skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there tools you do trust? How broadly do you apply this approach to the use of web applications?
Fair point.

I do think there’s some nuance to that research though - just the act of typing out thoughts alone to a neutral party seems like it would be helpful, regardless of what’s said in response.

However, speaking personally - if I were suicidal, called an emergency line, and got connected to a computer instead of a person: that would feel like a brushoff and make things much, much worse.

My belief is that chatbots can be great for general mental health maintenance but are likely a massive liability for an acutely distressed population in the general case. I have zero faith in the US govt.’s implementation to respect that subtlety.
Dang, you're right, I was misremembering.
It's not a technology, is it? It's absolutely a social construct, a deeply embedded social convention. The bills in my wallet are a technology only if the words printed on the side of a soda can are also technology. The bits on some storage somewhere denoting my bank balance likewise.
We got our copy of the sequel in time for Christmas. It was my 2 year old’s second favorite gift (after her gigantic stuffed cat of course)
10 years, not enough. Once there are children in the picture, one has to be cautious.

25 years, yes. I'd probably drop out of university faster than I did, and work harder at building a web-based business rather than chasing girls.
You can do the same with binaries. Can modify those all you want.

Models are the compiler + makefiles. Dataset is the code.
> The ASA doesn’t want open science because it threatens their business model.

> So what.

100% this. There are far too many things we just do because. There are far too many things where we actively create "harm" by not changing. Where that harm is more by continuing than were we to change. Momentum is a hell of a drug and lobbyists only make this more problematic. You're right that they are rationally acting in their own interest. But we have to consider the difference between public interest and business interest. That's the whole fucking point of a government, is to protect public interests from individual interests. Where is our fucking social contract?
> But either way, if they aren't required, why pay the money?

The way a lot of layoffs work isn't that those fired weren't required but rather that their work load gets spread out to the rest of the org slowing everything down.

For example, HP fired the in house IT staff and instead contracted it out to an offshore IT firm (which was not great). This lead to just about every department creating their own shadow IT group and a lot of things that should be easy to do (like granting permissions) becoming an absolute nightmare.

And where is that "something else"? Stock buybacks. [1]

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/stock_buyback
i was planning to make this like forever. I think it will turn out fantastic when they age. Good work, high praise!
Socal has a lot of places that are damned from a refinery like this too. El Segundo, Wilmington, Torrance, Signal Hill, but also and anywhere downwind of LAX or the Port of LA/LB, plus other industrial centers, or really anywhere because they pull oil from all over the place. Beverly Center mall for example has oil wells hidden on site. Same with Beverly hills highschool. It's probably at least a few million people I'd guess in areas with air quality affected by industry and especially the petroleum industry.

It's amazing how all you hear are crickets on the issue from Sacramento, while the state's own university researchers routinely publish on the issue to deaf ears. I guess it just goes to show where the money and true priorities lie among the legislature.
Like Peter Thiel once said in Zero to One, the point of a monopoly is monopoly profits.
Decentralized and no ICO needed
Some people can be won over by the technical minutiae of a problem alone, regardless of what problem it actually sets out to solve.

Personally I can’t remotely relate to that.
That’s not really the question being decided about Chevron, though. That’s a much bigger question about the constitutionality of the independent agencies themselves.

The question at hand in this case is basically whether or not the judiciary should, and can, exercise its power of review over the actions of these agencies.

Right now the Supreme Court has said, in Chevron, that it should not and that lower courts cannot. This may well change in this current case.
Facial recognition tech has outpaced US laws, don't expect the Feds to catch up
Yeah it's really sad. I just wish I could pin each plugin to a commit hash. It would be incredible and so easy to do.
Dog in Swedish is "hund".
Yeah, that's why data scientists are out there editing the weights rather than cleaning up datasets and rerunning training with different settings.
I just use batch files '1', '2', '3' ... to cd to commonly-used directories. No need for anything special beyond a "qcd.exe" program to write the batch files (e.g., "qcd 1" allows "1" to return to the current working directory.)
Capital -- Money -- represents assets that can be used for things.

Sometimes this is physical, like manufacturing machines that can be used to produce material goods that people want. Sometimes it is virtual, like the monopoly on force that forces people to pay taxes.
Well explained. Apple is requiring developers to pay commission on purchases over a website that users were directed to via the app, OVER THE PERIOD OF SEVEN DAYS! Lol. That should be no more than seven hours.

go to site.com/referral?via=apple with warning label on top "Wait seven days for the price to reduce (or Apple will charge us a commission and we will charge you this commission)."
I'm amazed at the level of push back this concept faces everytime I've suggested it.

