skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a relative statement, I'm not sure if AI or humans are better or worse (or even "it depends on what you're measuring"), but in an absolute sense humans are also pretty suggestible and easy to influence, and it's only countervailing influences pushing in other directions that turn it into noise.

This space is where the Venn diagram of marketing and genocides overlap.
not only google, every other provider which copies their results has got somehow worse as well
I've always wondered what kind of input device could be used to fix the ultimate first world problem, sore fingers from phone overuse
It does seem a bit like a fight against what might otherwise become the death of their self-image.

The difference between it and actual grief seems to be that the unwanted outcome is not inevitable here. Sometimes this works.

Hopefully we can make it less and less likely to work over time by raising awareness of the tactic.
> Equally guilty is every politician and bureaucrat above them

Just for the “but they’re a private company” crowd: the company is wholly owned by the government and there is a minister whose responsibilities include postal affairs which includes the Post Office
Calling Apple Mx "a modified phone" CPU is doing it a disservice. It's a synergy of mobile design with desktop design.
>Well one option is Apple just closes the store, hires a couple hundred high quality developers and builds out their own library of Apps, take 100% of the revenue. No tax in that situation! But I'm not sure it's a better outcome for developers.

It's also not better for Apple, quite obviously, or they'd already do this. People want and expect their favourite apps to work on their phones.
>> that confirms that HTMX works in large projects

Define large? By size of project or volume of users.

HTMX is more targeted for the latter, not the former.

THere is a continuum. Static pages, SSG's on one side, and SPAs/react all the way at the opposite end. They both do VERY different things. HTMX is some where in the middle, think content heavy PAGES that need lightweight public facing interaction (email/contact, validation loops, a form or two, maybe some dynamic conversions, a carrousel)

Static home page for cache performance, html for sales contact cycle, react for the app you sell ... all three can and should be coexisting!
They were hiring people for positions related to automating fund management recently. I'm sure they're trying to add a lot of new stuff.
I'm not an authority on this stuff at all. For me, trust is on a spectrum. And whether I use a tool or not depends on what end of the spectrum it falls on and how much I need to use a service. For example, I really ought to find a new email provider.
Why does a side project need a bunch of legal documentation? Actual harm must be shown before you'll find yourself in any trouble. Having a shiny cookie policy isn't really going to help you.

Focus on your project first.
Most 'enterprisey' systems of the era were just as shoddy as Horizon. The problem was that the post office were in a position to aggressively prosecute users and decided to do so (and then the whole chain of cover ups and dissembling for years after as widely documented).

All in all its a lesson in just how easy it is to cover your arse as an executive in a large company, and get away with pretty much anything. Only the most tenacious work by many people over decades has any chance of holding you accountable.
Totally agree, since the individual's situation varies so much (both intra-team, in their personal life, and across time) the only conclusion that can be said at a c-suite level is that nothing should be broadly mandated and that teams should have the option to decide on their own about office vs remote.

I hypothesize, however, that a lot of these decisions at a c-suite level have more to do with other considerations, like property investments, headcount, salaries, or (worst of all) egos.
Are actors on SNL going to be banned next?
In my opinion is that the decision to be on-site or remote should be made at the team level. A team, that can't perform well onsite won't do any better remotely and vice versa.

# How I know if a team member will perform well remotely:

- They take initiative. They take ownership. They learn how to effectively use different communication tools, and then they use them. They ask questions with the goal of solving problems. They get things done.

# How I know if a team member will perform poorly remotely:

- They wait for others to tell them what to do. They tend to disappear. They don't communicate.

- Turns out that these are shitty traits to have for onsite team members as well.

# How I know if a manager will perform well remotely:

- They would perform well as a remote team member (see above), and have a team capable of working remotely.

- They lead by example, know how to build trust, understand how to set achievable short-term goals that lead up to big longterm successes.

- When questioned during meetings, they build trust, confidence and alignment.

# Some signs that a manager will perform poorly with a remote team:

- They prefer a command and control approach to management.

- They lack respect for their team members' time, experience, capabilities and / or intelligence.

- They are unable to explain problems such the team can help solve them.

- This leads them to micromanage.

- They perceive questions during meetings as a challenge to their authority, which makes look insecure.

A micromanager will see more success from poor performing team members if they're all onsite or, as is often the case, frequently on all day conference calls. A micromanager will also quickly lose their best team members.
That's crazy as people don't even drink that much there relative to the rest of the world. Alcohol is already highly taxed there, can imagine this increasing the prices more
So Ryzen? Same fabs and nodes as Apple.
Then your friends should reflect a bit. This study shows that there isn't a positive nor negative effect. If your friends are working additional hours each day when they work from home and they are representative of this study, then they are working more time to be as productive as they used to be.

