skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a Garmin watch (FR265) last month and it's been great in keeping me on track with my exercise routine. I don't care for its advanced features like 'training readiness' and 'sleep score' – I prefer not to rely on my watch to gauge how I feel for obvious reasons. However, I have customised my watch face to display a daily step counter and a weekly 'exercise minutes' counter [1], which tracks exercise performed at a medium to high heart rate. My target is 10,000 steps a day and 180 minutes of exercise per week. Having those stats available at a glance on my wrist has significantly helped me stay on top of them. I can recommend it! Otherwise, I've disabled all smartwatch features. 8-)

[1](https://i.imgur.com/LhJ86u2.jpeg)
> Before FOSS Smalltalk was considered to be batteries included ;-)

The bar was so low back then :)
Discussion thread: https://old.iris.to/note1hekrtdrtnfk40xuktjaw8y06um9eyf6seh7...
They're popular for grow rooms as well
Sounds like it took 10 years, and probably more people than one research team for that. SW developers are really bad at asking for the right amount of resources.
I would guess it's the corruption of tenders in the public sector.

The organisation in the public sector must choose the right vendor and then any sh*t sold by this vendor is correct, otherwise it would prove the wrong choice.
The usual unelected control freaks, that try to police everything in life, from sex to drugs to what food you can eat. Every time a new technology comes out they start a moral panic over fears of safety or harm ("think of the children"). These morality police play on peoples' fears to increase their power and control.
Clearly, the only option is rewrite it in rust.
TBQH, most of the AI safety x-risk arguments — different than just "AI safety" arguments in the sense that non-x-risk issues don't seem worth banning AI development over — are generally pretty high on the hypotheticals. If you feel the x-risk arguments aren't pretty hypothetical, can you:

1. Summarize a good argument here, or

2. Link to someone else's good argument?

I feel like hand-waving the question away and saying "[other people] have in fact made extensive and detailed arguments" isn't going to really convince anyone... Any more than the hypothetical robot disaster arguments do. Any argument against x-risk can be waved off with "Oh, I'm not talking about that bad argument, I'm talking about a good one," but if you don't provide a good one, that's a bit of a No True Scotsman fallacy.

I've read plenty of other people's arguments! And they haven't convinced me, since all the ones I've read have been very hypothetical. But if there are concrete ones, I'd be interested in reading them.
I’m a Vim user, but I don’t agree with that argument about cognitive load. When typing in a normal editor, you just type letters and those same letters typed just show up on a screen (as in Vim’s insert mode). The mouse is pretty intuitive too in a normal editor: you have a device that controls a cursor on your screen and clicking performs an action.

With Vim, I don’t think the commands are quite as intuitive (this might be a skill issue of mine), but I do think I am faster without a mouse because of fewer movements required (having to grab my mouse, move it to where I want, click and then move it back to the keyboard vs. just typing a few letters).
Workplace Wellness Programs Have Little Benefit, Study Finds
It's kind of similar, but in Robodebt it was more a case of covertly implementing a wrong algorithm for debt calculation (because it inferred good results for the government of the time), placing the responsibility of disproving the debt on the individual with ridiculous requirements and no support or process to easily challenge them.

It was really a result of the Liberal & National Party (LNP) who were in government at the time wanting to:

- look tough on welfare cheats for image/election purposes

- claim a potential massive source of income (that wasn't really there) for the next budget

Most of the wrong calculations were due to a result of income averaging fortnight or multiple fortnights worth of income and extrapolating them to an annual figure, which is the absolute wrong thing to do when a lot of people on welfare worked as casuals and/or had short term jobs and the fortnight(/s) were non-representative of their yearly income.

In some cases the first time the alleged debtee found out about the debt was via a demand from a debt collection agency.

When individual action was taken against them, the government was reducing debts to $0.00 and then claiming there was no longer a reason for a case against them and had it dropped. The only reason the debt recovery program was stopped was because lawyers acting upon someones behalf also claimed interest on a paid false debt, which meant they couldn't succeed using the same tactic at which point they rolled over and admitted the unlawfulness of the scheme, which had been going for many years at this point.

I recommend this youtube 3 part series to get a good understanding of what was involved:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfsL9GAbl3M

It starts out mentioning that it resulted in the largest class action lawsuit in Australian history...
I've written an open source library to easily replace synchronized with something more virtual thread friendly: https://github.com/japplis/Virtually
I find it shocking that this has been known about for so long, but only now that there was a TV drama about it is it actually being addressed. It came up in the news and I thought "what, I remember hearing about this 5 years ago, surely it's been sorted out by now?"
The judge should have asked for an accountant to review the books.

