skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"left seems to be waning"

Is it? The country is divided mostly in an urban vs rural way. Each area is basically aligned the same as it always was. If anything, urban sprawl and transplants are causing more areas to become urbanized and lean left.
The 100 ways to do something in windows is still usually there via the command line as well.
Sorry, we definitely have different definitions of townhomes. Where I am from (NYC) a townhouse is typically a 2/3 story build, narrow. With 2/3 units or sometimes split down the middle giving you 4 or 6 units or as high as 12 usually, often with an english basement and a back yard.

This is what I am talking about
https://streeteasy.com/blog/types-of-townhouses-in-nyc/

DC is full of them too, so is boston. Googling NYC Park Slope Townhouse would get you tons of images of nicer ones, but there's tons of cheap vinyl sided ones that are just fine.
I was rather shocked to see how much the prices varied just within the handful of stores within a couple miles of my home. I’d always assumed they all had the same prices. Silly me.
I get your points and not disagreeing that top down process and micromanagement suck.

I guess I’m trying to say that a lot of managers are afraid to give the negative feedback they hold privately and even lament to their peers about.

So some underperformers have no idea they are on thin ice until it is far too late. By being nice this type of management isn’t actually helping the person grow.

Sometimes a blunt conversation works wonders for that one person on the team that everyone knows is a problem child. Sometimes the conversation uncovers the person is unhappy due to something outside work and needs a little time/space. Sometimes it turns out the person doesn’t like their current role and you can help carve out a better fit for them.

Waiting for the annual review process to mark someone down or to start a PIP once forced to do so doesn’t help them.

Anyway I doubt I was a good manager either and am glad to be a high paid IC instead.
I suspect the art itself is a red herring. When a city planner says "artist" what do they mean?
I've been told my out of pocket would be a decent amount before, so I'll hang up and a week later call back and say I don't have insurance I'm going to pay cash and I get better rates. I don't know if it's illegal or not but it has worked for me.
Is there an alpha in domains that "require innate talent"?
Do they expect it to be ready in time for the LTS release this year?
I really want this in VR.
Not hearing back from HRs
It's often said that to be outstanding, you should master two different fields then work at the intersection of those fields. For a lot of people the model of "real greatness" is Leonardo, who mastered about 7 fields.

To even get close to that you need to be the sort of person who changes fields every 5 years or so. I think this temperament is relatively fixed, perhaps because it's a feature of some kinds of neurodivergence. If ND and innate ability are both fixed, what you need to reach greatness is a bag of tricks like the author has so you optimise the many parts of personality and behaviour that are not fixed.

What I think is sad about modern times is, it's increasingly difficult and impractical to make a career change into a regulated profession. You can switch to CS, painting, or poker any old time. But if you're not a doctor by the time you're 40, forget about it. I bump into many people who are interested in medicine and would be great at it, but the switching cost is insurmountable. A shame because there's so much greatness to unlock at the intersection of CS, medical research, and clinical practice.
I think I feel a similar way. There’s issues and causes that I wholeheartedly believe in, but find myself pushing back against when I’m coerced to pledge a certain allegiance or wear a specific ‘scause. I dunno if I’m just being oppositionally defiant as some instinctive reaction or what.

In a way, the actual exercise of rebellion gives the issue meaning. If you’re forced to issue a statement of some sort, it just becomes a meaningless ritual, does it not?
This is the second reference to BotLS I've seen today on HN. The other was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938981

I've read the four BotNS books. Is BotLS worth it if I had mixed feelings about those?
Why would anyone care to know that an anonymous person is reading the same page as you?
Changes to UK Company Law
I just started using it this year (as a way to isolate various dev environments, and as a way to prevent npm from having trivial access to my entire dev machine). It was easier to use than Docker (in my opinion). It seems to me and things have improved from what you experienced.
Charles Stross' "Culture" series handles that well.
Yeah, the job listings I've seen have been for server side services. I'm not aware of Rust being in macOS. Would be cool though!
"Anyone setting up, running, owning or controlling a company in the UK will need to verify their identity to prove they are who they claim to be."

Blows my mind that this wasn't a requirement before...
Not sure I still play the ones that do (And there are still lots of active servers for them). Example: Battlefield 4 still has quite a lot of activity.
Ah, yes, thanks.
When you're not online you don't see how the world truly operates, it's obfuscated from you. Ignoring that is literally ignorance.
I was not synchronizing with anything but iCloud. Before the recent update that fixed it, I was in the habit of disabling WiFi when on battery so that my laptop would not drain my battery. contactsd definitely was doing something dumb around synchronization.