If they would just use the "extra" time to live their own life, they would probably be just as productive and have additional time to themselves.
i dont follow, how would it be different? would you mind helping me understand why a swappable battery is different? My impression was they would be the same in actual function
> That's how these apps have worked for over a decade.

No, because Obsidian is not one of "these apps". It's not using a database, nor an organisational layer to abstract away the data. It's directly reflecting the filesystem and changes in it, and they are even advertising it with this.

There is no technical reason for those limitations and bugs at all.
I definitely agree here. For most of my career I was fortunate enough to not have a "real" commute. at most a 20 min walk to the office. The worse commute is when it was raining or snowing.

The problem becomes now my home is tied to my work place. If the company moves or I change companies, I have move or stress at a new commute. I did move once during a job change, and it didn't last long.

Another compounding issue is that I like to stay at companies for a long time, 10 years. This is frequently becoming difficult for a number of reasons not entirely in my control.

I wonder if others are in the same situation.
I like my Kia Soul. It’s a sedan frame in the shape of an SUV. Mine is gasoline averaging 33mpg but there are electric versions.

I bought one of the last models with a 6 gear manual transmission. Shifting is super smooth. This is the best security money can buy.

There is no touch screen of any kind. The stock radio supports Bluetooth and MP3 via USB stick. I use a physically tiny 256gb USB stick currently containing 6000 tracks at 320kbps for a total size of around 60gb. I have not found the file number, file size, or total disk size limitations yet. File navigation, playback, and even options for radon track selection are great.

This car cost me 17k and they cost a bit more now. When I bought mine it was 5stars by JD Power for maintenance and true to that rating the car is years old and has been super cheap to keep in excellent condition provided regularly scheduled tune ups.

The only subscription associated with the vehicle is XM satellite service. The corresponding hardware is built into the vehicle. I have chosen to never pay that subscription.

My version of the car features no internet, network, or tracking/observation features of any kind. People have cell phones for that.

I highly recommend.
Yeah, 7945HX laptops are going to use a dedicated GPU like the 7900M or 4090 because the integrated graphics on there is mostly... vestigial. 2 CU basically means 2 cores (from the last generation) in Apple terms. Rumours are AMD might shove a (laptop) 4070-ish GPU with 40 CU into the next refresh (if I had to guess the numbering, 9950HS) but I don't think they would see a point in going higher than that (if they even try that much), because the higher GPU performance segments are going to be served by their dedicated GPUs paired with the HX CPUs that have 2 CU.

AMD doesn't really have the volume to outbid Apple on the leading nodes, so what they do get is going to keep going to server/HPC. That stuff is more money for them anyway. Adding more cores, both CPU and GPU and shrinking to TSMC's latest node, it isn't easy but it's technically simple enough that they could do it in a few months if they thought there was enough of a market for it. There just isn't, unfortunately.
How the heck does HTMX work without JS? And in this specific example, they're making an Ajax call! Also, the 'j' in Ajax stands for 'javasxript'
Agree. And there is also actual progress in the rendering engines. Modern AAA games are incomparable with what they were 10 or 20 years ago. Most desktop apps on the other hand... Yes, of course they have more features than their predecessors. But still they have the same core functionality, though. A word processor is still a word processor, but modern ones come with a latency on an every button, including the old ones that didn't have it before.
i would look into tic80, but as others have said: the time spent together is the product you want
Lars, I opened this comment box because I have been through some of what you are going through. I hoped to offer you some comfort. However, as I try to type this, I realize I cannot. Ambigous grief is a bitch. There are no platitudes I can offer. I am sorry you are going through this.
Interns, new employees...
Gravity is a conservative force, so if you raise something up really high, dropping it will recover the energy used to pull it up. Of course in practice there's a lot of other things that cause energy loss, but there are lot of dams in the world that exist as "stored power", by pumping water uphill, then getting energy back as the water goes through the dam later.

Big bucket high up is basically a battery. The question then becomes about the details of, like, using the power when the water gets pumped down (if you had two canals, you could probably time filling one with draining the other?). There's a lot of practical things to consider
>I didn't see any change at all personally, I do live in Europe though.

Depends where in Europe as there's a pretty big divide in the IT labor market in Europe that only grew bigger. Most of the remote-work and outsourcing from the US spilled mostly to Eastern Europe or tax heavens like Netherlands or Ireland or tech hubs like Berlin and Barcelona. The rest of Europe wasn't that much impacted and stagnated.
You can use React and fullstack React frameworks and ship 0 or almost 0 JS to the browser and have a working app.
> My Jiu Jitsu gym heavily uses Facebook...

This.

I do not use facebook anymore. Yes I do have an account but I cannot remember last time I logged in. Likely over 6 months ago. Whenever I do login it is to check my jujitsu gym. Thats it! Logged in and out with.. what.. 5 mins?

