skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's an ongoing debate over whether or not people skills are undervalued, and perhaps for many people they are, but it's hard to deny that there are many, many more ways for someone who doesn't like social interaction much to get rich. If ads and sales are on the same continuum, then the world's best salespeople are engineers, data scientists, and product managers.

This seems completely wrong to me. If you look at who is the top 0.1% it's either inherited wealth, a few professionals (lawyers, certain medical specialties, etc.) who own their own practices, or people who've managed large groups of people (i.e. business executives). The third group is overwhelmingly full of people with good social skills, and skilled professionals are almost always personable too.
Thanks! Did not know about /r/LocalLLaMA
Lilygo T-Keyboard: An ESP32 Bluetooth Blackberry keyboard
After the deep discussions on the Lilygo T-Deck and the Clicks keyboard, I felt like this needed to be shared. I nearly built something like the Clicks for myself but the closer I got the worse it seemed, ergonomically. Not only that the Clicks key layout only has shift on one side and it doesn't have a backlight.

Some background: I have been shopping around for a bluetooth keyboard to use for thumb typing for the last few months. I have a book to edit and a newborn that is always sleeping on my chest. I tried a few bluetooth keyboards from Amazon but they were all garbage.

Eventually I found the T-Keyboard and have been really pleased by it. This is the keyboard from the T-Deck with a little 160x40 screen attached to it. The screen allows you to see what you're typing on the device without looking at your phone. It boots in half a second which means switching back and forth is lightning fast. If I'm typing a few words, I stick to my touchscreen. I'm editing so there's a lot of selecting text to copy / paste / annotate which is also touchscreen work. When I need to add a new paragraph or more, I set my phone down and pick this thing up to type with.

It really is fantastic. If you decide to pick one up, you may want to run my fork which fixes a bunch of the usability issues: https://github.com/zenkalia/T-keyboard/tree/bleeding_edge
To the hypocrisy claim: OpenAI recently changed their terms for GPT models allowing military applications and AI safety people are all silent. If it is not hypocrisy than I do not know what hypocrisy is.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240116014346/https://www.bloom...
GP specifically called out using apple for their consumer protection features. I've seen this many times before. Maybe you disagree, but many other americans absolutely use apple to hedge against a (perceived?) lack of consumer protection laws.
I thought everything was Brassica oleracea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea

\s: https://xkcd.com/2827/
I am personally dealing with this right now with Maytag. It was under warranty and they sent someone, but they are taking their sweet time. The people I live with are getting extremely upset with me. Never again. I just bought it a few months ago and I am still paying the damn thing off. I purposely picked a simple model with no ice maker or screens so this doesn't happen. Joke is on me, I guess.
That repo also has no license information that I can tell, although the pip install is Apache 2 <https://github.com/Ostorlab/ostorlab#readme>
But there’s no letter for it in Hebrew?
There is a YC Backed company [0] that could be worth a look. Never used them but aware that they are in this space

[0] https://clerky.com

I would recommend using something from clerky and then getting your own lawyers involved to really nail this down further.
This is an amusing argument because I feel like you're both right. Castles sort of gradually transformed into beautiful manor houses when they weren't useful for defense any longer that certainly were just to project outward wealth and prestige. But earlier castles were often hideous utilitarian structures which I doubt anyone particularly liked living in.

You could of course argue the newer structures weren't castles at all of course, even if they were called that.
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And a few ones from people whose problems are so dissimilar from the original bug that the only way they could have arrived at the thread is the 57th page of Google search for the word "problem".
Just because an entity has agency, it doesn't that in every situation it has unlimited choices. You have to acknowledge the reality that Hamas has vowed to keep repeating October 7th again and again. Given this reality, what choice does Israel have other than fight Hamas?

Now, the point is, Hamas does want to fight Israel, it's their whole reason for existing as an entity. But certainly they can choose not to embed themselves in civilian population, digging tunnels under childrens' bedrooms, etc

Yes, war is absolutely horrible. And it could end instantaneously, if Hamas surrendered.

Wow, IDF soldiers made a clip? Yes, there are idiots in every army, this is not really relevant for analyzing the broader situation, or at best tangentially relevant.

"Many, many Israeli politicians have vowed to ethnically cleans if not outright murder Palestinians, for their Greater Israel thing"

And many many Palestinian actors have vowed the same. There are extremists literally in every single country. The difference is whether the extremists are actually running the policy of the government. Israeli Government spokespeople are out there every day explaining the policy and it's clearly not to ethnically cleanse, etc

You can't pick out what one idiot said in one instance and then completely ignore what others said in other instances.