At one point, I backed up my ~8,000 contacts and deleted them all. Everything was fine until I restored them.
I sometimes use it to start the machine remotely when I'm away the whole day, so I can time it to be ready when I get home and can switch over the clothes to the tumbler immediately.
Not a lawyer, but my estimate is that this would stand up in approximately zero courts worldwide
Sure, but the LLM is also the easy part. Mistral is plenty smart for the use case, all you need to do is to use llama.cpp with a JSON grammar and instruct it to return JSON.
I don't particularly want any appliances that connect to the internet, but it would be quite fun to have a washing machine API that reported sensor data like water temperature, weight of load, drum rotation speed during the spin cycle, door lock/unlock status etc.
Related:

System76's Cosmic Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959271 - Jan 2024 (10 comments)

Pop _OS Cosmic Desktop Improving Multi-Monitor and Multi-Window Support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38656529 - Dec 2023 (43 comments)

Locked and Loaded with New Cosmic DE Updates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37970594 - Oct 2023 (28 comments)

COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36725105 - July 2023 (148 comments)

Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34599094 - Jan 2023 (260 comments)

Pop_OS Cosmic Desktop to Make Use of Iced Rust Toolkit Rather Than GTK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066593 - Oct 2022 (93 comments)

Pop_OS 21.04 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27683738 - June 2021 (165 comments)

Cosmic: System76 take auto-tiling intuitive desktop environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27683615 - June 2021 (1 comment)

System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26798080 - April 2021 (414 comments)
Topographical Disorientation
I'd also call out Eternal September in 1993, when AOL made it easy for anyone with a computer to connect online. This permanently changed the composition of the internet, and paved the way for the social networks that would later come to dominance after the iPhone was released.
Being able to fold out a basically normal laptop into a dual-monitor setup when you want? I don't see anything impractical about that.

Dave2D was really enthusiastic, fwiw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Cr73w8CJE
The average internet user doesn't know how to run a home server, safely expose services, or configure a domain name. Even Home Assistant has a fairly high barrier to entry in that you need somewhere to run it, and even then a good chunk of their users rely on Nabu Casa to do the networking bits because they can't manage it themselves.

This just ain't gonna work for social networking, unless you want that social network to consist only of the small minority of internet users that know how the internet works - and then we could just hang out here on HN.
Note that I said beat inflation, but hey maybe 2024 Diet Coke cans will be the last remaining currency in 3024.
"Silence is violence" is the most authoritarian argument possible: it forces you to voluntarily identify your side, even if you refuse to do so. There's a reason why voting is secret: because no one should be forced to suffer consequences for their ideas. Forcing people to out themselves is bad, and it's time to ostracize who does it (along with those who incite mob pressure to fire wrong-thinkers, or to ban speakers from public places)
Does posterity record what fascist ideologies the buildings subscribed to?
There are fans of "niche" genres that could find value in this. In the late 80s an acquaintance dropped almost all of her friends, based on their tastes in and dedication to music. I could see her using something like that to help generate a new friend group.
From what I remember of using Odin a decade ago.. it doesn't actually 'flash' the device, it copies the binary blobs to the bootloader partition and tells the device to flash itself from them, then reboots the device. So it should be relatively safe under wine, it'll either work, or it won't.
Based on your experience and existing code, it is easy to add continuous listening? Have not tested it but probably is already there. For example, I would like to have it always turned on and speaking to it about ideas at random times.
Because it only needs one random "hit". After that self-replication makes sure it doesn't have to happen again.

Btw: the first self-replicating molecules wouldn't have been particularly complex. It may have been a half-broken piece of RNA, not from base atoms but from nucleic acids. And it only matters that it formed RNA (it does not matter what the code "in" the RNA was. It would be self-replicating no matter what that code was, so there were many valid possibilities). Also there's no need to get the "ladder" part of the molecule right. Yes it requires random chance, sure, but it may not be all that unlikely.
You need to be someone with a lot more credibility and a lot more pull in the first place for that to even be offered.
Keep this in mind next time academia produces a study advocating for this or that social change - anyone willing to publish a study giving ammo to the wrong side of the culture war could not even get hired.

This is not speculation - this has been measured by a peer-reviewed study back in 2014, before the practice was made official with diversity statements: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25036715/
Some people really think it's totally outside of their capacity, even if they wanted to draw.

Feeling like it's useless also hinders the desire to try, declining the interest in it anyway.. a little bit chicken&egg.
> which would draw attention

Unless you're disrupting military / police / aviation frequencies, there is virtually no enforcement. The FCC does not routinely police the airwaves - they can be asked to investigate egregious disturbances, but if they do choose to respond (which is rare), that response will not start for weeks or months. Nobody is going to show up with guns drawn for an encrypted LoRa connection.
Of course, my hand-rolled site (https://joeldueck.com) uses feed.atom (don’t ask me why, it was a long time ago), which happens not to be in your list. I do have it exposed in the HTML though.
First off: this is an article from 2019.

