people?

No wonder they didn't cite the actual numbers in this summary write-up.
Fortunately, no.

I work as a DoE contractor and that means my job is pretty much stable unless I intentionally try to get fired or if the federal government is insolvent (in which case we have a much bigger problem than just 1 random dude not having a job).

I turned down an offer from a bulge bracket 2 years ago and I am glad I did because that company had its own little down sizing.
Seems like a really supportive community as well. Compare this to „King of Kong“, which seemed much more competitive/ dodgy.
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I'm on board with the networking too. If someone I know requests to connect, I'll accept once I eventually log in. It's useful.
Germany is killing it.

Since I've moved here I've been following renewable energy numbers and also what the government commits to, and it's incredible how they've managed to meet consistently the solar and wind generation goals.

Unfortunately, they haven't been able to meet other goals such as amount of housing built etc.

But coming from a third-world country where I wouldn't trust any kind of plans coming from the government, it's really surprising to me.

To achieve this, in a bureaucratic country like Germany, they need to align many stars like building permits, subsidies, companies that can navigate the system, capital. Yet, they still manage to do it.
Know when to depend on String.GetHashCode() in .NET C#, and when not.
> I agree, Id almost love to see a "For All Mankind"-esque show about it - an alternative history where browsers ran on lisp

I've thought about something similar, but for hardware--what if some early hardware design choices had went in a different way?

For example consider cathode ray tube (CRT) displays. A different choice by the CRT pioneers and we might have ended up with CRTs that scan outward in a spiral from the center, instead of scanning in a series of stacked left to right rows.

That would make bit mapped displays a lot more complicated. God help the programmer who has to write BITBLT for a spiral scan display.
More people without jobs = more people that are looking to be hired.

Given the numbers, I would say tech unemployment was 2x worser in 2023 than the year before.
I got laid off last fall and competition for interesting, well compensated roles is higher than ever.

My decision to take my time and find a “perfect” job is feeling a lot less achievable now.
Have had to stay in a job I probably would have left sooner because of the crappy jobs market. It also seems like the conditions at that job have deteriorated.
I played around with some similar ideas, it's a really interesting corner of generative art, with lots of prior work.

For mine, I make fields by superimposing a bunch of harmonic functions. By playing with different periods, phases, etc. you can get some cool patterns that look irregular and interesting, though I think they have a different feel from some of these noise-based examples.

I also make some fields by using sources and sinks: a collection of points that push out or in. You don't need that many to make an interesting field.

For collision detection I use the trick @danbruc mentioned in another comment: I draw to an offscreen canvas, and just check pixel color to see if a trace is already there. It's probably very costly in terms of memory as a data structure, but it's very convenient :) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMi4QcXn6_y/?img_index=1

For me the interest has come in coloring the lines — by deferring rendering until after the path has been plotted, you can color different traces according to how long they are, how much they curve or change, etc. which can reveal interesting bits about the flow structure. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMvqZjkHYpV/?img_index=1

Thanks for this great writeup @tehrash, the explanations and examples are great!
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> Suicide is traumatic.

Why is that suddenly important now? So it wasn't really about environmental impact, but about environmental impact implicitly modified by personal convenience and comfort? That's not what it sounded like.

> By committing suicide you only reduce your carbon footprint by however many years you have left to live. Not having a child however

With very few exceptions, a choice of dying today means someone will not beget any progeny on any subsequent day.

So no, unless you are suggesting some kind of death by snoo-snoo or tube-baby-farm scenario, shuffling off this mortal coil already encompasses the "no further children" choice and broadens the human-removing even further.
Struggling a lot with the response rate, once I could get one interview in three applications, now it's one in 50. I am hoping that it will pick up this January since everyone is making plans for the entire year. I was told by a manager in a large startup that they plan to complete hiring for the whole year by the end of February, and it might be the case for the entire industry.
...and that's all because they take electricity from Czech Republic and France, leading to increased prices there. It's like with being green by dumping trash to Poland which regularly lets it burn in the open. "Solutions"