I had little friends list on my fb. It was ex co-workers, uni/college/school friends. I know people who would have hundreds and hundreds of "friends" on theirs, making out how difficult it would be to leave it. Truth is half of them they have never met or spoke in person.

There are other means to connect with my friends. I am just tired of the current world, believing they need these social media accounts which, under the disguise of being free, have flaws in other ways as well as their mental health!

It is a sad world to constantly see people on their phones, likely witnessing a teenager walking to school or work with neck injuries in 15 years time.

Some people just cannot put their phone down. They are back on forums, groups, etc, within 10 minutes. Of course this is not a social media problem - but it most certainly is part of the cause.

Rant Over.
Yeah, it's a bit of a problem but not that difficult to search for the book on Amazon and then on Google to locate the publishers. Also always check wikipedia for details (eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It). For classics like Polya also check used book stores (in addition to Amazon) like https://www.betterworldbooks.com/ https://www.thriftbooks.com/ etc. where you can get good editions for cheap.
> What is the actual reason for that?

Don't know, can only speculate. From what I observed, I would conclude that no one has had the right idea so far of how to do this. With Self it took a few years, with Smalltalk - as has now been shown - forty years, and with the surprise that AST interpreters with Graal are faster than bytecode interpreters. Someone will probably have a brilliant idea for Python in a few years' time.
I also started off around the same age with GameMaker; if it’s even half as good still as it was in the 2000s, can definitely recommend it!

In the beginning all I did was fool around with the example games and tutorials, and that got me started well. Like taking a bouncy ball game, changing sprites, playing around with changing things in the existing logic and every now and then accidentally stumbling upon an interesting mechanic.

The drag and drop interface is really nice for starting out; eventually I got into the scripting part and found out that I had kinda learned “coding” along the way
Reading between the lines this doesn't seem all that different than California's likeness-protection law.
Here's one more problem not mentioned by others: SQLite has some functions that it declares but doesn't define. For example, regexp(). So, if your table is defined as having a constraint with regexp()... well, sucks to be you: it might depend on what regexp() implementation you load whether that constraint can be applied or not.

I know this because I needed this functionality in Ada code, which links statically with SQLite, and I didn't want to also link with PCRE library just to get regexp(), especially since GNATCOLL already, sort of has regexp... except it doesn't have the "fancy" features, s.a. lookaheads / lookbehinds / Unicode support etc.

So, a table that uses regexp() in its constraint definition isn't portable. But, if you only use the table data without the schema you lose a lot of valuable information...

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Also, come to think about it: unlike server-client databases (eg. MySQL, PostgreSQL etc) SQLite doesn't have a wire-transfer format. Its interface returns values in the way C language understands them. The on-disk binary format isn't at all designed for transfer because it's optimized for access efficiency. This, beside other things, results in SQLite database file typically having tons of empty space, it doesn't use efficient (compressed) value representation etc.

So, trying to use SQLite format for transferring data isn't going to be a good arrangement. It's going to be wasteful and slow.
I've used Flattr for a short period of time in early 2010s. I think it's unfortunate that the service picked up steam when most of the published content was moving from self-hosted to centralized social media platforms. Actually with a bit of marketing Flutter would have been better suited nowadays than at that time.
That would risk introducing salt into the resovoir and water table.
I understand your point, and even relate as it comes to scrappy computer hardware, but I do struggle to see the analogy stretching from Daikatana's price to the Cybertruck's price. Additionally to the space required to store such a collection.

I may just be thinking too practically though.
I absolutely let my employer pay for my commute. Indirectly of course, but my income requirements are dependent on how much hours I have to put into work, which includes my overall time investment. Same with all other costs I have because of work.

That said, time is important to me and I have a 5min commute, 20min if I walk. For that reason I do prefer the office. Better meals and better coffee and nice colleagues.

If employers want to force people into offices, maybe pay them a bonus.
My 23 year old son passed away in march 2021 - this is exactly what i've been living. Stay strong.
IMHO this can be used more generally - look at pet-projects that people are making in their free time. There is no such thing (in most cases) as deadline or "finish", because there is always something that can be added, improved or taken care in any way. Keeping all ideas in a notebook allows you to review them with other contributors, and even when project would be abandoned, this would allow to refresh memory when someone decides to come back later.

In this case however, having some quality time with son is the most important thing, and putting a deadline would affect the fun for the worst.
It is not. Tailwind is popular long enough that this argument should die already
The companies that offer alternative (and likely cheaper) appstores could be american or asian for all the EU cares. The point is to allow competition.
Emulating Classic 2D Games in HD – Part 1
You can upload multiple photos to get more accurate results
Excited to see this after seeing FB's work in the past few years to advance cryptocurrency and NFT.
> What exactly makes you think it’s a word

The definition of the word word.