Again, you have to engage with a very simple fact, if you want to analyze this situation objectively. Hamas has vowed to kill as many Israelis as they can for all eternity in the future basically. No sovereign country can allow this to happen to its citizens. Therefore, the only thing Israel can do is fight Hamas and try to destroy its capabilities to attack Israel

War is horrible, but you have to also acknowledge that Hamas has been firing rockets into Israel on and off for 17 years. All other options to stop this have been exhausted.
Son is into R/C Drifting. He's 21 and throws a considereable amount of money at it (though not crazy when you consider what Records/Cassettes/CDs cost in the 80's)

There's a crazy national involvement and it's pretty common to see two dozen guys watching the cars drift around the circut on Thursdays-Sunday nights.

The cars are crazy with LiPO amperages and full suspensions, active cooling, and programmable throttle profiles.

I guess the point is: It's social, and in-person, and has a lot of similarities to something model trains in a communal location would provide.
What gets me is that gmail login lasts...seemingly forever. And for most users, if their e-mail account were to get compromised, it's game over for everything they use, since so many services allow you to reset a password and possibly even remove 2FA with just e-mail verification.

What's even the attack scenario? Someone stealing a session token/cookie? If they can steal an expired one somehow, then there are good odds they could steal a current one, so the short session doesn't matter THAT much. I suppose another scenario is someone not logging out of their accounts on a public computer, but the type of person to do that likely uses "Password123!" as a password anyways.
that's it. thanks.
You would have to make benefits conditional on satisfaction of mental health treatment compliance to get anywhere.
I imagine a future where viruses that target infrastructure could be LLM powered. Sneak a small device into a power plant's network and it collects audio, network traffic, etc and tries to break things. It would periodically reset and try again with a different "seed". It could be hidden in network equipment through social engineering during the sales process, for example, but this way no outbound traffic is needed - so less detectable.

The advantage of an LLM over other solutions would basically be a way to compress an action/knowledge set.
I've heard mummerings that AI might best be used in a swarm/hivemind aspect, so the comparison of AI to an ant/spider is intriguing.
Honestly, I hate to jump on this bandwagon, but I was after some information to help my wife put together some notes on a topic; at first I was coming up with questions we could answer and I'd search for the answers/sources online;

I decided to first try ask an LLM, so I asked Bard some targeted questions and asked for sources, and had all of the answers I needed, conveniently bullet pointed within 3-4 minutes, and all I had to do was go and verify the sources, job done.
> But I don't think I've ever seen any other community (except C++, 20 years ago, perhaps?) being so vocal about wanting to rewrite the whole software ecosystem in their language.

cough NodeJS cough
Google is better than Bing and anything else for my day today work. Few things I miss though :

1. Spam is more than in past. The outrage porn, clickbait headlines etc. are lot more than in past.

2. Dominance of few domains despite poor quality content. For lot of coding related queries, dev.to, hashnode etc. appear in top results despite being clearly spammy.

3. Paywalled content. Most irritating part is sites like medium which appear in top results, have high value content and yet are behind paywall.

Internet is growing and so are Google's problems but I think they are still on top of things.
Generally what's frowned upon is using phrases like "open source" or words like "open" and "free" to describe source-available licenses that are not open source per the Open Source Initiative definition[0] or libre (versus no-cost). There are lot of people (me included) who take a very pedantic view of these terms. Makers of proprietary software sometimes use these terms to unfairly exploit the goodwill associated with actual free/libre and open source software licenses.

A lot of people don't regard BSL-licensed (and other source-available licenses) as much different than any other proprietary license. There will always be the people who object to any proprietary licenses. You'll always offend those people by using a proprietary license. Using precise and correct language with a source-available license like the BSL won't offend those who take open source and free software terminology seriously however.

[0] https://opensource.org/osd/
So he’s extorting $83.5 billion to do his job …or else tank the value of all the snake oil he already sold the public?

The board should fire him immediately.
Unfortunately not. But I am glad for the input I've received so far.
Thanks for telling me. I thought the GIF's would add a laughter or create a funny or playful tone.
> In my very long career, I have yet to hear a good story of someone taking said counter offer and staying very long

I've done so twice and stayed for years afterward in both cases, but this may just be unique to how defense contracting works.
Right, but in both cases you have to pay out of retained earnings. You can't "pay out using borrowed money"! You can borrow to get more cash on hand, and then pay out, but that's not the same thing: dividends are never allowed to take the equity in the company below zero. Dividends are always paid out of profits that have already been realised, and either kept as cash/investments or put into capital.

(Having said that I'm not a corporate accountant so I'm open to correction, but no one has posted any technical details about this matter that make me think I'm mistaken, yet.)

> Borrowing to pay the owners makes "wind down the company" more attractive by letting the relevant decision-makers cut in line.