Second: the discovery is disputed. Replication attempts failed. Ozone is a big contaminant at those sizes (very high surface/volume ratio), amplified by the nebulization tech to get such fine mist. The Zare team was forced to track and get rid of any ozone contamination by the research of another team, and the levels of peroxyde they themselves measured in their droplets fell by two orders of magnitude (!) compared to their initial paper. Zare & co still try to defend the outlandish claims outlined in their initial paper and communication, but the bubble clearly popped.

I guess the controversy is the reason why someone digged that old article, but it is disingenuous to not link to a more recent article (from the same publication):
https://archive.ph/pTeuL
Read also:
https://archive.ph/tMcuB
Almost all the problems you've listed are implementation issues with bus routes. Adding more buses, stops, and/or express routes is a slam dunk compared to what you describe. I agree on your vision, but until it happens it seems unreasonable to dismiss attempts to help the homeless like the one Austin is taking.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-year Door is being remade by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.
Dangerous?
I've been testing various LLMs (that can run locally - sans cloud) and (for example) the llava-v1.5-7b-q4 does a decent job for home automation.

Example: I give the LLM a range of 'verbal' instructions related to home automation to see how well they can identify the action, timing, and subject:

User: in the sentence "in 15 minutes turn off the living room light" output the subject, action, time, and location as json

Llama: {
"subject": "light",
"action": "turned off",
"time": "15 minutes from now",
"location": "living room"
}

Several of the latest models are on par to the results from Gpt4 in my tests.
Hardly any that are frequently ingested are anywhere in the vicinity of the openness normally expected from open source.

Openness is not and has not been sufficient, necessary, or even expected for useful medicine or basically anything else.

Openness is orthogonal to efficacy and safety. It just looks correlated in software because software is totally unverified as a general rule, so “unverified, but ability to verify” is much better safety and efficacy wise than “unverified, no ability to verify”. But “unverified” of any form is worthless garbage and unfit for critical purposes. What you need is “verified” at a bare minimum, anything less is unacceptable.
"He deal with security threats at the source, by tracking down the hacker and kicking them in the head."

Not just any kicks, but roundhouse kicks of course.
I already love AI too much to enjoy it.
There have been various rumblings about a "foldable MacBook" in development, I really hope it works a lot like this and not like a foldable phone with a giant crease.
Is this why I have to ask my Uber driver to turn the rear seat heater on? How do I even interact with the voice control as a passenger? Am I supposed to say "Hey Elon, warm my ass"?
Outside of buying a system76 laptop, is there a way to fund/donate to the Cosmic DE project?
The decision to value the long term trust of your employees, customers and business partners more than short term profits would apply to any type of business that wants to survive and thrive over the long haul.
Emergency communications are a big deal, because they let you go places you couldn't go before without being utterly afraid.

I wonder if this will change people's behavior at all.

Like, I've always wondered how LEDs affected peoples perception of nature, now that there's no longer any "Really dark scary night where you need to manage an actual fire" times. 20 years ago people still lit candles a lot of the time, if there was a blackout!

Now we can pretty much trust that for $30 we can make an insane amount of light for hours, with pocket sized devices.
I'm sympathetic to diversity statements. I get why some people want them, or some departments want them from applicants. From my experience applying to PhD programs, though, writing and insisting on them is...unacademic and often downright misguided. When you write them you're confronted with essentially justifying your existence as it fits into the often nonsensical groupings of DEI initiatives. Your research is not appraised independent of your identity; instead, the obvious implication is that you will be appraised through your identity. The very of idea of well done scholarship (careful argumentation, corralling and presentation of evidence, citing sources and addressing counter-arguments) is insulted. Certain applicants are made to self-flagellate for their identity while others are incentivized to present their identity as an advantage.
Watching you work through projects has brought me so much joy over the years. Thanks for putting stuff like this out there for the world!
And public transport.
Really great write-up, thank you John.

Two naive questions. First, with the 4060 Ti, are those the 16gb models? (I'm idly comparing pricing in Australia, as I've started toying with LM-Studio and lack of VRAM is, as you say, awful.)

Semi-related, the actual quantisation choice you made wasn't specified. I'm guessing 4 or 5 bit? - at which point my question is around what ones you experimented with, after setting up your prompts / json handling, and whether you found much difference in accuracy between them? (I've been using mistral7b at q5, but running from RAM requires some patience.)

I'd expect a lower quantisation to still be pretty accurate for this use case, with a promise of much faster response times, given you are VRAM-constrained, yeah?
It's an interesting perspective. I've been lucky enough never to experience homelessness, but I'm very familiar with living in cities and using public transportation to access resources like supermarkets and doctors. I wonder if, in addition to providing housing to those who need it, the best solution is simply making sure such resources are readily accessible to the same people via public transportation.
The random MAC would still be within the vendor prefix though, and a MAC address won’t identity a specific device type anyway.

