skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dupe with no new information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39146385

(Though I'm betting there's a followup in a week or two where they admit that it was once again a DDoS attack they were unable to mitigate.)
Has the author ever been to The Netherlands. I wouldn’t consider that climate “mild”
Every time I read a recommendation for webview/tauri/electron/etc. I always ask myself “what about datagrids, docking tabs, context menus, etc.?”
> I would have thought that Microsoft would put more TLC into a core part of their enterprise offering.

which of their other pieces of software are any better?
He has like 4 or 5 videos that can be watched before that one where all of that is covered. He goes over stuff like writing back prop from scratch and implementing layers without torch.
I've instructed my kids to avoid public transit, and drive as much as possible, for totally different reasons....

https://nypost.com/2022/10/11/nyc-subway-murders-jump-to-hig...
A facility like that should have been off limits to be honest.
No. There are pockets within even large companies that have extremely intelligent people, and basically feel like a startup.

You can work in a large company, and still accomplish amazing things. But you have to avoid at all costs not being in an area of bright, intelligent people with leadership that protects it from having to be just another cog in the machine.
Emits nothing only if you ignore the engine. Some studies suggest that human CO2 emissions increase eightfold while exercising.
MS's core product offering is the same as AWS being an already approved vendor to buy from, so no one has to go through approvals process for them again. Thus they are a defacto monopoly within large organizations. Who cares what the actual value add is it checks all the boxes required by law and they have a huge expense account to get the win.
Yep, I have phrased it badly. Meant that the rail death number feels too high.

clarified. thanks
I do agree that empathy plays a big part.

However, just like with drivers, often times the cyclists have negligent (or reckless) factors against them as well, which is often used to downplay the contribution of any reckless or negligent actions of the driver. For example, about 20% of cyclist-vehicle fatalities involve cyclist DUI. About 60% of cyclist fatalities are not wearing a helmet despite recommendations and applicaible laws. That's why most cycling-vehicle deaths are handled in civil cases - a lower burden of proof and you can still get a payout even if the cyclist had some level of contributory negligence depending on the state.
It’s good to document seeing things such as
A. They don’t respond to radio calls (spy planes)
B. Show up on radar (broken spy plane)
C. No IFF (identify friend or foe)
D. Have a team to investigate these occurrences when reported (tell spy agency their equipment is broke)
E. Close reports when it’s our own equipment
F. Document equipment issues which register faulty indications.

It fits a little better when UFO/UAP doesn’t immediately push your mind into tall grey beings in a unique ship or little green men in a flying saucer.

These programs have multiple agendas. Push for the interesting one, hide the real one. The amount of money these companies get keeps engineers busy and butts in seats.

Look at a few contracts from DIA 2022. https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/3148...
Exponential math is huge too.
PowerPoint is incredible! It lays out my slides much better than I can, and finds good images too!
I 100% agree that in office doesn't make up for a bad work culture. But I don't think that negates that being in-office with a good work culture can have significant benefits over being remote with a good work culture.

Also, my issue isn't just with "new hires", it's with new inexperienced hires. I started my career in a company that had a "boot camp"-like training environment for new grads, and I found it hugely, hugely beneficial for both learning new things and for developing strong relationships that have lasted 25 years later. I disagree that kind of experience can be replicated over Teams, though I fully acknowledge that kind of experience is rare to begin with.
> You can neglect new hires just as effectively in an office, and you can support new hires just as effectively over Teams.

My experience is that some people are just much less likely to ask questions over Slack or start a Zoom call, which hurts them.

My productivity is higher if I don't have people asking me stuff, but if those questions just never get asked it's bad for new hires' growth.

There might be ways to fix this but I don't know what they are. Just telling people "feel free to ask questions whenever" doesn't always work. Having regular meetings just results in people withholding questions until those meetings.

I don't think it's possible to lower the bar for questions to the same level as just opening your mouth and speaking, maybe with a constant Zoom call but no-one wants to do that.
People make claims here all the time without evidence and don't get downvoted. How absurd.
I assume you mean by auditory information. Echolocation pertains specifically to the use of echoes to determine location, which would not help at all in this case, with the granularity required.

Even assuming that auditory information it is, I am unsure if it enables mimicry as much as visual information, which apart from being our predominant sense, it gives clear clue as to which movement led to which action/sound
Derek Parfait is one of the greatest philosophers in my opinion. He died too young, but his philosophy can be called contemporary.

If you're interested, his book "Reasons and Persons" is central and quite accessible. Part 1 is boring to some, but can safely be skipped in that case.
There's a total lack of "lane discipline" (as Clarkson would say) in the US. In fact I'd argue that it's not a lack of discipline, but just a lack of understanding of how you should drive on a highway.

People tend to migrate to the "fast" lanes (the left), so you naturally end up with people either passing on the right or tailgating them. Of course, you should always be in the right lanes except for passing.

