skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. Competition is just an incentive structure for athletes. Even the word "competition" stems from the Latin words "com" and "petere" and means "strive with". Not "strive against". Strive with. We just need other humans to challenge us when we're don't feel challenged enough or intrinsic motivation doesn't justify the time/effort being spent.

So, again, the goal of the competition is to incentivize athletes to show their best. Accidentally, we need some way of comparing results here, and that's where the judging system comes into play. It has (or rather should have) a nice bonus of giving feedback to the athletes on what to improve upon.

Unfortunately, the majority of people in sports equate sports with competitions. Even some definitions of sports contain clauses like "...in a competitive fashion...". They strongly believe that without competition, there is no sports component.

Yet, every four years, the world rediscovers a unique Norwegian sports policy for children. [1][2] They banned competitions for kids till the age of 11 in the late 1970s. You can have competitions, technically, but you are prohibited from ranking kids and publishing results with rankings. That, of course, is based on the studies of the reasons behind drop-out from sports rates and the science of motivation (self-determination theory, mainly). As a result, Norway has 1st rank in medals in the Winter Olympics and 9th in both summer and winter (they even won gold in beach volleyball!) and the highest sports participation rates in the world (9 out of 10 kids and 7 out of 10 adults, I believe). Sports != competitions indeed.

Another example I like is Magnus Carlsen refusing to participate in the Worlds Chess Championships for the 11th time because it simply doesn't challenge him anymore. [3] Again, competitions are not about "finding who's the best" (that's a byproduct). It's about challenging to show an athlete's best. In the case of Magnus it failed to achieve this goal.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/kidspost/2022/03/03/norway-is...

[2] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/article-norw...

[3] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11034789/Magnus-Car...
Indeed, I thought the user experience was great. Simple way to download, install and start: everything just worked.
Although Australia has social welfare, minimum living wage, medicare for those that can't afford private health cover, and lacks large roving gangs of package thieves, etc.
I disagree completely. Once you commit to a very well understood market like consumer vehicles, your growth potential is going to be much more grounded in reality, which means TSLA goes down, which means Tesla has less to work with.
Secondly that is really not where their strength lies. Car manufacturing is a fairly competitive market so any innovations they can came up with will only result in a very temporary lead.
Plus all the talent they recruited would be wasted if they were just building slightly up market EVs.

I could see Tesla branching out in many sectors and become something like the new Samsung/Siemens/Mitsubishi...etc.
Consciousness is not even really a well defined concept, so for something that's already nebulously defined to be an illusion doesn't make sense.
Careful - overuse (such as with plants) might promote resistance in the malaria chain…
I'd argue that China is pretty bad at this, it's a developed country indeed but has the same CO2 per capita as France when excluding the exports, that's a very bad result and that's why it should be included since it's a big polluter.

Usually developed countries are emitting less, the cause of that abnormally bad result is the high number of coal plants in China.
If you want that kind of experience, only commercial Lisps come close to it.
But a single image does not stretch the correct way, when you have a bigger button to make. Like:

left-top corner: no stretch
left: stretch vertically
top: stretch horizontally
...

and so on.

I still remember learning to make the layout of a whole page as a table layout in school, with images in table cells for drawing nice borders around sections of the website. And we did that with GIMP!
One 'solution' for this might be just to let viewers judge. Have some kind of live voting system, and then this might change skating incentives to align closer with the aesthetic preferences of the actual audience.
Seems like something reasonable like a few months in jail would very quickly solve this. It would not be too harsh punishment to stop this sort of theft.
Is there a reason there isn't a default signing key generated for each cloned/created repo, or an easy option to toggle to do the same?

Knowing a commit came from one specific clone of a repo would be useful, even if it ended up with more than one key per user. (you could even sign a set of keys to attest that they are you)
This continually blows my mind. Even Gmail is this way. If they just put a flex box in there it'd be mostly fine.
I still use &nbsp; to put more than one space between 2 words in text. this requirement pops up surprisingly often. Too lazy to wrap them in spans and use paddings!
Clay Foundation Model – An open source AI model for Earth
Not really. You can use small models for task like text classification etc (traditional nlp) and those run in pretty much anything. We're talking about BERT-like models like distillbert for example.

Now, models that have "reasoning" as an emergent property... I haven't seen anthing under 3B that's capable of making anything useful. The smaller I've seen is litellama and while it's not 100% useless, it's really just an experiment.

Also, everything requires new and/or expensive hardware. For GPU you really are about 1k€ at minumum for something decent for running models. CPU inference is way slower and forget about anythin that has no AVX and preferably AVX2.