Surely the system must be able to spit out what services and products were sold and how much they would be worth.
Heh. Well played, even if you put words in my mouth. (A surprisingly effective LLM technique, btw)

We’ll see if the west has the will to deny GPUs to the entire rest of the world.

I will say that Yudkowsky’s clusters aren’t relevant anymore. You can do this in your basement.

Man, shit is moving fast.

Edit: wait, that cat is out of the bag too, RTW already has GPUs. The techniques matter way more than absolute cutting-edge silicon. Much to the chagrin of the hardware engineers and anyone who wants to gate on hardware capability.
£138k a year in most of the UK is a very, very comfortable living. Especially when you don't have to pay for things like _your own healthcare._ It puts you comfortably in the top 5% of earners.

The same could be said for most professions in the UK. They're paid less than their US counterparts, but it's an excellent example of how you can't always measure quality of life in $ and £.

My job as a software engineer pays considerably less in the UK than my US counterparts, so why haven't I moved there?
I'm not sure retina is included in every passport. We're not a member of the EU, but our IDs and passports are compatible.

We have encrypted face biometry and fingerprints on them, but no retina. None of the countries I have visited required my retina scan, either.

In the older versions, some data was unencrypted, and most encryption was optional, and someone built a passport scanner and made a talk. I remember that some heads are proverbially rolled and some specifications are updated.
Whilst I agree in some respects, the biggest gulf to me is between companies like Stripe who successfully manage a large chunk of the words commerce (led by a brilliant engineer-CEO) and the 'IT Projects' that seem to plague the public sector here in the UK.

My point is that particularly in the UK we have this culture that the Geeks should just do their job and let us Business Types take care of the rest. Countries like Germany have a much higher respect of technical people and qualifications e.g. it's very common for CEO's to have PhDs
What ROM are you using on your Xiaomi?
Thinking the same thing. I mean who would benefit the most from making open source models illegal? Sure looks like a lot like regulatory capture to me.
IMO the private prosecution is a necessary safeguard. In other countries you get the opposite problem: a gross injustice has been done, but the public prosecutor won't prosecute (often because the perpetrator was connected with the government in one way or another), so nothing gets done.
I could give you a huge list but mostly it is computer programmers having the specification constantly changed by management and stakeholders. Even bad software developers can eventually make the software functional, even good software developers can write bad software if the organisation is going out of its way to break everything they do.
Then the question is readline. Not saying that vi or emacs deserve to win readline, but it’s up to you to describe how Helix mode would differ from vi mode.
Just like OP I also mean the recommended stuff https://mastodon.social/explore

Same shit as on Twitter and
Bluesky
Its a good concept, similar like LaTeX for researches/academics.
>I think the only hope now is for the upstream to gain a working driver in a year or two.

PowerVR driver is already part of mesa3d mainline[0].

Some definitions for the variant used in JH7110 have been added recently, but it's not yet operational.

0. https://mesamatrix.net/
They have the magic but can they compete?
People used to take more risk, so everything fine? Refine the product after innovation, so everything is fine? What corporate double think is this?

> Failures of "-isms"

And that's a very weird diversion, since this isn't about any ideology, but go ahead, travel by MAX 8.
It's a nice license when you don't want to burden users of your software with providing attribution. A typical use case is for stuff that will be included in many different projects, while not being a crucial part of it.

For example, all the code snippets in the Intel Software Developer Manuals
(https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...) are licensed under 0BSD, so that people can easily re-use them (with or without adapting them).
Read SICP and do the Scheme (a LISP) exercises oline:

https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/

If you want to run these locally, I can set Chicken Scheme for you.
Not wanting to defend the PO but it wasn't really their decision - it was a PFI (private finance initiative) foisted upon them by the Tory government of the day as one of their recurring "STOP BENEFIT FRAUD!" lunacies.
> You are building a software that uses an AGPL software by calling its APIs : Your software is a covered work and you need to license it under AGPL and make the source code available to your users. A concrete example would be a monitoring software that calls OpenObserve APIs to provide its core functionality.