I do wonder if let's say there's someone in lane 3 of 4 going slower than the limit and you can pass them safely on the right in lane 1 that it's probably safer to just do that (assuming you're not flying along!) than moving over 3 lanes to the left, passing then moving 3 over back to the right.
So annoying, it detects where I'm connecting from and redirects changing the language
Tim Cook's Apple has all the stubbornness, arrogance of Steve Jobs's Apple while completely lack Steve Jobs's wisdom and courage to change direction.

It has now fully becomes an Operation, Sales and Marketing company.
Unfortunately, it's a widespread misconception that countries "antagonize" Russia, and even worse that this is somehow a "civil" war.

Make no mistake, Russia is the aggressor here. And they've done a really good job with the misinformation campaign.

There is no diplomacy with Russia, only a show of overwhelming force. Period.
I must have expressed it poorly, because my conjecture seems to apply equally to blind people. Looking back, maybe it's because I wrote "see and hear"? Just an artifact of my perspective as a hard-of-hearing person who relies heavily on lipreading. I suspect when blind people hear speech, or read with braille, they mirror the muscle movements involved, as if they were speaking the words themselves. Sight isn't required for that. Neither is hearing. The deaf-blind can learn sign language through feeling the motion of the signs. I suspect it all works the same way, hearing language, seeing language, feeling language acted out physically - the audience understands it by acting out the same motions themselves, internally.
I jumped to Github thinking this is would be a free resource (with all due respect to the author work).

What free resources are available and recommended in the "from scratch vein"?
Hmm, I wonder if it serves a societal purpose. As far as I can remember, catching my parents in "the big Santa lie" was the first time that I realized that adults are full of crap. This is a valuable lesson, right? But I felt so betrayed!

It was the beginning of my journey into fact-based reasoning, naturalism, etc. I distinctively remember thinking: I will never believe in magic again!

I started asking too many questions at catholic Sunday school, and the Sunday school teacher and I decided it was best that we part ways.

I am over 40 now, but this is such a strong and important memory. I am still a little pissed off about it. This is hilarious, and maybe a bit profound.
Read his Wikipedia, wow he is amazing. Can you post a thread about his inventions and what it was like working with him?
I have to say:

I have had to call apple quite a number of times for product issues. I have almost always left a happier customer.

I know folks who work in CS at Apple. They put up with a lot of nonsense from end users (they have good work stories for sure). They are paid well (living wage), they get stock options, and all of them LOVE their job. Customer support and loving your job is fuckin rare.

I have done CC processing in the past. Candidly the 5-7 percent you pay to do it yourself has the hidden cost of managing charge backs. As a small developer that's NOT something I want to do for a personal/side/small project.

The apple users love it because they KNOW they can call, cancel and get a refund... (and when they dont it's probably because they have been abusing the system, but I digress).

SO here is a company that makes a high quality product, charges obscene margins based on brand, doesn't fuck over it staff (apple employee you pee in a bottle lately, you making good money?), has rabidly loyal customers, and seems intent on not turning them into a product or handing their shit over to the government...

I'm not sure from where I sit, where I have a right to complain about the 30 percent transaction tax.
> wan too

That mistake looks like the result of a voice-to-text conversion; I wouldn't be surprised if it was proof read, but by text-to-speech which would hide that mistake in the other direction, too.
> At what point does sufficiently advanced technology become not human?

When it's not obviously just an airplane.
The alternative is maybe to work on their competive edge for the future instead.
Yeah this is the irony: whether or not climate change is bad is relative, like everything else.

(Tongue in cheek, but there’s a nugget of truth)
> That number (edit: rail deaths) feels too high. Other than major train collisions/derailments, is it even possible to die because of trains ?

Pedestrians and others are struck by rail vehicles regularly. Additionally, where rails come into contact with other pathways, they are a hazard to pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists and sometimes even cars when railway is poorly designed or implemented.
I recall plenty of people disliking IFTTT from the very start because of this. Web 2.0 was born in lots of doubt and IFTTT was hyped through the roof. Anyone remember Yahoo Pipes?

What's wrong with Node-RED as an alternative?
Both those accusations are colorable and have non-inflammatory interpretations.

For example, sociologically speaking, Israel is a settler-colonialist state. What activists don't acknowledge is that the concept of "settler-colonialism" was invented to describe the distinction between extractive colonialism, of the King Leopold of Belgium type, and the long-term sustainable kind, of the New Zealand type. It was a way of working out why some human migration seems to "work" and others don't. Later --- I think probably in part due to the abuses of "settlers" within Israel, in the West Bank --- the term became an epithet. I suspect it's used largely by people who don't know the meaning.