HTML email is one of the main facilitators of putting deceptive links in email.

Plain text allows the user to see exactly what is being presented.

And yet every business entity insists on HTML email. Including the internal IT depeartments when discussing corporate email.

I guess the modern world just can't get by without those exploding "congratulations" party popper emojis...
Stopped reading after this:

> Recently
I always wonder why people argue about things like pronouns and immigration when a bigger issue seems to be the wealth gap.

Many countries are democratic and social media makes things viral, so even with bribes and centralized media, I think if people worked together they could elect people who would redistribute the wealth. But a decent number of people seem to be against wealth distribution, and most won't vote for a politician who makes it his entire platform (Bernie Sanders) over someone whose less genuine.

More importantly I wish people would vote for someone who has an engineering mindset and prioritizes how to get common things done (like increase everyone's standards of living by increase efficiency) instead of what kinds of things to get done. Because even though said person can just hire these people, based on how inefficient the government is, I believe the people in charge don't have the capability for even that.
Because an European socialdemocratic society mixing socialism and capitalism it's Satán itself and not "bacán" (cool) at all, sure.
Worm in Swedish is "mask". "Mark" means "ground".
I have difficulty seeing the difficulty of what's happening, or I'm missing the point. I see the situation in a similar way as objects of different weights falling at the same rate--if we think of the object as composed of many independent particles which are affected.

For the case of the water in the pail, each water 'particle' is moving linearly until it bumps into the wall of the pail which diverts it toward the center of the pail. This action causes accumulation near the wall. The same could be done without gravity and water would start as a disk perpendicular to a cylindrical wall then become a ring with the most spread out parts up against the cylinder wall. We can also replace gravity in the pail experiment with linear acceleration, as per the elevator thought experiment.

Edit: I guess the bit I'm not considering is if the local frame is rotating, and the pail appearing to rotate with respect to it, could the water be flat if the pail was non-rotating in the absolute frame? Seems really weird to picture it, but we could measure the radial acceleration of everything except the pail of water to see what's what.
I agree. I mean why else is someone doing a load of work for me just because I tapped a bit of plastic on a device?
There is simply no way around the fact that Apple demanding a cut of sales on an external platform is ridiculous. Steam does not do this. Google does not do this. This would be absolutely absurd for anyone else in any market to do, and this will likely be exhibit C at Apple's inevitable antitrust trial.

Edit:

Re-reading, and I wish that the article was longer. Of course Apple doesn't want to allow side-loading, but they're going to have to eventually, so why not do it proactively and in a way that allows third-party apps to be extra-sandboxed or reviewed? Oh right, because they're Apple. I appreciate the methodology, but a touch of openness will not kill their profits or trust level.
Right, I didn't meant to imply that English got the word from Swedish, just that the author chose a reasonable anglicization that their readers would recognize.
> We're moving back to the office, we're dropping DEI, migrating things to AI.

Are these things 'growing up'? I don't really see them happening in the ways you're describing.

At the tech giants, RTO is quite common, but I also see the creation of countless new companies that were birthed in the pandemic and have healthy remote cultures that benefit from hiring flexibly.

With respect to DEI, it's more at the forefront than ever. It's easier to hire now than it was a decade ago given the layoffs, meaning it's even easier to assess many qualified applicants and validate that you're bringing on fresh, healthy perspectives to your team.

The AI thing I'll concede though. That's been a lot of fun and I do agree is happening across the board.
My PiHole "determines... this is NOT the case" [read in MauryP's voice].

So I have all my telemetry and search options "DISABLED," and PiHole still sinks hundreds of *.apple.com requests, daily (mostly to smoot/icloud).
If you're into this kind of content, https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/ may be fun. There's lots of trivial stuff, but you can find many deep investigations like in this submission too.
Opposed to metaphysical battle?
When even John Gruber is somewhat softly against Apple, you know things are bad.
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HN really should surface these by default.
I only need 100k/year post-tax to be happy. If I can take 4% out per year, that's 2.5m total I need. So give me ~4 years to make that up after tax with some buffer, and then it's a matter of time. If i still enjoy the time spent working, stay. If not, leave.
I think the can that word are printed on is technology the same way a currency that may have writing on it is a technology. The words dontt make the money valuable.
1:1, calling the original functions - sure. Building a good usable interface - that's harder.
The original Quake ran on a CPU.
bravo.

human worth, value of family can actually be measured in $¥€ now with the added benefit of being able to opt out.

But there is another, less savvy controlling idea among the would-be-parents, that is: family through marriage is shaky at best. Mate selection is a wild ride.
Its not a Y but an X if you combine the stick of the axe with the letter Y.
Using alternative keyboards is a nice way to discourage family members and roommates from trying to use your devices.