So, if you use it for logging and send logs to OpenObserve using the OpenObserve API, you need to license your software
under AGPL.
Until you need to do a road trip. I hated it. Non-Tesla charging networks are perpetually broken and few and far between in more rural areas. Going from MA to NH or VT was always nervewracking as they became just barely in reach in winter. I know it will get better (especially once everyone is on NACS), but it’s pretty tough out there now.
Siemens is German and 3M is very much US.
What the other commenter said, you need to step back and think logically here. Technically everyone is missing out on something, but we're not stressed out about all of it. It would be too much. Personally, I am working on interesting things mostly alone. That said, just like you, the most fun I had was working in a startup that did cool shit, and now that it's over I miss it.
To be fair, loading and rendering a huge comment thread _is_ kind of slow and a thing you don't want to do when you just want to see the latest comments at the end. But there'd be little against a second button that just loads everything, potentially at the top of the page for searchers like you.
I can understand that. But from my viewpoint it felt like you were telling me something you thought I wasn't aware of, even though I had read the article before making my comment, or perhaps you thought the number in the article was wrong while the one from Wikipedia was correct.
Germany was worst-performing major economy last year
IIRC, 3 months to hack together a CRUD like app, another 3 to “ship” the “product”, and yes, quotes very much intended.

I did spend the next year or so adding features, bug fixes, etc. It was very much a case of learning on the job and I was quite fortunate to be in the position that I was. I think it was 2 or 3 years later I managed to land a dev role at Agoda (who had offices in Bangkok at the time)
> Licensing of data will be huge bottleneck

Will it? At some point it'll be equally (or close to) cheaper as me just building my own *arr stack instead of subscribing to 5 different $20 streaming sites.

>Uncensored results will be used against opensource models questions hovering in dark or grey area

Will they care though? You can use whatever you want against me for pirating x, I'm still doing it.

----

>Limited compute

THAT. That is the point we want to make. For FOSS projects, compute is the single biggest hurdle. Everything else we can make do.
When even the most basic, logical, obvious line of questioning exposes an insanely racist oikophobic ideology, maybe being "bad faith" does not disqualify an argument.
"When the laptop arrived, the courier refused to release the parcel, claiming there was a problem with the one-time password (OTP), a six-digit code that Amazon issues to customers to verify deliveries. The laptop was then recorded as delivered. Amazon refused a refund because tracking claimed it had been handed over."

This OTP mechanism is fundamentally flawed in that while it protects the seller from the thieving buyer, it exposes the buyer to the theiving seller.

Amazon needs to consider what allows theft at exchange in doorstep delivery but not in shop counter case. Clue: payment.
https://archive.is/F2IX2
FWIW, on Mac, I've been happier with `podman`, than I was with Docker.
That depends on your area of operations I guess. If you want to go into aviation, medical devices, trains, cars or anything involving big industrial processes, sure.

If you want to build a toaster not so much. You could just slap a CE sign on and probably get away with selling it via online platforms. That however means you guarantee for the compliance.

You also need a manual in the language of the nation where you want to sell it and a model/serial number and a risk analysis. That is not nothing, but the motivated individual could learn all of that in a few years, if they are somewhat intelligent.

Sure depending on what area you are operating in the catch might be even knowing what all those norms are and the fact that we sometimes have to pay to even read the norms is a friggin crime. But it is probably a good thing that there are some requirements one needs to fulfill to e.g. becoming a commercial airplane manufacturer.

Regulatory capture (big corps demanding stricter regulation to root out their smaller competition) is a thing. But not with the toaster industry.
Yea, they are refusing to implement it now;

I can kind of understand why they have "given up" though, after all of Apple's anti-competitive behavior. This won't change, so It's just not worth the effort.
I'd love to buy a hand mixer that doesn't have plastic gearing, which is approximately 100% of the market. Those just keep breaking.

I'd buy one with durable metal parts even if it costs 2-3x normal price level.
Anything changed since 2021 or new developments / insights?
> Is your “solution” to drive a larger car and tailgate or something?

You got it
the fear is that they delusions become law.
Sam Altman already tried that last year.
look at how technically competent your average politician / congressman / law maker and extrapolate how easy it is to make them think that if they don't ban unlicensed use of AI great danger is ahead.
the rule will be in favor of already existing large companies like OpenAI, google, Microsoft, etc ...
if you're an open source contributor to AI you will be vilified as some nefarious hacker who's trying to destroy the world.

they are using all kind of tactics until they find the one that sticks (and eventually they will), anthropomorphize AI when talking about it, fearmongering about some rogue super AI, war scenarios about AI falling in the hands of 'china',
analogies with weapons of mass destruction,
think about the children style rhetorics, it will take your jobs, suddenly caring about copyright, etc...
Fantastic app, it was of great help to me while figuring out the basics, I highly recommend it.

I just wish if people would add more comments to their code, at least those that get to be featured. Lots of beginners' time gets wasted on decrypting the logic behind blocks of code that are often very common patterns in IoT programming, and have already been explained in the documentation in the great detail. Simple one-line comment pointing what to search for in the docs would turn the code to be so much more newbie friendly.
Thank you for this!