This bit I don't understand. It reads like a criticism, but what's wrong with winding down a company that's not deploying its capital as efficiently as it could be? (Wrong economically/financially, that is; I've already explained that I'm in sympathy with the effect on customers and workers.)
I'm guessing this is at the request of Google, Amazon, OpenAI, and Microsoft. The goal IMO is for only their AIs to be sanctioned; everything else is criminal.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

"President Biden is convening seven leading AI companies at the White House today – Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI – to announce that the Biden-Harris Administration has secured voluntary commitments from these companies to help move toward safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology."
> I’d have to agree that disabling denorms globally is pretty bad,

and yet, for audio processing, this is an option that most DAWs either implement silently, or offer users the choice, because denormals are inevitable in reverb tails and on most Intel processors they slow things by orders of magnitude.
I have a gap on my resume, I went thru-hiking, sure that is a good enough and maybe positive explanation, but if brought up on an interview I'm going to pass on any offer unless I'm desperate.

I don't want to work for someone that judgemental. I enjoy my work, and making good things, but also work is work. If an employer is going to judge me beyond just the skills I bring to the table, that is a major red flag.

maybe I am not the ideal candidate then, but if you are looking for someone perfect on paper, your going to get someone who _was_ perfect on paper
One thing I dislike about social media is the innate urge to "win some Internet points." It just ends up making most if not all content there as shallow dopamine triggers with short shelf lives. Ie the opposite of "deep work."

As someone who's witty (source: self-evaluation) and a people pleaser, I'm certainly not immune to the phenomeneon; I found the only solution is just avoid it entirely.

I'm not sure I appreciate the difference here (group chat to me is just "micro social media") - maybe it just eliminates some of the toxicity that anonymity and scale bring to the equation?
WA Attorney General sues to block Kroger, Albertsons merger
Tangentially, there is a modern series in the same spirit called Mad Scientist Academy that are quite fun.

https://www.matthewmcelligott.com/newwebsite/books/msa/
Note this paper was published in September 2023.
Maybe it will use whatever definition that the ADL is using?

https://newrepublic.com/post/177993/adl-abandons-pretense-tr...
Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?
Unfortunately, running exit is not a great strategy for running benchmarks. As an example, for zsh specifically, plugin managers are optimized for fast exit.

romkatv did a great write-up and benchmark within the context of zsh[0]. It's a great read.

[0] https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#how-not-to-benchmark
What are the advantages over Obisidian?

- Team oriented

- Integrated with Slack

- ?
*disdain [0][1] (perhaps unless you're writing historical fiction or fantasy)

0: https://grammarist.com/spelling/disdain-or-distain/

1: The only known use of the noun distain is in the late 1500s. OED's only evidence for distain is from 1581, in the writing of Barnaby Rich, soldier and author. It is also recorded as a verb from the Middle English period (1150—1500).
Based on WasmEdge, LlamaEdge apps are <5 MB, self-contained (no complex dependencies), sandboxed (cloud ready), and can be orchestrated by container tools.

LlamaEdge apps are portable across diverse CPUs, GPUs, and OSes. It is super easy to build on them, test locally and then deploy to different devices on the edge or cloud. Try them today!
Not in Sweden. There are a lot of creatively named engineers around here.
Fast-Paced Multiplayer: Client-Server Game Architecture
> company value going down as long as they make money, which they do, because they, like the private equity firms, are effectively transferring value from the company accounts into their accounts.

But the PE firm owns the company. Why shouldn't it transfer money from the company accounts to its own accounts? That's called "paying a dividend".
> I'd rather pay for a search service that values my time and provides real utility, than endure the hidden costs of 'free' services.

How much would you pay for Google search without ads? Or more importantly, how much would the average Google user be willing to pay?

If you live in the US and click 3-4 ads per month, you're generating ~$10-20/mo in revenue for Google from advertisers.

(Like you, I would also love to pay for an ad free Google, but sadly advertisers are willing to pay Google a lot more money than consumers are willing to)
The downside of tc is that it is kinda weird and tricky to get it to operate on incoming packets.

I had to write my own emulator once to simulate a specific commercial satellite terminal. The terminal had the behavior of queuing up packets until they hit a certain threshold or exceeded a time limit and then bursting them out in a big blob. It also "helpfully" reordered small packets to the front of the queue for better latency, which made TCP stacks very cross.
I've got one of the last good Samsung TVs (my opinion). It's pushing 10 years old, one of the first 4k models. There's a separate box for the inputs and it has no ads. I am really reluctant / not sure what I'm going to do the day it goes bad.
> From a compiler's perspective, sure. Not being a compiler, I find that metric not very relevant.

I'm afraid you're just showing a bit if survivorship bias. I can assure you that compilation speed is a critical trait of any programming language, and the only people who don't understand this are those who benefit from all the work invested by predecessors who did.