I'm not so convinced that it provides significant speed or ergonomic advantages.

At the population level, minor improvements can add up. But the cost of switching is high, also.

Thus, overall, the rosiest theoretical benefit is low.
I'm sure that the census and other researchers make a valiant attempt at distinguishing technical and scientific roles, but I don't think it's possible.

How can you determine that a something something service analyst at a random non "tech" company in Illinois is or isn't a programmer? If you don't identify an extremely technical position as a STEM job when it's not named in a particular way, then what are you counting?

Suppose someone does have an IT-related title, but they majored in biology and are working for a paper company in Pennsylvania in the HR department as a programmer. Should they be counted as using their degree? Are they?

What if you are counting employees of a large government organization and for obscure reasons, they call everybody who touches a computer an "IT Specialist"? Then you might be vastly overcounting.

People who have exactly the same title and work in the same small department, even, can differ wildly in their actual roles, too.
Ben's follow up from Jan 12: "Surprised by the Response" (https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-12-ExitResp...).
Yeah there is going to be a big push into Comfy and some very interesting new models coming ^_^
> This isn't actually true anymore. It's actually pretty hard to trick a user and anti-spam software with HTML these days.

I see tons of phishing email using HTML email. The ones that use plaintext tend to be the least convincing ones (often the fill in the blank style) as well. Phishing messages love to include logos, and to hide the URL of the links they include which often are URL shorteners or free website/form/survey builders.

One of the reasons I recommend people use plaintext email is to prevent their email from looking like spam, either to the people getting it or to spam filters. Almost all the spam we see uses HTML. I can't remember the last time I saw an unsubscribe link in a plain text message (I have seen plain text spam with instructions to reply with a certain phrase in the subject line though).
I see the argument that people should be allowed to install whatever they like on their phones as very strong. However that has nothing to do with Apple's fees, costs or value add. It might seem pedantic, but the separation of value and cost is fundamental to how everyone improves their material wellbeing and needs to be protected.

And the argument that Apple is like the Mafia because they can exclude you from something would cast most businesses and all landlords as Mafia-like. That is a position some people hold, but if mafiadom is so embedded and accepted in society it undermines the idea that Apple's is a unique problem and that it will be acted on.
In this example, the html for the card which looks different and the cart with the updated count could be returned. HTMX will swap both with the appropriate element based on the ids of the elements in the Dom and the elements being returned by the server and this won’t cause a whole page refresh or anything.
My ultimate "take" on the entire US v Schwarz is one of Misunderstanding.

Thank you for this discussion in fostering better understandings [e.g. your perspective].

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One of my sick optimisms about generative AI being trained upon all this human creation, is that it may actually lead to the disolution of IP ownership... one can dream =P

PyratB
Yes, the battle against top-posters was lost. But if someone is bottom-posting a reply to something I wrote, I will immediately switch to that myself and use for that conversation. No point in trying to blend in with the top-posters when they are not watching. They are still wrong even if they won.
Seems to be on everyone's minds today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39015876
Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs [pdf]
Tabby is another alternative.

https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby
I made a similar version of this some time ago.

www.timeblocker.dev

If there's interest I might expand it.

One of the features I'm proud of is that it's entirely client-side encrypted. The keys are stored locally, the server cannot decrypt your data.
Architects in Conversation: To Build for Art – Peter Zumthor [video]
My 4 year old son has an iPhone, and we’d sooner homeschool him than keep him enrolled if the only schools we could send afford would confiscate or ban it.

I recognize we’re an exception, but he has type 1 diabetes, and his iPhone is essentially a medical device that sends us updates on his glucose levels throughout the day.

I’d hope schools at least make exceptions for cases like this.
Dividends maybe.
Haha, thanks ,yep. I learned all this when I lived in the Yukon and sunset takes about 2 hours...
Greg Lehey records some relevant history of the daemon logo prior to Lasseter's cover (along with a classic daemon t-shirt story) at http://www.lemis.com/grog/whyadaemon.html.
I am going to do the HN thing and respond to the strongest possible interpretation.

And that is for me - there are people who inherit fortunes, who by virtue of having fortunes, and who invest in anything sensible, even an index, will never need to work and contribute, and are virtual kings. This is a hard kink to iron out in capitalism.

In addition those who have fortunes and decide to work hard may direct that work into getting more unfair advantages (lobbying, for example, to ban better mousetraps) rather than doing stuff for the greater good (making better mousetraps). I think this too is a problem.