Similarly, there's a colloquial meaning to the word "genocide" that doesn't intersect with the legal meaning. It's any campaign of mass violence directed at a race or creed. That meaning is dilutive of the original concept of genocide, which really did mean an effort to erase (through murder, sterilization, or kidnapping) an entire ethnicity. But it has meaning nonetheless.

However justified the military operation of Gaza might be, it would be difficult for a supporter of the IDF to argue that it doesn't consistute mass violence targeting Palestinians, even if it pretty clearly doesn't have either the intention or the potential to erase the Palestinian identity (I feel like if you asked an activist selected at random for a percentage of Palestinians killed in Gaza, you'd get a double-digit number from most of them, which of course not even close).
beats me. some people have emotional reactions to hypotheses around the UAP phenomenon. it's not that surprising given the implications of if it is due to non-human intelligence, but it's annoying that speculative theorizing about this is treated the way it is compared to other mysteries.
Poor Man's 3D Tomography
>If there's a command center under a hospital, then you don't bomb the hospital.

Thats not what the geneva convention says.
Blizzard hasn't released a new game for macOS since Heroes of the storm back in 2015 and valve has pulled support for Steam VR on mac and won't even bother updating most of their games to intel 64 bit binaries in order to get them working even under rosetta. Also, they won't release CSGO2 for macOS, proton is not supported on macos nor do they have any immediate plans to update steam to a universal binary for AS macs.
Are you really surprised lol. MS solutions have always been half baked at best and always sold as part of Windows licensing for most enterprises.

Oh? You have out Windows 11 Pro/Enterprise for 1000+ licenses. We will throw in O365 for a year to get the org fully hooked.

Oh, need windows Active Directory as well? We can add 200 licenses with your existing windows licenses for 1-2 years.

(2 years later) oh your org is downsizing the internal ad sys admins? Don’t worry we got you covered with Azure AD!! Just cough up $250K every quarter. That’s like 1 senior SDE!!1

Oh hey we also have Windows VDIs, Azure Cloud, and other shit. Get into our walled garden. Never leave.
It's funny you say that, because it's true. I didn't notice. A contractor called and we tried setting up a Teams meeting so he could show me some stuff, and it just didn't work. So we quickly switched over to another tool that he uses for showing his screen, and I put my phone in "speaker" mode. It never occurred to either of us that Teams had actually gone down. Each of us assumed it was our IT.
I think the "ostensibly" has a lot to do with it. I am Christian and never told my kids Santa Claus was real.

On the other hand there is no harm in stories. I also do not want my kids to believe something just because I believe it. They should think for themselves and to do otherwise it is dishonest.

I do agree it is sometimes odd. I found myself trying to explain to a bewildered Sikh guy on Twitter why British society gets upset when people tell kids that Santa Claus is not real but is fine with people telling kids that Jesus is not real.
Why are you arguing? I don't have any control over what manufacturers do. I'm glad there are open platform equivalents, like the PinePhone and Steam Deck. I just hope businesses like that keep existing, or else there'll be no way for you to control your devices without building them yourself. It empowers manufacturers and disempowers the individual user, even though the law hasn't changed. That's why I said it's mixed, not unilaterally good or bad. Maybe it'll be good in the long run by making people buy from platforms like that if they want control, promoting legitimate business.
I was considering trying a sleep tracker again last year and before that happened solved my sleep problems. The amount of things I tried back in my 20s when it all was trivially simple: I just need to get an adequate amount of strength training and cardio exercise during the day and I sleep straight through the night.

I was a hardcore flu.x/nightshift user. I left most lights off once the sun set. Now I'm a lot less convinced that lighting stuff matters for sleeping (but I would still follow it given the the whole cancer-light link thing.)

Of course, all of the common sense stuff still applies: staying up all night, sleeping erratic schedules, drinking a gallon of water before going to bed, drinking a bunch of caffeine late at night, medications, stimulants, cocaine, trying to sleep in a room that's 90F+, having sleep apnea, someone drilling a jackhammer outside your bedroom window etc. If you do a combination of those things there is probably zero you can do to sleep consistently and well.

I really wish I had understood this decades ago. Getting older it hits me how trivially simple solutions to certain problems are despite most running around in circles trying to solve them the entirety of their lives. To be fair, for sleeping poorly, I got an incredible amount of work done sitting in front of a PC 12 hours a day. That's a number you probably can't hit if you are getting adequate exercise, quality food, and consistent deep sleep.
Thanks for such a thoughtful response. I'm building with LLMs, and do feel uncomfortable with my admittedly hand-wavy understanding of the underlying transformer architecture. I've ordered your book and look forward to following along!
American corporations invented the “trust” concept that anti-trust rules are named after in the mid-1800’s.

The legislation was initially just a list of things that Standard Oil actually did.

America will be just fine. The biggest factor perpetuating the free market and the decline of monopolies is tech progress and the MBA-ification of big companies.
At least the Linux community is steeping up to do the work Microsoft doesn't want to.