> when it’s clearly an initialism?

Then why does its creator write it all lowercase?

> Do you also write MS-DOS as "Ms-dos"

Yes.
I found them okay, but then they really started pushing the useless AI crap and wouldn't let me unsubscribe from their spammy emails, so I dropped them completely

Fuck off, Ivan from Notion, I don't care about your useless AI offerings
I think the point for such leaders, unconscious though it may be, is to feel safe. There's something they're hoping never to have to experience or feel ever again, and this is what they're doing to keep that from happening.

It's only ever going to be a temporary solution, but the parts of the person's psyche that are driving these decisions are probably pretty stuck in a difficult time when they felt powerless against the same sort of thing they're trying to avoid today, and they react from that immaturity.

I'm armchair psychologizing, but I think the behavior of people who seek power for reasons other than to help people makes more sense if we realize they're not making decisions from a mature, adult part of their experience.
Oh come on it's not that bad! It's just things which threaten their power
Given it's Prettier's whole philosophy, best to read from them directly:

- https://prettier.io/docs/en/why-prettier
- https://prettier.io/docs/en/option-philosophy
I'm not emotional man, but the post made me tear up. Thank you for writing this I found it insightful compassionate and educational. I wish you all the best.
Pretty much never, but that's okay. Writing the note itself seems beneficial. I figure if I forget about a note it wasn't that important in the first place. And if I ever remember it, I'll have it to go back to. If it turns out to be something time-sensitive I should've revisited, it should've been a calendar entry with an alert or something instead.
Because every time there's something cool and new, it could threaten the profits of large slow-moving incumbents, so the incumbents use their lobbying power to try to get bureaucrats to neuter or kill the threat.
Not across the board, no.

Most companies do this by using a cost of labor index for areas. NYC/SF/Seattle being the highest, and then smaller reductions outside.

Basically you don't want to be in a HCOL (High Cost of Living) remote area with a LCOL (Low cost of Labor)
This is how I started! Close to 2 decades ago
How about humans in solitary, do they also go MAD, or the "brain in a vat" scenario. It is unreasonable to train a model on its own outputs for many iterations.

> with enough fresh real data, the quality and diversity of the generative models do not degrade over generations

When a model gets deployed and is prompted by people it can get fresh data in the prompt - the prompt itself, RAG material, outputs of tools, human responses to its outputs - and this allows for a form of exploration that can go outside the original scope of the model. If you use the model logs to retrain it won't collapse.
It's a shame that none of substitutes for DNS seem to have gained any traction so far.

Renting names that serve as resource identifiers, locators and trademarks all at the same time is just not a good idea.
Didn't happen in the ~dozen team I worked with, so I wouldn't say it's the "more realistic outcome"
aside because everyone who makes that comment seems to get it wrong: 50% of the population has less than the median IQ, not the average!
When I read that they'd closed a Series G, I laughed because that's definitely the farthest down the alphabet I've seen anybody go, and it made me wonder if there's even a theoretical limit to where it might stop.
Dark Modes – xypnox
Thank you, this is very helpful. It appears that it was covered in the article (not as explicitly as you have put it, perhaps) and I was failing to join up the dots.
How much training compute does it require to train from scratch? I'm wondering because I have a lot of audiobooks, they're not necessarily CC licensed though but for my private usage and training I think it'd be fine.
Substack's Moderation Battle
first thing I noticed also.

I would suggest is a 417 Expectation failed.
https://http.dog/417
Meta bought Giphy in 2020, then the UK CMA ruled that it was anti-competitive, so Meta sold Giphy to Shutterstock last year.
I have my mail client set to show me only plain text. I only ever send plain text.

Every so often I receive a badly formed e-mail that requires me to click a single button that shows me the rich text.

There's no drama. I communicate just fine.
Flattr is the kind of idea that sounds great, that people love talking about - if only they could make a small donation to every website they liked - but that doesn't work because people are fundamentally too selfish. This is why ads are the only viable business model for a kind of "ephemeral website" - something you visit only briefly, derive some short knowledge or pleasure from until you follow a link somewhere else, do not feel the kind of loyalty to that might make you subscribe to something.
RISC-V is designed to provide op-code space for custom instructions, so it can be extended for specific tasks.
Tough true? By preserving it yourself.
Association Between Apple Consumption and Physician Visits
Maybe this is reasonable, iff it only applies to fake media that is indistinguishable from the real thing. Like, if you show a jury two videos and they can't tell which one is real and which one is fake. I can accept that there is an implied claim of realism by creating realistic media, and that would be a lie, very similar to libel.
One note on Subaru, you might be putting a quart of oil in every 1,000 miles after 100,000 miles. Certain models burn ungodly amounts of oil.

I don’t drive Subarus now due to the above, I switched to Toyota.