Capitalism + government intervention + free speech/debate might be as good as it can be for now, until abundance.
I see the exact hypocrisy from the opposite side too. Praising pirating while treating AI as crime against humanity.
I'm not sure if this will help since it sounds a bit different than what I experienced, but try changing the battery. Our copy had some odd behavior when it started dying, but hadn't completely failed yet.
From my reading, part of Chevron was about whether Congress had delegated authority to an agency.

> When a challenge to an agency construction of a statutory provision, fairly conceptualized, really centers on the wisdom of the agency's policy, rather than whether it is a reasonable choice within a gap left open by Congress, the challenge must fail.

> The power of an administrative agency to administer a congressionally created program necessarily requires the formulation of policy and the making of rules to fill any gap left, implicitly or explicitly, by Congress. If Congress has explicitly left a gap for the agency to fill, there is an express delegation of authority to the agency to elucidate a specific provision of the statute by regulation.
The test they performed recently streamed ~265mbps from Psyche to Earth
There was a time I configured my email client to use plain text, but I no longer remember why I did that. Today I find it strangely annoying to receive an email thread reply in plain text which strips all the formatting from the entire thread.

Bottom posting died with usenet and I don't miss it. It was mostly a form of gatekeeping as far as I remember.
My wife bought this for our 6 year old when he was 3 and he loved it. She also bought a bunch of the other science books for babies. He insisted that I read "general relativity for babies" multiple times every night for months. He loved that I used a bendable surface to demonstrate warping space with mass. I was actually blown away that he was understanding the concepts, which I credit the books for. Adults love these books, too. Hell, for what it's worth I have a science degree and I love these books. YouTube has videos of the author reading each book if you want to preview them. I thought they were going to be a gimmick and useless, but I recommend checking them out.
If I were to put on my conspiratorial hat, this is exactly what those in positions of power want us to be arguing about.
These narratives and the constant fuelling of the outrage fire are constantly pushed by the media and "influencers". I'm not saying that they are somehow complicit in a conspiracy, but more-so looking to make money from the elevated engagement derived from outrage.

As long as we keep fighting amongst each other about various ideological issues, we're never going to make progress on the things posing an existential threat.
Great. I hope that you now have time to reflect on the impact your products have on humanity.
My point is, that even "disabling" spotlight outbound searches, keystrokes for local searches shouldn't still be sent into the iCloud [which they still are].

Not everybody uses Spotlight for global search. Disabling this "feature" should actually disable it.
> 'hunn'

hund, not hunn
There are multiple factors.

People are easily distracted.

They can be also fooled by claiming that something is cause of something else (that it actually is not).

There are also foreign adversaries that take advantage of asymmetry that Western freedom of speech offers for them.
A wonderful example of the human propensity to "hallucinate" meaning starting from a random connection (there's an undoin uncommon specific word for that - also noticeable in children and psych).

There is a smoking gun in one of the later comments: https://i.stack.imgur.com/bDRX5m.jpg
I’m not offering it; IMO stuff at this scale should be ruminated upon. Summaries and snap judgements will be wrong.
> When the brute search fails, an extra geometric construction is randomly added (like adding a midpoint of a certain line) to see if brute search using that extra raw material might work

That's exactly how I was taught geometry in school and I hated it with my all guts. Only after making it into the math department of the university I learned to do it properly and to enjoy it.
> . To that end, it makes no sense to either love or be angry at “Google”

I do love the weird qualifier of 'to that end'.

Would love to see a follow up in 6-12 months when the culture's flavor-aid is cleared out of their system.
> a 90 day salary clawback if they ‘leave their job’

This is what you get, ladies and gentlemen, without unions and labour right.

Coming soon, to us too.
Yup. And experience[1] says that even if you think it's great and/or the team is great today things can change in such a way as to really suck in the future.

[1]I'm looking at you in particular evernote.
Pitchfork Hit with Layoffs as It's Folded into GQ Magazine
Personally, I can't see the answer being "yellow", as this is all about nouns and tangible objects (like things and animals).

Having said that, I enjoyed how the case was built on the faded outline, while this entire spot of the ball shows faded black print, as may be observed by the outlines of the infamous "Y".

(I'd rather opt for the "yxa" approach, probably the route taken by someone just browsing image search for quick ideas and failing to realize that this is not an English word. — Non-indo-european languages and scripts do exist.)
It’s the Hanlon’s at work.
It’s also worth noting that the “developers” who are able to escape this all need Apple’s permission and Apple almost exclusively grants permission to megacorps that could single-handedly hurt Apple’s business were they to protest. Smaller (which in this case doesn’t necessarily mean “small”) players are still locked in. This has the effect of further entrenching Big Tech since they can escape the confiscatory Apple tax while smaller competitors cannot.