I try models on my old thinkpad x260 with 8Gb ram, which is perfectly capable for developing stuff and those small task oriented I've told you about, but even though I've tried everything under the sun, with quantization etc, it's safe to say you can only run decent LLMs with a decent inference speed with expensive hardware now.

Now, if you want task like, language detection, classifying text into categories, etc, very basic Question Answering, then go on HugginFace and try youself, you'll be capable of running most models on modest hardware.

In fact, I have a website (https://github.com/iagovar/cometocoruna/tree/main) where I'm using a small flask server in my data pipeline to extract event information from text blobs I get scraping sites. That runs every day in an old Atom + 4Gb RAM laptop that I use as sever.

Experts in the field say that might change (somewhat) with mamba models, but I can't really say more.

I've been playing with the idea of dumping some money. But I'm 36, unemployed and just got into coding about 1.5 years ago, so until I secure some income I don't want to hit my saving hard, this is not the US where I can land a job easy (Junior looking for job, just in case someone here needs one).
The set of models we're discussing haven't.

You were derailing with "reason" for no reason, so I pointed it out. That doesn't mean logic should be applied as some sort of universal standard.
I knew about similar split brain experiments, and although I agree to the illusory component of consciousness, these nonetheless do not answer my original question on the observing component of it. Thank you for sharing!
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That's a blast from the past. I remember image maps and the struggle to put one on my site. It was called DeskNexus.com sometime in the early to mid 1990s. It was so long ago that I forget when it was. My idea was to have a website as your desktop instead of your computer so you could access it anywhere.
Tangential topic, but I've been thinking about that part of the bible recently.

It makes no sense to me.

I don't mean that God, supposedly all good and all knowing, didn't know about the serpent and intervene at the time — despite Christian theology being monotheist, I think the original tales were polytheistic, and the deity of the Garden of Eden was never meant to have those attributes[0].

I mean why was it appropriate to punish them for something they did in a state of naivety, and which was, within the logic of the story, both prior to and the direct cause of gaining knowledge of the difference between good and evil? It's like your parents suing you to recover the cost of sending you to school.

[0] Further tangent: if they're al the same god, why did it take 6 days to make the world (well, cosmos) and all the things in it, but 40 days to flood the Earth to cleanse it of all human and animal life except for the ark? It's fine if they're different gods, a creator deity with all that cosmic power doesn't need to care so much about small details like good and evil, and a smaller and more personal god that does care about good and evil doesn't need to have such cosmic power.
The Apple car apparently still exists
I hate EVs with passion, but Tesla is the only EV manufacturer without major quality issues (it randomly explodes far less often).
Oh wait, we better make it work in IE6!

How much we were held back by backward compatibility before useful standards for things came ... But nowadays I just ignore non-standard styling. Just use the standard, because support is sufficient and browsers not supporting the standard sufficiently to make the website unusable are rare. By using the standard one also gives their developers a set target to get implemented.
I understand tradeoffs & 'technical reasons'. But, a web framework that makes specifying tiny useful HTML edits noticeably harder in code than similar changes would be in plain-text strikes me as defective. That's especially true for a broadly-useful 'global attribute' – supported on all HTML elements – like TITLE.

Looking at the precedents in code near what you've linked, for how possibly-arbitrary STYLE and CLASS and COLSPAN and CELLPADDING and WIDTH attributes are set, it's hard to see why it shouldn't be as easy as something like:

; (tr (td bgcolor black vspace 5 title "RIP Name (YYYY-YYYY)"))

Of course, it might not yet be that easy.

But if that's hard to support, with a couple low-risk broadly-beneficial lines elsewhere, then rumors of Arc's concise expressive power seem exaggerated.
.ptsd files
This is only iOS
Click on + for Fedora and Ubuntu and check "Stability"
I use Scrivener with iCloud, and it Just Works. Any sync issues - I've had a few, but they're not common - are down to iCloud. And Scrivener stores a very complete list of version backups, so you can always go back if something goes horribly wrong.

Having said that - it is an infuriating piece of software. It feels like it was designed by someone who has some talent for solving small problems, but no clue at all how to combine them into a unified, elegant, intuitive app.

The compile-to-output format feature should be studied in schools as a perfect example of how not to implement something.

But... I still find it very useful for organising thoughts and for combining them while writing. On the hand a lot of it is a mess, on the other the core features have really helped to improve my workflow.
I feel like this sort of analysis ignores the fact that this is a significant hobby and source of joy for many people.