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
I'm pretty sure it was go.corp.google.com, with corp.google.com configured as one of the search domains.
This is a fairly typical example from 2 years ago:
https://www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/news/dropping-official...

[edit] although for context this team rolls their own engine. If you’re using Unity or Unreal > 5.2 (May 2023) things are slowly improving.
It doesn't make any business sense whatsoever to antagonize developers right about when they're about to launch a new product that will need 3rd party support.
In the sense of existence, sure. But it's pretty clear that one side has gone far, far further down the conspiracy hole. Can you think of anything in the dem side as widespread as, say, the ivermectin+antivax crap was?

This stuff isn't new, either, but the scale of it is. A major wing of the Republican party is effectively the John Birch Society, who were nuts mostly kept at arms length in a previous generation. And that's seemingly the way that many Republican voters want their party to behave.
When there is a monopoly you are forced to deal with them
proprioception is separate from vision.
> I'm not sure from where I sit, where I have a right to complain about the 30 percent transaction tax.

I didn't choose for Apple to win 50% of US mobile and for the other company to also have draconian rules about deploying software and taxing it.

I don't care how much Apple hand holds grandma. Mobile is a hellscape for developers and other companies. The idea that distributing your software should subjugate you to paying taxes to a private company (one that can compete with you) is surreal.

Moreover, mobile is what most consumers use now. You have to be present on mobile to reach them. Web should have been enough, but it isn't. And to make it worse, it's knee-capped to suck on mobile.

It's impossible to enter this market and compete on hardware, so we won't get any reprieve unless regulators put a stop to this.

We need to be able to deploy software at zero cost. Without scare walls or adversarial advertising. Or mandates to use certain software choices. Or mandatory reviews. I'll stop bitching about Apple and Google when that happens.
Even Fortnite gave up on the standalone install, we don't need to speculate, we know this method doesn't scale from past experience.

The only apps I know which are exclusively distributed this way are stuff banned from the store or developer tools.
The weird part is that the video conferencing is excellent compared to the equivalents of zoom and Google.

My entire computer can be dying due to intensive cpu load and the teams call is fine. Zoom causes the cpu load. Google doesn't have basic controls.

I'm sure slack is fine but I've never seen anybody use it for external meetings.
Does that mean that the air in Europe is warmed by the other seawater that is not part of the gulfstream myth and the cold arctic air gets pushed back to US while the warmer air stays in Europe? So in reality the mild weather in Europe is a result of the angular rotation of planet earth in combination with the Rockies altitude?
> This article is an exercise in narrative nonsense.

I don't think the article intended to be taken entirely seriously.

It's narrative nonsense, but I would argue that it's entertaining narrative nonsense.

I think it also serves a larger point, not about "optimizing trip speeds" but about putting into easily-digestible context exactly how dangerous driving a car can be.
Semver only controls API compatibility, not ABI compatibility. You can make an ABI break in a Semver minor (or patch) version update. Semver is nice, but it's not enough for ensuring compatibility when dynamic linking.
https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/ for a gpt2 inference engine in numpy

then

https://www.dipkumar.dev/becoming-the-unbeatable/posts/gpt-k... for adding a kv cache implementation
Making Magic Eye pictures from circuit board layers is super cool, I'm surprised how well it works even with the fairly low resolution images
As with many other tech companies, Apple decide themselves when they think they satisfy the requirements of law.

From now on it will be the courts work to figure out whether that is the case. Right now, we don't know for these changes. But the EU has been seen handing out fines before, because of the tech companies malicious interpretations – so I don't think it will be unreasonable to assume it will happen again.
What’s the problem with it? It seems like one of the better faster improving products I use on a daily basis.
> Why? Because Taylor Swift? ...

Because there might possibly be enough angry Swifties to bring down some painful regulation on the industry - the only scenario in which a proper modern CEO should ever care about innocent victims.
Luckily the law answers to people, and I'm sure the EU will see how this "plan" doesn't follow the law
Converting modern office buildings to residential can be difficult because commercial buildings often have more interior (windowless) space and we insist (often by law) that bedrooms have windows. Sometimes it can be done, depending on the building’s shape, but “wasted” interior space can be a big financial loss, which is essentially about acknowledging that the building isn’t as useful as people expected. (Though I’m sure some use could be found for the space.)

Charles Munger tried to do it differently with beds on the inside, but this is unpopular [1].

One reason that companies go for an open design is to get more natural light into the interior, which makes for a good first impression, but has other downsides like noise. (Sometimes homes don’t have enough rooms with doors either.)

[1] https://www.archpaper.com/2023/08/university-california-aban...
I added notes to the Jupyter notebooks, I hope they are also readable as standalone from the repo.
And yet, the company is one of the most valuable in the world. If consumers hated this, they'd vote with they wallets.