Think about it for a moment: how would your turnaround speed be if every single time you had to build your project to test a change you had to brace yourself to wait over one hour to get things to work? After a week of enduring that workflow, how much would you be willing to pay to drive down that build time to 10 minutes, and how much more would you fork to only require 1 minute to pull off an end-to-end build?
It’s not holding you back because you are jumping over the low bar. A year is not a particularly long gap and might even go unnoticed. But f someone noticed and asked, sounds like you had a great answer. That’s all you need.

Having no good explanation for a 5 year gap will probably get you filtered out.
I think we are in agreement. From what I remember, Kingspan changed their formulation and didn't repeat the fire testing.

Again, how is it you are allowed to do your own testing, rather than submit samples regularly to a test house? Or perhaps products on higher risk buildings should be spot checked. A sample from the jobsite itself could be tested.

Self- regulation is a joke.
To add context, animals across the world have evolved independently to resemble crabs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Twoslash: Markup for generating rich type information in documentation
I have my own (and many) criticisms of Scrum, but this article is so poorly written that I cannot say whether the author's views align with my own. I couldn't make it beyond the first few paragraphs.
Why nuclear is the best energy
When those people die, model railway companies better be quick to start releasing sub-$10 models to entice the next generation...

And while we're at it, lets add moving block signalling, app-control, departure boards and other 20th century features...
Friction frustrates processes though. If working with a tool is constant pain, then the process is going to suffer.
Are they interoperable with torrents yet?
They do a lot of interrupting the buyer with up-sell attempts. I'd have singled them out as notably bad, among fast food pizza chains, actually.
AdBlock bug behind most recent YouTube slowdown
"Bankrupt" by definition means unable to pay one's debts, doesn't it? Perhaps there's another definition I am unaware of, so that may have been an invalid assumption on my part. But if that wasn't gumby's original point, then what was? Which precise aspect of PE is pathological and parasitic? Assuming the company can pay off all its debts, what exactly has gone wrong (wrong economically/financially; I've already explained I'm sympathetic to other stakeholders like customers and workers).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38987576
Actually, two of the awards are for codebreaking in the (relatively) distant past, far before modern practices.

"Evelyn Akeley's... accomplishments during World War II were exceeded only by those of her students, who broke virtually every Japanese army code they encountered.

"James Lovell... 'the [American] Revolution's one-man National Security Agency.' His pioneering work as a codebreaker and codemaker gave cryptology a singular role in the emergence of our new Nation. Leveraging Lovell's decrypts, George Washington knew of the approach of a British relief force and was able to warn his French allies, thus enabling a decisive victory at Yorktown."
Anecdotally, yes.

Google search for topics I'm unfamiliar with/wanting to learn about all lead to low quality, SEO-optimized to hell, clik-baity sites that are just riddled with ads. I have to add "reddit" to most searches just to find semi-relevant content.

But Google search for topics i'm super familiar with and just need a transactional search to look something up tend to be much better and generally the fastest way to accomplish a task.
Started in 1994 under the Tories, rolled out in 1999 under Labour as the reduced system after DSS withdrew.
Internet-scale web crawlers are hard to hide. You can just set up a bunch of domains, and flag any IPs that repeatedly visit them as likely crawlers; then serve malicious content to the rest.
Google Images is filling up with AI slop to the point of unusability for some purposes, even content that isn't actively engaging in SEO shenanigans is getting pushed to the top. In some cases even the key image that Google displays first on a normal search is fake, like when searching for the "tank man" prioritized showing a fake AI selfie from the mans perspective. It's still there in fact, just not the first result anymore, but Google might have demoted it manually after the backlash.

Looking to browse works by a specific artist? Good luck, Google evidently can't tell the difference between a genuine J. C. Leyendecker piece and anything shat out by a "Leyendecker style" image generation model. Search for "Yoji Shinkawa" and this https://i.imgur.com/RYghaoY.png is currently the first thing you see, which isn't even close to his style, but Google has somehow determined it's the image that best represents him. The full images page shows his actual work but interspersed about half-and-half with AI imitations.

My speculation is that Google prioritizes showing recent results, presumed to be the freshest most up-to-date information, but of course for a historical event like Tiananmen Square or an artist who died in 1951, nearly all of the fresh results past a certain point are AI simulacra.
The first generation of company-focused llm will need to be bespoke. Teams involved with this will learn the necessary abstractions and will build new companies to lower the on-ramp or join the LLM providers to do the same.
An addition that would be useful is to compare ping latency from the VPSs to different cloud providers (big 3?).

The reason is that there are a bunch of useful services like PlanetScale, ClickHouse or CockroachDB that deploy to the big 3, so it would be useful to know which VPS is able to connect faster to them.
> called out using apple for their consumer protection features. I've seen this many times before.

Sure, they make it easy. It's still a straw man to use that to assail American consumer-protection laws, which are largely some of the most robust in the world. (In practice. Not on paper. Plenty of countries have fine models on paper, but they're also easy to ignore.)
bugs.kde.org :)
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