It's probably much more carbon intensive for me to build a bookshelf rather than buying an IKEA one.

I'm not really that interested in becoming a "perfectly optimal cog". If you follow that as a main goal, you end up plugged into VR on an IV drip or something because it's "carbon efficient".
Oeh, I'm down for an new qwerty phone
Yes! Those were made with the now obsolete <frameset> tag. An example here: https://www.quackit.com/html/html_4/tags/html_frameset_tag.c...

In fact, I used them too around 2001 or so for my website when I did not enough programming/scripting to add a common layout to all content pages. That's how I originally implemented a two column layout: a narrow frame on the left for navigation links and a wide one on the right for content. I don't do it anymore, of course. I do know how to program now and generate my HTML website using a tiny Common Lisp program that adds common headers and footers to all my web pages.
Yep, origin of the name.
It’s antithesis of ‘sweet spot’ between dumb and smart.

Thing should either be dumb and do everything you want with a button, or smart and then at least you get programmability.

For simple things like lights it’s usually better use of time to buy Yeelight nightlight and then you get to control it through HomeKit:home assistant/their app.
"Crusty was running on all original hardware"

If you don't count swapping the RAM, clock crystal, and the entire power supply.

As others have said, given the rarity of these machines, it's just sad to see them mistreated. One day there won't be any left, and stuff like this only makes that day come sooner.
A site to help you find the first name of your future child.
How secure is that, though?
Ah... the one-pixel transparent GIF trick (I sometimes, still use it, for iOS stuff -but for different reasons). Brings back memories of my halcyon days...

I pine for the days, when all Web pages looked like so: https://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/
That "cost" ignores the ecosystem of Java implementations, including AOT ones, embedded deployments, and real time implementations.

Also lets not forget the influence of Lisp/Scheme people like Guy Steele on how Java turned out.

"We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

Full Lisp would have been better, but apparently Lisps in desguise like Dylan and Julia, are the best mainstream is willing to take on.
There's a whole genre in demoscene dedicated to 4kb productions. Most popular example till the current date is Elevated (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGdUDGo2Gxw), which in an entirely different way, provides also an incredibly good cinematic feeling. Made by wizards it must be.
The perfect gem to manage the content of a Ruby course
That's not very hard, they are documented to death and back.
Looking back at it, the weirdest thing in the list have to be pixel fonts. Back then I used them and I liked them, but today it seems like a foolish gimmick. My only thought is that it's a testament to the fact those days were for young people and they mostly didn't have issues with their sight. Today we are starting to think about reading glasses and the web is ubiquitous so readable content is beating pretty content (whatever pretty means).
> I'm trying still...

Don't worry, you got this. Web development has become a lot simpler since then, after all.
If this is the answer, YIKES!
All this growth is because A CEO is accountable to the shareholders and not the customers. Customers may be happy but if shareholders value the company at $215 billion dollars you had better find a way to get there. Until Netflix starts losing money due to ads, they have to keep pushing them. User experience be damned as long as more money is rolling in.

I think the strategy is to keep pushing until an inflection point is reached and then back off and adjust. Otherwise not trying ads could cost billions.
Especially because of the low quality of the surveillance process - error prone, abuse prone, never respecting the agreed boundaries, and and and. I believe the problems are not with the surveillance per se, but with the people ordering and handling it. But you can't have one without the other so yes I fully agree: more surveillance as a solution is just wrong.
That's a different bug (CVE-2024-0517 vs CVE-2024-0519)
> There is no inherent need of competition for every sport in my opinion

I disagree. Competition is a defining property of ‘sport’.

What’s wrong with calling figure skating an art form? Nobody calls ballet or violin playing sports [1], but there are “prices, juries, etc” for them.

I would split various activities in a group where objective measurements are more or less possible (they never fully are) and one where they aren’t.

The first would consist of:

- games, where your opponent has significant influence on your behavior or performance (basketball, judo, billiards, etc). Basically, if you can play defensively, it’s a game.

- sports, where they don’t (archery, skiing, all forms of athletics; I would include the jumping events, even though your opponent’s performance may significantly affect your strategy. Etc.)

The second would be ‘arts’.