Edit: I’m wrong
Yeah after scrolling and scrolling and scrolling I also came here for an explanation.
ok, but initially you only asked about how to handle more than 5 endorsements and i was responding to that. that's also how i read your reply. now you are questioning the value of endorsements in general which is a different topic. one that i am not disagreeing with either.

if i put my hiring hat on, i am not sure how i would accept these endorsements myself. frankly when i am hiring, i'd mostly value endorsements from people that i trust myself, which only works for candidates that are already in my network somehow.

i would consider endorsements from a reputable testing service so that i can skip coding tests.
I just saw the AP video about this on youtube. They said it will go 900 mph without generating a loud sonic boom. That's amazing.
> Even if you're lazy and uploaded an uncompressed JSON array of objects, that shouldn't be more than a few kB.

See, that’s just one lazy engineer writing one telemetry solution. Multiply that by several engineers across several teams, each cobbling together a different telemetry solution for a different product manager’s initiative using a different stack of JavaScript libraries, throw in some poorly-rolled-out infrastructure changes a few years later resulting in some unanticipated retry loops, and I think you can hit that megabyte per day easily enough.
Apologies, I didn't thought in the scale.

Certainly it is zero related to this study. I read the article that I linked thinking the Voyagers reached a distance far enough to use it as a stereoscopy through two sources, Earth and Voyager, with the Voyager's collected data. And therefore I thought that's what astronomers in general was using as reference to analyze galaxies (in the last decade).

After read again such article I keep thinking about how did I reached this process. Apologies again to everyone.

PS: I didn't noticed it was behind a paywall, maybe by this Archive capture,

http://web.archive.org/web/20151203203335/https://www.newsci...
> I guess the did some try and error to figure out the exact gcc version that Nintendo used

The official SDKs have been leaked for decades, so they probably just looked there.
People went hiking for centuries before satellite messengers were a thing.

The fact is, calling for help via satellite while in the backcountry is often a 12-24 response time. Sending another person in your party back to civilization to call for help is also a viable option. Anything more time sensitive than that and outside help is unlikely to arrive in time.

The most important thing is to travel in a group, and make sure somebody in your group knows first aid and basic survival skills. I highly recommend taking a Wilderness First Aid course.

(I carry a PLB myself, but I would not consider lack of one a reason to avoid doing outdoor activities.)
Eh, Tidbyt is cheaper, easier to set up, and looks nicer:

https://github.com/pkulak/tidbyt

It ended up working great!
I understand it’s the only viable means of transortation. That is why it is an extremely bad idea to build more communities where a car is the only viable means of transportation.

If you transition to walkable/bikable communities now, you will be able to keep wealthier people in the car centric communities while allowing poorer people to use the newer more walking/biking centric communities. If you go “but cars are the only option because we are America and we can’t ever change our ways, anything that doesn’t immediately solve our issues in the short term is bad” you are going to end up with a fucking catastrophic poverty in 50 years.

You are the one ignoring reality. The reality is either America changes or there is a terrible future ahead. The idea we’re all going to have minimum wage workers using cars in low density suburbs is a fantasy. A dream. An illusion. It’s NEVER going to happen. If you continue building car centric communities, people will have to use them without cars, and it will be terrible, that’s just the reality.
Oooooo, window borders that look like an illuminated manuscript?

I need this before I screenshare into my next Teams call...
Cunningham's Law: how to get the right answer from the internet
OMG - that train actually existed?? I had no idea. I'd have assumed it CGI or a prop. Amazing, thanks
> no one is expected to pay

I eat at US McDonald's frequently. It's easy to observe how many people use their app, place mobile orders, or have a code to use at the ordering kiosks, and that percentage is quite small.
Library Genesis makes that unnecessary as well...
I think you are talking about the permanent residence program through job sponsorship. Yes, this is limited because it is based on the country of origin. Countries with fewer residents in the US are given residence quickly. Others are given residence slowly. Viable options for Indians to gain residence here have to be through means other than job opportunities, such as business investments or family ties or extraordinary talent.

A solution of course is for india to split into multiple independent states. Then only one or two states might be given slower residency programs. Others will be given faster programs.
Apple is known to experiment internally with a crazy ammount of concepts, out of which very few make it into actual products for sale.

They're pretty conservative on the types of products they launch and careful enough to not pollute their existing line-up with whacky products that don't fit with their vision of how a product should be used or if it would cannibalize their other products.

Their MacBooks still don't have a touchscreen even though they could easily add a touch digitizer for almost no cost at all but they just don't want to mix touch with laptops for some reason, unlike the PC laptop makers who seem to have no issue adding that.