It lifts a significant burden for people/projects/organizations who want to release software while complying with all license obligations.
the world is inequality. just look at the wages worldwide.
and what do you want to do about it ? get everyone to the lowest one ? won't happen.
raise everyone up ? won't happen for a very, very long time.

complaining about this is like complaining about death itself.

and every single country where the IMF has its hands inside has been worse : both economically and socially and when it comes to basic human rights.

IMF is part of the problem
We should concede that /etc/profile ought to disable that with stty by default.
If you use gnome/xfce:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/KeyThemeName -s Emacs

Try both commands.
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I mean products like this are basically a grift on rich people and I guess I'm fine with that.

My toaster cost like $30 or something and it still works fine after 10 years. I didn't even research it, just grabbed a random one at a store.
I think it's a combination of the market and assumptions.

- Some think I'm no longer technical enough because I've done managerial stuff, despite recent work being hands on.

- Some think I'm not managerial enough because I still do technical stuff.

- Some think I've somehow failed because the specific role was only ~20 months ( it was actually equity shenanigans )

- Some think I'm too senior and won't stick around ( despite the role being top of the market pay wise )

Mostly, I don't really know, because when going through the front door, they typically don't respond, and in actual fact the only leads I get are the ones that contact me.

But I think our specific culture focuses on reasons to say no, rather than reasons to say yes, and the current market only helps compound this, even if the outcome is worse.

Of course, I might just be shit, but they also likely don't know that by not speaking with me. :)
What value does AI slop add though?
Nonsense, or surely you'll be able to list these costs that add up to, let's say, over 50% of a salary or $30k plus.
Microsoft Topples Apple to become Global market Cap Leader
I've been struggling with this for a while. I object to a lot that google does and have had various problems with their services in the past, enough that I spent a good about of time trying to switch away from their products.

YouTube is the toughest one, since it's the videos created by people that I value and care about, rather than YouTube the product. I don't want people to stop producing good content, but I also don't want to support Google financially.

My compromise has been to use an ad-blocker, and to subscribe to the Patreon (or equivalent) of everyone who I watch regularly. It costs me more than a premium subscription would, but at least I feel my money's going where I want it to.
> something you have

Like passkeys, which also cannot reach the secrecy of passwords.
What you're describing sounds like a search and replace could already do it.

If you mean something more transformative, did Yudkowsky get a licence for HPMOR? Did Pratchett (he might well have) get a licence from Niven to retell Ringworld as Strata? I don't know how true it is, but it's widely repeated that 50 Shades of Grey was originally a fan fiction of the Twilight series.

Etc., but note that I'm not saying "no".
I prefer vis. It has structural regexen, a la Sam in plan9, much better than the old s,foo,bar, syntax.
Remapping Ctrl-O denies the ability to switch modes. That’s what turns this from simply an opinionated config to a breaking change.
There is an issue if you want to create a small laptop with a long battery life as SODIMM will use more space and power as LPDDR. (The SODIMM module and connector are very bulky and have a bad electical layout. CRAMM will be somewhere between the two)
Same in Lithuania, but half of websites are of russian origin. I wish there was a search engine that let me disable all the low-effort machine-translated websites from the results.
Apple is offering rare discounts on its iPhone 15 series in China, cutting prices by as much as ¥500 ($70) to boost sales amid mounting competition
The unfortunate reality is that everyone else has accepted that they are software engineers. That unfortunately trumps what "real" software engineers think.
'It's scary, ban it!' isn't a great argument either.

Especially when 'safety' has such a blurred definition, we could be talking about anything from the threat of global apocalypse to to the 'threat' of an AI merely being able to answer questions about 'wrong' political opinions.

Skynet isn't going to happen. The biggest threat from AI is taking jobs away and creating poverty while redirecting more wealth to the super-rich.

In the short term, we're likely to be facing a lot more convincing spam/bots and deepfakery in the run up to the election - but is that the fault of the AI, or the fault of the humans directly operating their new toys/tools?
Already are to some extent, my brother worked as an environmental geodata analyst for a big electrical landline project and they had biological surveys done for every meter of the whole planed route so the impact on potential wildlife and vegetation could be weighed. But the long term stuff is still under-studied
This will be laundered by anti-climate-crisis psychos as 'look how bad solar is for the planet! Better maintain the status quo.'
If you look at 'development screenshots' of games in the last 5 years where some sort of inhouse debugging UI is visible, it's almost guaranteed to be Dear ImGui.

Qt, WPF, wxWidgets etc... was a good option up until 2015 or so, but since then the least painful way for writing integrated debugging UIs and standalone inhouse UI tools is Dear ImGui.