[1] if you look at the modern Olympics, painting and other art forms were events at some time, but that, but even then, did people call those sports?
Yeah not far removed from the fungible soul concept

Built from the same shaky foundation and shared desire for it to exist

One hit upside the head and you’re a completely different person. (Or dietary change with different microbacteria, or following heavy psychedelics use, etc…)
The elephant in the room is the way sometimes whole companies need to migrate away from a highly optimized workflow in order to conform to some non-custom software, specifically because the workflow is not extremely generic. It doesn't take too many of these packages before optimization and efficiency are beyond the horizon and no longer in the rear-view mirror. The electronic equivalent of one paper cut at a time for everyone who touches it.

This can lead to ingrained violations of Conway's Law up and down the line.

It can be more difficult to see the forest for the trees when the elephant has grown bigger than the room.
I think the real game changer is using consumer smartphone grade SoCs for visual based nav+target guidance. The same $500 drone that can navigate through a GNSS denied environment and target a person, that's scarier than manually flying them one by one trying to beat signal jamming. Oh, and they scale better - no operator needed.
The gist is only to create the dataset not to fine tune
You are extremely close to having it all figured out. My then friend Hugo Krop[1] realized that something didn't add up but also missed the required background which is where I was brought in. I figured out how the demo was rigged and told him, that was the end of that. Interestingly: Pieper did go for it, and Pieper wasn't exactly dumb himself. I never really got that bit, he must have realized it was a scam. The demo was held in a building on the Sarphatikade in Amsterdam.

[1] Of 'TextLite' fame, deceased, very colorful, and later on a scammer in his own right.
Ask HN: Devs, can we please verify Gmail email addresses when users sign up?
Basically, I am asking my fellow developers who allow users to use a "guest checkout" or when signing up to a site or service to please, please verify the email address used when it points to gmail.com with an email, supplying a link that is basically "This not you?" to remove it.

Please also add logic to remove the dot from the email address when matching against your DB.

Gmail does not honor the dot in the name portion of the email address. Both of these point to someuser@gmail.com:
some.user
s.omeuser
someu.ser
..etc.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en

This means that when a user signs up, you really need to match against the dotless name and not what they supplied verbatim.

Some background on why I am posting this:

I recently had to send a regular _physical postal letter_ to someone halfway across the country to tell them to stop using my email address when signing up (I've gotten their address from past order receipts). I've also had to contact organizations directly when trying to delete accounts because they also lock the account behind a phone number text verification or some other pseudo 2FA. This user is a constant thorn in my side, especially when I automatically get signed up to loads of marketing emails.

As an example: This idiot decided to sign up to Shop.com using their App. I was able to log in to the account, but I cannot remove it, nor change any settings because it sends a text to the user as a "security" measure. I guess it works, but this is a HUGE problem when they didn't verify the email as the user to begin with. I have just now contacted them to hopefully rectify this situation.

Anyway, I hope everyone understands just how frustrating this can be when you have someone who is technologically inept decides to use your email address when they don't have their own, and you do not verify the email address.
It's still accurate in the sense of proximate cause. Each theft event is a singular event composed of one or possibly multiple items being stolen.
this is why i avoid flying these days. if its anything like other industries then corners are being cut left and right, employees underpaid and overworked.
> Blindsight

> It carries a crew of five cutting-edge transhuman hyper-specialists, of whom one is a genetically reincarnated vampire who acts as the nominal mission commander.

Space vampire eh?
I somehow was _immensely lucky_ to have joined a company that IPO'd shortly after joining. As a mid level engineer I sold my shares for literally $140,000 after tax, in total (as in, from selling all of my vested shares as they vested) despite not staying for all vesting rounds.

This being despite receiving a salary of only around $80-90k. I've never once considered shares to be something to depend on, but man can they be life-changing if you're in the right place at the right time.
If you have good writing skills, sounds like you do and decent technical chops, try finding roles in technical writing. Amazon hires doc writers that need to be technically proficient while having excellent writing skills.
Yeah Tesla totally doesn’t need to spin off its AI and let Musk become further distracted. It’s fine to be dabbling in all these things because it’s actually a cohesive vision that’ll come together eventually. Like he said on the call yesterday, the cars are just robots with wheels, and the robots without wheels are coming soon. Would just be good to have more focus from Elon, and more growth in general which seems like it will be coming lest their competitors get the better of them.
Citation, as they say, fucking needed.
The problem with rent-to-use is that you pay a lot and you also get bugs that are never fixed, and all the usual issues. If updates were rock solid, or near enough, there would be less hostility.

And there should always be a read-only option that can get a project into a transferrable output format, so your work isn't perpetually locked inside a subscription.

That's really the only difference between paid annual updates and rent-to-use. One allows you to keep using the software until the OS around it stops being current. The other isn't just a subscription to the software, it's a lock around your work.